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Garbage Collector/Recycling Separator. Starting small, Mike helps collect garbage in Chinatown. This in itself doesn't seem so bad - until you realize that some of the alleys are so small that those big rolling cans don't fit in, so you have to carry a huge sack with you, and you spread it out, dump the garbage on the sack, then haul the sack back to the truck. To the tune of two thousand pounds per shift!

Once that's done, Mike visits the recycling center for San Francisco, where they collect a whopping 800 tons of recyclables per day. I am not making this up. He might have been, but that's what they said. What seems like miles of conveyor belts carry the stuff around, where they split it out into different containers, which can then be resold to different places. The operation makes millions per year, helping to defray the cost of running the place.

Another recycling operation handles food - where some 250 tons per day is processed into black gold - compost, which in turn ends up in the wineries, who love the wonderful growing properties of the recycled food.

Shark Catcher/Tagger. Just off the coast of Nantucket, where Steven Spielberg filmed Jaws, Mike lowers lines into the water. After grounding up some fish to create some chum (and puking), they pull up the lines to find some small sharks (small to me - large to him). While several of them are likely pregnant, one definitely is, as she gives birth on deck! They tag these sharks (all except the newly born one), record the pertinent details, and throw them back into the water.

Car Stripper. The final segment is a bit bizarre, but definitely entertaining. Mike visits a massive junkyard, where he takes a ride in a custom car that whizzes about, finding parts for customers. When they find the car they need, they cut the part off, toss it in the car, and zip back to the counter. At the end of the day, they just might set off an air bag for fun.