PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TAKING FIELD TRIPS TO THESE FACILITIES!

This is why bottle return is so important. It gives incentive to the people who participate, and gets materials reused.

A lot of businesses put recycling trash cans out to make it look like they recycle then just dump those cans with the rest of the trash.

Recycling is a great tool but not the answer. Always remember it’s REDUCE, REUSE and then recycle as the last option unless it has to be thrown out.

"it's important to note that every city is different" Well there's a glaring problem, streamlining the recycling process for an entire country is REALLY important.

Crazy to see how the USA is decades behind Europe and other regions on this issue. Nicely detailed video nonetheless.

I'm so strict about sorting things into waste bins, that I reach into the bin when I see a material that doesn't belong in that bin. (Ex: if I see paper in the trash, I reach and put it in the recycling).

The world really needs more Eco Heroes 🌍❤️

Indian government should learn from this

Awesome video. My mother raised me to recycle at a very young age. Now I love sorting it all out at the recycling facility when I drop it off lol

This is great. Now where exactly does the sorted plastic go? What percentage actually gets recycled and how much gets buried or burned?

I work at recycling its surprising how much money I find sometimes while I'm picking its a bit unusual I wonder how that's happens

Also guys, if people want to help the environement, buy containers 100 percent recyclable ,glass instead of plastic bottles, paper wrap instead of plastic, bring your own clay material cup to work and ban vending machines and if you have no choice but to buy the plastic containers, reuse them yourself as many times as you can before discarding them. it also helps if you check the recycling information on the product before you purchase it. And oh God does 100% coton not feel a lot better to wear on a hot summer day?

Love this video thank you. This needs to be taught everywhere and taken very seriously. We only get 1 planet

The take away is: Take plastic bags back to Kroger, etc.

Repurposing items help cut down on trash and recycling. Shred newspapers for mixing in with the garden (if you actually garden), use grocery bags for lining your small trash cans around the house or cleaning out the kitty litter box etc etc etc

I'm interested to see what has happened to this plant after the recent announcement from China in January...

This is extremely interesting. You encouraged me to find a recycling plant in Louisiana. Thank you!

Everyone should see this video! I never realized half the stuff that happens or saves during recycling.

If it's hard plastic recycle it. What about looking for that symbol on the actual packaging

this is so frustrating to watch.. i worked in london for 3 months and i saw the same thing happening ! people don't throw away correctly! also, i thought branded restaurants like Wasabi could provide their own recycling bin ?! i felt so hopeless. what can we do to improve?

Smart and cool people care.

Thank you for making it really easy and clear to understand.

This is great & definitely worth doing...however, most people are unaware that plastic can only be recycled 2-3 times before it degrades on a molecular level, thus becoming useless. Still, please recycle anything & everything you're able to.

I feel like I'm the only person in my country, state, county, city that cares to be more aware of recycling and it takes a toll on my mental health

I've seen it all... most people ignore me

I'm old enough to remember, in hindsight, that in Soviet Union did exist cool things that now seem unthinkable of. I'm talking about glass bottles return points. They were in each ang every neighborhood, even in the countryside. For example, you bought lemonade, beer, milk, kefir, baby food in glass, then you took it to the Point and got some kopeks for that. Ideal. There were the rumors even about such people who scrounge around for empty bottles, took them to the points, and over the few years were able to collect enough money for a new car. However, it was not possible to buy a new car in the SU, haha

Great Insights for people to see inside a Material Recovery Facility and what happens ✅

Very informative. We've been recycling for yrs but I'll be more conscious when recycling going fwd.

Amazing! I love it! Thanks for the video!

Great message....but I fear the people coming to watch these kinds of videos already care about the environment and already recycle. The trick is to get the message to those apathetic, lazy or uninformed citizens. Not knowing that recycling is important is like a smoker saying they didn't know cigarettes were bad for you. It's 2019 and everybody should know: don't smoke and recycle responsibly.

I took a trip there myself & the place is awesome so this where my recyclables go from where I live in Queens I recommend coming here the separations are really cool here

I think we should always recycle to help our world

Just saw this video today and have to say that we really have a lack of education about this topic. Tks for the video!

Its actually kind of hard to recycle where I live. My city got rid of the public recycling bins cause so many people were using it as regular trash apparently.

Great information! I will be showing my kids. Thanks!

decided to learn something during quarantine and did not regret xP

a well made video. It highlights the benefits of recycling materials and helps the awareness for people to be responsible for proper trash sorting. Thank you NOW THIS.

Interesting. Now I need to find out what happens in MY country's recycling (UK).

And now four years later we find out none of it’s really been recycled

EXCELLENT THANK YOU

I deposit them bottles and earn money while recycling. 😊

Don't mind me just recycling and wanted to see what happens

Thanks so much for making this video!

