I like how your dad and all of the guys are always in a good mood. Working hard and doing their best. We need more people like them in this country! 😊👍😁
I saw this comment right as he was telling the story about the horse. Crazy sн¡т, makes you wonder if he's hauled any dead bodies to the landfill without knowing. That's the one thing about those automated trash trucks like his, if somebody outside the truck doesn't see it there is no telling what could be in some of those trash cans that the drivers would never even know. Definitely some crazy sн¡т....
Every school in America should make this video a mandatory watch, so children become wise citizens who are intentional about their consumer choices and waste management.
right ? i live in unincorporated antelope valley so weve got the big former-binz dumpsters, and none of our neighbors ever get close to filling it with anything but plant waste . we do maybe a standard kitchen bag of recycling a week (mostly beer bottles from the weekends, and me and one of the kids drink a diet coke or 2 a day - i know bad habit, but a diet coke with lemon is too refreshing when it gets to 115 degrees outside lol) and maybe 3 kitchen bags of trash every 2 to 3 weeks . a couple brita filters save us on what would normally be a costco pack of water at least per week, and they save a ton of money for better tasting water than most bottle brands . also save a ton by not buying boxes or bags of fruit and veggies, paper bags work fine between store and home. really the only non-food or plant waste we have is for meat packaging .
Every school in the world should be made to take the children to visit these places. They might be mindful then as adults about what they throw away. Absolutely loved this, thank you so very very much. From NSW, Australia.
It isn't necessarily the consumer's fault. The company's put everything in cheap plastic containers that aren't reusable in anyway so of course it ends up getting thrown away. Everything that is made today is made to be thrown away not kept forever. Show me something that will last a lifetime and I will buy it
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
In Sweden, waste (excluding recycled materials) is burned in various cities' thermal power plants that convert energy into electricity and hot water that is distributed to homes via pipes in the ground. Efficient filters purify the exhaust gases so that 98.5% is pure water vapor. Many countries export their waste to Sweden - including GB.
Thank you for that information. I wish that we did something similar here in the United States. You probably already know this, but I thought that I should share it just in case. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
I suspect that incineration creates a huge amount of carbon dioxide. Unless there is carbon capture on site, that gas is going right into the environment.
I worked at a landfill once. Me and my brother, our job was to go through the dumped loads and removing mattresses or other large items that don’t belong there. Anyway my brother told the main guy there ‘I hear a lot of people have been quitting there first day here, we’ll that’s gna change today’. we both lasted a little over 2 hours and quit that same day. Got a 19 dollar paycheck in the mail and we spent it all on Burger King and gas ⛽️
The true scale of the operation can only be fully appreciated in person. That way you can get to absorb it in its entirety! These folks are truly unsung heroes!!!
I can only imagine the horrific odor, but nobody on camera has complained about so far. Surely it must smell worse than the feed lots in Greeley Colorado. Ugh. We waste so much. I live alone and I’m amazed at how much garbage I generate.
This is a good video to spread awareness of just how much trash is being put out in landfills. There really needs to be a more permanent solution to trash than burying it.
You can start by reducing your waste. That's how. It start with the one creating the mess. You & I. Be a minimalist. Don't eat fast food, in fact don't buy anything from any place that serves take out. Our laziness makes waste.😢
@@Dapper422 what but it’s paper . Styrofoam is what sucks. I split my garbage: compost, recycle, garbage. Then e-recycle my batterie in a box with any e waste. Even aerosol cans and bottles you drop them off to a haz waste facility. Glad our city have it all within driving distance. Not all utilize them though. I only started cause I saw a friend do it and he shared that knowledge. Knowledge is easily contagious
Corporations want profits not the truth taught to our children. I remember being taught consumerism in school. How to buy from a company not how to run a company.
All the time, every god dang interesting videos i find here on youtube someone always say "this should be thaught in school that should be included in schools". If we indulge these request we will graduate high school at the age of 50. Im 18 and still in high school, i dont mean no direspect, but please keep theses suggestions to yourselves.
Kids don't care, they learn from nonchalant grownups...have you been to a park lately; just open a water bottle, take one drink, then toss it on the ground! The ground is a garbage receptacle 🗑🗑🗑🌏
Excessive packaging is a huge contribution. I once bought my Dad some powered shears for opening clam shell type packages. They came in a , you guessed it , a clam shell package.
The worst are cheap jewellery retailors. Plastic wrapped pallet, plastic wrapped containers inside, big plastic bag with the jewellery inside which are individually wrapped in plastic bags with a plastic card. The tat inside usually ends up in the bin too. What you see on the shelf is only half of the plastic waste that is used to protect the product before it gets to the shop and on the shelf.
I hope the editor of this documentary sees this comment. 17:19. That's just great editing and just good filmmaking. I appreciated that shot selection so much.
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
I’ve been to this landfill many many times and it’s amazing to see. The size of it is just insane. The camera work doesn’t do if justice. It’s good to see all the work that goes into running a landfill and the importance of everyone’s role. As a landscape contractor, the fact that they replant and being back a normal eco system for the native species literally made me smile so much! It’s important for us landscapers to create a balance between sustainability, function, and beautification of outdoor spaces Amazing! The documentary was great and the narration was perfect!
at Oi Boy 626 - i agree the size of this land fill is just amazing its holding millions or so pounds of trash. and has room for millions more pounds of trash every one produces about about a ton a trash in a year just a amazing big land fill. mind boggling big about a 1 billion ton trash can / sized land fill its the year 2020 in this film and the hole in this ground is still a good dump site in 2021 and also hopefully still a good dump site in 2022.
You mean cause we all all too lazy to do it ourselves.. they have no trash when I was staying in pa,, so to see this just shows how lazy we all are.. California don't want you collecting rainwater or burning your trash.
And this is why I give a thumbs up to all dumpster divers and those who pick up scrap to put it at the scrap yards, so it can be made into something else 👍✌️
Scrappers just don't do it to recycle stuff , they do it because they get money for it at the yard and depending on what it is will depend on how much money they get.
Atleast these dumpster divers recycle for profit. What they do is already 200x better big companies making money to burry your stuff for the next generations.
i ask the trash guy for electronics, and he drops them off. a lot worked, i just cleaned it up, added batteries, or tweaked it, and now, i have plenty of e-scraps for projects! and never needed R### shack...
"We Don't Know How Great We Have It". I was in the Army in Mogadishu, Somalia during the Black Hawk Down era. Sometimes we'd take some items to the landfill there. One day we didn't make it to the landfill as we were bombarded by locals and all of our trash, wood scraps, and other items emptied on the spot. One day we did make it to the landfill and low & behold there were about a thousand or more locals waiting on the dumping of an actual trash truck. Once one of those large trucks emptied their loads it was "Balls to the Walls" aggressive pandemonium. I could probably believe that at least one-half of their load was carried away by these locals. That includes food, half-full water bottles, unused pampers and anything else these folks considered consumable or usable. Great visual to see it but a sad one at that.
Reading that really gives some good perspective on how good we have it here in the usa despite everyone's opinion that "our country is going to sh__" when in reality the poor in our country live great compared to somewhere like Mogadishu. Pissed off people on both sides of the political lines need to understand this better and learn to work together to make America better.
