How Plastic Bottles are Made  (YouTube link)  How many plastic
containers does your family go through? Multiply that by
millions of families, and you see why they have to be made so
fast that this video is slowed down to show us how it's done.
This is from the TV show How It's Made. -via J-Walk Blog  Newest
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For food containers, only virgin plastic and post-industrial
processed plastic is used. Post-consumer plastic is recycled to
make other objects. One prominent use is in plastic "lumber"
that is used to make decking. This material is durable,
resistant to rot and insects, and can be nailed for construction
just like wood. There are probably many other non-food plastic
items made from post-consumer recycled material, where
cleanliness, chemical purity, clarity, texture and consistency
are not as important. I imagine that many automobile parts,
interior fittings, bumper fillers and friction-reducing fittings
are made of post-consumer recycled plas