"Highly Toxic Methane". The toxicity of Methane is actually fairly low. The main concern with methane is not its toxicity, but its green house properties. The vast majority of electronics and batteries are pulled out at waste management facilities for the exact reason that they contain lead and other toxic material. The garbage truck doesn't just go straight to the landfill after it's pick-up cycle. "Only some of the gas gets captured over the life of the landfill" Really, how much? 90%? 10%? This isn't really a very comprehensive video. If you're trying to understand actual landfill engineering, operations, risk management, and environmental impact, this video is probably not for you.
From what I've seen, the methane/carbon dioxide threat isn't the real disastrous issue with global warming. But everyone is only limited to what they know. The earth heat and cools naturally, so global warming isn't even a threat but an inevitability. According to the ice cores, the earth actually heats and cools before the amount of carbon dioxide changes in the atmosphere, and the rest of the physical world follows those changes, a domino effect. The cycle never ends or stands still. Panicking about global warming is futile, we need to learn how to manage ourselves as a species, and like the rest of the planet live symbiotically with our surroundings rather than parasitically taking what we want without giving back anything useful.
I want to know what happens to the leachate in the holding tanks. I have been told it burns off leaving some heavy metal ash, which may be added back into the land fill. Is that true?
I had been a landfill gas technician on numerous sites in the Phoenix metro area for five years. Don’t get me started on just what ridiculous sensationalism exists here! As a partial vacuum is applied to the capped landfills (with the landfill gas either flared off or used in various gas-to-energy projects) and with daily gas extraction well monitoring and quarterly surface emission monitoring, there is virtually NO odor! And any surface monitoring which shows more than 5ppm of “toxic” (🙄🤦🏻♂️) methane is addressed very quickly to remediate the issue! Five years on landfill gas sites, I was. Last time I checked, I’m still alive!!! 😆🤣
Theres Several layers of HDPE between the trash and ground. There are several ways to find a leak on the top layers. The gas wells are regularly monitor and that goes for the ground water. If the cap, top layer of the landfill, is leaking and the vegetation dies. Between the layers of HDPE there are also layers of geocomposite that prevent the clogging of the pipes. This isnt informative its outrageous conclusions drawn from vague facts.
+Tony R. The landfills without layers of HDPE are outlawed and they cannot be considered regular. It's outlawed to steal also, but many people steal anyway!
Household batteries are not recyclable and non toxic in landfills. By putting them in your recycle bin, you are only hampering the recycling process for real recyclables.
@@VLCBK Hi Vlad and Peter. Thanks for your response. I had a small box of used Duracell batteries and when I went to drop them off at the Broward County, FL electronics recycling center, I was told that today's batteries aren't recyclable and are made to be tossed in the garbage. Of course these were your typical AAA, AA, C, D, & 9V batteries. I know that car batteries are recyclable but not sure about UPS (battery back-up) or lithium ion types.
@@VLCBK Hi Vlad, perhaps you live in a different country with different rules, but here in the USA the Duracell battery and it's packaging printed warning states not to dispose of in fire, among other common sense use warnings. There is no mention of recycling or the recycling symbol on either the package or the battery itself. This is getting a bit silly, and I certainly believe if you live outside the USA the recycling rules may be different. I guess at this point we could research this matter on the Internet (after all, the Internet knows all things - HAHAHA). Nice chatting with you Vlad. 🙂
@@thomasshumate9561 Oh, the lake and rivers around here are gross, but still, it gets filtered and treated before it comes out of my faucet. So my worries are pretty limited about contaminants in the water.
then why are we are not seperating our,trash more,and get after the companies making tis to find how to recycle it back into new bottles or clean out old ones and reuse
Colin Vautour Because you wouldn't want your precursors to be uncaring douchebags who lived large in their lifetime and left all their shit for you to deal with. That's why
This went from educational to scary very quickly
I wanted to learn how a landfill works not how to worry about dying from one
Can't know one thing and not know the other my friend. #truth
Well at least you know more than info than you did before watching the video
That's how the landfill works.
Union pacific 844!
🤣🤣🥴right I was like wtf
"Highly Toxic Methane". The toxicity of Methane is actually fairly low. The main concern with methane is not its toxicity, but its green house properties. The vast majority of electronics and batteries are pulled out at waste management facilities for the exact reason that they contain lead and other toxic material. The garbage truck doesn't just go straight to the landfill after it's pick-up cycle. "Only some of the gas gets captured over the life of the landfill" Really, how much? 90%? 10%? This isn't really a very comprehensive video. If you're trying to understand actual landfill engineering, operations, risk management, and environmental impact, this video is probably not for you.
