Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash Anymore
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China, then Malaysia, the Philippines, and now Indonesia refusing taking western countries' trash. Well done
Ardani no no, they refused payment of any more trash
Now it went to Cambodia. Is up to Corrupted PM Hun Sen to send it back or not. I bet he send it back.
@@TruRaidersG i see.. well whatever the outcome is, im wishing all the best for Cambodia
Every time in asian videos western this western that, I'm asian too but you sound so stupid. So Japan is not western??? Your forget you import from them, Singapore too but they're really small. Garbage is going from developed nations to developing countries who have chosen to take it, it's NOT about west vs rest of the world.
@john wick point is this ain't about western countries you dunce. Idgaf if you want it or not🤦
I knew America produced a lot of trash when I saw cucumbers wrapped individually in plastic wrap.
Umar Iqbal wtf is that real
hhha
@s l Pollution and trash are not the same thing
i saw a store selling banana wrapped individually without the skins and 5 banana wrapped together and the store had a huge sign infront of it saying they are reducing plastic waste. the irony in that statement
s l u.s. in one of obese country in the world, talking about health..ironic
Good on you china. Let every countries take care of their own garbages. We need to see the mountain of garbages we created every year to make us start thinking about reducing our waste
@@janisozols2055 why should any country take trash from another country? Its not just about china. Every country needs to take responsibilities of their waste
@@janisozols2055 why wont people buy chinese plastic stuff?
As an American I agree with this statement! Most Americans just consume and consume and CONSUME with zero regard to where it is going. Sure we have huge landfills that everyone knows about but they don’t see the big picture. By making America responsible for its garbage it’ll make the citizens wake the hell up. Teach us how to recycle! Americans think recycling means to mix a bunch of cardboard, dirty empty bottles, broken plastic, drink bottles/cans, etc into a large collection container to be sorted later. Not so fun fact- Once it leaves our homes it’s bailed together and sold for cheap.) Give us compost containers (to be picked up every week just like trash) so we can recycle the methane gas.
America as a country needs to come up with a national set of rules for the trash going into the landfill too. They say trash isn’t worth money here but without trash services we would be looking like the slums. We need to recycle! America can get this under control! If poorer counties can step up and clean up the mess so can we! It’s just we need to be told NO by everyone first because we like “convenience.”
Ouch, poor us. Lol
U got that right .
@@janisozols2055 Many countries already banned plastic bags. Malaysia for e.g. and used only bags that can be recycled like paper bags. In fact, Malaysia is sending back trash to countries that send to them in the first place. Many of the trash that western countries send to Asia are not recyclable or unable to be recycled. ruclips.net/video/tuAZhF4fXt8/видео.html
I used to recycle until I found out over 90% of it gets taken to the landfill anyway. I was sorting it and hauling it across town to the bin for nothing.
Still you wer trying to do the right thing.
Keep doing it..well done!!
That 10% is still better than 0
That's not always the case in all countries though. Scandinavian countries is a good example of that
Raceris we are not going to talk about the Scandinavian countries.
Hey, I’m trying something out: After every video, I’ll comment + pin the best criticism/response. Hopefully it adds some nuance & incentivizes thoughtful comments.
One thing I wish I would've emphasized more is the burning of trash and how that's a trade-off of air pollution in exchange for things like water pollution created by some landfills.
Also: A few of you correctly pointed out that I misspelled the Chinese city of "Hohhot" in the city tier list.
Hey Vsauce, Michael here, and where are your fingers?
You really deserve A LOT more subs that you have.
Informative video. Love your transition into sponsors. However, too many China and iPhone videos are not so intersecting. Experiment with other topics. Love your channel though.
*Pins his own comment* HMMMMM
add metric units you fat fuck
That means I'm not allowed to travel to China anymore
yep
hahaha
You are right o.o
Your comment makes my day, man!
😂😂 sorry no more trash
Here's a simple way to reduce a lot of our trash. Make it illegal to solicit by mail unless the customer opted into it. No more Junk Mail.
Lmao
Crazy Nate
Not a crazy idea, but how much more than $0.55 are you willing to pay for first class postage?
@Thomas B Gaming How does not getting unwanted ads in the mail raise stamp prices?
How often are you mooks sending stuff first class for it to matter?
I always hated seeing so many unwanted mail, then thinking about how many of these are being recycled.
You missed an important clause: importing trash was a prerequisite for allowing China joining WTO in 2001! China had no choice!
In addition, China had banned the plastic shopping bag in almost 10 years in China! But other countries have always permitted to produce. It is really unfair for Chinese people.
