This man put a GPS tracker in his recycling. Here’s where it ended up.
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- CBS 8 is Working For You to find out where our recyclables actually end up.
This comes after a CBS 8 viewer conducted an experiment and reached out to us with some alarming findings.
Kevin Grold says his plastic water bottle ended up at a landfill in Riverside.
Many of us, like Grold, are conscious of doing our part, by putting recyclables in the blue bin. Grold says it was disheartening to see.
"It's my way of appreciating nature and giving back, so if I leave it a little cleaner, then it's a good thing," Grold said, who lives in Del Mar.
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I remember when milk, soft drinks, beer and water came in glass bottles that you returned and received a small deposit. They were cleaned, sterilized and re-used.
And tasted so much better
So do I, but we're fossils. And WATER came out of the PLUMBING in your house!
I buy the six packs of Coke in glass and the Cokes from Mexico made with cane sugar. The cane sugar Cokes are what we had before 1985.
@@Lemmon714_ I dream of the day coke would start selling real cane sugar coke again. I'd actually start buying it again. High Fructose Corn syrup is SO disgusting. So sickeningly sweet and leaves an aftertaste that real cane sugar does not. They will never do it, as Real Cane Sugar costs money, and that would cut into their profit margin. I guess they figure people can't tell the difference. They are so wrong. What ever happened to Kosher coke ? You can even tell the difference between Sugar from Cane and Sugar from Sugar Beets which they have used as a substitute.
@@Lemmon714_Especially the milk.
I’m surprised people are surprised. There have been a number of articles over the years documenting the fact that very little recyclable material is actually recycled. This is nothing new
John Oliver reported on it as well as Adam ruins everything
Im suprised you are suprised that people are suprised about this most people today are really stupid and moronic and have very little common knowlege
Plastic, not recyclables in general.
@@Nayr747 It often cost more to clean the plastic than it is worth recycling.
Think of it like this. If your recyclables aren’t being recycled, but you pay a fee for it to be recycled and you pay tax towards recycling, then why are you still feeding the lie?
Imagine finding out that recycling is a scam only 11 days ago; it's kinda been known as the biggest scam now for a good few years now. We need more folks like this guy calling out the crap though so that our efforts aren't wasted.
Folks like this guy calling out the crap are on the verge of extinction because no one protects them.
You actually may be in luck as it might not be a scame much longer, so just recenty 2022 we found out how to turn plastic back into it's base components. meaning basic hydrocarbons. Or organic materials
This is after it being years of the previous methods being the way to get rid of it. It also won't fix things in the short run still. It's more of a great thing to have once we transition off of plastic and trynig to stop the damage of plastic and micro plastics.
Though this process probably won't make a lot of money so it might be a while until people start pushing for it in mass
2:35 The problem even with these processes is that they use way to much energy. Many years ago their was a cloth diapers thing, but used way more energy etc, than the disposables, grinding of all trash would help, but that would be tough also on such a large scale.
Well, in most countries recycling routes are just starting and is understandable they may not be efficient yet. Why dont you usa people start asking your big companies to stop producing single use plastic products?
@@larryvance5107 it would be tough however plastics degrade into microscopic particles that are negatively effecting the health of people now. So they don’t exactly have a choice since those plastics will either need to be destroyed properly or people will get sicker. That or humans destroy themselves. There are groups that have started working on the alternatives that work fine. Fungi, fish scale and algae alternatives are catching on and are becoming easier to source. They are however still high in price for the time being
I had a person that ran the recycling program tell me it’s just for show most if not all plastic ends up in landfills.
been telling people for years........ ugh
I heard something similar
They should burn plastics and get electricity from it.
@@tonysheerness2427 we can do that now lol there is a reason why we dont oil and coal $$$$
@@Rabbits6ix They waste money on windfarms and solar panels. Burning plastics will not make much of a dent in oil production, but will clean up the environment as then plastic waste will have value.
"Recycling" is one of the biggest consumer scams of all time
yup. Back in the day when the plastic bottle first came about several states had bans on them and it was actually corporations that sold plastics that put together the whole recycling thing to push the blame for any pollutants onto the consumer and that it was their fault if they didn't recycle not the manufactures fault for making trash. (well both are to blame).
Then with China, China was supposed to recycle but they were actually dumping most of it in the ocean.
Right next to climate change and carbon credits.
Revealed by Penn & Teller.
@@zachscott4867 All three are behind organized religion.
I worked in a National Park for a concession company that is proud of their green policies. The compost was run through the food scrap disposal at the restaurant's dish pit. Right into the sewage line.
No way. Next you're going to tell me that celebrities and politicians don't actually live green lifestyles?!?!?
It went to the recycling center. It only went to the landfill because it had sh*t taped all over it that couldn't be recycled and it was pulled out of the recycling line when it was sorted. .
@@TruthHurts2u the recycling companies in the UK are protected by data protection laws...you can't ask whre it goes.....something fishy going on there too
This is common problem nationally . I have worked in this industry now for 26 years and we have been screwing the public since day 1 . I'm no complaining by any means this business has bought my family a beautiful home a cottage at the lake put my kids through private school and allowed me to drive some very very nice Non Electric cars .
@@Trackratz-zl9di You're so full of **i, I can see it from here. lolt
Their jets beg to differ.
Recycling is a great tool to keep everyone consuming without worry. It's theater.
Exactly. I also found out that you have to wash your plastic of any food or solutions inside or it'll be tossed in the regular trash. I'm not wasting water to clean plastic that will never be recycled.
Everything today is a LIE!!! It's the most cost effective way to control the stupid sheeple!!!
I always found recycling more worrysome than just throwing stuff away.
It’s tithing to Gaia worship
@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful it's not. Depending in the country recycling is actually being done. Metals and electronics are being recycled up to 90% recycling rated here in the netherlands
I was working a contruction site. 4 bins were used. It was such a big deal to get the right recyclbles in the right bin. Part of the General Contract to get the bid. Well, I asked the driver where he took all the bins. "The Dump" "We just don't have a recyling center near here".
