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@@noiJadisCailleach Still better than doing nothing, and maybe after this, the governments of the world might start to take things more seriously and start banning single use plastics as well as ridding the world of the misconceptions about recycling and misleading symbols like the resin identification code.
Honestly the most nefarious part about this whole scam is how plastic companies managed to shift the blame off of them to begin with. "Plastics polluting the environment? How could all of you be so careless as to not recycle your plastic? Look you've made the Indians cry! We're disappointed in you for not disposing of our trash properly!"
@@LeViIain an average has no choice. there's either no alternatives to many plastic products, the alternatives are way less available, time consuming or expensive, because of how the market has been set up for the last half the century. try living completely waste free and see for yourself. even some products that claim to be eco friendly are wrapped in plastic, its all a corporate scam and you gain nothing by defending it
This is extremely wrong. In the part you say about teamseas, you said that they are removing 3 years worth of plastic. I assume you must have misread the article because it literally says that the estimate is 10 million TONS, not pounds (those are metric tons by the way). That would mean that teamseas is removing less plastic from the ocean, than gets put back into the ocean every single day. They will have practically no impact on the ocean. However, they are cleaning up beaches and rivers where people live so they are doing some good by cleaning up those communities, but I think the project just shouldn't be marketed as a ocean cleanup, instead people should see it as a community cleanup
Yes and there shouldn't be fundraisers for this. Products (read plastics) sold as products, in whatever form, should be sold at a cost that covers the whole life cycle, creation to destruction (recycling). We should not be asked to foot the bill to clean up the mess left by products that were not fully life cycle considered before going to market. The fact that that didn't happen is the fault of the producers themselves and the regulators. Those are the institutions that should be paying for the clean-up. Not using my tax dollars or contributions of you saps. Which likely mostly goes on admin as it does with most scams like this.
It's just like the tree planting campaign. It achieved literally nothing, in the grand scheme of things it didn't even move the needle. But made a lot of people feel like they are doing something good.
I agree. I think the project itself is more on bringing big named influencers to actually make it more appealing to a younger generations too. It would be effective if the goal were to get people to take part of the cleanup, rather than just some youtube collab series for people to watch
@@infwhale9183 I agree with your points but even the most 'recyclable' plastics aren't really able to be recycled and just end up in a land fill near a recycle center so unless we bend the hands of big plastic companies and or be as conscious as a village in Japan the dream of not paying anything for the cleanup is going to be just that a 'dream'
The most sensible reuse of plastic and paper products is to save all of it during the year and then burn it in small home stoves during the winter for heat. Plastic has about 2 times the energy density of wood or paper.
Plastics are such amazing materials, but they never should’ve been used for disposable things like packaging, or for cheap products that aren’t built to last.
@@kevinjackson4464 It's not as simple as that, if we keep burying plastic we'll eventually run out of land (costs a lot too) and it takes too long for it to degrade to repeat the proccess
@@funtime1548 We will never run out of land for landfills, that has been proven. Landfills are far cheaper than any other form of disposal. Degradation is irrelevant, there is no need for degradation in a modern landfill. Landfills will be treasure troves of resources for future generations.
As someone who works for a plastic moulding company, the public seriously does not understand how much we waste even before its sent out to customers which then send it to the public. All because of high quality standards set by huge plastic companies. A 1 tonne product can end up making 2 tonnes of scrapped plastic. Its insane how much goes to waste and nobody even knows about it let alone bats an eye.
As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible and try not to waste precious virgin material. Yes, there is always non-reusable waste, but it's hard enough to make a profit even without being wasteful.
*"As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible..."* Exactly. What are you talking about, *@Tummypics?* Further, you actually cite "high quality standards" as a problem. My mouth is agape. One thing that I can tell you is that any inefficiency in business is almost always the result of government rules and regulations, and not because business owners love wasting time and money.
@@bricaaron3978 high quality standards referring to things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked. While yes we do try to reuse and save costs where we can, you'd be surprised how much just ends up being thrown away due to the cost of 'recycling' it
@@ItmeTummy *"things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked."* I suppose I understand what you're saying. But this sounds like the type of thing that is the result of either government regulations, out-of-control tort law, or both, rather than the way that a business would willingly handle such an issue.
Yep, same goes for the blown-film industry, although we regenerate and thus recycle 100% of our waste film. If every branch of the thermoplastics industry did that, plastic wouldn't be an issue. And we are having to put up with tolerances in the 0.001mm range. If we can do it, everyone can.
The worst part of the whole recycling advertisement shit is that it presents it all as a personal issue. It is the consumers fault for not recycling as opposed to the plastics companies fault for pumping out single-use plastics like crazy.
Exactly, it's not my fault for buying bread In a plastic bag, there is just no alternative, even my local bakery uses paper bags with plastic slit in it with totally invalidates the point...
Same for climate change! They put the onus of cutting back carbon emissions on the Individual, buying and cooking a steak or driving a car. But massive corporations are pumping more pollution out in days than most people do in a year, but somehow its my fault for having a car and eating meat.
@@garbearfar1394 I can't remember the industry right now but one of them is producing one person lifetime worth of CO2 every *2 seconds* and it wasn't even one of the major polluters. Now imagine how much pollution bottled water produces being pumped out of the ground in some third world country, put it in bottles made out of oil that *CAN* but *WON'T BE* recycled and drive it houndeds of kilometers away to be sold
@@Sam_101. it’s just modern loan sharks, a great low interest rate until you can’t pay then there’s massive interest spikes penalty fees. That “business” model has been around for decades.
@@samsunggalaxy3442 oil is fine but plastic is bs. It's a chore to recycle and literally all the other products that come from crude oil are more valuable than stupid plastic
They are not 3 seperate options. They are the basis for sustainability. You do whatever is most sustainable in the long run, and recycling is not always the last option.
I have a friend who once bragged to me about how their house "asked for a second recycling bin" because they "recycle that much every week." I was like "that's not a good thing, you should use less because that's going straight to the trash." I've always said I'm big on the real three R's- reduce, reuse, repurpose- but not recycling.
@@blazereho811 I wish I could say that was the stupidest thing she's said, but it's not. Last year she argued that Trump created the coronavirus and released it in China "not caring where it went or who it killed," because some random person on the internet said so and "made great points."
@@LizRealGirlBeauty while your friend sounds like an idiot, you sound like a shit person yourself. Imagine going online to talk bad about your "friends" on random comment sections lmao.
Here's an idea, quit making everything into plastic bottles. I remember when water was literally free. You could walk into a corner store an just get water straight from the soda fountain. Nowadays you need buy any & everything. But they want to scream & preach "recycle". How about the companies who actually create the waste be accountable. Nah, that won't happen.
Consumers purchase the products. It's the consumers responsibility to dispose of it. You don't like plastic, don't buy it. Simple. Is the paper company responsible for your paper trash too?
Ummm. Have you asked for a cup of water lately?? They give it to you free. You can even bring in your own cup and go get some water. You can even put some soda in it, nobody cares. Maybe you just live in a greedy city. That's on you. Water is still free all over the place.
Why ask for cup of water? When water fountains were everywhere at one point. You can only get a FREE CUP of water from restaurants, not from any corner store. There you must buy WATER to drink. So no, water isn't free as it used to be.
@@stonyh.2810 Public water fountains that are outdoors and not maintained were removed for a reason. They are disgusting germ spreading monuments. Indoor drinking fountains are widely available at public places like libraries, city facilities etc. Think about how the pandemic has effected water fountain use, all of them are/were not usable. You can walk into nearly every fast food joint or restaurant and ask for water. Water is just as available for free, the manner served has changed. Corner stores are referred to as "convenience" stores for a reason. Bottled water is highly convenient, cheap and in many cases necessary. You pay for the evolution of the service. I'm commenting on this from the viewpoint from the USA, but the situation is likely similar in any developed country.
When I worked at petco I was really upset at the huge amounts of paper we wasted by printing out the grooming peper for people to take up front to pay for their grooming services that were scanned once and all ended up in the trash. I used to take all of the paper home to my paper shredder and recycle it until someone told on me and I got in trouble because the paper had people's private information on it that I "could be stealing" yet all the papers ended up in the garbage anyways. Thinking back on it was so naive of me to think I, a single employee was making a difference recycling paper in one store out of thousands of petcos.
