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Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the
material into useful
sometimes completely different in form from their original state. Typically a plastic is not
recycled into
the same type of plastic, and products made from recycled plastics are often not recyclable.
When compared to other materials like glass and metal materials, plastic polymers require
greater
processing to be recycled. Plastics have a low entropy of mixing, which is due to the high
molecular weight of their large polymer chains. When different types of plastics are melted
together they tend to phase-separate, like oil and water, and set in these layers.