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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2018
- There is a recycling crisis across the country and it's hitting California particularly hard. abc7ne.ws/2rp1LLc
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We should switch back to *truly* recycled glass soda and water bottles, as well as jars.
And try to send it to the manufacturer. sadly lots of the Pepsi drinks we get are on cardboard box trays not their plastic trays that the plastic bottles come in. In Madison WI they are thinking of sending some to landfill because nobody buys it
Yes, every time you buy a drink, there is a deposit on the bottle, watch people start bringing them back, do the same with alcohol, water, any drink. Reusable is the way. Convenience is killing us.
And don’t stop there!!! Get big bags, go to a Target or whatever and scoop some cereal, fill your own container of pop, etc etc. It’s really sad how much plastic has gone from a cool neat technology to overused, practically everywhere, and just gross.
@Esteban garita Growing up in the 70's in Australia, we would get 20 cents per glass bottle. As kids, 20 cents was a lot of money. Didn't see too many glass bottles laying around.
They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.
china stopped accepting it so cali is fucked hahaha
@@johndowe7003 So is Washington. I heard on the radio they are thinking about taking our blue bins away soon-ish. The very same bins they MADE us get.
Well, you are not charged for recycling, you are charged for the collection and trasportation of your wastes to a sorting facility, where after sorting, separated waste materials are sold to a recycling facility where recycling happens. We usually pay for the first stage of a waste management system, which is collection and transportation..
@@oldschoolcy, in California we do pay. Its called CRV, every container has an additional charge of 5cents and 10 cents on large containers. Most people dont cash these in they just put in their bins. Of course if you tunr them in you get your money back
@@johndowe7003 its not going to china.
Use it as free fuel to generate electricity
I learned about this problem after the plastic straw ban this summer. I am proud to say, I now strive for a low/zero waste lifestyle. I am definitely not perfect, but I can confidently say I've reduced 75% of my overall consumption and waste. If we consume less, we'll need trash disposal and recycling less.
And drinking straws were a problem? 😆🤣😅😂🤣😆😅
My area in UK recycles 64% of all waste. Makes food and garden waste into compost free for any gardener to collect.
Education is key! Many of us had no idea what happens to recycle items after they leave our house. I don’t think most of us want to endanger wildlife. I hope we can turn this problem around!
Yes, recycling requires the ability to read, while living in a throwaway society breeds laziness...
Glass it would be best to return them to the bottler for washing and steam sterilization like in the old days.
Yes, all these drink containers should be required by law to be made as returnable containers, it's not what people want, but it is what we need.
@Matthew Brooks Yes it cooks and washes away viruses and bacteria so no harmful chemicals are needed.
@@Tikolico HUH! We already pay few cents deposit on the plastic bottles
Recycling is suspected of being a major driver of the oceanic plastic problem. Unintended consequences strike again.
Selling it to our friends, using a diesel ship across the ocean, to save the planet
I remember when they protested oil drilling in plastic kayaks made from...OIL. #firstworldproblems
On an OPEN air transport ship too.
But at the end of the day that split bin is tossed all in one truck. There's your crisis.
@Silver Chopsticks- I agree, it gets picked up and dumped into 1 truck
@Silver Chopsticks The split bin was emptied into two parts of the truck. C'mon people, you really think they would have split bins if it didn't actually do anything useful? They're always trying to increase the rate of recycling, not decrease it. Single stream encouraged recycling.
@@imzjustplayin So, how does that work? looks like those flimsy tops would need some way to keep them both from opening up at the same time, or do they have a person in the truck holding the correct lid open? At $15 per hour?
Recycling is a joke. People have been conditioned accepting its costs. You pay for packaging when you purchase something. And you pay for its disposal. They even want you to sort it. The vested interests make sure everyone else is picking up the cost bar themselves. Its a hugely profitable grift that they aren't too keen on winding up.
They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.
Plastics can be used to make ROADS as the binder for the aggregate it is far stronger than the Tar currently used it lasts as a road for a decade without maintenance and can be reprocessed back into being a road when if finally cracks or get holes.