As a polyere engeneer in Germany reading this title: Our battle will be legendary After seeing the video: please watch Kurzgesagt video which is way better then this USA based generalised video which misses the point where the problem is 1:21 well this isn't true gernerally if you look at in house recycling where they directly put the waste back into the system or when we look at bottle to bottle production when done right ! 2:09 well this happens if no well working recyling industrie exist like in India or South Africa,China... 2:13 and landfills are near gone in most europe countries -> changed to material/thermal recycling ... So if there is a political will it can change 2:30 compared to the 80s most products are made from the same material and it depends more on the product desinger if it is recycleabel or looking nice which means product desinger have to put a lot of effort also so products are easy to sort and filter 6:10 isn't this the hole problem of the american dream -> like city planing in the USA or generaly extensive Capitalism ? 6:56 well what you compleatly forget/not mention is what other resoucces would have been wasted if plastic wouldn't be used what most people forget there is a difference between environment and clima but they are connected soo if you replace plastic pagaging whith paper the products like meat which is one of the most energy inefficent products is wasted even more (by 30-50% ) due to the shorten time it can be consumed also if we look at vehicels which use plastic -> they save a ton of oil in the long run Look at planes moving from aluminum structure to now carbon expoxy based material (sidenote: glue or expoxy is a plastic too) fuel reduction 8:03 well this is a USA problem not moving forward -> politcal and econical stagnation 9:14 this is simple wrong if we look at a modern recyling plant you can recyle more then 2 types of plastic easily throw computer based camera filtering Sidenote: Seateam won't change anything in a greater aspect is only can show one problem fun fact germany recyels every year 1,5 million tons of plastic and europe 8,5 million tons it is a 3 billion euro huge industry 9:34 saying you can use plastic only 3 times is again false ! If it is filtered right the granulate from recycelt plastic is the same as from new plastic ...also there is chemical recycling which deconstruct plastic so it can be polymerisated again (energy itensive but the plastic which comes out of this process is litterly the same as new) also please don't generalise the recyling industry with a national flawed system as USA is a bad exaple of a recyling waste 10:32 well we don't protect the planet we protect ouself from our stupity 11:32 if you have a functional recyling system like in Europe it saves alot of energy and co2 emission a plastic bag is way more clima friendly then a cotton bag 13:30 USA date not the World ! 17:00 well it is a whaterdrop in a huge lake So if anyone read this feel free to commend if you need some more data/infomation i only covered the biggest uffs
Thank you! Seeing how your comment has such a low amount of likes is painfully hilarious. Americans just don't want to accept that it's there country just fucking it up and not only with there plastic industry. If companies are rich enough they can do what ever they want in America literally. It's really painful to watch what happens there politically, but the EU isn't a white sheep either wanting to invade the privacy of billions of people. Actually really nice to see that my country is recycling 1.5 tons every year! Actually didn't thought that with those already incompetent politicians we had to deal with… but nothing compared to America 😅
Thanks for posting this detailed response to the video. Watching this Video as a German and realising it's US-centric without mentioning it up-front to the Viewers is is such a common occurence with big popular Videos by American Content Creators, i always wonder if that's done on purpose or if the Creator doesn't even consider the Nuances and Differences from Country to Country and believes that any Topic/Conclusion that applies to the USA also automatically applies to the Rest of the World Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps
@@chartreux1532 it's just US being US (and it's citizens), completely oblivious and self-centered. It is that type of culture created over the years. As a country still immature, and like a teenager, think they know everything but lack life experience.
You could in countries where you still produce something that you need to store but in a society where you buy everything it is kind of difficult. I still remember how after Ceaușescu had fallen we have looked in awe at the plastic bottles because they were light and you didn't worry about damage them and losing the content. Everyone used them to store fresh mild from their cow, home made tomato juice, țuică and so on. Nowadays, due to regulations, it is illegal to have your own cow and produce țuică is you don't have specific certificates. With tomato juice, it is even more complicated when you have rains that burn your plants if you don't build an solarium. Times change, people change.
I work at a Plastic Extruding company as a electrical engineer. Machines that recycle plastic bags and the such do exist. I repair them all the time. They are usually called "reclaim extruders". The problem like you said, is the process, its expensive to reclaim it. Bags that say "20% recycled" is literally scrap made by our bag making machines and put into a reclaim machine to make more bags. Better than nothing but still. It's sad we still just throw away and bury plastic trash.
@@rkan2 the fumes release pretty nasty toxins and tons of CO2. I don't think it feasible. The best thing to do is reclaim what is reclaimable and bury the rest like they are supposed to do
@@Andy-hi9do A proper inceneration plant will release little of anything but CO2. Just burning plastics in a fire will release everything burning a garbage dump will. It is the best option. CO2 is not that strong of a greenhouse gas - even if it is the most abundant produced by humans.
@@rkan2 Plus, we've probably reach the point where a further ppm of CO² does not create a further greenhouse effect. People seem to think that the greenhouse effect is infinite (including all of the doom models), but it's far more likely that it has diminishing returns that eventually reach 0. And, I believe we have already reached that point, as statistics have shown that we have way more CO² than ever before, but the world is only slightly warmer and this hasn't increased significantly. Also, People forget that there are benefits to CO² as well. Like larger plants and crop yields. Not to mention that fossil fuels keep us alive.
I worked in a supermarket in the mid nineties and they had a kiosk for people to recycle the shopping bags for reuse. One day the kiosk was full and I asked my boss what I should do with all the bags. He told me: Throw them in the dumpster! That’s when I learned that the “green” in the green movement was about money!😮
How the fuck do you judge whole fucking movement based on literally 1 person. It like I would say everybody in US is dumb asshole because I've met 1 dumb asshole from US
Bad boss. Worked in a grocery store and all our plastic went to the warehouse. Couldn’t put it in the dumpster cause a) bad for environment and b) makes dumpster get full too quick. That boss was either ignorant or stupid.
I would have liked to see some coverage on the British Petroleum ad campaign that coined the concept of "personal carbon footprint" to shift blame from itself after the major spills in the Gulf of Mexico. This behavior never ends, and the spin campaigns are getting more aggressive and manipulative every year.
Corporations if examined have a history of pollution. Plus never ending agendas ,global warming .plandemic war on terror, carbon free? Isnt carbon one of lifes elements?
Micro plastics honestly terrify me. We’re finding them in our water, in our food, in our bodies, in our PLACENTAS…. It’s everywhere and inescapable. It’s already starting to effect our bodies - blocking hormones, floating around in our blood and causing all kinds of issues. Now we’re creating tiny humans born with microplastics inside them and in the very materials they’re being made of. If we know it’s effecting us already now, how are these microplastics going to effect our most vulnerable and their small, growing bodies? What health issues will they face growing up with these plastics inside them and all around them, consuming them daily? The problem only gets worse by the day as more microplastic is created and the existing microplastics get even smaller and more insidious. It all feels so hopeless and dystopian. I want so badly to help and stop this but i don’t know how - I’m not a corporation or a scientist, I’m an average civilian trying their best not to make unnecessary waste.
You make a good point. I don't know why there isn't someone out there trying to come up with how to get rid of it yet. It's like they want this to happen or something.
@@justinharris3429 aluminum (Al), also spelled aluminium, chemical element, a lightweight silvery white metal of main Group 13 (IIIa, or boron group) of the periodic table.
I think our only solution will be to look heavily into plastic eating bacteria. Ideonella sakaiensis is a bacterium from the genus Ideonella and family Comamonadaceae capable of breaking down and consuming the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a sole carbon and energy source. They are also genetically engineering this feature to break down PET faster. The future will be interesting...
If it’s heard about in the news again, that is. When you see an article about a cancer cure, often times it hasn’t been tested yet and is proven unsafe/ineffective later on, or just fades into obscurity if it does work
@@linusandersen3587 if they got something that would completely while away their waste products, they’d make more money finding ways to sell this bacteria than they would continuing to deceive us. Imagine the billions to be made from someone selling samples to companies that create a lot of plastic waste. The many Garbage and waste companies that would use this to reduce the massive landfills they operate
The worst part is that they blame us for this, while also making so many plastic products that really it would be hard to live plastic free now. They tell us we can fix everything with recycling but really we are making it worse and it’s just so depressing.
YOU ARE BUYING THIS! So yes, it's also 0,00001% your fault. Also, this article is biased as heck, and only loosely aplies to USA, Europe has its plastic sorted out and it's definitely not due to corporate interest.
the most frustrating thing about it is everything is packed in plastic, even when you try to avoid it you can't and all the so-called bio paper packages only make the products more expensive and honestly i ain't got the money to buy same shit twice the price just coz it's wrapped in paper and not in plastic
@@sultanofswingdrift3021 Europe literally sends all their shit to Poland where the trash is being burned no matter the material Europe with some other countries like Australia or New Zealand made a fucking trash container out of my country so yeah i guess it's all sorted out here (if you pretend Poland doesn't exist)
@@phoebesama5348 on top of that I'm pretty sure they also send their "recycled" plastic to various Asian countries where it will be dumped in their oceans instead... Europe dumping away its trash to other countries is not a solution lol I have no clue where that person got that idea ...
I remember in the 90s, McDonalds had a recycling campaign-- "We Recycle, So Tomorrow Doesn't Go To Waste", where they added large blue recycle bins to all their restaurant locations. This lasted until the end of the decade, and then the blue bins and the campaign were done with.
Great video until the end segment. We should not be paying to clean up corporations negative externalities just so they can keep on polluting, that just means we're literally making the cost of doing business cheaper for them. Instead we need to lobby and support the correct politicians that can legislate and create law that holds corporations accountable. The take you had at the end was extremely short sighted and clueless. We need a long lasting future proof idea, not a clean up now and let them keep doing it approach
as long as you support any politician w capitalism as their base ideology then we'll get nowhere, that's just the truth. it'll literally take a social revolution to 100% stop this bs
U have a point, why dont they pass a law where companies have to clean up the plastic based on how much money they make so $1 for 1 pound butttttt I dont think itll happen
Yeah.. smells like corporate boot licking to me. Keep polluting and the masses will pick up the tab for the cleanup bill! Fuck that. Tax the rich and fix this damn planet before it's too late
nah, political will never be effective enough and as reliable as market demand. Either enough consumers drive away from plastic, which is very unlikely because the market is too big and plastic is too profitable, if they can't sell to one part of the world they will be able to sell to other parts of the world. And also we don't have that public will, we are too distracted and divided, especially in something like environmental problems. Or we find a material or multiple material affordable enough to replace plastic products. I see the success in electrical cars as something hopeful, a combination of technology, market demand (aka capitalism) and the public will. Long story short, truth is capitalism runs the world, these companies gonna go toward profits so we have to make plastic less profitable than something else. Maybe one day plastic bags can be replaced by something else, and then plastic bottles, and then so on, eat the elephant one bite at a time.
I hope this gets more visibility. Human beings have a dangerous appetite for consuming anything. Setting the expectation for quality and frequency of videos is important!