We live in N. Texas where our city also has a similar advanced sorting facility (don't call them recycling, they only sort), and I exchanged a few emails with the person at waste mgt for the city, and told me similar things. Issues with people 'wish-cycling' I think she also called "aspirational recycling" where people put non-recyclable items into the recycle bin. Another big problem is dirty recyclables placed in the bin - they need to be clean to be recycled. She also mentioned that middle states tend to use domestic recyclers, but coastal states would export, but we of course know that China and other SE Asian countries are now refusing to accept our exported recyclables because they are overcapacity, and they are often low quality or dirty thus harder to recycle. Our family focuses on the refuse side of the cycle, so yeah we could all just be great at sorting our recyclables, but it's more effective to just not buy them in the first place. In addition to using reusable shopping bags (even using reusable produce bags), containers for bulk foods, and foods that come in either cardboard or glass, or meats/fish from the butcher section wrapped in paper instead of plastics, refusing straws (as in the video, they don't get recycled) and plastic ware (we carry our own stainless steel large boba size straws, and utensil sets and stainless water bottles when we go out). It's amazing how little real trash we accumulate for our family of three plus an elderly parent in our household. It's all packaging, so when you can avoid it, it drastically reduces the total amount of rubbish. Food scraps are composted in our back yard. Anyhow, we don't care if haters use the argument that it doesn't make a difference b/c it's on a small scale - who cares? We know we're doing the right thing, and not waiting for governments to get their act together to do then do the right thing, which seems to be the contrarian argument.

I love using my reusable bags when I go grocery shopping 😊❤️🌎

wow great video thats what we do at our recycling facility, would love for you to do something similar at our location

I'm putting more into my recycle bin than I was a few months ago. It used to be there was a rule here that the only plastic that was recyclable was #1 and #2, and only if they were bottles with necks. Also, the collection company rejected the boxes frozen food came in. But, I recently checked with the collection company, and discovered things have changed. They now accept the frozen food cartons and plastic food containers #1 through #7. Of course, they don't want contaminated material, so I rinse and possibly wipe the food plastic.

More people need to Recycle !!!!!!

0:07 Seriously couldn't dump out that cup before putting it in the recycling?

That is amazing. We all need to do a much better job recycling🙌

Very helpful and informative video!

Recycling things like paper, plastic, and metal helps the earth by cutting down on trash. Yet many people throw away their newspapers, bottles, and cans instead of recycling them. The question, then, is how to encourage more people to recycle. One way that works is to put recycling containers in more places. Seeing more recycling bins helps people remember to use them. Another way is to teach people why recycling is important. If we make recycling easier and teach people why it matters, more people will join in.

This is so awesome!

Very cool video 👍 I enjoyed it a lot !

I'm changing my life to become zero waste or close to it... But you know what, I feel like it would make more sense if the responsibility was NOT put on the consumer. The governments should ban plastic all together, and they should provide ways for us to produce less trash.

Plastic bags could be recycled but everything is money driven. The more valuable the waste the more of it will try to get reclaimed. Outside of the money part there is little motivation to actually help the planet.

I've been recycling since 1995,and composting biodegradable stuff where possible for at least as long,and I send so little to the conventional rubbish destined to landfill that I'm still very slowly using up rolls of plastic sacks given to every household in our neighbourhood by the local council during the noughties. But even with the numbered kitemarks for different types information on recycling of plastics is refrequently conflicting as to what actually will and will not be accepted apart from platic wrap/polythene and materials like polystyrene,styrofoam,etc. not. Fortunately our local supermarket has a plastic bag recycling drop-off thingy and the recycling scheme is a user friendly one where the recycling plant not the public does most of the sorting,so aside from people who need help with age and mobility type issues it must just be laziness and thoughtlessness that is behind some people not doing it when they could with little effort.

We gotta recycle more these days...things are getting really bad

The recycle bins were right there next to the trash! I can see if you have a bottle or plastic cup and there is only one trash bin and nowhere to recycle - I mean I have been lazy and done this too. But the bins were right there.

Its 2 am an I’m high watching this ♻️

Do you have a citations document?

4:20 in Slovakia, plastic foils and bags are recycled and collected in a bag with other plastic for recycling, they are even processed in Slovakia. :):):):)

My ability to recycle and the reactions of others depended on where I was and who I was around; when I'm usually around men (various ages over 25, usually blue collar like me) they scoff or laugh at my attempt to do so, which is discouraging. More white collar individuals and women across the board are usually more supportive. I live and was born in CT, but lived in the deep South for awhile, and unless you take beer cans to a junkyard to sell for money, talking about the environment or recycling in any way for the benefit of the community usually gets you ridiculed and laughed out of the room. In general, less educated people seem to be dismissive of it. For example, our company wastes a lot of paper printing work orders for our plant and i save the sheets to use as scrap papers for us to take notes on as we carry out repairs and such. So far, despite people somewhat agreeing with what I do as being useful, nobody has done it. We can do so much better!

Can I have links to sauces? Thanks!

