Here in Pakistan, Karachi waste is dumped into the desert of balochistan while alot and lots of waste (especially plastic bags and bottles) end up on side of roads and all open spaces in the city 😢 very very little is recycled and government is corrupt. People are illterate so use more and more single use plastics and have no idea about climate change and effects of plastic.
@hatimabbas7111 I had someone from Multan come to my house via airbnb in the UK He said that in Pakistan, nobody recycles. I thought the people in my parent's village don't recycle because they're from a village but sadly it seems it's true for the entire country I personally end up filling one 70 litre bin bag every two weeks. I have two lodgers and I think that's about 10kg of waste in two weeks. It's that low because greater Manchester recycles a lot. What I can't recycle in my council (most plastics), I take to my parent's council. I think I do "OK" to only have one bin bag of rubbish every two weeks but it could still be better I can even "recycle" food waste here which means that the heavy waste for me is food waste, paper / cardboard, glass jars, cans etc... All of those are recycled I'm basically left with plastic film stuff / crisp packets which can't be recycled What's more easily possible in Pakistan, is composting. I even compost my finger and toe nails. Hot composting is very quick too and is really good for the soil
Lack of diversion methods, recycling is expensive and there is no composting services, my food scraps go into my garden and I re-use and even recycle some myself (I am a very handy and very nerdy person so glass blowing, paper making, and metal smithing are all hobbies of mine) but I cant even keep up with feeding my family and take care of all we make so yeah, and I'm already well outside the norm.
Qom, Iran. yes we dumped waste out of city but recently the government declare to build a biogas power plant. they want to dig a big hole and make a layer and then put some tanks and fill them with waste and water and burn the methane gas and produce electricity.
No one is talking about our consumerism. It seems we have evolved into mindless consuming not thinking twice about the garbage we create daily. Garbage created in the fast food industry is astounding. I witness the garbage bagged and going out the door with no concern or cares. A conversation needs to happen surrounding this
Ppl are to frightened of having less to ever consider eduction as the solution to our problems. It's always, more nuclear power! Recycle plastic.. a non recyclable biologically poision material that's contaminated the whole planet....
One small observation that relates to this mindless consumerism seems to happen every time I visit the grocery store. I always bring along fabric grocery bags that I have been using for years. Almost without exception, the shoppers in front of me are offered or request paper (or plastic, until it was finally banned) shopping bags from the checkout clerk. Simply inexcusable at this point in time. How difficult is it to keep a few high-quality bags in your car?
It's not just up to the consumer, we consume what products are available and or are affordable. Yes reusable bags are a no brainer, but think about all the other products we buy just to live that are only available in disposable plastic. shampoo bottles, dish soap bottles, the container that your milk comes in. All these materials that get sent to recycling, but since recycling is a sham, the majority of it goes to the incinerator or landfill. I remember before covid, there were a couple of zero waste markets poping up where you could bring your own washed containers, but all there products where at least twice the price. I remember I brought a reused laundry detergent jug that I had paid 8 dollars for originally, the product at the zero waste market was 40 dollars to refill it. The manufacturer has to take responsibility for their part. @@ahoog69
I'm a waste reduction specialist. The solution is to reuse FIRST rather than recycle. WE need refillable food packaging, not disposable. We had this in the recent past. It's achievable. It's cheaper. It is the ONLY sustainable solution. Recycling is NOT the only solution. It's a low priority in terms of sustainable development
Exactly. There was a documentary about how Coca Cola replaced a working glas bottle system on an island so it could squeez out a few more cents with the end result that the island inhabitants were not prepared and able to recycle all the plastic waste created. Now see that on a global scale. There are also meanwhile popping up again stores where you can get in flexible quantities anything from grains to beans, rice and what not. Before those we have had that for a long time in the sense of centner packing, but nope we needed smaller packaging which in return ment more plastic needed to package the same amount of food. Look at how the Oil/PetroChem Industry replaced hemp products and lobbied it internationally. Reycling becomes even less effective when you think of the hundreds of different formulars for plastic and how those can not be recycled when they are all thrown together. Ofcause noone wants to have those clearly identfied or reduced to a managable amount of a few plastic formulars for easy recycling.
My food comes mainly from a non-profit store buying organic food from local farms, and it’s mostly bulk and package-free. Of course it requires a bit more time and organisation, but it’s worth it. And cheaper as well. I’d encourage everyone who has that kind of opportunity to give it a try!
I live in a small town in North Carolina, US that apparently lost its recycling solution within the past few years. It still collects recycling separately, but it is an illusion. They stopped accepting glass years ago for that reason. Now, recycling waste, including cardboard and paper, is dumped into the landfill. I have often wondered why we continue to separate anything and hope it's because they are actively searching for a solution. However, it feels like we are going backwards.
Single stream recycling was a scam that only looked viable when we were shipping our "recycling" overseas. I believe it also made recycling into a category that no longer had any intuitive meaning. I'm old enough to remember the Boy Scouts doing newspaper and aluminum drives as fundraisers. People seemed to understand that the newspapers needed to be clean and the cans rinsed out. But now my neighbors regularly put food covered styrofoam take out containers in the bi-weekly recycling pick up. (We have racoons who will knock over the cans.) Another commenter mentioned the fraud that the plastics industry perpetuated by claiming that plastics could be recycled. They can't, and the market share of plastic packaging has made local glass recycling economically infeasible. We've also lost the ability to put glass in our single stream bins. It breaks at the sorting facility which is dangerous and contaminates any paper that might be recyclable. We still have glass collection points. I fill up a tote bag with our glass empties and drive them to the convenience center once a month. If you are looking for a place where things might be used again, I recommend the following 1. Schools and daycares often welcome plastic grocery bags. Kids get messy and need to change. They use the bags to send home the messy clothes. 2. Children's museums, libraries, and churches who do crafts are sometimes interested in egg cartons, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, and cereal boxes. 3. Friends with gardens are often happy to have your coffee grounds and apple cores. Our compost pile always has way too much carbon from the fall leaves. If you weren't over the mountains, I would love to take those off your hands. (Hi, from Tennessee, BTW.)
Thanks for your insights and tips. Yeah... We need to drive the things that =can= be recycled easily, such as glass and cardboard, to a place that will actually do it. Plastics are a joke, and we avoid them as much as possible... To the extent that we use reusable bags for most everything and have to consciously NOT use them every so often so we can get plastic bags for the few times that having one is nice. I am also a gardener with compost, and we add those mentioned items and more to enrich it! Nice meeting you.. Greetings from Monroe!
yeah my 70 year old grandfather doesn't get this and never will, he's obsessed with the clown show that is politics and looks up to people like trump and biden with morbid fascination and admiration so I obviously don't explain this to him lol he wouldn't believe he's been lied to or understand anyway. But it literally just goes in the trash, like you said it's all an illusion. I threw an empty container into the trash yesterday he picked it up and put it in his recycling bag. I obviously didn't say anything, I don't care, we both just sent it to the same place lol. they've gaslit and brainwashed everyone at a very high success rate. Psychological warfare complete.
Metal and glass are the only materials that are recyclable and are widly recyced because it takes 90% less energy to recycle them than to refine and produce them. Plastic, cardboard, fabric, papers none of these are recyclable because their biological. The problem is none of them biodegrade well these days.
@@SD-vy7gj Cardboard (unsoiled only) is easy to recycle. They use it to make other cardboard, paper board, shoeboxes, etc. I agree with the rest, though.
The ultimate solution is to move to a circular economy model, globally. Instead of the tale-make-waste model, we have the 5 R’s: reduce, re-use, repurpose, refuse and very last, recycle. Container deposit schemes help encourage this. Imagine all the jobs created. The plastics lobby has fought against this paradigm shift for decades. Make the industry bear the cost of cleaning up plastics from our oceans, and fixing our landfills and dump sites.
In my neighborhood in Budapest 8, they started community composting a few years ago. It's a massive urban center with 10-12 story buildings so I was really happy for the initiative as selective garbage collection is not a thing here. The compost gets reused around the district to plant flowers, shrubs, new trees.
Wow! You're so lucky. I wish we had that here in Barcelona. They collect organic waste but no idea where it goes. I have a worm bin at home but its not big enough for all the food scraps we produce. The fertilised soil is elexir for my plants though! So happy to have worms in my life, haha!
I got a problem with recycling here in the US. All my short life so far my family has been recycling. We used to have separate stackable milk crates for plastics, glass, and tin/aluminum. Sometime back in 2015 the city declared them unsightly and all the milk crates were swapped for a recycling bin that could be scooped up by a recycling trunk in a manner similar to the garbage truck. When moving house last October, the last week that we had a regular Wednesday pickup my family gave thank you cards to the guys in the trucks since they've been doing the job almost the entire time we've been here. You'd think waste/recycling pickup is impersonal since the truck handles everything and no one rides on the back anymore, but we got to know our collection guys and they were pretty cool. We chatted for a minute and as I was leaving when I said 'thanks for handling the recycling', he just laughed and said that it goes to the dump along with the rest of the garbage. As the truck drove off, I was kinda taken aback by what I'd just heard. If he's right, and I don't think he'd be joking or lying, we were never recycling anything at all. The sorting and the need for a second bin was always meaningless and just a feel good thing for us consumers. Something that I'd always found interesting was that the recycling truck was the same make and model as the garbage truck, just green and blue painted instead of black. Crazy to think that maybe I was looking at the answer the whole time and was tricked by something simple as a coat of paint. It almost feels evil. Don't get me started on aluminum can recycling. The center in my hometown closed up because it was so unprofitable so we had to drive eighty miles south into a larger metro. We had three cans with giant garbage bags we'd typically use for leaf bagging every fall. They were overflowing the cans almost but the bags were still closable, even if barely. Three whole bags and guess what we got for it? Just over $20. ((30mi/gallon) / 160 miles round trip) $3.31 / gallon of gas at the time) = $17.65. Did I get my order of operations correct? Idk, but for four years of smashing cans we only got $2.35 after paying for gas. Didn't make cents, but it does make sense why the center in my hometown closed. Something has to change.