I drive a dump truck and I go dump trash in that landfill it's huge. It was build to last until 2050 and we are barely in 2021 and it's almost full orange county has grown so much that is getting full and it's sad how much stuff that can be recycle it's not
It's a difficult and at times a dangerous job so we do indeed owe our respects to the men and women who get out of bed and are on the job hours before the rest of us are waking up for the day. Just watch any of the garbage truck videos recorded by refuse truck enthusiasts to get a real sense of what the job can be like.
The mindset is making money and the peoples taxes pay for the disposal. Jobs for people, and danger for the coming generations. Where can they make fast profit is what causes it. Need a new way of getting rid of it. Get thinking quick!,Does anyone know where the water runoff goes from this lot? Or Care?
Love how each member of the tram gel and deliver a constant message of trying to do the best they can for the environment even though lets face it, it's not great for it. I also feel from this documentry exactly how transparent they are with the film crew and EVEN a tour bus of the dump? I mean it makes me want to add that to California if I ever get to go there just for this tour.
I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
I live in Orlando Florida and 25 years ago I was doing a land development project and low and behold I dug into Orlando’s old landfill! I picked up a newspaper from I believe January of 70 and after a couple of hours I could read it like it was just printed. This was about 25 years of being covered by fill dirt and we ended up having to haul it all to the new landfill in east Orange County Florida! It really opened my eyes 👀 up to the waste disposal problems we face all around the world 🌎! PLEASE RECYCLE AND RE USE ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN!!! Otherwise our grandchildren will have a
Yeah, Florida doesn't have canyons as convenient starting points for mega sized landfill. If you dig a hole it will fill up instantly with water, so they have no choice but to pile trash up and make mountains out of it. A friend of mine near Miami told me the highest vantage points are Mount Trashmore.
It looks like they relocated the old Landfill to a new location before developing the land. Yes, it wouldn't make sense to build right on top of trash as the land would be too unstable.
I feel like this video should be shown to students. Grow a population that understands the impact our trash has on society. Maybe one day we won’t need landfills the way we do today.
Very interesting. I used to work in waste water. Kind of the same thing. People flush, out of sight, out of mind. Like you we're doing the smartest thing we can with it. Out methane is turned into electricity, the poop fertilizes crops after treatment. The treated water provides water for the crops. There is a lot of science that goes into our wastes.
I have nothing but respect for those working in the waste water treatment and fresh water treatment industries. Both are critical and essential services for a civil society that maintains quality of life and health of billions of people throughout the world. Starting in the 1970s, my ex-husband, Dennis, first started his career journey at the city waste water treatment plant in Sanger, California and at different times and transitions in our lives, went on to work for the cities of Perris, and Fresno. Then he studied and earned his civil engineering degree in Fresno, invented a passive, green alternative in water treatment, retired young, and now is in the Philippines living out his life adventures. If I could, this is still a field that interests me and I would enjoy working in that industry. Appreciated your comment, @Charles Taylor.
Yes.... Grey can is for trash Blue is for recycled Green yard clippings No paint cans, motoroil cans are allowed in the trash no tires either... u gotta take that to the places that collect that if that makes sense. Central California girl...
Who knew trash could be so much fun! (And educational). I’m going to show this to my 7 grandsons, They will want to be cool garbage guys. Great video.👍🏻😜, Robin
Its to much these days to do anything without the insentive of profit money absolutly is the olny goal of most to all buissnes companys industry ect ect the money is the new religon in about all of earth and its scary to say least really 🗑♲🌏⏰
I've worked in the solid waste industry since 1993, people have nearly no clue about what it involved with managing that trash people throw out. It is one of the most regulated industries in our country.
And it should be because unscrupulous companies will dump hazardous waste if they were not regulated and held accountable. Dumping uas happened in the past and the lands are still unsuitable for use 50 years later...
I have always wondered what this place is every time when I drive through the toll road and tonight RUclips’s algorithm helped me understand that I have been living not too far away from a gigantic landfill.
I worked landfill in The UK in the 1980's , I operated the compactor and dozer, I was supprised to see what they are tipping in this site in 2021 and in the garbage roadside truck. We have to sort all our waste for roadside collection, and specialist trucks collect the sorted stuff for recycling.
One problem is the products being made so cheaply and being disposable. Good for profit but not the environment. Just one example is wiper blades. U used to buy just the rubber part now u buy the whole assembly for ten times the cost
Such an amazing documentary! Although the sentiment may be to get rid of landfills altogether, but it’s not as easy as it seems for those saying US should follow the European way. But this is a great model for how landfills can be well managed and operated - runs like a well-oiled machine. Everyone should be made to watch this. Especially loved how they showed a model for composting and landfills to coexist 40:55 . Greater appreciation for everyone working on this! Having said that, we all need to do a better job of firstly reducing waste, and then sorting our waste out - recyclables, organics/compostables and the remaining, into landfills.
I was impressed by all the work and engineering that’s goes into this process. The eagle helping out, the care & time to remove fossils and replant trees and/or shrubs to bring back a habitat. How cool is that.
Cool glad you got to see first hand ive heard seen vid of a trash island the size of texas in the middle of the pasific sea its just crazy how much gose in the trash after 1 or even 0 uses i hope we can get close to 0%waste system some day sooner then later🤔😥🙂
I've had some jobs working in these places and it's absolutely amazing when you work there you understand how much goes into it and it's much more difficult than you think... And there is a massive amount of garbage and recycling that flows in every single day and needs to be dispersed recycled and transported to different facilities
@@tinacatharinaeden2711 well some places at work that don't cover the trash but specifically landfills and do that to reduce the smell and just in case it rains but they're constantly compacting it every single day as you can see but the prime example is there is so much trash you can't even imagine how much trash goes into these facilities and every city and state every single day it's just a massive amount The world needs to find more sustainable ways because another fifty or a hundred years of this and our grandchildren's grandchildren they're going to be paying the price for it
Here in South Australia we have large sheds that rubbish is sorted through prior to being dumped, thus ♻️ whatever can be reused. I'm sure this is both good for the environment & reduces landfill build up.
every state in the u.s. is different, but in california you have recycling centers, green (yard) waste places and trash. this appears to be in the trash category.
@@jeffreyprezalar220 Yes Jeffrey, I'd already worked that one out. You don't need to be Einstein. I was stating what we do here & whilst also realising that on a much bigger scale, this would be hard to undertake. Thanx for the comment.
@@jeffreyprezalar220 the fact that there is so many people in the US is the exact reason why there should be a much better trash management/sorting system in place .
It's pre-sorted in California, as in most of the US. Pre-sorting means more people put things in the trash that belong in recycling, but lower contamination rates mean that more actually gets recycled.
I have always wondered why garbage or waste disposal companies don't have garbage trucks or some other type of equipment at the landfills that mulches and shreds garbage like a tree mulcher so that it is easier to dispose of at the landfill
@@BVonBuescher So burrying Gold, copper, platina is a good idea while prices soar? Secondly burning all the carbage can be transmitted into energy, and the waste (precious metals) can be sold. Third; less co2 emmissions. Its a win-win-win.