Hi from Brazil, i love your video abou recycling 🤩❤

My local place which has a population of 50K+ serving is very picky...the types of plastic containers is very restrictive and they must be clean (we live in a desert so using water, ugh). Also, if 10% of the truck is not wanted, they throw the whole thing out. I'm sure we are rare in how well we take care, so I wonder if they even recycle at all. ESP anything that doesn't give them (much) money reselling it. All that said, we are a family of 4 hungry ppl, who eat in, though we like our single serve/semi prepared, and we are able to only use 1 kitchen trash bag per day.bathroom trash etc takes longer..the trash truck could come once every 3 weeks with their big bins or two for the one time purchase we use from Lowe's. We recycle a lot, and we use water from handwashing to clean or paper towel for Peanut Butter. They also don't take cardboard/paper, so luckily we have a state worker who has that for office recycling. The main thing, above all else, is REDUCE and then REUSE...all before RECYCLE P.S. Do you think the restrictions/cleanliness (I'm not talking bites just the remnants) is right of them to ask of us? Do we really need to be so careful? Can we put in plastic regardless of number?

I really like the dude Sam Silver. He seems to love his job.

Would also be helpful if they used a standardized easily identifiable symbol on the containers to match up with the bins.

From now on I'll start separating bottles. I just add up every thing. 🤦🤦 feel bad now

Good info thanks guys!

I always sort through the garbage out at home. My wife is a neurologist, but for some reason, she struggles with sorting this material 😂😂😂. However we’re doing our part for the world!

YOU GUYS BETTER DO YOUR PART

There is a company in Japan that recycle a huge amount of plastic and styrofoams 🦫 It turns them into incredibly clean pellets 🐞

Cincinnati has a recycle reuse hub and I can recycle almost anything that Rumpke recycling won't take, products that say you can't recycle actually actually can be recycled there which I can't understand why it's not being done. Thanks Cathy

great video!

Working in corrections we are not offered recycling bins. It’s always just trash bins. We work a lot and long hours and a good percentage of us drink monsters or Red Bull’s to help get thru the day. I can’t imagine all those cans that could be recycled yearly

After you said “ Cartons “ I put my mini milk cartons in the blue bin everyday

The kids bicycle handlebars at 0:59 is pretty funny. Who recycles handlebars?

Ok, I watched this because I was told that if you're plastic still has food on it, that it will just be sorted back into the dump so I try really hard to make sure my plastic and whatever else is clean before I recycle it. Also, I know Kroger takes plastic bags and I think Walmart does too.

i've wanted to know the answer to this for YEARS wow i actually didnt know plastic was made from natural resources, i thought it was all synthetic in a lab now i wanna know how plastic gets recycled

Here in Ohio I have been recycling cans since 2004, it's not hard to get a lot because I never see anyone else picking them up or pulling them out of trash cans, part of that is because they only pay roughly 40-50 cents per pound. In New York or Michigan you see lots of people collecting cans because they pay 5 cents a can or bottle, anyways I get pretty much every can on the side of the road or in parks in a three city radius so I get to 500 lbs pretty quickly then turn them in. But anyways I encourage everyone to recycle, every bit helps

There is so much more that could be done with plastic, it’s just a matter of someone deciding to do the right thing!

Excellent content. Why don’t we have more education for recycling. Public service announcements? Help us not waste resources!

Check out the 60 Minutes episode that aired this past Sunday on all the plastic "recycling" and where it goes.

WE NEED MORE EDUCATION

What happens to your recycling after it's collected? It gets sent to thrid world countries

I recycle my aluminum cans. Try to never buy plastic when i can.

What background audio is this? Please help

That’s how I was but everybody made fun of me when I managed the MALL IN MARBLE HILL in The Bronx I was going ham but nobody believed me

And then Marketplace goes do their due diligence lol

I don’t think the people in my neighborhood actually recycle. Our green recycle bin is picked up every other week. And my family’s is full in about a week to a week and a half meanwhile my neighbors never fill theirs at all.

Originally saw this on Snapchat, but I came here hoping I could find out the name of the song. Anybody know?

Around here, Nothing. It goes into Recycling bin, goes into truck. then Truck goes to Landfill. Its actually Sad. I did a Ride along on a Recycling Truck. Even the Driver doesnt know why they have Recycling bins anymore if it goes right to landfill. He been driving since they Started to do the Recycling stuff. He told me, it all goes to the Landfill still. As long as they have Recycling bins and trucks to pick it up. doesnt matter where it goes. it only matters to the state that they have the bins and trucks and the Garbage company gets bit more Money and tax relief.

Hey can someone explain me the way usa recycles I'm really interested

There needs to be laws on RECYCLING!!!! WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE JUST RECYCLE!!!!

4:34 Plastic, especially plastic bags often end up in illegal, unregulated dump sites in Malaysia because of this. Companies will cut costs by sending plastic waste to Asia, which is dumped or burned near towns and lakes and makes more pollution. This is why I use cloth bags as much as possible.

I still don’t know if i should put a plastic trash bag inside my recycle bin and dump them together or just bring bin and dump whatever inside it to the large dumpster.

China: Allow me to introduce myself

I'm having a hard time even getting my own family and friends to recycle. For the whole nation or even the world to abide by our reduce, reuse, recycle program seems like a pipe dream. I really wish the world would change, but I honestly think we have to ride out this mess we made until we become extinct. Until then, I'll keep trying my best to protect this world.