Georgia Tech's new Trash Lab turns plastic waste into something useful

At Georgia Tech, a school built around the idea of inventing things, students bring immeasurable talent and ambition to campus, and something else just as big that can actually be measured: Trash.With tens of thousands of people moving through campus every day, that means a lot of plastic like water bottles and food containers. And as much as we try, not all of it gets recycled."We call it sometimes aspirational recycling or recycling theater," said Michael Best, the executive director of Georgi