I used to work as a custodian at a factory. They decided to recycle stuff. Look up West Libery Foods in Tremonton Utah and zero landfill. It was my job to work with the recycling.
It was a joke. I know. I dealt with it every day.
They have split recycling containers. They talked up the environmental wonders of recycling at work.
People did not care. The compost stuff, glass, and plastic was all mixed. The production workers did not care to sort it out.
I had to dig in trash cans/recycle bins full of peoples lunches, trash, etc and look for pop cans and bottles. It was the grossest task I ever did. I cleaned toilets at the factory. Sorting recycle was worse.
I haved moved since and have a better job. Yet I still can recall having to dig in that gross trash looking for things to recycle.
Too much plastic water bottles I still drink water from the fountain !
I carry a stainless steel water container that I just fill up and it will last me a life time.
We pay a five cent deposit on every water bottle and bring them to the recycling yard and get the money back.
We can also pick up other people's bottles and make money off them.
George Singh: most tap water in the US is fluoridated.
Recycling is supposed to be good because it saves energy. But since no one wants to buy it for any price other than a severe low ball price to the collectors of the recycling - that means that it costs more to collect and deliver the recycled material than the money that can be saved by reusing it.
This material is a commodity and in the world of commodities money translates to the total energy of production. (mining, shipping, forging, etc.)
So if recycling is not economical because making the material from scratch is cheaper, then it is not saving energy.
Now I know how all that trash is getting into the ocean.
Property rent is too dam high, much less space for all those dirty garbage bins
-then from the divided container it will be mixed in the truck 🤷🏻♂️. W
someone didnt watch the video 4:40
here in my part of oregon they cut off all recycleing except metal several months ago.
What happened to Reduce and reuse? Recycling is a last ditch effort
Amazon's 2-day shipping logistics, marketing methods for packaging, and using plastic wrapping to provide a "security" seal for goods have countered these efforts.
There's also been a rise in what I consider short-life cheap electronics and appliances. You buy a toaster for $20 and it last 3-5 years and cannot be repaired due being integrated around a circuit board.
Finally, economics. We truly live in an age where in many cases it's cheaper to buy a new product than repair it.
How much fuel does it take to ship that crap to China ?
But people feel good about themselves
New recycle tax... wait for it!
THE SAME BIN?? that doesn’t happen up here in Canada. Lucky.
One problem they don't mention is California's minimum wage. Paying someone $15 an hour to separate the recyclables makes it cheaper to put in a landfill.
$15/hr is alot, in my country people earn less then $5/hr for cleaning jobs.
And that's still not a living wage there.
@@OIdSoIdier Maybe if the quit passing laws that make everything more expensive, it would be. For example: requiring solar on all new homes.
Bob S
Yeah. People who are buying homes are minimum wage earners. Fucking moron.
@@OIdSoIdier That's a political talking point. It's not a legitimate economic term. The leftists are the Flat Earthers of the economic world.
Maybe if California would stop putting so may EPA regulations, out we could build facilities Nationwide and not have to export so much. Just starting a lawn waste yard is ridiculously hard, and could easily bankrupt a person trying to do something good.
California creating EPA regulations... too funny! Believe it or not, the reason why California has any air regulations is because they continually violate the clean air act of 1972 and the law requires them to take measures to mitigate their violations of said law. If California did not violate a several decade old law, they wouldn't be in the business of creating solutions for their continual violation of said law. We do not have recycling facilities in the USA because it was cheaper to ship our stuff overseas. Now we cannot do that anymore.
Why can't we keep it here and do it ourselves we recycle paper back into paper products metal back in to metal products we take plastic back in to plastic products .why can't we do it
Unfortunately, it is cheaper to make new glass, plastic, or paper products. (Metals are widely recycled). American companies refuse to bear the extra expense, instead, denying the problem. If the recycling process were to become cheaper than creating new, more companies would get on board.
For instance, when it was discovered that paving asphalt is 100% recyclable, cheaper, and the recycled product is indistinguishable from new asphalt, the stuff they grind off the road before repaving suddenly became a hot commodity.
