Plastics Make It Possible® Launches Bathroom To Bin-Plus A Chance To Win $500

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To encourage consumers to recycle more plastics at home, Plastics Make it Possible^® today launched Bathroom to Bin, an interactive online feature that offers some humorous advice on recycling plastics used in the bathroom, plus a chance to win $500.

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While most consumers typically recycle in the kitchen, plastics also are widely used in the bathroom since they are shatter resistant—and many of these plastics can go from the bathroom to the recycling bin. Packaging for shampoo, conditioner, lotions, sunscreen, mouthwash, body wash, medicines and other products used in the bathroom often is made with the same plastics as food packaging, and they can be recycled together.

Visitors to Bathroom to Bin explore an interactive medicine cabinet full of beauty and personal care products that reveal practical recycling tips and amusing facts. Visitors also can take a single-question poll about recycling to be entered into the Bathroom to Bin Giveaway for a chance to win a $500 American Express gift card.

"Bathroom to Bin is an entertaining way to encourage all of us to expand recycling beyond the kitchen and into the bathroom," said Steve Russell, vice president of plastics for the American Chemistry Council, which sponsors the Plastics Make it Possible^® initiative. "Recycling bathroom plastics is a simple step we can take to help the environment by capturing more of this valuable material from the waste stream."

The plastics recycled from a typical bathroom can be used to make everything from outdoor furniture to cooking tools to fashionable clothing. By recycling plastics and looking for products made with recycled plastics, consumers help close the recycling loop—and create demand for even more recycling.

Visit the Bathroom to Bin interactive feature and enter the Giveaway here.

For more tips on how plastics help you contribute to sustainability at home, visit In the Home.

About Plastics Make it Possible^®
Plastics Make it Possible^® highlights the many ways plastics inspire innovations that improve our lives, solve big problems, and help us design a safer, more promising future. This initiative is sponsored by America's Plastics Makers^TM of the American Chemistry Council. For more information, visit www.plasticsmakeitpossible.com, check out our Facebook page and follow us @plasticpossible on twitter at www.twitter.com/plasticpossible.

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The American Chemistry Council (ACC) represents the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry. ACC members apply the science of chemistry to make innovative products and services that make people's lives better, healthier and safer. ACC is committed to improved environmental, health and safety performance through Responsible Care^®, common sense advocacy designed to address major public policy issues, and health and environmental research and product testing. The business of chemistry is a $760 billion enterprise and a key element of the nation's economy. It is the largest exporting sector in the U.S., accounting for 12 percent of U.S. exports. Chemistry companies are among the largest investors in research and development. Safety and security have always been primary concerns of ACC members, and they have intensified their efforts, working closely with government agencies to improve security and to defend against any threat to the nation's critical infrastructure.

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