I broke down the numbers to be a bit more comprehensible, large numbers will always confuse or put people in awe. For every Dollar 1 pound (500 grams) of plastic will be removed, if you were to achieve the fundraiser goal that would account to the following: 30 million pounds of plastic waste would be collected. Converse that into Kilos (factor of roughly 2,2) amounts to 13.5 million, which in tons (kilo to ton conversion factor of 1000) would be about 13,500 tons (Thirteen thousand five hundred tons). In opposition to the 300,000,000 TONS of YEARLY waste, that would be a one time (I assume) reduction of 0,0045%. The ocean cleanup part would therefore amount to about 0,14%. This is a noble goal and I know that there needs to be a start somewhere, no offense. Especially the education about the recycling scam. Though in contrast this literally is a droplet into an ocean. I mean, imagine, 30 million dollars is a metric ton for a simple man like myself, but for a company (which literally caused this mess) that amount of money would be pocket change. So that begs the question, why do we not hold them accountable? Why do WE need to pay our hard earned cash to fix this? Those companies fooled all of us, and I bet that most of you didn't know about the recycling scam, I surely did not, and now we are left to scrape minuscule amounts of cleanup for a considerable amount of money just because they fooled us? *Edit: fixed wording
this is why I disagreed with his whole anti government bit at the end. Our job is not to fund and hold companies accountable, our job is to lobby and support the correct politicians so that they can do lasting good and create legislation to prevent this. Otherwise we are literally paying for their negative externalities just so they can keep polluting
It's because this video is made by someone who doesn't understand that individual action is irrelevant if individuals are powerless against unaccountable corporations. It's a giant contradiction, which most conservatives resolve by fooling themselves into thinking that environmentalism is a scam or conspiracy.
@@xaviwavy3930 well said and thanks 16-bitler. if laws are only for small companies without lobbying power, fixing this starts with pressuring/shaming politicians who feast with these big lobbying companies = nearly all politicians.
@@xaviwavy3930 bro. Im with Jake on anti government. The government profits off of corporations so they will never be autonomous. Id rather control the corporation who in turn controls the government.
A friend of mine works in waste-procesing. Their definition of "recycling" is simply to burn it up because: "It's getting recycled into heat energy". Well, that's one way to put it :D
In an ideal world, whatever isn't super broken could be reused once cleaned. But realistically all of it will probably all go in a landfill and covered up with dirt. Fortunately while no sea animals can eat it I've heard of bacteria that can eat plastic and mealworms that can eat Styrofoam (it turns to dirt after they eat their waste after a couple of times)
if society doesn't recede because of some crippling environmental or political disaster, then it's gonna keep being pseudo-recycled until it's cost efficient to just shoot it into space, potentially somewhere with gravity to stop it from coming back. Venus is a nice hellhole I hear.
Do you really think plastic is indestructible? Sweden burns more plastic waste than it produces. There's only CO2 and water left after that, and a small amount of ash that can be used in concrete or possibly broken down to the elements in the future.
Unless I'm wrong in my calculations, 30 millions pounds is equal to 13 millions killograms, or 13 thousands tons. We're far away from the ~3 years worth of plastic equivalent to 30 millions tons. So although the initiative is good, in a concern of honesty, if the #TeamSeas meets its goals, it will not take away more than 1.5% of a yearly ocean plastic waste. :(
They also want to put waste catchers on the rivers that carry the most trash to the ocean so there's less getting into the ocean as well as removing it. Just FYI
10 million tons = 20 BILLION lbs. Cleaning up 30 million lbs is a mere 0.15% of the yearly ocean dumping. It'll only take a few hours for 30 million lbs of trash to be put right back into the water. This entire campaign is a waste of time because we don't need more awareness of this issue. We are all fully aware of the severity of the situation.
You do realize that the point of trying is to at least bring attention to the problem, and to influence others to help in their own ways? A single campaign means more than just the efforts involved, please take the time to think about the sphere of influence as well.
@@jimbobaggins209 I remember people like you from high school. One person is not enough to do anything yes, but that is the issue. You're only thinking of this campaign as the one campaign it is. You are completely ignoring the fact that there are several other campaigns to help reduce plastics in the world already, and that not one single effort is going to ever take care of all of it at once. It is going to be the effort of several, and I mean SEVERAL years of hard work, cooperation, and revealing liars and snakes in politics in order to keep the work from being undone. Human effort can move both ways, they just need to work together to do so. That's how it got dirty, after all
I'm honestly shocked. I was taught in elementary school by my teachers that the resin identification codes WERE the recycling symbol, therefore making the item recycleable. The number meant how many times you could recycle it. I didn't know they were CODES to identify the product... now I have to rethink everything. (Edited for grammar)
Most of the plastics you find around you fall under either the "1" (PET which is short for polyethylene terephthalate) or "2" (HDPE which is high-density polyethylene) category, that means they are recyclable plastics by definition.
IIRC in episode 2 or 3 of Breaking Bad they actually bring up those codes, Walter needed a plastic bucket that could contain acid and not get dissolved by it so he tells Jesse to go to the store and look for a bucket labeled with a specific plastic ID number. Neat stuff.
I work in an electronic recycling plant. I brought up my main concern of how so many of our orders generate so much single use plastic to my boss. One main issue he brought up, Companies don't want to pay more for things to be recycled properly. Two. Companies don't want to work together to generate products made of similar or same materials to make it much easier and more effective to recycle. Three. Companies are just known to massively overpackage their products, and I personally notice this much more in the process of unboxing and sorting materials at work. I'm talking boxes and boxes of small individually wrapped pieces of metal. At the end of the day my boss explained that one. Because businesses don't want to pay extra to properly dispose of plastic our company loses business and they don't get recycled. And also companies refuse to work with each other to cooperate with what materials they are using. In the end the process has a lot of issues. One we should encourage only manufacturing plastics that can be recycled, two, we should unite recycling and production companies to work together to make the process work a lot better. And three putting more reaserch to finding ways to better recycle plastic. Because a lot of things can be recycled effectively with the right tools, but we need more education and also companies to stop abusing single use plastic so much. Because it is a huge issue. Anyways that's my rant I don't know everything but this is just my perspective
@@arazatliyev6564 i don't know what you mean by this but you do you fam. All I'm saying is humans actions have concequences. That's been proven again and again.
@@NotaArtist mate,you want not to catch on...l daying that humans are stupid and consequently are being killed..coz they are ignorance..biggest wealthy is acknowlidge..why you want not to catch on this that? Now you guard these stupids? it dont need this..
So the consumer pays for the product, pays in possible negative health effects, and then has to pay to clean up the pollution… meanwhile the producers are living without consequence… companies should be held accountable for the creation and disposal of their products.
And lets keep Jake Tran accountable for his donation. He said in his words he will donate 1,000 dollars to remove "a literal ton" from the ocean, but 1 ton = 2,000 pounds sir. So please make sure to donate 2,000.
WE all consume plastics. Doesnt matter if you are the CEO of a company or a bum on the streets. If you want to ride the moral high horse above all the plastic people, then stop using it...but you wont. In fact, its almost imposable to function in modern-day life without plastics. There's no turning back now, earthling. Look at it this way... If humans want to exist inevitably, then the planet must be stripped of its recourses and discarded eventually anyway.
I’m an R&D engineer and my first project was figuring out how to reuse scrap plastic materials and keep it in the manufacturing cycle. There are tons of companies that have reached out to me with a buy back program. There are tons of applications for scrap plastics, you just need people that care and are willing to do the sorting between thermosets and thermoplastics. I tend to believe corporations will do what they can to stay in business. But until people educate themselves and change purchasing behavior, this won’t really be solved. Great video.
I mean most every day use polyolefins are mostly saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons which every incineration gladly accepts as fuel for their plants when burning other waste. The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision. Another issue is that 90% of global pollution of creeks, rivers, lakes and also the oceans happens in low developed south-east asian countries because they simply do not care and lack proper infrastructure for trash collection, reusage and incineration.
@@TentomushiHH "The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision." The problem is that in many cases there are no choice. As the guy above mentions, everything is basically plastic wrapped these days, when it comes to non-dry foods at least.
@@TentomushiHH to back up ''a n o n y m'', fossil fuel companies have done the same thing (Mobile for example). They run a campaign (many to be exact) the take the blame from them and turn it to the consumer, they even dared to make an add blaming us for environmental destruction while they were the reason for a great oil slick back in 2012 if I remember correctly. Of course consumers can change their habits, but its them forcing these materials and practises because it brings them more money in order to stay in business. Lets not make the same mistake as previous generation, the core of the problem is them.
I dont get the evil fossil fuel and plastic companies thing in the first place. I thought this video meant to be factual. We need their products, because they are useful. Period. You think they are making too much money? Buy their shares. I would argue wrapping every single piece os vegetable in plastic is overdoing it, so im not buying that crap. We should probably prevent it getting into the ocean, but I suspect its mostly the Asian countries doing it. The EU just banned some single use plastics, like ear swabs, straws, and paper cup lids. Is that the solution? Think of all the trees used to make billions of ear swabs. There's no easy way of getting rid of plastics nor fossil fuels.
As someone whose done much janitorial work. I’ve always noticed when cleaning office buildings the workers there would have trash and recycle bins. Funny thing is us janitors all go around throwing both in the same trash can and in the same dumpster/ trash compactor. Never seen a dumpster for recyclables before.
Same. I moved to a new neighborhood with a private garbage company to pick up trash. They insist that we separate recyclables and garbage into two different bins that get picked up the same day. I noticed over time that the garbage truck dumps the garbage bin and recycling bin into the same bin. Now I just use both bins as a garbage bin. No point in recycling if the company taking my trash isn't going to uphold the same behaviors.
