Green Careers: Recycling (clip)

The recycling industry is still in its infancy but is growing fast with everything we buy, consume, and then throw away.

This program introduces job opportunities in recycling including a profile of an electronics recycling start-up and a San Francisco municipal program to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Job opportunities in recycling include collection, transportation, receiving and sorting, disassembly, handling hazardous materials, scheduling, operations, and plant management. Recycling provides opportunities for young people to start with a temporary or part-time job, then move up to supervisory and management responsibilities.

The biggest challenge in recycling is developing innovative and environmentally sensitive solutions for recycling a wider array of materials. The government is a large factor in the growth of this industry, and often pays private companies to recycle. But for anyone who is entrepreneurial and can figure out a new way to reuse what other people discard, recycling can offer a very worthwhile and profitable career. 22 minutes,
color.

direct link to purchase the DVD:

http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=21d0d3ad-197...
Jobs profiled in this program include:
E-Waste Entrepreneur, Plant Manager, Biofuel Coordinator, Truck Driver.

Grade Levels: 7 to Adult

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Green
• Careers
• Recycling
• electronics
• biodiesel
• environment
• efficiency
• waste
• management
• innovation
• Phoenix
• Learning
• Group

[dayspeace]

this is a wonderful thing. very informative. Recycling is really a good business, not just for profit but also to help the environment.

[jonathonblake113]

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[VEVnetwork]

Good job!

[ragabara]

@Muchacho64

You have no idea what really happens to those electronics do you?

They end up in countries like China and India where little kids burn them and dump them in vats of acid, inhaling toxic fumes and ruining their bodies in the process.

[cyf9527]

good job!!

[Muchacho64]

I LOVE YOU!!! we need more people like you! i wish i could do some career like that when i get a job. any info you can give me?

[bengtson21]

they cool i work a recycling plant i am 23 years old i heave they for 2 years

[doctortherapy]

awesome

[mizzjuicelover]

this is a part of my ccw coursework it helpful