People are finding creative ways to recycle waste. This reel begins in Kamikatsu, Japan, a town that produces almost no trash, and ends in PortauPrince, Haiti, where the Plastic Bank cleans up the environment and alleviates poverty at the same time. In between, we visit a Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans to find out how they repurpose shredded cash to benefit the local community.

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