Interesting to learn that they don't just cover it up with dirt at the end of the day but use tarps instead. A couple of years ago we took a tour of our local landfill and they never mentioned anything like this during that tour.
Tarps help a lot with rising up heat underneath if dirt is applied on top it would make a big uneven mess since some stuff doesn’t compose as fast as other things
They just use the tarps at the end of the day because adding dirt would just take up the space trash could be. Dirt as much as 3 feet deep has to be put over the waste and over that large of an area is a lot of waste. Thats how it was at the landfill i worked at here in GA anyways. It very tricky how you have to operate. If one thing is wrong with anything the EPA will shut you down so quick your head will spin.
I used to work for the company Environmental Specialties International. We installed the liner that you see in the background. The liner goes under all the trash like a giant trash bag liner that catches all that nasty stuff from seeping into the ground. It also catches the methane gases, used to fire up turbines that create energy for homes and businesss. Every landfill needs a liner before trash can be dumped.I worked at the Riverside County landfill at El Sobrante in California
What a very educational and informative documentary you all did on a landfill. I would love to see more like this and share this with others. Thanks for all the hard work you all do for us.
Except they forgot to say that if you want to actually help the environment, the only way is to consume less. A message that American business/gov doesn't want you to hear.
@@soonersciencenerd383From an Aussie, you Indian? Maybe cause English is not your 1st language, I don't think you got it. But if English is your first language, use your imagination 🤣😂
People in Thailand would say you guys are doing it all wrong. In Thailand we have people that goes through every bit of trash on a conveyer belt and pick out anything that can be recycled. At first any metal will be caught by a very strong magnet and put in a pile. Next is the cardboard it goes in a pile. Glass is next and then plastic. As the trash goes down the line they will pick anything thar can be recycled, even food. The take food and anything else that can be composted will go to the shredder and come out in little tiny pieces and taken to an area for composting. That is my favorite place. Almost every day they can make a pile 10 feet high and 20 feet wide and 20 to 30 feet long. Each row will end up 100 feet long, then they start another one next to it and do the same thing. Every week they have a machine that turns the piles.they start at the oldest pile that is much smaller by now because it's composted down to great smiling compost. That is hauled off to be banged up and sold and the next pile will be turned onto that spot and so on until they get to the newest pile. After they turn it they start putting new stuff in its place. It's quite a neat process and I was very lucky to have seen it up close and personal. The U.S. could learn a thing or two by seeing how they do things in other countries.
It would take an army of thousands to do what you're saying. The sheer amount of waste is amazing. You're talking a pile of trash probably 4 city blocks square and 6 to 8 feet HIGH! I worked at one about a quarter this size, and that was for one small counties' trash. One thing they really didn't stress in this video is that newer engineered landfills aren't designed to pile up the trash so that it dissolves away some day...that will never happen. New landfills are designed to encapsulate and contain the trash, catch and dispose of the leachate, and capture the methane gas for use. The hope is that one day we will have developed the technology to permanently dispose of the trash in some way...
I done some locating for city of Lexington NC when they were installing the wells and refinery and taps back into the gas industry it was an awesome project
there are some of California garbage land fills that doesn't distribute the methane gas but burns it on site and nothing else like electric generation or for any other needs .
I did trash pick up for 7 years.. best job I ever had considering what most people probably think about it..I got all kinds of nice stuff people threw out, brand new electronics etc. Rich people are crazy! I got in REALLY good shape, at that time we didn't have automatic tippers so I had to do it all by hand, plus we had just gotten 90 gallon containers (big roller ones) for our customers, the ones most people have today and I was dumping and winging those like nothing.. talk about a workout! anyway... The worst thing about doing that job is OSCARS GARBAGE JUICE! nothing worse then throwing a heavy duty hefty bag into hopper and compacting it only for the pressure in a bag to build and build and BOOM! maggot juice and God knows what in the mouth, all over the face! It's brutal and violating! 😬😂
I remember going to the dumps with my father as a child. There was this old Man that had a junk store set up right out side the dumps stuff he would take out of the land fill. I remember always wanting to bring something home from the dumps. My Pop's would never let me bring anything home. He said he's bringing garbage to the dumps not bringing it home.
Are old dumps sit on the side of the San Pablo bay is now a park, you would never known it was once a large dumps sit. I remember going there in the early 1970s with my father this old Man had a junk store set up right out side the dumps. He would recycle the stuff that would be land fill and sale it in his store. I remember a lot of antiques hanging in the store. He also had many old Motorcyles that sat out side of his store. Thinking now people would pay a lot of money for those old Motorcyles.
wow this is so weird to me. in sweden you cant throw all thrash in one bin, you got separate bins for plastics, metal, cardboard and other waste. in some places you can get fined if you mix other stuff in the bins for recyclables
Big ups to them to sometimes people don't realize the role people play in dealing with big jobs and doing real good work big ups to you guys make a difference in the world just working jobs like this every day
I think they are working on it every day, this landfill is horrific, but the amount of garbage in the Pacific is gut wrenching to me…even though I live very far from the ocean, and even when I lived in California I wasn’t a fan of heading out to the beach….fair skinned, red hair.
They should spend any money starting with the people who had good jobs and are now in the streets of Los Angeles due to their rent being doubled and used as office space for the owners of amazon and facebook, ie mark zukerburg, he could afford to feed the world himself.
@@troypolamalukingtroytrojan1538 agree. Funny comment. Burying the waste isn't particularly cutting edge innovation. The garbage issue has bugged me for years. Even my business creates plastic waste and its just sad that we have made society a use and throw society.
@@troypolamalukingtroytrojan1538 may be the part that generates water and electricity they also have an archeologist on site and a biologist i don't think many landfills outside california do
In Austrailia, you get a new appliance, the company is required to take your old one and deal with it. In Sweden, they import trash and burn it cleanly for energy. There are systems that are much better than our current ones. We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to steal the ideas and demand they're implemented.
Typically loads are inspected at random through out the day. Unless it's a carrier that is consistently bringing in blacklisted items, then they are subject to more routine inspections of their loads.
@@josephchinn7864 So how many loads per 1000 loads are inspected? What kind of inspection? Be a little bit more informative when you decide to BS these readers.
@@firefoxbox9882 I'd say you are correct, I'll work on my sarcasm. IMHO, Mr Chinn sounds too much like a paid PR employee of the waste management industry to let that pass.
Oh what an interesting documentary and the Characters, very very hardworking people! You absolutely do have my commendations anytime and anywhere! Cheers! Khadeeja Alghali-Rahman (London, UK)
@@braticuss No. We recycle everything at home. We have different bags for everything and it is picked up on different days of the week by the trash carts.
I say in 200 to 500 years every land fill especially early ones before our time will be worth gold in raw materials even landfills currently in use today. So much e waste in them they will be mining them in the future. Sad I or us won't be around to see it.
Enlightening...One thing I found missing however was: How do they catalog where the trash was picked up and where was it placed? As much as it is a sensitive subject, sometimes bodies are dumped in the trash and must be found. It means identifying where a trash receptacle was unloaded and a manual search must take place to try to locate it. How is that done?