In a book by dalores cannon, were she mentions of far advanced civilization than us , it is mentioned that when plastic was discovered they decided not to continue with it because how long it stays with out degradation
1) You cannot call out the industry for scamming the public while being sponsored by an actual fucking loan shark company 2) You cannot complain about nonregulation and lack of accountability, then place the onus of cleaning up the oceans on the common man, esp to an ineffective org such as TeamSeas. I appreciate what they are doing but they arent doing enough. This is a great video that calls this to attention and not many people know about it, but this delivery was tone deaf at best.
Team seas is a moral smokescreen for the RUclipsrs making more money than doctors, basically a shiny medal you brand to avoid any and all questions about "their part"and the profit they have. It's just soul cleaning for the undeservedly rich of a broken platform.
16:45 1 ton = 2000 pounds, 10 million * 2000 = 20 BILLION pounds of plastic dumped in the ocean each year. 30 million / 20 billion = 0,0015, so removing 30 million pounds of thrash from the ocean is 0,15% from the yearly amount of plastic dumped in the ocean. I still like the effort of teamseas though, but its not even close to removing 1 year of trash, let alone 3 years.
He says it is 30 millions "every day" for the next 3 years, so if I understand correctly, will be 5.5 millions tons of plastic per year, half of the amount dumped. Still, I don't like that they are only using American units to market it, and not making those numbers more clear. Can very well be the other way around. For a video denouncing the marketing shenanigans of plastic companies, he too does a lot of confuse marketing talk
Jake Tran is a miracle channel. The amount of knowledge this channel has given me for free that too in the form of entertainment is beyond my understanding.
Yes and also he is winning big on the algorithm side , i actually subscribed to him few months ago when he was just a small 5k channel , but the quality of the content made it clear that we would get where he is now , am quite proud of him and his amazing work
@@biglittledude496 the amount of planning and research is a lot. Jake most likely also jas to do some editing. Cant completely trust an editior to have control over what ur viewers see and feel
On recyclable materials there’s usually a triangle recycling symbol with a number inside it from 1-7. Many manufacturers will buy numbers 1 and 2 from recycling companies which makes recycling them worthwhile and helpful to the environment. But if you see numbers 3 to 7 inside the triangle don’t bother recycling it because the recycling companies can’t sell it and end up throwing it away or sometimes will sell it to 3rd world countries to become their problem, with often unideal outcomes. Ideally, try not to by things with numbers 3 to 7. And *reuse* as much as possible! Reuse is far more helpful to the environment than recycling.
Watching the end of this video is just laughable. I can't believe this dude literally goes on about all these terrible things that were caused by unregulated markets and then just goes "we shouldn't regulate it though, we should just make the average person pay to clear up a tiny, miniscule portion of the issue instead of actually fighting it at the source."
Thank you for this information. I was completely unaware of the recycling disinformation. I had even gone through a conservation course included with animal care units, but was not made aware of these factors.
Recycling of plastic is quite cheap over in Germany, they have over 100 recycling plants where they not only breakdown 99% of all plastic types but even creating granulate that is being sold to plastic companies way cheaper than it’d be when making it new! You definitely have to have the infrastructure in order to recycle properly and cheap! I know what I’m talking about, I’m a plastics technician/mechanic for injection moulding by trade. If you don’t have a recycling attitude and no infrastructure to do so efficiently yourself it (and ship your sporadically collected recycling materials to Asia..) won’t work
Jake is on a speedrun to see how many powerful interests he can piss off before they send assassins after him. Of course, he may be employing the "pink panther" strategy of getting so many assassins after him that they end up killing one another.
We can't end plastic pollution without ending capitalism. So you're praising him in vain since he didn't tell us the solution, instead he told us to keep working inside of capitalism therefore continuing unnecessary waste
So its all good to just rip off other RUclips videos huh? Plz support the original researcher, Climate Town. ruclips.net/video/PJnJ8mK3Q3g/видео.html&ab_channel=ClimateTown
@@veneering4128 yes, I agree, we should go back to feudalism, at least then people wont use any materials at all, and be prosperous and equal, utopia achieved.
What gets me is that when I was in grade 6 & 7, (late '70s) teachers were preaching about the need to conserve and recycle. Industry responded by replacing paper bags, glass bottles and carton egg containers, with plastic. People didn't demand this, it was doled out, and people liked it, because of less breakage and freshness. However, let it be known that it was corporate inspiration that created this demand, at a time when the World was already aware of waste and polution.
"Don't support government regulations to actually stop polluters, just donate to teamseas to remove not even a single day's worth of their damage!" annnnnd you lost me.
Yeah because your government regulations will stop US and other countries from shipping plastic to other countries to dump and end up in the global air and water anyway. /s
@Janitor Queen a lot of the time the bottled water industry and the soft drink industry are the same people. Also, I’ve come to the conclusion that most politicians, democrat or republican, are bought out by corporations within a couple years of taking office.
I remember in high school , back at home we had a recycling can and regular trash can. I remember thinking "who cares it's probably just all going to the same place." And it seems like that intuition may have at least been partly right.
You talked 15 minutes about how bad our problem is and that all solutions are not enough. And than at the end you would rather spend some money to get a little bit of trash out of the ocean than having restrictions of the government. WTF???
Ikr, he clearly states that plastic lobbyists are a part of the problem but apparently restricting the people who started this problem in the first place isn't the way to go?? tf
@@barlauch9292 it's so on the nose too how he phrases it ("if you're not an extreme environmentalist!"), it's as if we're performing a greater good to give the fundraiser money (and the RUclipsrs who participate some popularity) than it is to vote. It's funny how ironic this whole video is about the perception of trying to not feel guilt for doing something bad to the environment yet he employs the exact same tactics to make himself appear good by using this fundraiser. Hypocrisy at its peak
Told my family this, all they said was "Well we gotta help the environment! Recycling helps the environment and the earth!" My family says they're conservatives but I know damn well they're liars.
Now... don't get me wrong, i agree with the message (of trying to keep our environment clean for ourselves and for the ecosystem of our planet), but my god man, you and people like you, and those guys like Mister Beast(which i do think is a nice guy) are missing the point, Like many people pointed out in the comments already, trying to do the clean up ourselves by donating money won't solve any problem other than making people virtue signal and making them feel like they are saving the planet somehow... well...that is simply put moronic... To give an example, lets compare the Plastic problem of our planet with a human body: This is like trying to stop the bleeding of a person while someone else keeps stabbing that very same person every few seconds with a knife, is just not going to do much, is it... You are "trying" to solve the bleeding problem which clearly doesn't work while the stabbing keeps going on every second, like you said, the companies are getting away with murder with their ingenious and evil plans of "recycling" and yet instead of going against them and the governments that are working hand in hand with them, and stopping them, you want to help them by "trying" to do the cleaning yourself? Sorry but that is not going to work, that is pretty much the equivalent of hiring a clean up lady to clean up an entire city where garbage is being dumped in the streets every day by thousands of people... is just impossible... We the people need to just stop buying things that are made of plastic, and yea i know this sounds hard or even impossible, but is the only way, they will gonna keep making more and more plastic as long as the people keep buying it, as long as there is a big demand for it, it will never stop, we need to find an alternative to plastic, a material that does degrade in time and that can be reused for a few times as well, until then, any plan of trying to "clean" the planet of plastic is going to do pretty much nothing, when they keep making more plastic than the normal people can possibly clean themselves.
True words. Many smaller businesses are growing these days offering products not packaged in plastic. I just started ordering my cleaning products from a company that uses cardboard, metal, or glass in its storage, and natural cleaning products. it's a bit more expensive then the cheap crud you get at the store, but it's healthier for me and better in the race against plastic. I still have the habit of saving glass containers from food products I buy at the store. perfect for my homemade salad dressings and sauces, and storing the bone broth I make from my leftover bones. This is all behaviors that my parents (ww2) and grandparents (depression) just considered normal. And it works. It just takes a slight paradigm shift from how the average person looks at things.
I live on a farm in Texas and heat ANY used plastic in a pressure cooker using concentrated sunlight as a heat source. The gasses given off need only be cooled fractionally to produce gasoline for my small engines and diesel for my tractors. FREE !
16:45 30 million pounds =/= 30 million tons. 30 million pounds is equal to 15 thousand tons or 0.15% of the amount of plastic dumped in the water in a year. I fully support the project (I wouldn't have donated otherwise) but false percentages like these are the cause of the problem this video tackles, if the public thinks donating 10M to clear the ocean each year is enough to pull all the plastic out of the ocean then plastic companies can just donate that amount of money each year as a writeoff and keep the public happy to buy more plastic guilt free.
This was the comment I was looking for. He massively overstated the percentage. The project is fantastic but, in the scheme of things, it isn't doing much towards the yearly 10 million tons in the ocean.
@@roel5637 It seems you went a bit off in your calculations, 0,12% of a year is equal to roughly 10 hours and a half. Don't get confused and think it's not a good project, every bit counts, just because cleaning all the oceans far surpasses Mr Beast capabilities doesn't mean he shouldn't do it at all. I just want to make sure people don't just donate 5$ and proceed living in a wasteful manner thinking they aren't harming the planet.
10 million tons = 20 BILLION lbs. It'll only take a few hours for 30 million lbs of trash to be put right back into the water. This entire campaign is a waste of time because we don't need more awareness of this issue. We are all fully aware of the severity of the situation.
