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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SoCal Connected will premiere eight new episodes this season starting Tues., Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. on KCET in Southern California with encores airing one week later on PBS SoCal at 7 p.m.
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Firing reduced to suspension for LASD deputy for strangling his wife, says Inspector Generals report
The LA County Inspector General released its quarterly report today. The report investigates LA Sheriff's Department's disciplinary actions in March, April and May.
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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.
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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.
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Life In Plastic: California’s Recycling Woes
Season 10
As California deals with the fallout of a global waste crisis, plastic manufacturers continue to spread misleading information about recycling, while spending big on lobbying efforts to keep their products on the shelves.
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Who Killed Josiah?
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A Humboldt town is polarized over allegations of racism and police incompetence surrounding the death of college student Josiah Lawson.
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Access Denied
Season 10
An investigation reveals how the state and many cities have let developers get away for decades with not paying their fair share when they replace affordable lodging with luxury hotels up and down California’s coast.
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Councilman Mitch O'Farrell and the city's Bureau of Sanitation today reminded all Los Angeles restaurant managers that starting Tuesday, they will be required to withhold plastic straws unless a customer requests them.
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The number of hate crimes reported in Los Angeles County in 2018 was the highest it has been in a decade and continued a five-year trend of increases, according to a report released today.
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The Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego metropolitan areas have the most homes in the Western United States considered to be at high or extreme risk of being damaged or destroyed in a wildfire, according to a report released today.
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Researchers have discovered an alarming increase in plastics pollution in the deep ocean floor off Santa Barbara, suggesting human efforts to reduce using the everlasting product should include finding new ways to wash our clothes.
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Southland law enforcement groups and community organizations today hailed the governor's signing of legislation that redefines when officers and deputies can use deadly force.
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A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was fired over domestic violence allegations but rehired after Alex Villanueva was elected sheriff was ordered by a judge today to surrender his badge and gun.
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