So the city charges you xtra for recycling but dumps it in the trash. Id sue the city for scamming.
Unfortunately, you'd be suing the government in its own court. So you'd lose.
The majority of government is a scam. Just look at taxes. Huge scam.
Here in Louisville recycling is included in the property taxes as part of waste removal.
What do you expect city gov and its police allow the Mafia run Waste Management all across the country.
It is all part of a huge worldwide JOBS program. To deal with the recyclables, millions of people are employed to deal with it all, mostly at goverment/taxpayer expense. Jobs for parolees, delinquents, partially disabled people, mentally deficient people, and shit tons of truck drivers, material handlers, and recycling truck builders. Oh and guaranteed jobs for gub'ment workers and administrators. Recycling IS big business. The stuff gets handled multiple times, but most still ends up mixed with trash in landfills with only very small amounts of materials actually re-used and repurposed.
Recycling industrial complex
As a 17 year landfill employee I can assure you more goes to the landfill than gets recycled
Clarify. Most people don’t bother to recycle. They throw clean cardboard in the trash can for instance. One of my brothers doesn’t bother to use the recycling bin. He just throws everything into the trash bins.
Not surprised.
Cardboard is highly recyclable. I actually see poor people collecting it along with aluminum cans so they can sell them.
I suspect plastic bottles are what often get thrown away.
@jmseipp it all goes to the same place, the landfill. China wasn't recycling anything either, they just burned it.
@@porkch0mp538 Nonsense. They may have burned some of it that they couldn’t use but it’s not true that they burned it all. You don’t know what you are talking about.
People have been telling you this for YEARS. Wake up America
NEW HEADLINE: He put a non-necyclable GPS tracker in the recycle bin and it didn't get recycled.
Literally was thinking the same thing. The center likely sorted this, and "hours later" like he said, took his trash to the landfill
Exactly. This is one of the stupidest video on RUclips. All it proves: if your plastic or cardboard is contaminated with electronics, it won't be recycled.
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Where did he get it for $8? Bluetooth ones only work in short range
You taped a plastic thing to the side of a glass bottle and expected what to happen?
I’ve known recycling was a scam for years. It saddens me people are still playing catch-up.
It went to the recycling center. It only went to the landfill because it had sh*t taped all over it that couldn't be recycled.
They are too busy working on the new electric car scam to notice.
@@TruthHurts2u You are so wrong !
@@tonyfulford3175 Then explain why they would they take it to the recycling center and NOT recycle it? Dumbass!
@@TruthHurts2uyou mean like 99.99% of all consumer products. Not sure what the argument is here. Even if you pick all the stickers off it’s still going to the landfill
Go Green only means Green $$$ to the businesses not the consumers
Mob owned Waste Management
Yep you should check the bs organic pesticide industry....
It's taxpayer dollars they are always after, take away the subsidies watch how fast they all shutter their doors.
"Low-Cost" Green Energy. That's like Louis Vuitton on Sale(most people Still can't afford it). That's why there are $Trillions in subsidies borne by the Taxpayer!
And to politicians & activist orgs.
Unfortunately recycling is a scam.
_Plastic_ recycling.
The only recycling that is actually a net energy benefit is aluminum.
@@garyowen9044 , less than 10% of total "recyclables' is actually recycled. The costly feel good charade continues while most Americans think that seeing Blue Bins means responsible environmental practices.
Yes and here in the UK we have net zero, net zero rammed down our throats every day😡
Yes it is my husband told me the trash companies only recycle if it's worth it. If the money ain't there it still goes to the same place and if this really goes to China guess what China throws all their garbage in the ocean I seen videos about it.
I have been on a tour of a waste management facility and they told us that most recycling now ends up being burned like the rest of the garbage. They burn it and sell the power it collects to the power company and filters the smoke. You would never know they are burning the stuff because there is no trace of smoke or smell of it. The place is actually pretty clean other than where the garbage is dumped to be lifted in the incinerator. Was a interesting visit.
The idea that everything must be washed clean before it gets recycled is a crazy waste of precious potable water. Especially if it ends in landfill.
Or they could clean everything at the recycling plant. Like you are telling me they expect randoms to do a better job of it that an industrial process LMAO
The washed clean requirement is a ready made excuse to cull a bunch of plastic that they don't want to pay someone to take off their hands. BTW, even when it gets into the recycling "stream" it gets contracted to lower and lower paid contractors until that last one dumps it in the ocean.
yeah but water is forever recycled due to rain but plastic is not
"Looks like you've had a little too much to think, sir... Now quit asking questions and do as you're told!" - Your government
@@SevenSixTwo2012 sounds like rw angertainment
Increasingly everything is a fraud or a scam while the outward appearance is maintained.
That’s modern humans for ya, one big scammy fraudulent cesspool
Our entire society has become exactly that. The good news is that more and more people are waking up to that fact every day. That's why "they" are so worried about "misinformation".
Whats more many things are in fact the exact opposite of what they are supposed to be/presented as
@@viciousKev right? Sesta Fosta arresting trafficking victims, corrections facilities that turn the innocent and those guilty of crimes of necessity into hardenned repeat offenders. that's why I never trust the "justice" system or any business with "good" or "best" in the name. They are always the worst.
For the most part, recycling has always been a scam.
My neighbor works for the largest recycling company in the U.S. He said most people would be shocked at how little is truly recycled. Most ends up in the landfill.
I have a friend in the recycle business and he tells me that only large scale industrial recycling works financially, where there is a large amount of an identical material available to process.
The stuff that's actually profitable to recycle is already getting recycled. Hence the theft of copper wire, catalytic converters, etc.
If it isn't profitable to recycle, then that means it shouldn't be recycled.
@@dafunkmonster Yeah, that is why a lot of "recycled" household stuff ends up in the landfill. It might be capable of being recycled but it won't happen if it is not profitable.
Not most: almost all.
The most ironic twist would be that the trackers themselves are the contaminant gets the load rejected and sent to the landfill. Lol
could have been anything in that truck load...retarded experiment that isnt needed, everyone knows china just shoves whats sent there into a hole like we use too. just another scam
My trash pick up guy told me the recycling service tripled the fee charged to the city so it all just ends up in the same bin eventually.
