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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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
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.
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
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'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.
3:24 dampsites and landfills are Not the biggest contributors. The biggest contributors are weapon industries/wars, bombs, guns, rockets, including rocket launching spacecrafts.
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...😢
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
In developed countries..... It has been illegal to use landfills since the 90's. But the cleanup has still today, just been done on the official locations, while private landfills that was cleared decades ago, open to the air, in the sea, and forests are still lingering, pollution day by day, more and more. Im not so sure this is better than the scheme of cO2 quotas that has been invented.
Burn trash for power generation. (Plastic/paper.) Makes for a great fuel. Run it at high temperatures and use scrubber tech and the polution is fairly low. Much better than trying to dump it or fake recycling.
I would like to know more about how the place in India is recycling more than 90% of all their waste--what is their general living standard? I would also like to see more context in the data--for example, how many homes, Y, are producing enough waste to power X number of homes? I'm guessing W2E is a small % of our energy needs. Good video, though.
How about drastically eliminating the amount of waste we produce & significantly increase taxes on the businesses & companies producing the waste AS WELL AS the insane amount of single-use products!
Fixing this is important, but it will start with slowing or blocking more waste to such landfills. Plastic should be banned and no more plastic raw material should be produced or supplied. All plastic should be re-used. People should use waste from fruits & vegetables to fertilize the land. It's a big task should be promoted by governments by incentivising recycling facilities.
Can someone explain to me, how ppls in NA can produce 2,2 KG trash / day / person or even in a 4 ppl family? o,O What and how much are they buy every day to manage to throw away 2,2 KG daily?
Build waste incineration plants! This may not be ideal from an environmental policy perspective, but it solves the waste problem and even saves CO2 if it means that coal-fired power plants can be closed.
@@santaclaus0815 I used to worke in a waste to energy plant. Unfortunately because of the trash the tubes in the furnace corrodes if you let them get to warm so you cannot utilize as much of the energy in a steam turbine as you can in a coal/oil/gas plant. You're lucky if you can get 20% electricity in an economical way. Most energy from our plant goes to the distributed heating system for the city. In a good day it is 40 MW electricity generated and 190 MW heat delivered. Most often it is less electricity. But its a really good way to heat cities and give a little support to the electrical grid. In summer some of the heat is used for absorption heat pumps in the district cooling system.
@@lofen83 exactly what i meant, thanks for the comment. Here in Germany Coal Power plants all have an efficiency of 35 to 40%. The incineration plants are also all in a same league, below 20%, while the ones that are more efficient all do waste drying prior to entering the facility. The one only 1km away from my flat mostly uses wet waste, being mostly below 10% electrical efficiency.
What's usually neglected in the trash debate is that waste management is a highly local and often cultural issue with global consequences. While the US as the richest country in the history of humankind sends half its waste to the landfill, in many European countries the ratio is way below 10%. Framing the issue as something "we" as a global community have to solve might miss the mark and makes it all too easy to shift the blame. In theory, waste management is a (mostly) solved problem. In practice, it usually fails on a local policy level.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.)
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.
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'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.
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 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.
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.
0:03 India demanded the entire world pays them 1 trillion dollars as climate finance during COP26 in Glasgow dated November 2021. When nobody pays them, guess what happens?😆😁🤣
@@thebestevertherewas Have some shame and stop scamming. Modi demanded 1 trillion dollars during COP26 from the entire world. That are video proofs of it.
NEED TO EDUCATE YOUNG CHILDREN AND PEOPLE NOT TO USE 'PLASTIC PRODUCTS'. Why the hell permission is given to produce new plastic product by scratch, instead they should use recycled Plastic in Plastic manufacturing industries like Bootles, packing materials and other Plastic industries. PLEASE BOYCOTT PLASTIC! LET'S GO FOR TRADITIONAL STYLE.
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.
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.
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This guy won't go to China and show this type of thing but will only show India where is easy .shameless journalism ,china produce more waste rhan india
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
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 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! 🙂
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.
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
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
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...
The solution is very VERY simple, stop CONSUMING TOO MUCH and stop plastics in food industry use glass and paper. 1000 years ago people didn't have such problems because everything they used was natural and biodegradable plus they didn't use petrol, plastics and other chemicals we use now thus they didn't have such issues.
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.
