How is Paper Recycled? Learn About the Recycling Process at Pratt Industries

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  • Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2021
  • Learn more about recycling and where the material goes when it leaves your curbside. Take a tour of Pratt Industries Material Recovery Facility in Conyers, GA. Journey along as we take you through our recycling process. Watch as the recovered material arrives via trailers and is sorted by material type (plastic, aluminum, paper). The recovered mixed paper is then taken to our paper mill where it's cleaned, repulped and converted into new 100% recycled paper that's used in Pratt's 100% recycled boxes!
    Pratt Recycling is a part of Pratt Industries, the 5th largest corrugated packaging company in the USA and the world’s largest, privately-held producer of 100% recycled containerboard. Pratt Recycling Division is a full service recycler with 19 recycling facilities. Pratt utilizes the paper products collected in the production of its 100% recycled content paper and packaging solutions. Our mission is to create sustainable recycling solutions for our customers that maximize waste diversion, create cost savings and revenue stream for valuable recyclables previously landfilled, all the while minimizing the environmental impact by preserving natural resources for future generations.
    Every year Pratt diverts 3 million tons of paper, other recyclable materials and waste-to-clean energy materials from the landfill. Some items that cannot be recycled are used as fuel for Pratt’s clean energy plant which powers the paper-making process. We close the loop! Learn more at Recycle.PrattIndustries.com.
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Комментарии • 68

  • @stevenarmer8245
    @stevenarmer8245 Год назад +42

    I work for Pratt Industries, I only see the converting side where the rolls are turned into corrugated boxes. Then I load them all into semi trailers for different companies. Proctor & Gamble being probably our biggest customer. Pratt is an amazing company to work for. I couldn't be happier with my job. I'm a forklift operator & love it. 🇺🇸

    • @vzade
      @vzade 11 месяцев назад +2

      P&G is a giant of a company. I'm glad that there's a competitor out there for them, especially a quality one like Pratt Industries

    • @KaranSinghBhati-yu9sm
      @KaranSinghBhati-yu9sm 9 месяцев назад

      Hello , can I get your Instagram I'd please

    • @C4MMU5
      @C4MMU5 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@vzade P&G is their customer, not a competitor

    • @vzade
      @vzade 6 месяцев назад

      @@C4MMU5 LMAO

    • @C4MMU5
      @C4MMU5 6 месяцев назад

      @@vzade P&G also makes paper products of course, not corrugated boxes though

  • @NeilGastonguay
    @NeilGastonguay 2 года назад +51

    A remarkable process. I don't envy the manual sorters and the speed at which they have to work.

    • @650sFinnest
      @650sFinnest Год назад +12

      They should at least get chairs. I never understood the big deal about making workers stand. Standing in position never moving is not any healthier than sitting.

  • @TheDeadbirdy
    @TheDeadbirdy 2 года назад +13

    This is amazing. Tell the engineers they are awesome.

  • @DeloiVarden
    @DeloiVarden 2 года назад +15

    One of the best recycling processors I have seen. Wish more would follow in your footsteps!

  • @ariesdarkmage2987
    @ariesdarkmage2987 2 года назад +5

    I absolutely enjoy watching the recycling of materials and the new innovations stepping up the game because simply puts the level we are going to go to the next generation is going to make the biggest impact you'll ever see on the best way for our lives to live

    • @gordonwelcher9598
      @gordonwelcher9598 Год назад

      Millions of tons of toilet paper is flushed away every day.
      We should collect it for recycling.
      It could be used to make many items such as paper plates, drinking cups and straws.
      They could be dyed brown to hide any leftover impurities.

  • @sarahseiver8819
    @sarahseiver8819 2 года назад +8

    Fascinating! Thank you for that window into where our recyclables go

    • @ismailakbar6449
      @ismailakbar6449 2 года назад +1

      I don't understand what they are recycling. Is it it paper into cardboard it's confusing.

    • @donnash5813
      @donnash5813 2 года назад

      @@ismailakbar6449 Paper, cardboard. aluminum cans, tin cans, #1 and #2 plastic are highly recyclable. It's the #3 to #7 plastic that is not valuable that is the biggest problem.

  • @oregonpatriot1570
    @oregonpatriot1570 2 года назад +8

    1:35 Can you imagine the stress of a line moving THAT FAST while your job is to sort it?

