RECYCLING 101 | what is recyclable and non recyclable
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⭐️I just want to emphasize that everything you recycle needs to be EMPTY, CLEAN, and DRY! If you don’t clean out your plastics, it could 1) degrade the material, making it lose value and ability to be recycled and/or 2) contaminate the rest of the recycling!
Not really....glass and plastic doesn't need to be perfect. Plastic goes through a wet and caustic wash, not sure on glass but I looked it up about if you leave the lime wedge in the glass bottle and have seen that it's fine
@@greeleyestateslove decant the beer ... it tastes better that way. ;)
This needs to be taught in every, every, every school. I will definitely show this to my students! Valuable information
Elfinartist YES PLZ DO YES soooo important
Anti-haul idea: those “smoothies” you can buy in bottles... Just make your own smoothie?
Buy the goods you want from a local produce stand or farmers market (so you know exactly what’s being put in and how it was produced) and blend at home to make it personalized & exactly how you want it to taste, then use a stainless steel straw for extra pleasing aesthetics :)
@@kelleyrice4801 If you have stuff like farmers markets or local produce stands.
Strange Kat most cities do, mines small and not very many options but if I drive to the next city there’s many more options. And if there’s absolutely no options, we can all try our best to buy organic produce at the grocery store.
@@kelleyrice4801 I live in a small town in rural Yorkshire. There's one supermarket. Organic food is much more expensive, package free isn't an option. Plastic free isn't an option either. It's basically impossible.
Strange Kat im sorry :( I hope more options open up around your area, but shout out to you for recognizing it and wanting to do better
I never thought one wrong piece of plastic or grease on the pizza box could upset the entire batch! I need to listen to my husband and make sure I RIP the plastic window out of the envelopes before putting them in the recycle!
Check your recycling rules for your area, though. We are allowed to leave plastic windows in.
It’s not this way for every city. My city made an announcement that the plastic windows can be left in
It is different from Country to Country, town to town .... We all need to check what is done in our area ...
WOW that video of the truck dumping plastic bottles will haunt my dreams.. Amazing video once again Shelbi!!!
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This is such a great video for earth month. So many people do not understand recycling. Cleaning out containers, removing labels and separating complex items that are a mixture of partial plastic, partial metal, partial paper is also very important to note. A lot of people do not understand that this needs to be done by them if hey want the item to actually be recycled.
Thank you for emphasizing the different materials, different facilities will accept. A conversation I had the other day with a fellow recycler was about the bottle caps. I had read an article stating that we can leave the caps on, but where I recycle now, we have to remove the caps. So yes always check with your facility to make sure what you're trying to recycle is actually being recycled!
Rachel Cannon we have to remove the caps and the caps cannot be put into the recyclables at all.
Thank you for taking your time and organize all this info for people. Recycling is pretty confusing at times, especially for the elderly who aren’t used to it. You’re helping a lot your community and the world 🌍🌱
This is probably a really dumb question, but do you have to take the stickers off glass and plastic before you recycle it ?
Lauren O'Neill yes
Lauren O'Neill for glass i soak in hot dishwater, labels should already begin to fall off. Scrub off the rest. Then I use goo gone to get rid of glue residue!
I've lived in places that said you don't and some that say you do. I would check with your local recycling center.
Definitely check locally!
No, small stickers are fine on glass/RIGID plastic. The thing about it is that the stickers reduce the ability of the optical sorters to tell what the material beneath is..so coverage is also important. Remove what you can without wasting water needlessly. If it's a shrink wrap (like on kefir and creamer bottles) definitely cut off and remove!
Flexible bags such as grocery bags should not have stickers on them -remove if you see them
In Madison Wisconsin you can recycle broken glass - check out your local recycler’s website to see what is and is not recyclable in your area. My recycler has a “recyclopedia” with all that info.
L Zebell Hello! I am from WI too!
Early!! I alsowant to try to go zero waste for the summer so this is right in time. :)
I love where I live, the recycling facility here accepts plastics #1-7! Even shopping bags!
They say to not put broken glass in the recycling bin, but when they dump all the recyclables out of the truck don't some of the glass bottles end up getting broken?
I think (at least where I live) they don't want you recycling broken glass so the workers who have to handle the recycling don't accidentally hurt themselves.
Our mixed recycling just meant no broken mirrors, windows, and other glass like pint glasses etc. All glass isn’t created equal and our food product glass has a lower melting point. If you mix in a better quality glass like a window, it gums up the glass product that they are intending to melt down.
I had the same question. when I big trucks come by and grab and dump our single stream bin into the back of the truck, I know the glass I put in the bin breaks. if what Shelby says it's true, prolly every load of recycling would be deemed a loss😟
I had the same question! Haha. Must be a good one!