@@elizabethcote9070 I suppose the real trouble is used clothes with artificial fibers will melt in the sun. However, I dont know that as a fact... I've bought all kinds of clothing from salvation army & other thrift stores. But the clothes I buy are 100% cotton, because anything with polyester or nylon will just stay saturated when I sweat The worst example was years ago when I used to wear nylon socks with my leather shoes to church. On any summer or fall day my feet would already be soaking by the time I walked into the auditorium. So I started wearing my regular white athletic socks. My feet always sweat while I work, while the rest of my body stays dry Anyway, I don't wear anything that's polyester, nylon, or any blend thereof. So I don't know what other people have to live with. Maybe you could enlighten me just a little?
@@magnificentmuttley154 I did not say anything about melting in the sun. I have also bought clothes from Salvation Army,etc. Don't understand what you are trying to rev up here. Just different material. I am a person who sews on a sewing machine and by hand.
Recently learned the chemical in plastics that makes it hard blocks testosterone, and the one that makes it soft promotes estrogen production. Coincidentally, sperm production is down by more than 50% over the past 50 years. I also can't help but think certain social issues might be influenced by this as well.
I was thinking this the entire video. Many plastics act as xenoestrogens, and since so much is getting in our food, that would explain the huge surge in popularity of a lot of "identity groups" and really just the general direction of society lately.
Reminds me of how Denmark started running out of trash to burn for energy, due to there being more recycling and reuse of it. So we started to import trash from britain using ships (which of course used fossile fuels) we basically evened out the benefit of trying to recycle.
Burning trash is the smartest way to deal with it. Recycling is only useful if it's something that can't be obtained easily like metal. My friend's dad used to own a plastic recycling plant believe it or not. He would hire us to chop big things into smaller chunks to feed into the chipper which is perhaps the loudest thing I've ever heard. Either way nobody wants recycled plastic stuff and it's all a waste of time basically.
I'm sorry but "Team seas" can never have the same impact as collective large scale state action... Not wanting to feel like an "environmentalist" or "SJW" is a silly reason to downplay the role of large scale politics over small scale philanthropy.
@@kellynaz9256 Well. No. Most environment activists have no clue what they're talking about and use emotional empathy as a weapon. Such a putting Greta Thurnberg at the forefront of their campaign.
The state will not do shit about it. *Your* voice will never be heard by the executives choosing plastic over aluminum or glass for an extra 0 in their checks. Nor the politicians turning a blind eye for a cut of that cash. Grow the fuck up and start tarring and feathering these rich psychopaths.
Plastic grocery bags weren't originally designed to be one use. They were thicker, but still thin enough for you to be able to tuck into your back pocket, to bring along with you to the grocery store. But they started making them thinner when they decided one use was better for business
In USSR, they were rewashed and reused. Carry bags is not big problem, but bottles, etc, how we will fight with that? You can't buy all stuff in glass bottles any more.
I use them as trash bags at home, saving me money on buying bags for my trash bins and also saving on total plastic usage. I also turn as many resealable containers as I can into either drinking vessels or storage containers. I was under the impression these were normal habits for most of my life, LOL.
@@RoninCatholicI have always reused them as trash bags. When I ended up with too many I give them to a local charity shop that reuse them for their customers.
When they started the recycling program in our area in florida, I was a kid working in a restaurant. I noticed all the extra work we had to do to wash our garbage separated and take another can out to the road and another truck had to come by and pick up this additional can. I also started to take notice at how the restaurants don't recycle. Drive around the back side of a restaurant sometime and see how much garbage they throw away. And then take note that there's no recycle bin. So I got to thinking about how much trash the average household would recycle versus how much trash any given restaurant could be recycling. That's when I first started to assume it was a scam. Next, I heard from an old-timer living in Florida how the area known as South Tampa used to have a recycling program which took the burnable trash and used it to make electricity. That went on for a particular amount of time where a given area didn't need any power from the grid. The environmental is stopped that because they thought it was polluting the air and then we were back to taking the power from the grid. I'm starting to be convinced that most of what we see in the world is a scam. Follow the money.
Restaurants are the worst for creating waste. I worked in many and we did have recycle bins but they'd fill up in less than a week. Not to mention the amount of food thrown out. Businesses should be pressured to recycle more.
I remember hearing how the marijuana scare campaigns in the 30s was funded by plastics companies because hemp can be made into a material that is like plastic but only takes 100 years to biodegrade. The oil and plastics companies didn’t want the competition and hemp was banned.
One way or another, trees will be cut down due to million reasons, anyway. I feel myself dumb, after realizing how we got into these company's propagandas
Hemp is a better Alternative, than Logging. This Plastic Issue, like many things, is pretty easily figured out. Follow the Money! Corporations, will seek out the least costly way to produce Profits. My personal Opinion, Regardless, of the Harm?
Unlike mechanical recycling (melting & remolding), *chemical* recycling (breaking it down into original monomers) can produce plastic that's just as strong or stronger than the original. There's no free lunch, though (it takes more energy), and we'll see if it can ever compete with pulling fresh oil out of the ground.
Honestly the issue comes down to energy production. If we didnt fear nuclear by now we would likely have fusion, and the energy cost of all these projects would be negligible.
@@patrickfrost9405 Think of small tiny changes that boost safety. With automobiles, those concrete dividers on the highway used to not exist. If you stop paying attention you drift into oncoming traffic. That tiny development came from decades of trial and error. Nuclear got hit by several layers of smear campaigns literally funded by fossil fuels and parroted by the stupid (still exists today just look up mockingbird). Imagine what we could have had today, odds are we would have minimum thorium reactors if not fusion by now. Caution in the face of risk is wise, fear in the face of risk makes you stupid and gullible.
@@soul1d Just as a heads up, fusion is likely unfeasible and also produces nuclear waste. The entire containment shell has to be swapped out as it becomes weakened and irradiated by neutron bombardment.
Dude needs to check his math. He's donating $1000 to remove "literally" a ton of plastic from the oceans. $1 = lb of trash removed. 2000 lbs = 1 ton. $1000 = 1000 lbs or 1/2 ton.
9.14 why pp should not be recyclable? In Italy ( where polipropilene is been invented ) we recycle more than 90% of our pp product ( the 10% we lose is do to poor handling and is recovered in the following years, some time our report is higher then 100% recycled plastic ) , if your state is incapable of recycling plastic with a good money return, making it around 100% efficient (money/labor)is do to not having smart people developing product(sending trash to other country is stupid if they don’t use it, we do not do it) . Plastic is an amazing product and it can be handle correctly from the consumer to the new consumer if there is smart people handling it ! ( there is a lot of non working things in italy but plastic recycle is not one of them)
I applaud the initiative. Was wondering what happens to the trash after it's been recovered from the ocean? Your video points out that recycling isn't currently being done in a large scale, cost efficient way. How is the 30 million pounds of trash going to be processed? Where will it go? What measures are being put into place to ensure it doesn't end up back into the ocean? There wasn't much information on the donation website. Thanks.
well in canada it WAS going to the phillipines landfills. but they got kinda angry about their contract terms recently and started sendign stuff back lol
I was looking for this kind of comment for like minded people. I've always thought it was stupid for people to go abroad somewhere, go on a boat and take maybe a few hundred kg of trash from the ocean. Sure, their cause is noble and I commend them for the initiative, but its misplaced, as if they throw that trash away in a recycling bin, it will go into landfills or back into the ocean, thus all you did was cause more co2 emissions and other kinds of pollution for nothing. I want to know the answers to where this 30m kg of trash will go and how it will be handled... considering plastic doesnt go away!
@@nomnomhaters3312 30 million pounds not kilograms, Jake was misleading on that number. 30 million pounds (13000 tonnes) isn't even close to a days worth of plastic removed from the ocean.
@@sockmon1 yeah i misunderstood/mis-typed, but the question still remains the same, where does the 30 mil pounds of trash go? To a recycling plant where they won't be able to recycle and end up in landfills or ocean again? The initiative and the attention it gathers is great, but maybe the money gathered could be used on getting bright minds together on a different solution than picking up trash then throwing it away again the same way...?
My political views have done a complete 180 in the past few years. But caring for the environment is one value that has never wavered. We all have to share this planet, we need to take care of it. I think this plastic clean-up initiative is a great idea. I did a beach clean-up in highschool and it was unbelievable how much trash we found just wandering around for a few hours. And it was the off-season! No one else was visiting that time of year.
As I watched this video, I realized I already heard everything in it, in pretty much the exact same order, minus the loan scam at the beginning. Then I realized, Climate Town did a video on this a year ago.
A thousand dollars = a thousand pounds = 500 kg .... a tonne is 1000 kg ... And what do Team Seas do with the trash once they take it out of the ocean?
highest rate of micro plastics: apples, broccoli and carrots. OMG healthy foods aint even good for us anymore. jakes vids are fire but also depressing af
My brother in law's family owns a LARGE waste management company where I live (I mean they do multiple town's trash plus dumpsters) and he told me it's a waste..... most the "recycling bin/can stuff goes straight to the dump..... they're just making money off our municipalities
Something super relevant to recycling viability is the infrastructure and dedicated taxpayer money to make it happen. I live in the SF Bay area of California, which has some of the most comprehensive recycling infrastructure in the States and yet its still not enough, but most of us have 3 bins. In many or most other parts of the country its 2 or just 1 bin, and there is little separation done both at the waste management level and the personal level. It doesn't matter how recyclable a material is if there is no way to feasibly recycle it.
There is nothing sustainable about that city in the first place, from fertility rate to cost of living, the recycling system there is just luxury virtue signalling.
I'm so glad you mentioned the codes, I remember my parents teaching me about them. I would mention it from time to time when someone would ask me why I didn't recycle certain plastics. People would legitimately think I was making it up. Also friends and roommates asking me why I never put a bag in the recycling bin. Laws are different all over, but where I grew up we weren't allowed bags until about 5-6 years ago.