I can confirm this is a thing in a lot of places, even where I live in Portugal. Most cities collect miscellaneous trash and organics together with recyclables at the same time with the same truck. The truth is that recycling in general is not a very profitable business (mainly because companies are not incentivised to use recycled stuff, compared to the cheaper fresh materials) and it doesn't really scale very well, so there's only so much they can recycle. And many cities don't even have a recycling plant nearby, so either all of it or much of it, whatever is in excess of the plant's capacity, gets thrown in dumps with everything else. Another thing I noticed early on is similar the recyclable symbol is to the symbol the designates the type of plastic that makes up the package, in whole or in part. Went on to later find out this was done on purpose to confuse consumers. Nowadays, another thing I hear a lot is companies marketing their stuff as "xyz% recyclable". And much of the time that % is less than 100. So not only is their stuff not necessarily recycl*ed*, and they're just saying that word because it has positive connotations to consumers, but if only half of it is recyclable, none of it is, and the entire bottle will just end up in a landfill. Whether governments should pull subsidies off of non-essential prodution sectors and give them to recycling plants, or compensate companies for purchasing recycled materials as an indirect subsidy, I don't know, but it does need to change
You don't need to recycle, waste management is unnecessary if your trash is made of natural materials only. If it doesn't have harmful man-made chemicals such as plastic, you can just bury it in the ground. You can throw food, pure aluminum, pure glass, etc on the ground, it will never harm anybody. Nature already knows how to recycle natural materials for us, for free.
Mine doesn't go into *my* garden but it does help indirectly Greater Manchester recycled food at the kerb side, and my food waste becomes compost for farmers. I figure that farmers make better use of that than me It also means that paper can sort of be "recycled" more than four or five times given it can eventually become compost too. Here's how it works ua-cam.com/video/rRCSjjtIqos/v-deo.html
@@ConstantChaos1 what?. my nations has intense recycling of all glass and plastic bottles, with automated return machines in all shops and stores that give you a coupon voucher for the glass and plastic bottles worth. mandated by law...
we 100% need to fix landfills. and one place people should turn to and learn from is Singapore. they have the best trash system in the world!!! and Singapore is CLEAN AF!
The Scandinavian countries also almost have no landfills but instead seperate organic and burnable waste. Organic becomes biogas and waste is turned into CO2 heat and electricity.
I have been watching videos of dumpster divers in the USA and the amount of consumerism and the resulting waste is heartbreaking especially since i live in a country where hundreds of millions live in such deprivation! To know that so much stuff is sent directly from the store to the landfill while still in its package....it is just beyond comprehension for me
We have the Koelliken (Switzerland) Landfill removed about 25 Km east of where I live during the past 25 years. Action completed about 5 years ago. The landfill was covered by a pillar-less roof structure that was at that time I think the largest pillar less structure of the norhern hemisphere. The roof was there to collect emission gases and probably to hold rain water from washing out toxic content and leak it into the ground. I think quite a few such removal projects will follow throughout the country. In general, dumping is illegal here since many years and landfills are less and less active since strong smoke cleaning devices and toxic gas retention systems were developed and furnaces were equipped with these that generate heat and finally electricity from not only the gases coming out from the waste, but from burning the entire waste. In this way, waste is turned into fuel for bio mass power stations. In parallel, we do a lot to increase recycling rates. With metals, glass, paper, cardboard, batteries, textiles and PET recycling we are beyond 90% that flows back countrywide I think. Since recently, other plastic materials are recycled as a blend (different from the pure PET). Since that works, the waste my wife and I are producing is down to 1x 35L waste bag every 3 weeks to a Month.
Blended plastic recycling is a sham, and it is often exported on ships to Asia. China has recently banned the import of plastic waste from EU, because of environmental concerns. When China has environmental concerns, you know it's BAD...
I'm from Bayawan, a small city in the Philippines. Our city has been sorting trash with the plastics and other non biodegradable going to our landfill while the biodegradable are being used as farm fertilizers. Recently though they allowed other city who aren't even sorting trash to dump unto ours. Guess what? The landfill that was supposed tp be filled within at least 20 years was filled up instantly in just under 10. Our reaidents are the ones who end up suffering because of money
"waste to energy" is more than burning methane. It's also burning trash, i.e. Sweden burns most of thrash which was not possible to reuse or recycle. Volume of thrash ending in landfills is just a few percent comparing to input. Additionally it is solid and not soluble on water. This should be the way.
Last time I checked, Europe was exporting trash to 3rd World countries. And there was a scandal between Portugal and Brazil, the Brazilian government just told them they wouldn't accept the medical waste to be deposit in their land. You doubt me? Look for it.
I'm from NYC and pretty sure they do this with some of our trash. Only thing is you still need to think about all the carbon emissions form collecting/transporting the gas, and then also the toxic chemicals that arise from burning anything and everything. Definitely sounds like a better solution than a lot of the other stuff we're doing though
@@chikko_five It is difficult/expensive but meanwhile there are very good mechanisms developed to clean smoke/gases that try to escape. Also the furnaces themselves are improved a lot compared to decades ago when they burn at higher temperatures and using enough oxygen to reduce poisoning gases from the start. Equpped in this way, burning the trash is a lot better for the environment than landfills / dumps. However there is a residue called slag that is much less in volume and weight, but it is still a residue that is hard to treat the rigth way to protect the environment. In one principle I was reading from the grid, the slag gets circulated to become burnt once more etc. until the poisoning fragments are cracked down to simple minerals that will be used in construction materials. (roads, bridges, etc.)
I honestly still cannot believe Poland has so dirty electricity. I think it is the dirtyest electricity in Europe. That probably has somethi g to do with huge economic growth. It was much easier to just buikd coal plants and help economy grow with cheap electricity. I believe things are changing, but probably not fast enought.
For how smart human beings are and for all the amazing things we have designed, I can't beleive a landfill site was one of them. I struggle to believe recycling had such little attention paid to it for all this time.
Because it doesn't make money! Capitalism 101. For high value waste such as gold, copper and other metal, as well as batteries, most of them get recycled
Recycling is expensive. Reuse is better, for example by putting a deposit on packaging such as bottles. In theory, prevention is quite simple, but the political will is lacking. Individual citizens have little room for maneuver here. Politicians must regulate this through laws. The negative effects of landfills can be minimized by drying the garbage so that it does not ferment and by banning toxic substances in the materials. Organic waste could also be disposed of in the sewage system without causing any ecological harm, but you would need 1) a shredder and 2) enough water. This would actually work with plastic waste too. This would save you having to have garbage trucks on the road and garbage cans in the city and garbage rooms in buildings. Disposal would be much easier and there would be no smell anywhere.
Drying would require additional power, which would create more pollution, unless done in an ecological way (sun…) Interesting idea with the sewage system. I wonder how realistic and beneficial that would be…
@@brunosco You can get a lot of energy back from the drying process. Just use the steam for other purposes. Polutions is a question of how good your filters and burning processes are.
I'll be willing to bet there's a lot more landfills in the US. In Southeast Georgia where I'm from there are several superfund sites, several of which are small dumps from old chemical factories where they made their own landfill to dump their own waste. I'd hate to wonder how many small independent landfills popped up like that that aren't documented.
Thanks, I worked in the recycling industry for 30 years, most wastes can be recycled to some extent, but finding a market for the recycled material and turning a profit are big problems. To make a profit you usually have to charge for accepting the waste, waste producers will pay the minimum possible and will often choose landfill for cost reasons rather than pay for recycling. To be fair, here in the UK some of the larger and better manufacturers have a no landfill policy, and will pay.
I grew uo next to a landfill. It only became a problem when Toronto purchased it since Michigan said no more trash will be accepted by you Canadians. Then the dump ballooned! I've been on a never ending effort to teach people to reduce, compost (rot), refuse, repair, recycle and many sustainable living initiatives. Its hard to teach an old dog new tricks but people are slowly catching on.
Most of the waste here in NZ is now separated into 4 categories, landfill, hard plastic+paper, glass and compostables. Before we weren’t separating compostables, but now I understand why they’re doing it. Thanks for the video, it was really insightful
I live in San Diego, California. We have a waste to energy landfill and we capture approximately 50% of organic waste which is typically processed to be used as ground cover (Organic material used to cover bare soil in landscaping applications). Perhaps it is not very realistic, but less consumption goes along way to alleviate waste disposal as well as other significant problems. Good story! 🙂
My home town in Alabama refuses to recycle anymore. The locals mix trash and recycling when they are given a garbage bin and a recycling bin. They restarted and ended the recycling program maybe 5 times in the past 20 years. I believe recycling is not a strong solution but maybe composting is. Here in alabama, our plants overgrow the land quickly, brush piles and food scraps alike can be composted. In fact, there is one town close by, Vestavia, who pick up compost alongside trash. Locals can go to the compost facility to get bags of compost for free, or a truckload if you have a pickup truck.
