Single-Stream Recycling -- Leading the Way to Zero Waste
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- Boulder County Recycling Center, Boulder, Colorado presents "Single-stream Recycling-Leading the Way to Zero Waste." A 15:15 minute video offering an in-depth look at the single-stream recycling process at the Boulder County Recycling Center. The tour begins at the curbside recycling bin and follows the single-stream materials to the tipping floor of the Boulder County Recycling Center. Mr. Can, the star of the show, continues the recycling journey into the high-tech world of single-stream processing. Newspaper and office paper; corrugated cardboard; aluminum cans; glass bottles and jars; plastic bottles, tubs, jugs and jars; magazines and catalogs; and phone books are separated by a series of conveyors, pre-sorts, screens, cross-belt magnet, air classifier, Eddy current separator, glass cleaning system, organic separator, and finally a fines screen and vacuum. Action video explains each step of the way and provides a behind-the-scenes, up-close view of the equipment in action. The Boulder County Recycling Center is doing its part to help Boulder County become a Zero Waste Community by 2025. Because we're all in this together, remember to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost!
Transcript available here:
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*My neighbors think I'm strange because I'm the only one in my neighborhood who has 3 recycle bins and only one trash can. I have city recycle bins which are very large and I always fill up the recycle bins with very little trash in the trash bin. I don't know why I've always been obsessed with recycling everything but I feel good knowing I'm contributing to the cause of reusing all of my recycle material*
Where I live the people reject having any more bins. They feel that It is a government s Job.
All schools should teach kids how to recycle from elementary to high school , so when they out on their own they'd be familiar and more conscious of recycling
I work for a company related to Belgian Umicore ... and we recycle electronic waste and turn it into precious metals from gold to platinum and create pallets for the automotive industries around the world ... funny how garbage can turn into a commodity so quickly with the right investment and corporate attitude
Could you provide more information, please
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I loved the “Jail” sweaters. That tells you where some of the workers come from.
Trevor Scott XD
i find this more entertaining then dream manhunts.
Awesome and answered my questions. Thank You
Nice to see how it works...
Like the BCSO JAIL uniforms...now that's PUBLIC SERVICE!
This needs to be done everywhere!
Having places like this in America would create more jobs for those want them
Utterly and completely. C block pride.
multi stream recycling is better for waste reduction and makes people more consious about it
This is my favorite youtube video.
Jeeez... kudos to the workers. I hope they pay them very well.
notice it says boulder sheriffs jail on the uniforms...
What a great & educative documentary. I really enjoyed this video. :)
Yup. They get a roof over their head and free food.. well, food paid for by your tax dollars...
Recycling is AWESOME!
Cute! presentation 👍😄😊🤗
It is good to see Boulder Co., has a firm grip on recycling. Cheers and Hats off to you.
What a great & educative documentary. I really enjoyed this video. :)
Nice work!!! Keep it up and contribute toward the environment safety.
Good show old boy!
Here in Finland we take back bottles and aluminum cans back to the store... a machine credits you with 15c per can, 20c for a small soda bottle and 40c for a larger one.
Again in Finland, we put our recycling into separate bins... for glass, paper, metal, cardboard, biodegradable food, and plastics, and there is a bin for everything else that is incinerated to produce hot water. We also recycle oil and batteries and electronics. We don't have the stupid segregation stuff in this video because household and businesses do all the segregation because they never mix the stuff up in the first place.
I think this is a great idea just for countries which does not recycle and where garbage landfills are still "a good idea" for garbage management.
Yeah no one cares bro
OUTSTANDING! THIS NEEDS TO BE USED EVERYWHERE!! A good job for prisoners to sort materials.
Paper Sorting System 1:18
Container Sorting System 8:43
Glass Cleaning System 11:18
For all those people who don't feel like watching the entire video.
Thank you for posting this!
I work at a place just like this in Aloha, Oregon 10 bucks an hour 10 hour shifts.Its only been one day.
Thanks terrible
Wear your safety goggles and gloves.
AWESOME video. So cool to see inside a recycling facility and see how everything works. Learned that I was throwing a few things into my recycle bins that I shouldn't be too!
This video is video is a good inprovement to a better world. Zero waste is a good idea specialy with this video, wich shows how matterials should get recycled. People actualy don't get it, that we use less money/time/raw matterials for recycling than making new products. This video is a double win for us/earth.
Exactly.
I live in Marina CA and really didn't have a clue how extensive this operation is. We have a major recycling operation here in Marina. Great operation ...
Great video. Not sure when they decided to mix everything into one bin. I remember when we used to have a bin for paper, one for cans, and one for glass, and they had a truck that would pick up all three and put them in their related bins on the truck saving all this sorting mess. I also worked in one of these places and its a nasty job. Very dusty. I remember one lady came in and said she put $5,000 in the middle of a newspaper and accidentally threw it out. The whole building was searching that place. Never found it. It makes me mad that these recycling companies make a fortune selling the cardboard, glass, and aluminum (that they get for free). Yet the taxpayer doesn't see a dime of that money. In the future these recycling companies should be run by the city with the profits for those materials going into a fund to reduce garbage rates. If recycling lowered your garbage rate, I am sure everyone would be doing it and thus reducing waste going to the landfill.
