CarbonLite: Inside the World's Largest Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant | KCET
CarbonLite: Inside the World's Largest Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant
CarbonLite is the world's largest "bottle-to-bottle" plastic recycling plant in Riverside, Calif.
"SoCal Connected" takes a look inside the state-of-the-art facility where billions of plastic bottles are churned on an annual basis. The process involves transforming old plastic bottles into PET pellets and flakes in order to produce new plastic bottles.
The bottles are required to go through metal detectors, a special "prewash" phase, and a label-removing facility before they can become shiny, brand new pellets.
Even though your plastic water bottle might not weigh as much, a square bale of plastic bottles can weigh more than 1,300 pounds, as Derrick Shore reveals in this segment of "SoCal Connected."
Featuring Interviews With:
- Leon Farahnik, CarbonLite Industries
- Susan Collins, Container Recycling Institute
Full Episodes
-
SoCal Connected
SoCal Connected
Jazz City
Season 9
For decades Los Angeles has lived in the shadows of New York and Chicago when it comes to the jazz, but that's now changing. LA's jazz scene is on the upswing. Meet the people, places and sounds that are putting LA jazz back on the map.
-
SoCal Connected
SoCal Connected
It's Not Easy Being Green
Season 9
Chopped down trees, unspent money, building homes thirty feet from the freeway: Is the city of Los Angeles falling down on the job when it comes to certain environmental policies? Socal Connected investigates.
-
SoCal Connected
SoCal Connected
The New Normal
Season 9
California's wildfires are more severe and deadlier than ever before. Debates are raging as to what to do, who will pay for billions of dollars in damage and what can be done to lessen the destruction as California adjusts to its new normal.
-
SoCal Connected
SoCal Connected
Under the Influence
Influencers - they are powerful, persuasive, and they are everywhere. You may not know it, but you could be living under the influence.
-
SoCal Connected
SoCal Connected
Heat
Season 9
How hot will your neighborhood get? "SoCal Connected" looks at the ground-level effects of climate change on southern California.
- 1 of 52
- next ›
Clips & Segments
-
SoCal Connected
After major earthquakes on July 4 and 5 near Ridgecrest, residents of small towns like Trona are left to face structural damages and limited access to water and other resources.
-
SoCal Connected
Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down have shone and international spotlight on jazz in Los Angeles. But the scene has a rich history dating back to Central Avenue and The World Stage in Leimert Park which have long been LA jazz institutions.
-
SoCal Connected
Los Angeles educators are on strike, leaving elementary, middle and high schools without formal instruction until further notice.
-
SoCal Connected
UTLA took to the streets in Downtown LA to protest the state of LAUSD. They are advocating for smaller classroom sizes and better resources like nurses and counselors.
- 1 of 207
- next ›
Upcoming Airdates
Jazz City
Season 9
For decades Los Angeles has existed in the shadows of New York and Chicago when it comes to jazz, but that's now changing. L.A.'s jazz scene is on the upswing. Meet the people, places and sounds that are putting L.A. jazz back on the map.
-
2019-07-20T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
The News Blues
Season 9
The LA Times may have found its savior in Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, but how will the other local newsrooms in LA be rescued? SoCal Connected reports on one of the craziest years for local news in Southern California. Premieres October 9th at 8:00pm.
-
2019-07-23T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-23T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-24T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-25T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-07-25T05:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-25T14:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-07-27T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Out of Bounds
Season 9
One of the nation's top high school athletes was on a path to the NFL, but instead became the poster child for what's wrong with L.A.'s mental health system. "SoCal Connected" documents the life and times of Dorsey High's Antonio Carrion.
-
2019-07-30T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-30T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-07-31T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-01T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-01T05:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-01T14:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-03T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Divide and Conquer
Season 9
Gerrymandering is one of the most effective tools to manipulate an election and guarantee a win. "SoCal Connected" profiles how some local governments have used political borders to dilute minorities' power, and what is being done about it. "SoCal Connected" won its first (and KCET's second) Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for its work on this episode.
-
2019-08-06T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-06T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-07T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-08T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-08T05:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-08T14:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-10T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-10T12:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
Blood Money
Season 9
A look at the profiteering behind two of America's fastest growing diseases affecting millions of Californians.
-
2019-08-13T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-13T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-14T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-15T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-15T05:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
-
2019-08-15T14:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
-
2019-08-17T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Articles
-
SoCal Connected
The powerful quake struck about 8:16 p.m. Friday, about 9 miles west-southwest of Searles Valley and occurred on the same fault that produced a magnitude 6.4 foreshock on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
-
SoCal Connected
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake was felt throughout the Southland today, shaking up local residents celebrating the Fourth of July.
-
SoCal Connected
Officials at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Committee abruptly ended their meeting without discussing anything on the agenda when supporters of President Trump's policies clashed with members of Black Lives Matter and other groups.
-
SoCal Connected
Federal immigration authorities are expected to begin sweeps in Los Angeles and elsewhere Sunday to arrest undocumented immigrants named in court-ordered deportation warrants.
-
SoCal Connected
Measure EE needed a two-thirds majority to be approved but wasn't able to receive a majority of yes votes, losing 54.32%-45.68%, according to semiofficial results released today by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
-
SoCal Connected
According to the figures from this year's count, there are about 36,300 homeless people in Los Angeles, including those living on the streets or housed in some type of shelter.
- 1 of 106
- next ›
Popular Videos
-
Owner and Creative Director Catherine Bailey and Master Glazer Winnie Crittendon explain how every ceramic piece that comes off the Heath line is unique. Sometimes, it’s all in the glaze.
KCET Original -
Aviation takes flight in early Los Angeles, becoming an industry of dreamers, risk takers and entrepreneurs. The region is America’s “arsenal of democracy” during World War II, as two million workers build 300,000 aircrafts.
KCET Original -
The Cold War and Pentagon dollars fuels the explosive growth of modern Los Angeles and creates the military-industrial-complex.
KCET Original -
After major earthquakes on July 4 and 5 near Ridgecrest, residents of small towns like Trona are left to face structural damages and limited access to water and other resources.
KCET Original -
Travel down to where the streets have no name and see the world's tallest, oldest and one of the most peculiar-looking Joshua Trees.
Expiring Soon
-
Former NYC superstar Chef Gavin Kaysen has headed back to his mid-west roots to put his hometown of Minneapolis on the culinary hot map.
-
Huell tours the the Victorian residence in Martinez where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914, and meets the special folks who are responsible for preserving this important site.
-
"Mother of the Earth" takes a look at Hayedeh Shirzadi and her husband's attempts to put an end to the dumping and burial of urban garbage in their city.
-
On his first-ever expedition to Siberia, George witnesses the alarming effect of melting permafrost, visits a 12,000-year-old dog, and camps out with reindeer herders on the chilliest night of his life.
Comments