  • @gregelliott5016
    @gregelliott5016 2 года назад +5

    These videos are educating and informative

  • @sckumar6812
    @sckumar6812 2 года назад +3

    nice work to save the environment , keep it up guys

  • @svcarranza
    @svcarranza 2 года назад +24

    Truly remarkable process. I can’t help but wonder if there would be less need for mechanical sorters if we sorted our recyclables ourselves into different bins rather than all into a blue bin (i.e. glass, cans, cardboard, paper).

    • @NickCBax
      @NickCBax 2 года назад +6

      Sorting into different bins leads to higher quality materials, but fewer people actually recycle then.
      The mixed recycling blue bin is a compromise.

    • @Driver0378
      @Driver0378 Год назад +1

      Where we live, we have blue bins for plastic/metal one week, other week is black bin which is paper/cardboard. Both weeks are also green bin for compostables.

    • @extraterrestrial7424
      @extraterrestrial7424 Месяц назад

      In our country (Czech Rep.) there is a standard of blue bin for paper and cardboard, yellow bin for plastic and cans and green bin for glass (these are sometimes further separated into white and colored glass). However, no bins for porcelain that still goes to communal waste and all kind of electronics are supposed to go to electroshops which collect them, and unused medicine to apothecaries which collect them, in practice they both mostly end up in communal, even batteries and dangerous stuff. Clothes mostly end up in communal too.

  • @khawerkhan2897
    @khawerkhan2897 2 года назад +1

    this video is quite admirable . love it

  • @jeffreysivyer8939
    @jeffreysivyer8939 2 года назад +1

    The US can show the world what can be done when there is a dollar to be made . Congratulations to the engineers and investors

  • @johnjohnf.webber1820
    @johnjohnf.webber1820 3 месяца назад

    Hopefully thier processes for paper recycling is franchised to other nations. It'll create proper standards in other nations who use paper or paper products.

  • @stevieboy6286
    @stevieboy6286 9 месяцев назад +2

    Very impressive. Just curious about the metal staples in magazines etc, how are they removed?

  • @rogiervantilburg3440
    @rogiervantilburg3440 10 месяцев назад

    excellent video!!

  • @ZuLuuuuuu
    @ZuLuuuuuu 3 месяца назад

    In Belgium, we put plastics and paper into different bins, and they are collected separately as well. Probably not perfect, but it still reduces the manual labor significantly.

  • @andrewrodriguez8492
    @andrewrodriguez8492 11 месяцев назад

    Bro this makes me happy🤓

  • @mussim2919
    @mussim2919 3 месяца назад

    Love the video, enjoyed every single bits of it. Can you make a HD video and longer please? Thanks a lot.

  • @dwarfbard
    @dwarfbard 6 месяцев назад

    One thing that came to mind - why isn't the cardboard going straight onto the conveyor line? Why does it have to have an extra heavy machinery step?!

  • @sambhavgrover5167
    @sambhavgrover5167 2 года назад +3

    Where do the plastics (such as PP, PET) and aluminum goes after being separated from paper? Do you recycle these plastics and aluminum on your own or do you send this to other companies who have plastic/aluminium recycling capabilities?

  • @Foersom_
    @Foersom_ 2 года назад +2

    1:25 "Eddy current aluminum", too fast, please tell us more about this step.

  • @yvettecintron3988
    @yvettecintron3988 2 года назад

    Awesome

  • @_runta
    @_runta Год назад

    Thats cool😮❤

  • @elenaarctr4199
    @elenaarctr4199 5 месяцев назад

    I believe, that some of the process can be remove if people could separate plastic, alumin, and others

  • @crupert23225
    @crupert23225 Год назад +2

    And what, SPECIFICALLY, happens to all that plastic? All that's ever said is it is sent "elsewhere", which I interpret to mean it gets either dumped at sea, or sent to some other country for disposal. Most of it, anyway. Most plastics sent to a recycling plant never actually get recycled.

  • @Tony.Technics.1200s
    @Tony.Technics.1200s Год назад

    Holy smokes! I had no clue....

  • @LMaudy
    @LMaudy 2 месяца назад

    If someone threw used toilet paper in, how does that get removed/decontaminated/processed?

  • @joelroy9221
    @joelroy9221 8 месяцев назад +1

    What if the paper that are to be recycled are stapled? Now it is not only paper but also metal. So how does it work?

    • @gy2gy246
      @gy2gy246 Месяц назад

      A heavy magnet removes metal.

  • @kalebwilliams1213
    @kalebwilliams1213 2 года назад

    I just started working at one of these warehouses in November.

  • @simontaylor2319
    @simontaylor2319 3 месяца назад

    I learnt very little from this video. How is the paper recycled into new paper?

