Cheetos bags, diapers remade into trash cans
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The company that turned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers is now transforming Chester Cheetah into 32-gallon garbage cans.
New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics USA to make heavy-duty trash cans out of recycled polypropylene that was once chip bags.
The cans are 80 percent post-consumer–most of the material is from chip bags collected by TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade program. About 20 percent is from scraps of rubber elastic trimming that are leftover in the production of disposable diapers.
The old Cheetos and other chip bags are first shredded, and then run through a densifying machine that employs heat and pressure to turn the shreds into a solid material. The material is extruded into plastic pellets, which can be used to make trash <http://www.oohmygoods.com/Wholesale-trash_c830> cans through injection molding. It takes about 500 chip bags to make each can.