Each truck gets a ticket and the gatehouse logs who dumps at what time. The operator in the compactor logs where the trash goes every day. If there is an issue, they find the ticket of disposer and can look in the landfill or if they find something in the landfill, they can contact the disposer.
Each trash zone and area is tracked so once they get to gate there ticket will show where that trash came from and where to dump it in what specific spot so they can trace back if there is a problem
there is also a guy going thru the piles with a rake to separate electronics but i am sure his main job is to see if someone dumped a body there because that landfill has only the regular trash there 2 others at least here in california the green waste and the recyclables i don't know if there is a landfill for the green and another one for recyclables that are similar to this one
My dad is David, one of the truck drivers in this video. Its so crazy to see him 😂 and yes the horse story he told is true.
GOD BLESS FROM LONDON
I like how your dad and all of the guys are always in a good mood. Working hard and doing their best. We need more people like them in this country! 😊👍😁
Dude your dad is a true BADASS,and a LEGIT AMERICAN HERO,much respect 👍👍🙌🙌
I saw this comment right as he was telling the story about the horse. Crazy sн¡т, makes you wonder if he's hauled any dead bodies to the landfill without knowing. That's the one thing about those automated trash trucks like his, if somebody outside the truck doesn't see it there is no telling what could be in some of those trash cans that the drivers would never even know. Definitely some crazy sн¡т....
I'm curious as to why
Every school in America should make this video a mandatory watch, so children become wise citizens who are intentional about their consumer choices and waste management.
Corporations won't go along with that idea. Consumer Society..
right ? i live in unincorporated antelope valley so weve got the big former-binz dumpsters, and none of our neighbors ever get close to filling it with anything but plant waste . we do maybe a standard kitchen bag of recycling a week (mostly beer bottles from the weekends, and me and one of the kids drink a diet coke or 2 a day - i know bad habit, but a diet coke with lemon is too refreshing when it gets to 115 degrees outside lol) and maybe 3 kitchen bags of trash every 2 to 3 weeks . a couple brita filters save us on what would normally be a costco pack of water at least per week, and they save a ton of money for better tasting water than most bottle brands . also save a ton by not buying boxes or bags of fruit and veggies, paper bags work fine between store and home. really the only non-food or plant waste we have is for meat packaging .
It starts at home
I agree with you 💯%!!!
Spread awareness!
Every school in the world should be made to take the children to visit these places. They might be mindful then as adults about what they throw away. Absolutely loved this, thank you so very very much. From NSW, Australia.
Yeah they need to show the kids how dumb it is to bury a resource instead of using it
Yeah also going to a recycling plant, how to grow food, and work on a car. Thse things are a big part of the our lives at this time.
It isn't necessarily the consumer's fault. The company's put everything in cheap plastic containers that aren't reusable in anyway so of course it ends up getting thrown away. Everything that is made today is made to be thrown away not kept forever. Show me something that will last a lifetime and I will buy it
They would never do that because it goes against consumerism @@sammyd7857
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
You’d be shocked how much these guys make. Its very reasonable. It’s all unionized and crazy job security. It’s hard work and they deserve every penny
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
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Agreed. I work in finance, Covid proved how useless my work is. It is doctors, nurses, truck drivers, garbos, etc that keep our countries running.
I would much rather do this than be one of those guys that works on radio towers or wind turbines......screeew that!
Don't tell me what would shock me. I will decide what shocks me. 🖕
In Sweden, waste (excluding recycled materials) is burned in various cities' thermal power plants that convert energy into electricity and hot water that is distributed to homes via pipes in the ground. Efficient filters purify the exhaust gases so that 98.5% is pure water vapor. Many countries export their waste to Sweden - including GB.
That is a good idea. What's the 1.5% that isn't vapor?
@@holyspokes608 my fart
Thank you for that information. I wish that we did something similar here in the United States.
You probably already know this, but I thought that I should share it just in case. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
I suspect that incineration creates a huge amount of carbon dioxide.
Unless there is carbon capture on site, that gas is going right into the environment.
@@holyspokes608A wee bit of dioxins...
I used to work there. We called it Bee Canyon Landfill. I retired in 2019 after 28 1/2 years. To all my brothers and sisters Job Well Done.
Congratulations👍
Happy Retirement Hope You Enjoying That. Hats Off To Ya.
Thanks for dealing with our trash
I often wonder where we would be with out folks like you
As it just sits there..
I worked here for a short time myself
I worked at a landfill once. Me and my brother, our job was to go through the dumped loads and removing mattresses or other large items that don’t belong there. Anyway my brother told the main guy there ‘I hear a lot of people have been quitting there first day here, we’ll that’s gna change today’.
we both lasted a little over 2 hours and quit that same day. Got a 19 dollar paycheck in the mail and we spent it all on Burger King and gas ⛽️
Haha - yea good plan :)
The true scale of the operation can only be fully appreciated in person. That way you can get to absorb it in its entirety! These folks are truly unsung heroes!!!
I can only imagine the horrific odor, but nobody on camera has complained about so far. Surely it must smell worse than the feed lots in Greeley Colorado. Ugh. We waste so much. I live alone and I’m amazed at how much garbage I generate.
This is a good video to spread awareness of just how much trash is being put out in landfills. There really needs to be a more permanent solution to trash than burying it.
Yea our homes are built above these buddy
Any ideas or suggestions @Solice?
You can start by reducing your waste. That's how. It start with the one creating the mess. You & I. Be a minimalist. Don't eat fast food, in fact don't buy anything from any place that serves take out. Our laziness makes waste.😢
@@Dapper422 what but it’s paper . Styrofoam is what sucks. I split my garbage: compost, recycle, garbage. Then e-recycle my batterie in a box with any e waste.
Even aerosol cans and bottles you drop them off to a haz waste facility. Glad our city have it all within driving distance.
Not all utilize them though. I only started cause I saw a friend do it and he shared that knowledge. Knowledge is easily contagious
@@Oneklickmedia good for you. Feel better. Yet you still use more than you need to. 🤔 Food for thought.
What amazes me is just how much of that is recyclable plastic , paper, cardboard and metals.
Excellent documentary. This should be shown in all schools to young children to promote awareness and responsibility to address the situation.
Corporations want profits not the truth taught to our children. I remember being taught consumerism in school. How to buy from a company not how to run a company.
@@gmoo1376 surely they taught budgeting and how to manage your money, right?
🤣
If you. Think the schools will talk about this no way were fu@ked and there is no way to fix it without everybody’s help
All the time, every god dang interesting videos i find here on youtube someone always say "this should be thaught in school that should be included in schools". If we indulge these request we will graduate high school at the age of 50. Im 18 and still in high school, i dont mean no direspect, but please keep theses suggestions to yourselves.
Kids don't care, they learn from nonchalant grownups...have you been to a park lately; just open a water bottle, take one drink, then toss it on the ground!
The ground is a garbage receptacle
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Excessive packaging is a huge contribution. I once bought my Dad some powered shears for opening clam shell type packages. They came in a , you guessed it , a clam shell package.
THE REAL PROBLEM IS OUT OF CONTROL ALIEN INVASIONS
0oooweee! You would never go hungry if you lived by this landfill!
