Milk Jug Recycling

Milk Jug Recycling - Did you know that your favorite park bench could have been made out of used milk jugs? Join Curiosity Quest Goes Green host Joel Greene as he explores the process of recycling milk jugs. We are all aware that we need to recycle bottles; cans and glass…but milk jugs are often the unsung recycling hero. In this DVD you will learn why the milk jug plastics are so unique and why they are all the same color. Greene follows the milk jugs as they are cleaned, shredded, and melted down into tiny plastic pellets. Following the pellets, Greene travels to a manufacturer who melts them down and spreads them into a mold to create pieces of a park bench, among other things.

[@challengerrail1036]

Didnt have this issue when we had glass bottles, they got delivered, and when done were taken back to be reused after a major cleaning

[@RJM1011]

There should be a place to take your plastic and get paid for it like with cans and other metal then more people would do it and not just dump them they would also be sorted better.

[@billfeldman3234]

Thank you so much!!!

[@allenpew8544]

I would like to know what happens to the dirt and sludge and contaminated water that’s used in the process.

[@mind9528]

21:55 great! products

[@jonglewongle3438]

I'm at the start of this. This is not Curiosity Quest's manufacturing of plastic toy garbage episode ? if not, let me guess. The HDPE does not get reprocessed back into plastic milk jugs and bottles. And that being the case then nowhere near being good enough. The liner notes have it, in fact. Park benches. So, its remedial creative disposal..

[@msw949669]

So much energy used for all the different stations. Is that really better than just going back to glass?

[@YT-Observer]

they wish/hope cycle things in thier curbside bin tho it goes to sorting then landfill

[@BeerBaron-hx4ev]

Where I work we throw on a landfill Thousands of feet of plastic strapping every day. I just wish there was a way to recycle it.

[@henryguajardo5334]

i wonder how many people made Logs out of plastic and designing the first plastic log cabin, and i wonder if it was also bullet proof, if so this would be a great product for schools if they could make 1/2 and 3/4 plywood sheets as well for flooring in homes. also make doors with the same stuff, unless it is toxic in the long run. who knows

[@matthewoneil6558]

Recycling

[@miguelrivas4128]

that reporter has some much energy

[@rtel123]

I thought this was going to be informative. Five minutes of good information, and 21 minutes of annoying music and video stunts, and stupid theater and drama.

[@JRS-iq9pz]

Lots of dirt.

[@zoltarzoltar4199]

how about stop making the crap