My partner and I recently cleaned out the garage. I set aside ALL the plastic containers we had collected to re-use. Way too many. So, I sorted through them to determine which were recyclable. And made an important discovery.
Most plastics come with a recycle symbol on it with a number in the center. Here are two links for what those symbols mean.
- Recycling symbols
- How things work
But that's not the discovery I made. I already knew about the recycle symbols and the numbers. Where I live... I can recycle plastics with a 1 or a 2 in the center of the recycle symbol. 1 for PETE plastics and 2 for HDPE plastics.
The discovery I made was that the container and the lid are not always the same plastic. For example, I love orange sherbet. The bowl of the container is a 2 plastic (and I can recycle it where I live). The lid of the container is a 4 plastic. Which I can't recycle.
So, now I'm left with a box full of lids. And the dilemma of whether I add these to a landfill or shove them back into the garage until I can recycle them?
Or come up with an interesting sculpture to make out them.
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