Recycling Plastics Today: A Growing Solution

Discusses how plastics are recycled, describes the recycling lifecycle of plastic products

[@wildbill5670]

I recycle 100% of my recyclable stuff. I recycle clean too. For instance if I have a Tide bottle it is filled with water shaken and poured into my wash machine as it fills up. I will do this several times leaving the bottle next to the washer over the course of a couple of weeks until the bottle shaken up pours only clear water, no more soap residue is left. It is then placed in my recycle container.

[@lightdark00]

Would love to see something just like this with a 30 year update.

[@FurbyGender]

And I’m the “weird” one in my community because I have 3 large, rolling, recycle bins and 1 trash bin. My recycle bins are always full at the end of the 2 weeks and my trash bin is fairly empty. I’m not sure why people, especially my neighbors would have such a problem with my excess recycling.

[@faresbougherara8128]

what matters about this video is the Seniority of Americans who had always been knowing the technology and culture of recycling early from the 80's while some other nations in the world have just arrived to take such measures !! the one who posted this video was able to post today's 4K high definition video, two things I have learned from this video : 1- I didn't know that it dates back to the 80's. 2- I was really pleased to go back to that time's ways and products, there are some who would feel nostalgic to those bygones and definitely miss that cute PEPSI bottle of that time.

[@MTheChequeGuy]

I love the wood paneled station wagon... we all knew someone that had one in the 70s and the 80s that had one!

[@Meda01]

Wow, how depressing is it that decades after a video talking about how great it is to recycle plastics, we only recycle a 1/3 of our recyclable trash.

[@FDJustin]

In 28 years we went from 10% to a third? It's not ideal, but it's by no means insignificant.

[@rickwhite1635]

i know

[@lucasbacin1859]

Moesive oone 2213333344

[@ryanfisher6402]

I am so depressed...boo

[@WindyJAMiller]

Is the 10% and 33% an apples for apples comparison, ie is it 10% of a 100 compared to 33% of 100 or is ait 10% of waste in 1988 and 33% waste of today?

[@CaptainEverythingHumorandMore]

Plastics can only be recycled so many times. An Aluminum can will outlast a plastic bottle and it can be recycled indefinitely.

[@ayeflippum]

If it requires loans or government subsidies, it is not sustainable. Also, it's not truly recycling unless the plastics are eventually used to create the same products that were brought in.

[@jonglewongle3438]

Correct. None of it is actually recycling. The bourgeois piggery which made this video did not factor in that turning plastic bottles into other products means that new plastic bottles are still unnecessarily being made from petrochemical sources.

[@Reneelwaring]

I personally grind over 3 million pounds of pre-consumer and PCR PET. The clear is used to re-blow preforms to make into new bottles but we have other colors and types of PET that has to be sold outside of the company. Finding a market has been hard so we sell it to a scrap company. Back ten years ago the market was so bad that we were selling it to China for 3 cents a pound and we were the lucky ones. Many grinding companies didn't even get that. The marjority that was produced was shipped over seas (obviously the clear was kept within the company). Today's market is giving us a better price but unless more companys are willing to buy PCR and colored regrind to produce their product the plastic recycling business won't do very well. That makes me very unhappy.

[@FDJustin]

Has the 3D printing industry had any impact on you?

[@Reneelwaring]

No it hasn't.

[@FDJustin]

That's too bad. Have you tried to find a way reach into it?

[@Scarcitytown]

Out of curiosity can colored be used the same as the clear, that is if the end result doesnt matter on looks just quality. Im doing a pet project for my university and am looking into possable uses for plastic reclamation that is outside of the norm.

[@Reneelwaring]

No. The colored has something called Ammosorb in it which has a different melting point than the plain PET. You could run into problems.

[@johngilmour8945]

As Some Plastic enter into the heat process, some plastics emit a danferous gas that can kill! and using a number technology, is quite labour intensive! I feel it would be of a more practical format to use colour coding on every plastic above 1+2

[@davidhead5943]

i wish the law for every State and City is you have to do recycling know matter what !! because here in Lincolnton, North Carolina they don't do recycling....i don't think they care about the ECO.