My community has a contract so we can put a lot of stuff in the blue bin. That means we pay top dollar for our trash pickup. The provider can make a killing routing most if not all to the landfill.
I worked for a plastics manufacturer. Recycled plastic can't be made into very many things. We only used it for agricultural mesh, the barrier that keeps birds from eating all the newly sown seeds and acts as a weed barrier after that. Other than that, it's pretty much worthless. The problem is that the petroleum resin pellets (used to make all plastic) have already been heated and molded once. Heating it again in order to reform another product basically destroys it. Recycling is a nice thought. My thought is, how about we got back to glass bottles or reusable tumblers and paper bags? That's probably 50% of the problem right there.
Even better is that glass/metal/ceramic/etc just LOOK AND FEEL BETTER than plastic, most of the time.
Glass has always been better.
Getting rid of plastic in the food chain will only happen when companies can make a profit from it. Right now it's too expensive for companies to use anything but plastic.
Ban plastic
Glass is heavier and more fragile than plastic, making the transportation of it more expensive due to the increase in fuel consumption. Glass also requires extra packaging/packing materials for shipping, which means more resources are needed to manufacture and transport the cushioning materials too.
Creating virgin glass more so than recycling glass, but both processes are emissions-heavy.
The sand needed in manufacturing glass isn't without its own issues, because a higher glass demand means more sand is needed than can be replenished. Meaning, we are using this natural resource up twice as fast as the planet can replenish it. Sand is also commonly being harvested from seabeds, riverbeds and etc., which disrupts and devastates marine ecosystems and the necessary microorganisms that they depend for survival. Harvesting of sand leaves coastal communities vulnerable to flooding and erosion too.
Also, not all glass can be recycled like window glass, but despite the glass cons, glass lasts practically forever and it doesn't leach toxic chemicals into the environment, water, air, or our food like petroleum based plastics do. Glass is definitely the better option for continual use, for repurposing, and for a cleaner future too.
We have two dumpsters behind our store. One for recycling and the other for garbage. They say 'make sure you sort the recyclables because even a small bit of contaimination makes it unusable!".... then I watch a single truck come and dump BOTH dumpsters into the same garbage truck. Its. A. Scam.
He put garbage on the recyclable plastic bottle. It went from the recycling facility to the garbage dump. Makes complete sense.
This is what we call common sense. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
2024 and people are still shocked at this “finding”… 😂
Old news. Its well known most plastics end up in a landfill
or more accurately in the Pacific Garbage patch
I'd rather they end up in a landfill than the ocean. 🤷
It went to the recycling center. It only went to the landfill because it had sh*t taped all over it that couldn't be recycled and it was pulled out of the recycling line when it was sorted.
@@TruthHurts2u now swallow the lie th2u
still relevant to remind the deluded green voters the truth.
💦💦 Don't forget to wash your recyclables clean and use up 10 gallons during our drought season!
That’s not required
Hippie
@@mattschehr163 yes it is required. I have the flyer from our garbage company and that’s exactly what it says. You have to wash/rinse the recyclables so they are clean
Probably shouldn't leave trackers inside either as that bottle now cannot be recycled which... is probably why it didn't. 🤷♂️
@@dcwatashi Nope. I'll throw all my waste in the trash if they try that shit here.
Here in Italy, we have a pretty strict recycle rules imposed compared to US and you guys just gave me an idea how to check what's going on with the plastics especially.
I worked for waste management for a bit, and I can tell you. Everything that came to our site went into the landfill. Why? Nobody wanted the contract, probably as there wasn't any money in it. We never tried to sort it, run a magnet over or nothing. It piled up too fast.
I'm surprised there's no replies to this comment
@@theone2be33 This shouldn't surprise anyone. Over 20 years ago, I watched an episode of Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" that demonstrated how recycling is largely a waste of time and effort. Because of this, I refuse to recycle and throw everything in the trash. If the trash service won't take something, it goes into my burn barrel and then back into the trash.
Sure there is money in it. They charge a large amount to pick up recycle material separate from what they charge your normal waste. All going to the same place.
Well, Rick, all I know is what I saw and was told. All the recycling that came in went into the landfill as nobody wanted the contract with the county. They even encouraged some of us to see if we could make a go of it as a business. Still no takers. Ultimately, every week without fail. Off it went into the landfill. We were instructed to tell anyone who asked that it was taken off. Which was a bold a$$ lie.
Ran a recycling program at our high school… bins in each classroom and recruiting kids on Friday to help sort bring to maintenance etc…. One day I went with the maintenance crew and they literally just threw it in the dumpster at the local landfill🙄
They do this scam at every school. It's nothing more than a hoax designed to make us believe in the green agenda that's really about pushing big government and Marxism. The school I work at has blue recycle bins in all of the classrooms. A certain class collects all of them once a week and throws them into the recycle dumpster outside. Guess where that ends up?
Yup, the landfill....
And when the students can't do it, maintenance throws it all straight into the regular dumpsters. It all ends up in the landfill anyway.
Its called brainwashing
@@earlwright9715 yup the kids that were panicking and having anxiety about the “climate crisis” would come into my office for counseling. I would explain that 20yrs ago many of my peers in the “Young Environmental Activists” group also feared that they polar ice caps would be melted by now, that we wouldn’t be able to be outside due to the “acid rain”, and that hairspray would cause the ozone layer to be depleted by now. That plastic bags replacing paper was the future…that giving peanut butter to kids was bad and would lead to allergies and that everyone gets a participation trophy…..🤡🌎
Welcome to branding to make you feel better about buying more more more
😂
decades ago pop bottles were made out of glass with a deposit on them, kids would collect them and they'd be upcycled.
Recycling we were told would bring costs down. So far haven’t see it, that was 30 years ago.
@district: they sold nuclear the same way, never saw any savings on my bill. Now the are selling it to Australia. What a joke.
