♪ It'll make you wanna shout, Blippi ♪
- Hey, look at what I got!
A garbage truck toy!
(gasps) A real garbage truck!
Are you ready to learn about garbage trucks
and recycling today?
Yeah, let's go!
(upbeat music)
(engine whirring)
(engine humming)
(engine rumbling)
Now let's learn some of the parts of the garbage truck.
Come on! (laughs)
First things first, the cab.
Ooh! Look at who it is, it's Tony.
Hey, Tony! - Hi, kid!
(horn honking)
- Ooh, that, the cab,
is where the garbage truck driver sits and steers
the garbage truck.
Whoa! It's so high, though.
How do they get up there?
Let me show you. Come on!
These are the steps.
(Blippi beeping)
That's so fun. I love garbage trucks.
Whoa, look at right here.
You know what this is,
it's a fire extinguisher,
just in case if there's any fire
near or on the garbage truck.
Garbage trucks are really safe.
You'll soon learn that,
'cause let me teach ya.
Here's some more safety features of the garbage truck, look.
(chains jingling)
You know what these are?
They're tire chains, just in case
if the road gets really icy and slippery,
you wrap 'em around the tires
so then the garbage truck can drive straight
and not slip and slide.
Oh, look, reflective tape.
This is for light to hit and bounce off
and make the truck really bright at night.
Garbage trucks are so safe.
Ooh, look, a spill kit.
Another safety feature.
This yellow bag contains absorbent pads
just in case if there's any ewy and icky things
on the ground that you can't scoop or broom up
into the garbage truck.
So you use the spill kit.
Oh, come back here.
I have something really cool to show you.
Oh, whoa, hurry, c'mere! Look! (laughs)
Air bags! Watch this!
(air hissing)
Whoa! Did you see that?
The garbage truck just lowered because of those airbags!
And you use those airbags right before you dump.
(gasps) And look, this is how you dump the recycled goods
out of the garbage truck.
This opens up because these hydraulic cylinders
push the back door really open,
and then it dumps all the compressed goods out of it.
But first, we need some stuff in it.
How do you get it in there?
The coolest part. Let me show you, come on!
Hurry, come on!
(machinery whirring)
Watch this. This is the grabber arm.
It goes, (squeaking) it's like a claw.
It grabs the can, pulls it in,
brings it up, and dumps it into the hopper.
(gasps) Look! The hopper up there.
And then it gets pushed
into the compression body right here,
and it gets compressed really tight,
and then it gets dumped out the back like I said.
Wow, I love garbage trucks.
(upbeat music)
(engine rumbling)
(engine whirring)
(brakes squealing)
(garbage rustling)
(engine whirring)
Now that we know the parts of a garbage truck
and how it works, let's learn about the differences
between garbage and recycling.
Garbage you only can use once,
and then you throw it away,
stuff like kitty litter, bubble gum,
or even like a dirty diaper, pee-ew!
You only use that stuff once, and then you throw it away.
But recycling, you can use it many times,
because it might get melted down
or just processed back into the original product
or something similar made out of the same material,
and if it can, it's recyclable.
Let me show you some of the things that I brought from home
to recycle today.
Oh, look a milk jug.
That's plastic, you can recycle plastic.
(jug banging)
Then a tin can.
(can clanging)
An aluminum can.
(can clanking)
Ooh, plastic bags.
Oh, a spray bottle, that's plastic.
(bottle banging)
Ooh, a glass bottle,
(glass breaking)
and even a cardboard box.
(box banging)
All those things you can recycle.
Now that we know the difference
between garbage and recyclable goods,
let's visit a recycling facility
and sort out some recyclable goods.
We're at the recycling facility.
First we need our safety equipment on before we go inside.
Here we go.
Bright vest, bright hard hat,
and safety glasses, and suspenders.
(upbeat music)
Now that we have all the recyclable materials
out of the truck, now we get to sort it.
This is gonna be fun!
All the recycled materials come up the conveyor belt,
and then they need to be sorted,
because there's so many different kinds,
like paper, plastic, cardboard, aluminum, tin.
There's so many! Here, let's go sort some.
All of the recyclable goods
travel down these conveyor belts.
Workers sort them out by the different types of materials.
And once it gets sorted out to one type of material,
like this cardboard, it then gets crushed and compact
into this tight log of one material.
Then a forklift comes up, picks it up,
and transports it to a different part of the warehouse.
And when the material is ready to be transported
onto the back of a semi to go somewhere else to be recycled,
a forklift loads it into the back of a semi.
That was so much fun
seeing inside a real recycling facility.
Now let me turn up those tunes so we can dance to,
and sing, my garbage truck song.
(upbeat music)
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Drivin' through the town ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Sometimes when I wake up early in the morning ♪
♪ I hear a monstrous sound ♪
♪ I look out the window ♪
♪ And there's a garbage truck ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ It empties the can ♪
♪ And puts it back down ♪
♪ Then drives away so loud ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Drivin' through the town ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ The garbage man drives up in the garbage truck ♪
♪ Then picks that garbage up ♪
♪ He dumps it in the back so that it can be crushed ♪
♪ Then he drives off to the dump ♪
♪ He backs up to a pile of all the trash from the town ♪
♪ And dumps the whole thing out ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Drivin' through the town ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
(upbeat bridge music)
♪ They come in many colors ♪
♪ Some are blue, some are brown, and some are green ♪
♪ And wouldn't you know it ♪
♪ There are some that can pick up recycling, yeah ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Drivin' through the town ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
♪ Drivin' through the town ♪
♪ Pickin' cans up off the ground ♪
♪ Garbage trucks ♪
- Geez, Louise, this video had a lot of great information.
Today, we learned about garbage trucks,
recycling trucks, and recycling.
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Good job! All right see you soon, bye!
♪ Blippi, Blippi ♪
♪ Come on everyone ♪
♪ Let's make learning fun ♪
♪ Blippi, Blippi ♪
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