About 50 kinds of modern plastic or over are made from oil, gas or coal - natural non-renewable resources. We import well over three million tones of the stuff in Japan each year and, Sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A Proportions of our high animal consumption in the form of packaging is, and this constitutes about seven per cent by weight of our Domestic refuse. Almost all of it can be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastics recycling industry is Growing Fast.
The plastics are extremely energy-rich Themselves - they have a Higher calorific value coal coal and one method of 'recovery' strongly Favoured by the plastics manufacturers is the conversion of waste plastics Into a fuel.
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