@@JerryRigEverything agreed, haha. Hopefully they were the LED kind (prolly not due to the age of, well, you know, but here's hoping). Thanks for the videos, Zack! Please do more of them when you're able.
The problem with recycling them is that those places always have a big drop and if you put in a bulb they immediately crack. You showed the bin at end of video and you can see how that is a hazard!
I did the same as a kid. We didn't care and as you when they exploded, what fun. I grew up in the sixties and into the seventies and we didn't care, nobody did. This about fish is old.
The large round clear bulb is not specifically refered to as an HID. It's either metal halide or high pressure sodium. They still require a ballast but it's not a conventional modern HID
My late grandfather had a bottle of mercury, don’t ask how he got it, I don’t know, he had many things. I was looking for something in our garage one time and it was sitting on the edge of a messy table. I knocked it off and it went everywhere, pooling in drips of varying sizes like he shows in the video. We didn’t use a spill kit and it was not a fun time to clean up. I miss that intact mason jar of mercury.
I’m in Texas where there is very little recycling. I’d have to drive an hour into Dallas to recycle. Then, we’re told that 80% of the stuff we drop off doesn’t get recycled.
@@JerryRigEverything "mercury is incredibly toxic to both environment and humans" Get your facts right, if mercury was toxic we wouldnt be using it for tooth fillings. its safe material for human use. Please dont spread fear propaganda about mercury.
This guy supports Anker which owns Eufy look it's up. Zack knowingly is continuing to support this company even though they spy on Americans. Zack if a fake patriot and you should support his Chanel
Thanks for the informative video. One small correction. Most of the current in a fluorescent bulb is carried by argon gas, not by mercury. Electrons from the ionized argon excite mercury atoms, which then emit uv light. The uv light is absorbed by the phosphors, and they in turn give off visible light. That’s why the uv lamp you showed had no phosphor coating. It uses the uv light from the mercury directly.
and in UV-C tubes they have to use special "quartz" glass (its not actually the mineral quartz) or else the short UV waves would be blocked by the glass as it absorbs those spectra. The black color on many UV tubes are probably a filter to block out visible spectrum light as to not disrupt how the UV looks when you use it to make things fluoresce. The special "quartz" glass they use in these bulbs gets damaged severely by the UVC in just a few hours. It will loose a significant amount of its ability to let through short wave UV light, something like 10-15%. but after the first "burn in" period of the glass, its clarity reduces much more slowly. But over time the bulb will eventually need to be replaced due to the light damaging it to the point it doesnt transmit much UV.
@@jonathanodude6660 "The back-formed verb to lase is frequently used in the field, meaning "to give off coherent light"" "when a laser is operating it is said to be "lasing""
@@alexdrockhound9497 ah. You wrote it as an acronym, which changed its reading such that the meaning was lost. If lase is backformed from laser (the device) rather than LASER (the process) then spelling with capitals would be misleading as the original meaning of the acronym is not relevant to the meaning of the verb; the verb is not an acronym at all and has no reason to be spelled in caps. “Lasering” would have a different connotation and implied meaning, correct? Ie a material could “lase” but only a person could “laser”?
This was really informative and useful. Really concerning about the mercury contamination of fish... not to mention the guidance of reduce of consumption of cans of tuna. One would think there would be stricter regulations federally in place to reduce this contamination.... goes to people really need to get push their elected officials locally and federally in doing the right thing in environmental as well health regulations and not be beholden to lobbyists and corporations.
@@thomasandrews9355 Wouldn't be much need to spend money on retaining a right if there weren't so many trying to get rid of it. Really is nice we can do both simultaneously though.
The reason fish in particular are a problem is bioaccumulation. Most of the land animals we eat are herbivores, but a lot of fish, especially big ones, are carnivores, and they eat other, smaller carnivores, sometimes several layers deep. Each step up the food chain concentrates any contaminant that can't be filtered out expelled. Material in the ocean flows around, so limiting fishing to cleaner regions only does so much, and people would complain if tuna just ended up being illegal to sell. People who know about this and are concerned can choose other foods that are much lower in mercury, like fish that eat plants, or replacing canned tuna with chicken. Even if we stop adding new pollution globally, things like mercury will hang out in the biosphere for a while, before they end up getting deep enough in sediment to be removed from circulation.
