Second Chances

Give the plastics you use a second chance and spread the word about recycling and encourage your friends to recycle too!

  • 9 Quick Tips to Recycle More Plastics

    Recycling can help conserve natural resources, reduce waste, prevent pollution, save energy, create jobs—and sustain the environment for future generations.

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  • Learn More About Recycling!

    These interactive games will give great insight into what's recyclable and what's not and show how recycled plastics can live a second life as new products.

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  • New Facility: Could This Be the Future of Plastics Recycling?

    You know I’m a big fan of plastics recycling. So I like to take the opportunity every year to celebrate America Recycles Day on November 15...

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Plastics Make it Possible® with Seattle Mariners' Tom Wilhelmsen

  • Buzzfeed: 10 Plastics That Dream to be So Much More

    ​Everyone has dreams — even your used plastic bottles and bags! Won’t you give them a second chance and recycle them to make their dreams come true?

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  • Four Surprising Facts About Plastics Recycling

    Find four things about plastics recycling you may not know

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  • Plastics Make it Possible® Helps Baseball Fans Hit A Home Run for Recycling

    How do you encourage a stadium full of baseball fans to recycle more plastics? Show them how their used plastic bottles can have a second chance as valuable new products.

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