What do you think a tree hugger is if not someone who cares about the environment. It's become a derogatory term only when various corporations went on the attack. They have spent millions to plant the seeds of animosity through slander and disinformation so people like you will say, "I am not tree hugger" as if it's a bad thing.
Oh god, Otto. Really. China stopped taking the waste a year or two ago, long before the tariffs. And if hating people for producing is what tree hugging is, I guess they are crazy. But I don't believe that's it...
All right. So it was less than that. The ban was announced July 2017. FULL RECYCLING BAN JAN. 1st www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste FIRST TARIFF JAN 23rd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war Not sure why I waste my time refuting your mistakes...
The load ticket said "Dirty Load". This means someone threw garbage into the recycle bin, and the driver didn't catch it before loading it on the truck. Once the load is contaminated, it cannot go to the recycle stream, otherwise the contamination spreads, reduces the material value to less then zero many times. Maybe the Director should educate himself on his own system instead of throwing his people under the bus and making unrealistic promises "never again".
This! right here! the trucks going to the landfill are a last resort reserved for when recycling would be impractical / impossible for a certain load. Don't get mad at your city for properly handling a contamination event, get mad at the SOB down the street who threw garbage into the recycling bin.
This story makes me laugh for a few reasons. One, I grew up in nearby Las Vegas NM. Santa Fe has always championed this green recycling BS and pushed it on the rest of the State. Yet, their own government employees don’t even follow what they preach to the rest of the State. 2. My dad ran a small recycling company in the 1980’s and early 90’s in Las Vegas N.M. call the recycling depot on railroad Ave. The City of Las Vegas and the State got Federal grant money which city governments used to run people like my dad out of business. Independent recycling business saved the cities landfill space and taxpayer money. And city politicians all over the state set up city run recycling programs that did not com close to actually recycling the amount of materials the independent recyclers did. Again, one of many reasons why I left New Mexico in 1990 at the age of 18. Leaving was the best decision of my life.
Sorry those a__hol put your father out of business. I'm not anti government, but why is it, that in order to be in politics you have to have your head in someone else's ass . Don't politicians work for the people.
Thomas Correa in the words of Thomas Jefferson, the 1st rule of politics is to get elected.Thats why a politician has his head up some else’s Ass an many times all 10 of his fingers as well in other people asses.
Too much broken glass might make it hard to sort and not all glass is recyclable. .. but i am guessing its a $ issue. Maby if the recycle plant goes over a certain limit they have to pay more tax or something.
I pay an extra $12 a year for a recycling bin. It’s the exact same size as the garbage bin, but only gets picked up biweekly in comparison to the weekly garbage. I would be a little upset if I discovered my recycling ended up with my trash anyways because I put a forward effort to recycle as much as I can. The recycling is typically full on its pickup day while trash is usually half-full. $12 isn’t much, but I would still be mad at false advertising.
Big question, what happened to the funds allocated for the cost of recycling this load? Follow that and you'll get to the real reason why it was dumped.
@Kabuki Kitsune You are right on my friend, they should have emphasized this in this story. The company I work for bales their own recycle material and pulls alot of non recycle items out as it is being baled. It is a major pain. Some people just do not get it. Maybe if they had to come do this job they would understand. When the driver dumps the customers and cart and sees the wrong items in it, the customer is first warned then next time has their recycle container taken. You simply cannot have these people continue to contaminate the recycle material.
People don't realize, that if you through trash into recycling, it takes a significant amount of time and energy to separate the garbage from the recycling. If any of the recycling gets contaminated with grease or oil, it becomes trash, depending on the material. only certain materials can be truly recycled most plastics, for example, are actually downcycled are much more difficult to recycle afterwards.
03:33 The reason is the almighty dollar. Landfills are operated by Big Waste corporations. If recyclable material was actually recycled, Big Waste would lose a fortune. Dumping recyclables into landfills is profitable for Big Waste. The solid waste supervisor who ordered recyclables to be thrown away was paid off by Big Waste.
Amarillo Texas and Canyon Texas do the same thing. They take ALL recycle material STRAIGHT to the landfill. Basically dumpsters full of aluminum cans, plastic, etc from Walmart recycling sites, STRAIGHT to the landfill.
you don't get that fat by spending money on recycling, you get it by dumping it then taking a bonus. He's surprised he was caught allowing it rather then try to fix it.
Again this happens across the USA and it ain't gonna change as long as them employees get that pay check. That's why I don't go out of the way. 1 Glad trash bag to the curb and no more trip's.. Why am I wasting my time we pay them..
government and business realized they could make money off the nieve and un-informed. my city sends all recycle to a "transfer station" where they load it onto tractor trailers and send to landfills in remote areas where the public cant see the recycle being dumped into landfills.
If the recycling facility is filled to capacity, there wouldn't be any choice but to dump it. But 'contaminated' with glass? Glass is 'recyclable' but usually not in the manner people imagine. Most of it gets crushed and used for concrete aggregate or paving asphalt. Generally only clear glass is reused and that's a fraction of the total.
In Virginia we pay extra for recycling but when trash truck shows up, they empty all bins into same truck. What a scam. I complained but was ordered to look other way. I retired.