Radiation can be detected from a safe distance and eventually decays away over time. Mercury doesn't ☠️ it stays forever toxic and *builds up* in food chain
The vaporization and subsequent cooling is more expensive in terms of energy consumption why they are not using alternative chemical separation techniques?. great video looking for more industrial content like this 🤩
I think Led lighting does not have mercury but before being soo popular we have used various tipes of florescent lamps that have warnings in the packege also our old monitors that are non led backlighted uses florescent lamp that has mercury too and have on the back of the panel an warning about the correct dispose of that device.
Only certain types of light bulbs actually have mercury in them. Incandescent and halogen lamps, which just contain a filament, do not contain mercury - whereas CFL lamps, fluorescent lamps, discharge lamps (sodium/metal halide/mercury vapor) etc contain mercury that needs to be carefully disposed of. Thankfully, LED lamps do not contain mercury.
Yeah, that was impetus for me to finally check how much higher in mercury the "no added salt" white albacore tuna I'd been giving my cats occasionally was (it's almost cheaper than canned cat food & same sodium!). Turns out it's *3X* regular tuna! I knew it might be a little higher, but how are they even allowed to sell this?!?
I was curious, as PA is my stomping grounds and all... was mostly curious how close you were to my area of operations, so I google map checked this "Clean Earth" place.... only two I can find at all are bordering us, one in WV, and one in DE. Is this a new one? Or were you just on the border? Not really that important, just curious.
I work for a collection centre and it's nice to see such a huge amount of everyday house stuff gathered together and know it'll be given new life. Recycling is fundamental.
The problem with the places like Lowes and Home Depot to recycle is that the bins for recycle are too big and whenever you put in a bulb they immediately break. And some of them don’t want to take fluorescent bulbs.
I've had that problem as well. The noise from all that glass breaking is extremely distracting and keeps you from focusing on why you came to the store in the first place. Half the time when you go to talk to an employee, there's a communication problem, not only because of all of the noise but sometimes because the employee is wearing a mask.
Yeah, I asked a Home Depot employee whether they accept fluorescent tubes, and he said yes. I came back to the store with a couple of fluorescent tubes, and another employee told me they didn't accept tubes.
The only bulbs they recycle are fluorescent bulbs. None of the others contain mercury. Unfortunately, they often only take compact fluorescent bulbs, not the tubes as they're much more bulky.
@@electronics-girl Exactly this has happened to me. And then my town has a e-waste recycle day, but they too only take household appliances not bulbs because according to them that is not a household appliance. It is all BS!
At my Home Depot, they have plastic bags for you to put the bulbs in. I've never had a problem with anything breaking. They don't take the long tubes, though. I've seen them in people's trash cans multiple times.
Hi Zack, maybe you could also do a video about textile recycling someday. Fast fashion is a huge problem we will be facing in the future, since the recycling methods in large scale are limited (especially for textile blends). For example if there is elastane in your clothing, it is most likely not being recyled and ends up on landfills or is incinearted. Therefore, less than 1% of textile waste is recycled to become a new fibre or yarn for clothing. Maybe you can reach out to a recycling facility for textiles and get your audience an understanding on the difficulties and possible soultions on this subject. Cheers Lukas
Вообще не понимаю, какие идиоты допустили массовое производство ртутных ламп? Ведь это очевидно, что после использования ее будут просто выкидывать не зная даже какой вред она может принести. Зато майнинг у них много энергии потребляет
my dad used to work at a lamp plant, and they were very proactive about checking the employees for mercury exposure. they would make you sign your name and keep them on file to compare against past signatures in case they started to get jittery or sloppy, as if you were exposed to a harmful amount of mercury and were poisoned, sloppy motor skills are one of the symptoms. always thought that was interesting. cool to see the process to recycle these, having known a bit of the process to make these kinds of bulbs!
I like these plant operation videos. Really enjoyed the Ford plant on the Lighting truck. Now would like to see the Chevy Electrictruck & SUV being built. It was very educational. I use to work for Zenith Electronics in Springfield, MO until they moved the plant to Mexico. I miss it a lot. Especially the people, but I love my job too. Thanks Zack for sharing these type of videos & tell your wife hi too. Love your wheelchair business you all are doing. God bless & have a wonderful day, Chris from Missouri
Always send batteries, and light bulbs, to the recycling point. And I couldn't remember why last week when I was telling someone, you shouldn't eat that much tuna. It is ok but not much something like one can a week.
