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Unfortunately, in large part, that is not currently the case. There are few rules about what can and cannot be labeled as recyclable. As a result, what label a product gets is largely left up to the plastics industry, leading to a lot of unclear and misleading claims that consumers cannot rely on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nA new \u201c<\/span>widely recyclable<\/span><\/a>\u201d label created by the plastics industry, for example, makes it look like certain plastics can be recycled when the reality is that many of them aren\u2019t accepted in most community recycling programs.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDetermining which plastic products are and aren\u2019t recyclable shouldn\u2019t be left up to the plastics industry. Americans agree. 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