the consumers decision node contains the choice of buying goods made of virgin or recycled plastics as well as the choice of sorting the waste for recycling leaving it in the household mixed residual waste or even illegally dispose it for instance placing it next to an overfilled recycling container or burning it in the open fire finally the reprocessors convert waste plastics to eg pellets that can be used as raw material in the manufacturing of new goods and sell it to domestic or foreign manufacturers of plastics