General Interest - Recycling Plastic: Part 1

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35	The	They	YEHENEW	a	and	bunker	containers
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recycle bin is often the last stop for empty . But it also can mark the beginning of a trip. YEHENEW GEDSHEW: "As long as people keep throwing trash, weve got a job." Yehenew Gedshew directs a center near Washington, DC. YEHENEW GEDSHEW: "We do about tons of material an hour." How does the center so much waste? YEHENEW GEDSHEW: "First what happens is dump trucks bring the materials to our site; and dump it on the tipping floor. It goes to first screen where the cardboard and the rest of is sorted out." The glass is crushed. Objects made plastic are sorted and flattened. YEHENEW GEDSHEW: "This is very sophisticated sorting machine. And that belt brings it to the bunker, and the plastic goes to the , from the bunker we put it to the baler, it gets baled and it gets shipped out." This center separates all kinds of plastic, papers and glass. GEDSHEW: "Since they don't have to sort out their any more, it has made their lives very easy. throw everything in a ball and then we sort out here." Most of the plastics are taken to processing center in North Carolina. It is there that bottles become mountains of plastic ---- ready to melt make into something new. We will take you to North Carolina recycling center in another report.

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