https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c4fc8a01-d95f-455f-b693-3a8e096a8c21 This color early 1970s film about recycling was produced by the Solid Waste Management Office and the Environmental Protection Agency. The film opens with a “junk man” riding in a horse-drawn wagon loaded with scrap metals (0:08-0:32). Young men and women unload, sort, weigh, and fill containers of aluminum cans (0:33-1:20). Pallets of crushed cans are moved by forklifts, fired, and recycled into new sheets of metal (1:21-2:08). Children help as tin cans are pushed into large containers at a San Francisco recycling center (2:09-2:34). Huge piles of trash and metals are burned at a dump (2:35-3:01). Smoke stacks at an incinerator release smog and pollution into the air, and piles of scorched byproduct is shown (3:02-3:39). Bulldozers dump, crush, and cover piles of trash (3:40-4:17). The camera pans over acres of junked cars, which are picked up with a claw, put onto a conveyor belt, and shredded (4:18-5:38). A magnetic crane moves pulverized steel made from car shell scraps (5:39-5:45). A claw drops a scrap appliance into a hydraulic bailer, which creates salvaged scrap bales for production into recycled metals (5:46-6:48). A VW Type 2 Volkswagen Bus drives up, and the glass bottles are unloaded by young men and women (6:49-7:20). Boxes of glass bottles are carried and sorted by color and type into shopping carts and trash cans, and then dumped into trailers for recycling (7:21-8:11). An automated bottle manufacturing line is shown, and a man pulls bottles from a quality control line (8:12-8:50). Culled waste peaches are ground, pumped through a pipeline, and loaded onto a ship for dumping (8:51-9:30). Oranges are shown moving down a conveyor belt, and the exterior of the cannery is shown (9:30-9:52). Recycled grain produced from waste produce is fed to cows (9:54-10:22). A workman pulls trash from a conveyor belt, which is conveyed into a grinder and mixed with pools of sewage sludge, composted in long rows, and dispersed on the ground (10:21-12:40). Waste is dumped into a vintage Zig Zag Air Classification machine, which separates the materials into different types (12:41-14:00). Researchers at LSU work with sugarcane byproducts on large industrial equipment (14:01-14:43). Scientists work with equipment at the experimental turbo electric generation plant CPU 400 (14:44-15:27). An early home recycling experimental program is shown in Madison, Wisconsin, with a garbage truck picking up bundled newspapers that are tossed into a separate trailer (15:28-16:04). Various phases of the newspaper recycling process are shown (16:05-17:24). Piles of trash are shown. An experimental wet grinding system uses raw refuse dumped into a hydro pump to disintegrate the refuse. Fibrous materials are reclaimed and the leftover waste is burned in the fluidized bed incinerator. Metallic objects are removed by the junk ejector and the slurry pumped through a liquid cyclone removes glass particles and small pieces of metal (17:25-18:54). The camera pans over thousands of crushed junked cars, as a crane picks up one to begin recycling it (20:09-21:07). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5M2BeD1WoM Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:10:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c4fc8a01-d95f-455f-b693-3a8e096a8c21 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.