Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

Mike Bid­dle: We can recy­cle plas­tic | Video on TED.com.

Less than 10% of plas­tic trash is recy­cled com­pared to almost 90% of met­als. This is because of the mas­sive­ly com­pli­cat­ed prob­lem of find­ing and sort­ing the dif­fer­ent kinds of plas­tic. Frus­trat­ed by this waste, Mike Bid­dle has devel­oped a cheap and incred­i­bly ener­gy effi­cient plant that can, and does, recy­cle any kind of plas­tic.

Because many plants can only recy­cle cer­tain plas­tics, peo­ple are often con­fused about what they can and can’t recy­cle. Hope­ful­ly this tech­nol­o­gy will even­tu­al­ly help to recov­er and recy­cle more plas­tics around the world.

Biddle’s busi­ness mod­el is sus­tain­able from both an eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal stand­point.