Clip: Season 15 | 54s | Video has closed captioning.
Stevie Morrison, sustainability coordinator at Breck Create, on recycling plastic through their Precious Plastic program to create new materials. Bonus video from PLAY, now streaming on PBS App, pbs.org/craftinamerica, and craftinamerica.org. PBS broadcast premiere December 29, 2023 (check local listings).
Aired: 12/01/23
At Breck Create with the Precious Plastic program we're focusing on items that you can't recycle in the county such as clam shells or yogurt containers.
We're recycling those elements.
We shred them down into tiny particles and then through a couple different machines that we have we turn them into big plastic sheets ?
like what you see here or we can run them through an extruder and make 3D printing filament or we can make any of these objects that you're seeing via our injection mold machine where we just push the plastic particles into a machine.
It melts it down and then essentially pushes stuff into molds like this plastic bottle opener or this soap dish that you see here we can also do things like this where we make little earrings or the clock.
The possibilities are really endless.
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