[@darkstaroblivion]

albany county wyoming has zero recycling , we flew a drone at the landfill and the bins for recycling were dumped as well not recycled and they scammed people into paying extra for it

[@skoal22005]

The only reason these recycling plants are in business is because they make massive amounts of money... From items that are basically given to them free of charge. Its a booming billion + dollar industry. Otherwise they couldn't be bothered to do it. Recycling doesn't help the environment as much as people think, Recycling plastics and such emit quite a bit of toxins into the atmosphere, not to mention the energy needed to recycle the items. It's a money game is all it is. One of the few things cost effective to recycle would be aluminium cans.

[@walterbrunswick]

So what, you want these people to do it out of the good of their hearts? Who will feed their families? "Recycling doesn't help the environment" So I guess the millions of plastic bottles floating around on the oceans is actually a good thing? Who knew.

[@austrorus]

time to get rid of that plastic and use reusable glass once more. or make it worthwhile for the customer to recycle.

[@Christodoulosts]

I love this video not only for the subject but also cause it's old!!!! I wasn't even born that time but every time I watch a video or hear music older than me I feel like I have lived that period!! Haha XD

[@aeonflux67]

+Xristodoulosts I am just glad

[@davidlefort4553]

+Xristodoulosts what your 4 year old

[@Christodoulosts]

david lefort ?

[@aeonflux67]

+david lefort is referring to the old advert at the beginning of the vid with that dreadful jingle

[@pepo1372]

அருமையான காணொளி

[@nadiarose2072]

I like what I see on the video, make me want to buy it eventhough I really don't think I can afford it. well, let give it a try by asking the quotation of the machine.

[@jowelkhankhan7246]

Nadia Rose OK...I....wll....pin

[@KSRubberIndustries]

We recycle single use plastic bags and reclaimed rubber for footwear industry, everyday we recycle more than two metric tons of plastic bags in our factory located in Dhaka, Bangladesh

[@jonglewongle3438]

Yeah, you ignoramus, but you do not recycle the plastic bags back in to new plastic bags so that fewer plastic bags are made from virgin materials.

[@davidhead5943]

Y'all should tell North Carolina to help out

[@e6ensperception]

"plastic has made our lives a whole lot safer" 1:35

[@waltergarner346]

Cheaper for consumers? Have any of you bought a gallon of milk lately? Let alone pop, ketchup, peanut butter, shampoo, and oh yes 5 bucks for a quart of oil. The plastics are really keeping the cost down huh?

[@jaken6386]

I am thinking of going to this field of work one day, what do u think i should be majoring on when i go to College? i wanna start a waste recycling business or even just trying to manage a recycling company, or anything that has to do with this line of work. Anyone? give me an idea to start.

[@FDJustin]

Materials engineering at university.

[@jackmagtangob9267]

plastic is green material IF we use and recycle it properly...

[@regould221]

Wow a 1988 video. Time to update.

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

The "dirty video head" static says it all. LOL

[@BoydGilbreath]

Today we pay to have our recycling picked up, but only ten per cent gets recycled. Big oil spent $800,000,000 to increase the use of plastic, which is made from oil or natural gas. Do a survey of products that come in fancy disposable containers that cost more than the product in them. It's all about the money.

[@horsebee1]

It is just a pity that in the more than 20 years since this piece of propaganda was made, little or nothing has changed. The plastics industry have no desire or interest in being involved in recycling of waste plastic as there is no profit in it for them. In my view the only way to change this is by legislation which requires the plastics industry to fund a recycling system for all plastics that they sell. That would make the plastic more expensive at the consumer level but would also make more environmentally acceptable packaging such as glass and paper more competitive.

[@k.ganesanganesan6825]

A war against plastic is over after finding plastic digestible bacteria.

[@passiton3801]

We recycle cardboard, paper, cans, glass, food waste, plastics an foil in our country.....

[@jowelkhankhan7246]

pass iton OK... pin....

[@jefrizhang1235]

can i find a mentor for recycling plastic ? and equipment. can we start this business with 10.000$ ?

[@jerrykwabenaawuku4154]

Jefri Zhang hey Jefri, Ghana is cool for recycling business too much waste resources here at our beaches.contact me via whatsapp [phone]. Nice meeting you

[@muktaram]

a must solution

[@АссемСаадеддиин]

We can recycling every things we made .

[@pharmasales2023]

Why can't we stop manufacturing plastic products?

