When I lived in Germany, they used heavy duty plastic bottles. Get credit at the store to recycle the.m. They wete sent off to be cleaned and reused. Didn't even have to break them down to make into new bottles.
I am 44 and still can remember a visit to a milk bottling plant. I still can see very clearly the washing line with the glass bottles upside down, being washed with soapfilled water and then heading to a drying section in order to be refilled, relabed and recapped to be put in the market again. And a german brand uses for its milk and its yoghurt only glass containers and bottle we then return to the supermarket for reuse, even cheaper and energy saving than recycling them. If that brand could, others could follow suit. I still can remember how, in my country, in the 80s, all this single use packaging and products started. In many cases I feel that correcting those aberrations that were imposed onto us, means simply to return to old habits that included customers and factories as part of closed circular loops of reuse. And certainly for bottling, glass is always the best option.
In nz we are told to leave the cap on as hey are too small for the initial sorting machines to sort by themselves. 30% of the weight in labels, lids and leftovers in the bottle are chucked out
@@scottbc31h22 - Thanks! I typically recycle about 300 PETE water bottles every 6 to 8 weeks, and I did not know that it is preferred to recycle them without the caps. I will start bagging them for recycle with the caps off as of today.
@@theanfielddiary4514 wrong!!! it is best to recycle a clear bottle separate from the cap and label. i cut the labels off my bottles prior to recycling, and i remove the cap and the ring around the bottle neck
Simple solution to recycling...... 1/. Each type of plastic is allocated it’s own colour 2/. Cap and bottle must be the same type of plastic 3/. Labels must be water soluble and use water soluble glue 4/. Public educated to separate plastic from other materials I.e. take plastic cap off metal tube. 5/. Heavy penalties on non-conformance
this is simply one of the best videos ive watched on youtube, it turns me on when i see large industries working for the benefit and responsible coexistence of society in a capitalist economy
I have picking garbage on beaches in Northern Norway for 3 years now. On beaches where people haven’t lived since 1950, before plastic was invented. We find mostly plastic. A lot of that is plastic bottles. Some are Norwegian of course, but most of them are foreign bottles! I am amazed that not every country have the return system that California, Germany and the Nordic countries have! Just to give an example on how long things float: In even norther than where I live they found a thing used for lobster fishing. It was located to a fisherman in Nova Scotia...
Runar, we have almost 40 million population in California, and with that many people, the number of plastic bottles used just for water every day is staggering. Tens of millions, I've heard, EVERY DAY. Then add to that plastic bottles for other liquids and food products like mayonnaise, salad dressing, dishwashing liquid, laundry bleach, and the total number of plastic containers discarded by Californians every day is almost uncountable. And far too much of it is ending up in landfills. I personally recycle all of our household containers, and I get about 10¢ each for the heavy-weight PETE bottles (for carbonated beverages), and 5¢ each for the light weight ones. The last load I took to the recycle place, about 6 kitchen trash sized bags full, I got about $30. And I got to feel good about being part of the solution instead of part of the problem. The county I live in has 6 or 7 recycle places for household waste and they accept plastics, aluminum, glass, and household steel scrap, like food cans, up to 1 kg in weight per piece. Heavier steel scrap can be recycled at a facility that specializes in scrapping junked cars; they have a big hammer mill that can shred whole automobiles, and larger pieces of scrap metal, like a discarded refrigerator or laundry machine. California has a State Government Agency whose only business is promoting recycling.
@@laura-ann.0726 : Funny how you would write this, just when I took out the garbarge and was annoyed of my neighbours that didn't sort it enough. Most of what you are telling is really great and I wish more was like you and your county. In my region of 25 000 people on several island the waste company of 4 municipalities is doing a good job. Every house has serveral rubbish bins outside: Paper, food waste, metal and glass packaging (in the same), plastic (collected in a bag) and 1 with "rest garbage" or what is left. The last is sendt to sweden to be burnt for electricity. Food waste is made to earth locally and paper/glass/metal is sendt to either south of Norway or Europe to be recycled. It is collected every 2nd, 4th og 6th week. Also: In every municipality we have facility where we can deliver more and bigger things. Like bigger metal, building material, garden waste and so on. Much is free to deliver. So it is a great system. It just annoy me when people dont use it. But you are right it is great to be a part of the solution. But one thing is recycling our waste, another is to reduce the amout of waste we create. I think that is more effectfull, but maybe also harded. Do we need a new bottle for water, printing paper and plastic around so many things, new electric equipment and so on... Thank you for writing. Good that many people focus on this.
