COOL Video of the Month

Each month we will showcase a cool new recycling video. We do our best to scope out the colorful crossroads where recycling and creativity meet. But we're always on the look out for more. Email us a link to your recycling video discovery and we'll consider sharing it here.

May 2012

"Garbageman's Blues"
An old classic from Sesame Street.

April 2012

"Zabaleen"
Watch clips from a new documentary about the Zabaleen people in Cairo, Egypt, who collect the garbage generated by the ancient city's 17 million people. Using rickety trucks or donkey-pulled wagons, they collect the trash during the night and bring it home, where they open the bags and sort it by hand. And make use of just about everything. The slum where the Zabaleen live is literally a dump. The story is an odd blend of beauty and filth, and gives one pause to reconsider your own trash. [Synopsis paraphrased from WRN.] Click here to read the full review in Waste & Recycling News before you watch the clip.

February 2012

"Recycling a Bottle -- Flashmob Style!"
With recycling, it's the individual's actions that add up to big changes in how we manage waste. Check out what happens when someone decides to do the right thing even when no one is looking... or so they think!

January 2012

"Mottainai - don't waste what Nature gives you..."
Environmental music video from Great Leap, featuring music by Nobuko; directed and edited by Dan Kwong.

From wikipedia: "Mottainai (もったいない, 勿体無い) (pronounced moht-tai-nai) is a Japanese term meaning "a sense of regret concerning waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized." The expression "Mottainai!" can be uttered alone as an exclamation when something useful, such as food or time, is wasted, meaning roughly "Oh, what a waste!" In addition to its primary sense of "wasteful", the word is also used to mean "impious; irreverent" or "more than one deserves."