The truck drivers probably did it on purpose to save time,it was their last load of the day or they were drunk and didn't want to deal with recycling paper work from the office.
Never trust any Politician of any stripe, verify everything they do or claim to do , as often as possible ! Especially if you voted for them ! Never accept closed door meetings in Government, the number of topics that require secret meanings is extremely short .
Look in delta County Co. Thay are one of the most crupt County in Colorado thay need to be looked into grudge freanch and Delta . Country is so crupt it's not right.
When all the resources used are taken into consideration, consumer recycling doesn't make sense. Pardon the expression, it is a waste. Industrial recycling is a different matter. Consumer recycling is just virtue signaling, an expensive signal.
"Do recycling trucks go to the landfill?"
He really had to think about that question 😂😂😂
He's a little slow.....needed time think up a really great lie.....or not...
I'm not a tree hugger, but I go out of my way to recycle so this really pisses me off.
Nuke Pisses me off too! 😤
What do you think a tree hugger is if not someone who cares about the environment. It's become a derogatory term only when various corporations went on the attack. They have spent millions to plant the seeds of animosity through slander and disinformation so people like you will say, "I am not tree hugger" as if it's a bad thing.
Almost no one is a "tree hugger." What does that even mean, being devoted?
Oh god, Otto. Really.
China stopped taking the waste a year or two ago, long before the tariffs. And if hating people for producing is what tree hugging is, I guess they are crazy.
But I don't believe that's it...
All right. So it was less than that. The ban was announced July 2017.
FULL RECYCLING BAN JAN. 1st
www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste
FIRST TARIFF JAN 23rd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war
Not sure why I waste my time refuting your mistakes...
This may be an old video but this has been going on for YEARS before this was shown. I seen them dumping glass into the dump on the west side of town.
The load ticket said "Dirty Load". This means someone threw garbage into the recycle bin, and the driver didn't catch it before loading it on the truck. Once the load is contaminated, it cannot go to the recycle stream, otherwise the contamination spreads, reduces the material value to less then zero many times. Maybe the Director should educate himself on his own system instead of throwing his people under the bus and making unrealistic promises "never again".
This! right here! the trucks going to the landfill are a last resort reserved for when recycling would be impractical / impossible for a certain load. Don't get mad at your city for properly handling a contamination event, get mad at the SOB down the street who threw garbage into the recycling bin.
New Mexico is a 'dirty load'.
So corrupt and crime ridden.
There is no such thing as a clean load.
everything comes down to the dollar bill. There is always greedy people waiting with a scam.
Every time I am at the Rio Rancho dump there are recycle trucks dumping there.
This story makes me laugh for a few reasons. One, I grew up in nearby Las Vegas NM. Santa Fe has always championed this green recycling BS and pushed it on the rest of the State. Yet, their own government employees don’t even follow what they preach to the rest of the State.
2. My dad ran a small recycling company in the 1980’s and early 90’s in Las Vegas N.M. call the recycling depot on railroad Ave.
The City of Las Vegas and the State got Federal grant money which city governments used to run people like my dad out of business.
Independent recycling business saved the cities landfill space and taxpayer money. And city politicians all over the state set up city run recycling programs that did not com close to actually recycling the amount of materials the independent recyclers did.
Again, one of many reasons why I left New Mexico in 1990 at the age of 18.
Leaving was the best decision of my life.
Sorry those a__hol put your father out of business. I'm not anti government, but why is it, that in order to be in politics you have to have your head in someone else's ass . Don't politicians work for the people.
Thomas Correa in the words of Thomas Jefferson, the 1st rule of politics is to get elected.Thats why a politician has his head up some else’s Ass an many times all 10 of his fingers as well in other people asses.
Cool story
Happens all the time across America.
They're recycling it into the most valuable thing on earth, new land. Have you seen real estate prices lately?
Recycling should be taken more seriously. It’s all of our world. We need to do better all around as a human race.
People are too lazy and stupid to do it properly. 10 homes can ruin an entire truckload.
@@te4bag_k1ngp1n They should start sending fines to people that don’t recycle. Watch how fast many all of a sudden start to recycle.
government makes mistakes but when it is us , we are breaking the law..
We're going to investigate ourselves...sound familiar???
I am sorry did I hear right "contaminated with GLASS" WTF
Too much broken glass might make it hard to sort and not all glass is recyclable.
.. but i am guessing its a $ issue. Maby if the recycle plant goes over a certain limit they have to pay more tax or something.
We don’t recycle glass here
I pay an extra $12 a year for a recycling bin. It’s the exact same size as the garbage bin, but only gets picked up biweekly in comparison to the weekly garbage. I would be a little upset if I discovered my recycling ended up with my trash anyways because I put a forward effort to recycle as much as I can. The recycling is typically full on its pickup day while trash is usually half-full. $12 isn’t much, but I would still be mad at false advertising.
Simple. Recycling is economics . If it cost more to recycle it is easier to reclassify into wqste.
Big question, what happened to the funds allocated for the cost of recycling this load? Follow that and you'll get to the real reason why it was dumped.
