The growing awareness of the factors affecting the environment is a welcome development globally. These factors, constantly influence the choice of materials and how materials in general, are used and disposed. Human lifestyles and the indiscriminate disposal of wastes have contributed largely to the increasingly hazardous environment, leading to various health challenges and constant natural disasters. In the last two decades, several approaches have been adopted in trying to address and ameliorate these complex problems. One of the major contributors to the huge waste generation is plastic-based materials. Plastics remain a major societal benefit to mankind, in innumerable ways, even though there are high environmental and health risks associated with plastics. Plastics are a major pollutant on land and in water bodies. The immense benefits of plastic materials, particularly in the food and packaging industries, medical and health sector, automobile, aviation and the construction industries, have encouraged their continuous usage. This is due to the versatility, low cost, less production energy when compared to the alternative materials (metal or glass), vis-à-vis, and their ease of processability since they can easily be formed into any shapes and sizes and the tendency to attain different properties, based on manufacturing methods. Due to these qualities and the undeniable importance of polymeric materials, there is a need to develop and improve the recycling and reuse of plastic materials. This study demonstrates ways of protecting the environment, through recycling and reuse of polymeric-based products, therefore, creating significant benefits to the environment. Highlights are also made with regards to other environmentally-friendly ways and manners of disposing of polymeric-based products.