I recycle both plastic bottles and cans. I just hope that more companies will use them to make bottles either with partially recycled plastic or fully recycled plastic.
@@ohmusicsweetmusic Not anymore. China has stopped taking plastic "recyclables" from the West because we were sending them mostly trash. Now that there's no where to ship them, many communities have stopped collecting recyclables for the present, or the plastics are going straight to landfill. We need more companies like CarbonLite to spring up across the country, and other states have to start collecting deposits on containers to encourage more recycling.
I wonder about the entropy of the whole system, they seem very confident when they talk about getting rid of all the processes needed to create a new bottle by "recyling". Nobody seems to take chemistry seriously here.
They should put water filling stations everywhere and get people to pay for a permanent bottle so that you don't have to have to put liquids in a bottle to buy
@@brewckle haha! Yeah almost too simple. Buy a damn Nalgene bottle and fill it before you leave the house. Then just stop buying disposable plastic bottles.
Very interesting, worth noting that many plastics can't be recycled however sophisticated the facility. Ok my question re plastic bottles containers etc, why aren't they washed and reused? That's surely a much much easier and less problematic system. I'd make say 3-4 bottle sizes that all drink manufacturers have to use nation-wide, make a really good quality product initially and then just wash and reuse. I have soup containers I use for water pots and they have been going for years and years + are still absolutely fine and useable.
Chris Loewen So because you lived in a place that had clean water, people who don’t should drink from the hose? Some people eat other humans and some humans eat only extremely old food so, does this mean we should all do it because people survive? Water isn’t just for drinking and we aren’t dogs.
@Captcha Neon No... if you live someplace that has shitty water and you get sick and die, that's okay. It's called removing weaker people from the gene pool. That way the people that survive their children will be stronger and we wont have to fuck with bottling water. If we would just let nature solve its own problem the recycling and trash problem wouldn't exist. How do you like those truth apples? Not PC, but the most efficient.
*I can imagine if a semi carrying those food grade pellets in bags got pulled over, the cops would probably freak out thinking they found the mother load of drugs* 😂
I love to see this happening in the US. Im danish and we have had this for 20years, its a really good thing. And even if someone is like " i dont need the deposit back" and just throws it in the street, some homeless person will find it and take it back:D
Great video, it's always nice when people shed light on the process behind recycling. I'd just be careful making the statement that "these bottles can be used an infinite number of times". Remembering, this facility only processes 20% of the bottles Americans are putting in the trash (which you can bet the company is only accepting the highest grade pre-sorted plastic bottles), and of that only 70% comes out the other side. So, if we do the math only 1*.2*.7= .14, 14% of that bottle you just put in the bin is actually recycled. I just find a lot of people have this assumption that if they throw it in a recycling bin, some how all of it gets fully recycled or down-cycled. Not understanding that while it feels great to put something in the recycling bin, statistically the majority of what they put in there ends up in the trash.
Each country, province, or state in the world should have this kind of facility to help the environment. Instead of shipping trash to other countries, I think this will be a better solution or stop producing plastics.
It is very good that the plastic bottle is made without paper adhesive, for example, the plastic bottle is in a certain shape or plastic bottle colors or has a logo or a name engraved on the bottle.
But, about its quality degrading; into what does it break down? Doesn't melting it into a liquid and letting it harden set the decay process back to the beginning?
+TheNoiseySpectator Well it will stay as plastic but not usable. it looses its elastic properties. Thats why recycled plastic get mixed with virgin plastic usually.
salamaza- Its elastic property is depleted. Could it be used to make something more rigid, like serving dishes, toys, or even altered into another class of plastics? It seems like such a waste to have to discard it completely without it being at least partly reclaimed.
Recycled plastics are made into timber replacement products and also paving bricks and roof tiles.
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I worked in a plastic (PVC) blow molding factory.The FDA requires VIRGIN PVC pellets to use in food products.I 'really don't think recycled PVC is going in any food product containers legally in the USA. When people get their money back on the deposit they paid- the waste stream is clean of the wrong kinds of plastic-and none of them can be intermixed. However-state,and municipal recycling usually results in a mix of crap that pays little to nothing.Then,it's merely landfill.Especially when the buyers balk and reject or the market has more than it needs or can store.The human manpower costs to recover the good from the bad are ridiculous. EVERY single plastic bottle,container pail, etc.should have a recycling value.And A first sale deposit to encourage recycling. As one person has mentioned already- GLASS AND STEEL are far more sellable as raw recycled materials.Just like aluminum is now falling in raw price because of activity and market pressure.
thank you molson12oz some one that knows what they are talking about,i work in a independent bottling factory we blow mold most of our bottles the containers of plastic pellets we have state on the container no recycled plastic is present.