When I was a kid in grade school the teachers allowed raw liquid mercury to be passed around from student to student as a "science demonstration" of some sort. We'd roll it around on our hands and look at it up close while admiring its strange beauty. At the end of the demonstration the last student to handle the mercury would deposit any tiny amount remaining back into the bottle from which it was originally dispensed. By that time the quantity had decreased dramatically from the amount initially poured into the first child's hands. I asked my parents if I could have some mercury of my own but they told me "No, because it's probably expensive and you don't need it".
Same. You're talking about a _vapor_ that's harmful in such small amounts we're told to immediately leave the room where a single bulb is broken. I mean, I'm sure it's tested and safe and all that, but I still want to be on the other side of a sealed partition or wearing a respirator until I can see the test results for myself.
if private companies can Do so much work for environment Then Imagine what Could US Government can Do with there Enormous budget (Obviously they would've to Throwing money to fund Taliban )
The fish industry itself is feeding the farmed stock with a lot of chemicals. These days fish isn't healthy, eating chicken/beef produce from McDonald's is probably 10x healthier.
I have doubts that they manage to catch all of the dust, you can see on some of the machines a little bit of dust layer. Someone needs to study the people who work there if they develop any illnesses after 10-20 years.
Do companies pay for this recycling or is it government sponsored? I only ask because all that equipment, electricity and manpower cannot possibly be offset by the value of the recycled mercury collected.
I hate dealing with light bulb recycling. People don't realize the cost. At my shop we have to charge to recycle bulbs we had to raise our price to either $1.50 per cfl or $2 per foot of tubes. To send back a box of 25 bulbs it costs about $150. Then we have to deal with storing them until we get enough to send in for recycling. The way we do it is a pallet at a time. It does bring out cost down a lot that way to about $50 a box but then we have to deal with the freight bringing it back up to about $90 a box once everything is all said and done. Its still insanely expensive the store itself doesn't need to make money on the recycling we don't do it for that. We charge a little extra because we often do deals where we do free recycling when purchasing other bulbs or whatever. Plus there is a lot of labor involved in packing up everything so the store wants to cover that cost. We also lose out on a lot of back room storage space which legitimately loses us money. So the higher cost is more of a 'please dont recycle those here, we will take them if you want to pay but we'd rather not since there are free services out there' type of deal if that makes any sense. Oh and just as a tip for anyone reading this, alkaline batteries are safe in the trash. They don't need to be recycled in most US cities. Check your cities info on it but even the EPA will tell you its fine to toss them. The only thing really being recycled is the steel casing and at the end of the day its more energy efficient to just throw them away.
They are not doing it as a “good work to do” kinda thing, they are earning a lot with this work and hence they are doing it. Suppose, if this work will provides them less profit in future, they gonna stop this good work as well.
I would say any retailer who sells fluorescent and HID lamps should be required by law to accept spent lamps. The reason these lamps are ending up in landfills is because people who buy them either are unaware they can be dangerous or are unaware that they need to be recycled. The same goes for regular, non-rechargeable batteries, any retailer who sells these batteries should make it convenient for consumers to easily recycle them at the store. Places like Lowe’s and HD only take back spent rechargeable batteries. The less options for recycling means more people are just going to discard fluorescent and HID lamps and non- rechargeable batteries in their trash.
I remember in science class many moons ago my teacher would show us mercury in a glass jar. Knowing the importance how poisonous mercury really is, I'm surprised to see it, once again, in a glass container. Dropping that bottle would be enough to shut that building down for weeks. Hold onto it tight!
Liquid elemental mercury is actually relatively harmless to humans. What's harmful is mercury vapor or when bacteria convert elemental mercury into biosoluble forms.
I really feel if the store sells it they should recycle it. I tried recycling two round fluorescent lamps at Menards within the past year. They would not because they are round. But they did sell me two replacement round lamps. I'll give Lowes a try if and when I go there and remember the lamps.
