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Under that definition, PET and HDPE bottles and jugs qualify as recyclable. Yogurt containers, plastic cups, plastic plates, and other common products don't come close to that 60% threshold ...

and 1 percent for plastic plates. And — again — just because people have access to PET and HDPE recycling facilities doesn’t mean that those products are actually getting recycled.

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Anything marked with recycling codes 3, 4, 6 or 7 inside the triangular symbol. Grocery bags, trash bags, cling wrap, shrink wrap. Plastic plates and cutlery, coffee lids and water cups.

Fewer types of plastic are considered recyclable ... and it's hard to find an end market for them, so they're not recyclable. Aluminum foil and pie plates, cleaned and crumpled, can be recycled.

but of the 160,000 tons of plastic waste made up of No. 5 cups and plates generated in the U.S. each year, less than 1% is recycled, according to the latest EPA report on plastic recycling.