Life Below Earth Booklet - Flipbook - Page 16
MINIMISE
YOUR IMPACT
Diverting from land昀椀ll is the best way to minimise the pollutive impact of products and
packaging during the disposal process.
Open loop recycling refers to recycling a product into a di昀昀erent product. There’s still a loop,
with the plastic bottle going from manufacturing: to use, to recycling collection, to recycling.
With the closed loop it is often products with material properties which don’t degrade during
the recycling process which are used. For instance, aluminium cans can be recycled into the
same product and recycled again and again.
In many ways the closed loop is better as the product is diverted from land昀椀ll and kept in a
constant recycled loop. Aluminium, glass and some plastic materials consist of the necessary
properties to successfully be recycled in a closed loop; however, not all materials are suitable
for closed loop recycling. The reality is that many types of plastics, cardboard and paper
lose their material quality during the process, making an open loop recycling method a more
environmentally impactful option.
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