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Uploaded by on Jul 9, 2009

It's important to recycle plastic bottles because plastic will last forever in a landfill, and plastic bottles are easily recycled. Discover how most plastic bottles used to drink soda or water are made from recycled plastic with help from a solid waste planning engineer and recycling program coordinator in this free video on plastic bottle recycling.

Expert: Lynn Bestul
Contact: www.nhcgov.com
Bio: Lynn Bestul is the solid waste planning engineer and recycling program coordinator for the New Hanover Department of Environmental Management in Wilmington, N.C.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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  • How much money can you get per ton of recycled plastic bottles?

  • I support you for this. Plastic bottle can still be use in a lot of ways.

  • Wonderful initiative. This is a good video to give awareness and promote plastic recycling.

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  • how do you source for the empty used bottles?

  • way we have to pay you to recollect the trash and recycle if you make millions of dollars,are we stupids or Government abuse of power and they say is a public service .and is another good extortion like the power company and gasoline.

  • Couldent they turn the landfill sites into a giant septic tanks and channel of the methane for fuel? They should filter out all the non organic componants, plastic, glass, metal, etc and put all the stuff filtered out from sewage sutch as hair cloggs and dog waste from bins and break it down into hamless mulch you can use for farming? There must be some fungi out there that can break down these matirials into nitrates and base elements like carbon.

  • Great Video, Thank you for your contribution.

  • in my country we get 0.15 cent for a 0.33l can, 20 cent for a 0.5l bottle, and 40 cent for a 1.5l bottle, we have 97.9 recycle procent so i hope the US takes that way too.

    (the recycle money that comes back adds to the price of the bottle when we buy it so we kinda lose money IF we dont go and return da bottles to shop.

  • I think you are mistaken. Plastic bottles will degrade and completely dissolve within 400 years in landfill, plastic bags will take around 75-100 years. Glass, on the other hand is unable to biodegrade and will stay in landfill for life. This is the information that we are getting from the Government here in Scotland, UK. I hope this helps.

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