Agri-Tech Industries, a year-old company in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is blending polyethylene and corn starch to make plastic resins for disposable bottles and other products.
It included tons of seaweed, firecrackers, disposable bottles, and syringes and other vials that might have contained blood, said Shelly Domash, a spokeswoman for the department.
Polypropylene can also be made into disposable bottles to contain liquid, powdered or similar consumer products, although HDPE and polyethylene terephthalate are commonly also used to make bottles.
Unsanitary Practices But Health Department reports contain repeated mentions of unsanitary practices, including dirty changing tables, shortages of disposable bottles and nipples, and even food preparation in diaper-changing areas.
(Modern equipment handles thousands of cans or disposable bottles a minute.)
By choosing to re-fill any multi-use water bottle, the consumer keeps disposable bottles out of the waste stream and minimizes environmental impact.
More than 60 million disposable bottles end up in trash heaps every day.
Should you go with glass, plastic, or disposable bottles?
To make matters worse, at around the same time the truth about the recycling was revealed, the company announced that it was going to open a company in India that would manufacture--of course--single use disposable bottles for export to the United States and Europe, leaving toxic byproducts behind in India.
The powerlet, invented by Crosman, is a disposable bottle containing 12 grams of liquid carbon dioxide, which evaporates to form a gas to propel the BB.