  • @nickbaler888
    @nickbaler888 Год назад

    nice

  • @foxman105
    @foxman105 Год назад +1

    I'm surprised people sometimes just throw c!@# that is clearly not belonging there. It must be an annoyance to sieve through those contaminates.

  • @extraterrestrial7424
    @extraterrestrial7424 Месяц назад

    I see a lot of potential for an AI here.

  • @manishagarwalla1272
    @manishagarwalla1272 4 месяца назад

    Hello,
    My name is Manish Agarwalla and I’m from Assam, INDIA. I’m a small time packaging manufacturer and very keen and interested in the recycling industry of both plastic and paper. If a big company like yours would like to tie up with us in India, we could do amazing things here. I’m very bullish of the market here. I would love to work with you.
    Thank you and hoping for a response.
    Regards,
    Manish Agarwalla
    Jadani Packaging
    Assam, India

  • @aerielvenus49
    @aerielvenus49 Год назад

    If I donate my papers that are ripped on the process of throwing will they still accept it to make recycled papers?

    • @JosephKarsch-ym6cl
      @JosephKarsch-ym6cl 10 часов назад

      I would assume so. I remember reading that all pieces of paper the size of a sticky note or larger will make it. (Anything smaller gets missed by the machines and ends up as waste).

  • @alexisscholtes1206
    @alexisscholtes1206 Год назад +3

    It's pretty striking how many times contaminants have to be removed from paper recycling. I've pretty much lost all faith that we (Americans) can do recycling properly.

  • @user-gf8es5ct8g
    @user-gf8es5ct8g 4 месяца назад

    Get to know the crusher

  • @deannaspencer8988
    @deannaspencer8988 Год назад +1

    All Stores Please lower the cost of all Military and Local for all Brands of Paper Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

  • @jessei.rivera2389
    @jessei.rivera2389 2 года назад

    My physiology will end this process. I have a great Idea and plan to sell 100% recycled card board by the bell with out all the other crap. I will start my company soon and when I do. Pratt Head quarters is who I’m calling.

  • @rabarber9610
    @rabarber9610 Год назад

    Music… too… loud

  • @jeeswano7047
    @jeeswano7047 2 года назад +1

    I WHANT TO MAKE FUCTORY

  • @gordonwelcher9598
    @gordonwelcher9598 Год назад +2

    Millions of tons of toilet paper is flushed away every day.
    We should collect it for recycling.
    It could be used to make many items such as paper plates, drinking cups and straws.
    They could be dyed brown to hide any leftover impurities.

    • @joeshmoe7789
      @joeshmoe7789 Год назад +4

      Yeah, you drink out of a cup made out of recycled toilet paper or suck thru a straw made from it.
      Used toilet paper is used to make organic lawn fertilizer. I wouldn't use it on my lawn, but it's good for golf courses.

    • @glenda8306
      @glenda8306 Год назад +1

      Nice one dude it made me luagh

  • @SaintzAirsoft
    @SaintzAirsoft 2 месяца назад

    It honestly saddens me that people don't sorry their recycling into diff bins. The process would be so much faster and easier if people would just sort them into bins. I sort mine by paper, and by plastic/glass. I actuslly talked to the neighborhood collector and he said my house is nice and easy he just puts each of my bins into each side of the truck. He told me some people will have a plastic bag filled with containers and paper and he has to put it into a different spot to be manually sorted. Just sad how lazy some people are.

    • @gy2gy246
      @gy2gy246 Месяц назад

      Some cities or counties, such as mine, have single stream recycling. Everything is picked up together and sorted at the Materials Recovery Facility (sorting plant.) This varies with each city and county.

  • @romanmaltsev2870
    @romanmaltsev2870 2 года назад

    We would like to import OCC to Russia. Please offer FCA/FOB or CFR Vladivostok. 2000 - 3000 mt monthly.

  • @componentmateriarecycleprocess
    @componentmateriarecycleprocess 8 месяцев назад

    ?

  • @AkashAkash-ns7fj
    @AkashAkash-ns7fj 2 года назад

    Added all company factory equipment brands in added all branches added all transportation added all

  • @ed9958
    @ed9958 2 года назад +3

    The obnoxious melody over powers the speech audio !! Will the you-tubers ever learn to eliminate or tone down the noise

  • @bgurungvideos
    @bgurungvideos Год назад

    Well the video was not dretialed on cardboard recycling.. I felt more was on sort of the various types of garbage .. plastic aluminium and paper..