The TotalCycle facility was the subject of the film "Native. Treasures from garbage"

The TotalCycle industrial complex was opened in September 2023 on the basis of the Tver Secondary Polymers Plant, which had been processing waste since 2005. The capacity of the new plant is 40 thousand tons of waste per year, which makes it one of the largest in the country.

TotalCycle combines several areas at once, and Natalia Popova visited all of them:

• At the production plant - the stages of processing an ordinary plastic bottle into PET flakes. What bottles arrive at the factory and what steps they go through to become new products.

• In the workshop of the EcoTechLab research center - recycling equipment. The host of the show tried to crush plastic bottle caps and make a clock.

• In the ecomuseum created by EcoTechLab - things made of recycled waste, such as sabots made of chewing gum.

Natalia Popova interviewed Konstantin Rzayev. They discussed what is produced at the plant, the cycle of recycled plastics and where the raw materials for recycling come from.

Watch the full film.