It's also flammable which if mishandled can make the landfill highly explosive
From what I've seen, the methane/carbon dioxide threat isn't the real disastrous issue with global warming. But everyone is only limited to what they know. The earth heat and cools naturally, so global warming isn't even a threat but an inevitability. According to the ice cores, the earth actually heats and cools before the amount of carbon dioxide changes in the atmosphere, and the rest of the physical world follows those changes, a domino effect. The cycle never ends or stands still. Panicking about global warming is futile, we need to learn how to manage ourselves as a species, and like the rest of the planet live symbiotically with our surroundings rather than parasitically taking what we want without giving back anything useful.
𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅! 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅, 𝑪𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 " 𝒑𝒊𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚" 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒓 & 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 - 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝑩.𝑻.𝑼'𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕.
Methane is a bad GHG but it decomposes quickly into CO2 and H2
"This is when you start to get that 'trash smell.' You know the one."
I do?
+Capybaraism Youve never smelled a dumpster before?
I see that your nose is pure and innocent
Capybaraism I do
Go to an active landfill it's like a gross egg smell
Oh yeah 😎
*NOW U KNOW LANDFILL*
ANTI-WORLD
Sybyr
1:19
2:40
What you truly came for
My nigga
@Happy Thoughts How do u know that
@Happy Thoughts No, but I did
@Happy Thoughts Bro I just asked you a thing why you are so toxic lmao
@@R0DBS2 its always the "dont say that word you will offend someone" ones who are the most toxic lmaoo
"Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and today I'm gonna drink 2 gallons of the liquid at the bottom of the landfill"
😂🤢🤮
Nah that’s something SteveO would do 😂
okay i just wanted to know how landfills work not an entire walle ceremony
thanks. this is very informative.
1:20 landfill (landfill)
Now you know, Landfill
Uhhhh... how am I supposed to write this for my biology exam if we are all GOING TO DIE!!!!
I want to know what happens to the leachate in the holding tanks. I have been told it burns off leaving some heavy metal ash, which may be added back into the land fill. Is that true?
It gets collected and sent to a treatment facility
finally, an educational video that gets straight to the point and tells the blunt truth so we can help avoid the consequences.
Sure go live in the woods and don't buy anything. Thanks lol
"THINK ABOUT IT.
lol we're all going to be poisoned"
So glad landfills have been modernized.
Thinking is about how how you contribute or refuse to.
Excellent video.
ŁANDFILL
WHY DIDNT YOU PAY FOR THIS BEAT THO
@@shxvvtynull1353 haha hello
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw sybyr producer tag
It’s like they are getting pleasure from trying to scare the crap out off folks....
Only here cuz of sybyr lmaooo
I knew it as soon as the video started😂😂😂
Which song?
@@Sir_Pumpington_Of_Dumpenshire its his producing tag under the moniker landfill
Very encouraging!
Is it mixed with anything, maybe with soil. Maybe that at a certain ratio of mixing would eleminate most of it,
I had been a landfill gas technician on numerous sites in the Phoenix metro area for five years. Don’t get me started on just what ridiculous sensationalism exists here! As a partial vacuum is applied to the capped landfills (with the landfill gas either flared off or used in various gas-to-energy projects) and with daily gas extraction well monitoring and quarterly surface emission monitoring, there is virtually NO odor! And any surface monitoring which shows more than 5ppm of “toxic” (🙄🤦🏻♂️) methane is addressed very quickly to remediate the issue! Five years on landfill gas sites, I was. Last time I checked, I’m still alive!!! 😆🤣
No odor? Well then you had covid :D
Come to North Carolina and work with us at the Landfill Group. We have a great team. 🇺🇸
That was grim
pretty cool 👍
SYBYR
Melvin Marvy what does sybyr have to do wit how a landfill works
I think this is the real definition of Knowledge is a curse
Rio Rancho New Mexico has a big one and houses around it.
Thanks for the information
Glad I don't live there
Nine years since this video was posted!
What has changed since then?
Theres Several layers of HDPE between the trash and ground. There are several ways to find a leak on the top layers. The gas wells are regularly monitor and that goes for the ground water. If the cap, top layer of the landfill, is leaking and the vegetation dies. Between the layers of HDPE there are also layers of geocomposite that prevent the clogging of the pipes. This isnt informative its outrageous conclusions drawn from vague facts.
+Tony R. The landfills without layers of HDPE are outlawed and they cannot be considered regular. It's outlawed to steal also, but many people steal anyway!
Hi I'm a fan of u
Watching this in 2022
Super explaination
Now you know, Landfill
Always recycle your batteries!
Household batteries are not recyclable and non toxic in landfills. By putting them in your recycle bin, you are only hampering the recycling process for real recyclables.
