And we have to pull it all together. We have composting in all of our schools.

Do you recycle?

Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.

In the United States, 13 out of every 20 cans are recycled.

No I'm going to be virtuous.

These puppets are made out of recycled World Bank reports.

Galactica's water recycling system is close to 100 effective.

It has something to do with recycling our water supply.

This is armatures, electrical armatures, where they're getting the copper and the high end steel from electrical motors out, and recycling them.

Some is used as a organic fertilizer, some is used as a biodiesel ingredient, but most of it gets recycled.

What percent ( ) of cans are recycled?

It's diddly point squat.

I have transformed the laser beam into an ecological, recyclable version here, in green India.

Always talking like they were singlehandedly saving the world

What is the reality of that?

I've kept the trunking I've got in some recycled fridges

So almost all this e waste either goes from my garage to a landfill or it gets shipped overseas to the garage workshop of some guy in Guiyu, China whose job it is to recycle it.

Allison, who actually nominated me, said something earlier on in a brainstorming.

Recycling everybody kind of ends their books about being sustainable and greening with the idea of recycling.

I don't think we're ready to live in space yet.

It's referred to as e waste there.

What's that mean? You, like, recycle cans and shit?

He designed housing that is scalable, and movable, and recyclable.

It's quite something.

Each year we make 25 million tonnes of e waste which gets dumped, burned or recycled.

And they are collected en mass you can see the scale of it here and sorted out, by hand, back into the right sizes, and then put back out on the street.

To me, it was our redemption.

Before we recycle, we reduce.

I've kept the tiles I've kept the floors

Then of course, it goes into the entrapment device.

I think that if we reduce, reuse, refuse and recycle right at the end there recycling is the last point I want to make but it's the four R's, rather than the three R's then I think we're going to be on our way.

But this is what happens to most of the computers.

We use four million cups a day on airline flights, and virtually none of them are reused or recycled.

The recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.

lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates they leave much to be recycled.

I mean, we're beginning to see some of the big problems around something like business are recycling and energy conservation.

One problem waste handling and unemployment.

Very expensive, they sold them out for money, then cutting trees again.

Very expensive, they throw them out for money, then cutting trees again.

So I was chosen to build the pavilion out of paper tubes, recyclable paper.

lit one, and burned the blood off the end of his finger, giving me full assurance that that was the way that you stopped the transmission of HlV.

How can these people be so passionate about making sure that a plastic bottle has a second chance in life, or an aluminum can has a second chance, and yet, when my child gets in trouble and goes to prison, he doesn't get a second chance?

Recycling will not solve the problem, as it requires energy, and the process is not 100 efficient.

Newent in the Forest of Dean big polytunnel they built for the school the kids are learning how to grow food.

You have two channels the massive stars and low mass stars producing and recycling matter and chemical elements in the universe.