Roger Wittenberg, an organic chemist, shredded stale bakery bread with plastic bags and melted them into boards in the 1970s. That experiment became TRE, now worth $10 billion, which sources recyclable plastic bags from Target and Walmart. It takes 2,250 bags to make one board.
Okay, so this is my favorite inventor that I promise you've never heard of. He created a $10 billion product that you have used. So this guy, Roger Wittenberg in the 70s was an organic chemist who started selling old bags of bakery bread to pork farms as a side hustle. But then he started throwing away all these plastic bags and thought this can't be good for the environment. What should I do with them? So he would take the stale bread and the plastic bags, shred them together, melt it together and he would make two by six boards that is now known as TRE Artificial Decking Company worth $10 billion with a BE some cool facts about this business. They buy all of the recyclable plastic bags from Target and Walmart and put those into decks. It takes 2,250 bags to make one 2x6. And they used to have to make the two by sixes out of the color of the bags that they used.
