Thermosetting plastics and thermoplastics are similar in some ways yet different in others. The one major thing that sets them apart is that thermoplastics can be recycled and thermosetting plastics cannot be. Thermoplastics can be melted Down and reused again and again. This is what makes then recyclable. How this happens is all the particles and polymers in the thermoplastic start warming and start to melt down. Thermosetting plastics are,in three different places, cross linked. This causes the bond holding the particles together is tough causing the particles to set so that they cannot be melted down again which therefore makes them unrecyclable. The chemicals in thermoplastics change when they are heated. This is one thing that causes the polymers to react the way they do when heated. Some types of thermoplastics are
some types of thermosetting plastics
non stick surfaces are made from thermosetting plasticssome types of thermoplastics
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