Even plastics and other materials need a little help from their friends! Most products are made by combining or blending different materials or plastics together, especially to get really cool properties. This also makes them really hard to recycle. In this episode we talk about composite materials and hear from Ernie Simpson, the Global Vice President of Research and Development of TerraCycle. He tells us about what it takes to recycle, just about anything, but specifically those tricky #7 plastic composites from multi-layer packaging in your Caprisun pouches and chip bags!