The only other way to increase the use of recycled products would be strong regulations by the government.
(I anticipate the conservative talking point bullshit about smaller government, higher consumer prices and corporate profits, to begin shortly.)
@@scottbc31h22 Metals can be pretty much melted and reused an infinite number of times. Plastics not so. I worked in a plastic food container plant and just the internally generated scrap had to be limited as to how much could be put back in each new batch. Most post consumer plastic has just one more life and that is as a structural item such as fence posts for example.
@@davidgerwin7885 Agreed. And that's part of the problem.
The recycling of most metals creates little waste product, and little needs to be added to make a usable material. Glass is 100% recyclable, except they cannot remove any colorants in the glass. Paper is also highly recyclable.
As you said, plastics have a limited use when recycled. add to that the large variety of types of plastic, that cannot be mixed.
Plastic also takes a very, very long time to decompose, when dumped in a landfill.
Yet, it seems nobody wants to spend the money researching and developing either better methods of recycling the plastics, or developing plastics that are more recyclable.
It's kind of like nuclear power plants, highly efficient in generating electricity, but what do we do with the waste?
@@davidgerwin7885 like the idea about fence posts - with wood flour - in Eureka magazine- as decking . Other places make paving tiles .
The problem - consumer has to select the item and sought it . I recycle cardboard - into bases for electronic or related to inventions - one of which shelving for the boxes - from ice cream - to place bits and pieces into
Consummer selects what to buy , thus consumer job to seperate Al can's , or .... or....or ....
@@scottbc31h22 SO !!!! plastic takes long time to decopose - pavement times - are required for longevity - how many times have you seen cracked // broken concrete ones
Out of sight, out of mind.
If the waste started piling up here in the US, we'd be more likely to be conscious of it and want to properly handle it instead of just shipping it somewhere else. Not sure what the solution is, but somewhere in the country, somebody has the answer. Growing problems attract eager minds.
The answer is very simple. Recycle only the things where it actually makes economic sense to recycle. Steel is the most easily recyclable material in the world and can be pulled out of the waste stream using magnets. Clear glass is mostly recyclable (although recycled glass is not suitable for windows or applications that require precise formulations).
Plastics? Paper? landfills. In fact use composting landfills that reduce the organics to mulch and 20-30 years later open it up to recover the useful materials. (But composting landfills smell - so good luck getting one approved in your city).
The biggest problem is that we have been building the wrong type of landfills for over a century. We are very careful to create sealed landfills. However sealed landfills are essentially giant landfills as the oxygen gets used up and decomposition ends at that point. This is why you can dig a 50 year old newspaper out of a landfill and still be able to read it.
Wait, these countries are just accepting them for free? They don't buy these recyclables?
@can tho it was an agreement made between the US and China. If given a choice, China wont even buy it.
@@chaoticlife311 I have always wondered if we were paying the rubbish companies just so they could sell our trash to some else!
I still dont get why we use newspapers...i mean We can stop that significantly.
I was in the grocery store the other day, and the local paper that used to be probably 20 pages long is now an 81/2X11 5 page paper. Won't be long before it just disappears altogether.
Easy solution: no plastic and easy biodegradable paper=fertilizer
YEAH!
It should be illegal to sell trash abroad worldwide. If you want to live your wasteful American way, deal with the consequences.
You're right! Also, you in America have plenty of space for building all facilities for waste recycling and disposal...
Alessandro Casasso or maybe us Americans could use less trash... Apparently some states have outlawed outlawing plastic grocery bags. Like wtf???
@@rebeccaelliott4261 In Europe, you cant get a free plastic bag at supermarkets by law. They have to be payed (only a symbolic price), so that people think more about if they really need one.
Grocery bags are not the problem, it's food packaging that makes up the bulk of trash.
@@walden6272 Grocery bags are part of the problem. Packaging is a big part too of course. All this will have to be regulated somehow, sooner or later. Companies dont care about this stuff, so they will need to be forced to think more ecologically.
