CarbonLite is the world's largest "bottle-to-bottle" plastic recycling plant in Riverside, Calif. "SoCal Connected" takes a look inside the state-of-the-art facility where billions of plastic bottles are churned on an annual basis. The process involves transforming old plastic bottles into PET pellets and flakes in order to produce new plastic bottles. The bottles are required to go through metal detectors, a special "prewash" phase, and a label-removing facility before they can become shiny, brand new pellets. Even though your plastic water bottle might not weigh as much, a square bale of plastic bottles can weigh more than 1,300 pounds, as Derrick Shore reveals in this segment of "SoCal Connected." Read more here about CarbonLite: bit.ly/1k8IwwF Watch all SoCal Connected videos here: bit.ly/1ludEHc SoCal Connected articles, videos, and more: bit.ly/1rMIUWL Like Socal Connected on Facebook: on.fb.me/1p3brSq Follow Socal Connected on Twitter: bit.ly/1liFUIb Follow SoCal Connected on Instagram: bit.ly/1xWgbPV Follow SoCal Connected on Vine: bit.ly/TU2e5c Follow SoCal Connected on Google+: bit.ly/1hRLBSH Follow SoCal Connected on tumblr: bit.ly/1hRLYwo

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