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You mean the resin identification code? Which has nothing to do with recyclability, despite its shape.

• anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  Maybe not, but people use it to know what to recycle and what to toss. At least some people do.
  • alwa 3y ago
    Fortunately even the plastic those people designate for recycling is not in fact recycled in the overwhelming number of cases ([0] cites a rate of ~8% dropping to ~5% in 2021). (/s? I think? I don’t know, this whole domain of waste stream problems seems like bouncing from one sad state of affairs to another) Adorably, we count exporting the plastics to dump in third countries as “recycling” it, including it as part of that single-digit figure. [0] [PDF] https://www.lastbeachcleanup.org/_files/ugd/dba7d7_9450ed6b848d4db098de1090df1f9e99.pdf https://www.lastbeachcleanup.org/_files/ugd/dba7d7_9450ed6b8...
  • tarikjn 3y ago
    fun tidbit: the standard was updated in 2013 to replace the chasing arrows with a triangle because of this