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Is recycling plastics properly as hard as staying inside the lines? Nope! Even art-school dropouts can do it, with the help of this how-to – it’ll make recycling plastic easy as 1-2-3…4-5-6-7. Usually recycling numbers appear on the bottom of containers. Check with your facility to find out which plastics it accepts, and write the numbers on top of your recycle bin for easy reference.

Usually recyclable:
1. PET – 2-liter and mouthwash bottles, boil-in-bag pouches.
2. HDPE – milk jugs, trash bags, detergent bottles, some yogurt cups.
Sometimes recyclable:
4. LDPE – grocery bags, produce bags, food wrap.
5. PP – diapers, straws, yogurt containers.
6. PS – CD cases, egg cartons, Styrofoam.
Not so much…
3. PVC – cooking-oil bottles, meat packaging, office binders.
7. Other – other types of plastic, plus things made from more than one type of plastic (see below).
Bioplastics (7, and marked as either compostable or biodegradable):
7. Compostable Plastic – is nontoxic and breaks down as fast as paper in compost.