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Republic Services opens first-of-its-kind recycling facility in North Las Vegas | KSNV

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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A first-of-its-kind recycling facility is now open in North Las Vegas.

Republic Services' first Polymer Center will collect and process the plastics locally and will produce 100 million pounds of recycled plastics that will be used for consumer packaging, such as water bottles, milk jugs, laundry detergent bottles, or butter tubs.

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The 70,000-square-foot facility will produce higher quality, color-sorted recycled plastics.

That means a water bottle will be recycled into a water bottle, or an orange laundry detergent jug will be recycled into an orange laundry detergent jug.