The Company/Factory who use tons of mercury to make bulb but did not make good guidance for recycle. At the end, mercury goes to everyone body thru fish & foods 🥑🥝
Probably lower than that, as not many people realize that these bulbs are hazardous during the recycling procedure. It's even less than this if you can't actually find a recycling place to put these bulbs in, or if recycling these bulbs the correct way is less convenient than just throwing them in the trash.
I like this sort of video. Using your platform to educate people about recycling and other critical environment issues is very important, and hopefully impactful. Thanks!
Got 4 55 gallon drums and 2 5 gallon buckets in my garage from the mercury I've collected over the years neat stuff to experiment with as long as it's handled right.
was I the only one that was super uncomfortable with everyone walking around with no breathing protection in a freaking mercury recycling plant? I know it's supposed to be safe, but I feel like this is the kind of thing where you'll start seeing ads on TV for way to sue these companies in like 20-30 years.
WOW, I'm impressed with your professionalism and your natural host abilities. You're video's on recycling, etc... should be featured on television for all to see. Keep up with the great research and content. Thanks
When Zack holds that bottle of liquid mercury, I somehow am kinda worried about a Linus drop happening :s
bruv, Linus gives me anxiety
Uou can see his grip on it with the finger underneath. That wasn't going anywhere.
I'm confident that Linus is officially banned from holding 2/3 of the periodic table in his hands.
What happened?
I can't believe they let him hold it!
When I was I kid I would sword fight with those long lights until they exploded. was super fun. Turns out probably wasn't super safe...
That explains alot Dan.
@@JerryRigEverything agreed, haha. Hopefully they were the LED kind (prolly not due to the age of, well, you know, but here's hoping).
Thanks for the videos, Zack! Please do more of them when you're able.
The problem with recycling them is that those places always have a big drop and if you put in a bulb they immediately crack. You showed the bin at end of video and you can see how that is a hazard!
I did the same as a kid. We didn't care and as you when they exploded, what fun. I grew up in the sixties and into the seventies and we didn't care, nobody did. This about fish is old.
The large round clear bulb is not specifically refered to as an HID. It's either metal halide or high pressure sodium. They still require a ballast but it's not a conventional modern HID
I love those episodes please do more :-)
4:03 Tangent: Aluminum can be sorted magnetically -> eddy current separators.
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Very useful to know did not know some of the things that have mercury in them
My late grandfather had a bottle of mercury, don’t ask how he got it, I don’t know, he had many things. I was looking for something in our garage one time and it was sitting on the edge of a messy table. I knocked it off and it went everywhere, pooling in drips of varying sizes like he shows in the video. We didn’t use a spill kit and it was not a fun time to clean up. I miss that intact mason jar of mercury.
I wish we had a way to recycle tube fluorescent bulbs. Where I live, the dump ckaims they don't have enough mercury to be recycled.
I’m in Texas where there is very little recycling. I’d have to drive an hour into Dallas to recycle. Then, we’re told that 80% of the stuff we drop off doesn’t get recycled.
Interesting
Why were there LED bulbs in with the spiral bulbs since LEDs don't have mercury?
I feel that once Fluorescent bulbs becomes scarce, these machines would be decomissioned.
Talks about toxic dust, then proceeds to open hatch revealing tons of toxic dust free to disperse 🤣
its nice that you make these video`s they are interesting and positive we keep improving
Thank you!
@@JerryRigEverything elon lover
@@Gecmajster123456 random idiot 😂
@@russjam121 totally agree with you, thats your pronoun 🤣
@@JerryRigEverything "mercury is incredibly toxic to both environment and humans" Get your facts right, if mercury was toxic we wouldnt be using it for tooth fillings. its safe material for human use. Please dont spread fear propaganda about mercury.
These factory tour videos are a new favorite for me.
This guy supports Anker which owns Eufy look it's up. Zack knowingly is continuing to support this company even though they spy on Americans. Zack if a fake patriot and you should support his Chanel
Thank you for sharing! These educational videos are incredibly helpful and good for spreading awareness!
No gloves, no respirator, are you for real?
I am loving the influx of "How it's made" type videos from Zack!
