You’ve chosen recycling
for this can today.
It waits for a big truck to take it away.
Other materials inside of the bin
cheer as the soup can comes tumbling in!
There’s metal and paper and plastic and glass—
do you recycle these things in your class?
All of these can be
repurposed again.
Let’s go to the plant and see
what happens then.
The truck has arrived
to deposit its load
for this recycling truck,
it’s the end of the road.
The Material Recovery
Facility (MRF) has plastic…
and metal and bottles. The piles are fantastic!
Conveyor-belt workers
are there to make sure
no garbage keeps all the
recycling pure.
So never throw garbage
into your blue bin,
just glass, cardboard, aluminum,
paper, plastic and tin.
Meanwhile, the soup can gets mixed in with metals.
A magnet has gathered and dropped them.
They’re settled.
The soup can is
squashed now,
but don’t be afraid…
it’s getting compressed so
new goods can be made!
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