A manufacturer collects discarded PET food trays and recycles the plastic into fibres for clothing.
What is an environmental benefit of this decision?
Less crude oil is needed to make new PET.
The trays do not need to be sorted before they are recycled.
Less energy is needed to wash the clothing during its use.
The trays are used again without being reprocessed.
99 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Chemistry 10.2 Life cycle assessment and recycling, covering 10.2.1 Life cycle assessment and 10.2.2 Ways of reducing the use of resources. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.