Castor Sun After China refused to accept western garbage, Australia began to ban plastic bags😂😂
@@jimmyleo4718 Yes, the adjustment is responsible for the entire human being. Well done, Australia, it is not too late.
@s l No countries with big population grow up without sacrifice their environment and people's health. Britain did, the US did, Japan did, Germany did and all powers did. There are no exceptions. We wish China could get rid of pollution faster than those powers.
@s l I don't know where you find this feeling. You experienced to be f* or heard from some dogs else. 90+% Chinese love their government. Chinese government can bring wellbeing and happiness to everyday lives. Chinese government is the government who is actually doing goodness and bring wellbeing to their civilians, compared to some countries always use so-called "democracy" to criticize others, and always blame some government put their mind on commercial activities in the meanwhile that government is actually putting into practice. Get good job for lip service.
@s l it's the 2nd richest country on the planet, so no it isn't a shithole, what's next, the UAEs a sh**hole too
US: Send all the trash to China and blame China for pollution.
China: No more trash.
US:?????????????
s l ? Carbon emission per capita shows westerners are the biggest polluters, none of the developing countries even come close.
Not through it in the ocean like Asians do.
US:........
US: well, let’s throw it somewhere near China.
@s l Jeez he just said viable facts, why the attitude?
@s l That's the problem, you say fuck this and fuck that. People find that uneducated and not worth debating with.
China : does anything
Polymatter: write that down, write that down!
Pretty much.
Copy
Haa yaar banda chin chin kar raha hai.. isko pata hai ki future chin and india hai isiliye pehle se hi bandwagon mei baitha hai
Charles the French?
Polymatter: does anything
China: write that down, write that down!
It’s so hard to be zero waste when US culture makes almost everything as disposable. I can’t even shop at a farmers market without bringing home something that is meant for landfill (Food stickers & ties)
I agree
Yes, it's very frustrating. We need to start coming up with less wasteful alternatives.
Well done China 🇨🇳👍🏻
Malaysia next 🇲🇾 👌🏻
👍
Then what next? Malaysia's neighbour Singapore?
Huh.....i don't understand sorry........
@Gap oh ok. Thanks for enlightening me with knowledge
India next💪
6:10 So you're telling me I've been wrongly recycling bowling balls this whole time?
And who the hell is he to tell me how to recycle my bowling balls!!?
Man, I Was About To Subscribe To This Channel.
Very Dramatic lol
Bring your own containers when trying to take away food from the restaurant and bring your own reusable paper bags to the supermarket. Reuse is still better than recycle. Only recycle when you have no choice anymore
Obviously you're not a golfer.
I know everyones Been complaining about all those China videos, but i really like them. They are well made and interesting - so why are y'all complaining?
Cause some stuff he says are racist
@@user-lx1ks8bl7l Such as?
@@user-lx1ks8bl7l i dont find anything racist. he is just talking about facts. he does not express any sort of hatred towards china nor any other countries. and actually i find him actually speaks for china. not in a bad political meaning
dumbass 1472 that water bottle joke
@@user-lx1ks8bl7l What water bottle joke...?
This video is great. Without biased ideas or prejudice, only logical analysis. I really learned from it. Good work!
邵润泽 I hope you understand how much our mockingbird mainstream media colluded and assisted the top tier communist/globalist entities who support statist totalitarian ideologies, within our own executive administration, via the Intelligence Agencies. The U.S. media has for many decades, gradually shrugged off any pretense of real investigative reporting, and the few who remain true to trying to defend and seek truth and freedom of the press, are often unrewarded, shunned and forced to go it alone, often ridiculed and "dirtied up" by our IA's, when they get too close to the truth, or refuse to back off. Our country has been running a fake two party choice in presidential elections, never actually giving the people a candidate of their own choosing, but choosing the two CIA affiliates, assets, i.e., the Bush family, with close alliances with their beloved Clintons, who embraced the Obamas, all had ties to CIA, as did their parents, grandparents. Trump won despite all their massive attempts to buy and thwart his campaign, which is why they had to have the "insurance policy" in the million to one chance he got elected despite throwing billions into Hillary's campaign, rigging the system, sending plants and spies in to create the illusion of conspiracy for impeachment if he should win. Anyone who claims our media is a propaganda machine, yet buys their complicit role in the biggest attempted coup and scandal in our history, is a huge hypocrite, and double minded idiot. The media has joined with the globalists, CFR, enemies of our Constitution and freedoms, national sovereignty, years ago, and is the praetorian guard. If you really believe our media is spewing propaganda, then you voted for the man whom the media told you was evil, bad, our enemy and a Putin puppet. If not, you are just a useful idiot, blinded by your cognitive dissonance and brain washed, gullible. Get out of their CIA Mockingbird matrix.
myohmy451 r u ok?
is this sarcasm or am i just stupid thinking everything is sarcarsm
Yo came from Macau
@Alex Gully Yo，same. All these politicians spamming the sh*t out of these keyboards.
would like to see more on this topic. :)
You know all that trash is shipped to Africa now?
