Recycling Plastic

I chose to blog about the TED talk on recycling plastics. This talk immediately grabbed my attention because I spent my high school career working for a dumpster company, so recycling was part of my daily life. The video touches on Mike Biddle’s stance on recycling, and what he thinks could be a boost for the green movement. We have been wasting immense amounts of plastic by dumping it in the landfill with all of the other invaluable trash. Only ten percent of our plastics end up being reused. Seeing entire recycling dumpsters of plastic and paper being dumped in the landfill was a daily occurrence working for a dumpster company. Plastic is a very abundant and valuable material that is not being reused nearly enough. With basic sorting and melting processes, we can recycle plastic for reuse. It is more cost efficient and energy efficient to recycle used plastic than it is to make new plastic. It would also save us a large dent in the environment. There is less CO2 output by using the recycling process. If the United States could implement this stance on recycling plastic, we could save our selves money, energy, and the environment.

http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_biddle.html