MAKING MONEY: Recycling – Turning waste into valuable raw materials | WELT Documentary

I'm proud of the effort Germany has spent in addressing the recycling & garbage needs. They've set a good example many other countries can follow!

This is by far the best recycling documentary I have ever watched. It really shows the potential of recycling once infrastructure is in place.

Incredibly well done documentary !! The explanations, the narrations, the entire process is shown to us and explained in a clear, concise manner. The technology is incredible !!! The best documentary I've seen regarding garbage and recycling.

I was stationed in Germany for 2 years, their recycling is incredible. Those gelbesacks I remember sorting. Great country, nice people and history. I miss it.

I am german, and I know very well our system: gelber Sack, Restmüll, Biotonne, ...Recyclinghof... but I never saw a documentation of the recycling process like this one! Great inside view! thanks!

I love to see solutions and ideas instead of ongoing coverage of problems!

I'm SO glad I found this channel, I haven't stopped watching in two whole days. I'm stuck in bed sick, to be clear, not unemployed. These documentaries are like discovery channel used to be decades ago : flat facts and process description without all the fake drama and reality TV nonsense you see now. I also deeply appreciate seeing the iconic German adherence to regulations; it makes my OCD purr like a kitten. Recycling is normally a lazily and sloppily executed redirection to dumping in asia, but Germany does recycling correctly. 70% reclamation is incredibly impressive! Thank you for posting this.

I remember German politicians promising this back in the 1980's. Awesome too see their words in action 40 years on.

Amazing. I am simply blown away. It makes me happy to see that all this waste is being Recycled. I wished we had something like this in America.

This. We need much more of complete solutions like this!

Now I know why the most of my recycling is going from Denmark to Germany. I have often seen the Remondis trucks on the Danish roads. Fascinating.

Excellent video. As a Materials Scientist I worked in the aluminium recycling industry. All scrap aluminium can be recycled. Adding silicon and copper gives diecastable alloys We made about 50 tons a day of recycled aluminium, increasing the value of the metal 3 fold. All materials can be either recycled or converted to heat/electricity. Even human excrement is used as fertiliser in China. Only affluent countries have huge tips wasting all these valuable materials. We need people with business acumen and a desire to do the right thing.Australia here, has some correct people doing the work correctly.

Ur efforts to recycle trashes into new valueble things is amazing, eventhough it costs a long processing.

I am amazed by these facilities and I applaud the talented engineers and trades people who organized and built these..

Every country should have these garbage plant machines!!! MANDATORY!!!

Wow! this is an in depth look into Germany's recycling ! phenomenal! made me feel hopeful for the future of the planet!

Personally, I found this documentary absolutely fascinating. I am sure other countries do similar but this seems about the best I have seen on the internet, what a great job these people do and what a great job the machinery does too, I found the work looks really interesting and the processes fascinating. Thanks so very much for this, really brilliant.

One of the most comprehensive and varied recycling documentaries I've seen! Great work. Very fascinating

Incredable and fantastic. A very good video showing what humans can do when they put their minds to it. Well done Germany.

Some huge ingenuity here. I worked in recycling for 30 years and always knew we were very innovative, for those who claim EV batteries will not be recovered, watch this space. Some electronic waste has a higher yield of valuable metals, than mined material, it is literally gold dust.