Outside a hulking, beige structure shaped like a barn, a few miles northeast of downtown Tyler, Karen Combs spots something glossy and red on a gloomy January afternoon. “There was your Skittles,” she says, pulling a shredded candy wrapper from one of several waist-high sacks sitting next to a conveyor belt and filled to the brim with plastic. Combs shows the red fragment to her company’s chief operating officer, Ron Nussle, who had earlier that day noted that misprinted Skittles wrappers were among the waste plastic they’d recently received from suppliers.The hum of a furnace blower provides a constant din at the plant, which does what’s known as advanced plastics recycling. The conveyor belt carries remnants of Skittles wrappers, padded Amazon mailers, bags that held…
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