Plastic recycling is the process of taking plastic waste materials and making them into another product. Plastic is a petroleum-based synthetic or semi-synthetic material composed of malleable polymers that do not decompose over time like organic materials and can stay intact for decades or centuries. Plastic can break down from sunlight exposure, but this becomes a problem because it degrades into very small toxic particles and can enter the food chain or environment. In fact, one million... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.