We try to not use plastic bottles, like getting water in AL cans. Sometimes though you don't have an option but to use plastic. How many frozen dinners come in plastic? Pretty much all of them.
Excellent, thanks for sharing. I have always been concerned that whenever I (or anyone) sorts plastic bottles that we did not do a 100% thorough job, and I am glad that it is sorted a final time. Plastic is not biodegradable (usually), and it costs a lot of money and resources to mine new materials. I am very glad they have this facility. God Bless you all.
Such a valuable product it never rots and will last for hundreds of years. What can we use this absolutely free products. All we need is to figure out what to do with it.
The California plant featured in this video just sold to the Sterling Group for $ 57 million. The Sterling Group has Greenbridge, which deals in making plastic strapping and cord and various plastic junk, but its subsidiary, Evergreen, specifically, gets the CarbonLITE plant in Riverside, California, and which is particularly committed to bottle-to-bottle recycling and post-consumer recycled PET for food and beverage packaging.
2021 update: I work for the biggest PET recycling company in the world with headquarters in Taiwan (FENC). We have two plants in Ohio and one in Virginia in the states. I'm not sure if the place in this video is still around but we're making a dent here in Ohio.
I work for Dr Pepper and after watching this video it gives me a lot of courage to see that the company I work for is not interested in recycling, every day thousands of plastic bottles are wasted and everything is thrown away without caring about anything. very sad to know how we are polluting the environment !!!😡
In a state where water is very limited, how much water do they waste in this facility? Why not use glass, or as another user said when living in Germany they sold thick plastic bottles that required a deposit and those bottles were sent back, cleaned, and re-used without having to break them down and re mold them.
You know the process could improve considerably and reduce the cost of recycling by requiring the whole plastic container be made of just one type of plastic and remove the paper/polystyrene label. Milk jugs are are HDPE and they are the easy thing to collect and recycle. You don't have to shred them so much. You can shred the bottle and cap together. The hardest part is running the shreds through a water tumbler to remove the bits of the label. Milk bottles by far are the easiest. If all bottles were more like milk bottles then recycling plastic would improve dramatically - my opinion. As a consumer do you really need that blue cap? As a consumer do you need that fancy label? Would a ink printing on the bottle be good enough? Much of this is driven by the choices we (all us consumers) make at the grocery store.
Fantastic processes, but, we need more preventative action in the first place such as encouraging people to have a recycle bin capped with bottle shapes bin cover, that might help reduce the process of filtering part which in turn save company overhead on water and power usage.
michaelq Incineration generates a lot of carbon dioxide, so it's seems like a good idea to make the waste disappear but is very harmfull for the atmosphere
I had a presentation about environment last time and one of the audience ended up asking me how exactly factories around the world recycle bottles and what will they become? I just answered the question with my own theory and thank goodness it was correct.
If this was such a great idea we'd have seen these popping up across the country over the past 7 years. Now I'd like to see a video on the finances of this operation.
You have no idea, eh. You would not have a clue. That would be the labels and the caps and the incorrect types of containers which have been incidentally baled with the PET before reaching the facility.
Yes, PET may be recyclable but caps and labels are part of the bottle. Therefore there is no “closed loop” for the product as a whole. You buy a bottle of water and part of it goes to a landfill to rot for decades at least.
The Magic Twister I think it’s great that we are able to recycle most of a bottle. I think it’s absolutely insane how many people choose to consume their water in plastic bottles. There is certainly a place for plastic single use bottles but they are undoubtedly overused and that is disgraceful. Bottled water has been proven in various studies to be no better than local tap water - it’s not like people are filling these bottles at a fresh stream. They are full of water out of a tap at a factory.
Claudia Octavia in Germany they use reusable hevy duty plastic bottles and glass bottles. With glass they have to go through inspection... Even after that they can still shattered after being filled. I had wondered the same thing.
Where do you think glass is coming from ?? just make your own research you will understand that glass as construction is creating much more damage on environment ....
In places where they don't have recycle plants , they should have a grinding machine where the bottles are grind into small pieces and used as a base under roads when roads are being constructed , a much better solution than land fill .
have a question .. here is recycling of plastic bottles .. but what about that labels and caps which machine separated from bottles and then recycle the fine plastic bottle materials its humbly request to answer me ..
