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PET: The Plastic of Our Lives. Together With. PET: What Is It?. What does PET stand for? P olyethylene Terephthalate Plastic Encasing Technology Petroleum Ethanol Polyfluoride Ethyl Tyhydrate. PET: What Is It?.
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PET: The Plastic of Our Lives Together With
PET: What Is It? What does PET stand for? • Polyethylene Terephthalate • Plastic Encasing Technology • Petroleum Ethanol • Polyfluoride Ethyl Tyhydrate
PET: What Is It? When PET bottles are turned into clothes, what kind of fabric do they become? • Cotton • Nylon • Neoprene • Polyester
PET: What Is It? What number, inside of the recycling symbol, tells you that a bottle is made out of PET? • 1 • 3 • 5 • 7
PET Recycling In 2009, what percentage of PET bottles and jars were recycled? • 78% • 97% • 14% • 28% 1
Remember the Facts… It takes over 1 million years for a plastic bottle to decompose. Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. You could run a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours using the energy saved from recycling a plastic bottle. Plastic thrown into the Pacific Ocean has formed a “garbage patch” twice the size of Texas.
What Does It All Become? Items created from the plastics you recycle: 14 = 1 85 = 1 96 = 1 25 = 1 XL 20 oz 20 oz 2 x 4 2 liter
So How Does It All Work To view a video about the PET plastic recycling process, click the link below PET Recycling
Source for Factual Material • 1-"EPA Releases Municipal Solid Waste Report." Resource Recycling. Resource Recycling Inc., Jan. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.resource-recycling.com/node/885>.