Plastic, we use it daily for cups, water bottles, yoghurt pots, butter tubs, strawberry punnet's and so much more. Each plastic we use can vary in shape, size, texture and colour and transparency and thats because there are various types of plastic and this is important to know when it comes recycling these materials. The producers of plastic have made our lives a little easier when recycling by embossing a number on our plastic goods, this is all well and good but do we all know what they mean?