What is the cheapest and easiest to recycle type of plastic?

Whether a plastic is easy to recycle or not depends mostly on whether it is clean and has been separated and sorted properly. This means that how and where the plastic was used is important. For example PET bottles are easy to recycle, but only if the cap (which is often made from a different type of plastic) is removed. read more

Assuming that cleaning, separation and sorting is no problem, there are 2 types of plastic that are fairly easy to recycle. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET or plastic resin #1) is the most commonly used plastic and probably the easiest plastic to recycle. read more

The easiest and most common plastics to recycle are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and are assigned the number 1. Examples include soda and water bottles, medicine containers, and many other common consumer product containers. read more