@@terywetherlow7970 Worst part about nuclear is that it is cheaper, cleaner and incredibly efficient. It is privatization that is ripping us off. And corruption on a grand scale in government.
Corporations lied to us? 😮
Corporations tend towards the ASPD spectrum (I mean, if they were actual humans and not just the legal equivalent of same, most of them would be considered psychopaths), and thus should never be trusted or their word taken on face value.
Typical politics!
It does for me. I don't pay to have recycling picked up, but I do pay for trash pickup. So the more I put in recycling the less I pay for trash.
Is it possible that the tracker was filtered out or found by a worker, recognized as non-recyclable trash, and THEN sent to the landfill?
Exactly my first thought.
Exactly what I thought
Sure, metals get sorted out.
This way doesn't work to track the trash.
Who wants crushed electronics mixed with plastics?
It is not usable for recycling anymore.
So he conterminated the plastic garbage with the electronics.
Yes most likely but it should've gone to a collection centre for e-waste. A friend of mine sorts the recycle bin items at a recycle plant. You'd be amazed at how so much good stuff gets thrown out and the perks of the job is you're allowed to keep anything they want.. I wonder if he's still tracking it as the recycle sorters may have given it to to the driver that brought it in
Wow that is soo cool that they can keep stuff... my dad was working at waste segregation and he said that if there was no manager they could steal. So one time there were bills on the line and everyone looked to see if the manager is there it was not so they quickly grabbed as much as they could and at the end manager came in and they let the rest of the money go... my dad grabbed 1 week worth of money and others also had alot. So basically they stole it..
Wakey wakey if you thought recycling was a sincere venture.
That's why I don't recycle plastic bottles anymore. I found out that 90% of all plastics aren't recyclable.
Sure, that's why. I've never cared to recycle and at least I can admit that 😂
True, but 100% of what's put in the trash isn't recycled.
Ya keep telling yourself that. It’s like you’re trying to convince yourself it’s okay to be lazy and negligent, instead of trying to convince the rest of us 😮💨🤦♂️
Just do your part. It’s not even difficult AT ALL. She even gave a solution in the video, simply RINSE OUT YOUR BOTTLES…
Seriously takes a few seconds and THEN if it isn’t properly recycled, they have NO excuse for that happening
And when China stopped accepted recycled plastics from the US, the few big plastics that were recycled ended overnight.
@@lordaizen8004 lmao another virtue signaling loser.
I like how the guy did all the work but the reporters still try to claim it.
when grown ass adults find out there is no Santa Claus...really, who didn't already know this?
Actual recycling is impossible, most of the materials are simply not recyclable. Contaminated cardboard, plastics etc. Actually making the effort to recycle, uses more energy than just dumping it. We could incinerate it, and used the heat to produce electricity. But people like the facade, it makes them feel cosy.
My wife.
WHO did not know??? The liberal non-thinkers who voted for Biden, THAT'S WHO!!!!!!
When living in the UK an elderly neighbor put his recycling items out for collection, even sorting his glass into the different colours as requested. A knock at the door and the young recycling inspector handed him a fine notice for the wrong colour bottle being in the bin. Another neighbor called by the collection yard a day or two later and witnessed the recycling truck dumping the different colour glass into one bay, so all the colours were mixed. He went to the local newspaper and they took up the story, following the inspector and the trucks.
Every body who had been fined for the last two years got their money back and glass didn't need sorting by colour anymore.
I now live in Vietnam a neighbor calls by sweeps my yard, pavement etc. weeds the block paving and takes away my beer cans, plastic, milk cartons and cardboard, plus anything else I leave in a pile for her. She then sells it on together with her recycling. Drivers do throw drink cans etc. out the window but within 24 hrs. some old gent or lady will pick it up and turn it into food.
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So best solution is poverty?!? Thanks!
I've seen then dumping the glass recycle containers on the same turck when I was a kid, more than 20 years ago.
Oh, that's so heartwarming! In Vietnam you just throw away your trash and some old and poor will pick it up. That's so lovely! You just forgot the part of mentioning how good of a samaritan you are...
@@danielrauer5864 You totally missed the point and then blame other people instead of taking a look at yourself. 🤦🏻♂️
As long as people feel good about recycling (forget reality) they will continue separating trash even when they know the so-called recycled items end up in a landfill.
Yeah, the social conditioning is very ingrained into many peoples minds.
Tell this to my wife. She sanitizes the crap out of her recyclables as if the recycling workers are going to eat out of them. 😂😢
@@elhombrebilingue guessing it wouldn't do any good.
It's true, and that's no way to live.
Lol@@elhombrebilingue
Years ago, I was talking to a checker at the grocery store and mentioned to her about bringing my grocery bags in to put in the bag recycling. She said it does not matter as she had seen the bag recycling people pick them up and put them in the dumpster!
Some years ago, at a fair trade store we used to have, a group of ladies used to collect milk bags and such to weave into throw rugs!
Recycling is just a term used to generate feels.
That's too bad, but at least it's a pile of trash I don't have to pay to get rid of.
*I don’t even need a gps to know.* I watched in awe over morning coffee as the “new” trash and recycling truck dumped both trash _and recycling_ into the same chute on the same truck.
I finished my coffee, went in and promptly cancelled the “recycling” service that they charge extra for. 🙄
(And since they couldn’t be bothered to pick up their own recycle bin, I now have two trash bins.)
Lucky you! Here in Germany we are forced by law to „recycle“ …er… to pay for our recycling. Official numbers tell that about 30% are recycled, but honest reviews show that it is just above 5% (the higher percentage is faked by taking shipments of stuff to third world countries into account - though nobody really knows what happens there).
Imho, even the 5% are debatable. Paper and glass (actually no recycling but downcycling), okay, but most, if not all stuff from our “yellow bags“ is burned for energy.
I always laugh when I see these video clips of people in hazmat suits sorting garbage by hand.
People, wake up! The recycling truck compresses all our meticulously sorted and cleaned waste. How on earth is it possible to pick single elements out of this compact mess? This is just for the camera teams, because recycling is a multi-billion business for scammers.
I have seen them do that too before that's why I never bothered to pay extra for recycling.