Thanks for the informative video. One small correction. Most of the current in a fluorescent bulb is carried by argon gas, not by mercury. Electrons from the ionized argon excite mercury atoms, which then emit uv light. The uv light is absorbed by the phosphors, and they in turn give off visible light. That’s why the uv lamp you showed had no phosphor coating. It uses the uv light from the mercury directly.
and in UV-C tubes they have to use special "quartz" glass (its not actually the mineral quartz) or else the short UV waves would be blocked by the glass as it absorbs those spectra. The black color on many UV tubes are probably a filter to block out visible spectrum light as to not disrupt how the UV looks when you use it to make things fluoresce.
The special "quartz" glass they use in these bulbs gets damaged severely by the UVC in just a few hours. It will loose a significant amount of its ability to let through short wave UV light, something like 10-15%. but after the first "burn in" period of the glass, its clarity reduces much more slowly. But over time the bulb will eventually need to be replaced due to the light damaging it to the point it doesnt transmit much UV.
a lot of "CO2" lasers also have a mix of gasses to make them LASE.
@@alexdrockhound9497 i feel like you still have to include the R when using "laser" as a verb.
@@jonathanodude6660 "The back-formed verb to lase is frequently used in the field, meaning "to give off coherent light""
"when a laser is operating it is said to be "lasing""
@@alexdrockhound9497 ah. You wrote it as an acronym, which changed its reading such that the meaning was lost. If lase is backformed from laser (the device) rather than LASER (the process) then spelling with capitals would be misleading as the original meaning of the acronym is not relevant to the meaning of the verb; the verb is not an acronym at all and has no reason to be spelled in caps. “Lasering” would have a different connotation and implied meaning, correct? Ie a material could “lase” but only a person could “laser”?
great video as always.
here in norway every shop that sells lightbulbs, and batteries for that matter, are obliged to collect used ones.
This was really informative and useful. Really concerning about the mercury contamination of fish... not to mention the guidance of reduce of consumption of cans of tuna. One would think there would be stricter regulations federally in place to reduce this contamination.... goes to people really need to get push their elected officials locally and federally in doing the right thing in environmental as well health regulations and not be beholden to lobbyists and corporations.
I bet most people rather their money be spent on something else like gun rights
@@thomasandrews9355 Wouldn't be much need to spend money on retaining a right if there weren't so many trying to get rid of it. Really is nice we can do both simultaneously though.
@@thomasandrews9355 i would
The reason fish in particular are a problem is bioaccumulation. Most of the land animals we eat are herbivores, but a lot of fish, especially big ones, are carnivores, and they eat other, smaller carnivores, sometimes several layers deep. Each step up the food chain concentrates any contaminant that can't be filtered out expelled. Material in the ocean flows around, so limiting fishing to cleaner regions only does so much, and people would complain if tuna just ended up being illegal to sell. People who know about this and are concerned can choose other foods that are much lower in mercury, like fish that eat plants, or replacing canned tuna with chicken.
Even if we stop adding new pollution globally, things like mercury will hang out in the biosphere for a while, before they end up getting deep enough in sediment to be removed from circulation.
Radiation can be detected from a safe distance and eventually decays away over time. Mercury doesn't ☠️ it stays forever toxic and *builds up* in food chain
The vaporization and subsequent cooling is more expensive in terms of energy consumption why they are not using alternative chemical separation techniques?. great video looking for more industrial content like this 🤩
Interesting, I never really gave this any thought. I guessed it was only the glass that got recycled.
I think Led lighting does not have mercury but before being soo popular we have used various tipes of florescent lamps that have warnings in the packege also our old monitors that are non led backlighted uses florescent lamp that has mercury too and have on the back of the panel an warning about the correct dispose of that device.
Only certain types of light bulbs actually have mercury in them. Incandescent and halogen lamps, which just contain a filament, do not contain mercury - whereas CFL lamps, fluorescent lamps, discharge lamps (sodium/metal halide/mercury vapor) etc contain mercury that needs to be carefully disposed of.
Thankfully, LED lamps do not contain mercury.
@@Johnny2Feathers sure... in this not giving this thought means poisoning our food supply. Seems dumb.
@@TheSpotify95 But in the first minute of the video he said halogen bulbs have mercury in them, are you saying Zack is wrong?
“Today on how it is unmade”
This is really cool process!
I love how committed you are to help the environment and educate/entertain us at the same time. This makes for continually great content!