@@Mm10122 i want details plz
Ship it to Africa is actually smart
The people who are complaining about the videos about China clearly have not experienced being a non-american in the Internet.
Actually on the opposite, it shows that you have no ideas about how Koreans and Japanese are being worhshipped on American internet.
Jun Du worship? Few weeboes and k pop fans don’t represent USA citizens
Or white supremacy
Ikr they would criticize other country for environmental problem and when they're being criticized, they're all being whiny.
This is not only about China or USA, trash is a problem for the whole humanity. Everyone should produce less trash daily. Try to buy less soft drinks, fancy clothes and use more public transportation.
@@twovoa2151 We could produce less used tires by using more public transportation. And the government could build less parking lots.
@@twovoa2151 Obviously a bus transporting 20 people needs less tires than 20 cars.
@Ethan Dude before that happens the damage could already get irreversible. I get your point but it’s not like you have to completely change your life style and live in a cave. Just try to reduce waste and carbon emissions the way you can. You don’t need to bye a new model smartphone every year, or you could use reusable shopping bags, you could walk to small distance, you could recycle, and there are so many things you could do without having to change your lifestyle completely. I understand even if the world is to be completely obliterated it won’t happen within our lifetime so people don’t care much but still if there is any chance that you could help save the planet for future generations, let’s put some effort.
right 銀ちゃん
@@twovoa2151 thanks man. You helped me find the most ignorant person on "planet earth".
I like how Japan organize their trash. They spend at least 10 minutes on their trash into 10 different categories each week.
Japan used to send their trash to China too don't you know that？？
@@bastricalex775 Not just Japan, all other western countries as well. I don't know what you mean by that, sorry.
Did you mean that Japan changed for the better? Giving less stress to China to solve the trash issue?
@@bastricalex775 what's your point? They saved tons of money when they have their own citizens sorting their own trash instead of collecting them all mixed together then hired someone to sorting the trash
And America is dumb on doing that
兄弟，你恐怕是住在國外，現在國內垃圾分類也變得超嚴格。亂扔要罰錢的。否則怎麼幹垃圾濕垃圾的梗紅遍全國呢。
@@musica0718 日本的垃圾分类和国内的真不是一个级别的。国内最对5种，日本至少10种，就光是塑胶就分好多种。 举个例子，一个带透明的窗口的信封国内可能是就是干垃圾。在日本，你需要吧塑胶透明窗口和信封其他部位分解开来，分开扔。 国内你分好的垃圾天天多能扔垃圾站。但是在日本，每天只能收一种垃圾，今天要是忘了扔软塑料你要等到两周后才能扔。
90% of the comments blaming western nations
10% about random plastic facts
Well there's a significant impact on some ASEAN countries and it will only attract more.
Well I surely wouldn't pin the blame on every western country but hey, its the Internet, it highlights everything
And there is 1% of racist scum bag saying shit about China
@Jose Rivera Learn how to spell China before you say shit online
@@azureholy9787 b'tch you have a country with concentration camps and you defend it, then you call us racists !?, bruh you would get one hella punch for saying such sh't
@@user-jq9fg3sk7q im chinese and il say its trues, he did overreact, but chill my guy, I don't like china and I'm Chinese BUT CHILL
I think we ALL just need to generate less trash. Period.
We need a alternative solution to water bottles like biodegradable bottles instead of plastic ones
@@anthonymolina7416 The only problem with that is money. This is because if you made that product cheaper than plastic then we would stop using plastic. There are also 2 types of plastic classified as thermoset and thermoplastic. Thermosets can't be recycled but thermoplastic can recycle and be used again for other purposes.
Nah what we need to do is just gather the world's garbage into one spot then launch several nuclear bombs lmfao.
Izunami that will just make all of the molecules go into the air.
Anthony Molina How about this? We go back to drinking water out of the tap or public water fountain when we are thirsty (except for the people in Flint, Michigan). I grew up without a water bottle in my hand, and yet somehow I remained hydrated enough. It's a radical idea, but maybe it's just crazy enough to work!
This is just trash talk.
[edit]: I don't hate the video. I love PolyMatter and I have watched every video on the channel. This comment is just for fun. Pls, don't misunderstand.