When we switched service providers, they just crushed our trash can the next time they picked it up. Didn't apparently want it back.
Exactly !
That depends on your facilities where the stuff ends up. In some places, don't know about the U.S., the trash gets sorted with optical recognition computers and separated. For instance, special green bags are for biological waste but get dumped in the same containers as combustible waste, and then it gets extracted in the recycling factory where in a number of steps it gets converted into biofuel for the local city buses.
Recycling has always been a scam.
No - the Chinese used to take it. When they stopped then it became an issue. Anyone even a little versed in the recycling world knows that it is not working now but there is a general consensus that we might find a way to actually start recycling again. At the moment the citizens all do what they are supposed to for the most part (and some stuff does still get recycled - but not much). We could massively reduce what goes into the recycling bin but then we would have to retrain the citizenry if the problem ever got resolved.
I@JeremyMacDonald1973 that means it's shipped 1/2 way across the world to be dumped in the ocean! That's worse!
@@JackCarsonite Well I would hardly call it a perfect solution and stuff certainly fell into the Ocean but it was a lot of recycling. I could be convinced that landfill would actually be a better idea then shipping to the third world but the main point is that it was not a scam. A poor idea possibly but not a scam.
Say it with me now RECYCLING IS NOT A MODERN INVENTION. Japan recycled paper when it was isolationist, the Civil war and both World wars saw recycling of metal for martial purposes, most early paper mills relied on scrap paper. Metal recycling (although no documented cases exist) was back around in the times of plauges, castles, crossbows and the HRE. Learn history you notcrackers.
It’s been documented & televised that majority of the items go to the landfill and only a tiny percentage actually gets recycled. Nothing new here…😑
It went to the recycling center. It only went to the landfill because it had sh*t taped all over it that couldn't be recycled.
@@TruthHurts2u Your argument is that a piece of electronics, with its battery, went through a recycling center, and instead of being yanked and put into an electronics disposal stream it went to the landfill. That’s not a win.
@@JoeOvercoat No, my argument is that a plastic bottle, covered in tape, went through a recycling center, and instead of being yanked and put into the plastic recycling it went to the landfill.
If you weren't so stupid you would know you don't put electronics in the curbside bin. YOU would have to take those to a specialized recycle center for electronics. The curbside bin is for certain plastics, glass, cans and paper. Something else is that recycling services are not equal in every area and some places are better equipped to handle more variety of recyclables. .
@@TruthHurts2u It's too bad YOU are so stupid that you don't understand that even electronic waste that has been tracked often ends up in a landfill. Documented. It's a big problem across N. America.
Ding dong, your argument is wrong. This is only true for plastic.
“Tonight we’re working for you………” That news channel isn’t doing anything for you. They wait for the citizens to do their job.
Just like their "Keeping you Safe and Informed " BS.
I learned this truth many years ago when I ran a small bag of plastics out to my recycle bin on the street as the Waste Management truck pulled up. I asked the lady collector if I could dump the contents of the bag into the bin? She replied, "It doesn't matter. Just toss the bag in." She then told me that nearly all the recycled material ends up in the same landfill as the garbage. I asked if it all goes to the same place then why do they bring out a separate truck for recycling and she just laughed.
I learned later that these garbage companies get government subsidies for their recycling efforts. So yes, our tax dollars are also part of this charade.
Interesting. Changes suspected behavior into real behavior, at least in this example. Thanks for passing the comments along to the rest of us.
Taxes used to placate the masses in feeling like they are being a good person. Ultimately, once one finds their real identity in Christ, they don’t respond the same way to the manipulation & coercion. They’re not afraid of death anymore. They are not subject to the same lust that leads to corruption anymore.
It's way worse than that. The garbage industry is controlled by organized crime families. It is ripe with corruption, payoffs to government officials, you name it. Just try to contract with a non-approved hauler on your next building project and see how fast you get shut down. You get one option and pay their fees.
Common thing here. Recycling is a fraud. Not economically feasible
The old "we can't save the planet as it's not cost effective" argument! Roughly translates to "I'm too selfish, greedy and lazy to care about what happens in the future. Let my kids worry about it."
@@nigelhart3897 If you are being paid to push an agenda, fine. But if you are a legitimate real person expressing your own opinion, do some research because recycling is a nasty business that does more ecological harm than good. If all the people concerned about the environment took their concerns seriously and actually looked at what was going on, we could finally get recycling in its current form shut down and actually help the planet. Unfortunately, a bunch of people who don't know what is actually going on are highly opinionated and push against those who are actually trying to do some good in stopping companies from getting away with recycling as they are doing it right now.
If you are skeptical, start by asking a simple question. If a lot of our recycling goes to China, how is it getting there? If that doesn't make you think for a second and start to wonder how exactly we are saving the planet by shipping tons of garbage halfway around the world, burning more oil for fuel than is saved from the plastic that ends up being recycled, then I don't know what to say. If that does make you think, then start digging because that is just one small piece showing how stupid and wasteful and harmful current recycling is.
@johnparker408 You don't get it.
I have a fresh box of crayons so I'll give it a try.
Recycling 90% of the stuff that goes into the blue bin requires more resources (fuel, electricity, manpower, etc) and releases more toxic waste than the entire cycle from exploration, extraction, and processing of the raw materials.
Recycling is done for 1 ONE reason. Optics.
It was a good idea in the beginning. And for 5-10% of the products it makes sense to recover about 20% of them. The problem was the programs success. It became a huge feel good thing that voters liked so politicians jumped on board and so did the majority of the public. Suddenly they're getting multiple times what they can actually use, and they're being pushed into recycling products that don't recycle well. Most plastics take 2 or 3 times the energy and resources to reclaim and create a vastly inferior product.
The only things that are worth recycling are Paper, Aluminum, (all metal really), and PET plastics. The problem is sorting the other plastics from PET. To recycle your pop bottle properly the cap and the little safety ring that breaks off when you open it, plus the label and glue would need to be removed before placing it in a bin with only other PET products of the same colour. As the article said, if 1 of your neighbours puts anything non metallic in the bin it contaminates the load. While it's still whole it's not the end of the world, it can still be picked out by hand. But, if it makes it through the shredder the entire load is now scrap. Because the machines that are the next step in the process can be severely damaged if the wrong kind of plastic is fed into them.
