There are quite some steps involved before plastic can be re-used, this is one of the first. This awesome company gets all the plastic-waste from other companies and dumps. Everything is put on a huge assembly line. Around this line people are manually sorting out the types of plastic…They just have to memorize, for instance: garden furniture and flowerpots are made of PP, bottles are PET and tubes PVC. This requires a huge list of products to remember and still you are never 100% sure.. He told me there was a new company who made flower pots of PE(another type of plastic) you can’t tell the difference with a pot made of PP or PE so this makes it almost impossible to sort it out properly. And mixing 2 types of plastic in one product is just the worst, plastic beerbottles (PET) are often laminated (with PP) They can’t separate those two anymore..ever..they are really making junk..
But after they sort everything properly it’s being pressed into big blocks and transported to another company who will shred it.

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