Once separated, a specific plastic will have specific uses. One successful application for reused plastic is in construction materials for homes and other buildings. Mixed plastics, items that cannot be sorted out satisfactorily, are fused together to make boards of plastic. These boards are relatively inexpensive when compared to lumber, and, no organisms or micro-organisms attack them. Termites cannot feed on them, nor can anything else.
Plastic boards appear to be a major use of mixed plastics.
And these boards can be produced in very large quantities. More imaginative uses for plastics are possible. The makers of Spic and Span cleaner are planning to put all cleaners in bottles made of recycled plastics. The Chrysler Corporation is going to make fenders on 1992 vans from recycled soft drink bottles. Reusing plastics will have a two-fold impact.