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Victor Ooko goes through a process called mixing where different plastic material and recycled waste are mixed to detect metals so that they can be removed from that waste. [Silas Otieno, Standard]
Inside the factory, a mild explosion occurs followed by a plume of smoke. A little sparking follows, and finally, out of the extruder machine's barrel, a man pulls out a plastic pole.
The pole is quickly splashed into water to cool. A crusher machine continues to roar. The pole-making process began here with plastic being crashed into fine pellets that pass through the extruder.
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