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Recycled PP is used to make landscaping border stripping, battery cases, brooms, bins and trays. However, #5 plastic is today becoming more accepted by recyclers. PP is considered safe for reuse. To recycle products made from PP, check with your local curbside program to see if they are now accepting this material.

Number 81 inside the universal recycling symbols indicates that the marked product is made from a combination of paper and plastic. That includes consumer packaging, pet food bags, cold store grocery bags, ice cream containers, cardboard cans, disposable plates and similar.

Each number represents a different type of plastic and how/where it can be disposed. Plastic Number 1 - PETE (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Plastic Number 2 - HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) Plastic Number 3 - PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) Plastic Number 4 - LDPE (Low-Density Polyethylene)

5: PP (Polypropylene) PP is used to make the food containers used for products like yogurt, sour cream and margarine. It's also made into straws, rope, carpet and bottle caps. PP products CAN SOMETIMES be recycled.

Almost all plastic products bear the general recycling symbol: a triangle formed by three circling arrows. The number in the triangle indicates the type of plastic. There are six common types of plastic and one miscellaneous category with the number 7.

The Mobius loop is the unfamiliar name of a very familiar symbol: a triangle composed of three arrows looping back on themselves in clockwise direction. This symbol indicates that a product can be recycled, but not necessarily that it has been itself produced from recycled materials.

The number 5 with the recycling symbol indicates polypropylene, often just shortened to PP. This plastic type is particularly hard and heat resistant.