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People believe what suits their agenda. There are many just too busy making money, and recycling takes time, albeit just a little bit of time. Pollution, global warming, environmental destruction are all ignored by these people who are just motivated by greed. The problem is they are destroying everything for everyone else especially our (and their) children and grandchildren.
@@nigelhart3897 Agree. Guessing we are on the same page politically when it comes to national debt.
I worked for a debris removal company and would see the recycling trucks pulling into the dump constantly. It all ends up at the dump. I tell everyone that habitually recycled and are high and mighty about it. They don't believe me, but it's true.
And none of them do an ounce of research like the tools they are.
it makes sense to recycle metals usually, paper sometimes, plastic almost never. Reduce and reuse plastic, but don't put it in the recycling bin.
I've known this for years, my neighbor works for the city and he told me not to waste my time recycling because it all goes to the same place, the land fill .
Many years ago, fresh out of college in 2001, I was staying late at my first real office job, like real late, well into the evening to get a project done. I sat at my desk and watched as the cleaning lady with her big rolling barrel walked up and down the rows of cubicles emptying both the blue recycling totes and gray garbage cans into that same barrel. The next day I ran to our crusty old office manager in absolute horror, "How could his be?" I asked. His response and i'll never forget it, "Kid, this is how most recycling works in office buildings like this, it's too expensive with no benefit to the company, we put those bins there to make people feel like they are doing something to help, but in the end, it all goes to the same dump".
In our office we do our part, and separate, at a cost for the company.
Then of course, it gets sent to the dump/overseas/burned, but it isn't us.
I had a boss who would literally dig through the trash to make sure all the recycling was out of it. I always laughed at her. What a tool.
@@Mereologist Caring doesn't make someone a tool.
@@eelnoops5200 it does if you care about obvious nonsense.
Same thing happened at my work, until we found out, and then those recycling bins disappeared!!
Drove a semi as a city driver for a few years in the 2000's one of my usual routes was to go the recycling center and pick up 40ft containers full of plastic or glass (neatly sorted I must say)........take it to the dump then bring an empty back. I'd do it for 12 hours straight. They used our company so people wouldn't wise up seeing city trucks doing it. Guys on the loading dock told me anything that wasn't ferrous, aluminum or paper just went right to the dump. Keep in mind this was BEFORE China stopped accepting mixed recyclables. Wonder if anything has changed and if so how much for the worse.
Absolutely killed me when I realized my Grandma's group home had a social club that cleaned all the glass with bristle brushes and neatly sorted all the residents recycling for pick up. Never did have the heart to tell her.
@@Hierax415 It kept them busy and they got some excercise.
@@Hierax415 They are just pretending to recycle, it is antieconomical to do so... so they don't do it.
Going to mars but can’t recycle a pizza box.
😂😂😂
You don't recycle a pizza box, you compost it. But I agree if everything we used could be recycled, it would put much less strain on the environment and reduce need for materials.
Recycling is one of the biggest scams ever.
No, global warming is
Well… the reality is that 95% of what goes into your recycling bin in Buffalo, NY ends up in a landfill.
I stopped doing the recycling thing when I found out the same thing was going on where I live. It really pissed me off when I realized I was making sure to separate everything only to find out that it all wound up in the regular dump. I now use the recycle ben to catch rain water that I pour on my plants.
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I worked for a company that had a small job to do at my local landfill. I had a perfect view of the trucks coming in and noticed they had 1 - 30 yard dumpster for recycling, that filled up in about 1 hour, after that the recycling trucks drove up to the top of the landfill and dumped followed by many more. Recycling is the biggest scam.
GPS tracker is considered ewaste and would be pulled during sort for contamination. Most recycling centers offer free tours to the public that help explain why and how things are recycled. I highly recommend it.
Reporter needs to see whether the device was ever in the sorting station. I assume that info exists. If the bottle did get into sorting, was put on landfill path after, then you're right, and my comment above is wrong.
Yet the recycling center didn't recycle the "ewaste" either.
Ewaste is not handles by most recycling centers - it's handled by specialized centers that can dismantle and recycle individual components. Ewaste found in a blue bin would be handled as trash.
@@tuxpatsam thank you: I wrote a similar comment above. Of course it got sorted out at the recycling center and then sent to a landfill GPS units are not recyclable! It's very disheartening to see how many sheeple just agree with what they see on the news without thinking for one second. i'm glad you are awake my friend Here's my original comment:.This is the dumbest thing ever: "Hey I put a GPS in it and my recycle bin and it went to a landfill after going to a recycling center", Gee Mr maybe your GPS unit was not recyclable and got sorted out and then sent to a landfill.
We don't want to hear this. We want to hear how evil recycling is.
😂😂😂. I’ve been telling people this for 25 years. Can’t tell someone who refuses to listen.
I used to drive a recycle truck. We would go down a quiet road and back up the recycle truck to the rear load trash truck and empty the recycling into the trash truck. This was every day.
Recycling has come along way since when you worked in the 60’s.
You must be so proud
This was in 2020@@c0mputer
@@c0mputer There was no recycling in the 1960's.
@@markg7030 I know. They apparently swapped it all over into garbage trucks in a dead end road.
I had a friend years ago that worked for waste management. He explained once that much recycling ends up in the same ultimate repository as regular garbage.
To be fair , he is technically contaminating his plastics with electronics .
And battery waste
He did it in the name of science. How dare you question science.
And he ran the experiment at least 2 other times where the tracker presumably got crushed and bailed like recycling is supposed to.
That is exactly what I thought. A high tech machine would not be able to sort that into any category. If it remained there for about an hour to go through the process, then I would consider the process successful, in that a contaminant was removed.
That being said, we heed to scale back on recycling, unless it can save money even if it doesn't improve the environment.
what a pointless response.