Kurukshetra कुरुक्षेत्र वर झालेल्या युध्दात एवढे दिव्य अस्त्र वापरले गेले की ती जागा आज सुद्धा राहण्या योग्य नाही, (ऐकीव माहिती) आज कचऱ्याचे ढीग भविष्यात असेच निर्मनुष्य जागा बनवतील. 😢
The “Haves” in the developed world produce and use so much un-recyclable materials compared to the “Have-nots” !! in what used to be called 3rd world countries!🙁 In the last 40 years or so, plastic made items for storage and wrapping, toys eg Lego, are everywhere, especially in food supermarkets although glass and metal containers are still around. I’m 75 yr old now and as a child growing up in Australia, plastic items and wrapping wasn’t around and paper was used for wrapping meats, bread and vegetables..glass and metal was used for some limited processed foods, and the refuse paper was burnt in the wood fired stoves and heaters… PLASTIC products derived from fossil fuels, mainly oil, are the worst materials polluting our farmlands and especially our oceans! 🐳🐠 BP, Exxon Mobil and other major fuel companies are continuing to make significant profits from dirty oil! 💰💰💰Scandinavian countries, like Norway, Sweden and Denmark seem to have a good waste management system.. but they are a small population compared to other nations: USA, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific countries. How did we get to this point? Ignorance is bliss! We didn’t have the interest, knowledge or evidence to show how difficult it is to dispose of “PLASTIC”, but now we have the evidence and knowledge, thanks to organisations such as GREENPEACE and others, of the major problems and issues that “PLASTIC” is causing! Fossil fuels got us to the moon, but at what cost??? 😖R
SIMPLE PLASTIC BAN CAN REDUCE THESE LANDFILL. THINGS I DO. 1. I used cloth bag instead of plastic. 2. I purchased cloth about 1.5 years ago. I mostly donate my old clothes to needy people or service station or washing station. 3. Never ask for slip post payment. 4. Use steel bottle insead of plastic bottle. 5. In last 18 years i purchased only 3 smart phone and a nokia 1100 phone. 6. Planted 12 trees this year. But other can do 1. Food and vegetable vendors should use cloth bag instead of plastic. Even they can motivate customers. 2. They should be law for companies that atleast 50 percent plastic or other thing they produce to be recycles. Companies like beverage companies, washing powder , toothpaste etc. 3. Mysore and Singapore are example for waste management. Lets made a community for climate change. We are already late
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.
I ride almost daily around Ghazipur landfill site. It's really pain and disgusting to watch and the smell........ Feels like multiple humans died and here.
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)
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.
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.
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...
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
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!
Cloud Solutions 🆒
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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
डंपींग ग्राउंड अगर बंद हो गया है तो सुरक्षितता के नियमों का पालन करके वहां पर रेसिडेंशियल या कमर्शियल काॅम्प्लेक्स बनाईए. जय शिवराय 🚩
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.
3:24 dampsites and landfills are Not the biggest contributors.
The biggest contributors are weapon industries/wars, bombs, guns, rockets, including rocket launching spacecrafts.
Easy small win is banning all non stick cookware
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...😢
In Canada... They put a lot in trash for the sole reason... It not economicaly recyclable/compostable... So they just trash it
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.
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.
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.
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 grew up in Olathe Kansas neat KC. The landfill was capturing methane in the late 60s or very early 70s
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
USA's plastic waste exported to India and disposed off like this after reuse in India
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.
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.
In developed countries..... It has been illegal to use landfills since the 90's. But the cleanup has still today, just been done on the official locations, while private landfills that was cleared decades ago, open to the air, in the sea, and forests are still lingering, pollution day by day, more and more. Im not so sure this is better than the scheme of cO2 quotas that has been invented.
Burn trash for power generation. (Plastic/paper.) Makes for a great fuel. Run it at high temperatures and use scrubber tech and the polution is fairly low. Much better than trying to dump it or fake recycling.
I wished nothing is mixed materials, where recycling or composting is impossible.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!
Human are too busy exploring other planet, forgot to solve major problem on its own planet
good overview on garbage
I would like to know more about how the place in India is recycling more than 90% of all their waste--what is their general living standard? I would also like to see more context in the data--for example, how many homes, Y, are producing enough waste to power X number of homes? I'm guessing W2E is a small % of our energy needs. Good video, though.
I usely save plastic bottles for recycling. but now stores not accepting them.
our future is a gigantic landfill
In my understanding all the marketing departments and branding units are responsible.
Reduce Reuse Recycle is an expression decades old.
Because it works
could make an atomizer that turns the trash back into it's base elements...