Nicee
Lololol
pretty garbage video if you ask me
Trashy
lmfao
Mom:is there any more trash
Me:points at sister
China: We-
Pollymatter: Write that down! Write that down!
But unlike other channels, PolyMatter spits straight fax.
@@primeroyal7434 but he hides the issues with China.
Look I don't care what anyone thinks of China but, they do know how to name their policies really well.
I was like: oh, these government policies have names, interesting
Chinese people have the highest IQ in the world, google it.
Lmao!!
SSMART No we don’t, i still failed my fucking AP government exam as usual
@@potatonoodlebear8035 Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean the rest of Chinese people are too lol.
That's why my ex's China Visa was cancelled....
Try American Express next time and Don't leave home with out it.
You sir deserve a like
Lol. Underrated comment
Someone sign this guy pls
🤣🤣🤣this one is too good.
Here in the Philippines, it's quite hilarious, if President Duterte hadn't declared war Trudeau wouldn't have acted.
@Ken Lompart true, are you a conservative?
@Ken Lompart good on you mate.
KOYba same here I hope people are not dumb enough to elect him again
Exporting trash to other country is so hypocritical
Like how western countries use democracy as a tool to bully China in whatever ways they want
The international community has, for the longest time, pointed fingers and criticised China for polluting the environment. However, the only reason why most nations never have to worry about their own rubbish is because China helps to clear it for them. Oh, how have the tables turned.
@@NightcorEDM HEY GO FUCK YOURSELF
Yeah America should have just let Japan rape your whole country in WW2.
IzzyReal France should have let Britain rape your whole country in revolutionary war.
@@izzyreal6472 your stupidity is even more staggering than your country's debt
@@johnzhang465 your stupidity is staggering if you understand we can put a nice blockaid on your ports after your rocket stockpile runs out crippling your economy while ours improves via the military industrial complex of america
Wow an unbiased video about China, pretty rare these days.
Because if a video mentions or is focused on one of the many (very real) horrendous aspects of China, it's already "biased"... Yeah, right.
Chinese spy right here
@@tuananhtran925 lol
very biased, biased towards china
They're a lot more common than you care to admit.
Thank you, Asia, for forcing us in the West to get our own act together! Not denying scale and the massive infrastructural problems in Asia, Africa and South America but we ALL need to step up our moral responsibility! Greetings from a Dane tired of collecting "civilized" people's trash here.
first my girlfriend says this to me,
then china 😭
Try sending her to china. They don't want her too !
That’s sad man. But you are cute :)
You A Failure Mate
Chinese girls are really really hot
朋友，欢迎来到中国山东大学，政府会送你3个女朋友。这是真实的。
Meanwhile in Sweden: we are running out of thrash to recycle so we have started to import trash from neighboring counties so our recycling plants are efficient.
I didn’t know that burning trash is efficient. I guess it’s a good source of income though if people pay you to do it.
@@WranglerSlim who says they are burning trash.
I heard that Sweden sends it's trash to Russia to be burned.
veipunii lana They have big plants that burn trash and recyclables as fuel. ruclips.net/video/caw-969W-D4/видео.html
Meanwhile, Pewds likes to "trash" India's #TSeries :P \ #BitchLasagna
This guy deserves A LOT more subs
Everyone, every single person must recycle.
More important to use less.
Damn, trash travels way farther than me..
America: Hey China
China: What
America: _Want some waste?_
China: You nearly got me there, nearly.
More like
China: no I no longer want your trash
come onnn its some really good motherboard material lol
One man's waste is another man's treasure!
@@yerrrrr2787 What the heck bro?! Shouldn't it be the other way around?
@@bing4153
American put Muslims in the ground.
The only way to deal with trash is to upgrade this recycling business technically and economically .
I've got a better idea. Why don't we just stop generating so much trash?
@@daneclark3161 Maybe such education should begin since kinder garden.
@@daneclark3161 除非你想回到山洞里面去。现代人需要塑料制品！！！！！
lei molei - We are totally wasteful and certainly do not “need” even the tiniest fraction of the plastic that we generate.
thank you for the sharing!
Wanted to hit the thumbs up button again a few times in this video! Video is a good explanation of various aspects that most don't think or know of!! Nice job & thanks.
If you're thinking of going to China, I found the lower tier cities quite a bit more pleasant to visit than the tier 1 cities.
Dunhuang and Guilin are definitely worth seeing, and if you're going in winter check out Harbin.
Of the tier 1 cities, I liked Beijing more than I liked Shanghai.
