HOUSTON (KIAH) — Currently, only 10% of plastic gets recycled.

Cyclyx International wants to increase that nine-fold, and the company has entered a partnership with the City of Houston in hopes of making that possible.

“We started Cyclyx to make that bridge from 10% to 90% and to start changing the way people think about recycling — start changing the processes and the infrastructure — so we can, as communities, as a nation, significantly increase the amount of plastic that’s being recycled,” Cyclyx International Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development Bill Cooper said.

Through the partnership, five of the city’s Neighborhood Depositories started accepting all forms of plastic.

Previously, only materials made out of PET and HDPE plastics — items like water bottles, milk jugs, and laundry detergent bottles — were recyclable in Houston.

“There is a lot of plastic,” Cooper said. “We wanted to find a way to put as much of that plastic as possible into recycling streams.”

The five neighborhood depositories will accept all plastics from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.