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  • (Murray gulping)

  • - Ah, that is some refreshing milk.

  • Now, just gotta take my milk jug and throw it in the trash.

  • Wait a minute, this milk jug is made of plastic.

  • It's not trash, it needs to be recycled.

  • There you go.

  • Hey, did you ever wonder what happens

  • to stuff when you recycle it?

  • Hm.

  • - Yo, sir! - Who said that?

  • (Ovejita screeching)

  • Over here doll. - Hiya Murray.

  • - Oh, you know where something goes when it's recycled.

  • (speaking in foreign language)

  • We gotta follow that little lamb.

  • Mary has a little lamb. ♪

  • Yo, Murray has a little lamb

  • Who wears a little bow

  • Go Mary

  • Together they go everywhere

  • Amigos like to go

  • But Murray

  • He follows her to school

  • Each day they run, they spin, they leap

  • Go Murray

  • You everybody loves to sing a monster run and sing

  • And they all say

  • Mary has a little lamb. ♪

  • - Hey, hey guys.

  • What is this place?

  • - [Everyone] The Recycling Center.

  • - A Recycling Center.

  • Oh boy!

  • (lamb giggles)

  • Hey Adine, I had a milk jug and I put it in the recycle bin

  • and what happens to it then,

  • after it goes in the recycle bin.

  • - Well after it goes through the recycle bin it goes

  • to the Department of Sanitation truck,

  • those white trucks you see around the street.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Then it's gonna go through a shredder

  • that will open up the plastic bag that it might be in.

  • And then it goes on to a conveyor belt

  • that takes it through the rest of the system.

  • - And then, what kind of things can it become?

  • - A milk jug can become many different things.

  • It might become a milk jug again.

  • Also it might become part of a car.

  • (Murray gasps)

  • Like the ventilation pieces in a car.

  • - Whoa, my little milk jug may be part

  • of a big car that drives around the country.

  • - Oh, boy, we're gonna learn about recycling.

  • - Murray do you have a question?

  • - Yeah, what's the difference between trash and recyclables.

  • - Well trash, when you put something in the trash,

  • it's gonna get put on a truck and sent to a landfill

  • or an incinerator and it's never gonna be used again.

  • - Aw, poor trash.

  • - But if you put something in the recycling bin,

  • it comes to our recycling facility where we'll be able

  • to make it into a new product

  • that can be used again by someone else.

  • - Wahoo! - Yeah.

  • - So Adine, what is this station?

  • - Well this is a small version of a magnet that we have out

  • in our recycling facility.

  • So we put all of our recyclables onto the conveyor belt

  • and then when it gets to the end of the line,

  • the magnet finds the things that have metal in it

  • and it puts it into one bin

  • and everything else will go into this other bin.

  • - Oh boy, can we do it now?

  • - Yeah, we can do it now.

  • - Ready Ovejita?

  • (speaking in foreign language)

  • (dramatic music)

  • Let's load it up.

  • Watch the metal get sorted.

  • (upbeat music)

  • Look, it's sorting the metal from the nonmetal.

  • Cool!

  • Hey Adine, what happens at this station?

  • - So at this station we're gonna be sorting by hand.

  • Kashay's gonna load on the recyclables,

  • - Yeah.

  • - Keegan's gonna turn the conveyor belt.

  • - Okay the belt's gonna go and then what's Emma gonna do?

  • - She's gonna sort out all the recyclable items

  • but if they end up at the end they're gonna have

  • to go to a landfill.

  • - Oh, what goes in this bin?

  • - This one I plastic.

  • - Emma this is plastic.

  • And then what goes in this bin?

  • - Metal. - Metal, you got that Emma?

  • And then what goes in this one?

  • - Cartons. - Cartons.

  • Emma you ready? - I'm ready.

  • - Guys you ready? - Ready.

  • - Let the sorting begin!

  • - That goes in, Keegan you start.

  • - Goin' in the plastic?

  • Okay, come on Emma, make it go faster Keegan,

  • make it a challenge.

  • Metal!

  • Plastics!

  • Metal, metal, plastic!

  • Whoo! (laughing)

  • We did it!

  • We sorted everything!

  • Adine, what happens here?

  • - This is the tipping floor where the recyclables come in

  • on trucks or on big boats called barges.

  • - Whoa, this is a lot of recyclables (laughs).

  • Whoo!

  • Look!

  • It's my milk jug!

  • Adine, what's gonna happen to my milk jug now?

  • - Your bottle's gonna go into the recycling sorting

  • and it's gonna separate it with other milk jugs.

  • - Whoa, (laughs) come on, let's check it out.

  • (upbeat music)

  • Wow, look at all the metal getting picked up by the magnet.

  • Look, they're sorting everything by hand!

  • My milk jug!

  • (upbeat music)

  • Sorting glass.

  • Whoa, that's a lot of recycle.

  • Metals, plastic, glass, so many things to sort!

  • Adine, what is all this stuff in here?

  • - These are all our sorted recyclables.

  • - They're all sorted?

  • - Yep.

  • - Wow, hey look!

  • There's my milk jug!

  • Adine, what kind of things can other stuff be recycled into?

  • - Well, it can be recycled into all kinds of things.

  • For instance your milk jug can even be recycled back

  • into a toy.

  • - Whoa, this is made from recycled plastic?

  • - Yeah, 100% - Whoa!

  • My milk jug may become a plastic cool toy truck!

  • Whoa, good luck little milk jug (laughs).

  • I love sorting and I love recycling!

  • (upbeat music)

(Murray gulping)

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