How does recycling work?
Bottle's Next Life
How does recycling work?
You toss a plastic bottle into the blue bin and it vanishes from your life. But where does it actually go? Does it just sit in a secret warehouse forever, or does something interesting happen to it?
First, a big truck picks up your bin and dumps everything into its back. Your bottle tumbles in with hundreds of others—plastic containers, glass jars, aluminum cans, cardboard boxes—all mixed together like a very weird salad.
