Box-Maker Who Wowed Trump With Garbage Has $6.6 Billion Fortune

  • Aussie Anthony Pratt is building on his dad’s recycling legacy
  • ‘A schlock recycler’ no more: Pratt has 70 plants across U.S.
Donald Trump and Anthony Pratt at Pratt Industries in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Sept. 22, 2019.Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Donald Trump expressed his astonishment.

“It’s really amazing,” the American president said during a September tour of an Ohio paper-recycling mill, accompanied by its billionaire owner, Anthony Pratt. “They start off with waste, garbage, and they end up building it into a -- making it into really great cardboard and paper.”