Everyday we recycle more than one metric ton of single use plastic bags and turn them into synthetic rubber sheets for footwear industry and cattle farm. We are located in Hazaribagh, Dhaka
Good video. Impressive company. I wonder how much, precisely, it costs to carry out this recycling process? And how profitable it is? In any case, it is something I'd like to see more of in the western world countries, particularly the USA and UK. Glass is no different. Glass is a huge man-made problem too and has caused huge contamination of the environment, though this is barely spoken about.
though it still does not show how and where they are removing the bottle tops. most of them are colored and are of course made of a different material. or is that a secret?
Each state should pay to have this factory built in their state. This will keep it all local and create jobs
Building these facilities in every state would reduce plastic in our oceans and would create millions of jobs!
Beverage companies should pay for that not public funds.
@I'mBatman seek Jesus.
@@kraut1982 ha, good luck trying to convince them that.
So who pays the workers?
Ive been using and reusing the same six glass Snapple bottles for 8 years now. They wash up very nice in my dishwasher.
Do you still use that bottle?
insane... i did the same with the green tea arizona glass bottle... i love the design of it enough to weirdly use it over and over
Too bad Snapple uses plastic now.
vomit 🤮
Try not to do that cause the water will be contaminated with micro plastics overtime and kill the plant
When I lived in Germany, they used heavy duty plastic bottles. Get credit at the store to recycle the.m. They wete sent off to be cleaned and reused. Didn't even have to break them down to make into new bottles.
Love Germany recycle system. So many things there are common sense. Separate plastic, paper, glass and metal. Waste not want not.
More and more of these recycling facilities should be opened across the country.
I am 44 and still can remember a visit to a milk bottling plant. I still can see very clearly the washing line with the glass bottles upside down, being washed with soapfilled water and then heading to a drying section in order to be refilled, relabed and recapped to be put in the market again. And a german brand uses for its milk and its yoghurt only glass containers and bottle we then return to the supermarket for reuse, even cheaper and energy saving than recycling them. If that brand could, others could follow suit. I still can remember how, in my country, in the 80s, all this single use packaging and products started. In many cases I feel that correcting those aberrations that were imposed onto us, means simply to return to old habits that included customers and factories as part of closed circular loops of reuse. And certainly for bottling, glass is always the best option.
exactly! i think they just didnt want to bother with logistics anymore bu im pretty sure it can be more economic
You know, I wish reporters would ask helpful questions. For example: "Should I leave the cap in place or through in the bin separately?".
The cap is made of a different material. Removing the caps makes it easier for the recycling facility.
In nz we are told to leave the cap on as hey are too small for the initial sorting machines to sort by themselves. 30% of the weight in labels, lids and leftovers in the bottle are chucked out
@@scottbc31h22 - Thanks! I typically recycle about 300 PETE water bottles every 6 to 8 weeks, and I did not know that it is preferred to recycle them without the caps. I will start bagging them for recycle with the caps off as of today.
The bottles are anyway cut into small pieces using a crusher and so are the caps so leaving them on or inside the bottle doesn’t make a difference
@@theanfielddiary4514 wrong!!! it is best to recycle a clear bottle separate from the cap and label. i cut the labels off my bottles prior to recycling, and i remove the cap and the ring around the bottle neck
So many people don't realize plastic bottles RARELY get turned back into bottles. I love the fact this plant actually does this!
The world is moving into digitalizing recycling, it feels amazing to earn through investing in recycling businesses and initiative.
@@OleksandraKhlusand how does that work please
Simple solution to recycling......
1/. Each type of plastic is allocated it’s own colour
2/. Cap and bottle must be the same type of plastic
3/. Labels must be water soluble and use water soluble glue
4/. Public educated to separate plastic from other materials I.e. take plastic cap off metal tube.
5/. Heavy penalties on non-conformance
What is the method used to remove labels from the bottles?
@@OO7ronaldo As of right now, recycle plants powerwash the bottles, spraying the lables off
6. States are expected BY LAW to provide recycling bins and trucks to come pick them up.
this is simply one of the best videos ive watched on youtube, it turns me on when i see large industries working for the benefit and responsible coexistence of society in a capitalist economy
ya boi
It is probably and inefficient operation and results in even more pollution.
@ Which is part of the beauty: even amoral people can be induced to act morally when the economics indicate that it's preferable.
@@PrezVeto true
When you die bequeath all of your money to those who are doing these types of things for society.
I like how Leon is always smiling, he seems like a great guy and he’s doing some great work
Anyone here remember when we drank from glass bottles. Returned and got washed. Sold again.