When people start figuring out that recycling is not happening when it should, they stop caring as much and stop sorting.
I've known for a while but I live in a state that automatically charges the redemption value at the register so if I don't take it to a collection center then I don't get my money back.
@@Dargonhuman You get money back? are you talking like Bottle and can returns?
@@suroguner Yes. The caveat is, I have to bring it to a designated drop off location (local recology doesn't give anything back), but there's one about 2 miles from my apartment so it's not a problem.
I was in the Dallas Natural History Museum a couple of months ago and there was an exhibit on recycling. I remember reading that only 5% of plastic that's turned in for recycling is actually recycled, rather than 5% of all plastics. I also know the the manager of the local garbage company, and she says whether things get recycled depends on how much the companies that buy plastic for recycling are paying.
I'm more concerned with having no choice but to pay for the extra service. Only to find out that it is not being recycled. I live in Florida, and every week, I watch the garbage truck pickup my garbage can and then proceed to pick up the recycle can. If you're not gonna recycle, then we shouldn't pay more for the service.
In Japan we cleaned our plastics and separated the bottom cups. An inspector checks your recycling bin to check for violations.
I actually believe you. As I always say, please send the aliens to speak with the Japanese, not the Americans.
Heard this from a contractor who visited a recycling/garbge center. He watched as they dumped all recyclable and garbage together in the same spot.
Recycling is a government grift.
I assume you meant grift.
@@pappabunny yes, thank you
It boosts the ESG score gotta get those numbers up!
It’s not the government grifting you, it’s the plastics industry
@@bob8776 my local govt charges a recycling fee every year in property taxes. So yeah
I see various stages of grief. Many in denial. Some bargaining with the tracker as e-waste contamination. Not enough anger or depression. Overwhelming acceptance. God bless America.
Please tell me what to make of this comment, I can't think for myself:)
@@ryanunruh2683 The 5 stages of grief. Upon realizing recycling is a scam. I am done grieving, myself, although I still do recycle ha. Make sense of that what you will. Paper and glass and tin does seem recyclable still. Maybe I need to start on stage one again.
@@thedreamqueen There are things we can do to help, as far as real recycling and reuse. We need to get creative and learn to think outside of boxes. And not be so lazy and convenience driven. A big one is just plastic water bottles. Buy a long lasting water home water filter and reuse steel, glass, etc bottles. Instead, I see many people buying these huge packs of plastic bottled water (at Costco and Bj's for example). Most don't care. Most won't care until they are forced to care by extenuating circumstances like health etc.
@@justinw1765 I agree completely. I use steel canisters and glass and live a fairly simple, debt-free and consumer-less driven life. The plastic consumption is a real problem as it fuels waste physically and mentally gives a free pass. The point I was making with my cheeky comment is that we need to stop projecting false standards onto our beliefs - corruption and deception is quite commonplace and liberal-progressive mindsets often contribute to the problem. Instead of seeing things as they are, it can cause the denial cycle to perpetuate.
@@justinw1765 It's very strange, given that most bottled water is municipal.
Plastic hasn't been recycled for several years. Rather than actually being recycled, the odds are greater of it being shipped to Asia then ending up in the ocean.
Then they blame the public for trash in the ocean, when it’s part of their own scam cycle.
We need to change back to using glass like in the old days. it's 1000x more easy to recycle than plastic.
Man throws electronic device in plastic recycling. Shocked when the device is rejected and sent to a landfill. Next he plans to throw a slab of ribs in the paper recycling.
Exactly what i was thinking
The tracker ended up in the landfill because its not recyclable,DOH
Yes exactly. This is EXACTLY why we have science education in schools.
Not how it works genius. They don’t look in the bin and say oh this needs to go the landfill.
@@aliaswavethe video explicitly shows workers sorting plastic products at a recycling facility searching for containers that aren't emptied to remove them.
@@aliaswave Exactly how it works: a huge array of magnets at the plastic recycler removes ferrous stuff first, then there are humans and cameras that look for anything else not plastic. They can't allow anything not-plastic in the recycling. All of the not-plastic stuff goes to a landfill, because they can't bother to sort it.
I found out several years ago the recycling plants in California went out of business and that the recyclables were either being shipped to China or going to a landfill. Seems kind of ridiculous to keep up the façade of separating recyclables from trash. Now I put everything in one bin.
Well, if they just stopped recycling completely, people would complain and riot. :/
@EpicATrain lmao exactly. it makes people feel good
Our recycling bin is always the fullest.
Sad to hear this.
I throw everything in the trash
Recycling is a myth
Depending on where you are, glass where I am gets crushed and reused as a building material. Heavy stuff so a real waste to haul and landfill it otherwise. Our mixed paper goes to a paper mill (verified), alu and steel go to different mills. Cardboard goes to a another mill for re-pulping to blend in and make new cardboard. Not sure who the current buyers are for the plastic, likely land filled, but they only want clear #1 & 2 which still has some demand. It just *really* depends on where you are though, highly variable per location and contractor.
That's very sel, fish and igno rant.
Exactly, I call it a false religion. Just look how vigorously people defend it. It's a dogma that cannot be questioned or doubted or your a planet killer. It's become laughable.
If you pick only one material to recycle, pick aluminum.
It takes literally the same effort to toss something into the blue bin as opposed to trash. Why not just put it in the blue just in case?
Time to go back to glass bottles.
Amen. Glass bottles, paper bags, etc.
"Recycle" was a brilliant marketing scheme born from the plastics industry back in the 70's to combat people's concerns of the material's disposal. It is just as effective as wearing a paper mask during a pandemic. But it helps people sleep at night.
If you think that anything over your face is the same thing as openly mouth breathing you might be a bit of a dunce.
-paper- *polypropylene
Still useless and did nothing.
Ironic that the masks were made out of plastic fibers. Useless X2!
Who didn't already know this? I'm sick of companies putting customers in charge of the hopeless task/chore/unpaid job of trying to solve the problem of destroying Earth, caused by the companies' insistance on using Earth destroying sh*t.
