# We can recycle plastic

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Mike Biddle
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_biddle_we_can_recycle_plastic)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals -- because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic.

## Lectures

1. [We can recycle plastic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/mike_biddle_we_can_recycle_plastic/a9ebd8d0aedd), 11 min (TED's player)