We used Apple AirTags to track plastic reycling. Here's where they ended up. 

The trouble is with these stories is: you can’t recycle an air tag. So, of course it’ll end up in the trash if the sorting is done well. Why not just ask the recycling center to watch how their process works?

It could be that the Air Tags themselves tweaked the recycling process. The items tagged might have been rerouted from the normal recycling because of the Air Tags. This is not a good experiment.

Should probably give credit to the guy that did this a few weeks ago on the news.

she spelled Yogurt incorrectly

Recycling is a "Feel Good" thing.

Everything goes to a transfer station and is handled from there. China, once one of the biggest handlers of U.S. recyclables has not been taking them. There are diminishing places for them to go and get processed.

so now batteries from the airtags are in the plastic....

To the garbage

It seems that the airtags didn't hold up very well. Because they are not recyclable, perhaps the plastics to which they were attached were rejected as "contaminated". Or they may have been crushed in the compacting process. Separating trash at home isn't difficult. I have four pull-out bins in my kitchen for steel cans and glass bottles (those bins at the recycling center are next to each other), aluminum cans, plastic bottles and incinerables. I have boxes for mixed paper and cardboard in the mud room. I save newspaper for a neighbor who uses it to start her woodstove.

I never use the blue bin

3:48 I usually take those drink lids marked with the #1 PET, roll them up and shove them into a recyclable #1 PET water bottle. Also, I use #2 water jugs to collect #2 plastic ties, then put the cap on. Is that OK? 3:57 food companies could make it easier to recycle by using clear plastic containers - what about the plastics that have been printed upon?

Result: We don’t know

I work in recycling. If there is something other than plastic it gets sorted out. THIS STORY IS STUPID.

How do you spell recycle?

Not sure why they just don't come out and say the truth. Most plastics are sold and shipped overseas to be burned for energy.

Yog “hurt” 🤣🤣🤣

LOOK IN THE DESERT! 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

When shopping, try to buy glass products as our bodies are now full of microplastics.

how big do your eyelashes have to be! Should have put a tracker on those!

Hey why doesn't the media do a story on how microplastics are created? Recycling plastic massively increases microplastics in EVERYTHING - just read a study about this.

0:18 OF VIDEO ZOOM IN ON CLOROX CONTAINER WHICH CLEARLY SAYS "CANISTER NOT RECYCLABLE UNLESS LABEL REMOVED" 1:22 CLOROX CONTAINER PLACED IN RECYCLING WITHOUT REMOVING LABEL. FOR A STORY ABOUT RECYCLING YOU'D THINK YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY TRY FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS PRINTED ON THE CONTAINER!!!

That's ridiculous, I remember when they said not to use plastic and tried to force paper bags, then the government said that paper was strangely no longer recyclable and implemented the plastic bag tax while trying to enforce that only plastic be recycled and that the consumer had to separate their plastics before they were collected to be recycled, it's all a scheme to try and keep stringing along the innocent. All they'll get from me is that if it's plastic, I throw it away in the recyclable, paper goes in the recycle, and trash goes in the garbage, I am most certainly not spending any of what little free time I have to sort out everything for who gets paid to sort things like that out. Maybe if someone ran the place, like someone with the right mind, who actually could provide better employment opportunities at waste centers, people wouldn't be feeling threatened to help out who the governemnt is supposed to help out, not my circus, not my monkeys, not my show

Our county hand sorts all garbage using one container and is bundled and bailed and recycled these separate bins for garbage.are a scam

Thank you for educating the Public

DONT BOTHER WATCHING. THEY DISCOVERED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL.

We have millions in prisons. Make them seperate the trash

yoghurt

That's a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere for saving the planet.

Paper bags of plastic

YOGHURT

What a waste of time . Don’t you guys have important stuff to report on?

Don’t ever flush a GPS tracker. You don’t want to know where it goes.

"Most of the nation's plastic problem has to do with packaging." No, flip that. Most of the nation's plastic problem comes from consumption.