I wonder too, in my country it is literally written on recycling bins that you can put broken glass in it.
My city you just compost pizza boxes so the grease isn't a problem, which is nice!
Agree. All kids need to be taught .
Thank you for making this video!! I actually got to look into my local recycling system and I'm thinking of volunteering when Covid calms down!!
How do you feel about industrially compostable stuff? I feel like so many folks dont have the means to send it along to facilities.
No.6 plastic can be used to make keychains and other little dyi presents if you have any it can be used as that shrink plastic stuff ❤
Thank you for helping me with my homework
I wanted to ask something about recycling that I don't hear often about. I live in Greece and we have regular garbage bins, recycling bins for tin-paper-plastic, bins for glass and recently we got those red bins for clothes- shoes- bags- fabrics. So the content of the red bins goes either on charity, is sold as second hand clothing or is used for other purposes such as insulation material , car seat filling etc. It is a new idea ( at least here 😆 ) and I was wondering if it is something that also happens abroad, as I have never seen any video referring to clothe recycling. Of course it's better not to waste cloths , but I would really want to hear your opinion about it as you are an expert on recycling matters or ( even better) make a video about this topic . Thank you 💚 , I always love your content ❤❤
Most places in America don't offer fabric recycling through curbside pickup. I actually don't know of any. (Dosen't mean there aren't any) In Virginia where I live you have to donate fabric and shoes to a thrift store and they sort through everything and send it to the proper places. Or you can go to the town dump and they might have a bin you put used items in. However in most cases used clothing doesn't get recycled. They get sent to third world countries and then messes with local clothing industries.
@@thefrugallife-withmercedes7718 Though, don't forget about Goodwill!! :DD
This is definitely helpful! Bea Johnson does make a good point though that going zero waste isn’t about recycling more, it’s about recycling less. I recycle most of my stuff but try to reuse things more too. But I always try to find an alternative for things I’m getting rid of in life.
we are told that if you do have clean broken glass, you are supposed to put it in a box or bag and tape shut and label broken glass! so they know and then it can still be recycled.
The information really useful for me because I just start to learn how to recycle from home huhu 😍
Very interesting! I'm ashamed of how bad I have been at recycling. But, nobody tells us how.
Please make a separate video about Ecosia! I have seen you mention it in your other videos but I really feel it deserves a mini-video of it's own!
How clean does something have to be to be accepted when recycled? Is a quick rinse with water fine and mostly clean, or do I need to get in there and scrub every bit of peanut butter out of the jar? Always wondered that.
Elizabeth B. Completely clean 🥴
Anything left on there will degrade the material making it worth less and harder to recycle!
Check locally! In NYC, a quick rinse will do for most things.
I am going to do a famliy home evening about this because of your show Shelbi!
IMPORTANT PLASTIC INFO PLS READ: Hi, I work for my university’s campus recycling and i am a certified master recycler for my county. I really appreciate that you made this video, however, it is SUPER important that not every city or area recycle by plastic numbers. Most places in Oregon (where I live) and other place in the country actually recycle by shape, so here, we can recycle plastic bottles and jugs ONLY (no matter what number it is). Some cities are even more restrictive about shape than that. This is because the number on the bottom of the item doesn’t indicate what kind of plastic it is, it only indicates one ingredient it has in it. For example, plastic number 1 has resin 1 in it. Other than that one ingredient, number 1 plastics can be totally different from each other. It’s like saying that all cakes are the same just because they all contain flour. But imagine mixing German chocolate cake and lemon cake! In my opinion, that wouldn’t work😝 Because these plastics with the same number are not actually all the same, a ton of sorting is still required after you recycle it. MOST IMPORTANTLY, recycling is far from the same across the country. It can differ from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. Please check with your local recycling company, or with the city. Thanks for coming to my ted talk😊
Thanks for the info! I was doing a little bit more research and it seems like the way the plastic is molded makes a big difference in what can be recycled together. "Blow molded" plastics like bottles have to be recycled separately from "injection molded" plastics because they react differently when they're melted down for recycling. Source: www.ccpa.net/DocumentCenter/View/5384/Plastic_FAQs?bidId=
Christine Grassi that is so interesting, thank you so much for sharing!!❤️
How does glass not break when it is dumped in to the truck or compressed in the truck? 💖
What about removing labels?
I needed this video. Thanks so much!!! I've been trying to reduce my waste in general but I always wonder about different materials!
i try my best at recycling, but i find it very hard to get my hubby on the wagon. he recycles. but he won't clean out the food containers. he doesn't see the point. its so frustrating at times and im the one cleaning everything. argh. but recycle we must.