It's also in your medication. In fact, the entire medical industry was created by John D. Rockefeller when it was discovered that drugs could be made from petroleum. "Medical school" was created to indoctrinate "doctors" into using these newly created drugs as the basis for "health".
Plastic is perfectly fine in your fridge and fan cover. How often do you throw out either? The cups and bags are a problem though (If they're disposable).
The part about paper recycling is somewhat true. I worked in a virgin paper mill, but I've visited the ones that use recycled paper as well and they smell to high heaven and the process is absolutely disgusting. It smells and feels like a waste dump because people throw their greasy pizza boxes into their recycling bin. The part about bleaching being bad for the environment, is meh. Bleaching processes use ClO2 to bleach the board, but they have scrubbers that remove at least 95% of pollutants from the ClO2 generation process and send the VOCs back to the recovery boiler to be burned. Don't know anything about the deinking process, but I imagine it's pretty nasty too.
@@hittingyouoverthehead You're right, but it all goes back to money. I quit my paper mill job in 2019, but when I was there tree prices were going way higher (we bought mostly hardwood which is expensive and some pine which was kinda middle of the road price wise). Back when trees weren't that expensive, it was usually cheaper to make virgin paper so some mills didn't run their recycling operations, but around start of 2018 tree prices were going up fast and it continued through 2019 and then Covid hit (which i assume made it go up even more). At that point some mills restart their recycling processes or the company starts buying recycled paper from a recycling company. Recycled paper is not cheap though so usually our pulp mill analyst would crunch the numbers to determine which was the "better" route to go.
@@TheLouisianan Honestly though there are probably smarter ways to recycle paper. They mentioned de-inking and all that but recycled paper doesn't need to be used to write. Papers with ink on them (like newspapers) can be recycled into bags or paper cups or plates.
@@hittingyouoverthehead That's typically how it is recycled, but it's still an energy intensive process to recycle it vs letting it degrade over the next 50 years. I worked in a Containerboard mill so we made things like you mentioned, cardboard boxes, paper plates and cups (Dixie products). Ours was made with virgin paper though. Not sure what the FDA needs if you use recycled paper for anything food product related.
Recycling was my first view into shady business, I remember seeing the trash and recycling bin in front of my house into the same compartment in a garbage truck
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And yes, I screwed up the ton calculation at the end.
Hi Jake, love your videos!
ColdFusion copied your Nikola video 🤣 let’s see if they copy this
You should put special section for tupperware too
you're late on exposing the government
Hi my name is Jake, and i hold the Guinness world record for the most targets on my back
I love you!
hi mrbeast!!!!
Yo MrBeast!
@@noiJadisCailleach Still better than doing nothing, and maybe after this, the governments of the world might start to take things more seriously and start banning single use plastics as well as ridding the world of the misconceptions about recycling and misleading symbols like the resin identification code.
bruh early
Am early :)
I always say this: They all talk about Recycling, but never talk about Reduce and Reuse.
The root of it is a production problem. Stop making stuff out of difficult materials, back to the past
@@BAMHEIDSPINKWORKS it's also a consumer problem. We're the problem. Buy less, etc.
@@amandap9332 that won't happen so all you can do as a consumer is speak with your money.
@@amandap9332 "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
If only you knew how different things could be
Honestly the most nefarious part about this whole scam is how plastic companies managed to shift the blame off of them to begin with.
"Plastics polluting the environment? How could all of you be so careless as to not recycle your plastic? Look you've made the Indians cry! We're disappointed in you for not disposing of our trash properly!"
Once the product is sold it's no longer their trash, most of the blame about plastic issues goes on the consumers.
@@LeViIain an average has no choice. there's either no alternatives to many plastic products, the alternatives are way less available, time consuming or expensive, because of how the market has been set up for the last half the century. try living completely waste free and see for yourself. even some products that claim to be eco friendly are wrapped in plastic, its all a corporate scam and you gain nothing by defending it
Most pollution is the consumers fault.
@@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376 no, non of the consumers own 10 massive factories that exploit workers in poor countries and destroy the environment
All a part of the game
C'mon Jake, you have to have some responsibility when it comes to which sponsors you use.
Exactly! 🤦
I thought you had no choice in who advertised. Huh...
Oh Lord, now I see what you mean🤣🤣🤣
@@KARENboomboomROXX classic Karen
@@MagicMan6657 please, elaborate. I love these little quips about myself being my name is Karen. I need more details tho.
I just love the fact, that this guy telling us the truth about plastic recycle. But promotes loan scam.
17 minutes of how plastic can't be recycled for 1 minute of "so give us money so that we can recycle it"
@@Patrick.Weightman he's talking about the sponsor add at the beginning of the video lmao
My man.
He is like the guy from black mirror's 15 million merits episode. He make the bads news nice to hear and digest while selling us the same shit lol
@@phoebesama5348 Oh whoops I skip along the second one starts going
This is extremely wrong. In the part you say about teamseas, you said that they are removing 3 years worth of plastic. I assume you must have misread the article because it literally says that the estimate is 10 million TONS, not pounds (those are metric tons by the way). That would mean that teamseas is removing less plastic from the ocean, than gets put back into the ocean every single day. They will have practically no impact on the ocean. However, they are cleaning up beaches and rivers where people live so they are doing some good by cleaning up those communities, but I think the project just shouldn't be marketed as a ocean cleanup, instead people should see it as a community cleanup
Yes and there shouldn't be fundraisers for this. Products (read plastics) sold as products, in whatever form, should be sold at a cost that covers the whole life cycle, creation to destruction (recycling). We should not be asked to foot the bill to clean up the mess left by products that were not fully life cycle considered before going to market. The fact that that didn't happen is the fault of the producers themselves and the regulators. Those are the institutions that should be paying for the clean-up. Not using my tax dollars or contributions of you saps. Which likely mostly goes on admin as it does with most scams like this.
ocean cleanup will take billions
It's just like the tree planting campaign. It achieved literally nothing, in the grand scheme of things it didn't even move the needle. But made a lot of people feel like they are doing something good.
I agree. I think the project itself is more on bringing big named influencers to actually make it more appealing to a younger generations too. It would be effective if the goal were to get people to take part of the cleanup, rather than just some youtube collab series for people to watch
@@infwhale9183 I agree with your points but even the most 'recyclable' plastics aren't really able to be recycled and just end up in a land fill near a recycle center so unless we bend the hands of big plastic companies and or be as conscious as a village in Japan the dream of not paying anything for the cleanup is going to be just that a 'dream'
For a lot of people, it's not about helping the environment, it's about feeling like you're doing something about it and stop your guilt.
The most sensible reuse of plastic and paper products is to save all of it during the year and then burn it in small home stoves during the winter for heat. Plastic has about 2 times the energy density of wood or paper.
@@christobalcolon6601 how much carbon does that burning make?
Just like today rich people buy Carbon Credits so they can assuage their guilt and even brag they did their part, despite their humongous footprint
Same psychology of maskcucks.
I only do it because my family makes me.
Plastics are such amazing materials, but they never should’ve been used for disposable things like packaging, or for cheap products that aren’t built to last.
Plastic really isn't durable. It just doesn't shatter like glass.
Why not? Just bury it when you are done with it. It comes from the earth and must be returned to the earth to keep the world safe.
@@kevinjackson4464 It's not as simple as that, if we keep burying plastic we'll eventually run out of land (costs a lot too) and it takes too long for it to degrade to repeat the proccess
@@funtime1548 We will never run out of land for landfills, that has been proven.
Landfills are far cheaper than any other form of disposal.
Degradation is irrelevant, there is no need for degradation in a modern landfill. Landfills will be treasure troves of resources for future generations.
@@kevinjackson4464 That's true but some day we'll probably find a way to properly recycle it so i guess burying it is fine for now?
As someone who works for a plastic moulding company, the public seriously does not understand how much we waste even before its sent out to customers which then send it to the public. All because of high quality standards set by huge plastic companies. A 1 tonne product can end up making 2 tonnes of scrapped plastic. Its insane how much goes to waste and nobody even knows about it let alone bats an eye.
As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible and try not to waste precious virgin material. Yes, there is always non-reusable waste, but it's hard enough to make a profit even without being wasteful.
*"As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible..."*
Exactly. What are you talking about, *@Tummypics?*
Further, you actually cite "high quality standards" as a problem. My mouth is agape. One thing that I can tell you is that any inefficiency in business is almost always the result of government rules and regulations, and not because business owners love wasting time and money.
@@bricaaron3978 high quality standards referring to things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked. While yes we do try to reuse and save costs where we can, you'd be surprised how much just ends up being thrown away due to the cost of 'recycling' it
@@ItmeTummy *"things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked."*
I suppose I understand what you're saying. But this sounds like the type of thing that is the result of either government regulations, out-of-control tort law, or both, rather than the way that a business would willingly handle such an issue.
Yep, same goes for the blown-film industry, although we regenerate and thus recycle 100% of our waste film. If every branch of the thermoplastics industry did that, plastic wouldn't be an issue. And we are having to put up with tolerances in the 0.001mm range. If we can do it, everyone can.
The worst part of the whole recycling advertisement shit is that it presents it all as a personal issue. It is the consumers fault for not recycling as opposed to the plastics companies fault for pumping out single-use plastics like crazy.
Nice comment, Very true.
Exactly, it's not my fault for buying bread In a plastic bag, there is just no alternative, even my local bakery uses paper bags with plastic slit in it with totally invalidates the point...
Same for climate change! They put the onus of cutting back carbon emissions on the Individual, buying and cooking a steak or driving a car. But massive corporations are pumping more pollution out in days than most people do in a year, but somehow its my fault for having a car and eating meat.
yeah and then they dont give you any actually good alternatives, its all the same shit with a new creative lie to make you think your choices matter.