Wait tf you pay for that recycling trash can just for them two sell it damn recycling might be one of the biggest scams ever
Not a scam at all. If you put all your trash in a landfill, your trash bill would be significantly higher than it is now. I get a major discount on my trash bill because I recycle and compost a lot of my trash.
@@imzjustplayin WOW! Where do you live?
Wonder how long before they outlaw water bottles
Society needs to stop putting everything in plastic...
It's a lost cause.
Americans refuse to talk about their part of the world's problems, it puts a dent in our ego.
How so? Give an example.
We literally talk about our impact on pollution in this video...
@martin joseph- Do you even know what the upside-down flag means?
Because you're doing it WRONG.
You're still doing it wrong.
@martin joseph Eat shit. In one way or another your life is better because of America.
PLASTIC CAN BE MADE INTO BOARDS REPLACING PLYWOODS.
They wont like your genius idea wood companies
AS LONG AS PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO TURN WASTE PLASTIC INTO BOARDS, NOBODY CAN STOP YOU. ACTUALLY IT IS VERY MUCH CHEAPER AND CAN SAVE A LOT OF TREES. HOPE SOME RICH PEOPLE WILL PUT THE IDEA INTO ACTION. IT IS ALSO VERY PROFITABLE BUSSINESS. MANY POOR PEOPLE WILL BUY THE PLASTIC BOARDS.
The problem is that you cannot use those products in anything that's load-bearing. Plastics do deform over time. So you cannot use them for anything load bearing (walls, roof trusses, etc.). And unless the plastics are PVC - you can't use them where they are exposed to sunlight. So you are not going to replace most wood used in construction with plastic. And the wood that does get replaced is replaced by fiber-reinforced concrete, which is made from cement and wood fibers.
AT LEAST WE ARE ABLE TO MAKE USE OF THE PASTIC WASTE AND REDUCE THE PLASTIC POLLUTION.
The plastic boards made out of recycled plastic or heavy as heck. There was a business nearby that made picnic tables out of recycled plastic years ago, the picnic tables couldn't be moved by two people, they needed to be picked up by a forklift.
we need to stop using so many materials and resources. buy items with less packaging, use reusable items such as reusable cups/coffee mugs, shopping bags, and travel utensils. We need to start refusing single use items and turn away from plastics and highly packaged items
Yeah then the lack of demand for materials destroys the economy even more than it already is.
And all the lesser packaged items will get damaged in transport and get thrown away. I work in the retail and deal with this a lot. Better to have good packaging or the whole thing goes to the trash.
Recycling has always been a joke. Now we need a weekly truck for rubbish. A weekly truck for green waste. A weekly truck for plastic. A weekly truck for paper. A weekly truck for glass. A weekly truck for metal. A weekly truck for cardboard and on an on. Instead of one truck coming down your street each week, now a municipality needs 7 trucks and the fuel they use for every household. How is that a better situation?
Maybe dumping by other countries is the reason we have gigantic plastic rafts in our oceans.
In Cornwall England householders separate glass/paper/cardboard/ plastics & metals/clothing , Before its picked up by the councils recycling team.
Americans are really lazy when it comes to recycling they throw everything into one bin.
We used to then they started single sort. Its supposed to go to a facility that sorts it.
Stop over consuming, that would help.
Exactly...REDUCE+REUSE+RECYCLE ♻️
It stuns me that so many people can't or won't read the recycling labels but instead they stuff in things that are not recyclable.
They are not going to tell me they cant find a way to recycle that into something. Glass ,plastic ,tin cans ,paper,
How does the fuel emissions of the ship and cost in general not exceed the effectiveness of processing the recyclables in the US? Who thought of this insanity?
Democrats of course.
Watch what is going to happen when Dems require retrofitting or replacing all buildings. Can you imagine how much scrap that will produce. We are going to need a lot more land fills. Also consider how much CO2 will be produced manufacturing all of that new material.
I recycled plastic for 4months, when I too them to the recycling center I got back 18 dollars. I've stopped recycling all together. You want people to give a shit about recycling, pay out more for it! California taxes the fuck out of me, they should have figured this problem out a long time ago!!