@@51hankyspanky7 They can be collected separately from other recyclables and recycled.
@@51hankyspanky7 im pretty sure batteries have a sign on them that says not to be thrown at the landfill
@@VLCBK Hi Vlad and Peter. Thanks for your response. I had a small box of used Duracell batteries and when I went to drop them off at the Broward County, FL electronics recycling center, I was told that today's batteries aren't recyclable and are made to be tossed in the garbage. Of course these were your typical AAA, AA, C, D, & 9V batteries. I know that car batteries are recyclable but not sure about UPS (battery back-up) or lithium ion types.
@@VLCBK Hi Vlad, perhaps you live in a different country with different rules, but here in the USA the Duracell battery and it's packaging printed warning states not to dispose of in fire, among other common sense use warnings. There is no mention of recycling or the recycling symbol on either the package or the battery itself.
This is getting a bit silly, and I certainly believe if you live outside the USA the recycling rules may be different. I guess at this point we could research this matter on the Internet (after all, the Internet knows all things - HAHAHA).
Nice chatting with you Vlad. 🙂
actually i really like his voice not even gonna lie
I like you, daddy
@@Rolando_Cueva what
Quarantine got me messed up
Okay this triggered my fight or flight response. 😰
I am a geomembrane manufacturer and can ask me any questions about the video!
have you ever eaten at chick fil a?
How reliable are HDPE and LLDPE liners? Do you believe they won't leak?
this is more detailed on how it works,and also worrying
in the future 0_0
Dame this guy's not fucking around.....
We create problem and studied on it. Wow we are wise enough to caused our deadth
It is 10 year’s back video 😮😮😮😮
This guys voice is overwhelming-_-
Ikr
That’s what she said.
why dont we just thorw it into a valcnao?
curious too. you gotta watch this: ua-cam.com/video/Q4Xys-IRMr0/v-deo.html
Well... I don't get my water from a well, it's piped in through a filtration plant.
Where does the filtration plant get it?
@@thomasshumate9561 Either Lake Michigan or one of these rivers. I live in a nearby suburb of Chicago.
@@man_on_wheelz I see. Could leach to there as well. A possibility.
@@thomasshumate9561 Oh, the lake and rivers around here are gross, but still, it gets filtered and treated before it comes out of my faucet. So my worries are pretty limited about contaminants in the water.
@@man_on_wheelz Sounds good.
Sounds like my stomach..when I take a shit
Title update: How landfills can oof you.
LOBILLOS MUSICAL DE DURANGO.
What about using duct tape?
Is it just me or this guy's voice is so similar to charlie cheen's?!!
I'm hoping you meant this to be dark humor? Haha
Let’s do something about that
What do they do with that toxic liquid? Serious bummer video.
Not only do we a garbage problem but the process of how we handle garbage is garbage.
then why are we are not seperating our,trash more,and get after the companies making tis to find how to recycle it back into new bottles or clean out old ones and reuse
Don’t loose near these areas or recycle yards or junk yards guys u breath all that
I live on top of a landfill fml
So as the human race what are we going to do about it?
prolly absolutly nothing lmao
Poison bomb
Several factual inaccuracies in this. Wonder who sponsors this info?
It's in the description for those of us who can read. Seriously?
Landfills won't go wrong in our life time so there's nothing we can do about it. Why worry.
Because future generations will suffer for them when they go wrong.
Colin Vautour Because you wouldn't want your precursors to be uncaring douchebags who lived large in their lifetime and left all their shit for you to deal with.
That's why
This is very misleading- its not really an educational piece on the topic- its propaganda.
This is why I burn all my rubbish in my wood burning stove
My fart smells like a landfill near me
Is that a Spanish word?
Online school check
So what's the point of this video? This doesn't tell me much of nothing on how it works.
what you trying to do? build your own? lmao
We're really destroying this planet, aren't we?
So basically we bury our trash along with the dead
The narrator was creepy
This is fucking horrifying.
I regret watching this.
So regardless we are fucked
Tree hugger
So then what are people supposed to do with their trash??
How sad! Plastics should not be made but nothing is being done.
Burn it, take chemicals to hazmat sites.
Amogus
I didn’t come here to learn about LandFail
Dead bodies end up there too.
How do modern landfills work ?
Date uploaded : 8 years ago
we are fucked up
This is a fatalistic video
Wtf
Sponsored by CNN
Landfills?? More like Garbagefills
Well, you do fill land with garbage.
What propaganda actually look like
This is completely false we just learned about this topic on school
This sucked
What a misleading title. Absolutely learned nothing about how a landfill works.
fake news