Soda bottled, milk, and detergent containers are the main items made from these grades. Previously, plastic was collected in all grades and then ground into small chunks. Plastic recycling was simply not cost-effective enough to attract any widespread use, and often ended up costing towns money. The fact is that quite a few things that are labeled recyclable are, in fact, not, either because of the material they are made of or because there is not an available market for them. Heading this list are things like the infamous drink box and the microwaveable trays included in many frozen entrees and dinners.
Paper is the item most sold as recycled goods.
In fact, the manufacturer of the bags, Mobil, was sued by seven states for deceptive advertising. The ad they object to showed the bag in a forest scene and calling it biodegradable. The truth is that the starch-matrix plastic which comprised the bags would break down extremely slowly, even if not tightly jammed into a landfill, where newspaper can take over 100 years to degrade. This is controversial because nothing has been proven about the end result of degraded plastic, basically a plastic dust, which may cause other environmental problems. The definition of degradability still needs to be defined according to how fast or completely a potentially harmful material should break down.