You got that right! I pay $190 every 2 months for a 2 person home. It's too much, I am NOT seperating my trash anymore!
Recycling is a scam. Here where i live in Australia, they have too much recycled paper and cardboards that they dump most of it because it costs them more to make recycled paper and cardboard than it does new paper or cardboard.
Also here there was an expose on worn out tires. Here we can pay up to $20 per tire to dispose of it when we get new tires. This is supposed to get the tires recycled properly in an environmentally friendly manner. But the expose showed that the tires get shredded in Australia and then sent to Vietnam because it is illegal to send the shredded tires to China because of what they do with them. So they get sent to Vietnam and then on boats and barges they are shipped to China, and China has been using them to burn in their power plants and furnaces creating an environmental disaster.
Recycling is as much of a scam now as solar panels were in the 1970's and 80's where it took more energy to make a solar panel than it was ever going to generate.
Solar PV wasn't a "scam" but it was uneconomical in many instances. Also don't conflate solar PV with Solar Thermal. Solar Thermal wasn't a scam, but it was higher maintenance than Solar PV which is why it didn't catch on.
@@imzjustplayin , How is a solar PV unit that uses more energy to make it, than it will ever produce not a scam ? People were told it was environmentally friendly, when in fact it wasnt.
@@peternt2008 In the 1980s, the only reason you'd go with Solar PV is for specialty applications such as off grid usage, or devices that could not be conveniently hooked up to grid power or have a generator running them because the load is too small, etc. such as electric fences, phone booth, repeater tower, etc. Hardly anybody used solar PV to power their house before the 1990s and that was still a very tiny minority at that time. It was far too expensive due to the lower energy production per watt hour vs cost so anybody that did that either did it as a performance art (can it be done?) sort of thing or just to stroke their ego. If you had a very tiny electrical load, especially in a house built in the 1980s due to the sparse usage of electronics while using primarily gas for heating, cooking, refrigeration etc. then having Solar PV would arguably be about convenience since having a generator run 24/7 to power small electrical loads would be grossly inefficient. Even in the mid 2000s Solar PV only made sense in some areas under certain conditions.
Now however, Solar PV makes sense in vast majority of cases so long as the installation costs are kept under control and there is enough Solar insolation for that location (at least 4 hours per day).
@@imzjustplayin Besides making huge assumptions you are misunderstanding my original post.
Firstly the huge assumptions. "" In the 1980s, the only reason you'd go with Solar PV is for specialty applications such as off grid usage, or devices that could not be conveniently hooked up to grid power or have a generator running them because the load is too small, etc. such as electric fences, phone booth, repeater tower, etc. Hardly anybody used solar PV to power their house ""
I dont know what country you are from, but here in Australia solar PV panels have been marketed to householders since the early 1980's and being sold as environmentally friendly way to create electricity. And even before them the solar thermal hot water services were being sold to householders with the claim it will help reduce your electricity bill and help the environment. No, there was not a majority or massive take up of solar technology, but it by no means was insignificant enough to ignore.
Your country may not be into being environmentally friendly but Australia and especially my state has been for decades and decades. My state introduced deposits on all drink containers to guarantee high recycling rates back in 1971. We also formed an organization called KESAB to help with keeping the state clean and help with recycling back in 1966. We also banned single use shopping bags back in 2009.
So it is not unreasonable to think that people were buying solar panels , both PV and thermal to help the environment.
Now to my original post. My claim is that people have been mislead and scammed about recycling and saving the environment. Starting back when solar PV panels used more power to make them than they ever produced in their life time. People are being fed this massive lie that they are doing wonderful things for the environment when they really arent.
Look up recycling of precious metals out of electronics in Africa.
Look up western countries dump waste in third world Asian countries.
Look up China burning western countries tires to produce electricity.
Look up recycled paper dumped because to expensive to make recycled paper.
Look up how dirty is mining minerals to make electric car batteries.
look up how the new replacement lighbulbs are a hazard to people and the environment because they contain mercury.