@@yuanruichen2564 well obviously, you don't compost plastics. however, they aren't recycled either. answer with plastics is to Reduce Consumption, which admittedly, isn't as easy as it sounds when the fossil fuel industry is pushing it everywhere
I asked my mom when we were at the grocery store, I was 5 or 6 years old, "How come we don't bring our own containers to fill". A simple question from a simpler time, but very profound. The Product doesn't have to have Product Branding glued all over the packaging, that just gets thrown away anyway. The Real Problem is the Product Packaging. Western Civilization for the Whole World! It is Glorious!, Isn't it?!
And the solution, to that anyway, is incredibly simple. All it takes is a few very simple laws. Government regulation for manufacturers disposable materials is the solution. It always has been. This was never a consumer decision. It was always your congress persons. Contact your legislator now. Tell them what you want/ Join a grassroots. Developing cyclic packaging isn't a matter of if, just when. Existentially, we have no right to frivolously waste our future generations resources, its morally wrong. Time to get to work.
Originally most foods were bought and sold in bulk, with little to no branding. Unfortunately the invention of better preservation packaging has also lead to the mass proliferation of branding. So many people are oblivious and actually form a connection to branding.
Great doco. With massive floods now being a daily occurrence somewhere on Earth, I worry about all the additional waste that's generated - when people toss out their water-damaged stuff, it's just the start of the journey
I was hoping this video would be more about getting rid of a need for landfills entirely and not curbing their destructiveness. We live on a finite planet and global warming, while being a large problem, is not the only huge problem we are facing. We consume way too much and we throw away way too much. Unfortunately, everything is so driven by profit motive, I don't forsee the problems being solved since it is as you said, it's just cheaper to throw it in a bit pile
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Plastic gets all of our recycling attention because the fossil fuel lobby has been marketing it to us for half a century. Ironically, plastic is the one material that is really not a concern at all to landfill. It simply acts as a stable form of carbon storage. Wet waste and paper products are what need to be focused on to get out of the landfill, the best option is anaerobic decomposition into fertilizer and methane. But even just incineration is much better than letting it rot in landfills. The issue is when incinerators start burning plastics.
Conservation of matter, plastic being burned releases much worse chemicals into air particles thar can be inhaled, seeps into water sources or stays in the atmosphere that gets in to the water cycle. While plastic just staying in the ground is just slowly breaking down by uv ray and the elements. Not that much better since it'll still degrade and pollute the area but not as catastrophic as burning a large volume of it everyday without any processing
Plastic isn't recyclable because its b8ological. It's not biodegradable either as most biological materials are. It's poision. That's contaminated the entire biosphere. Your aware view of the fosil fueld industry lies mixed with your blasay attitude to plastic is very disconcerting. Plastic ir recyclable is the most damaging lie that's ever hit the biosphere
@@lockehart7716 you are incorrect dont you think they filter the gases generated by burning. Also with burning you get some metals as a byproduct that dont have to be mined again so it reduces co2 emissions even more
I'd like more public waste bins in germany to have separated bins like they have in sweden, denmark or norway for waste, recables, including paper, plastics and metals (all in one), as well as a separate bin for biodegrables. We also do have domestic biodegradable waste colelction, where you can throw in processed food, as well as meat and bone, because that then get's processed in biogas plants into methane for driving or for electricity and heat. But that's western europe speaking.
I do remember a time before plastic grocery bags, boxes (even Tupperware was rare) etc. Milk was delivered in reused glass bottles as was soda (pop). Now my generation is being blamed for all this pollution. Believe me I didn't want this.
In my country, Denmark, we now sort into 10 different categories. And my none-recycble waste (around 10%) goes to incinerators. But we do have some problems: pvc plastic is one of the few things that goes to landfills😱 NOT great...😢
Around Tampa, Florida we collect a lot of the natural gas from landfills. Some is used to create electricity, but we also have CNG powered garbage trucks and buses. I don't know if our landfills supply them directly but they're at least part of the cycle.
A good example of partly recycling trash -- natural gas from landfills. The breakdown of trash producing heat and leachate is usable. Ironic how the garbage trucks to the landfills are powered by Compressed Natural Gas, just what these landfills produce.
@@Sean-qk7ps Another interesting cycle is that we can burn organic material (like plants) for electricity. I have seen local tree and landscaping services using electric tools, so they could also be powering their own equipment with the waste they create.
Not many people know that but the wildfire at the start of the video is *better* in terms of CO2 than leaving the pile alone. It's awful in terms of small particles during the fire of course, but globally, better burn the methane than to let it into the atmosphere.
I live alone and recycle everything. No food is wasted as things like banana peels and corn cobs go to the garden to feed the worms which are also vegan. I believe most of the trash and food waste comes from people who live in apartments or people who just don't care. I have been called a tree hugger for talking about what I do, but nobody wants a landfill near their home yet they continue to add to the existing one so when it fills up, it will cost future generations more to have it trucked farther away.
In the UK I’m frustrated. We can only recycle certain plastics (nobody really knows which ones), while the rest go in general waste. Yet we are pushed to recycle more - at the dump, they have recycling rates that are just around 56%. The consumer is punished from different sides, yet nobody wants to seriously do anything about it
Many of the recycling statistics shown in the video are lies, especially for plastics. Instead of recycling plastics, companies make deals with fake companies in poor countries like Indonesia and make it look like it is officially recycled, but in reality it's not recycled. Plastic waste in Europe is burned in 3rd world countries or dumped into the ocean instead of being burned in Europe or dump into see. I saw a documentary about this. In Germany, deposit plastic water bottles were send into a dumpside in Turkey and burned there or dumped into the sea. In other words, the deposit bottle thing is a complete scam. It is nothing more than getting extra money from consumers while pretending to be recycled in statistics.
The consumer is punished so that the producer doesn't have to. Cause while the consumer is paying taxes, the producer is lobbying to make sure they can keep making more stuff and more profits. It takes so much effort and money to take your plastic and make it re-usable, and still 44% of it is wasted because companies won't buy it - it's cheaper for them to buy new plastic. I wish some of that tax money went into incentivising companies to buy the more expensive recycled plastics
Although not a perfect solution, we use a Lomi composter for 99% of our wet / organic garbage. This little machine turns our kitchen waste into a dry crumble, which, when produced, we simply scatter into our lawn where it vanishes, as if by magic. 1 gallon of kitchen waste turns into 1 pint of compost. We love it...
I've been strongly in favor of getting petroleum based products turned back into a petroleum product. Right now there is a technology called plastic pyrolysis. Basically, you take "plastic" and put it in an oxygen free atmosphere and heat it to 500C for about 45 minutes. It takes more energy to product the oil than pulling it from the ground. The beauty of it is that you don't really need to sort, or clean the plastics. So, even if this was only applied to the plastics that were destined to the landfill, it would be a huge win. If this could be combined with process heat from the molten salt reactors, it could be a dramatically less carbon intensive process.
You describe waste to energy as an umbrella term. In this case you focus on recovering methane from landfills. But waste to energy is in many countries, incl. Denmark and many other countries, the complete opposite of landfills. Instead of dumping waste at landfills where you just leave waste forever, in Denmark consumers sort the waste at the household level. The residual waste is then incinerated in a controlled environment in a waste to energy facilitity. Here, the incineration of the waste generates heat, which through steam turns a generator that creates heat and electricity. The small amount that is left is sorted in e.g. steel and the residual product(slag) is then used for e.g., asphalt production. The gases released from the incineration process (both environmentally damaging gases and greenhouse gases) are to a large extent collected through a cleaning mechanism in the chimney. Currently, technologies are being developed and tested in Denmark to also capture the emitted CO2 to either utilize or store it. Only a fraction of the total waste generated in Denmark is stored in landfills. Namely materials that cannot easily be incinerated. Through this process, we generate electricity and heat from the waste, while also leaving only a small amount to be stored in landfills, thereby limiting the land needed for landfills and protecting the environment at the same time. Obviously we need to increase recycling rates so only the tiny fraction that cannot be recycled should be incinerated. But until waste management systems are properly developed across the planet, waste to energy plants pose a great example of how to utilise waste instead of landfilling it. A great example is Amager Ressource Center in Copenhagen, where they even built a ski hill on top of the power plant! a-r-c.dk/amager-bakke/from-waste-to-energy/
There has recently been a law to encourage composting in French cities. My workplace already offers composting options. But I'm looking forward to being able to do it at home.
There´s an old landfill next to my hometown, which leaked into the public bathing pond. People were getting sick and it needed to be shut down. It reopened after a restauration of the landfill. (Mind this happened in Germany!)
One aspect of landfill design that is not widely known…molecular diffusion results in chemicals in contact with a liner such as clay to move on the order of a foot per year.
A big draw for municipalities to institute recycling programs is less being "green" or whatever, it's just a matter of landfill diversion. Landfills are seriously difficult to expand in many places. There are few NIMBY issues stronger. If there is at least some waste that can be kept out, even if it's not directly economical to recycle, it's worth it to avoid filling up existing landfills quicker.
a huge step forward whould be having a deposite on all disposable bottles and cans everywhere, some countries have had it for a long time allready and it reduces the amount that ends up in the trash or on the street by ALOT.