The worst are cheap jewellery retailors. Plastic wrapped pallet, plastic wrapped containers inside, big plastic bag with the jewellery inside which are individually wrapped in plastic bags with a plastic card. The tat inside usually ends up in the bin too. What you see on the shelf is only half of the plastic waste that is used to protect the product before it gets to the shop and on the shelf.
Excessive consumption
@@roguekiller23231 sometimes raccoons get their head stuck in cans, this can be a real problem for them and there navigational skills.
I hope the editor of this documentary sees this comment. 17:19. That's just great editing and just good filmmaking. I appreciated that shot selection so much.
Indeed. I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
better late than never me passing it on - I’ll make sure they get the message and thank you @VideoMan0904
I’ve been to this landfill many many times and it’s amazing to see. The size of it is just insane. The camera work doesn’t do if justice. It’s good to see all the work that goes into running a landfill and the importance of everyone’s role. As a landscape contractor, the fact that they replant and being back a normal eco system for the native species literally made me smile so much! It’s important for us landscapers to create a balance between sustainability, function, and beautification of outdoor spaces Amazing!
The documentary was great and the narration was perfect!
at Oi Boy 626 - i agree the size of this land fill is just
amazing its holding millions or so pounds of trash.
and has room for millions more pounds of trash
every one produces about about a ton a trash in a year
just a amazing big land fill. mind boggling big
about a 1 billion ton trash can / sized land fill
its the year 2020 in this film and the hole in this ground
is still a good dump site in 2021 and also hopefully
still a good dump site in 2022.
at 45:00 to 46:00
This Dump Site is projected to be full of Dumps of trash in 2053
You mean cause we all all too lazy to do it ourselves.. they have no trash when I was staying in pa,, so to see this just shows how lazy we all are.. California don't want you collecting rainwater or burning your trash.
This is absolutely incredible surprised beautiful OC is the trash capital
Is anyone else getting huge "Wal-E" vibes from the documentary? Especially when they start talking about the stability and the height...
And this is why I give a thumbs up to all dumpster divers and those who pick up scrap to put it at the scrap yards, so it can be made into something else 👍✌️
Scrappers just don't do it to recycle stuff , they do it because they get money for it at the yard and depending on what it is will depend on how much money they get.
Recycling certainly is not the motive… you’re giving credit where it’s not due.
You're a real hero
Atleast these dumpster divers recycle for profit. What they do is already 200x better big companies making money to burry your stuff for the next generations.
i ask the trash guy for electronics, and he drops them off. a lot worked, i just cleaned it up, added batteries, or tweaked it, and now, i have plenty of e-scraps for projects! and never needed R### shack...
These guys have my respect and sincere appreciation!
@@chrisl.9755 the garbage manufacturers
Yes, its a good thing they scaled fences during the middle of the night to take food from the tables of American families to feed theirs...
@@fretsward2225 u ok?
@@mrbubbav674 Yeah, you?
@@fretsward2225 why yes I am, I was just wondering
"We Don't Know How Great We Have It". I was in the Army in Mogadishu, Somalia during the Black Hawk Down era. Sometimes we'd take some items to the landfill there. One day we didn't make it to the landfill as we were bombarded by locals and all of our trash, wood scraps, and other items emptied on the spot. One day we did make it to the landfill and low & behold there were about a thousand or more locals waiting on the dumping of an actual trash truck. Once one of those large trucks emptied their loads it was "Balls to the Walls" aggressive pandemonium. I could probably believe that at least one-half of their load was carried away by these locals. That includes food, half-full water bottles, unused pampers and anything else these folks considered consumable or usable. Great visual to see it but a sad one at that.
Reading that really gives some good perspective on how good we have it here in the usa despite everyone's opinion that "our country is going to sh__" when in reality the poor in our country live great compared to somewhere like Mogadishu. Pissed off people on both sides of the political lines need to understand this better and learn to work together to make America better.
These men are valuable to our way of life. They will never be paid to much gor their knowledge & skill. God bless them all.😂
AWESOME VIDEO.THIS SHOULD BE REEQUIRED VIEWING.SIMPLY BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A CLUE. THANKS FOR SHARING.😊
I drive a dump truck and I go dump trash in that landfill it's huge.
It was build to last until 2050 and we are barely in 2021 and it's almost full orange county has grown so much that is getting full and it's sad how much stuff that can be recycle it's not
Do we know what year it was built? I was always at the one in Pomona as a child. That one closed up years ago.
we are kidding ourselves if we think we can recycle away all our problems
@@michaelrichardson4779 1992
I’m so grateful for these workers for doing this for all of us and helping keep our streets clean . Thank you 🙏
Some waste companies pre sort landfill waste to keep as much easy to recycle waste out of landfill!
@@crazymonkey01332 8
Mad respect for the old fashioned garbage truck guy who had to pick up heavy cans and dump it manually into the truck
It's a difficult and at times a dangerous job so we do indeed owe our respects to the men and women who get out of bed and are on the job hours before the rest of us are waking up for the day. Just watch any of the garbage truck videos recorded by refuse truck enthusiasts to get a real sense of what the job can be like.
The mindset is making money and the peoples taxes pay for the disposal. Jobs for people, and danger for the coming generations. Where can they make fast profit is what causes it. Need a new way of getting rid of it. Get thinking quick!,Does anyone know where the water runoff goes from this lot? Or Care?
Yeah thats a damn heavy job.
Love how each member of the tram gel and deliver a constant message of trying to do the best they can for the environment even though lets face it, it's not great for it. I also feel from this documentry exactly how transparent they are with the film crew and EVEN a tour bus of the dump? I mean it makes me want to add that to California if I ever get to go there just for this tour.
my favorite bit was the falcon that came out to herd littering seagulls off the fill.
no choice but trash has to go somewhere
I thought that this would be important information to share, given the trash-related nature of this documentary. 35% of all ocean microplastics come from clothing/textiles, mostly polyester, but also acrylic and nylon as well. This is largely due to clothes made of these materials being washed, which causes these clothes to quickly erode, with the microplastic fibers entering the water system and eventually the sea. Ocean Hero is a great search engine that we can use to help clean up larger plastics before they disintegrate into microplastics.
I love David! You can tell he's a kind caring man.
I live in Orlando Florida and 25 years ago I was doing a land development project and low and behold I dug into Orlando’s old landfill! I picked up a newspaper from I believe January of 70 and after a couple of hours I could read it like it was just printed. This was about 25 years of being covered by fill dirt and we ended up having to haul it all to the new landfill in east Orange County Florida! It really opened my eyes 👀 up to the waste disposal problems we face all around the world 🌎! PLEASE RECYCLE AND RE USE ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN!!! Otherwise our grandchildren will have a
Yeah, Florida doesn't have canyons as convenient starting points for mega sized landfill. If you dig a hole it will fill up instantly with water, so they have no choice but to pile trash up and make mountains out of it. A friend of mine near Miami told me the highest vantage points are Mount Trashmore.
Amazed your legal allowed to build on landfill!
It looks like they relocated the old Landfill to a new location before developing the land. Yes, it wouldn't make sense to build right on top of trash as the land would be too unstable.
