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RECYCLINE'S RECYCLED PLASTIC SAVES ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT.

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While oil rigs drill for crude oil in the ocean, in sensitive ecosystems and in politically charged regions of the world, an alternative fuel is needlessly piling up in our landfills. Although transportation and home heating fuels consume a majority of the world's oil production, the use of crude oil to make the millions of plastic products people use every day consumes 8% of the world's oil supply, or 2.2 billion barrels a year. Much of this plastic quickly goes to landfills in the form of discarded products and packaging.

Unlike home heating and motor vehicle fuels that are burned and emitted, the oil captured in plastics offers a rare opportunity to reuse those petroleum-based materials through recycling. Greater use of recycled plastics not only can help reduce America's demand for crude oil and natural gas, but it will also reduce the cost to the environment caused by the exploration, mining, reprocessing and transportation of these precious resources. Perhaps most important to some, it would also help avoid the many...

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