I love how they have to sort your own recyclables, then they mix it all into the same truck...
I always get excited once I see that mustache. F*ck yeah, Larry. You’re a warrior
@Kabuki Kitsune oh… didn’t know that. Yikes, really droppin the ball this time huh, Larry.
@Kabuki Kitsune You are right on my friend, they should have emphasized this in this story.
The company I work for bales their own recycle material and pulls alot of non recycle items out as it is being baled. It is a major pain. Some people just do not get it. Maybe if they had to come do this job they would understand.
When the driver dumps the customers and cart and sees the wrong items in it, the customer is first warned then next time has their recycle container taken. You simply cannot have these people continue to contaminate the recycle material.
That was not a mistake, it was intentional.
People don't realize, that if you through trash into recycling, it takes a significant amount of time and energy to separate the garbage from the recycling. If any of the recycling gets contaminated with grease or oil, it becomes trash, depending on the material. only certain materials can be truly recycled most plastics, for example, are actually downcycled are much more difficult to recycle afterwards.
03:33 The reason is the almighty dollar. Landfills are operated by Big Waste corporations. If recyclable material was actually recycled, Big Waste would lose a fortune. Dumping recyclables into landfills is profitable for Big Waste. The solid waste supervisor who ordered recyclables to be thrown away was paid off by Big Waste.
Amarillo Texas and Canyon Texas do the same thing. They take ALL recycle material STRAIGHT to the landfill. Basically dumpsters full of aluminum cans, plastic, etc from Walmart recycling sites, STRAIGHT to the landfill.
Man this happens at Albuquerque all the time today unacceptable
you don't get that fat by spending money on recycling, you get it by dumping it then taking a bonus.
He's surprised he was caught allowing it rather then try to fix it.
The recycle can and trash bin are all dumped into the same truck at the same time
This is exactly why I never recycle and always burn my trash.
Again this happens across the USA and it ain't gonna change as long as them employees get that pay check. That's why I don't go out of the way. 1 Glad trash bag to the curb and no more trip's.. Why am I wasting my time we pay them..
His mouth got dry real quick.. 😄
It has been happening for a very long time
government and business realized they could make money off the nieve and un-informed. my city sends all recycle to a "transfer station" where they load it onto tractor trailers and send to landfills in remote areas where the public cant see the recycle being dumped into landfills.
If the recycling facility is filled to capacity, there wouldn't be any choice but to dump it. But 'contaminated' with glass? Glass is 'recyclable' but usually not in the manner people imagine. Most of it gets crushed and used for concrete aggregate or paving asphalt. Generally only clear glass is reused and that's a fraction of the total.
Russ G glad is not to be mixed with the mixed Recycling
they do this in yakima county
In Virginia we pay extra for recycling but when trash truck shows up, they empty all bins into same truck. What a scam. I complained but was ordered to look other way. I retired.
20 tonnes of recyclable material in 1 day for a city of Santa Fe size is an achievement? That's embarrassing to say the least!
I seen the same thing in Columbus Ohio and I would have recorded it but my phone was dead
The truck drivers probably did it on purpose to save time,it was their last load of the day or they were drunk and didn't want to deal with recycling paper work from the office.
Cardboard and glass don't play well together, that part is true.
Never trust any Politician of any stripe, verify everything they do or claim to do , as often as possible ! Especially if you voted for them ! Never accept closed door meetings in Government, the number of topics that require secret meanings is extremely short .
Contained by glass??? Just sort it out then
Also I wonder what type of glass
I dunno, but it seems to me that New Mexico seems to be trying awfully hard to become the next California.
Government waste Again and the Mayor is so shocked.
GO DUMP ALL THAT RECYCLED STUFF IN MY YARD instead of the landfill ..... SHOOT I"LL MAKE MILLIONS OFF IT
Really? Two trucks? That's so inconsequential.
This supervisor is a liar.....period!
Like NM all the government is lacking.
This happens a lot nothing new or any change.
Recycling makes no economic sense for most materials. This probably happens a lot.
We don't recycle in America. We used to ship it to China of Africa and now they won't take it anymore.
Oh for dumb. Worrying about contaminated loads. When recycle businesses can’t get ride of the material for a profit the loads go to the trash.
Something sounds I mean something smells fishy.
And it's not the lasagna.
read my lips- I cannot lie?
Look in delta County Co. Thay are one of the most crupt County in Colorado thay need to be looked into grudge freanch and Delta . Country is so crupt it's not right.
they all knew. come on. they just got caught. plausible deniability
Send this guy to China so he can learn how recycle really work …lol
Sorry!! Recycling is a scam since much of it has no market for the material. It very often gets transported to other states. Been there done that.
And this is why i dont recycle
All corrupt?!!
a whopping two loads?
In Santa Fe ? Its a Good ole Boy city !
Honestly, I use both trash bins if I have to regardless of recycling
When all the resources used are taken into consideration, consumer recycling doesn't make sense. Pardon the expression, it is a waste. Industrial recycling is a different matter. Consumer recycling is just virtue signaling, an expensive signal.
Recycling doesn’t work.