Every day on the west side of Atlanta, tons of plastic arrive at the Nexus processing facility.
Most of it is thin plastic like shopping bags, packaging and “bubble wrap, huge amounts of bubble wrap,” said Nexus’ CEO Jeff Gold. “And where this comes from, I don’t really know or why we get it I’m not sure.”
When the plastic arrives, this feedstock, as they call it, is sorted by hand then ground up. It’s then heated in a chemical process called plastic pyrolysis, creating oil and wax that are sold to chemical companies that can re-use it.
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