@@garbearfar1394 I can't remember the industry right now but one of them is producing one person lifetime worth of CO2 every *2 seconds* and it wasn't even one of the major polluters. Now imagine how much pollution bottled water produces being pumped out of the ground in some third world country, put it in bottles made out of oil that *CAN* but *WON'T BE* recycled and drive it houndeds of kilometers away to be sold
“Recycling is a scam!”
“And today’s sponsor is this financial scam”🤣🤣🤣
"Are you in debt? WELL THEN TAKE MORE LOANS!"
@@odinsplaygrounds what's better 27% interest (reg cc) or about 3-5% interest like a personal loan? Why is it a scam? It's just a business.
@@Sam_101. i agree with u.... But y i's every1 saying its. A scam?
@@Sam_101. it’s just modern loan sharks, a great low interest rate until you can’t pay then there’s massive interest spikes penalty fees. That “business” model has been around for decades.
@@Sam_101. interest is not a business.
Replacing glass with plastic is a crime against humanity
Why?
@@samsunggalaxy3442glass is pretty much just sand
@@robhegstrom9996 plastic is pretty much just oil...
@@samsunggalaxy3442 oil is fine but plastic is bs. It's a chore to recycle and literally all the other products that come from crude oil are more valuable than stupid plastic
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
These are not alternatives. You only recycle if you can't reduce or resue. Recycling has to be the last line of defence.
They are not 3 seperate options. They are the basis for sustainability. You do whatever is most sustainable in the long run, and recycling is not always the last option.
I'm africa they reuse every plastic bottle they have
I say we make a rail gun and shoot trash into the sun
@@THE_SOSC I'm no scientist and so I'm sure there's a reason we can't do this but I'm so on board my dude.
@@THE_SOSC I like the way you think!
I have a friend who once bragged to me about how their house "asked for a second recycling bin" because they "recycle that much every week." I was like "that's not a good thing, you should use less because that's going straight to the trash." I've always said I'm big on the real three R's- reduce, reuse, repurpose- but not recycling.
lol I can’t believe they had that attitude… “yeah I use a shit ton of plastic each week”
@@blazereho811 I wish I could say that was the stupidest thing she's said, but it's not. Last year she argued that Trump created the coronavirus and released it in China "not caring where it went or who it killed," because some random person on the internet said so and "made great points."
@@LizRealGirlBeauty you are absolutely correct use less
@@LizRealGirlBeauty while your friend sounds like an idiot, you sound like a shit person yourself. Imagine going online to talk bad about your "friends" on random comment sections lmao.
@@sneakyninjastreef3549 we're not friends anymore. She dumped me for not supporting communism.
Here's an idea, quit making everything into plastic bottles. I remember when water was literally free. You could walk into a corner store an just get water straight from the soda fountain. Nowadays you need buy any & everything. But they want to scream & preach "recycle". How about the companies who actually create the waste be accountable. Nah, that won't happen.
Consumers purchase the products. It's the consumers responsibility to dispose of it. You don't like plastic, don't buy it. Simple. Is the paper company responsible for your paper trash too?
That's right blame those who buy the product. Not the one's who make the bottle, since it cheaper to put it in plastic rather than aluminum.
Ummm. Have you asked for a cup of water lately?? They give it to you free. You can even bring in your own cup and go get some water. You can even put some soda in it, nobody cares. Maybe you just live in a greedy city. That's on you. Water is still free all over the place.
Why ask for cup of water? When water fountains were everywhere at one point. You can only get a FREE CUP of water from restaurants, not from any corner store. There you must buy WATER to drink. So no, water isn't free as it used to be.
@@stonyh.2810 Public water fountains that are outdoors and not maintained were removed for a reason. They are disgusting germ spreading monuments. Indoor drinking fountains are widely available at public places like libraries, city facilities etc. Think about how the pandemic has effected water fountain use, all of them are/were not usable. You can walk into nearly every fast food joint or restaurant and ask for water. Water is just as available for free, the manner served has changed. Corner stores are referred to as "convenience" stores for a reason. Bottled water is highly convenient, cheap and in many cases necessary. You pay for the evolution of the service. I'm commenting on this from the viewpoint from the USA, but the situation is likely similar in any developed country.
When I worked at petco I was really upset at the huge amounts of paper we wasted by printing out the grooming peper for people to take up front to pay for their grooming services that were scanned once and all ended up in the trash. I used to take all of the paper home to my paper shredder and recycle it until someone told on me and I got in trouble because the paper had people's private information on it that I "could be stealing" yet all the papers ended up in the garbage anyways. Thinking back on it was so naive of me to think I, a single employee was making a difference recycling paper in one store out of thousands of petcos.
As a polyere engeneer in Germany reading this title: Our battle will be legendary
After seeing the video: please watch Kurzgesagt video which is way better then this USA based generalised video which misses the point where the problem is
1:21 well this isn't true gernerally if you look at in house recycling where they directly put the waste back into the system or when we look at bottle to bottle production when done right !
2:09 well this happens if no well working recyling industrie exist like in India or South Africa,China...
2:13 and landfills are near gone in most europe countries -> changed to material/thermal recycling ... So if there is a political will it can change
2:30 compared to the 80s most products are made from the same material and it depends more on the product desinger if it is recycleabel or looking nice which means product desinger have to put a lot of effort also so products are easy to sort and filter
6:10 isn't this the hole problem of the american dream -> like city planing in the USA or generaly extensive Capitalism ?
6:56 well what you compleatly forget/not mention is what other resoucces would have been wasted if plastic wouldn't be used
what most people forget there is a difference between environment and clima but they are connected soo if you replace plastic pagaging whith paper the products like meat which is one of the most energy inefficent products is wasted even more (by 30-50% ) due to the shorten time it can be consumed also if we look at vehicels which use plastic -> they save a ton of oil in the long run
Look at planes moving from aluminum structure to now carbon expoxy based material (sidenote: glue or expoxy is a plastic too) fuel reduction
8:03 well this is a USA problem not moving forward -> politcal and econical stagnation
9:14 this is simple wrong if we look at a modern recyling plant you can recyle more then 2 types of plastic easily throw computer based camera filtering
Sidenote: Seateam won't change anything in a greater aspect is only can show one problem fun fact germany recyels every year 1,5 million tons of plastic and europe 8,5 million tons it is a 3 billion euro huge industry
9:34 saying you can use plastic only 3 times is again false ! If it is filtered right the granulate from recycelt plastic is the same as from new plastic ...also there is chemical recycling which deconstruct plastic so it can be polymerisated again (energy itensive but the plastic which comes out of this process is litterly the same as new) also please don't generalise the recyling industry with a national flawed system as USA is a bad exaple of a recyling waste
10:32 well we don't protect the planet we protect ouself from our stupity
11:32 if you have a functional recyling system like in Europe it saves alot of energy and co2 emission a plastic bag is way more clima friendly then a cotton bag
13:30 USA date not the World !
17:00 well it is a whaterdrop in a huge lake
So if anyone read this feel free to commend if you need some more data/infomation i only covered the biggest uffs
Massively underappreciated comment, my fellow European!!
I was so confused reading the title but yeah your comment more or less summarizes what i know about recycling as a fellow european
Thank you! Seeing how your comment has such a low amount of likes is painfully hilarious. Americans just don't want to accept that it's there country just fucking it up and not only with there plastic industry. If companies are rich enough they can do what ever they want in America literally. It's really painful to watch what happens there politically, but the EU isn't a white sheep either wanting to invade the privacy of billions of people. Actually really nice to see that my country is recycling 1.5 tons every year! Actually didn't thought that with those already incompetent politicians we had to deal with… but nothing compared to America 😅
Thanks for posting this detailed response to the video. Watching this Video as a German and realising it's US-centric without mentioning it up-front to the Viewers is is such a common occurence with big popular Videos by American Content Creators, i always wonder if that's done on purpose or if the Creator doesn't even consider the Nuances and Differences from Country to Country and believes that any Topic/Conclusion that applies to the USA also automatically applies to the Rest of the World
Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps
@@chartreux1532 it's just US being US (and it's citizens), completely oblivious and self-centered. It is that type of culture created over the years.
As a country still immature, and like a teenager, think they know everything but lack life experience.
People forget that reduce, reuse, recycle is in an order. People forget the first two all the time.
You could in countries where you still produce something that you need to store but in a society where you buy everything it is kind of difficult. I still remember how after Ceaușescu had fallen we have looked in awe at the plastic bottles because they were light and you didn't worry about damage them and losing the content. Everyone used them to store fresh mild from their cow, home made tomato juice, țuică and so on. Nowadays, due to regulations, it is illegal to have your own cow and produce țuică is you don't have specific certificates. With tomato juice, it is even more complicated when you have rains that burn your plants if you don't build an solarium. Times change, people change.
@SMA Productions what project is that? You mean team sea because thats creates and funded by mr beast
@Thomas B most shit you don't even need, & what you need you can buy 2nd hand. Plus why support parasitic evil multinationals that hate you
Everything is plastic, it's impossible to reduce
reduce
I work at a Plastic Extruding company as a electrical engineer.
Machines that recycle plastic bags and the such do exist. I repair them all the time. They are usually called "reclaim extruders". The problem like you said, is the process, its expensive to reclaim it.
Bags that say "20% recycled" is literally scrap made by our bag making machines and put into a reclaim machine to make more bags. Better than nothing but still.
It's sad we still just throw away and bury plastic trash.
The only really feasible option for plastics after use is industrial inceneration for heat and electricity.
