General Interest - Recyling Plastic: Part 3

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Become	MARK	Not	Packaging	This	a	about	again	and
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is Peninsula Packaging ---- a recycling business in the of Wilson, North Carolina. Mark Rath works for the . MARK RATH: "This is how it comes to us then we reprocess it into another product." It is that pieces of plastic become new products. MARK RATH: " a plastic sheet, and eventually a thermoform product." Peninsula melts and flattens plastic so that it can be . MARK RATH: "We take the clear chips like this, it goes into an oven, and it cooks for three to four hours." Now, it can be molded. RATH: "In order to do that you need to it out into a wide, long sheet." The plastic then wrapped, rolled and sent to what is called "thermoform station." MARK RATH: "Well, we unwind the plastic a very long oven where we heat it ---- ---- and then well form it in a forming . Well follow it through and see what happens to ." MARK RATH: "'Thatll end up being a fresh-cut-salad base. sure where it goes, but itll end up some with celery and carrots and tomatoes." In just a days, a plastic bottle purchased in Washington, DC has a salad container in North Carolina. I'm Mario Ritter.

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