My vege and kitchen scraps go into an in-ground compost bin. I got an old plastic wheelie bin, cut the bottom out, drilled holes in the sides, from the bottom up two thirds of the way. Now it's buried in my garden. After six months I dig a new hole and move it there. It rots down and feeds the garden plants. We need to do pyrolysis of suitable waste like plastic, tyres and wood. A synthetic diesel is produced, with mineral components left behind like carbon black, silica and others.
simply composting your waste is going to stop this problem and you create high quality compost for your plants to grow high quality food without chemicals
I’m a waste water operator grade 3 in the United States and like garbage we have a hard time getting rid of our sludge created by the waste water plant. We have a sludge bio solids dryer but because of many factors it hasn’t ran in years. It reduces the amount of water from the sludge by 90 to 95 percent making the sludge into a dry highly flammable dust like matter that can be used for fertilizer or spread on any land as its harmful properties are nearly non existent. It’s a form of organic compost I guess you can say. Maybe we will get our dryer working again one day or get one without the many complications ours has had, so we can eliminate our severely reduce our sludge removal problems.
I have a compost bin with worms living in it, almost all my waste goes in there and they make short work of it for me! The end product is worm poo, that I mix with soil to feed my plants.
In Canada Newfoundland we have seperate trash and recycling laws and rules many people do try to obey. But the dump trucks all go to the same place and next to zero recycling get's done. Outside returning empty beer or soda bottles to stores to get a few cents back.
As the scientist in the video notes, the answer is education. If we teach our children practical management of our consumption, as well as how to consume less (read: be happier with less) and use the examples in this video to teach nature, chemistry, environment, planting, and so on, this will make the world a better place.
The USA and the Britain shamefully export their waste to overseas poor countries that don’t have the infrastructure to process or have landfill systems such as Indonesia and African nations.. but yet, we are caught up in a culture embedded in values of living large in big houses and overconsumption at the cost of the environment and developing countries
Upcycling the organic waste ie feeding it into BSF maggots or earthworms then become protein source for farms and the left over dirt and poop will become a great fertilizer completing the whole cycle.
We have a lot of people in my country collecting recycle materials to actually have an income . The collection is informal. But the companies buy it for recycling.
Require retailers and/ or distributers to pay for the product end of life expenses is reasonable. We already do that for tires and auto batteries. Tax the packaging. If it is much larger than necessary, pay a premium. Offer tax incentives for using truly recyclable materials. Manufacturers wouldn't see the tax directly, but it would increase their total COP. (cost of production)
Bulgaria has a huge problem with waste management and illegal landfills. They most often occur in the low-income neighbourhoods or towns, municipalities very often close their eyes on this. The worst I have seen in the second biggest city in Bulgaria (Plovdiv), is illegal landfills on the shores of Maritza river which crosses the city and is part of the European ecological network Natura 2000. Many protected species inhabit that wetland and yet no authority has managed to preserved its shores from turning into illegal landfill.
I live in the UK our council East Suffolk used to collect food waste and garden waste together. Then they stopped collecting food waste and told us to put it in with the main trash and on top of that they started charging us for collecting our garden waste. So a lot of people stopped using that service. Is this an example of a council who used to get it right, choosing to go back on it's commitment to the environment, due to costs? Surely our council tax pays for these services, so the council is not only ripping off the environment but it's residents too!
i am able to separate about 75% of my own organic waste and compost it in my back yard, mixing it with leftover charcoal from our campfires to use in my garden beds
@@michasosnowski5918 some organics have mixed reviews for backyard composting. meat, bones, etc. and its mainly me diverting it to compost my wife still scrapes plates into the trash before washing them. lol
Waste to energy is best method for Bio-degradable waste. For Plastic waste, wee need to invent a new method like engineered Engyme that breaks down Plastic.
My gripe with composting has always been that fat and salt are both very bad for composting. And well...... Not all kitchen wastes are just fruit and veggie peels.
I like the idea of community composting, but I don’t see it happening in any community in Canada. Maybe if everyone saw it they would reduce. We do get people dumping garbage along country roads.
Why you didn't mention Indore ? It is the cleanest city in India and one of the cleanest in the world. It has a very efficient waste management system and does far better than Mysure or any other city for that matter.
Perhaps is worth highlighting that in Brazil, not even 10% of the trash produced is recycled. In the future the reverse logistics will be a big challenge.
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In india, no technology can help solve this problem. Landfills can never be viable here due to lack of urban land space and the rapidly growing population. Adaptation for SLF has also been very slow. India is almost 20-30 yrs behind when it comes to adopting sustainable waste management practices. Lately, since 2016, with some government policy enablers and push from private players, i think decentralized waste management is the best way to treat this massive problem of waste. They are economically viable, use less resource, and easy to operate and manage. My organization has developed technology and waste management models in such a way that we can address 3 major problems for the indian economy: 1. Improper Waste Management 2. Energy security (decentralized Waste to Energy) 3. Enabling Access to quality agri products
Are there any open-source public strategies for waste resource management that work as an interconnected community effort? It would be nice to be able to quickly help everyone understand the principles behind waste transformation and reuse.
Unfortunately the examples of sorting that were highlighted are extremely labor intensive and are hard to scale, and would not be financially achievable in more developed markets
Have spots to dry the trash burn it. Can't do that then don't allow plastic in there. Oh I'm sorry you can't do that because it's literally everywhere. Like bottle gords and birdhouse gords use to be used for a water bottle. So at this point reduce plastic production use sustainable materials. Have more green spaces in the cities to reduce air and ground pollution and provides shade and a ecosystem.
Trying to reduce and and reuse is good and noble, but most likely not all that practical. At best, I would estimate reduce and reuse is may be 1% effective in removing our trash stream? Composting organic waste is far more effective in lessening our trash stream. Perhaps composting can remove our trash stream by 10-15%? Then try sorting out what can be recycled (like metals?) The rest may best be burned in high tech facilities for energy.
The supermarkets should be dictated to by Governments about changing their packaging as they are slow to change. I see gradual change ,but it could be a lot faster and I know other shoppers want this. There is also NO need for all the plastic wrapping of fruit and vegetables It goes up through the selling chain from producer to shop. I recall when it didnt exist and we all had just paper bags which we could re-use.Or we put items loose into our shopping bags.
Inconvenient Truth - In the US, as food/compostable waste went down in landfills, so did the ability of the landfill to produce methane, i.e. waste to energy. Great irony that as people became better at recycling, the other environmental efforts failed
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Teaching how to compost at home would also benefit the environment and your garden (if you have one).
Another reason why the demographic development we're going through as a species is good, humans are not ready for the gift that is earth. I'm glad I am alive and I get to see many wonders of the world but I also see endless greed, suffering and childish behaviour from our so called leaders. If there is indeed a dark age ahead for humanity, we have well and truly earned it.
3:24 dampsites and landfills are Not the biggest contributors. The biggest contributors are weapon industries/wars, bombs, guns, rockets, including rocket launching spacecrafts.
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Are there issues with dumpsites and landfills where you live?
Boulder County, Colorado Marshall landfill, closed in 1992, is a Superfund site 😕
Here in Pakistan, Karachi waste is dumped into the desert of balochistan while alot and lots of waste (especially plastic bags and bottles) end up on side of roads and all open spaces in the city 😢 very very little is recycled and government is corrupt. People are illterate so use more and more single use plastics and have no idea about climate change and effects of plastic.
@hatimabbas7111 I had someone from Multan come to my house via airbnb in the UK
He said that in Pakistan, nobody recycles. I thought the people in my parent's village don't recycle because they're from a village but sadly it seems it's true for the entire country
I personally end up filling one 70 litre bin bag every two weeks. I have two lodgers and I think that's about 10kg of waste in two weeks. It's that low because greater Manchester recycles a lot.
What I can't recycle in my council (most plastics), I take to my parent's council. I think I do "OK" to only have one bin bag of rubbish every two weeks but it could still be better
I can even "recycle" food waste here which means that the heavy waste for me is food waste, paper / cardboard, glass jars, cans etc... All of those are recycled
I'm basically left with plastic film stuff / crisp packets which can't be recycled
What's more easily possible in Pakistan, is composting. I even compost my finger and toe nails. Hot composting is very quick too and is really good for the soil
Lack of diversion methods, recycling is expensive and there is no composting services, my food scraps go into my garden and I re-use and even recycle some myself (I am a very handy and very nerdy person so glass blowing, paper making, and metal smithing are all hobbies of mine) but I cant even keep up with feeding my family and take care of all we make so yeah, and I'm already well outside the norm.
Qom, Iran. yes we dumped waste out of city but recently the government declare to build a biogas power plant. they want to dig a big hole and make a layer and then put some tanks and fill them with waste and water and burn the methane gas and produce electricity.
No one is talking about our consumerism. It seems we have evolved into mindless consuming not thinking twice about the garbage we create daily. Garbage created in the fast food industry is astounding. I witness the garbage bagged and going out the door with no concern or cares. A conversation needs to happen surrounding this
Ppl are to frightened of having less to ever consider eduction as the solution to our problems. It's always, more nuclear power! Recycle plastic.. a non recyclable biologically poision material that's contaminated the whole planet....
