Those “serial” Christmas tree lights should be forbidden in the first place. They should all be parallel (and led’s if possible). Yes they are harder to produce, but the problem with these serial wired lights is if one of the lights breaks than they get thrown away because “they are broken”. Even though there are still almost 100 lights that work perfectly fine. With parallel wired Christmas lights you actually see what light is broken and is easily repairable this way. This way the Christmas lights are way more sustainable and last longer without having to throw away thousands of “broken” Christmas lights every year.
If you're talking about the way the Christmas lights are wired, it's "series circuit", not "serial" my dude 🤙 edit: most Christmas lights are wired parallel groups of four PS
I was totally expecting the narrative to be “look how wasteful we are!” It was interesting and informative. I applaud the decision to choose to focus on doing a great job of understanding how recycling works and is getter better
I’m perplexed. I live in the US (Pennsylvania), and I understood (possibly incorrectly) that our recyclable containers were processed in a similar way here. We don’t have to separate glass, plastic, paper, etc, so I thought huge shredders/magnets/shakers/filters separated the material out to it’s individual types, and was then sold, reused, etc. This video leads me to believe that intact Christmas tree light strings are somehow separated out from the rest of my recyclable rubbish, and sent off to China? I have a hard time wrapping my head around the logistics and economics of a process like that. Heck, I can barely separate a string of lights from round Christmas ornaments *by hand*! 😃 In fact, though I do not doubt your integrity or what you saw, I think it’s more likely the Chinese manufacture junk/bogus light strings, just to enable them to put on an “environmentally conscious” show for anyone who’ll watch.
I'm generally an optimist, but this video seems to be going too far to make the situation sound sustainable and make us feel good about our level of consumption. Shipping this stuff back and forth across the ocean is not "circular", it's a downward spiral. Reduce, reuse, repair! Recycling is the last resort.
Burning plastic wires... That isn't toxic, right? *Gov bans it* Oh, thanks, the Chinese government actually cares about workers... Wait, they actually care about air pollution? EDIT: BTW, in all seriousness, is anyone else disturbed by the materialism of holidays? I feel like Christmas lights are such a waste and I'd imagine recent generations like Millennials and Generation Z would be progressive enough to cut back on decor.
The original Christmas lights were all parallel at 120 VAC each. When the tiny incandescents lights arrived, they had to limit the voltages to less than 6 V each,, so they were wired in series. Now with LED lights, and a good power regulator attached to the AC line, we have much better lights that can last forever. Some are sold with a battery supply. I have one set that runs on three AA cells.
I bought LED Christmas lights 4 years ago, and they still work perfectly well. I also have 20-year-old Christmas lights (2001), which are also incandescent miniature, rice grain-like lights that are high quality and still working. Until a few years ago we always bought Chinese Christmas lights, but little by little they diminished the quality, and the following year they did not work. Fortunately, these types of lights are sold less and less, which last less and generate more waste.
Emmm, I am from Guangdong Canton, actually Guangdong does have a lot of places to do waste recycling.But this efficient and low-cost recycling method is still the first time I know.
if the chinese manufacturers made better quality lights fewer sets would be thrown away every year, therefore less recycling and less energy and pollution overall. You could see that the separation process still had large quantities of copper in the waste plastic/rubber so its not that efficient either. Such a shame
If the western consumers didn’t create the market for wanting to have everything at a low price, we wouldn’t have this much trash in the world to begin with.
“American lights”?! I would say made with no quality sends back to motherland, try to get rid of it.. and then DISCOVERY, someone make money out of garbage again.. poor American economy..
@surfingsuicune You could say something similar about China though, Foxconn being the biggest manufacturer in the world and is making more and more stuff, yet they've been actually laying off employees over the years rather than hiring more with all the automation they're developing.
@@vgamesx1 Foxcomm makes the Apple iPhones. Many will not switch from Apple to Android because they still see Apple as "American" but the iPhones are more Chinese than the egg roll!
This was super cool. I definitely want to watch more videos like this.
Hey Jerry! Great to see you!
Those “serial” Christmas tree lights should be forbidden in the first place.
They should all be parallel (and led’s if possible). Yes they are harder to produce, but the problem with these serial wired lights is if one of the lights breaks than they get thrown away because “they are broken”.
Even though there are still almost 100 lights that work perfectly fine.
With parallel wired Christmas lights you actually see what light is broken and is easily repairable this way.
This way the Christmas lights are way more sustainable and last longer without having to throw away thousands of “broken” Christmas lights every year.
If you're talking about the way the Christmas lights are wired, it's "series circuit", not "serial" my dude 🤙
edit: most Christmas lights are wired parallel groups of four PS
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔 ????
This was very interesting. Should do more of these
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔
Great video...I had no idea they could actually recycle those!