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I have a question about glass recycling. You say you can't recycle a broken glass jar. But when my recycling is picked up it is put into a garbage truck that does the compacting thing. So isn't all the glass smashed by the time it gets to the recycling center? So does that mean we can't really recycle glass?
I was born 1969. We were threatened with a new ice age. Then the recycling bullshit hit was good for awhile until videos dump trucks dumping recyclables in landfills.
Thank you for making this video!
My local council recently announced that it would start accepting pizza boxes in the paper/cardboard recycling and I really don't understand how that can work but I'm just trusting they know what they're talking about.
Hopefully they educate about taking off the greasy bottom!
My city can do this, they are able to separate the oils from the fibers.
So much good information in this video!
Hi ! I am trying to reduce my waste and recycle what I still have, how does the recycling of metals such as cans work ?
Metal cans that don't have the plastic liners in them are infinitely recyclable, just pull off the paper label and rinse them. Almost all curbside takes tin, aluminum and steel cans.
@@l.2008 ok, my comment was about those lined with plastic not really the paper label, you should remove it regardless, when batches are contaminated they are often just taken to the landfill.
Some plastic bags, but certainly far from all, are in fact HDPE plastic, the same grade of plastic as milk bottle HDPE. Exactly the same material if it specifically denotes HDPE. But do not automatically assume that it is, unless you can find the print which says that. In the case where you know for a fact that a given plastic bag is HDPE, then you can insert that plastic bag into a clean and empty HDPE bottle without doing contamination. Do not co-mingle loose HDPE plastic bags with HDPE bottles, but secure the HDPE bags inside the HDPE bottles being put out for recycling. And, preferably, fill up that HDPE bottle to full with HDPE bags, so as to more secure the content.
Wait. But if broken glass isn't allowed, then how do you ensure the glass doesn't break when recycling trucks lift it into the back of said truck?
you cannot ensure that.
you look stunning in that stripey shirt. thank you for making education on these topics so accessible.
Thank you so much for the excellent information 😇
Do you have any recommendations for sustainable plus size clothing brands or distributors? I'm shopping for bras, underwear, and orthopedic shoes, so if you have tips for shopping for those items, I'd love to watch a video about that. Thank you for your videos! They're very informative and thought provoking!
Going zero waste o zero garbage it’s a mist in live, everyone should try it
Thanks for this informative video? So what do we do with the plastic number 5 then? Do I bring it to the recycling place ?
Most of the time you have to throw it away. Check your city or recycling company’s website though to be sure! :)
My recycling company won't take number 5, but the Wholefoods near me will. I collect it in a separate place and drop it off at wholefoods when I have enough.
Thanks guys for the answer. I’ll check out my Whole Foods
Thank you for doing this video Shelby!! I'm a big recycler and always have been. For many years we did not have single-stream recycling. We had to separate metal, glass and plastic from our paper recycling. Over the past several years it has changed to single-stream recycling. I didn't know that that's what it was called until this video so I'm glad I learned something new. Now I have to get really diligent on not putting in anything that might contaminate my batch. I know that in the past I probably have put some Plastics into recycling that I shouldn't have because it feels awful to throw it in the trash. So now I will get the most recent updated info on what Plastics can and can't be recycled in my city. So, thanks again for doing this video and reminding me to improve my recycling.
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Thrive is 0 waste??? I was kind of avoiding trying them because I pictured everything coming in plastic.
Jenny Hammond Same here. I think “Zero Waste” here means that the company does not send any materials to the landfill in the production of products or at their headquarters; everything gets reused somehow. From what I’ve seen on their site, a lot of the products come in those plastic pouches, which most local facilities do not recycle. It seems contradictory to me.
@@ashleyhairstondoughty5542 That's what I thought. Another channel I follow buys from them. When she shows her grocery haul, it's a lot of plastic. That seems dumb to have food shipped from who knows where instead of shopping local, if it still going to come in plastic.
Sort of sad to see fewer people watching this when its SO crucial to know what youre saying. And its even cut to the very shortest essence and put so understandably. I appreciate it, i hope people will learn from you
What about plastic bags that have a line through the recycle ♻ symbol but say plastic bag underneath?
In Virginia where I live the recycling program now will not take any glass or most plastic. They will only take plastic 1 and 2 or metal.
They are encouraging everyone to continue recycle everything. And they will throw the unwanted stuff out for us. Not a good idea in my opinion. Then the good stuff could be thrown away with the bad. Also it will cost man hours to sort the extra materials. Not to mention the water wasted on rinsing items.
Very informative video!