Gm Br In Germany they have hevy duty reusable plastic bottles...
Yes that is quite sensible!
better n many ways, but heavy and expensive to transport, thus fossil fuel intensive
To some a soda tasted better from a glass than plastic bottle.
Glass bottles are still used in the Philippines
"Do you ever wonder where it goes?"
Yes. Or I wouldn't be watching this video.
Where I live the bottles wind up on the roads
Exactly what I thought.
Ayy thats a good won like do you ever wonder were it goes yes or I wouldn't be watching this ayy good job
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I have picking garbage on beaches in Northern Norway for 3 years now. On beaches where people haven’t lived since 1950, before plastic was invented. We find mostly plastic. A lot of that is plastic bottles. Some are Norwegian of course, but most of them are foreign bottles! I am amazed that not every country have the return system that California, Germany and the Nordic countries have!
Just to give an example on how long things float: In even norther than where I live they found a thing used for lobster fishing. It was located to a fisherman in Nova Scotia...
Runar, we have almost 40 million population in California, and with that many people, the number of plastic bottles used just for water every day is staggering. Tens of millions, I've heard, EVERY DAY. Then add to that plastic bottles for other liquids and food products like mayonnaise, salad dressing, dishwashing liquid, laundry bleach, and the total number of plastic containers discarded by Californians every day is almost uncountable. And far too much of it is ending up in landfills. I personally recycle all of our household containers, and I get about 10¢ each for the heavy-weight PETE bottles (for carbonated beverages), and 5¢ each for the light weight ones. The last load I took to the recycle place, about 6 kitchen trash sized bags full, I got about $30. And I got to feel good about being part of the solution instead of part of the problem. The county I live in has 6 or 7 recycle places for household waste and they accept plastics, aluminum, glass, and household steel scrap, like food cans, up to 1 kg in weight per piece. Heavier steel scrap can be recycled at a facility that specializes in scrapping junked cars; they have a big hammer mill that can shred whole automobiles, and larger pieces of scrap metal, like a discarded refrigerator or laundry machine. California has a State Government Agency whose only business is promoting recycling.
@@laura-ann.0726 : Funny how you would write this, just when I took out the garbarge and was annoyed of my neighbours that didn't sort it enough.
Most of what you are telling is really great and I wish more was like you and your county.
In my region of 25 000 people on several island the waste company of 4 municipalities is doing a good job. Every house has serveral rubbish bins outside:
Paper, food waste, metal and glass packaging (in the same), plastic (collected in a bag) and 1 with "rest garbage" or what is left. The last is sendt to sweden to be burnt for electricity. Food waste is made to earth locally and paper/glass/metal is sendt to either south of Norway or Europe to be recycled. It is collected every 2nd, 4th og 6th week.
Also: In every municipality we have facility where we can deliver more and bigger things. Like bigger metal, building material, garden waste and so on. Much is free to deliver.
So it is a great system. It just annoy me when people dont use it.
But you are right it is great to be a part of the solution. But one thing is recycling our waste, another is to reduce the amout of waste we create. I think that is more effectfull, but maybe also harded. Do we need a new bottle for water, printing paper and plastic around so many things, new electric equipment and so on...
Thank you for writing. Good that many people focus on this.
Oregon was one of the very first states to adopt a return policy.
I recycle both plastic bottles and cans. I just hope that more companies will use them to make bottles either with partially recycled plastic or fully recycled plastic.
that's the issue. This is not happening. We're just sorting it and shipping it all to China.
Brian Washington hi ..... I'm from Pakistan... I'm the student of environmental science....I want to know it from u plz guide how to build???
As you know that is only 1%. It’s a shame when the public put so much effort into reclining to find out that 99% isn’t.
@@ohmusicsweetmusic Not anymore. China has stopped taking plastic "recyclables" from the West because we were sending them mostly trash. Now that there's no where to ship them, many communities have stopped collecting recyclables for the present, or the plastics are going straight to landfill. We need more companies like CarbonLite to spring up across the country, and other states have to start collecting deposits on containers to encourage more recycling.
Coca-cola should build their own.
Use recyclable metal cans. Keeps soda cold longer too.
Big Soda doesn't care about us.
Warren Winter that make sense to me
@@Nicholas-f5 *Big Soda*
Coke does. Not in usa. Utube it...
The more you know. Great video. It was very informational and makes me glad to see that CA is so ahead in this recycling business.
I wonder how much energy was used to recycle all those bottles
Philfbaby well which is more useful, the material or the energy?
