Curious what happens to the materials you set out or drop off to be recycled? Take a peek behind the scenes at a recycling collection facility, meet Minnesota manfacturers who create new products out of recycled raw materials, and see the wide variety of everyday products that contain recycled content for sale right in your neighborhood. Check out "Recycling Works for Minnesota" produced by The Recycling Association of Minnesota. (If you are unable to view the Flash-embedded video, i.e. iPad and iPhone users, click here to view the video.)
Follow a glass bottle, a milk jug, an aluminum can and an old newspaper as they make their way out of the waste stream and into new products!
Glass recycling
Plastic recycling
Aluminum recycling
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Newspaper and office paper recycling
Here are some other interesting videos featuring recycling efforts around our state, from St. Cloud to Owatonna to the U of M Twin Cities campus. (A variety of sorting facilities are pictured; sorting requirements vary by community and by collection method.)
