Five strokes teach you how to identify new and old plastic in your life

In daily work, plastic products are everywhere, home basins, cups, chairs, etc., basically can not be separated from plastic, and some are recycled materials extracted from waste plastics. How can consumers identify and purchase?

Although the quality of some medical wastes looks good, there are certain safety risks in recycling and processing. At the same time, waste plastics processing is also very particular about the need to clean the classification and disinfection, some small workshops are simply broken and handled, the harm is still very big.

In general, discarded plastics are not allowed to be used in tableware containers and children's toys that are in direct contact with the skin and are associated with eating.

As for how to identify native plastics and recycled materials processed from waste plastics, he taught a few simple methods:

As soon as it smells, the original plastic has aroma and the recycled plastic has an unpleasant smell.

Second, look at the color, the new plastic color is more pure, high purity, while the old plastic is mostly dark color, color is not correct. In simple terms, raw materials are generally transparent, and recycled materials are not transparent. Many colors are mixed together, and black is the main color.

Third, the toughness, the raw material toughness is good, the chair made bearing weight is good, the made basin is resistant to falling, and the regenerated material is poor in toughness, relatively brittle and easy to break. In particular, waste plastics that have been recycled many times are more likely to age.

Four-inch weight, the same size of plastic products, the new plastic is generally relatively light, waste plastic is relatively heavy.

Five election stores. The plastic products of general supermarkets and regular shopping malls are relatively reliable, and roadside shops and small commodity market stalls at very low prices must be purchased carefully.