First of all, almost all plastics are recyclable indefinitely. They're hydrocarbons. They're molecules. If you look at PET, the one that's familiar, in this container for example, it's made out of four primary molecules. They are the same four molecules that make up 96%, by weight, of the human body. That's fundamentally what we're working with.
In terms of the material itself, there are four types of technologies currently available for the purposes of recycling.
The first most and widely used is mechanical recycling, where you chop it up, you wash it and you put it through an elevated temperature and a vacuum to remove volatiles, and reprocess and sanitize it. That's in use in Canada today. About an hour away from Husky's facility here in southern Ontario, there's a company that's been producing these containers for 10 years from 100% recycled material. That's mechanical recycling.
The second is what we call chemical recycling. Chemical recycling actually breaks the plastic back down into its basic materials, and then reconstitutes it. This container right here is made from 25% chemically recycled materials. It's the first time in the world. What's attractive about this technology is not only that it can be used bottle to bottle, but that I can also mix clam shells in with it, I can melt [Inaudible—Editor] in it, I can mix all kinds of materials in it.
What I want to say is that I have these because they are samples that we're providing. Even to simplify it further, if you want me to do that, what you might have noticed is that there's no label, because we're now laser imprinting them, marking the top of the containers to make them easier to recycle. Most caps are made from a different type of plastic. This is the new invention we came up with to make the cap out of the same material as the bottle.
What I'm saying is that they're infinitely recyclable and there's a family of technologies we and others are bringing together to make it even easier and more economical to do so.