plastic material used in daily life

In Plastics, the arrangement of the individual units may be linear or cross linked Linear or lightly cross-linked polymers form a class of plastics called thermoplastics Heavy cross-linking plastics are called thermosetting plastics

THERMOPLASTIC IS A POLYMER THAT TURNS INTO A LIQUID WHEN HEATED AND FREEZES INTO A VERY GLASSY STATE WHEN COOLED SUFFICIENTLY.

 The energy saved by recycling one soda bottle will:  Power a 100 watt light bulb for almost an hour  Power a computer for 25 minutes  Power a color TV for 20 minutes  Power a washing machine for 10 minutes

 Over 6.5 billion pounds of plastic were produced in 2006  Over 16 million tons of plastic waste is generated annually in the U.S. and about 2.2% of all plastics is currently recycled.  It takes about 450 years just for one plastic bottle to break down in the ground!

 The United States makes enough plastic film each year to shrink-wrap the state of Texas.  If you lined up all the polystyrene foam cups made in just one day, they would circle the earth.  Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year !  Americans use 4 million plastic bottles every hour! -- Yet only 1 bottle out of 4 is recycled

 About 1,200 soft drink and salad dressing containers could carpet the average living room.  Each year American throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times.  In 1988 we used 2 billion pounds of HDPE just to make bottles for household products. That’s about the weight of 90,000 Honda Civics.

and remember to: Reduce Reuse Recycle Remanufacture!