One small observation that relates to this mindless consumerism seems to happen every time I visit the grocery store. I always bring along fabric grocery bags that I have been using for years. Almost without exception, the shoppers in front of me are offered or request paper (or plastic, until it was finally banned) shopping bags from the checkout clerk. Simply inexcusable at this point in time. How difficult is it to keep a few high-quality bags in your car?
It's not just up to the consumer, we consume what products are available and or are affordable. Yes reusable bags are a no brainer, but think about all the other products we buy just to live that are only available in disposable plastic. shampoo bottles, dish soap bottles, the container that your milk comes in. All these materials that get sent to recycling, but since recycling is a sham, the majority of it goes to the incinerator or landfill. I remember before covid, there were a couple of zero waste markets poping up where you could bring your own washed containers, but all there products where at least twice the price. I remember I brought a reused laundry detergent jug that I had paid 8 dollars for originally, the product at the zero waste market was 40 dollars to refill it. The manufacturer has to take responsibility for their part. @@ahoog69
The countries with the highest "consumerism" are the cleanest in the world.
@securion100 Probably because it's population is less
I'm a waste reduction specialist.
The solution is to reuse FIRST rather than recycle.
WE need refillable food packaging, not disposable.
We had this in the recent past. It's achievable. It's cheaper. It is the ONLY sustainable solution.
Recycling is NOT the only solution. It's a low priority in terms of sustainable development
Yes!
Or better food packaging, TV dinners for example has plastic covering the food and can not be recycled.
Exactly.
There was a documentary about how Coca Cola replaced a working glas bottle system on an island so it could squeez out a few more cents with the end result that the island inhabitants were not prepared and able to recycle all the plastic waste created.
Now see that on a global scale.
There are also meanwhile popping up again stores where you can get in flexible quantities anything from grains to beans, rice and what not. Before those we have had that for a long time in the sense of centner packing, but nope we needed smaller packaging which in return ment more plastic needed to package the same amount of food.
Look at how the Oil/PetroChem Industry replaced hemp products and lobbied it internationally.
Reycling becomes even less effective when you think of the hundreds of different formulars for plastic and how those can not be recycled when they are all thrown together. Ofcause noone wants to have those clearly identfied or reduced to a managable amount of a few plastic formulars for easy recycling.
Remember that the plastic industry is the fossil fuel industry. They have been aggressive in usurping re-useable packaging.
My food comes mainly from a non-profit store buying organic food from local farms, and it’s mostly bulk and package-free. Of course it requires a bit more time and organisation, but it’s worth it. And cheaper as well. I’d encourage everyone who has that kind of opportunity to give it a try!
I live in a small town in North Carolina, US that apparently lost its recycling solution within the past few years. It still collects recycling separately, but it is an illusion. They stopped accepting glass years ago for that reason. Now, recycling waste, including cardboard and paper, is dumped into the landfill. I have often wondered why we continue to separate anything and hope it's because they are actively searching for a solution. However, it feels like we are going backwards.
Single stream recycling was a scam that only looked viable when we were shipping our "recycling" overseas.
I believe it also made recycling into a category that no longer had any intuitive meaning. I'm old enough to remember the Boy Scouts doing newspaper and aluminum drives as fundraisers. People seemed to understand that the newspapers needed to be clean and the cans rinsed out. But now my neighbors regularly put food covered styrofoam take out containers in the bi-weekly recycling pick up. (We have racoons who will knock over the cans.)
Another commenter mentioned the fraud that the plastics industry perpetuated by claiming that plastics could be recycled. They can't, and the market share of plastic packaging has made local glass recycling economically infeasible.
We've also lost the ability to put glass in our single stream bins. It breaks at the sorting facility which is dangerous and contaminates any paper that might be recyclable. We still have glass collection points. I fill up a tote bag with our glass empties and drive them to the convenience center once a month.
If you are looking for a place where things might be used again, I recommend the following
1. Schools and daycares often welcome plastic grocery bags. Kids get messy and need to change. They use the bags to send home the messy clothes.
2. Children's museums, libraries, and churches who do crafts are sometimes interested in egg cartons, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, and cereal boxes.
3. Friends with gardens are often happy to have your coffee grounds and apple cores. Our compost pile always has way too much carbon from the fall leaves. If you weren't over the mountains, I would love to take those off your hands. (Hi, from Tennessee, BTW.)
Thanks for your insights and tips. Yeah... We need to drive the things that =can= be recycled easily, such as glass and cardboard, to a place that will actually do it. Plastics are a joke, and we avoid them as much as possible... To the extent that we use reusable bags for most everything and have to consciously NOT use them every so often so we can get plastic bags for the few times that having one is nice. I am also a gardener with compost, and we add those mentioned items and more to enrich it! Nice meeting you.. Greetings from Monroe!
yeah my 70 year old grandfather doesn't get this and never will, he's obsessed with the clown show that is politics and looks up to people like trump and biden with morbid fascination and admiration so I obviously don't explain this to him lol he wouldn't believe he's been lied to or understand anyway. But it literally just goes in the trash, like you said it's all an illusion. I threw an empty container into the trash yesterday he picked it up and put it in his recycling bag. I obviously didn't say anything, I don't care, we both just sent it to the same place lol. they've gaslit and brainwashed everyone at a very high success rate. Psychological warfare complete.
Metal and glass are the only materials that are recyclable and are widly recyced because it takes 90% less energy to recycle them than to refine and produce them. Plastic, cardboard, fabric, papers none of these are recyclable because their biological. The problem is none of them biodegrade well these days.
@@SD-vy7gj Cardboard (unsoiled only) is easy to recycle. They use it to make other cardboard, paper board, shoeboxes, etc. I agree with the rest, though.
The ultimate solution is to move to a circular economy model, globally. Instead of the tale-make-waste model, we have the 5 R’s: reduce, re-use, repurpose, refuse and very last, recycle. Container deposit schemes help encourage this. Imagine all the jobs created. The plastics lobby has fought against this paradigm shift for decades. Make the industry bear the cost of cleaning up plastics from our oceans, and fixing our landfills and dump sites.
In my neighborhood in Budapest 8, they started community composting a few years ago. It's a massive urban center with 10-12 story buildings so I was really happy for the initiative as selective garbage collection is not a thing here. The compost gets reused around the district to plant flowers, shrubs, new trees.
Wow! You're so lucky. I wish we had that here in Barcelona. They collect organic waste but no idea where it goes. I have a worm bin at home but its not big enough for all the food scraps we produce. The fertilised soil is elexir for my plants though! So happy to have worms in my life, haha!
I got a problem with recycling here in the US. All my short life so far my family has been recycling. We used to have separate stackable milk crates for plastics, glass, and tin/aluminum. Sometime back in 2015 the city declared them unsightly and all the milk crates were swapped for a recycling bin that could be scooped up by a recycling trunk in a manner similar to the garbage truck.
When moving house last October, the last week that we had a regular Wednesday pickup my family gave thank you cards to the guys in the trucks since they've been doing the job almost the entire time we've been here. You'd think waste/recycling pickup is impersonal since the truck handles everything and no one rides on the back anymore, but we got to know our collection guys and they were pretty cool. We chatted for a minute and as I was leaving when I said 'thanks for handling the recycling', he just laughed and said that it goes to the dump along with the rest of the garbage.
As the truck drove off, I was kinda taken aback by what I'd just heard. If he's right, and I don't think he'd be joking or lying, we were never recycling anything at all. The sorting and the need for a second bin was always meaningless and just a feel good thing for us consumers.
Something that I'd always found interesting was that the recycling truck was the same make and model as the garbage truck, just green and blue painted instead of black. Crazy to think that maybe I was looking at the answer the whole time and was tricked by something simple as a coat of paint. It almost feels evil.
Don't get me started on aluminum can recycling. The center in my hometown closed up because it was so unprofitable so we had to drive eighty miles south into a larger metro. We had three cans with giant garbage bags we'd typically use for leaf bagging every fall. They were overflowing the cans almost but the bags were still closable, even if barely. Three whole bags and guess what we got for it? Just over $20.
((30mi/gallon) / 160 miles round trip) $3.31 / gallon of gas at the time) = $17.65. Did I get my order of operations correct? Idk, but for four years of smashing cans we only got $2.35 after paying for gas.
Didn't make cents, but it does make sense why the center in my hometown closed. Something has to change.
I can confirm this is a thing in a lot of places, even where I live in Portugal. Most cities collect miscellaneous trash and organics together with recyclables at the same time with the same truck. The truth is that recycling in general is not a very profitable business (mainly because companies are not incentivised to use recycled stuff, compared to the cheaper fresh materials) and it doesn't really scale very well, so there's only so much they can recycle. And many cities don't even have a recycling plant nearby, so either all of it or much of it, whatever is in excess of the plant's capacity, gets thrown in dumps with everything else.
Another thing I noticed early on is similar the recyclable symbol is to the symbol the designates the type of plastic that makes up the package, in whole or in part. Went on to later find out this was done on purpose to confuse consumers. Nowadays, another thing I hear a lot is companies marketing their stuff as "xyz% recyclable". And much of the time that % is less than 100. So not only is their stuff not necessarily recycl*ed*, and they're just saying that word because it has positive connotations to consumers, but if only half of it is recyclable, none of it is, and the entire bottle will just end up in a landfill.
