Recycle code is used to identify the material from which the goods are made, to facilitate recycling or other reprocessing. Having a recycle code, arrow logo or resin code on an item is not an automatic indicator that a material can be recycled, but rather an explanation of what it is. Such symbols have been defined for batteries, biomaterials/organic, glass, metal, paper, and plastics. Different countries have adopted different codes. For example, the table below shows the polymer resin code (plastic) for a country. In the United States there are fewer, because ABS is grouped with others in group 7. Other countries have a more detailed recycling code system. For example, China's polymer identification system has seven different plastic classifications, five different symbols for post-consumer lines, and 140 identification codes. The lack of codes in some countries has encouraged those who can make their own plastic products, such as RepRap and other 3-D prosumer printer users, to adopt voluntary recycling codes based on a more comprehensive Chinese system.
List of resin identification code (RIC) and a code specified by the European Commission
Video Recycling codes
List of Chinese codes for plastic products
The Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC) has defined material codes for various types of plastics in documents GB16288,2008.
Maps Recycling codes
See also
- Resin identification code
- Japanese recycling symbol
- Waste hierarchy
- Waste management
- Food safe symbol
- This Bag (documentary)
References
External links
- Christie Engineering Standard - Packaging and Packaging Design for Environmental Guidelines Includes a list of material codes in several countries.
- Packaging Material Code Includes a list of material codes in Germany.
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