samantha anderson and her team found a way to turn plastic waste into plastic. that looks brand new. start by shredding the way it's it's all kind of mixed together. it's dirty, it hasn't been pre watched. anything like this. as you can see, there's different colors. there's different types of plastic and they're so ruby, we don't have to do any kind of pre screening that would be required for other types of technology out there. this secret chemical cocktail is her invention. at room temperature, it separates the p e t. from the other plastic pieces, the reaction is very specific to the p t plastic. so if you have a mix of p t and let's say pbc pvc won't react and the p h p will. so we can actually separate out different solids from the p t, and then we can actually separate it with the monomers from the p t. uh, from themselves. she discovered the secret reagents together with our colleagues, party or values, odd a and christopher ireland. they're turning their innovation into a business, so we can't show you the whole process, especially not how the plastic w