I am just saying people need to be aware of the truth and not be led along by the government and NGO's and the UN who profit from these lies.
@@peternt2008 I agree that recycling has undergone major greenwashing but unfortunately the issue I see with these expose is the takeaway people typically have with it is to not bother recycling at all, rather than demanding change to improve the situation. Recycling rates in the USA is only 30% and compliance is poor as it is. As for your issue with them pushing Solar PV in the early 1980s, you may have seen much advertisement in regards to it, but its uptake was comparatively small. Solar Thermal did make economic sense provided it was installed properly and worked properly, but otherwise it didn't work out as well as it should have.
If you're trying to sell the trash , you will end up with trash problem. Are there any 1 smart enough to think now days in US?
Make those serving time in public service mine the garbage dumps for resuables, recyclables, and metals.
That doesn’t make any sense. Paper is washed when it’s recycled, so what does it matter what goes on it? You can’t tell me that companies in the US don’t want recyclables. Maybe they are charging too much for it.
Here in North Carolina I got a letter from the town, wash your trash before you put it in the bin ... ... .. They must be crazy
They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.
@@basillah7650 You may get charged for recycling bins but that's cheaper than a large trash bin. Going from a 32 gal to a 64 gal trash can increases my trash bill from $70 to $130 per 2 months while adding a second 96 gal recycle or compost bin adds $10 per 3 months on my trash bill. So obviously I'm going to compost and recycle as much as possible.
Plastic single use packaging, should be banned worldwide.
Use glass for bottles, paper for bags andstop all those prepacked fruit and sell them individually as we used to buy them.
the reason plastic is flavour over glass is that its easier to produce and doesn't break when drop by some careless consumers.
fruits are prepacked so avoid leftovers from people selecting only the good ones and also avoid people eating and damaging them or to remove the rotten parts.
if you use paperbags its pretty much still contributing to environmental waste, paperbags is just environmentalists lame excuse. paperbags still made from paper, and paper come from trees. And you still need to send them to factory for recycling and burning which uses fuel.
alot of times all this comes with a reason. so unless humans get rid of their ugly side if not it will be that way.
@@Enviotonin85 Makes more sense to simply dump the paper into a composting landfill.
Paper and plastic can be burnt for electrical production, glass melted for reuse. The reason industry isn't on the bandwagon is probably government regulations. Micro-grinding and air flow separation is the answer, but it needs to be made profitable.
If you want to fix the recycling problem, don't focus on the end point. Fix the start point when, where, why, and how its created.
Your reporting is incomplete! Recycling! What does that mean in view of this story. So all recycled items means not in this Country? Why doesn't the U. S. recycle rather than shipping all items out of the country? Were is this story?
What do these people expect, they want us to wash the garbage before we put it in the bin ,
that what you suppose to do if you live in a house and want to recycle or you can be a apartment pig and dump all together fuck the rest and future generation they can figure it out
A few points for consideration and discussion.
1. With the paper, there are some videos on You Tube that show waste paper being converted to bricks for heating. These bricks are made from non gloss paper. The gloss paper is coated with a fine clay, so that it is glossy. Clay does not burn in fires. Can the clay be separated from the paper? Take this further. With your building, do you use untreated timber in the construction of homes? If you do, the waste timber from the building sites, take that back to a central point, run the waste through a chipper and magnet, and use the chips with the pulp.
2. The plastics, from what has been explained to me, was that plastic can be melted down and made into other materials. France, apparently, are converting their plastic waste into road surfacing. The standard of the road is such that it is 'touched up' every year or so, but the cost is comparable to bitumen and cement.
3. Glass is meant to be a product that can be recycled. Why is this not being recycled in larger quantities? The heat that is used to melt the glass should be enough to purify the glass, and you would have clean glass, ready for reuse.
The question has to be asked: Where are the 'leaders' of society when they are needed? It would only take a few leaders to step up and lead the way. If done properly, everyone would get on board with the project and take this forward. The leaders can only set things up, it is up to all of us to contribute and make things happen!
The reason glass sometimes isn't recycled is because its so insanely cheap to make why recycle it.