They should fine people everywhere for not recycling. its just as bad as throwing your rubbish outside
Great video
Hey Jacob! Glad to hear that you liked the video. We post videos like this one every Friday. ✨
How about drastically eliminating the amount of waste we produce & significantly increase taxes on the businesses & companies producing the waste AS WELL AS the insane amount of single-use products!
Fixing this is important, but it will start with slowing or blocking more waste to such landfills. Plastic should be banned and no more plastic raw material should be produced or supplied. All plastic should be re-used. People should use waste from fruits & vegetables to fertilize the land. It's a big task should be promoted by governments by incentivising recycling facilities.
I use these compost😊😊
Can someone explain to me, how ppls in NA can produce 2,2 KG trash / day / person or even in a 4 ppl family? o,O What and how much are they buy every day to manage to throw away 2,2 KG daily?
Build waste incineration plants! This may not be ideal from an environmental policy perspective, but it solves the waste problem and even saves CO2 if it means that coal-fired power plants can be closed.
I live near by such a plant. The electricity production is almost laughable compared to a coal fire plant.
Not to mention that CO2 has less effect than methane on global warming.
@@johgude5045 you compare 2 randomly chosen plants. how smart is that?
@@santaclaus0815 I used to worke in a waste to energy plant. Unfortunately because of the trash the tubes in the furnace corrodes if you let them get to warm so you cannot utilize as much of the energy in a steam turbine as you can in a coal/oil/gas plant. You're lucky if you can get 20% electricity in an economical way. Most energy from our plant goes to the distributed heating system for the city. In a good day it is 40 MW electricity generated and 190 MW heat delivered. Most often it is less electricity. But its a really good way to heat cities and give a little support to the electrical grid. In summer some of the heat is used for absorption heat pumps in the district cooling system.
@@lofen83 exactly what i meant, thanks for the comment. Here in Germany Coal Power plants all have an efficiency of 35 to 40%. The incineration plants are also all in a same league, below 20%, while the ones that are more efficient all do waste drying prior to entering the facility. The one only 1km away from my flat mostly uses wet waste, being mostly below 10% electrical efficiency.
Yes, but be careful, they will tell you to sort your trash and pay more, cause now you are having collected 4 bins not just one.
What's usually neglected in the trash debate is that waste management is a highly local and often cultural issue with global consequences. While the US as the richest country in the history of humankind sends half its waste to the landfill, in many European countries the ratio is way below 10%.
Framing the issue as something "we" as a global community have to solve might miss the mark and makes it all too easy to shift the blame. In theory, waste management is a (mostly) solved problem. In practice, it usually fails on a local policy level.
Hey there! Yes, especially with plastic waste, there is an illegal trade network. We focused on that a while ago 👉ua-cam.com/video/tID-AChSg7o/v-deo.html Let us know what you think ✨
Use to make Bio CNG ⛽ and plastic waste for use make synthetic oil for cooking & and make for plastic road🤗👍🕉️☪️
5R- REFUSE REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE REPURPOSE
The solution seems to be to employ really cheap labor to collect and separate the trash by hand, yep.
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.
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 problem is lack of awareness, A German news channel shouldn't be my source of knowing my city has an active composting system (Mysuru)
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
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 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
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.)
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
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'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.
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
Hey there! Yes, overconsumption is definitely a big problem. We tackle this topic and the idea of degrowth in one of our videos 👉 ua-cam.com/video/_22mKe_OLsg/v-deo.html
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Love how u keep finger pointing at 🇮🇳 to tarnish Modi ji’s success all the time 🤣🤣. But what do u have to say about 🇩🇪’s people attitude towards whales 🐋 in Faroe Island🤔🤔. Perhaps u should look at ur own internal matters first before u lecture others 😅.
🇮🇳 is very well aware of waste management problem and they are already working on it. 😇
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 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.
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.
0:03 India demanded the entire world pays them 1 trillion dollars as climate finance during COP26 in Glasgow dated November 2021. When nobody pays them, guess what happens?😆😁🤣
If you are supporting Indian in this then you are part of the problem of why the world can’t work together
@@TheMerchantGuild Beggars can't be choosers.
@@TheMerchantGuild I am not an Indian and I am not part of the problem.
Nope.
False it was actually a deal to increase carbon credits to Indian firms
@@thebestevertherewas Have some shame and stop scamming. Modi demanded 1 trillion dollars during COP26 from the entire world. That are video proofs of it.
NEED TO EDUCATE YOUNG CHILDREN AND PEOPLE NOT TO USE 'PLASTIC PRODUCTS'.
