Recycling by product massive number of types of plastic, they each carry a resin identification code, and must be sorted before they can be recycled. This can be costly; while metals can be sorted using electromagnets, no such 'easy sorting' capability exists for plastics. In addition to this, while labels do not need to be removed from bottles for recycling, lids are often made from a different kind of non-recyclable plastic. To help in identifying the materials in various plastic items, resin identification code numbers 1-6 have been assigned to six common kinds of recyclable plastic resins, with the number 7 indicating any
Global Identification Number for Consignment Global Identification Number for Consignment The Global Identification Number for Consignment (GINC) is part of the GS1 system of standards. It is a simple tool used to identify goods in world trade. The GS1 Identification Key is used to identify a grouping of goods, with one or more physical items, that has been consigned to a freight forwarder and is intended to be transported as a single group. The key is composed of a GS1 Company Prefix and Consignment Information’ Shipments and consignments can comprise one or many logistic units. If the shipment/consignment comprises more than one physical object there