[@paulcatherine7293]

With 580 billion tonnes of plastic waste worldwide, and only 7% been recycled This is not working

[@rubenlegout6578]

paul catherine It is not working because people are not paying attention to it and not much infrastructures and services have been let’s say « installed » in order to collect more plastic

[@Utubedarr]

let's put it on a rocket and fire it into the sun. That'll take care of it! Really, Please start a business where you can make this process profitable. That's the solution.

[@rotomolding]

#eko 500plus +danpt2000 Whatever, but plastics is basically oil. There is black stain all over the wall of my bathroom sink from stacking collected soft plastics there until I get around to tightly packaging it for the local plastics recycler, who does cardboard and also soft plastics. That is an oil stain from the soft plastics. Soaps, too, are just oil. There is black stain all over the unkempt shower wall from 15 years of showering with soap. Yet again, oil residue from the soap. @Mark Farquhar

[@ametdabasproducts176]

plastics destroy soil....we need to recycle

[@fadouaoubaid6488]

This video is so old, soft drink bottles have base cups

[@derekthompson2954]

I laughed when I saw the trash can - how quaint where I live we have had wheelie bins for the past 10 years and automatic pick with single operator garbage truck the information is no longer useful

[@aeonflux67]

I am so glad they have added that old bat at the beginning 0.31 to landfill. Irritating as they get with that voice.

[@adesuhada1594]

wow just like reading "message from the bottle" haha it come from '80 age?

[@heidiwilkes1]

DAAANG, this vid is old! LOL

[@musFuzZ]

I wonder how many plastic bottles you can make of Michael Jackson...

[@jjak1990]

Well if you haven't heard.. He is dead.

[@GTObearclaw1]

Point is?

[@musFuzZ]

Woodchuck Russ plastic surgery.

[@waltergarner346]

"LOVE IT"

[@jimswenson9991]

Released 1988 (credits at the end)

[@c.mpathak2489]

Nice technology

[@jowelkhankhan7246]

C.M Pathak OK...pin...job

[@आपलीमाती-द5घ]

in INDIA Where plastics recycle

[@FurbyGender]

vishal awari Your plastic recycles themselves? That’s badass!

[@radrickstheman2882]

UPDATE INFO PLEASE! NOW DAMN IT!!!

[@BobSmith-mc7uq]

Rad. Xanax is your friend as are "Depends'!!

[@radrickstheman2882]

You know that was a joke, right?

[@BobSmith-mc7uq]

More like an idiotic demand from a 12 yr. old dweeb!

[@radrickstheman2882]

Shit for brains! You are a stupid fuck who is unable to tell when someone is joking. What a miserable LOSER!!!!

[@BobSmith-mc7uq]

Did you run out of your meds again dweeb?

[@sotxbob]

...by the mid 1990's... be willing to bet this is not even close to todays tech.

[@samnikole1643]

Write to your local grocery stores to switch to.paper and glass containers with a mandatory recycling program? Seals seagulls and other animals are dying because of this plastic. Just go to.bulk stores until all stores get their act together????

[@duggydugg3937]

nice presentation..other a/v's tell a less successful story... contaminants causing China to reject our trash/ plastic paper/aluminum exports... maybe stainless steel microspheres mixed in plastic resin would allow plastic to be grabbed by magnets for recycling

[@samlabo1688]

Stainless is not magnetic

[@duggydugg3937]

@@samlabo1688 some is

[@markfarquhar5240]

FOMOCO Vdp... Is working this program

[@iljahfeedoro8033]

One word: Bisphenol A.

[@diecast_MikeEspo]

I made a recycled american flag , completely out of old plastic junk pieces , 2500 pieces , check it out , Thanks Mike

[@weldingfabrication6970]

fk did you Shoot this with a 8mm tape?

[@stephenherbert8575]

Very out of date ! quoting figures 19 90.

[@frenkvortice3858]

hahaha saving money for consumers hahaha

[@igotstaknow]

Beer, wine, soda = toilet dollar down the drain

[@natewoi4119]

shit aint chaper

[@scott.c9587]

Old

[@paulcatherine7293]

Sorry billion bottels

[@leightongalleries6057]

How ridiculous/ Unnecessary to show decades-old documentaries.

[@lostinlife647866]

This is outdated !!! Does not apply.

[@vipinjain6464]

Very old and outdated info. Must be deleted.

[@seanhartnett79]

I will save you time old and outdated. It is very boring. Don't waste you time.

[@frenkvortice3858]

hahaha saving money for consumers hahaha

[@newtechz5800]

Frenk Vortice hi