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Curiosity Quest Goes Green: Battery Recycling

25 minutes 35 seconds

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Join host Joel Greene as he explores how batteries can be recycled. The crew visits a battery recycling plant and helps sort the different types of batteries. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.

Media Details

Runtime: 25 minutes 35 seconds

Large machinery on piles of garbage. Caption: We're obviously standing on top of the landfill.
Curiosity Quest
Season 1 / Ep 1
26 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Hundreds of batteries of all types. Caption: Things like metal -- zinc, nickel, cobalt--
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Season 1 / Ep 4
25 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
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Season 1 / Ep 6
26 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Season 1 / Ep 7
26 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Season 1 / Ep 8
26 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Split image of a toilet and concrete lined channels of dirty running water. Caption: Goes into the sewers, comes here.
Curiosity Quest
Season 2 / Ep 6
26 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Curiosity Quest
Season 2 / Ep 8
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
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Curiosity Quest
Season 2 / Ep 11
26 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Conveyor belt with trash spread out on it. Caption: Those small decisions can make a big impact
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Season 3 / Ep 4
25 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Season 3 / Ep 9
25 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8