They might have solar panels.
Better be from photovoltaics.
Better to re use and waste energy than to flood the planet with trash
I wonder about the entropy of the whole system, they seem very confident when they talk about getting rid of all the processes needed to create a new bottle by "recyling". Nobody seems to take chemistry seriously here.
14.11.2021 we need an updated video on this please.
They should put water filling stations everywhere and get people to pay for a permanent bottle so that you don't have to have to put liquids in a bottle to buy
how many bottles can people carry? actually there are such water stations, at least here in California
they’re called water fountains and water bottles
@@brewckle haha! Yeah almost too simple. Buy a damn Nalgene bottle and fill it before you leave the house. Then just stop buying disposable plastic bottles.
Wow, we need a lot more of these plants.
I really hope this becomes more widespread across the country.
These are the real heros! good work :)
It's good to know how plastic is recycled, it should put this on the billboard so everybody to see
Very interesting, worth noting that many plastics can't be recycled however sophisticated the facility. Ok my question re plastic bottles containers etc, why aren't they washed and reused? That's surely a much much easier and less problematic system. I'd make say 3-4 bottle sizes that all drink manufacturers have to use nation-wide, make a really good quality product initially and then just wash and reuse. I have soup containers I use for water pots and they have been going for years and years + are still absolutely fine and useable.
Excellent job...U save environment... Weldon sir
Bottled water should be banned. I grew up drinking out of a garden hose an it was fine.
Chris Loewen So because you lived in a place that had clean water, people who don’t should drink from the hose? Some people eat other humans and some humans eat only extremely old food so, does this mean we should all do it because people survive? Water isn’t just for drinking and we aren’t dogs.
@Captcha Neon No... if you live someplace that has shitty water and you get sick and die, that's okay. It's called removing weaker people from the gene pool. That way the people that survive their children will be stronger and we wont have to fuck with bottling water. If we would just let nature solve its own problem the recycling and trash problem wouldn't exist. How do you like those truth apples? Not PC, but the most efficient.
Use a metal or glass cup instead of plastic bottles 😃
@@jasonchecchi1558 or resue then
@@CaptchaNeon That bottle water is costing our oceans all the fish in them. So much micro-plastic in the ocean that fish will not be able to survive.
*I can imagine if a semi carrying those food grade pellets in bags got pulled over, the cops would probably freak out thinking they found the mother load of drugs* 😂
Great episode. Very informative!!
What's the carbon footprint of the facility?
Sounds promising but still better to avoiding purchasing items in plastic ultimately 😊
you typed that on a device using plastic its impossible to avoid
awesome,we need more of this
yea and create profit :)
and save the planet :)
I love to see this happening in the US. Im danish and we have had this for 20years, its a really good thing. And even if someone is like " i dont need the deposit back" and just throws it in the street, some homeless person will find it and take it back:D
thank you 👍 i am a big fan of plastic
Leon and his team are the best of the best when it comes to PET recycling. State of the art facility, very well managed and excellent QA.
Lies again? RP education
Excellent contribution towards environment.
Hope this type of companies also exist in India and it every state.
Thank you California
Great video, it's always nice when people shed light on the process behind recycling. I'd just be careful making the statement that "these bottles can be used an infinite number of times". Remembering, this facility only processes 20% of the bottles Americans are putting in the trash (which you can bet the company is only accepting the highest grade pre-sorted plastic bottles), and of that only 70% comes out the other side. So, if we do the math only 1*.2*.7= .14, 14% of that bottle you just put in the bin is actually recycled. I just find a lot of people have this assumption that if they throw it in a recycling bin, some how all of it gets fully recycled or down-cycled. Not understanding that while it feels great to put something in the recycling bin, statistically the majority of what they put in there ends up in the trash.
Thank u. A very well informing video
This must be the norm all over the world
Wow!I have never heard of such a thing.Continue your good work👍🏻
4:30 Oh really? In Japan, we use more energy to make materials from recycled materials than just make materials from the ground.
Each country, province, or state in the world should have this kind of facility to help the environment. Instead of shipping trash to other countries, I think this will be a better solution or stop producing plastics.
Why this vid doesn’t have millions of likes 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Totally cool. It should be happening everywhere. But states must subsidize it to help.
Every region needs at least one of these plants to keep our products and recycled materials in the USA
Remember Reuse comes before Recycle
There is no reason why a plastic bottle needs to be a single use item
A magnet won't pick up aluminum. So I wonder how aluminum cans and products are removed.
