https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ebe1b372-836f-46d7-9df9-28934f54b75d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "Recycling in Action" (1973) is a 14-minute color film from FilmFair Communications that argues for the need to recycle to slow resource depletion. The film explains the whys and hows of paper, glass and aluminum recycling, and how the process helps solve energy and resource conservation problems. 00:00: A junkyard full of cars is shown, and an oil derrick. Discussion on the rapid depletion of resources and the creation of waste due to endless consumption and thoughtless disposal. :53: tractors work at a landfill. 1:03: Mention of people in industry and individuals addressing the problem through recycling. 1:14: Brentwood Community Recycling Center shown, as well as the Santa Monica Reclamation Center. 1:25: Introduction to the Westside Environmental Center, operated by volunteers with community cooperation. A man carries a stack of newspapers for recycling. 1:42: Description of the diverse group of volunteers, including students, full-time employees, and housewives, who recycle almost everything in their households. 1:54: Personal account of a volunteer who feels that recycling alone isn't enough and volunteers at the Depot to contribute more to cleaning up the environment. 2:07: Older people are particularly conscious about recycling, remembering how they saved cans and papers in the past. 2:19: Volunteers collect cans, bottles, and tin, emphasizing the importance of not wasting anything. 2:43: A man carries a box of glass bottles from his VW Bug to be recycled. Running a recycling center makes people think about the materials and resources involved in the products they use and dispose of. 3:01: Explanation of the need for purity in recyclable products, with paper being separated into different grades for economic recycling.Description of the process at a waste paper dealer, who collects various grades of waste paper and sells them to secondary paper mills. 3:57: At the pulp mill, waste paper is processed into a slurry mix, cleaned, and resold to paper makers for secondary use. The center's goals extend beyond recycling, aiming to raise awareness of other environmental issues and donating income to environmental causes. TAB cola bottle and other glass bottles shown being sorted. Discussion of glass recycling process. 4:46: Challenges of running a self-service recycling center, such as the need for volunteers to sort glass by color and remove metal caps and rings. Aluminum cans are highly valuable, and volunteers transport them to processing plants with industry cooperation. 6:00: The plant recycles aluminum beverage cans, including beer and soda cans, foil containers, and TV dinner trays, separating steel cans and shredding the aluminum for remelting. Recycling of materials from telephones and switchboard apparatus, with processes to recover copper, iron, and precious metals. 7:16: Recovery of lead and copper from lead cables, producing pure copper scrap for refineries. Private individuals and factories contribute scrap metal, which is sold to junkyards and smelters for reuse in new products. 8:30: Personal story of creating art from scrap metal during quiet times at a scrap metal yard. Collection of aluminum cans and TV trays from homes and neighborhoods for recycling. 9:16: Donation of old clothes and toys to Goodwill instead of throwing them away. 9:37: Separation and crushing of bottles and cans for recycling, with money raised going to troop equipment. 10:03:Boy Scouts and school club's efforts to prove that plastics can be reused instead of discarded. 10:20: Process of grinding plastic bottles into flakes, which are then melted and reformed into new products. High school kids show the creation of plastic bags and bottle caps from styrene recycled materials. Use of recycled plastic for various home products and school projects. 12:02: Motivation to recycle plastics to save natural resources and reduce waste. 12:25: Operation of a home pickup service for recyclables, emphasizing the responsibility to future generations to preserve resources and combat pollution. VW microbus filled with recyclable materials. 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