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I have a question! i live in apartments and we have a huge dumpster for recycling. When I dump my recycling bin into it, glass breaks. What do I do?
Love the video! But I am just curious where can we pun plastic that can't be recycled or what are the organizations (that are dealing with this) doing with the plastic that they cannot use? That will be good to know.
Thank you so much for the information in this video. Ps. your editing on this video is awesome. xoxo
They recently drastically changed our recycling policy in my town. Which has resulted in many people stop recycling unfortunately. If they see a plastic bottle cap, they won't pick up any of the recycling. You even has to remove the plastic brand name on a plastic bottle (like if you have a bottle of soda you would need to remove the wrapper from the bottle)
That is probably because China, and other countries that are taking our recycling, have began to institute a zero tolerance policy for contamination. China is the most strict, only accepting recycling with less than 0.5% contamination. In the US, we have a contamination rate over 30%. Most places in the US don’t have local infrastructure, or if they do, they can’t find buyers that will buy the contaminated loads. A little bit of contamination means a lot of money for the people that have to sort it out!
@@lilzflower That is a good point.
What about bottle tops?
This is such a helpful video, I didn't even know about the different types of plastic. Thank you for this video 😊
This was a really informative, but simple/straightforward video! Thanks so much for sharing :))
I recycle a house of 8 . I can't get them vegan , but I can reclye for them. We try to avoid plastic . I grew up with an area that recycled. As I adultted it was less available. But now it's making a comeback.😁
did you hear about the changes Aldi is making to their packaging? "Aldi, which operates more than 60 U.S. stores along the Eastern seaboard, is introducing a series of commitments to reduce the plastic waste generated by its packaging. By 2025, Aldi says 100% of its packaging, including plastic materials, will be reusable, recyclable or compostable."
I'm having trouble getting Thrive Market to put less plastic in my orders. I order about once a month and even if I order items that come in their own packaging (metal cans, paper wrapped solid soap) they ALWAYS put these items in a gallon plastic bag for no reason. I've emailed them multiple times that it's not necessary and to really be mindful when packaging orders and I've seen no change. All they do is say "well we use recycled boxes and filler paper..." and that's great but that doesn't solve the problem. Do you receive these plastic bags in your orders too? If not, how?!
Hi! I work for a recycling facility in PA. We had received a grant from KAB this year that teamed us up with Terracycle. I love the concept, other than sending in cigarette butts, I like the concept of sending in K-cups from the office. I consider you a reliable source, how can I get my boss to be more confident in the practices of Terracycle? Thank you!
I’m just getting back in to recycling just for some extra cash and to be relational about naturally a lot of me and my family drink outta plastic, use cardboard boxes for TV dinners etc. Glass beers, cans of organic sodas etc. ♻️
My city takes everything in one container at the roadside, paper ,cardboard, plastic, metal and glass all go in one container. And it just says no plastic bags just put in free floating bottles etc. also it doesn’t give specific numbers in plastic and doesn’t say to remove lids or anything and says labels can be left on.
Everywhere is different! Most places in the US actually recycle by shape, and not by number! I wrote a big long comment about why, so check that out, or message me back! :)
My area doesn't even recycle glass :( Whyyyyy??
Ask your mayor! Someday they will want your vote so they will listen to you.
I live in rural Kentucky. They did recycle glass when I moved here six years ago but stopped three years ago. The reason we were given is it's too expensive to haul the glass to a recycling facility (our county only collects, then ships). Glass is heavy and it's cost prohibitive to handle, store and then truck the glass to a facility.
I've searched for anywhere to take my glass and have yet to find a place that's within a reasonable (an hour or so) distance to take my glass for recycling.
Although I understand videos like this are made for a larger audience, it frustrates me slightly to hear I should buy in glass over plastic as it's a better alternative in regards to recycling. Not for me. Glass here just gets put in the garbage.
My city doesn't recycle glass unfortunately. They single stream pick up allows it but they do not actually recycle it.. Here's the article about it in my local paper. It irks me so much!! I try to just reuse reuse reuse until I give it away or donate it via the buy nothing facebook group in my area. Have you made a video about the buy nothing project or are you a part of it already? I'd love to see a video on it.
Solution for soiled pizza boxes, napkins, paper towels, Kleenex, etc: Start a compost pile in your yard or even in a bucket indoors! Worms eat it up just fine, and it stays out of the landfill. Bonus: Free compost!!
I would love if you could do a recycling 101 video for newbies. there are so many questions like can you recycle paper towels what about envelopes with plastic windows in them, what about stickers on food jars, do I have to clean items before recycling.