I'm not too sure. If landfill tax goes down people will toss everything into the black bin. They should have like weighting units at the trucks to give the owner of the cans with the most recycling in it money
More of this please!
Aha, but sometimes.. So I seem to enjoy to many waste and enjoy to watching of the management system of the plastic into the new (best) products too 🤭😊
Actually, it just gets sold out to countries that have less restrictive environmental laws.
It would be better to have lots of smaller local sorting stations closer to the source those conveyer belts go too fast and are not effective.
i love this
We knows our biggest Problem, with a Name PLASTIC, and we maked the new Plas
tic every day more, more and more around the Globus!!! Milliins of Tones every day!
This is very helpful for resource reuse, good job.
WOW that looks like back breaking work
If the recycling was collected already sorted everything would have been so much easier!!! Where I lived, the recycling bins used to be all sorted. There were even 3 different giant bins for brown, green and clear glasses. But later they changed to this single recycling system. They say it is to encourage people to do more recycling. So they are making everything harder for the recycling facilities just cause people are too lazy to sort their recycling!
Sandra t
People are naturally going to be more encouraged to do anything if it is made simpler and more user-friendly. If it's going to take too much time and energy out of our already-taxed schedules, then most people are not going to make the effort. It has nothing to do with being lazy.
But in the end if people don't sort it properly, and the bins end up mixed, then the whole system fails. It's nice to THINK people will sort properly, but they just won't.
And the system works because the initial consumer gets nothin for his effort at sorting recycles from non recycles.
@Sandra: I see your point and I definitely understand & share your sentiment of frustration!
Perhaps another perspective could be useful, at least temporarily…
Ultimately this is a RESULTs oriented approach/solution. And I think it's fair to say that the results should be the ultimate measure of success & performance. It seems like the objective is to maximize the quantity and percentage of waste which gets recycled.
If this strategy improved/increased recycling (which we obviously can not determine from this video), then it seems reasonable to focus on the result.
Also: the recycling still has to be sorted before processing because people make mistakes, furthermore, in most (if not all) areas all the recycling is collected by the same vehicle where it is combined. Perhaps some cost & labor may have been saved, I don't know. But it had to be done, and if this new system increases the hours or the number of full-time employees, then perhaps it makes sense to consider this from an alternate perspective as well. Acknowledging the "jobs created" by this strategy instead of focusing on the idea that this is a misuse of taxes resulting from lazy citizens seems fair!
If you are upset about lazy citizens, perhaps RESULTs oriented tactics could be of some service here as well? You could create a campaign to raise awareness and concern among the citizens, urging or inspiring them to sort and bag their recycling already pre-seperated―this endeavor certainly has the potential to save as much taxpayer resources as the previous system!
Great informative video.
Love it
😎 cool , you just need a solar on top of the warehouse or factories plant
Too save a electric bill for the factory p
thats a big recycling center
Good to see that Cluckin Chicken found new work
Very informative! Thanks for posting. kudos to the workers. I hope they pay them very well.
Ross from Friends is the voice of the can. Poor Ross.
super system the recycle materials hi I am Indian citizen
What a brilliant system! Particularly the KSP unit is very elegant and functional. That sort of automation is bound to be the cornerstone of next generation fully-automated recycling. This sort of technology must be spread. Only question left unanswered: how much energy does the system dissipate to carry out the process?
this type of sorting is only a beginning of what we need to do !!
Hay M. can did you steal Pinocchio's nose?
Wow i like it
I noticed they are using employees from the "County Jail" as per what's written on their uniforms. I guess that is a good way to get cheap labor, but also give opportunities to train or rehab criminals.
Lol true
It sucks if you did not commit a crime and can't get a job there...
Cheap labor? How bout free!!
That is great
Super cara canggih mengolah sampah
Tell me, where can I find a talking can named Mr. Can?
This a great way to have parolies, or those in have way houses to work their way out off parole
Stunts
He even said containers can't climb the double deck paper screen, and I literally saw a red aluminium can or tin can get pushed over the top by the paper, even though you believe containers can't climb the screen there's still a chance at least one container will go over the top, the paper can sometimes be the material to blame as it bouncing around on the discs can help incorrect items up the screen.
Rumpke does recycling like this and more
Nice work.
I was able to reduce my "waste" to only recyclables and compost. I reduced it so much, in fact, that I don't need to have my trash picked up any longer, thus, I'm about to challenge my city ordinance on requiring trash pick-up and payment, which they're not thrilled about (or, should I say, the _garbage industry_ isn't thrilled about...).
its really good to watch this video ..plz help me out to solve how to establish it in odisha ,India AND THE TOTAL cost around ...