The lesser known places are most of the times better because lesser people to spoil those places the better .
Lijiang, Qingdao, Xi'an, Chongqing, West Sichuan, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia are also great
yeah, tier 1 cities are even not worth visiting especially if you come from London, Paris and NYC. Try Urumqi, Hulun Buir grassland, Xiamen or Dali next time.
@@xcliu6269 or dallas and houston Texas as tier 1 city
@@xcliu6269 My full itinerary was:
Urumqi
Dunhuang
Xian
Chengdu
Guilin
Shanghai with a day trip to Suzhou
Harbin
Beijing with a day trip to Shanhaiguan
So much more I would have seen if I had been willing to spend more time and money on that trip. Also I was really impressed by the Chinese rail network.
Thank you so much for producing an informed, unbiased video about China 🇨🇳
Pro =/= Unbiased.
This guy says nearly nothing critical of China.
Granted, he does provide information helpful to understanding China, since a lot of other sources won't, but that doesn't mean he's unbiased.
Fuck China.
@@EvilParagon4 This video sounds like a CCP paid infomercial. Just like when the infographicshow talked about T-Square and how no one died.
@@darnleynyirenda8304 Fuck you. No matter where you are from
@Jalan Marshall By say this , you are implying that youtube belongs to your country which is extremely intelligent to say.
Excellent reports, and impressive translations. Thank you lovers alike.💌
Shocking all the way! Thanks for creating this!
Chinese people say that "stuff coming from America is trash" so that's what they were talking about
The tech they steal and copy isn't trash though is it lmao
Meanwhile, Americans reply: "you should know, you made it China!"
China's rebuttal: "You paid for it"
xBXRxAaron they just do it to rise U.S debt
US : China is full of smog, full of air polution, health hazard, and poisonus water
China : **stops buying US's trash**
US : Wait.That's illegal !!!
EDIT: this is a joke. don't get offended please....
You all realize this is bull shit right? Yeah they took trash but this makes virtually no difference. China's smog has nothing to do with the trash they take. They are and always will remain the biggest polluter regardless. This will not lower there carbon footprint at all. USA is still infinatly less pollution making. So china can scam ur dumb ass all day but they still pollute.
goodman854 you need go back to your room and play video games for the rest of your life.
@@zenzenchi you do realize this was a joke right ??
@@goodman854 you do realize this was a joke right ??
@@goodman854 you realize that they have the biggest population?
per person the USA is the biggest polluter
I’ve been getting recommend this for over a week so I have to watch it for youtube to leave me alone
American should seriously think about reducing your waste production and introducing more sustainable lifestyle to the general public such as public transportation and renewable energy
Nah China should, They produce them.
@@OHOE1 This comment doesn't make any sense
@@OHOE1 I mean
Your not wrong 😂 Half of the products you use are were probably made in China
China: GDP grows .01 percent slower than normal.
Polymatter: REEEEE
Indeed. Given the investments China makes into infrastructure and so on, to stay afloat they need such a high growth rate, and if the growth rate drops it is indeed worrying.
@Kai ii 凯伊 To be honest, same thing goes for US, there are no headlines like “US grows faster than China” in absolute numbers, because everyone always look on percentages. So it’s pretty natural that when India starts to do big percentages, it gets everyone’s attention.
GDP (PPP) per capita 2016:
US - 57 588$
China - 15 530$
India - 6 573$
GDP (PPP) per capita 2017:
US - 59 531$
China - 16 806$
India - 7 055$
US went up - 1 943$
China went up - 1 276$
India went up - 482$
@@stafer3 so US's GDP per capita is nearly 4 times as much as the Chinese but in terms of growth Chine grows half as much as the US, so they did twice as good as the US
@Kai ii 凯伊 You have to understand Indians love to use GDP PPP.
@@LegendTheAnonymous and what ?! you dont need infrastructure ?! look at your city & ours ... who;s on the right path ?!
China: Exist
PolyMatter: *It's free real estate*
Unequal Treaties joke goes here.
Top 10 people who keep memes alive
@Ungregistered User Eventually you'll get East Turkestan for free too. China's "Other Tibet".
The fckn transition gets me everytime
I laughed when it was written ™ in the end
Thank you for making my day :')
trade mark
The company I work for is closely connected to one of the largest facilities to manufacture cement in Europe. Cement production consumes insane amounts of energy at a level where the lights flicker whenever they switch the large machines on and off (it strains the local grid's capability to compensate). As it turns out, they generate 60% of their profits by burning trash to produce more than half of the energy onsite (with extensive filtration; they are very clean at it). They basically make a profit before selling anything at all.