Hmmmm. Soo, are people NOT making products out of recycle materials and using them to reduce the making of regular made products?
Great video ABC7!
Burn it to power Steam Generators.
not the best but still better than landfill
Agreed. Yes, it is going to cause carbon emissions. However, how much more emissions than to ship to China, added with the emissions for China to do the actual recycling process. Then take into account all the environmental damage talked about in this video of this stuff ending up where it shouldn't.
@Tony Botchagaloop Your Welcome Snowflake.
yes Royce just convert the tens of millions of tons of waste produced every year into tens of millions of tons of gasses and dump into the atmosphere.
@@liamhackett513 Do you want to Outlaw Decomposing Plant matter and Natural Gases escaping from the Earth. Trillions of Tons everywhere in the World?
Burn it and filter the smoke
I agree, and make power with the heat.
Here in Erie, the Lakeview landfill is the highest point on the horizon and its getting higher every day...what would you do?
Only thing we need is cotton cloth paper cardboard glass tin and aluminum. Nothing else is needed to put groceries into.
Single use plastic should be illegal all together. You are just delaying the work and cost to the future.
Can any one imagine ,I can hardly go on vacation,but people sending their water bottle to China?
I burn all my paper, plastic, and cardboard in a barrel. Not much left after God sorts it out. What little is left, as well as ash, goes in a pit I dug in the back yard. I take responsibility for my own trash. No sense to use valuable resources to ship trash halfway around the globe.
Mixed paper cardboard. Make Menthol alcohol by boiling it at 176 F and distillation it is a valued industrial material. the cellulose waste makes good compost soil amendment or more paper. The inks can be skimmed off after the boiling there might be a use for them.
Stop making plastic water bottles.
Jedi Luke I agree, but here is a better idea: NO plastic use for anything associated with food or beverages. All paper could then be used for composting and definitely no styrofoam.
@@lucypearlmorgan3115 not sure if you are aware that most paper product used for food is not recyclable and using more paper products mean more trees needed to be cut down and then the forest will suffer and the naturalist will start whining.
@@Enviotonin85 I have lived long enough to see how plastics have taken over in more ways than just a few and it is getting worse...this is what was given to us out of convenience(I guess). Metal/tin, coated cardboard/paper (juices, milk,and broths can still be found in them), and glass were used then, not to mention the abundance of restaurants/fast food places did not exist where doggy-bags or carry-out was attached to them, and that's just a few examples. So, if things do not change then what?
Definitely not running out of places to put it
Recycling needs a combination of lateral thinking and Gov't Laws.
Find new uses and new ways to recycle and enforce it nationwide!
Personally I'd burn most of it.
Burning causes air pollution. Recycling is b.s. Running well-run landfills is and always was a waste of time (no pun intended.)
@@SteveLeicht1 landfills now colect the methane to turn generators.
@@rosewhite--- I actually "mis-spoke" on my message. I'm pro landfill. Thanks for the update. :)
@@SteveLeicht1 I actually contacted my local council about the landfill gas and they said a landfill takes about ten years to reach maximum gas output and then it continues maybe 20 years for profitable collection.
@@rosewhite--- Unless the landfill is designed to do this from the start. You need to provide it with just enough oxygen so that materials compost and produce heat - without providing enough oxygen to allow combustion.
That's why I don't recycle anything
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Here in Canada, Vancouver at least, we separate into 3 bins. Mixed paper and cardboard, tin cans and hard plastic containers and organic waste. The rest we have to sort and take to recycling centres. Do it right or dont bother. Its much simpler for the house to sort it than a huge facility with hundreds of trucks dumping hourly. Why do they not get this?
from Calgary here. Before China stopped taking these recyclables we too shipped it all to China as well, but not anymore. One thing I don't like is that most manufactured goods are Trucked across our country. Why can't we buy goods in bulk and reuse the plastic jugs ect. Just my rant Paul.