@@glennwall552 usually aren't if they know about it
I wont have to worry because I wont have grand children. I can trash everything I want and not give a damn
What a well done documentary, the narrator keeps it very interesting. 😊👍
I usually like documentaries narrated by British narrators.
@@po4742 me too. 😄
and to think,no trash talking.
Yes he does quite a few tv programmes in UK he keeps it interesting like you said, no idea what he looks like tho :}
It's a trashy documentary....
When I was stationed in Germany, recycling is mandatory. Soldiers are doing dumpster diving.
good to know.
I remember that living over there
I feel like this video should be shown to students. Grow a population that understands the impact our trash has on society. Maybe one day we won’t need landfills the way we do today.
This was an epic watch, worth every minute of the video.
and that's why going zero waste can't come any sooner. I'm tired of the single-use plastic
Now if there were heroes worthy of recognition its these guys..Excellent job..You keep the country literally running from the background.
No1 is a hero here they casualy sweep it all under the rug and have been for to long
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@@firefoxbox9882 lets see you try what they do for a day and see how you go.
Very interesting. I used to work in waste water. Kind of the same thing. People flush, out of sight, out of mind. Like you we're doing the smartest thing we can with it. Out methane is turned into electricity, the poop fertilizes crops after treatment. The treated water provides water for the crops. There is a lot of science that goes into our wastes.
right.
CLASS A TRIPPLE HAZ and those DRIVERS JUST SITTING is $$$$ MAJOR $$$ ENCONMIC LOOS!!! Been there !!!
Science & engineering :) 👍
Should be more spent on reduction of waste instead!
I have nothing but respect for those working in the waste water treatment and fresh water treatment industries. Both are critical and essential services for a civil society that maintains quality of life and health of billions of people throughout the world. Starting in the 1970s, my ex-husband, Dennis, first started his career journey at the city waste water treatment plant in Sanger, California and at different times and transitions in our lives, went on to work for the cities of Perris, and Fresno. Then he studied and earned his civil engineering degree in Fresno, invented a passive, green alternative in water treatment, retired young, and now is in the Philippines living out his life adventures. If I could, this is still a field that interests me and I would enjoy working in that industry. Appreciated your comment, @Charles Taylor.
Im hooked on ENDEVR documentary. Top shelf journalism AND learning. Very educational, insightful too.
Thank you! Team ENDEVR appreciates your comment a lot :)
Yes....
Grey can is for trash
Blue is for recycled
Green yard clippings
No paint cans, motoroil cans are allowed in the trash no tires either... u gotta take that to the places that collect that if that makes sense. Central California girl...
Love this video it should be in school's so children can see and understand what happens to trash
"Ive been working this job for over 15 years and the trash never ends...but I'm not complaining." 😂
🤣
🗑♲🌏⏰💀asshats
Bless these men and women who are happy to do these jobs for us all ⚘
Facsinating!!! Came across this by accident & had to watch the whole thing. Amazing work.
Who knew trash could be so much fun! (And educational). I’m going to show this to my 7 grandsons, They will want to be cool garbage guys. Great video.👍🏻😜, Robin
in the netherlands we are no longer awllowed to bury our trash we need to sort it or burn it and the gasses that get released need to be filterd ect
The amount of Cardboard, Paper, tyres, wood and green waste going on that landfill is shocking. All that is easily recycled …
Easily recycled but not profitable.
Youd be suprised. I can tell you more then half of what you put in your recycle bin goes to the landfill.
It is being recycled in the form of methane and sent to 26k homes and businesses.
Its to much these days to do anything without the insentive of profit money absolutly is the olny goal of most to all buissnes companys industry ect ect the money is the new religon in about all of earth and its scary to say least really 🗑♲🌏⏰
@@firefoxbox9882 OK--- If you don't care if it's unprofitable, and money is lost recycling, YOU pay for it.
I've worked in the solid waste industry since 1993, people have nearly no clue about what it involved with managing that trash people throw out. It is one of the most regulated industries in our country.
And it should be because unscrupulous companies will dump hazardous waste if they were not regulated and held accountable. Dumping uas happened in the past and the lands are still unsuitable for use 50 years later...
BKK Landfill
And what do you think happens to stuff that isnt allowed to be thrown out? Hint.... Its thrown out.
I have always wondered what this place is every time when I drive through the toll road and tonight RUclips’s algorithm helped me understand that I have been living not too far away from a gigantic landfill.
No recycle stations to recycle all the trash that is buried ?
I worked landfill in The UK in the 1980's , I operated the compactor and dozer, I was supprised to see what they are tipping in this site in 2021 and in the garbage roadside truck. We have to sort all our waste for roadside collection, and specialist trucks collect the sorted stuff for recycling.
Much more civilized.
We have that here in Florida. Bagged up garbage, recycling and yard waste. Each can has printed list of what's permitted in each
Yeah I mean even Boris Johnson himself said recycling is bs and doesn't work
Kind of ironic that the biggest dump
just happens to be in Orange County
Yet California wants to tell the rest of the nation how to be more environmentally friendly.
California is becoming a glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's dump.
@@waterheaterservices becoming?
@@silvermediastudio OOOH, SNAP!!!
What's ironic about it?
One problem is the products being made so cheaply and being disposable. Good for profit but not the environment. Just one example is wiper blades. U used to buy just the rubber part now u buy the whole assembly for ten times the cost
Good for the lame greedy men who can only think of money. These makes them barbarians with technology.
😤😥money is the new religion maken more is all that matters spending less to gain more profit is industry 101
Dontthink TheNew is required just Mindset of greed like a plague for human end.!
Scotty Kilmer says to buy silicone blades...
@@christysdeals4u I bought lifetime silicone blades 20 years ago. They are working as good as new with a little cleaning.
Such an amazing documentary! Although the sentiment may be to get rid of landfills altogether, but it’s not as easy as it seems for those saying US should follow the European way. But this is a great model for how landfills can be well managed and operated - runs like a well-oiled machine. Everyone should be made to watch this. Especially loved how they showed a model for composting and landfills to coexist 40:55 . Greater appreciation for everyone working on this! Having said that, we all need to do a better job of firstly reducing waste, and then sorting our waste out - recyclables, organics/compostables and the remaining, into landfills.
I was impressed by all the work and engineering that’s goes into this process. The eagle helping out, the care & time to remove fossils and replant trees and/or shrubs to bring back a habitat. How cool is that.
I’ve personally met and worked with each one of those guys. They are all great and love what they do. Especially the guy with the hawk.
Cool glad you got to see first hand ive heard seen vid of a trash island the size of texas in the middle of the pasific sea its just crazy how much gose in the trash after 1 or even 0 uses i hope we can get close to 0%waste system some day sooner then later🤔😥🙂
How’d they smell?
I've had some jobs working in these places and it's absolutely amazing when you work there you understand how much goes into it and it's much more difficult than you think... And there is a massive amount of garbage and recycling that flows in every single day and needs to be dispersed recycled and transported to different facilities
Why do they cover up the trash every evening?
