What Happens to Your Recycling After It's Collected? | NowThis

We followed the recycling process from the bins to the plant to understand where our recycling actually goes – here's what happens to your recycling.

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycling is an important part of environmental action, but what happens to our recycled materials? Where does recycling go? Let's go through recycling 101. Plastic bottles and aluminum cans go to a recycling plant or recycling center like this. What happens to recycling then? In New York City, recycling gets treated here.

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[ashleyglantz]

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

[sgtgiggles]

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

[unclecreed]

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.

[charonstormborn]

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.

[theecoheroes]

The world really needs more Eco Heroes 🌍❤️

[SCOHunter]

"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.

[NekroStevo]

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

[jack]

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).

[snap_drama]

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

[AP-bcbv]

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

[tbsdrummer]

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

[tinagale]

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

[robinbelley]

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?

[antx]

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

[shubhansusingh]

Indian government should learn from this

[macforme]

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.

[LeahandLevi]

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

[victoriousastrologytarot]

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

[RikiChanOriginal]

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

[dreamworld]

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?