Since they also sell some of the by-products, the company is producing so cheaply that it's impossible to compete with them on a national level and to an extent even across the borders. The facilities and machines are also so insanely expensive that nobody dares to put up that kind of investment. They are very close to a monopoly and don't rly have much innovation going on as a result.
What is the name of this wonderful company?
at least its a green monopoly
Cemex. Though they didn't build the thing up from the ground. The basic system for repurposing trash was set up decades ago in a less refined form. The plant itself has seen different owners over time and a number of very costly modernizations took place. It's heavily automated, too.
The cement industry itself isn't too profitable overall and even the big players seem to run into financial troubles quite frequently. I wouldn't be surprised, if the facility switches owners again at some point. The people that work there have seen them come and go, but the facility always found a bidder.
Polymatter videos: China and Iphone.
and Amazon :)
and Somalia pirates
1:57 the way the green circle lines up with the green in the flag satisfies me
5:42 "...so San Francisco..."
Those are Czech writtings on those bins.
Enjoyed that report. It's refreshing to see a seemingly non-biased examination of Chinese Economic and Geopolitical relationships. Enjoying the improved air in quality Beijing.
Subbed.
l la America produces 40% of the world's waste
@s l per capita we are worse. China is at least taking steps forward while we take steps backwards
@s l trash also does not fall under pollution, its waste. There is a difference
Dante X I hope you understand how much our mockingbird mainstream media colluded and assisted the top tier communist/globalist entities who support statist totalitarian ideologies, within our own executive administration, via the Intelligence Agencies. The U.S. media has for many decades, gradually shrugged off any pretense of real investigative reporting, and the few who remain true to trying to defend and seek truth and freedom of the press, are often unrewarded, shunned and forced to go it alone, often ridiculed and "dirtied up" by our IA's, when they get too close to the truth, or refuse to back off. Our country has been running a fake two party choice in presidential elections, never actually giving the people a candidate of their own choosing, but choosing the two CIA affiliates, assets, i.e., the Bush family, with close alliances with their beloved Clintons, who embraced the Obamas, all had ties to CIA, as did their parents, grandparents. Trump won despite all their massive attempts to buy and thwart his campaign, which is why they had to have the "insurance policy" in the million to one chance he got elected despite throwing billions into Hillary's campaign, rigging the system, sending plants and spies in to create the illusion of conspiracy for impeachment if he should win. Anyone who claims our media is a propaganda machine, yet buys their complicit role in the biggest attempted coup and scandal in our history, is a huge hypocrite, and double minded idiot. The media has joined with the globalists, CFR, enemies of our Constitution and freedoms, national sovereignty, years ago, and is the praetorian guard. If you really believe our media is spewing propaganda, then you voted for the man whom the media told you was evil, bad, our enemy and a Putin puppet. If not, you are just a useful idiot, blinded by your cognitive dissonance and brain washed, gullible. Get out of their CIA Mockingbird matrix.
@s l 1. No shit the Chinese government lies, but if you're story is true it wouldnt be the entirety of the country leaning this chemical that you probably dont even know what it is. 2. It was probably a company that's American based and outsourced to a Chinese factory, you simpleton.
What? Americans don't split their recycling?
What a waste of time, we split out recycling into glass, plastic + cans and compost.
Americans. What did you expect?
Mikey I think it’s an abysmal amount. I’m pretty sure it’s something like only 6% of waste gets recycled or something like that.
Mikey I depends where in America. Did you forget this federal country is the size of Europe?
And I have no idea why. I *want* to sort my recyclables but it would be useless to.
When it comes to people who live in one of those massive apartment complexes and condo communities basically nobody recycles anything there's just a few massive dumpsters around the complex where people can dump whatever they want in them and forget about it.
:)...Nice...I lived in Vacaville when I was in the service, in the 80's ...We had a lot of farmland; fruit, nuts and wine orchards were everywhere...I had buddies that had naval orange trees and lemon trees that grew fruit the size of soft balls...:)...
Oh cool same!
Today i learnt that Scotland/UK and San Franciso have the same bin setup
I always enjoy the videos about China. They're the world's rising star, and it's interesting to see your nuanced prospective about a country we only hear politicized news about.
because its a dictatorship
@@Trey5Damare communist*, not dictatorship
@@liuner2479 whats the difference
That probably has a lot to do with all the communism and also the recent horrendous social credit system. China’s characteristics don’t always have to be mutually exclusive. It’s is global superpower, nuanced and culturally enriched, but can also be legitimately politicized coz a lot of bad shit goes down as well.
