
(For example, is there a bottling factory in your community that needs glass or a paper mill nearby that needs pulp?)Īnd not all recycling plants are actually capable of processing all materials. So even in the best recycling systems the goods you send to the recycler to be processed are only going to become new products if there’s a market demand for them.

It produces paper pulp and plastic pellets and glass shards and other materials that are used by manufacturers to make goods. It’s a commodities market that we all participate in. Recycling isn’t a nebulous humanitarian environmental practice of collecting waste.

But raw material is the key word here when looking at the benefit of even the most efficient recycling system.
