Recyling Plastic: Part 3

This is Peninsula Packaging -- a recycling business in the city of Wilson, North Carolina. Mark Rath works for the company. MARK RATH: “This is how it comes to us and then we reprocess it into another product.“ It is here that pieces of plastic become new products. MARK RATH: “Become a plastic sheet, and eventually a thermoform product.“ Peninsula Packaging melts and flattens plastic so that it can be shaped. MARK RATH: “We take the clear chips like this, and it goes into an oven, and it cooks for about