# 1970s ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RECYCLING & SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FILM 61674

This color early 1970s film about recycling was produced by the Solid Waste Management Office and the Environmental Protection Agency. The film opens with a “junk man” riding in a horse-drawn wagon loaded with scrap metals ( 0:08 - 0:32 ). Young men and women unload, sort, weigh, and fill containers of aluminum cans ( 0:33 - 1:20 ). Pallets of crushed cans are moved by forklifts, fired, and recycled into new sheets of metal ( 1:21 - 2:08 ). Children help as tin cans are pushed into large containers at a San Francisco recycling center ( 2:09 - 2:34 ). Huge piles of trash and metals are burned at a dump ( 2:35 - 3:01 ). Smoke stacks at an incinerator release smog and pollution into the air, and piles of scorched byproduct is shown ( 3:02 - 3:39 ). Bulldozers dump, crush, and cover piles of trash ( 3:40 - 4:17 ). The camera pans over acres of junked cars, which are picked up with a claw, put onto a conveyor belt, and shredded ( 4:18 - 5:38 ). A magnetic crane moves pulverized steel made from car shell scraps ( 5:39 - 5:45 ). A claw drops a scrap appliance into a hydraulic bailer, which creates salvaged scrap bales for production into recycled metals ( 5:46 - 6:48 ). A VW Type 2 Volkswagen Bus drives up, and the glass bottles are unloaded by young men and women ( 6:49 - 7:20 ). Boxes of glass bottles are carried and sorted by color and type into shopping carts and trash cans, and then dumped into trailers for recycling ( 7:21 - 8:11 ). An automated bottle manufacturing line is…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/61674RecyclingVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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