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Family nonprofit in San Carlos recycles hard-to-recycle plastics into new objects

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Nick Schick and his parents David and Andrea run Peninsula Precious Plastics, a nonprofit in San Carlos, California, that takes thermoplastics—hard-to-recycle polymers that lack conventional recycling methods—and rehomes them into new reusable objects rather than letting them reach landfills where they break down into microplastics.

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