Well Kenny we are not 100% but at least we are doing something. I know some cities in the US are approaching the hopeful 100%. Here in Van we recycle kitchen organics and all of the plastics except soiled stuff so our garbage bin has just a tiny amount. None of us are told where it all goes but sooner or later we will have to deal with all of it regardless. I really do not see where the sanctimonious criticism comes from and it is not called for. And for Gods sake, DON'T call me a Liberal. Thats just a low stoop. Then again its easier to criticise than actually do something.
Paul just ignore this idiot. First off he thinks Cali is bigger than Canada ahah
So let's send our problem to a different country...got it! "If we can't see the issue, then the issue must not be there," is the motto America enjoys living by.
1:57 that part looks like the W.A.L.LE movie💀 we are fucking dead
Don't produce plastic anymore.
The recycling bin by the snack bar here at the library in Anchorage is just a trash can with a make shift cardboard lid that says bottles and cans. I also had an old-school Redline bike stolen from here and it was locked to a rack and probably caught on camera. Anyway, staying sober is my best way around my social resentments.
We really need seminar about recycling or make a school subject to educate children.
The band was still playing as the Titanic sank !
Maybe someday we will admit that most stuff just gets buried and one turd who Chuck's a garden hose in a bin ruins the batch...but sleep well
its actually the producers of goods not wanting to use the right packaging to make it easy or correct. that is where we need to start fixing the problem. plastic jars... make it easy to clean them and not have a one way spout. aluminum cans. all vendors should be required to provide a CRV station at every major store so i can bring a bag and get store credit back.
What's wrong with the old milk cartons they used to use get rid of those damn plastic water bottles
Recycling is a scam
We should go back to the old system , no plastics just cotton wrapped and paper bags , glass bottles etc , my mum used to have crates that were returned everyweek , she got money back from the bottles , it worked why change it i hate vacuum packs they spoil the food and are a nightmare to open
fact is; all that garbage was found to be able to press and pellet, and be resold as building materials by the cities who could be making money of garbage, they are truly stupid, i saw an article online that talked on pellets of garbage, into building materials
1st to fix trash crisis turn it into fuel to be burned inside the engines. Also that spit garbage can is stupid when it gets picked up doesnt it just end up in the same place.
other places turn it into paving slabs , glass - richmond , surrey uses it in place of sand under flag stones - as sand compacts the glass does not
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3:45 exactly
Get those piles of paper and make them into insulation, treat them with a flame retardant chemical, as a construction worker, I can tell you that houses burn just as quickly when insulated with fiberglass as if they were insulated with paper, might as well use the paper.
AMEN!
California is just full of ironies
THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO IRRISPONSIBLE AS THEY THROW TRASH EVERYWHERE , ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN HOME OR CARS & DONT GIVE A DAM WHERE IT ENDS UP !!! CAMERAS ARE NEEDED & PEOPLE THAT TRASH THE ENVIRONMENT PROSECUTED !
Retailers dont want want that glass back. It’s dirty, smelly, uses storage space, needs to be transported...... besides. As a consumer, why am I expected to pay for it, clean it, pay for the water to clean it, and get zero $$ for my effort?
Especially w/ what I’ve heard about recycling companies only allowing 50 containers a day per person to be recycled?
One of the recycle places in our area closed, the other doesn't take some plastic, only containers that have recycle stickers on the labels.
Burn it. By now can't we figure out a way to burn trash without causing pollution?
These resources are very valuable. I wish people would look at waste as resource. A lot of people especially in the West think they are too good to deal with it though.
They will learn about it when the next great depression hits and will be looking around for every scrap to reuse.
But before it wsnt a problem. How did we grt rid of our waste in the 50s , 60s etc... now itss a problem we should became zero waste world long back
Plastic was created in 1907 but not widely used until 1960. Before it all went to landfills but now plastic is so common and the population is so large landfills aren’t a solution anymore because plastic last in the ground for 100 years
California could recycle old syringes into straws...win win?
FIRE FILTERED SMOKE NO WASTE.
Maybe Elon Musk can build another rocket system and California can blast their waste into space.
But what happens when the giant garage ball comes back to earth in 1000 years? Send another giant garage ball to deflect it?