Over the course of several years I produced training videos for employees of Fortune 500 company Waste Management. Specifically, the recycling division, beginning with the single stream audit protocol and branching out into other areas.

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to look at a recycling bin, residential or commercial, that is overflowing with refuse that doesn’t quite look recyclable, you know the problem that large recyclers like WM face. Workers in the plants and drivers in the field follow a large number of always changing guidelines and rules determining what can be recycled and how, that go into keeping the various plants running as efficiently as they can.

I made several trips to plants in Colorado and California to gather footage and produce specifically commissioned videos that have been seen by several thousand WM employees.