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Transforming Recycling and Sustainable Materials

Featuring Schupan on Now We Know TV! with Steve Guttenberg.

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Schupan

Walls of baled aluminum cans stacked higher than a house, all of it headed back into the supply chain instead of a landfill. Schupan has spent decades making the circular economy a working business.

The episode traces a can's round trip, from return center to bale to new metal, and asks what it takes to make recycling work at industrial scale.

From the segment Where recycled aluminum actually goes, and how a recycling business keeps millions of pounds of material in play.

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