Rigid plastic containers are injection molded or thermoformed containers used to package and deliver any product to a customer. Rigid plastic containers are not a large part of the waste stream, but their use is growing. Plastic materials of all kinds represent about 7% of the municipal waste stream, half of which is plastic packaging. Plastic containers, however, are one of the components of household trash which can be recycled, along with newspapers, aluminum cans and glass containers.
				The predominant plastic recycling systems in place today are geared towards handling separate plastic materials, which are primarily polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from soft drink bottles and high density polyethylene (HDPE) from milk bottles. Markets for these materials are well developed, and increased volume should be possible. This is because soft drink and milk bottles are easily identified and separated.
				The remaining volume of plastic containers are made from various resin materials, including PET and HDPE. These are not easily identifiable by size and style, and are not easily separated by the current systems. The plastics industry has assisted in solving the solid waste disposal problem by making these containers more recyclable. Bottles and containers are coded according to the six most common manufacturing materials. The codes pictured left encourage recycling.
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