Why can’t plastics be more efficiently recycled?

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I know glass and aluminum can be recycled pretty efficiently, but if plastics have lower melting temperatures I would assume they’d denature less therefore offering better methods of recycling.

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Where I live (Alberta, Canada) we have a blue bin that we put all our recyclables in. Cardboard, glass, tin cans, paper, plastics etc. We have a chart indicating which ones are accepted. For plastic, they take everything (#1 thru #7) but not expanded polystyrene (stryofoam).

Ours it taken to a facility and hand sorted.

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