Thats why the sorters are there for. You see one person pick out a aluminum soda can at 1:35
Wow 🤩 that’s another good job 👏..!!
Perfect video! well done!
The world is moving into digitalizing recycling, it feels amazing to earn through investing in recycling businesses and initiative.
It is very good that the plastic bottle is made without paper adhesive, for example, the plastic bottle is in a certain shape or plastic bottle colors or has a logo or a name engraved on the bottle.
We need this in Texas
infinite life? no plastic quality degrade a lot after 2-3 cycles.
I agree that was a poor choice of words on his part. A better term would have been "indefinite".
But, about its quality degrading; into what does it break down?
Doesn't melting it into a liquid and letting it harden set the decay process back to the beginning?
+TheNoiseySpectator Well it will stay as plastic but not usable. it looses its elastic properties. Thats why recycled plastic get mixed with virgin plastic usually.
salamaza- Its elastic property is depleted. Could it be used to make something more rigid, like serving dishes, toys, or even altered into another class of plastics?
It seems like such a waste to have to discard it completely without it being at least partly reclaimed.
Recycled plastics are made into timber replacement products and also paving bricks and roof tiles.
I worked in a plastic (PVC) blow molding factory.The FDA requires VIRGIN PVC pellets to use in food products.I 'really don't think recycled PVC is going in any food product containers legally in the USA.
When people get their money back on the deposit they paid- the waste stream is clean of the wrong kinds of plastic-and none of them can be intermixed.
However-state,and municipal recycling usually results in a mix of crap that pays little to nothing.Then,it's merely landfill.Especially when the buyers balk and reject or the market has more than it needs or can store.The human manpower costs to recover the good from the bad are ridiculous.
EVERY single plastic bottle,container pail, etc.should have a recycling value.And A first sale deposit to encourage recycling.
As one person has mentioned already- GLASS AND STEEL are far more sellable as raw recycled materials.Just like aluminum is now falling in raw price because of activity and market pressure.
thank you molson12oz some one that knows what they are talking about,i work in a independent bottling factory we blow mold most of our bottles the containers of plastic pellets we have state on the container no recycled plastic is present.
I didnt know susan collins went to work for a recycling institute after writing the hunger games
Good
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Thank you for this informative video.
This would make a great field trip for environmentally friendly schools. Great video!
I would love to know how or where to find the machines to do this process because I would love to own and operate a company that does this
- Å fan! 👍
Great video. Gotta know though. What happens to the labels? Are they just thrown away or sent to another facility for recycling?
We try to not use plastic bottles, like getting water in AL cans. Sometimes though you don't have an option but to use plastic. How many frozen dinners come in plastic? Pretty much all of them.
Excellent, thanks for sharing. I have always been concerned that whenever I (or anyone) sorts plastic bottles that we did not do a 100% thorough job, and I am glad that it is sorted a final time. Plastic is not biodegradable (usually), and it costs a lot of money and resources to mine new materials. I am very glad they have this facility. God Bless you all.
What's so great about it? Sure we clean it and melt it but then what? That's where we are going wrong.
@@sirmario1some types i heard it takes more
Have a good day productions ideas 😊
at 1:51, He said “you can see how they remove the label”s but I don’t see how the machine is removing the labels.
Amazing. The sterilization technique is praise worthy. I didn't know we can use Reprocessed Granules for food industry applications
How much water gets wasted on the "recycling" of plastics? Is it cost effective? Just wondering?
Such a valuable product it never rots and will last for hundreds of years.
What can we use this absolutely free products.
All we need is to figure out what to do with it.
The California plant featured in this video just sold to the Sterling Group for $ 57 million. The Sterling Group has Greenbridge, which deals in making plastic strapping and cord and various plastic junk, but its subsidiary, Evergreen, specifically, gets the CarbonLITE plant in Riverside, California, and which is particularly committed to bottle-to-bottle recycling and post-consumer recycled PET for food and beverage packaging.
There are more plastic bottles in the ocean than plastic bottles that has been recycled ever
love to see 2020 update on this
2021 update:
I work for the biggest PET recycling company in the world with headquarters in Taiwan (FENC).
We have two plants in Ohio and one in Virginia in the states. I'm not sure if the place in this video is still around but we're making a dent here in Ohio.
5.43 Are the plastic bags the recycled plastic beads are in recyclable? Just asking...
Video on making new bottles with those pellets?
