Los Angeles-based CarbonLITE, which processes 2 billion polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles annually at its bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in Riverside, California, has “hired” 7-year-old Ryan Hickman as an honorary employee, complete with his own employee badge, shirt and hard hat.
Hickman runs Ryan’s Recycling Co., which is based in Orange County, California, which to date has recycled approximately 232,000 bottles and cans, earning about $15,000. He lives in San Juan Capistrano, California, and also sells his company T-shirts online and donates all of the profits to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Laguna Beach, California, which has amounted to nearly $4,700 as of late June 2017.
Hickman received an orientation tour of the 220,000-square-foot facility, which claims to be the nation’s largest manufacturer of postconsumer food-contact-grade PET resin.
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