Whether governments should pull subsidies off of non-essential prodution sectors and give them to recycling plants, or compensate companies for purchasing recycled materials as an indirect subsidy, I don't know, but it does need to change
You don't need to recycle, waste management is unnecessary if your trash is made of natural materials only. If it doesn't have harmful man-made chemicals such as plastic, you can just bury it in the ground. You can throw food, pure aluminum, pure glass, etc on the ground, it will never harm anybody. Nature already knows how to recycle natural materials for us, for free.
All of my food waste goes into my garden. Grow our own food in our neighborhoods and schools.
and the plastic wrapping everything else you buy come in, old electronics, batteries, ?
We could change plastic. To make it more durable and easier to recycle. Or change material. Back to glass, paper, aluminum.
Mine doesn't go into *my* garden but it does help indirectly
Greater Manchester recycled food at the kerb side, and my food waste becomes compost for farmers. I figure that farmers make better use of that than me
It also means that paper can sort of be "recycled" more than four or five times given it can eventually become compost too. Here's how it works
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Same, on top of that we cant recycle glass, luckily I love glass blowing lol
@@ConstantChaos1 what?. my nations has intense recycling of all glass and plastic bottles, with automated return machines in all shops and stores that give you a coupon voucher for the glass and plastic bottles worth. mandated by law...
we 100% need to fix landfills. and one place people should turn to and learn from is Singapore. they have the best trash system in the world!!! and Singapore is CLEAN AF!
They're rich enough to do it
The Scandinavian countries also almost have no landfills but instead seperate organic and burnable waste. Organic becomes biogas and waste is turned into CO2 heat and electricity.
They burn and use most of it for land reclamation
I have been watching videos of dumpster divers in the USA and the amount of consumerism and the resulting waste is heartbreaking especially since i live in a country where hundreds of millions live in such deprivation! To know that so much stuff is sent directly from the store to the landfill while still in its package....it is just beyond comprehension for me
We have the Koelliken (Switzerland) Landfill removed about 25 Km east of where I live during the past 25 years. Action completed about 5 years ago. The landfill was covered by a pillar-less roof structure that was at that time I think the largest pillar less structure of the norhern hemisphere. The roof was there to collect emission gases and probably to hold rain water from washing out toxic content and leak it into the ground.
I think quite a few such removal projects will follow throughout the country.
In general, dumping is illegal here since many years and landfills are less and less active since strong smoke cleaning devices and toxic gas retention systems were developed and furnaces were equipped with these that generate heat and finally electricity from not only the gases coming out from the waste, but from burning the entire waste. In this way, waste is turned into fuel for bio mass power stations.
In parallel, we do a lot to increase recycling rates. With metals, glass, paper, cardboard, batteries, textiles and PET recycling we are beyond 90% that flows back countrywide I think.
Since recently, other plastic materials are recycled as a blend (different from the pure PET). Since that works, the waste my wife and I are producing is down to 1x 35L waste bag every 3 weeks to a Month.
Blended plastic recycling is a sham, and it is often exported on ships to Asia. China has recently banned the import of plastic waste from EU, because of environmental concerns. When China has environmental concerns, you know it's BAD...
I'm from Bayawan, a small city in the Philippines. Our city has been sorting trash with the plastics and other non biodegradable going to our landfill while the biodegradable are being used as farm fertilizers. Recently though they allowed other city who aren't even sorting trash to dump unto ours. Guess what? The landfill that was supposed tp be filled within at least 20 years was filled up instantly in just under 10. Our reaidents are the ones who end up suffering because of money
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"waste to energy" is more than burning methane. It's also burning trash, i.e. Sweden burns most of thrash which was not possible to reuse or recycle. Volume of thrash ending in landfills is just a few percent comparing to input. Additionally it is solid and not soluble on water. This should be the way.
In Switzerland we are doing this too!
Last time I checked, Europe was exporting trash to 3rd World countries. And there was a scandal between Portugal and Brazil, the Brazilian government just told them they wouldn't accept the medical waste to be deposit in their land. You doubt me? Look for it.
I'm from NYC and pretty sure they do this with some of our trash. Only thing is you still need to think about all the carbon emissions form collecting/transporting the gas, and then also the toxic chemicals that arise from burning anything and everything. Definitely sounds like a better solution than a lot of the other stuff we're doing though
isn't burning trash release dangerous substances into the atmosphere?
@@chikko_five It is difficult/expensive but meanwhile there are very good mechanisms developed to clean smoke/gases that try to escape. Also the furnaces themselves are improved a lot compared to decades ago when they burn at higher temperatures and using enough oxygen to reduce poisoning gases from the start. Equpped in this way, burning the trash is a lot better for the environment than landfills / dumps.
However there is a residue called slag that is much less in volume and weight, but it is still a residue that is hard to treat the rigth way to protect the environment. In one principle I was reading from the grid, the slag gets circulated to become burnt once more etc. until the poisoning fragments are cracked down to simple minerals that will be used in construction materials. (roads, bridges, etc.)
In Poland, we're so modern that we store our trash in the cloud.
And the air is perfectly fine to breathe as long as you chew it first!
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Computers can do that?
I honestly still cannot believe Poland has so dirty electricity. I think it is the dirtyest electricity in Europe. That probably has somethi g to do with huge economic growth. It was much easier to just buikd coal plants and help economy grow with cheap electricity. I believe things are changing, but probably not fast enought.
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For how smart human beings are and for all the amazing things we have designed, I can't beleive a landfill site was one of them. I struggle to believe recycling had such little attention paid to it for all this time.
Because it doesn't make money! Capitalism 101. For high value waste such as gold, copper and other metal, as well as batteries, most of them get recycled
Plastic cost way more to recycle than creating a new one 😂 companies are profit based so high operational cost is a big NO
Recycling is mostly a scam. The only folks who parade it around as some kind of solution to anything do so mostly out of ignorance.
Recycling is expensive. Reuse is better, for example by putting a deposit on packaging such as bottles. In theory, prevention is quite simple, but the political will is lacking. Individual citizens have little room for maneuver here. Politicians must regulate this through laws. The negative effects of landfills can be minimized by drying the garbage so that it does not ferment and by banning toxic substances in the materials. Organic waste could also be disposed of in the sewage system without causing any ecological harm, but you would need 1) a shredder and 2) enough water. This would actually work with plastic waste too. This would save you having to have garbage trucks on the road and garbage cans in the city and garbage rooms in buildings. Disposal would be much easier and there would be no smell anywhere.
Drying would require additional power, which would create more pollution, unless done in an ecological way (sun…)
Interesting idea with the sewage system. I wonder how realistic and beneficial that would be…
@@brunosco You can get a lot of energy back from the drying process. Just use the steam for other purposes.
Polutions is a question of how good your filters and burning processes are.
Recycling is not always that expensive. For example, production of new aluminium requires 20x more energy than recycling.
@@thelloydersvk5068 good point
I'll be willing to bet there's a lot more landfills in the US. In Southeast Georgia where I'm from there are several superfund sites, several of which are small dumps from old chemical factories where they made their own landfill to dump their own waste. I'd hate to wonder how many small independent landfills popped up like that that aren't documented.
No one ever talks about how we should stop using plastic ALTOGETHER, but of course people prefer cheap, light material over HUMAN and ANIMAL health.
Thanks, I worked in the recycling industry for 30 years, most wastes can be recycled to some extent, but finding a market for the recycled material and turning a profit are big problems.
To make a profit you usually have to charge for accepting the waste, waste producers will pay the minimum possible and will often choose landfill for cost reasons rather than pay for recycling. To be fair, here in the UK some of the larger and better manufacturers have a no landfill policy, and will pay.
I grew uo next to a landfill. It only became a problem when Toronto purchased it since Michigan said no more trash will be accepted by you Canadians.
Then the dump ballooned! I've been on a never ending effort to teach people to reduce, compost (rot), refuse, repair, recycle and many sustainable living initiatives. Its hard to teach an old dog new tricks but people are slowly catching on.
Most of the waste here in NZ is now separated into 4 categories, landfill, hard plastic+paper, glass and compostables. Before we weren’t separating compostables, but now I understand why they’re doing it. Thanks for the video, it was really insightful
I live in San Diego, California. We have a waste to energy landfill and we capture approximately 50% of organic waste which is typically processed to be used as ground cover (Organic material used to cover bare soil in landscaping applications). Perhaps it is not very realistic, but less consumption goes along way to alleviate waste disposal as well as other significant problems. Good story! 🙂
My home town in Alabama refuses to recycle anymore. The locals mix trash and recycling when they are given a garbage bin and a recycling bin. They restarted and ended the recycling program maybe 5 times in the past 20 years. I believe recycling is not a strong solution but maybe composting is. Here in alabama, our plants overgrow the land quickly, brush piles and food scraps alike can be composted. In fact, there is one town close by, Vestavia, who pick up compost alongside trash. Locals can go to the compost facility to get bags of compost for free, or a truckload if you have a pickup truck.
how are you going to compost plastics?
@@yuanruichen2564 well obviously, you don't compost plastics. however, they aren't recycled either. answer with plastics is to Reduce Consumption, which admittedly, isn't as easy as it sounds when the fossil fuel industry is pushing it everywhere
I asked my mom when we were at the grocery store, I was 5 or 6 years old, "How come we don't bring our own containers to fill". A simple question from a simpler time, but very profound.
