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 It is here that pieces of plastic become new products. MARK RATH: Become a plastic sheet, and eventually a thermoform 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