How much energy went it to recycling? How many man hours of labour? Recycling is not the answer but reducing is the answer
People with a sense of humor showing everyone how it is done.
Very informative! Thanks for posting. Is the sorting process depicted here unique to Boulder or is the process relatively universal? Thanks.
This process is mostly universal, with some changes across the states. In arizona some places don't recycle anymore because recycling product from the US isn't being bought by china because it isn't refined enough, specifically, we use single stream recycling, which contaminates products such as paper, cardboard, etc, and they deemed it not financially worth it.
This company does not recycle. It just sorts the materials in different streams so they can ship it to malaysia and other garbagecountry's.
sorting needs to be done first
Very interesting and informative. But I really wanted to see Mr. Can get shredded.
No kidding!
A brilliant scheme. It should be copied throughout the world. The only problem is not everything can be recycled. Yet!
lols! tell sara i say hi!
Have to say your system seems really confusing. I see two options
1) Better pre sorting at homes (like in EU): Paper (green boxes), Bottles&Cans (pant system), BioWaste and then the rest of the garbage
2) I've also seen several system that shred the garbage to so tiny pieces that they can sorted by machinery (magnets, IR and weight based sorting)
What brand of
machinery do you guys use?
Sir, whats the capacity? How much these entire unit costs?
I am thinking of going to this field of work one day, what do u think i should be majoring on when i go to College? i wanna start a waste recycling business or even just trying to manage a recycling company, or anything that has to do with this line of work. Anyone? give me an idea to start.
environmental science and business. is what I will probably take I also want to get into the field.
hear a lot of off to the land fill, during this process!
I remember seeing this video about 5 years ago man those aluminium can guys are so cringy
aw yeah.
Could you please share the layout diagram if any? I am a student and its for my case study! Thank you for the video
Wow, great information. Humans can do great things. If we all did our part our world would be cleaner. Educate yourself about recycling. Like I didn't know that aluminum cans should not be flattened or plastic water jugs. I would always flatten theses to condense my garbage, nor did I know that shedding paper was a no-no in the recycle bins.
does not look safe but it has to be done
Where do you send the bales
Any here recycles bottles? If so, what method offers a higher reimbursement recycling center or reverse vending machine, like RePlanet?
The UK milk industry has been recycling milk bottles for years. Less so now than in the past - thanks to supermarkets requiring plastic milk containers. Also beer-bottlers also used their bottles many times, not now though, as the bean counters have struck again. It is possible, but unpopular, to recycle the aluminium cans many drinks are sold in. Their value is 0.5p each!
all about E block
Though I admire their efforts, I some negatives. I saw alot of paper dust in the high areas which is conducive to dust explosions. Also, The fork lifts are using combustible fuel which is conducive to carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Wouldn't it be easier for dual stream paper and containers separate. Or are ppl to lazy to do that? Also would be nice if they had organic matter pickup for compost
I'm guessing FlexSeal can't be recycled?
7:37 a soda can was missed
Actually I thought I didn't see it but I looked back and only just saw it peeking out of the paper before the next clip came up.
Commingled glass is of no use in recycling, it has to be sorted by color because they are different chemistry . That mixed color scrap glass can be used as (expensive) road aggregate as a gravel substitute.
Glass is nearly worthless, cost more to transport it than it is worth.
They didn't seem to be sorting out the cardboard that well.
I saw some large pieces of cardboard and paperboard boxes in the double deck paper screen.
And of course the large ones and some of the paperboard boxes fell down to the bottom deck like the containers and then end up in the banana screen.
One thing is that there should be a conveyor belt at the bottom deck of the banana screen because if the containers fall down to the bottom they can move onto the conveyor belt to be transferred to the container sorting system.
+BOULDER COUNTY
what is the size of the facility
Is this Boulder City in Nevada 1 hour from Las Vegas?
Read the description. Boulder Colorado.
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The AAAAAA- was funny
this video was insanely interesting, but the can was more irritating than it needed to be. all it takes is remembering what it was like to be a kid to know instantly that the talking cgi character is OUT, and always was lol
I have 1 question , how about the waste is very wet this machine still work ? I just think about my country all waste is so wet.
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The Batterys of our Cellphones, and Plastic are very, very contaminated Material.
no way broski
I am assuming this video was made for a children's audience, going by the voice over.
Those CGI cans are terrifying
🙋☝😆
can a milk carton be recycled?
wobbly.muffins not really supposed to be because of the wax coating inside. I recycle them all the time.
what do i do with plastic bottle caps?
Put in garbage.
This place looked like an apartment complex from the outside
Greg Elliott what do they do with used condoms?
I prefer burning old documents/junk mail to shredding. Shredding uses electricity, burning uses one match
but burning creates air pollution unless you use it to create energy. Electricity is the result of either hydro, thermal, or other kinetic ways to produce.
The circle of life and happiness.
Hrm, I guess I'm the only one that watched this who isn't in school?
Im not in school👌
I think single stream made consumers stop thinking.