These videos like this are amazing where your channel is headed. However, we need an update on the whisper project.
I like the direction the channel is going. Love to hear about the positives that we can do for the environment.
Hmm.. the outside of the crusher is pretty white from that dangerous white powder 🥺
Thanks Zack, for also spitting facts like FDA recommendation to not have more that one can of Tuna per week 😅 Also, great job on covering this!
Yeah, that was impetus for me to finally check how much higher in mercury the "no added salt" white albacore tuna I'd been giving my cats occasionally was (it's almost cheaper than canned cat food & same sodium!). Turns out it's *3X* regular tuna! I knew it might be a little higher, but how are they even allowed to sell this?!?
@@joez.2794 Tbh pets are not that protected and companies are allowed to sell real crappy food that would be banned if it were to humans.
@@desther This isn't pet food tho - it's grocery store Starkist tuna.
Thanks for letting me know I could recycle them at Lowes. That's super easy. I switched all my lights to LED a while ago but I'll keep that in mind.
I was curious, as PA is my stomping grounds and all... was mostly curious how close you were to my area of operations, so I google map checked this "Clean Earth" place.... only two I can find at all are bordering us, one in WV, and one in DE. Is this a new one? Or were you just on the border? Not really that important, just curious.
I work for a collection centre and it's nice to see such a huge amount of everyday house stuff gathered together and know it'll be given new life. Recycling is fundamental.
The problem with the places like Lowes and Home Depot to recycle is that the bins for recycle are too big and whenever you put in a bulb they immediately break. And some of them don’t want to take fluorescent bulbs.
I've had that problem as well. The noise from all that glass breaking is extremely distracting and keeps you from focusing on why you came to the store in the first place. Half the time when you go to talk to an employee, there's a communication problem, not only because of all of the noise but sometimes because the employee is wearing a mask.
Yeah, I asked a Home Depot employee whether they accept fluorescent tubes, and he said yes. I came back to the store with a couple of fluorescent tubes, and another employee told me they didn't accept tubes.
The only bulbs they recycle are fluorescent bulbs. None of the others contain mercury. Unfortunately, they often only take compact fluorescent bulbs, not the tubes as they're much more bulky.
@@electronics-girl Exactly this has happened to me. And then my town has a e-waste recycle day, but they too only take household appliances not bulbs because according to them that is not a household appliance. It is all BS!
At my Home Depot, they have plastic bags for you to put the bulbs in. I've never had a problem with anything breaking. They don't take the long tubes, though. I've seen them in people's trash cans multiple times.
Hi Zack,
maybe you could also do a video about textile recycling someday. Fast fashion is a huge problem we will be facing in the future, since the recycling methods in large scale are limited (especially for textile blends). For example if there is elastane in your clothing, it is most likely not being recyled and ends up on landfills or is incinearted. Therefore, less than 1% of textile waste is recycled to become a new fibre or yarn for clothing.
Maybe you can reach out to a recycling facility for textiles and get your audience an understanding on the difficulties and possible soultions on this subject.
Cheers
Lukas
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This reminded me of that one iCarly episode where they missed the world record because they broke a CFL lightbulb and they evacuated the building 😂
Great video! Loved seeing what happens, and the resources to recycle.
Вообще не понимаю, какие идиоты допустили массовое производство ртутных ламп? Ведь это очевидно, что после использования ее будут просто выкидывать не зная даже какой вред она может принести. Зато майнинг у них много энергии потребляет
its nice that you make these video`s they are interesting and positive we keep improving
Surprised you didn't provide an analogy to the danger of mercury vapor with the "Mad as a Hatter" saying.
my dad used to work at a lamp plant, and they were very proactive about checking the employees for mercury exposure. they would make you sign your name and keep them on file to compare against past signatures in case they started to get jittery or sloppy, as if you were exposed to a harmful amount of mercury and were poisoned, sloppy motor skills are one of the symptoms. always thought that was interesting. cool to see the process to recycle these, having known a bit of the process to make these kinds of bulbs!
And then they thought it was good idea to put that toxic metal into ppls tooth fillings.
I had no idea some of my light bulbs had mercury in them. Thanks for this video Zack, I'll be recycling any of my florescent bulbs from here on in.
