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EARTH AID: Recycling

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This video presents basic facts and demonstrates what individuals can do at home. I was disapointed that it showed less video of the recycling process or sweeping shots of junkyards, which the photo on the cover suggests, which is what I had hoped to show students in my classroom. Mostly, the video shows the host sitting in a living room with shots of a family recycling in their home. In that respect, it is good because it helps people visualize how easily they can implement recycling at home.

This is a wake up call for all. There are many quite easy steps all people can and must take before we do away with the very earth we all live on.

First I was dissapointed that it didn't have Captions for the Hearing impaired , or subtitles in other languages.
Also it was nice but too basic. I thought it would cover the recycling processes.
Good for schools students, because it's short (~15 mins) and it covers how to of each class of materials and some extra good advice.

I'm the Recycling Outreach Program Coordinator for Frederick County, MD. As such, I'm always looking for materials that I can present to residents to engage them in recycling- why it matters, how to do it and how the system works.

This video is shown as having a DVD release date of 2008 in Amazon's Product Details...what they must have forgotten to mention that is that it was orginally released on Beta/VHS in 1990. Nothing was changed, updated or added 18 years later when someone got the idea to put it on a disc.

The result is a video that is out of sync with modern recycling practices and provides old statistics/data. We get to see the very serious, earnest Ed Beagley Jr. spouting advice such as, "whenever possible, buy products such as beverages in glass bottles because plastic isn't very recyclable" as he holds up a 12oz glass bottle of 7-Up (with a polystyrene label!)- when was the last time you saw one of those?!

The video basically implores people to collect recyclables at home and then drive them to a drop off center. That's the oft-repeated core message. (It mentions at least twice that you could look in the yellow pages to see if anyone in your area might collect recyclables at the curb.)

The video tries to go beyond the basics (showing motor oil and tire recycling), but doesn't cover everything that is easily recyclable from modern households (electronics/computers weren't even an issue on Ed's radar back then). And it doesn't explain how the recycling process works (collection and sorting, markets and manufacturing, etc.) which is what a lot of people want to know. As far as asking folks to recycle because it's the "right thing to do to be good stewards of the environment", the message is still relevant. Beyond that, this is pretty useless in 2011.