Connecticut Company Rides Recycled Plastics Into Clothing Industry | FOX CT
There's a dirty secret in the recycling world, Phil Tepfer says — there's not enough demand for those soda and shampoo bottles and yogurt cups that folks so carefully clean and sort. Tepfer's business, in a small way, is trying to change that. Since the company pivoted to a focus on recycled materials in November 2009, it has used enough waste plastic in manufacturing clothing to fill eight football fields knee-deep.