Why the hell permission is given to produce new plastic product by scratch, instead they should use recycled Plastic in Plastic manufacturing industries like Bootles, packing materials and other Plastic industries.
PLEASE BOYCOTT PLASTIC! LET'S GO FOR TRADITIONAL STYLE.
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.
Packing contains useful information like best before and ingredients
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.
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...
We talk about this in particular in our video here! 🍀 👇
How India wants to (literally) fix e-waste
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This guy won't go to China and show this type of thing but will only show India where is easy .shameless journalism ,china produce more waste rhan india
Ah leachate.. the official name for something I'd only ever heard called "trash juice"
Composting needs to become a thing in America. Minimize the trash. 🚮
The world needs to ship all its waste to Australia, no one will even notice.
love to see a reliable study on... wait for it... india / china compared to the western world.
Our species can not handle our own planet and the fools are out to invade and destroy other planets !
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
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 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! 🙂
Methane is very good alternative of LPG gas 👩🍳
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.
Hey there! Yes, we tackled energy from biomass a while ago. Check it out and let us know what you think 👉ua-cam.com/video/XXu15NlOuGo/v-deo.html
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
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
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...
The solution is very VERY simple, stop CONSUMING TOO MUCH and stop plastics in food industry use glass and paper. 1000 years ago people didn't have such problems because everything they used was natural and biodegradable plus they didn't use petrol, plastics and other chemicals we use now thus they didn't have such issues.
Banning plastic would make things easier
We should ban single use plastic. But there are lots of household items made from plastic. Like those rain-proof chairs for the garden.
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.
Kurukshetra कुरुक्षेत्र वर झालेल्या युध्दात एवढे दिव्य अस्त्र वापरले गेले की ती जागा आज सुद्धा राहण्या योग्य नाही, (ऐकीव माहिती) आज कचऱ्याचे ढीग भविष्यात असेच निर्मनुष्य जागा बनवतील. 😢
The “Haves” in the developed world produce and use so much un-recyclable materials compared to the “Have-nots” !! in what used to be called 3rd world countries!🙁 In the last 40 years or so, plastic made items for storage and wrapping, toys eg Lego, are everywhere, especially in food supermarkets although glass and metal containers are still around.
I’m 75 yr old now and as a child growing up in Australia, plastic items and wrapping wasn’t around and paper was used for wrapping meats, bread and vegetables..glass and metal was used for some limited processed foods, and the refuse paper was burnt in the wood fired stoves and heaters…
PLASTIC products derived from fossil fuels, mainly oil, are the worst materials polluting our farmlands and especially our oceans! 🐳🐠
BP, Exxon Mobil and other major fuel companies are continuing to make significant profits from dirty oil! 💰💰💰Scandinavian countries, like Norway, Sweden and Denmark seem to have a good waste management system.. but they are a small population compared to other nations: USA, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific countries.
How did we get to this point? Ignorance is bliss!
We didn’t have the interest, knowledge or evidence to show how difficult it is to dispose of “PLASTIC”,
but now we have the evidence and knowledge, thanks to organisations such as GREENPEACE and others, of the major problems and issues that “PLASTIC” is causing! Fossil fuels got us to the moon, but at what cost??? 😖R
SIMPLE PLASTIC BAN CAN REDUCE THESE LANDFILL.
THINGS I DO.
1. I used cloth bag instead of plastic.
2. I purchased cloth about 1.5 years ago. I mostly donate my old clothes to needy people or service station or washing station.
3. Never ask for slip post payment.
4. Use steel bottle insead of plastic bottle.
5. In last 18 years i purchased only 3 smart phone and a nokia 1100 phone.
6. Planted 12 trees this year.
But other can do
1. Food and vegetable vendors should use cloth bag instead of plastic. Even they can motivate customers.
2. They should be law for companies that atleast 50 percent plastic or other thing they produce to be recycles.
Companies like beverage companies, washing powder , toothpaste etc.
3. Mysore and Singapore are example for waste management.
Lets made a community for climate change. We are already late
We create a problem, we find a solution, the solution becomes a problem the we find another solution which will eventually become a problem
Dude what IS this video? You didn't even mention PLASMA GASIFICATION once!!
...which is the only 100% foolproof solution to this mess.
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.
I ride almost daily around Ghazipur landfill site. It's really pain and disgusting to watch and the smell........ Feels like multiple humans died and here.
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)
Sure wish you'd talk about the greenhouse implications of water vapor that are conveniently OMITTED in IPCC modeling . . .