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A new recycling plant is set to open in Rogers, Minn., through an international company called MyPlas. Brand owners and other private and public entities have invested millions of dollars into the project to build a 170,000-square-foot film recycling plant. Andrew Pieterse, the U.S. CEO of the company MyPlas, joined Cathy Wurzer to talk about the opening.

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CATHY WURZER: The pandemic continues, so does the resulting refuse associated with it. The pandemic caused a huge uptick in plastic garbage in the US. Lots of it is from the plastic food to go boxes, and yeah, masks. A new recycling plant is set to open in Rogers, Minnesota through an international company called Myplas.

Brand owners and other private and public entities have invested millions of dollars into the project to build a 170,000 square foot film recycling plant. Here to talk about the new recycling company is Andrew Peterson. He's the US CEO of the company My Place. Andrew, welcome to Minnesota Now.
ANDREW PETERSON: So we are going to be recycling mainly film, and by film, I mean, anything that stretches. When I think about plastic, it's overly, grossly simplifying it, but I think of ridgets, which is your milk bottles, and your juice bottles, and all the rest of it, and then film, which is your shopping bags, the wrap that goes over your cucumber, that kind of thing. So we're going to be focusing on processing film.
ANDREW PETERSON: Oh gosh, so, I mean, clearly, like with any manufacturing business, we're going to ramp up, right? We're looking to ramp up really quickly. So when we're at full capacity in about two years from now, we'll be running about 90 pounds million worth of plastics in the facility. So that's 90 pounds million of plastic waste that would have ended up in landfill, or worse, lakes, the ocean, somewhere in the environment.
ANDREW PETERSON: So recycling is not the most complex process. It really is a process of grinding, washing, melting, and then re-compounding into pellets. We produce these pellets, which would then [INAUDIBLE] what we call converters, who then use the pellets to create new applications.
ANDREW PETERSON: Film applications, instead of using what we call virgin plastic, which is plastic produced by oil companies. We sell recycled pellets and then new applications, like shopping bags and the little plastic that covers your microwave meal, that kind of thing. That's what I mean by application.
CATHY WURZER: So Minnesota, of course, as the site for this new recycling plant, you could have gone anywhere, but you chose Minnesota. Why did you do that?
We've been looking to expand internationally for quite some time, and especially after the National Sword Policy of China, which some people may be aware of. That's when China decided not to accept plastic waste from the US any longer. That really opened up an opportunity for us to bring our technical skills to the US, so we were looking particularly in the Midwest.
And through a wonderful coalition called Involved, which is part of greater MSB, we were connected serendipitously through fate, whatever you want to call it, to this organization. Involved is a coalition of some of the biggest food and ag corporate companies headquartered in Minnesota. So through this coalition, we were connected to these companies, and yeah, found our investors and our partners to set up this plant.