I would say if you were going to shoot just a few for yourself I would not recycle the plastic for us guys that are shooting a ton of stuff we have a lot of scraps and waste we do use it most the time that we turned to black if I get too much on hand I just throw away we average about 3 gallons every few days that wind up in the garbage makes you, sick to your stomach knowing the cost of plastic nowadays but that's the way it goes when you are shooting a lot.