@@tinacatharinaeden2711 well some places at work that don't cover the trash but specifically landfills and do that to reduce the smell and just in case it rains but they're constantly compacting it every single day as you can see but the prime example is there is so much trash you can't even imagine how much trash goes into these facilities and every city and state every single day it's just a massive amount
The world needs to find more sustainable ways because another fifty or a hundred years of this and our grandchildren's grandchildren they're going to be paying the price for it
It's good to see that governments are keeping it in check and making sure the waste that is usable goes to good use.
Facts
@@tinacatharinaeden2711 --aa-a--aaaa
Here in South Australia we have large sheds that rubbish is sorted through prior to being dumped, thus ♻️ whatever can be reused. I'm sure this is both good for the environment & reduces landfill build up.
every state in the u.s. is different, but in california you have recycling centers, green (yard) waste places and trash. this appears to be in the trash category.
Austrailia 30 million,us 340 million people,you do the math .
@@jeffreyprezalar220 Yes Jeffrey, I'd already worked that one out. You don't need to be Einstein.
I was stating what we do here & whilst also realising that on a much bigger scale, this would be hard to undertake.
Thanx for the comment.
@@jeffreyprezalar220 the fact that there is so many people in the US is the exact reason why there should be a much better trash management/sorting system in place .
It's pre-sorted in California, as in most of the US. Pre-sorting means more people put things in the trash that belong in recycling, but lower contamination rates mean that more actually gets recycled.
I have always wondered why garbage or waste disposal companies don't have garbage trucks or some other type of equipment at the landfills that mulches and shreds garbage like a tree mulcher so that it is easier to dispose of at the landfill
You want it compacted not cut up
This is just crazy.. no separation: throwing away a lot of money…..
There was that one guy sifting through the pile 😆
In Lancaster pa there’s a trash to electric plant , they separate out all recyclables
It’s amazing every landfill should follow in there foot steps
Yeah in about 50 years they will be digging all that stuff up for the resources the new oil
Not anymore. Nobody wants our recycling anymore. China has made it illegal. The entire industry was a farce to begin with, just like wind and solar.
@@BVonBuescher So burrying Gold, copper, platina is a good idea while prices soar? Secondly burning all the carbage can be transmitted into energy, and the waste (precious metals) can be sold. Third; less co2 emmissions. Its a win-win-win.
Interesting to learn that they don't just cover it up with dirt at the end of the day but use tarps instead. A couple of years ago we took a tour of our local landfill and they never mentioned anything like this during that tour.
Tarps help a lot with rising up heat underneath if dirt is applied on top it would make a big uneven mess since some stuff doesn’t compose as fast as other things
Soil would full it up quicker
They just use the tarps at the end of the day because adding dirt would just take up the space trash could be. Dirt as much as 3 feet deep has to be put over the waste and over that large of an area is a lot of waste. Thats how it was at the landfill i worked at here in GA anyways. It very tricky how you have to operate. If one thing is wrong with anything the EPA will shut you down so quick your head will spin.
@@harry_balz-inall Why do they cover it at night?
@@gadgetguy5249 different reasons. To keep wind from blowing it around or to keep animals out
Im a heavy equipment operator at a landfill and ngl its pretty awesome working there always a new challenges never know what’s going to happen
Companies that make most of this garbage need to come up with different solutions!
I used to work for the company Environmental Specialties International. We installed the liner that you see in the background. The liner goes under all the trash like a giant trash bag liner that catches all that nasty stuff from seeping into the ground. It also catches the methane gases, used to fire up turbines that create energy for homes and businesss. Every landfill needs a liner before trash can be dumped.I worked at the Riverside County landfill at El Sobrante in California
Not all landfills have a liner, but just about all collect their methane for electric
What a very educational and informative documentary you all did on a landfill. I would love to see more like this and share this with others. Thanks for all the hard work you all do for us.
Except they forgot to say that if you want to actually help the environment, the only way is to consume less.
A message that American business/gov doesn't want you to hear.
40:45 WEENA ISN’T the only one on site GETTING GREEN FINGERED 😂😂
india gets 16 tons of clothes every day, that creates methane.
@@soonersciencenerd383From an Aussie, you Indian? Maybe cause English is not your 1st language, I don't think you got it. But if English is your first language, use your imagination 🤣😂
@@wildone8397 i can speak english, spanish, japanese, and do sign...
@@soonersciencenerd383 I said.... English is not your first.. That's why you don't get it.. That's all..
@@wildone8397 my first language is english.
Bin juice.... When my brother and I were kids, we would watch the garbage truck compactor run. We called it garbage juice. Yuck 🤢
Amazing! Everyone should see this.
People in Thailand would say you guys are doing it all wrong. In Thailand we have people that goes through every bit of trash on a conveyer belt and pick out anything that can be recycled. At first any metal will be caught by a very strong magnet and put in a pile. Next is the cardboard it goes in a pile. Glass is next and then plastic. As the trash goes down the line they will pick anything thar can be recycled, even food. The take food and anything else that can be composted will go to the shredder and come out in little tiny pieces and taken to an area for composting. That is my favorite place. Almost every day they can make a pile 10 feet high and 20 feet wide and 20 to 30 feet long. Each row will end up 100 feet long, then they start another one next to it and do the same thing. Every week they have a machine that turns the piles.they start at the oldest pile that is much smaller by now because it's composted down to great smiling compost. That is hauled off to be banged up and sold and the next pile will be turned onto that spot and so on until they get to the newest pile. After they turn it they start putting new stuff in its place.
It's quite a neat process and I was very lucky to have seen it up close and personal. The U.S. could learn a thing or two by seeing how they do things in other countries.
It would take an army of thousands to do what you're saying. The sheer amount of waste is amazing. You're talking a pile of trash probably 4 city blocks square and 6 to 8 feet HIGH! I worked at one about a quarter this size, and that was for one small counties' trash.
One thing they really didn't stress in this video is that newer engineered landfills aren't designed to pile up the trash so that it dissolves away some day...that will never happen. New landfills are designed to encapsulate and contain the trash, catch and dispose of the leachate, and capture the methane gas for use. The hope is that one day we will have developed the technology to permanently dispose of the trash in some way...
All my respect for all the people that work over there and other's location's.
How can they stand that smell
@@Scott-got-caught I work at a landfill in Nevada, I got used to it after a month.
That methane to power segment was particularly interesting. 26k homes!!!!
I done some locating for city of Lexington NC when they were installing the wells and refinery and taps back into the gas industry it was an awesome project
Ya except it will be banned for co2 emmisions
@@williamvaughan1218 methane is much worse then co2
there are some of California garbage land fills that doesn't distribute the methane gas but burns it on site and nothing else like electric generation or for any other needs .
@@williamvaughan1218 methane is 10 times worse then carbon dioxide
I did trash pick up for 7 years.. best job I ever had considering what most people probably think about it..I got all kinds of nice stuff people threw out, brand new electronics etc. Rich people are crazy! I got in REALLY good shape, at that time we didn't have automatic tippers so I had to do it all by hand, plus we had just gotten 90 gallon containers (big roller ones) for our customers, the ones most people have today and I was dumping and winging those like nothing.. talk about a workout! anyway... The worst thing about doing that job is OSCARS GARBAGE JUICE! nothing worse then throwing a heavy duty hefty bag into hopper and compacting it only for the pressure in a bag to build and build and BOOM! maggot juice and God knows what in the mouth, all over the face! It's brutal and violating! 😬😂
Thanks!