The Product doesn't have to have Product Branding glued all over the packaging, that just gets thrown away anyway. The Real Problem is the Product Packaging.
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And the solution, to that anyway, is incredibly simple. All it takes is a few very simple laws. Government regulation for manufacturers disposable materials is the solution. It always has been. This was never a consumer decision. It was always your congress persons. Contact your legislator now. Tell them what you want/ Join a grassroots. Developing cyclic packaging isn't a matter of if, just when. Existentially, we have no right to frivolously waste our future generations resources, its morally wrong. Time to get to work.
Originally most foods were bought and sold in bulk, with little to no branding. Unfortunately the invention of better preservation packaging has also lead to the mass proliferation of branding. So many people are oblivious and actually form a connection to branding.
Packing contains useful information like best before and ingredients
Great doco.
With massive floods now being a daily occurrence somewhere on Earth, I worry about all the additional waste that's generated - when people toss out their water-damaged stuff, it's just the start of the journey
I was hoping this video would be more about getting rid of a need for landfills entirely and not curbing their destructiveness. We live on a finite planet and global warming, while being a large problem, is not the only huge problem we are facing. We consume way too much and we throw away way too much. Unfortunately, everything is so driven by profit motive, I don't forsee the problems being solved since it is as you said, it's just cheaper to throw it in a bit pile
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Plastic gets all of our recycling attention because the fossil fuel lobby has been marketing it to us for half a century. Ironically, plastic is the one material that is really not a concern at all to landfill. It simply acts as a stable form of carbon storage. Wet waste and paper products are what need to be focused on to get out of the landfill, the best option is anaerobic decomposition into fertilizer and methane. But even just incineration is much better than letting it rot in landfills. The issue is when incinerators start burning plastics.
Why is it an issue if they burn plastics?
Conservation of matter, plastic being burned releases much worse chemicals into air particles thar can be inhaled, seeps into water sources or stays in the atmosphere that gets in to the water cycle. While plastic just staying in the ground is just slowly breaking down by uv ray and the elements. Not that much better since it'll still degrade and pollute the area but not as catastrophic as burning a large volume of it everyday without any processing
Plastic isn't recyclable because its b8ological. It's not biodegradable either as most biological materials are.
It's poision. That's contaminated the entire biosphere.
Your aware view of the fosil fueld industry lies mixed with your blasay attitude to plastic is very disconcerting. Plastic ir recyclable is the most damaging lie that's ever hit the biosphere
@@lockehart7716 you are incorrect dont you think they filter the gases generated by burning. Also with burning you get some metals as a byproduct that dont have to be mined again so it reduces co2 emissions even more
@@eltorito4897 read again "...but not as catastrophic as burning a large volume of it everyday without any processing"
I'd like more public waste bins in germany to have separated bins like they have in sweden, denmark or norway for waste, recables, including paper, plastics and metals (all in one), as well as a separate bin for biodegrables. We also do have domestic biodegradable waste colelction, where you can throw in processed food, as well as meat and bone, because that then get's processed in biogas plants into methane for driving or for electricity and heat.
But that's western europe speaking.
The problem is lack of awareness, A German news channel shouldn't be my source of knowing my city has an active composting system (Mysuru)
The problem starts earlier. In large parts of the 3rd world they don't even have a working waste collection, not to mention landfills.
Thankfully most of the "3rd world' doesn't even have the money to stupid by stuff to fill any landfill.
What we need is more people, especially those that live and waste like those of us in the United States. UG
I do remember a time before plastic grocery bags, boxes (even Tupperware was rare) etc. Milk was delivered in reused glass bottles as was soda (pop). Now my generation is being blamed for all this pollution. Believe me I didn't want this.
In my country, Denmark, we now sort into 10 different categories. And my none-recycble waste (around 10%) goes to incinerators.
But we do have some problems: pvc plastic is one of the few things that goes to landfills😱 NOT great...😢
Easy small win is banning all non stick cookware
Around Tampa, Florida we collect a lot of the natural gas from landfills. Some is used to create electricity, but we also have CNG powered garbage trucks and buses. I don't know if our landfills supply them directly but they're at least part of the cycle.
A good example of partly recycling trash -- natural gas from landfills. The breakdown of trash producing heat and leachate is usable. Ironic how the garbage trucks to the landfills are powered by Compressed Natural Gas, just what these landfills produce.
@@Sean-qk7ps Another interesting cycle is that we can burn organic material (like plants) for electricity. I have seen local tree and landscaping services using electric tools, so they could also be powering their own equipment with the waste they create.
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Not many people know that but the wildfire at the start of the video is *better* in terms of CO2 than leaving the pile alone. It's awful in terms of small particles during the fire of course, but globally, better burn the methane than to let it into the atmosphere.
I live alone and recycle everything. No food is wasted as things like banana peels and corn cobs go to the garden to feed the worms which are also vegan. I believe most of the trash and food waste comes from people who live in apartments or people who just don't care. I have been called a tree hugger for talking about what I do, but nobody wants a landfill near their home yet they continue to add to the existing one so when it fills up, it will cost future generations more to have it trucked farther away.
In the UK I’m frustrated. We can only recycle certain plastics (nobody really knows which ones), while the rest go in general waste. Yet we are pushed to recycle more - at the dump, they have recycling rates that are just around 56%.
The consumer is punished from different sides, yet nobody wants to seriously do anything about it
Many of the recycling statistics shown in the video are lies, especially for plastics. Instead of recycling plastics, companies make deals with fake companies in poor countries like Indonesia and make it look like it is officially recycled, but in reality it's not recycled. Plastic waste in Europe is burned in 3rd world countries or dumped into the ocean instead of being burned in Europe or dump into see.
I saw a documentary about this. In Germany, deposit plastic water bottles were send into a dumpside in Turkey and burned there or dumped into the sea. In other words, the deposit bottle thing is a complete scam. It is nothing more than getting extra money from consumers while pretending to be recycled in statistics.
The consumer is punished so that the producer doesn't have to. Cause while the consumer is paying taxes, the producer is lobbying to make sure they can keep making more stuff and more profits. It takes so much effort and money to take your plastic and make it re-usable, and still 44% of it is wasted because companies won't buy it - it's cheaper for them to buy new plastic. I wish some of that tax money went into incentivising companies to buy the more expensive recycled plastics
Although not a perfect solution, we use a Lomi composter for 99% of our wet / organic garbage. This little machine turns our kitchen waste into a dry crumble, which, when produced, we simply scatter into our lawn where it vanishes, as if by magic. 1 gallon of kitchen waste turns into 1 pint of compost. We love it...
I've been strongly in favor of getting petroleum based products turned back into a petroleum product. Right now there is a technology called plastic pyrolysis. Basically, you take "plastic" and put it in an oxygen free atmosphere and heat it to 500C for about 45 minutes. It takes more energy to product the oil than pulling it from the ground.
The beauty of it is that you don't really need to sort, or clean the plastics. So, even if this was only applied to the plastics that were destined to the landfill, it would be a huge win.
If this could be combined with process heat from the molten salt reactors, it could be a dramatically less carbon intensive process.
Great video. And compaired to older videos from more then 5 years, I start to see a small difference. Please make a update video in 5 years time. 🙏
Thank you for your work & this reporting.
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I think a lot of Canada is now good on landfill management. It is the reuse and plastic part of the problem that needs action. Thank you.
You describe waste to energy as an umbrella term. In this case you focus on recovering methane from landfills. But waste to energy is in many countries, incl. Denmark and many other countries, the complete opposite of landfills. Instead of dumping waste at landfills where you just leave waste forever, in Denmark consumers sort the waste at the household level. The residual waste is then incinerated in a controlled environment in a waste to energy facilitity. Here, the incineration of the waste generates heat, which through steam turns a generator that creates heat and electricity. The small amount that is left is sorted in e.g. steel and the residual product(slag) is then used for e.g., asphalt production. The gases released from the incineration process (both environmentally damaging gases and greenhouse gases) are to a large extent collected through a cleaning mechanism in the chimney. Currently, technologies are being developed and tested in Denmark to also capture the emitted CO2 to either utilize or store it.
Only a fraction of the total waste generated in Denmark is stored in landfills. Namely materials that cannot easily be incinerated. Through this process, we generate electricity and heat from the waste, while also leaving only a small amount to be stored in landfills, thereby limiting the land needed for landfills and protecting the environment at the same time.
Obviously we need to increase recycling rates so only the tiny fraction that cannot be recycled should be incinerated. But until waste management systems are properly developed across the planet, waste to energy plants pose a great example of how to utilise waste instead of landfilling it.
A great example is Amager Ressource Center in Copenhagen, where they even built a ski hill on top of the power plant! a-r-c.dk/amager-bakke/from-waste-to-energy/
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Recycle 11 small or 3 large plastic bottles in Norway and you're left with $1. We recycle some 92% of all plastic bottles sold.
There has recently been a law to encourage composting in French cities. My workplace already offers composting options. But I'm looking forward to being able to do it at home.
There´s an old landfill next to my hometown, which leaked into the public bathing pond. People were getting sick and it needed to be shut down. It reopened after a restauration of the landfill. (Mind this happened in Germany!)