It's actually quite simple you put trash on your recyclable bottle so it ended up in the trash
The fact that it first went to the recycling plant and only then to the landfill indicates that the system worked: materials were recycled but non-recyclable items were sorted out. Had it gone straight to the landfill, he'd have a good case.
I've watched so many documentaries about plastic recycling, and learned that not all plastics are even recyclable! I believe they said only #2 plastic (milk gallons,etc.) are recyclable. I think there are at least 7 different plastic types. They should have a number on them in a triangle. I understand this guy's concern and attempts to have a small footprint on this earth, I'm like that too.
And who is going to look at the numbers of each item to sort correctly? They should try to get it down to one.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Over 20 years ago, I watched an episode of Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" that demonstrated how recycling is largely a waste of time and effort. Because of this, I refuse to recycle and throw everything in the trash. If the trash service won't take something, it goes into my burn barrel and then back into the trash.
That show was brilliant.
They got so much hate for that at the time too.
Oh my God I loved that show. I just watched it last month again.
Excellent show
So you refuse to recycle today because of a show from 20 years ago? 🤦♂️
I think it’s true about the recycling myth but this news story should read- man messes up multiple recycling loads and reporter shows up in jeans and a t-shirt and chats with man about what they aren’t sure is happening.
Thank you! I was wondering if this is a case of the tracker being in the wrong recycling bin and so getting tossed. People don't realize you can just toss in anything.
100%!
Good story, but the co-anchor can't afford a good bra? And that reporter looks like she was bailing hay..lol. Where's the dress code? Did both of their jobs for 30 years in the biz and always dressed for success. Times have changed!
@@kerrykinsey9230 the dress code followed their salary out the window. If you want people to dress nice you have to pay them enough to do so.
At work a few years ago I rode the elevator with the janitor. He was toting one of those big roll-about dumpsters.
He told me that all the office "blue can" recycled stuff goes into THE SAME OUTSIDE DUMPSTER as the regular office "gray can" stuff.
Nothing got recycled. The gray can/blue can thing was a total sham.
I once visited a recycling center and was surprised at the amount of garbage that people threw in with the recycling. The recyclers had to separate it from the recyclables and make multiple trips to the dump. But even after the sorting, the "recyclables" were still contaminated with 10% garbage. Recyclers claimed that it would be too costly to significantly reduce the amount, and that's why China banned the importation.
Well yeah, you didn't expect them to actually recycle that bottle did you? It costs more to recycle a bottle than it does to make a new one.
My son in law works for a big recycling company in Ontario Canada.The stuff put in blue bins is crazy from car engine parts to unused gift cards.
Thank you for reporting this and please conduct a thorough follow up investigation because the general public deserves to know!
Been in recycling for 30 years. The problem in the USA most people send garbage not recyclables which reduces what we can sort. Over 50% of what we get is garbage. Single stream killed recycling in the USA.
My city said they no longer will be offering recycling.
Good for them! They are probably just trying to get in front of the massive lawsuits that’s going to crush most municipalities caught up in the recycling scam.
Seems bogus, it went to the recycling plant then to a different location after. All that tells us is that something wasn't suppose to be in a blue bin (GPS) and sent it to somewhere else, like it should have... How is this news?
It's interesting that there's an extra charge for recycling bins, but trash ends up in the usual places. The fleecing never ends.
I work on the beach in Gulf Shores AL they have posts that have a blue recycling bin and a black waist bin. Every morning a tractor drives up and down the beach and collects all the trash. I watch them pick up both bins and mix them together.
That’s because they will sort them later
@@SilentWayFarer1 that makes sense, hopefully that's what they do. Lol
@@xjohnny1000 because it makes it easier to sort later
Maybe an employee found the tracking system while cycling through the recycled items. What exactly was the employee supposed to do with the tracking system?
You honestly believe an employee took the time to dig and locate that tracker?? No wonder why the scam works so well.
What were they supposed to do with the tracker??? They should have put an notice in the paper requesting for the owner of the tracker to come claim his property
Every building that has recycled bins inside. Has one dumpster outside
It's funny it's taken two decades or so for the public to finally figure this out.
In my area you pay extra to recycle, and it goes to the landfill.
All that plastic can be reprocessed into fuel oil or other petroleum distillates like kerosene, diesel, or even jet fuel and gasoline. They do that in Japan and in other places where they are without any oil reserves of their own.
Yep! Where are our underground inventors to sell us these so we can use them? Why only Africa gets to have access? Nerdo's unite and make us these to buy from you. We need cheap fuel and real solutions. Do it on the sly
Right, just the niggling little detail of it takes 10x more energy to process plastic back into something else usable - by why let a little something like facts get in the way of a great --grift-- , err, "idea"!
"All that plastic can be reprocessed into fuel oil or other petroleum distillates like kerosene, diesel, or even jet fuel and gasoline."
No it can't.
It is Possible that all those plastic bottles were or are sorted either by human or automated machines and since his plastic bottle had a tracker it might have been flagged for landfill because it might have been somehow contaminated. Cameras might have picked up the foreign object in the bottle and separated it for trash instead of recycling...or by human hands...He might get better results if he uses a AIRTAG instead...
I agree, what else were they supposed to do with a GPS tracker
Sure, it’s possible, it might have been flagged, or separated.
But the reality is that NONE of that happened, or has EVER happened. The truth is that household recycling is nothing but a money laundering scam.
Only type 1 and 2 plastics are readily recycled, but most of the plastic containers we buy are type 5. Grocers and manufacturers could use type 1 and 2 plastics in place of type 5, but most don’t. One quick tip-if it’s microwavable, it will end up in the landfill.
The lid on the Tropicana bottle that he threw in the recycling is not recyclable. Most people really don't know how to recycle
I was thinking the same thihg
See everyone it's not a problem with dogma of recycling. It's a problem with the sinners that don't recycle properly. Y'all are so indoctrinated it's laughable.
@@DeloreanJack Your born a sinner, and die a sinner. Yes, you too.
Yes it is, I've seen many cities say to keep the cap on when recycling
Thats because they are virtue signaling hacks that have no life and March with terrorists..