I work for Dr Pepper and after watching this video it gives me a lot of courage to see that the company I work for is not interested in recycling, every day thousands of plastic bottles are wasted and everything is thrown away without caring about anything. very sad to know how we are polluting the environment !!!😡
In a state where water is very limited, how much water do they waste in this facility? Why not use glass, or as another user said when living in Germany they sold thick plastic bottles that required a deposit and those bottles were sent back, cleaned, and re-used without having to break them down and re mold them.
You know the process could improve considerably and reduce the cost of recycling by requiring the whole plastic container be made of just one type of plastic and remove the paper/polystyrene label. Milk jugs are are HDPE and they are the easy thing to collect and recycle. You don't have to shred them so much. You can shred the bottle and cap together. The hardest part is running the shreds through a water tumbler to remove the bits of the label. Milk bottles by far are the easiest. If all bottles were more like milk bottles then recycling plastic would improve dramatically - my opinion. As a consumer do you really need that blue cap? As a consumer do you need that fancy label? Would a ink printing on the bottle be good enough? Much of this is driven by the choices we (all us consumers) make at the grocery store.
Very cool!!!
So they do remove the labels before grinding them up.
Fantastic processes, but, we need more preventative action in the first place such as encouraging people to have a recycle bin capped with bottle shapes bin cover, that might help reduce the process of filtering part which in turn save company overhead on water and power usage.
This is really awesome. However, what happens to the labels, the washing water, and the sterilization waste? Landfills ...
Or incineration to generate energy
michaelq Incineration generates a lot of carbon dioxide, so it's seems like a good idea to make the waste disappear but is very harmfull for the atmosphere
so is a volcano
And the teddy bears, t shirts and carpets.
I always wondered what happened. Interesting video
lovely video ..... ♡
I had a presentation about environment last time and one of the audience ended up asking me how exactly factories around the world recycle bottles and what will they become? I just answered the question with my own theory and thank goodness it was correct.
If this was such a great idea we'd have seen these popping up across the country over the past 7 years. Now I'd like to see a video on the finances of this operation.
It's a "closed" loop with a hole that lets out 30% of the materials apparently.
You have no idea, eh. You would not have a clue. That would be the labels and the caps and the incorrect types of containers which have been incidentally baled with the PET before reaching the facility.
Yes, PET may be recyclable but caps and labels are part of the bottle. Therefore there is no “closed loop” for the product as a whole. You buy a bottle of water and part of it goes to a landfill to rot for decades at least.
The Magic Twister I think it’s great that we are able to recycle most of a bottle. I think it’s absolutely insane how many people choose to consume their water in plastic bottles. There is certainly a place for plastic single use bottles but they are undoubtedly overused and that is disgraceful.
Bottled water has been proven in various studies to be no better than local tap water - it’s not like people are filling these bottles at a fresh stream. They are full of water out of a tap at a factory.
Recicle all recicle is good for the planet 🌎
so why not use glass? surely the process to wash and reuse a glass bottle is much cheaper and greener than all of this.
Claudia Octavia in Germany they use reusable hevy duty plastic bottles and glass bottles. With glass they have to go through inspection... Even after that they can still shattered after being filled. I had wondered the same thing.
Way more heavy, costs more to transport
They still do in Mexico.
Where do you think glass is coming from ?? just make your own research you will understand that glass as construction is creating much more damage on environment ....
Its called shipping costs
In places where they don't have recycle plants , they should have a grinding machine where the bottles are grind into small pieces and used as a base under roads when roads are being constructed , a much better solution than land fill .
anyone else watching this as homework during lockdown lol
The president should sign a bill to make it into law so that every state have a factory such as this.
are bottle caps and the label recyclable?
have a question .. here is recycling of plastic bottles .. but what about that labels and caps which machine separated from bottles and then recycle the fine plastic bottle materials
its humbly request to answer me ..
This is exactly what I imagined
"Food grade plastic pellets......."
Looks like a bag of crack 😂
they do this in British Colombia Canada and zero other provinces do it. every state/province in the world should have one of these facilities.
Everyday we recycle more than one metric ton of single use plastic bags and turn them into synthetic rubber sheets for footwear industry and cattle farm. We are located in Hazaribagh, Dhaka
3:02 ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
Awesom!
What do you do if your State don't recycle anymore ?
Good video. Impressive company. I wonder how much, precisely, it costs to carry out this recycling process? And how profitable it is? In any case, it is something I'd like to see more of in the western world countries, particularly the USA and UK. Glass is no different. Glass is a huge man-made problem too and has caused huge contamination of the environment, though this is barely spoken about.
though it still does not show how and where they are removing the bottle tops. most of them are colored and are of course made of a different material. or is that a secret?