A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a Green Bay company are working together to upscale a new recycling technique that could help keep flexible plastics out of landfills.

UW-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor George Huber is helping lead the project. He said a lot of plastics can’t be recycled using traditional methods because they’re composed of a mixture of several types of plastic. Those are typically used for "flexible packaging," like the plastic wrapped around a string cheese stick or Ziploc bags.

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