Now i realise what they do with our light 🚨
I like these plant operation videos. Really enjoyed the Ford plant on the Lighting truck. Now would like to see the Chevy Electrictruck & SUV being built. It was very educational. I use to work for Zenith Electronics in Springfield, MO until they moved the plant to Mexico. I miss it a lot. Especially the people, but I love my job too.
Thanks Zack for sharing these type of videos & tell your wife hi too. Love your wheelchair business you all are doing. God bless & have a wonderful day,
Chris from Missouri
Always send batteries, and light bulbs, to the recycling point.
And I couldn't remember why last week when I was telling someone, you shouldn't eat that much tuna. It is ok but not much something like one can a week.
Aluminium can be magnetically separated using eddy current separators, the prongs looked like brass but could have been plated.
When I was a kid in grade school the teachers allowed raw liquid mercury to be passed around from student to student as a "science demonstration" of some sort. We'd roll it around on our hands and look at it up close while admiring its strange beauty. At the end of the demonstration the last student to handle the mercury would deposit any tiny amount remaining back into the bottle from which it was originally dispensed. By that time the quantity had decreased dramatically from the amount initially poured into the first child's hands. I asked my parents if I could have some mercury of my own but they told me "No, because it's probably expensive and you don't need it".
Bro why are you not posting ur electric hummer videos??
The effort that goes into recycling these things is kinda satisfying
I love that you make all different types of videos and I especially love that this wasn't even sponsored.
Please recycle ♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️ toxic things, in one way or another it will help you guys
I was holding my breath for a 'glass is glass' phrase, but alas... :P
I would be so worried to be in that room without breathing protection 😄 how safe is this
Same. You're talking about a _vapor_ that's harmful in such small amounts we're told to immediately leave the room where a single bulb is broken. I mean, I'm sure it's tested and safe and all that, but I still want to be on the other side of a sealed partition or wearing a respirator until I can see the test results for myself.
You know... Glass is glass and glass breaks
if private companies can Do so much work for environment Then Imagine what Could US Government can Do with there Enormous budget (Obviously they would've to Throwing money to fund Taliban )
Believe me, when I say... Zack is the S-class UA-camr on the only S-class application on UA-cam, in the world.
I wish someday I could meet him. 💜
The fish industry itself is feeding the farmed stock with a lot of chemicals.
These days fish isn't healthy, eating chicken/beef produce from McDonald's is probably 10x healthier.
More recycling with Jerry please
I have doubts that they manage to catch all of the dust, you can see on some of the machines a little bit of dust layer. Someone needs to study the people who work there if they develop any illnesses after 10-20 years.
Do companies pay for this recycling or is it government sponsored? I only ask because all that equipment, electricity and manpower cannot possibly be offset by the value of the recycled mercury collected.
Hmm... just watched this video after devouring 2 cans of tuna
I dont feel too good.. My nerves are.. are.. twitching!
I love you videos and the social help you make really good very good ❤
That bottle of mercury is nearly 4kg , and the guy holds it like it's a tube of toothpaste 🤣
It was probably heavier than an M4
Zack should grow a beard. I think it will suit him, plus I've never seen him with a beard before. Lol
I hate dealing with light bulb recycling. People don't realize the cost. At my shop we have to charge to recycle bulbs we had to raise our price to either $1.50 per cfl or $2 per foot of tubes. To send back a box of 25 bulbs it costs about $150. Then we have to deal with storing them until we get enough to send in for recycling. The way we do it is a pallet at a time. It does bring out cost down a lot that way to about $50 a box but then we have to deal with the freight bringing it back up to about $90 a box once everything is all said and done. Its still insanely expensive the store itself doesn't need to make money on the recycling we don't do it for that. We charge a little extra because we often do deals where we do free recycling when purchasing other bulbs or whatever. Plus there is a lot of labor involved in packing up everything so the store wants to cover that cost. We also lose out on a lot of back room storage space which legitimately loses us money. So the higher cost is more of a 'please dont recycle those here, we will take them if you want to pay but we'd rather not since there are free services out there' type of deal if that makes any sense.
Oh and just as a tip for anyone reading this, alkaline batteries are safe in the trash. They don't need to be recycled in most US cities. Check your cities info on it but even the EPA will tell you its fine to toss them. The only thing really being recycled is the steel casing and at the end of the day its more energy efficient to just throw them away.
