Curated Video
How Five Billion lbs of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
Most the of 600 billion pounds of waste that Americans produce every year ends up in landfills. All that trash can have huge impacts on the environment. But modern landfills have found a new use for all that trash — they’re turning it...
Curated Video
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Miss Palomine talks about the importance of reduce, reuse, recycle and gives examples of the benefits of each.
Curated Video
Why I Recycle
Miss Palomine explains why recycling is so important. She explains that recycling saves trees. She also talks about other ways to protect natural resources.
Curated Video
The History and Benefits of Recycling
Recycling is a process that turns waste into reusable materials, reducing the consumption of raw materials and reducing pollution. It has been practiced since ancient times, and today, systems are in place to collect recyclables from...
Curated Video
How Paper is Made
This video provides a brief history of paper, from its origins in ancient Egypt and China to its global production and use today. It explains the process of paper production and highlights the importance of recycling paper to protect...
Curated Video
The Material and Environmental Impact of Plastic
Plastic is a versatile material that is used in all kinds of things from cookware to clothes. What is plastic made of and what impact is it having on the environment?
Bloomberg
MIT Students Develop Robots That Can Sort Recycling
May.13 -- Before last year, China imported about 40% of U.S. recyclables. But a recent import ban on over two dozen recyclables has researchers estimating 111M metric tons of plastic will be left with nowhere to go. Students at M.I.T’s...
Curated Video
400M Tons Of Plastic Waste Created Each Year But Only 2M Tons Recycled
Newsy's Scott Withers visits the largest residential recycling plant in the country, located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
TED-Ed
What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away
Inspire environmentally conscious young minds with an exceptional video, which traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles after they are thrown away and move through the earth with different journeys through a...
American Chemical Society
How Plastic Recycling Actually Works
Those recycled plastic bottles end up as some pretty interesting things in their second lives. A lesson explains the process of recycling plastic. Scholars learn about the different products of recycled plastic—including t-shirts!
TED-Ed
Why Isn't the World Covered in Poop?
Here's a resource that is definitely not a waste. Viewers learn about rollers, tunnelers, and dwellers, three types of dung beetle clean-up crews and the important roles they play in preventing global warming and in indicating the health...
Fuse School
Recycling Glass
Investigate the recycling process of glass products. Young scholars learn the types of glass that are recyclable and make a connection to environmental chemistry. The video instructor explains the process of recycling the glass and its...
Fuse School
Recycling Paper
From tree to paper to fuel — explore the life of a sheet of paper! An interesting lesson explains the benefits and challenges of recycling paper. Pupils learn you can only recycle paper a limited number of times before it is processed...
Fuse School
Recycling Metals
Aluminum, steel, and carbon are the most commonly recycled materials. Learn why these metals are so popular and discover the benefits of recycling. A video lesson compares recycling metals with the extraction of the same metals,...