- 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)