@@ratchet2266 Oligarchy vs autocracy. While you may be raised to believe the west is governed by democracy, I think in many cases it's effectively more of an oligarchy, too.
7:29 It irks me so bad that you didn't colour in green fence or blue sky with green and blue
I thought the same, why is blue sky in black color...
It's China... Everything is Red
OMG THEY KILLED KENNY!
Nah I know it's a joke but not really, people actually start to dislike the color red
@@user-ld4jc9je3o I meant in the sense that it's communist... Not that it's a common colour
OMG THEY KILLED KENNY!
And what I meant is exactly same as you
You pin the wrong location of Guangzhou and Shenzhen on the map
I would personally credit Simcity 4 for introducing me to this subject.
Always impressed by the research behind. Great job !
1:08 "Look closely and you might notice something strange"
Yeah there is a damn duck just casually walking around a landfill
Better than walking around the concrete and traffic 15 miles away, lol.
Good job China and Malaysia!!!! Stand your ground.
共产党批准了这条水什么鬼哈哈
The water bottle says “The CCP approves this strip of water” haha 1:12
LOL
Haha
I was going to sleep, but the notification woke me up
okay let's watch it
Your ears are too sensitive. FIX THEM.
Appreciate the effort to put that Umlaut in there mate.
Good stuff keep posting.
U.S said " I am superpower, i can controll everything"
China " So what about your trash??"
U.S replied, " That is an exceptional "
We should make plastic out of hempweed, cellulose and sugar, Then we can eat our leftover plastic or feed it to livestock or pets.
Then do it and make it cheaper than plastic.
I wanted to see how many likes I would get by inventing a utopian product.
@@kerryrus have you invented it yet, and why are likes so important?
@@radioactivedynamite I wanted to see how many people would believe anything. Not many, only 13.
@@kerryrus believing in something has two different spectrum where it can end up either as a dream, or a reality. If all you do is hope for something and nothing happens then it's a dream, but if you work towards something then it will become a reality. Stop living the dream until you have lived the reality.
"Luckily there's something we're really good at producing a lot of: trash"
humanity just died a little hearing that..
5:41 oh, our beautiful bins. yay
It's harder to separate when there's only 1 bin.
All the paper, plastic, sawdust and other trash we separate at my workplace gets picked up by one truck, and they dump all of it in the same container. In other words, the goodwill efforts of people gets undone by the corporate will of cutting cost.
Omg I love these kind of channels, HAI and PolyMatter. Education with jokes in it (even some bad ones). I love it. Please keep doing it like this
China: **breathes**
Polymatter: Oh my God you didn't!
Unbiased review. Love your channel!
I have a solution (for the plastic all other recyclable are screwed) you manufacture a ton of airtight metal spheres/cubes/cylinders fill them with plastic vacuum seal the plastic filled spheres then heat them causing pyrolysis which will produce new smaller polymers like short-chain hydrocarbons which can be used a carbon-neutral fuel in internal combustion engines or be used to reform long hydrocarbons (i.e plastic). This could also be slightly modified to accommodate cellulose/lignin so fibrous plant waste/paper could be recycled into something other than more paper.
1:10 grammar is wrong. The right one is 共产党批准了这瓶水。
And by the way, it means communists approved this bottle of water.
Cobwelly TV hello CARES, i’m NO ONE
@@shorts-ceo but i care this fuck
*the communist party of China
@@shorts-ceo you don't care = no one fucking cares -> you do fuckn't onenoing
这些共产党傻子
😅 😅 😅 That Uber joke.
Anyways.
Next look at Africa/Europe/Australia, please.
Only one of those is interesting
@@sleepysartorialist Which is?
@@itsshopboy Africa
@@itsshopboy C H I N A
@@jinjunliu2401 I think so too. But perhaps data availability to make up a case might be a problem
"Let's all be real, we all have busy lives and it's kinda hard to find an hour or two during the day where you can sit down and read" oh if you only knew back then..... lol
4.4 lbs of waste a day?!! Per person?!! What the heck?! My family of 7 together doesn't make that much waste per day. Are they averaging us with commercial waste or something?
I found out about this last September. I'm surprised it's just now being covered by channels like this.
Regardless, thanks for spreading the word!
Another informative, yet concise and easily understood, lesson. Thank you 🙏
In Devon UK where I live you have to wash, sort and recycle. Recycling collected every week. Landfill every three weeks and you only get one bin to fill. Genius. It has forced people to recycle who would not have bothered otherwise.
Yeaaaaa im gonna speak for all of us and say fuck off
Hello from Denmark. We are burning our trash for electricity, heat, and hot water.
