Recycle Your Trash

It's time to recycle your thinking & change your habits. Did you ever wonder where your old tires, cars and computers end up? Go behind the scenes at a local recycling facility to find out. Why has our planet become a garbage dump? Learn how our garbage is extracted, produced, distributed, consumed and disposed of. There are lots of different kinds of recycling. When recycling is done well it is an essential part of the solution, when done poorly it is an obstacle and part of the problem. We can go years without seeing a factory or a garbage dump so it's easy to ignore where all our garbage ends up. But why do we create so much waste? Discover how we pull materials from the earth process, distribute and waste those materials along with how to find solutions to reduce waste and toxicity. Learn how we can recycle plastic, steel, glass, newspapers, tires and ewaste. The most important component to reducing our waste is to recycle and changing our habits is key.