Just so I understand correctly. For the plastics, the bottles are recyclable but not the lids or pumps, correct?? All of the videos I’ve been seeing about how 1 wrong item in your recycling can cause the whole thing to go to landfill is making me so sad 😢
As always, thank you so much for this video, Shelbi! I’m shocked to see how incredibly different the recycling process in the US is, compared to where I live now. In Spain and Germany you have different bins for the recyclable materials (plastic, paper, glass, compost, clothes and sometimes even different types of glass colors and another one for used oil), and usually plastic containers tell you if they can be recycled. I’d love to know if it differs from region to region, although I believe it’s not so... Anyway, thanks for the content, as usual! :3
Great vid. What about stickers? That’s my main concern. I read stickers are not recyclable in turn making products non recyclable because it can take ages to get off the gunk. Thoughts?
Hi Shelby, what about places that are stopping accepting glass for recycling? My city is no longer accepting glass for recycling because it’s not profitable for the recycling companies. In this case do you think it’s better to buy in plastic that can be recycled?
Pretty complicated. It seems like the recycling facilities need to figure out ways to take more items. I'll stick to just recycling the general categories.
The recycling plant in my area is a real stickler and I saw during an externship that they _will throw away_ full ends of the line of recyclables if there are items that weren’t prepped properly. I don’t know if every plant is quite that cutthroat but I know there isn’t a recycling plant that will wash your recycling for you. People really need to figure out where their recyclables go and learn how their local plant deals with them because there are a lot of recyclable materials going to land fills just because people are throwing out anything with a recycling label out without understanding that more may need to go into it
This video was so helpful! I should’ve gotten into this much sooner but I was never taught :-( Now the Earth is in so much danger. Time to save the world.
What about empty cans of wet cat food? I always rinse them out so they are nice and clean on the inside, but it has the paper brand label around the outside of the metal. I wonder if that messes things up.
Lots of rules for sure. Here where I live it's pretty relaxed . our apt building don't even have the option to recycle. So we take everything to the place ourselves. I wish it was mandatory everywhere but it's not . and we get people here that think it's funny to throw food and regular trash in the recycle bins. It really makes me mad in today's world that's it not mandatory everywhere.
We have a recology recycling truck service for our school at my work. And it’s so great because pre-k students make so much waste!
3 minutes and 24 seconds and I'm still waiting to learn about recycling.
OMG all this time i was doing it totally wrong. I wish waste management can educate people with printouts or something that people would know how to recycle.
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Now that China isn’t accepting any plastic waste from the US, my local recycling is only taking plastic 1&2 for certain types of bottles: soda bottles, water bottles, laundry detergent and no other 1&2 plastic. Does anyone know what makes these bottles different from other 1&2 plastic? I was thinking if had to do with the sorting, but they don’t take shampoo bottles. It’s very confusing to me
Most places in the US actually sort by shape, and not by number! I wrote a big long comment about why, so check that out, or message me back! :)
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Are Frozen Dinner Containers, Popcorn Bags, Chees String Wrappers recyclable?
Are recycling facilities able to separate plastic tape from cardboard?
Most of them are not able to! Plastic tape is considered a contaminate in cardboard and paper recycling.
I learned a lot from this video, thank you!
Girl thank you so much for this info. I love your content .
This video is so helpful to make some changes in my recycling life 💕
Thanks so much for the new info 💛
Wow! I didn’t know most of this. Thank you for sharing this important information. I’ve Ben doing a lot wrong!
For shampoo bottles that have a pump should I take off the pump for recycling?
Thanks for this great video I'm using thing to recycle better at home and progect
I know those video is old, but it showed up on my recommended. And I love it 😅👍
Can you make a video about composting if you haven't already?
This was great but I really wish you had expanded on this more...
Awesome! Thank you for demystifying recycling.
NYC has a higher threshold for pizza grease so New Yorkers please recycle your pizza boxes!
Source: I toured a recycling plant in Brooklyn and they let everyone on the tour know about this. I have been recycling them my entire life.
Or put them in your brown bin!
How about the labels for cardboard, glass, and plastic?
Try to remove all labels on cardboard. Plastic is okay and I would check that you can recycle glass. Glass is actually not always collected in bins.
Terreycyle is so stupid. U can only send them your stuff if someone in your area has a collection bucket. I've known about the company since I was in high school. So at least 7 years. I've never been able to send them anything because I have no way of knowing what random person in my city might have a collection bin. Makes no sense!
There is a way to know, put your zip code in on their site... it will locate anyone with a box. And it more so for brands to do. They fund the recycling system of their packaging. It makes total sense IMO
I really really needed this video 😩 thank you so much, Shelbi!!