"PET can be woven to form polyester fabric or carpeting," Lennick says. Plastic symbol #2: HDPE HDPE stands for high-density polyethylene, an opaque plastic made with petroleum. It's another ...

The recycling symbol—those three arrows stamped on myriad plastic items—doesn’t mean what most people think it does, and a California bill wants to change that. The California Legislature ...

Symbol 2 – High-density polyethylene, or HDPE, commonly used in milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles. Symbol 5 – Polypropylene, PP, used in products such as pill bottles, yogurt cups and ...

paper or PET or HDPE plastic (No. 1 and No. 2 in the chasing arrows symbol), and away from those that don’t have a viable recycling market or can’t be recycled because they are constructed ...

Recycling symbol #1. Ex: Water bottles. High-density polyethylene (HDPE). Recycling symbol #2. Ex: Detergent bottles. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Recycling symbol #3. Ex: Clear food packaging.

While HDPE tubes can be recycled with other colored ... that the tubes are recyclable — and its use of the recycling symbol on the packaging — are misleading. Because many recovery facilities ...