They are not doing it as a “good work to do” kinda thing, they are earning a lot with this work and hence they are doing it. Suppose, if this work will provides them less profit in future, they gonna stop this good work as well.
I would say any retailer who sells fluorescent and HID lamps should be required by law to accept spent lamps. The reason these lamps are ending up in landfills is because people who buy them either are unaware they can be dangerous or are unaware that they need to be recycled. The same goes for regular, non-rechargeable batteries, any retailer who sells these batteries should make it convenient for consumers to easily recycle them at the store. Places like Lowe’s and HD only take back spent rechargeable batteries. The less options for recycling means more people are just going to discard fluorescent and HID lamps and non- rechargeable batteries in their trash.
Thank you for always writing converted units in the videos
I remember in science class many moons ago my teacher would show us mercury in a glass jar. Knowing the importance how poisonous mercury really is, I'm surprised to see it, once again, in a glass container. Dropping that bottle would be enough to shut that building down for weeks. Hold onto it tight!
Liquid elemental mercury is actually relatively harmless to humans. What's harmful is mercury vapor or when bacteria convert elemental mercury into biosoluble forms.
I have been to this facility delivering bulbs and they also have another building that takes electronics and batteries.
Love these videos. There is still hope for a better future! I didn't know I could recycle these at Lowe's, will definitely do that in the future!
I really feel if the store sells it they should recycle it. I tried recycling two round fluorescent lamps at Menards within the past year. They would not because they are round. But they did sell me two replacement round lamps. I'll give Lowes a try if and when I go there and remember the lamps.
The Company/Factory who use tons of mercury to make bulb but did not make good guidance for recycle. At the end, mercury goes to everyone body thru fish & foods 🥑🥝
Although mercury is used in these bulbs, it is not contained in the white phospor powder.
These recycle videos are amazing
Great video. Much love from Kenya Africa
I think the USA is ahead of the EU for once on this environmental issue
and what is the mercury gonna be used for except in thermometres?
Merry Christmas to you and your family sir. Keep up the good content love from Scotland
What's the current recycling rate of CFLs? 50%? I heard it's still pretty terrible, with an unholy amount ending up in household waste.
Probably lower than that, as not many people realize that these bulbs are hazardous during the recycling procedure. It's even less than this if you can't actually find a recycling place to put these bulbs in, or if recycling these bulbs the correct way is less convenient than just throwing them in the trash.
Thanks for the great content Zach!! Merry Christmas from Layton Utah!!!!
Man i love the new series but im still waiting for the humvee update
I only watch these videos for his voice and the snap leading into the intro
what is the efficiency of the system? if its not 100% What happens to the rest of the mercury that is not extracted?
You can explore making videos about factory tours.. they are always interesting. Hoping more like these come along!
Glass is Glass, and Glass breaks.
Awesome job zack.
I always have had the concern with cCFL bulbs. And after watching this, now I can recycle them. ♻️
we should all recycle if we want our children to have a good life
Super interesting, I hope you'll make more videos about recycling :)
I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos, Keep it up!💛
I like this sort of video. Using your platform to educate people about recycling and other critical environment issues is very important, and hopefully impactful. Thanks!
Got 4 55 gallon drums and 2 5 gallon buckets in my garage from the mercury I've collected over the years neat stuff to experiment with as long as it's handled right.
was I the only one that was super uncomfortable with everyone walking around with no breathing protection in a freaking mercury recycling plant? I know it's supposed to be safe, but I feel like this is the kind of thing where you'll start seeing ads on TV for way to sue these companies in like 20-30 years.
Hey dude thank you very much for the very informative video , iam grade to say “ now I know” 😊.
This gave me big "How It's Made" vibes 👍
I've never seen those bins at either Lowes or Home Depot in Canada.
But I've seen them at IKEA with the battery bins.
It's too bad that most of these bulbs end up in landfills in Canada. No one really cares.
WOW, I'm impressed with your professionalism and your natural host abilities. You're video's on recycling, etc... should be featured on television for all to see. Keep up with the great research and content. Thanks
Ooh I remembered you are mobile review guy but this time non mobile
This 8 minute video is worth it