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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.