Since the process produces all of that, we simply use all of that.
We are importing trash to keep our burners going. This is a future problem when we no longer produces enough trash. But for the moment we are earning money on trash, converting that into "green energy" because we are that good to recycle then we are left with 0 landfills, and our trash being burned are overall non-recyclables.
That is part of our "Danish model"
but burning trash is pretty toxic don't you think? I mean it is beneficial to burn trash for energy but that compounds the CO2 problem and releases harmful particles to the air.
@@anyanyanyanyanyany3551 it terms of that, we would need to consider firstly the kind of powerplant that it replaces. Secondly it is mostly bio trash, using highly efficient incinerators that scrub the worst of the pollutants from flue gases.
Then we don't need separate powerplants to generate heat, or hot water.
But a lot of the imported trash does contain a lot of plastics.
And we that we do not have any landfills, at all.
@@anyanyanyanyanyany3551 nope it's filtered is different from open burning that we do in balkan villages in DK they do this on a power plant whixh filters all the s💩 that would come in the air and burning makes dark grey or black but is white instead so it means all of the harm is removed
@@anyanyanyanyanyany3551 landfilling is x1000 worse landfills release methane and pollute water and ground
@@taiwanisacountry bio trash is composted the incineration is for non recycleables
The title feels like a personal attack.
It is... for Americans
Maybe you should be able to handle your own trash?
@Kate *Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Well why can't you handle your own shit?
Can you please cite your sources with in-line video references and a citation list in your video information section please. Excellent work as always
I dunno. waste minimization solution: Electronics taxes and repair/maintenance subsidies. I've heard alot of people talk about how they don't really need more than 1080p. tbh we could potentially stop at there and just push the price of electronics ridiculously high and repairing semi to super affordable. Build soda fountains w/ some kind of subscription service to minimize plastics waste for bottles. They're some of the ideas that came to mind while watching this video.
"Do you see something weird?" (1:14) Well I think theres a giant chicken clucking around in the garbage pile.
7:13 "Operation Green Fence"
shows a red and black fence instead because logic
It has no logo, the logo is added by the youtuber
0:36 did anyone notice that the tier 4 city Hohhot was written as Hothot
According to the Food Sustainability Index 2017, the countries with the lowest food waste generation per capita include Greece and China (44 kg per year), followed by India (51 kg). The countries with the highest waste creation are Australia (361 kg), followed by the U.S. (278 kg)
With the largest population, China produced the largest quantity of plastic, at nearly 60 million tonnes. This was followed by the United States at 38 million
China: 1.37 billion population
USA: 329.45 million population
Who is the trash producer and food waster ?
I still don’t understand why each cookie has to be packed in its individual package.
Want a simple, but hard solution to all the plastic trash? Put eco fee's on it, and make stores apply it to the shelf price. People are fairly predictable, and don't change all the much. If a shopper see's the same product in a tin\glass\aluminum package and it's cheaper then plastic, that's what they will buy most of the time.
On the topic of disposable bags, reusable bags aren't always the better solution. Most reusable bags need to be used well over 100+ times before they break even. I'm not saying don't use them, just keep in mind how much they need to be used.
It's not going to be easy, but we need to use the human condition to our advantage rather then fighting against it. Consumers are going to buy the cheaper product, and that's not going to change.
@Fnord Fnordington he said THE SAME PRODUCT CHEAPER THAN PLASTIC. Not a different product
@Fnord Fnordington way to take it out of context. Yea people spend extra on status symbols, but how many cheap version's are sold for each fancy brand?
Apply the eco fee to the trash when it comes in. Use the fee to is subsidized the recycling of the materials. Of course this fee could also be supplied to the countries that are recycling the stuff they are sending us. If not, the money could go to the countries or places that will do the recycling. Of course, for ethical reasons, the recycling should be policed so that it follows social and environmental standards.
@Fnord Fnordington How can you miss the point by so much.
@@stanleytolle416 so long as the fee is part of the listed price on the shelf, because most people don't pay attention to fee's applied at the till.
I'm not entirely opposed to plastics as a material, but there's really no need for it in a lot of cases (plastic bottles vs glass\aluminum), and plastics are hard\expensive to recycle, so we should really reduce our usage of it.
5:40 Hey, those are the containers from Prague. So that's free ad for "Pražské služby" and "Ekokom", i guess. thanks for the free ad. :)
5:40 talks about San Francisco but shows picture of Prague
About Amazon.
How is cardboard pollution? It is made from softwood pulp and completely dissolves like fallen leaves from a tree.
It nothing like petroleum plastic.