{"id":74,"date":"2019-03-30T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:17:03","slug":"recycling-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/recycling-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Plastics &#8211; Is it So Easy? | Aftan Sustainability Consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Recycling Plastics Presents Challenges<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lisa-peterson-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lisa-peterson-small.jpg\" alt=\"Pennsylvania-based Sustainability and Lean 6\u03c3 Continuous Process Improvement Consultant and Lean 6\u03c3 Black Belt Lisa Peterson\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lisa-peterson-small.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lisa-peterson-small-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Peterson is President of Aftan Engineering. Lisa is an expert Sustainability and Continuous Process Improvement Consultant with extensive experience in the plastics industry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the spirit of being environmentally responsible, we want to recycle our plastic waste.\u00a0 But there are some challenges that we can face.<\/p>\n<p>Recycling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for many products has a limited lifetime until the quality of the recycled material has fallen below acceptable levels.;<\/li>\n<li>can take more energy and water than using virgin materials; and<\/li>\n<li>lastly, facilities may be located far away resulting in huge transportation impacts even to get the products to the recycling facility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->Therefore, the recycled materials may cost more than the virgin material resulting in weak demand for that product stream.\u00a0 The items we dispose of as consumers into recycling bins may not even end up in recycling, but rather in a landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Share your examples of how you have overcome a challenge in recycling plastics.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania-based Aftan Engineering offers expert Sustainability and Lean 6\u03c3 Continuous Process Improvement Consulting Services throughout the United States.\u00a0 Visit our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\">https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com<\/a> to discover more. Call Us at 610-914-1356 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/p\/contact.html\">Contact Us Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling Plastics Presents Challenges In the spirit of being environmentally responsible, we want to recycle our plastic waste.\u00a0 But there are some challenges that we can face. Recycling for many products has a limited lifetime until the quality of the recycled material has fallen below acceptable levels.; can take more energy and water than using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[10,9],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recycling Plastics - Is it so Easy? | Aftan Sustainability Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover complications regarding recycling plastics and other aspects you may not have considered.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aftansustainability.com\/blog\/recycling-plastics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recycling Plastics - Is it so Easy? 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