One aspect of landfill design that is not widely known…molecular diffusion results in chemicals in contact with a liner such as clay to move on the order of a foot per year.
A big draw for municipalities to institute recycling programs is less being "green" or whatever, it's just a matter of landfill diversion. Landfills are seriously difficult to expand in many places. There are few NIMBY issues stronger. If there is at least some waste that can be kept out, even if it's not directly economical to recycle, it's worth it to avoid filling up existing landfills quicker.
a huge step forward whould be having a deposite on all disposable bottles and cans everywhere, some countries have had it for a long time allready and it reduces the amount that ends up in the trash or on the street by ALOT.
My vege and kitchen scraps go into an in-ground compost bin. I got an old plastic wheelie bin, cut the bottom out, drilled holes in the sides, from the bottom up two thirds of the way. Now it's buried in my garden. After six months I dig a new hole and move it there. It rots down and feeds the garden plants.
We need to do pyrolysis of suitable waste like plastic, tyres and wood. A synthetic diesel is produced, with mineral components left behind like carbon black, silica and others.
We need solutions for landfills and fast, the piles around the world are growing.
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Only a structured scientific approach driven by consensus can lead to significant progress
simply composting your waste is going to stop this problem and you create high quality compost for your plants to grow high quality food without chemicals
I’m a waste water operator grade 3 in the United States and like garbage we have a hard time getting rid of our sludge created by the waste water plant. We have a sludge bio solids dryer but because of many factors it hasn’t ran in years. It reduces the amount of water from the sludge by 90 to 95 percent making the sludge into a dry highly flammable dust like matter that can be used for fertilizer or spread on any land as its harmful properties are nearly non existent. It’s a form of organic compost I guess you can say. Maybe we will get our dryer working again one day or get one without the many complications ours has had, so we can eliminate our severely reduce our sludge removal problems.
I grew up in Olathe Kansas neat KC. The landfill was capturing methane in the late 60s or very early 70s
I have a compost bin with worms living in it, almost all my waste goes in there and they make short work of it for me!
The end product is worm poo, that I mix with soil to feed my plants.
In Canada Newfoundland we have seperate trash and recycling laws and rules many people do try to obey. But the dump trucks all go to the same place and next to zero recycling get's done.
Outside returning empty beer or soda bottles to stores to get a few cents back.
As the scientist in the video notes, the answer is education. If we teach our children practical management of our consumption, as well as how to consume less (read: be happier with less) and use the examples in this video to teach nature, chemistry, environment, planting, and so on, this will make the world a better place.
Once we depleted the natural resources our old landfills will be a valuable mining resource.
@@GaddarKerim1 only if humans are still around
@@GaddarKerim1 Try 30-50 years later with the rapid advances we are seeing in AI and automation.
Composting needs to become a thing in America. Minimize the trash. 🚮
The USA and the Britain shamefully export their waste to overseas poor countries that don’t have the infrastructure to process or have landfill systems such as Indonesia and African nations.. but yet, we are caught up in a culture embedded in values of living large in big houses and overconsumption at the cost of the environment and developing countries
Austin TX is doing some innovation in this space
Upcycling the organic waste ie feeding it into BSF maggots or earthworms then become protein source for farms and the left over dirt and poop will become a great fertilizer completing the whole cycle.
Modern landfills have some nice tech, TIL! Great video
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We have a lot of people in my country collecting recycle materials to actually have an income . The collection is informal. But the companies buy it for recycling.
Require retailers and/ or distributers to pay for the product end of life expenses is reasonable. We already do that for tires and auto batteries.
Tax the packaging. If it is much larger than necessary, pay a premium.
Offer tax incentives for using truly recyclable materials.
Manufacturers wouldn't see the tax directly, but it would increase their total COP. (cost of production)
USA's plastic waste exported to India and disposed off like this after reuse in India
Bulgaria has a huge problem with waste management and illegal landfills. They most often occur in the low-income neighbourhoods or towns, municipalities very often close their eyes on this. The worst I have seen in the second biggest city in Bulgaria (Plovdiv), is illegal landfills on the shores of Maritza river which crosses the city and is part of the European ecological network Natura 2000. Many protected species inhabit that wetland and yet no authority has managed to preserved its shores from turning into illegal landfill.
I live in the UK our council East Suffolk used to collect food waste and garden waste together. Then they stopped collecting food waste and told us to put it in with the main trash and on top of that they started charging us for collecting our garden waste. So a lot of people stopped using that service. Is this an example of a council who used to get it right, choosing to go back on it's commitment to the environment, due to costs?
Surely our council tax pays for these services, so the council is not only ripping off the environment but it's residents too!
i am able to separate about 75% of my own organic waste and compost it in my back yard, mixing it with leftover charcoal from our campfires to use in my garden beds
Great. I do the same. And wonder why only 75%. I think I do almost 100%, apart from what ends up in the sink with the dishes.
@@michasosnowski5918 some organics have mixed reviews for backyard composting. meat, bones, etc. and its mainly me diverting it to compost my wife still scrapes plates into the trash before washing them. lol
Waste to energy is best method for Bio-degradable waste.
For Plastic waste, wee need to invent a new method like engineered Engyme that breaks down Plastic.
My gripe with composting has always been that fat and salt are both very bad for composting. And well...... Not all kitchen wastes are just fruit and veggie peels.
thank you
A landfill was just approved to be built near my home and it’s terrifying
I like the idea of community composting, but I don’t see it happening in any community in Canada. Maybe if everyone saw it they would reduce. We do get people dumping garbage along country roads.
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Why you didn't mention Indore ? It is the cleanest city in India and one of the cleanest in the world. It has a very efficient waste management system and does far better than Mysure or any other city for that matter.
Cool you pointed that out - 7 times in a row the cleanest city in India! Great job. 🦾
Perhaps is worth highlighting that in Brazil, not even 10% of the trash produced is recycled.
In the future the reverse logistics will be a big challenge.
In Canada... They put a lot in trash for the sole reason... It not economicaly recyclable/compostable... So they just trash it
Why aren't we talking about why we have made everything so disposable? And also excessive unrecyclable packages. That's the root of the problem...
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Sometimes we are locked into illusions or masterplans of others. Every community must have its own masterplan as regards to waste management.
I wished nothing is mixed materials, where recycling or composting is impossible.
In india, no technology can help solve this problem. Landfills can never be viable here due to lack of urban land space and the rapidly growing population. Adaptation for SLF has also been very slow. India is almost 20-30 yrs behind when it comes to adopting sustainable waste management practices.
Lately, since 2016, with some government policy enablers and push from private players, i think decentralized waste management is the best way to treat this massive problem of waste.
They are economically viable, use less resource, and easy to operate and manage.
My organization has developed technology and waste management models in such a way that we can address 3 major problems for the indian economy:
1. Improper Waste Management
2. Energy security (decentralized Waste to Energy)
3. Enabling Access to quality agri products
Are there any open-source public strategies for waste resource management that work as an interconnected community effort? It would be nice to be able to quickly help everyone understand the principles behind waste transformation and reuse.
Unfortunately the examples of sorting that were highlighted are extremely labor intensive and are hard to scale, and would not be financially achievable in more developed markets
Have spots to dry the trash burn it.
Can't do that then don't allow plastic in there.
Oh I'm sorry you can't do that because it's literally everywhere.
Like bottle gords and birdhouse gords use to be used for a water bottle.
So at this point reduce plastic production use sustainable materials.
Have more green spaces in the cities to reduce air and ground pollution and provides shade and a ecosystem.
Advanced high temperature waste to energy systems are an important part of a multipronged strategy to solve our waste problem.
Trying to reduce and and reuse is good and noble, but most likely not all that practical. At best, I would estimate reduce and reuse is may be 1% effective in removing our trash stream? Composting organic waste is far more effective in lessening our trash stream. Perhaps composting can remove our trash stream by 10-15%? Then try sorting out what can be recycled (like metals?) The rest may best be burned in high tech facilities for energy.
good overview on garbage
The supermarkets should be dictated to by Governments about changing their packaging as they are slow to change. I see gradual change ,but it could be a lot faster and I know other shoppers want this. There is also NO need for all the plastic wrapping of fruit and vegetables It goes up through the selling chain from producer to shop. I recall when it didnt exist and we all had just paper bags which we could re-use.Or we put items loose into our shopping bags.
Inconvenient Truth - In the US, as food/compostable waste went down in landfills, so did the ability of the landfill to produce methane, i.e. waste to energy. Great irony that as people became better at recycling, the other environmental efforts failed
Teaching how to compost at home would also benefit the environment and your garden (if you have one).
Another reason why the demographic development we're going through as a species is good, humans are not ready for the gift that is earth.
I'm glad I am alive and I get to see many wonders of the world but I also see endless greed, suffering and childish behaviour from our so called leaders. If there is indeed a dark age ahead for humanity, we have well and truly earned it.
I usely save plastic bottles for recycling. but now stores not accepting them.
our future is a gigantic landfill
3:24 dampsites and landfills are Not the biggest contributors.
The biggest contributors are weapon industries/wars, bombs, guns, rockets, including rocket launching spacecrafts.
What about controling/reducing human polulation???
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not woke 😮
Separation of organic matter should be easy enough for it to be global. Reuse would mean stopping plastic which is bigger a hurdle.
Hydrothermal carbonization is really interesting technology with a lot of potential.