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Common Grades of Plastic
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- Rigid
Plastic Container: A plastic container
which maintains its shape when empty and unsupported.
- Plastic
Bottle: A plastic container that commonly
holds liquids. Designed with a neck smaller
than the body of the container.
- Plastic
Film: A thin sheet that is flexible.
It does not maintain its shape when unsupported.
- Recycled
Plastic: Plastics made up of post consumer,
recovered plastic, or a combination of the two.
- Recovered
Plastic: Material recovered from the
solid waste stream.
- Post
Consumer: Plastics no longer usable
by consumers or businesses that have intentionally
been separated from the solid waste stream for
the purpose of recycling.
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