Does recycling work anymore?

Support OCC and get 20 bonus, ad-free videos by signing up for Nebula: In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I take a look at how recycling works and where recycled items go after they hit the recycling bin. Specifically, I follow a plastic bottle that makes its way from a recycling truck to the processing facility. That plastic bottle finally makes its way across the sea to a recycling plant. The main question this video seeks to answer is whether recycling works anymore and whether it’s still environmentally friendly. Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Email me for freelancing or business inquiries: @ I use for all my music. You can get 2 months free of with this link: Stock footage taken from and ________ Resources: 1. What Really Happens to Chicago’s Blue Cart Recycling? (NPR): 2. Single-Stream Recycling (Scientific American): 3. Environemntal Life-Cycle Comparisons of Recycling, Landfilling, and Incineration: A Review of Recent Studies (Environmental Defense Fund): 4. Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans ’Foreign Waste’ (NPR): 5. The problem of recycling and the key to moving beyond it (Heidi Bischof): @heidi_bischof/the-problem-of-recycling-and-the-key-to-moving-beyond-it-be1d36fee17b