How do you usually throw away bottle caps?

Because it is plastic, it is usually collected separately.



However, it is said that small plastics such as bottle caps cannot be recycled no matter how hard they are separated and collected.



Plastics that are separated and discharged are divided according to material at recycling sorting stations.



However, because of the reality that it is impossible to do manual work, small plastics are simply buried and incinerated.



People who felt sad about this problem set up a suspicious mill in the middle of Seoul.



[Lee Dongi/Seoul Environment Association activist: I found out that all small plastics such as toothpaste, straws, and ballpoint pens were eliminated during the sorting process.

I think that



made

me feel betrayed.]

Instead of making rice cakes with rice, we made a'plastic mill' that crushes plastic to make new products.



[Lee Dongi/Seoul Environment Association activist: We are recruiting under the name of the Sparrow Club.

Then they send us the plastic they've collected for two months.

It took about 650 minutes, and in terms of quantity, it is about 250 kilograms.] The



small plastic collected in this way is reborn in a mill into a tube.



All of this is done directly on the mill.



[Lee Dong-i/Seoul Environmental Association activist: To collect how much plastic we recycled, we weighed it and sorted it like this: PP and HDPE bottle caps.]



Sorted and washed plastics are sorted by color once more and then shredded. Put it in.



The broken plastic is melted again and filled into the mold to complete the toothpaste squeeze.



The toothpaste sliver that was created in this way is sent back to the people who sent the plastic, but it is said that only one is sent with the desire to use less plastic.



[Lee Dongi/Seoul Environment Association activist: We are collecting these garbage very carefully.

One of our goals is to make you feel that plastics should be saved as a resource as much as possible.]



Small plastics that are neither recycled nor rot.



How about becoming a little sparrow gathering one by one from today?



▶ A suspicious mill that appeared in the middle of Seoul…

Grind plastic?