VIDEO: Inside Sweden's giant plastic recycling plant

Infrared lights, lasers, cameras and even artificial intelligence are used to sort the piles of plastic waste, Mattias Philipsson, CEO of Swedish Plastic Recycling, a non-profit organisation owned by the plastic industry, explains as he gives a tour of the plant.

VIDEO: Inside Sweden's giant plastic recycling plant

By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

MOTALA - Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant dubbed "Site Zero", which Sweden hopes will revolutionise

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VIDEO: Inside Sweden's giant plastic recycling plant

Infrared lights, lasers, cameras and even artificial intelligence are used to sort the piles of plastic waste, Mattias Philipsson, CEO of Swedish Plastic Recycling, a non-profit organisation owned by the plastic industry, explains as he gives a tour of the plant.

VIDEO: Inside Sweden's giant plastic recycling plant

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