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔
I love this kind of videos where you get to know how things are manufactured and recycled!🙏😃
This is really cool. No more plastic is needed to be created, just reuse everything!
I was totally expecting the narrative to be “look how wasteful we are!” It was interesting and informative. I applaud the decision to choose to focus on doing a great job of understanding how recycling works and is getter better
Genuinely fascinating
I’ve had the same set of led lights for the last 10 years, why do people buy new sets every year?
Same lol
But for me not 10 years but 4
I guess then you have got the Indian ones !
Super interesting! Thank you
I’m perplexed. I live in the US (Pennsylvania), and I understood (possibly incorrectly) that our recyclable containers were processed in a similar way here. We don’t have to separate glass, plastic, paper, etc, so I thought huge shredders/magnets/shakers/filters separated the material out to it’s individual types, and was then sold, reused, etc. This video leads me to believe that intact Christmas tree light strings are somehow separated out from the rest of my recyclable rubbish, and sent off to China? I have a hard time wrapping my head around the logistics and economics of a process like that. Heck, I can barely separate a string of lights from round Christmas ornaments *by hand*! 😃
In fact, though I do not doubt your integrity or what you saw, I think it’s more likely the Chinese manufacture junk/bogus light strings, just to enable them to put on an “environmentally conscious” show for anyone who’ll watch.
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔????
He said "Crick." Instead of "Creek." Must be from the midwest. Doesn't matter, nice video. Good job.
I'm generally an optimist, but this video seems to be going too far to make the situation sound sustainable and make us feel good about our level of consumption. Shipping this stuff back and forth across the ocean is not "circular", it's a downward spiral. Reduce, reuse, repair! Recycling is the last resort.
Burning plastic wires... That isn't toxic, right? *Gov bans it* Oh, thanks, the Chinese government actually cares about workers... Wait, they actually care about air pollution? EDIT: BTW, in all seriousness, is anyone else disturbed by the materialism of holidays? I feel like Christmas lights are such a waste and I'd imagine recent generations like Millennials and Generation Z would be progressive enough to cut back on decor.
great video - thank you!!
The original Christmas lights were all parallel at 120 VAC each. When the tiny incandescents lights arrived, they had to limit the voltages to less than 6 V each,, so they were wired in series. Now with LED lights, and a good power regulator attached to the AC line, we have much better lights that can last forever. Some are sold with a battery supply. I have one set that runs on three AA cells.
I bought LED Christmas lights 4 years ago, and they still work perfectly well. I also have 20-year-old Christmas lights (2001), which are also incandescent miniature, rice grain-like lights that are high quality and still working. Until a few years ago we always bought Chinese Christmas lights, but little by little they diminished the quality, and the following year they did not work.
Fortunately, these types of lights are sold less and less, which last less and generate more waste.
Really liked this video. Was a nice change from teardowns, do one of these from time to time please!
Emmm, I am from Guangdong Canton, actually
Guangdong does have a lot of places to do waste recycling.But this efficient and low-cost recycling method is still the first time I know.
Very interesting video. Nice to see this one guys
What an awesome video!
This is awesome!
Very interesting!
I've seen some stuff on this before but its always pretty interesting! More stuff like this would be great.
This was such a interesting insight in recycling worldwide, thanks alot!
Separation procedure needs refined, I just seen baseball size gobs of copper in plastics bin.
Let just me say... best video... wish i see more like this around here...
Good job
if the chinese manufacturers made better quality lights fewer sets would be thrown away every year, therefore less recycling and less energy and pollution overall. You could see that the separation process still had large quantities of copper in the waste plastic/rubber so its not that efficient either. Such a shame
If the western consumers didn’t create the market for wanting to have everything at a low price, we wouldn’t have this much trash in the world to begin with.
Nice video
“American lights”?! I would say made with no quality sends back to motherland, try to get rid of it.. and then DISCOVERY, someone make money out of garbage again.. poor American economy..
@surfingsuicune You could say something similar about China though, Foxconn being the biggest manufacturer in the world and is making more and more stuff, yet they've been actually laying off employees over the years rather than hiring more with all the automation they're developing.
@@vgamesx1 Foxcomm makes the Apple iPhones. Many will not switch from Apple to Android because they still see Apple as "American" but the iPhones are more Chinese than the egg roll!
I like this guy. He reminds me of Sheldon Cooper. Do more of these videos.
Junkyard Planet Awesome book
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔
i thought u were going to show me how to fix my broken xmas lights wtf
Sir, where is the place where the broken Christmas lights were disposed of? can i get it right? for free, i will fix those christmas lights 🤔🤔🤔
why have Taiwan
Eco friendly
Second
Thank god China is considering the environment. Not like other world leaders like Trump..
first
Fck off.. you are not cool
No