In everyday life, we often use things that are actually made of waste products and secondary raw material, and do not even know about it.

I decided to do some research and found out 4 things that are obtained from recycled materials. Let's take a look.

The Tetra Pak carton is composed of paper, polyethylene and aluminum. It is 100% recyclable: the packaging is divided into paper and polyaluminium - a mixture of both polyethylene film and aluminum foil. It is from polyaluminium that writing pens are obtained in production. Two handles can be made from three Tetra Pak bags. In addition to the pens, the recycled Tetra Pak also includes writing paper, corrugating paper and cardboard. From the polyaluminium component of the package - composite panels, manholes, tiles, composite boards.

If three people, let it be a family or roommates, use recycled toilet paper for a whole year, then they manage to "save" wood in a year. The process of making toilet paper is simple. Waste paper is crushed, boiled in hot water, disinfected and bleached. Then it is wrung out, dried and pressed. The resulting paper is not inferior in quality to the one that was made from virgin cellulose.

About a third of our trash cans are plastic bottles. It is polyester, aka PET - the most used plastic in the world. This garbage is easy to recycle and can be returned to you an infinite number of times. The technology of plastic processing saves oil consumption, since in the primary production plastic is made from it. In processing plants, plastic bottles are removed from the cap, soaked labels and sorted by color. Then the plastic is pressed, crushed, passed through a steam boiler to remove the remaining impurities. As a result, a secondary granule or flex - raw material for new products comes off the conveyor.

Some companies make polyester from plastic - a fabric that is easy to wash, dries quickly, does not stretch or shrink after washing. Thus, the sports brand Picture uses only recycled polyester in its collections.

Glass wool is a universal insulation and sound insulator. The external walls of buildings, the floor and the roof are strengthened with glass wool. It is made from cullet. To insulate one private house in glass wool, 3,000 pieces of wine bottles need to be recycled.

During processing, glass is sorted and crushed into glass chips, from which a special fiber is obtained - the basis of glass wool. Recycling used glass is much easier than producing it from virgin materials. Recycling 1 ton of glass waste saves 650 kg of sand, 150 kg of soda ash and 200 kg of limestone required for the production of primary glass.