Resin ID Code & Name
Types of Products
Surface
(glossy, rough, smooth, etc.)
Rigidity
(rigid, semi-rigid, flexible)
Transparency
(transparent, translucent, opaque,
Density
(sinks, floats, neutral)
Ways to Reduce
Polyethylene Terephthalate
Almost all single-serving and two-liter bottles of carbonated soft drinks and water
ridged
highly flexible,
colorless
1.38 g/cm³
recycle
High Density Polyethylene
Shampoo Bottles.
hard
High Density Polyethylene (HDPE, aka HD), has the distinction of being the strongest, toughest, most chemical resistant and least flexible of the four types of flexible plastic sheeting
milky-opaque (translucent) and opaque.
HDPE is defined by a density of greater than or equal to 0.941 g/cm3.
Stop using do much shampoo
Polyvinyl Chloride
Low Density Polyethylene
Polypropylene
Polystyrene
All other resins and multi-use materials not otherwise defined