Absolutely amazing all the different things they do for our waste! The birds the drones etc
I remember going to the dumps with my father as a child. There was this old Man that had a junk store set up right out side the dumps stuff he would take out of the land fill. I remember always wanting to bring something home from the dumps. My Pop's would never let me bring anything home. He said he's bringing garbage to the dumps not bringing it home.
man your dad was a downer
All who work there mega 👍🏻 s up ..THE FORCE B WITH YOU.
That's not a landfill, it's actually downtown San Francisco.
That is just so socialist San Francisco, a once beautiful city, trashed.
Are old dumps sit on the side of the San Pablo bay is now a park, you would never known it was once a large dumps sit. I remember going there in the early 1970s with my father this old Man had a junk store set up right out side the dumps. He would recycle the stuff that would be land fill and sale it in his store. I remember a lot of antiques hanging in the store. He also had many old Motorcyles that sat out side of his store. Thinking now people would pay a lot of money for those old Motorcyles.
wow this is so weird to me. in sweden you cant throw all thrash in one bin, you got separate bins for plastics, metal, cardboard and other waste. in some places you can get fined if you mix other stuff in the bins for recyclables
Well, this isn't Sweden. This is third world America.
Wow. I had no idea of the scale in regards to the garbage disposal situation!
"We're not here to kill Seagulls, we're here to scare Seagulls." 😅🤣
then you'll have rotting animals, that will make methane!
I am speach less to see all this whole process going on for the 365 days of the year. Thanks for the video.
Not on Sundays
....
mo trash,mo fun.
I noticed that since the pandemic we generated a lot more waste...like just from take out alone!
Big ups to them to sometimes people don't realize the role people play in dealing with big jobs and doing real good work big ups to you guys make a difference in the world just working jobs like this every day
we must massively reduce our production and consumption
Very informative and excellent documentary, should be shown in grammar school, hight schools and colleges.
Yes because , Out of site out of mind
Unfortunately usa won't do it...
Spot on..
If USA 🇺🇸 can spent trillions in F - 35 and Afghanistan, they should also find the solution of never ending pollution.
I mean america isn't even that bad with pollution compared to some other countrys
I think they are working on it every day, this landfill is horrific, but the amount of garbage in the Pacific is gut wrenching to me…even though I live very far from the ocean, and even when I lived in California I wasn’t a fan of heading out to the beach….fair skinned, red hair.
They should spend any money starting with the people who had good jobs and are now in the streets of Los Angeles due to their rent being doubled and used as office space for the owners of amazon and facebook, ie mark zukerburg, he could afford to feed the world himself.
Compost organic waste and make all disposable containers out of biopolymers.
One of the most I interesting documentaries I've ever seen. Educational and informative. I enjoyed watching! Wow amazing job guys and gals❤
My heart is in the trash, truest words a man ever spoke
The falconeer got me. That was sick
Me too 😂
California is such an amazing place. People living there are so fortunate to be in the midst of all innovation and latest in everything
Aren't we just burying trash underneath the Earth?
How is that innovative
California is not amazing place anymore. In LA area alone there are 60,000 homeless people living in the streets, parks, beach, etc.
@@troypolamalukingtroytrojan1538 agree. Funny comment. Burying the waste isn't particularly cutting edge innovation.
The garbage issue has bugged me for years. Even my business creates plastic waste and its just sad that we have made society a use and throw society.
@@thembones12 yes I saw too on youtube videos.. that homeless problem has spiralled out of controll
@@troypolamalukingtroytrojan1538 may be the part that generates water and electricity they also have an archeologist on site and a biologist i don't think many landfills outside california do
Corporations should be the ones dealing with their products so they are forced to research sustainable packaging
Exactly..
They make it for 1 time and done seems like recovery would save alot on more new matireal but sadly not intrested cuse no money to reclaim it 🐎💩
In Austrailia, you get a new appliance, the company is required to take your old one and deal with it. In Sweden, they import trash and burn it cleanly for energy.
There are systems that are much better than our current ones. We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to steal the ideas and demand they're implemented.
That's a huge job you guys are doing, so many details. ❤ some people have never seen the amount of work you do. ❤
That's AMAZING! People take tours of the Landfill? That's awesome. 🤔😉
I can't imagine all that gets dumped is inspected. It seems like you would need several people inspecting each load. Can't get my mind around that!
Typically loads are inspected at random through out the day. Unless it's a carrier that is consistently bringing in blacklisted items, then they are subject to more routine inspections of their loads.
That makes me think about stuff hidden in the trash
@@josephchinn7864 So how many loads per 1000 loads are inspected? What kind of inspection? Be a little bit more informative when you decide to BS these readers.
@@jayhuiting5748 well if its bsing readers hes after then he hit his mark wouldent ya say
@@firefoxbox9882 I'd say you are correct, I'll work on my sarcasm. IMHO, Mr Chinn sounds too much like a paid PR employee of the waste management industry to let that pass.
All this work you showed, appreciated, but it hardly scratches the surface
Yes, take a look at the hundreds of millions of tons left at the southern border...
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Lol but this in the great ole USA
Narrator with some top tier puns
and thats no trash.
Excellent engineering and work and excellently presented! Thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!
Oh what an interesting documentary and the Characters, very very hardworking people! You absolutely do have my commendations anytime and anywhere! Cheers! Khadeeja Alghali-Rahman (London, UK)
It's disgraceful how much recyclable waste is land filled here. This never happens in the UK.
@@braticuss No. We recycle everything at home. We have different bags for everything and it is picked up on different days of the week by the trash carts.
“Everything above you, and everything below you is trash”
Welcome to california
I say in 200 to 500 years every land fill especially early ones before our time will be worth gold in raw materials even landfills currently in use today. So much e waste in them they will be mining them in the future. Sad I or us won't be around to see it.
I read something somewhere that landfill mining is already being done.
I appreciate getting educated to what goes into getting rid of our garbage. Inspired to compost whenever possible
Simply Amazing...What us Humans have done to this Planet Earth...Not Good.
Enlightening...One thing I found missing however was: How do they catalog where the trash was picked up and where was it placed? As much as it is a sensitive subject, sometimes bodies are dumped in the trash and must be found. It means identifying where a trash receptacle was unloaded and a manual search must take place to try to locate it. How is that done?
Each truck gets a ticket and the gatehouse logs who dumps at what time. The operator in the compactor logs where the trash goes every day. If there is an issue, they find the ticket of disposer and can look in the landfill or if they find something in the landfill, they can contact the disposer.
Each trash zone and area is tracked so once they get to gate there ticket will show where that trash came from and where to dump it in what specific spot so they can trace back if there is a problem
there is also a guy going thru the piles with a rake to separate electronics but i am sure his main job is to see if someone dumped a body there because that landfill has only the regular trash there 2 others at least here in california the green waste and the recyclables i don't know if there is a landfill for the green and another one for recyclables that are similar to this one