Underground Factory Makes Beverage Bottles from Plastic Waste

An underground processing factory in Southwestern China produces beverage bottles from plastic waste, according to a report from Western China Metropolis Daily .

With the help of an insider, a reporter from Western China Metropolis Daily secretly visited the underground factory Bai Si De, located in Junyue town of Pengzhou City in Sichuan Province.

In the yard of the factory, the reporter saw huge piles of dirty plastic waste all over the place. The used plastic bottles and bags that had not been cleaned were stinking in the heat of the Sun. Workers of the factory told the reporter that the plastic waste was purchased from garbage collectors at an extremely low price.

In the factory, the reporter observed the whole process of production. After a rough cleaning, the waste plastics were machine-shredded into granules which were rinsed and left to dry in the air. The granules were then melted and poured into molds, and the bottles were formed. The bottles thus made out of dirty waste plastics were mostly sold in secret to small beverage factories.

The head of the factory admitted that it was illegal to use recycled plastic in beverage bottle manufacturing. But he still chose this business for profit even in a competitive market as Chengdu City.