TREASURE IN A GARBAGE CAN

foreign [Music] foreign [Music] when you toss away a can or a bottle or the scrap from your dinner table the chances are that you don't think much about it nobody thinks much about it but it piles up your refuse and your neighbors the refuse of all the people around you we move it out of our buildings into our streets and alleys hundreds of tons a day if we left it there it'd pile up until it might in time drive us from our city ugly dirt dangerous and unhealthy [Music] but early every morning before most of us are up these men start out to handle the problem two men to a truck they work as a team every day they drive together in a constant battle to clear their City tough days work but it has to be done to keep our city clean [Music] in this city everyone helps the garbage man we separate our refuse into two containers one for garbage food scraps and waste from our tables the other for bottles and tin cans the things we can't burn we carry our cans and boxes to the curb to save the garbage men time and to cut down the cost of collection foreign every day we see these trucks moving through our streets and alleys we watch these men picking up our refuse can by can but how many of us really think about them and the job they do what happens to what we throw away is it all wasted [Music] let's look at the trucks they're designed to be clean efficient and cheap this type is meant to haul food waste only not tin cans or glass its metal cover is kept closed in traffic in between collection areas from its step the loader can quickly pick up the cans we've put out for him [Music] when a piggy bank breaks we separate the money from the glass the money goes into your pocket and the glass should go into the rubbish box but sometimes we forget to separate our refuse and carelessly throw a piece of glass into the can for food scraps this truck only picks up garbage leaving tin cans and bottles behind [Music] when a garbage truck is full it returns to the collection yard to be weighed three tons per truck hundreds of truckloads a day these men have finished their garbage route so the dispatcher is assigned them to a different truck to pick up rubbish he coordinates a whole job like a military campaign every crew must clear a different area each day and the dispatcher records the area they've covered on a district map oh foreign to an elevated Hopper [Music] they use a winch to lift the truck bed because this saves us the cost of buying dump trucks [Music] the hose carries water under high pressure [Music] [Music] foreign they flush the inside of the truck and now because they're through with this truck for the day they also washed the cab and covered [Music] foreign garbage is transferred from this Hopper within a few minutes after it's received it sold to private contractors they move it quickly out of the city in their large covered trucks [Music] metal glass and other rubbish is sold to her byproducts company as it moves through their plant a sorter removes many useful objects for special treatments such as tires scrap iron paint buckets wire and bulky tins you can find almost anything on this belt if you wait long enough [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is a magnetic roller it pulls everything made of iron like tin cans off the belt leaving glass and other objects to continue along the lines foreign some bottles like these are set aside they'll be returned to manufacturers who will sterilize them and use them again this job takes sharp eyes and close attention the rest of the glass is sorted into two large bins one for colored glass the other for clear glass [Music] um foreign [Music] meanwhile cans separated by the magnet in this roller Move Along another belt foreign cans are stored in this Hopper from it they're drawn off into a furnace where labels are burned off [Music] as they cool the blackened cans move up on a bucket elevator toward a shredding machine foreign fed into a heavy duty Shredder [Music] [Music] this Riff Raff is chopped up by rotating Steel knives foreign [Music] throw away is safe after it's burned and shredded we loaded into railroad cars and ship it to the copper mines there it's used to extract Copper from copper ore by precipitation this discarded metal is vital in making the copper that's so important to us all [Music] this mountain of glass is glass that you have thrown away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] after the glass is broken and washed these men sort through it to remove Corks And bottle caps foreign broken glass is called cullet it's melded down and used to make new bottles there's some colored in all ordinary glass so it goes bottles broken glass collet and new bottles again [Music] nothing is wasted even discarded toys are collected from all over the city foreign they're repaired by volunteer workers so that children can play with them again every toy is cleaned and given a personal touch [Music] happy birthday [Music] thank you when the workers are finished they send these toys to toy Lending Centers throughout the city their kids can come in and borrow them like books from a public library when a boy or girl is shown that he takes good care of these borrowed toys he can adopt one for his very own [Music] [Applause] [Music] because we separate our refuse nothing is wasted the food we can't eat is fed to pigs [Music] old bottles from our rubbish boxes are used to make new glass the tin cans we throw away help to make valuable copper and broken toys play again so when you toss away a can or a bottle or the scraps from your dinner table remember to separate them carefully because with your help a good garbage collection system can turn everything you throw away into treasure for us all [Music]