Teen Sets Up Company to Turn Waste Plastics Into Revolutionary Product: ‘Beyond Grateful’

Teen Sets Up Company to Turn Waste Plastics Into Revolutionary Product: ‘Beyond Grateful’
Myles Peterson, 18, CEO and founder of the Terracore Plastic Company, holds a Terra-Panel plywood alternative board. Courtesy of Myles Peterson
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An industrious Canadian teen has put his money where his mouth is when it comes to plastic waste.

Pooling savings from three jobs, he started a company that turns post-consumer plastics destined for landfill into affordable building materials—thereby, offering a revolutionary in-house solution to the pileup of waste plastic, filling “the role of Chinese recyclers” after China banned the import three years ago.