@@rkan2 the fumes release pretty nasty toxins and tons of CO2. I don't think it feasible. The best thing to do is reclaim what is reclaimable and bury the rest like they are supposed to do
@@Andy-hi9do A proper inceneration plant will release little of anything but CO2. Just burning plastics in a fire will release everything burning a garbage dump will. It is the best option. CO2 is not that strong of a greenhouse gas - even if it is the most abundant produced by humans.
@@Andy-hi9do Use an after burner.
@@rkan2 Plus, we've probably reach the point where a further ppm of CO² does not create a further greenhouse effect. People seem to think that the greenhouse effect is infinite (including all of the doom models), but it's far more likely that it has diminishing returns that eventually reach 0. And, I believe we have already reached that point, as statistics have shown that we have way more CO² than ever before, but the world is only slightly warmer and this hasn't increased significantly.
Also, People forget that there are benefits to CO² as well. Like larger plants and crop yields. Not to mention that fossil fuels keep us alive.
I worked in a supermarket in the mid nineties and they had a kiosk for people to recycle the shopping bags for reuse. One day the kiosk was full and I asked my boss what I should do with all the bags. He told me: Throw them in the dumpster!
That’s when I learned that the “green” in the green movement was about money!😮
How the fuck do you judge whole fucking movement based on literally 1 person. It like I would say everybody in US is dumb asshole because I've met 1 dumb asshole from US
Lol
Not gonna lie… they told me the same thing when I worked at the grocery store.
Bad boss. Worked in a grocery store and all our plastic went to the warehouse. Couldn’t put it in the dumpster cause a) bad for environment and b) makes dumpster get full too quick. That boss was either ignorant or stupid.
@@GhoulSlayer_where do you think it went after the warehouse?
I would have liked to see some coverage on the British Petroleum ad campaign that coined the concept of "personal carbon footprint" to shift blame from itself after the major spills in the Gulf of Mexico. This behavior never ends, and the spin campaigns are getting more aggressive and manipulative every year.
Victim blaming
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Corporations if examined have a history of pollution. Plus never ending agendas ,global warming .plandemic war on terror, carbon free? Isnt carbon one of lifes elements?
Micro plastics honestly terrify me. We’re finding them in our water, in our food, in our bodies, in our PLACENTAS…. It’s everywhere and inescapable.
It’s already starting to effect our bodies - blocking hormones, floating around in our blood and causing all kinds of issues. Now we’re creating tiny humans born with microplastics inside them and in the very materials they’re being made of. If we know it’s effecting us already now, how are these microplastics going to effect our most vulnerable and their small, growing bodies? What health issues will they face growing up with these plastics inside them and all around them, consuming them daily?
The problem only gets worse by the day as more microplastic is created and the existing microplastics get even smaller and more insidious. It all feels so hopeless and dystopian. I want so badly to help and stop this but i don’t know how - I’m not a corporation or a scientist, I’m an average civilian trying their best not to make unnecessary waste.
You make a good point. I don't know why there isn't someone out there trying to come up with how to get rid of it yet. It's like they want this to happen or something.
I got my own theory how to get rid of it. But I don't know any scientist or inventor.
You can do nothing. The only hope is scientists finding something that can fully break down microplastic.
@@diamonddigs6206 Burn it in the woodstove, and it.s gone forever.
@@freedomadventurer8454 Isn’t kind of obvious that they want this?
Shoutout aluminum I wish we could get that recycled properly it’s a sick metal
🤟 sick metal 🤟
Aluminium
Aluminum is the best metal.
@@justinharris3429 aluminum (Al), also spelled aluminium, chemical element, a lightweight silvery white metal of main Group 13 (IIIa, or boron group) of the periodic table.
@@justinharris3429 aluminum is absolutely a metal
wow.. and to think I've been doing something good all my life..
Jake Tran is the only content creator I know that writes his videos in second person. Love it, keep up the great work man.
What is second person in writing?
@@Spider-Too-Too it’s when you use ‘you’ like you were there but the reader or viewer is the perpetrator
@@Spider-Too-Too Second person is when you address your audience directly and you’ll use pronouns like “you” and “you’re.”
I see. I will pay more attention to it when I watch his video in the future. And I wonder what other form of presentation also writes in second person
@@ibrahimshehu859 ah thanks for explaining
I think our only solution will be to look heavily into plastic eating bacteria. Ideonella sakaiensis is a bacterium from the genus Ideonella and family Comamonadaceae capable of breaking down and consuming the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a sole carbon and energy source. They are also genetically engineering this feature to break down PET faster. The future will be interesting...
If it’s heard about in the news again, that is. When you see an article about a cancer cure, often times it hasn’t been tested yet and is proven unsafe/ineffective later on, or just fades into obscurity if it does work
Whoever invents it will become a billionaire. Sell it to big oil and the plastic industry as absolution for their pollution.
thats cool, cant wait for the rich to get rid of it, because deceiving us is so profitable that it would be stupid of them to ever stop.
@@linusandersen3587 if they got something that would completely while away their waste products, they’d make more money finding ways to sell this bacteria than they would continuing to deceive us. Imagine the billions to be made from someone selling samples to companies that create a lot of plastic waste. The many Garbage and waste companies that would use this to reduce the massive landfills they operate
alternatively nanomachines like in the movie Transcendence
The worst part is that they blame us for this, while also making so many plastic products that really it would be hard to live plastic free now. They tell us we can fix everything with recycling but really we are making it worse and it’s just so depressing.
YOU ARE BUYING THIS! So yes, it's also 0,00001% your fault. Also, this article is biased as heck, and only loosely aplies to USA, Europe has its plastic sorted out and it's definitely not due to corporate interest.
@@sultanofswingdrift3021 Europe does not have its plastic sorted out ...???
the most frustrating thing about it is everything is packed in plastic, even when you try to avoid it you can't
and all the so-called bio paper packages only make the products more expensive and honestly i ain't got the money to buy same shit twice the price just coz it's wrapped in paper and not in plastic
@@sultanofswingdrift3021 Europe literally sends all their shit to Poland where the trash is being burned no matter the material
Europe with some other countries like Australia or New Zealand made a fucking trash container out of my country
so yeah i guess it's all sorted out here (if you pretend Poland doesn't exist)
@@phoebesama5348 on top of that I'm pretty sure they also send their "recycled" plastic to various Asian countries where it will be dumped in their oceans instead... Europe dumping away its trash to other countries is not a solution lol I have no clue where that person got that idea ...
I remember in the 90s, McDonalds had a recycling campaign-- "We Recycle, So Tomorrow Doesn't Go To Waste", where they added large blue recycle bins to all their restaurant locations. This lasted until the end of the decade, and then the blue bins and the campaign were done with.
Great video until the end segment. We should not be paying to clean up corporations negative externalities just so they can keep on polluting, that just means we're literally making the cost of doing business cheaper for them. Instead we need to lobby and support the correct politicians that can legislate and create law that holds corporations accountable. The take you had at the end was extremely short sighted and clueless. We need a long lasting future proof idea, not a clean up now and let them keep doing it approach
as long as you support any politician w capitalism as their base ideology then we'll get nowhere, that's just the truth. it'll literally take a social revolution to 100% stop this bs
U have a point, why dont they pass a law where companies have to clean up the plastic based on how much money they make so $1 for 1 pound butttttt I dont think itll happen
@@Wokesha completely agree with you there
Yeah.. smells like corporate boot licking to me. Keep polluting and the masses will pick up the tab for the cleanup bill!
Fuck that. Tax the rich and fix this damn planet before it's too late
nah, political will never be effective enough and as reliable as market demand. Either enough consumers drive away from plastic, which is very unlikely because the market is too big and plastic is too profitable, if they can't sell to one part of the world they will be able to sell to other parts of the world. And also we don't have that public will, we are too distracted and divided, especially in something like environmental problems. Or we find a material or multiple material affordable enough to replace plastic products. I see the success in electrical cars as something hopeful, a combination of technology, market demand (aka capitalism) and the public will. Long story short, truth is capitalism runs the world, these companies gonna go toward profits so we have to make plastic less profitable than something else. Maybe one day plastic bags can be replaced by something else, and then plastic bottles, and then so on, eat the elephant one bite at a time.
the thing that most people fail to realize is Recycling come last after Reduce and Reuse 🤦♂️
@Olivia That's a very interesting take, Olivia :)
@Olivia You really know how to put into words what we're all feeling. thank you for these beautiful and inspiring words...
@Olivia so deep😭
LMAO these bots are getting out of hand.
The output is crazy but I’m fucking with it. Don’t exhaust yourself.
Yes, don't burn out. This is maybe my favorite channel. That and Ownage Pranks, and he got tired.
I hope this gets more visibility. Human beings have a dangerous appetite for consuming anything. Setting the expectation for quality and frequency of videos is important!
When you get older, you realize everything is a lie. But by then, it is too late.
FACTS 💯💯💯💯💯
I broke down the numbers to be a bit more comprehensible, large numbers will always confuse or put people in awe.
For every Dollar 1 pound (500 grams) of plastic will be removed, if you were to achieve the fundraiser goal that would account to the following:
30 million pounds of plastic waste would be collected. Converse that into Kilos (factor of roughly 2,2) amounts to 13.5 million, which in tons (kilo to ton conversion factor of 1000) would be about 13,500 tons (Thirteen thousand five hundred tons).
In opposition to the 300,000,000 TONS of YEARLY waste, that would be a one time (I assume) reduction of 0,0045%. The ocean cleanup part would therefore amount to about 0,14%.
This is a noble goal and I know that there needs to be a start somewhere, no offense. Especially the education about the recycling scam. Though in contrast this literally is a droplet into an ocean. I mean, imagine, 30 million dollars is a metric ton for a simple man like myself, but for a company (which literally caused this mess) that amount of money would be pocket change.
So that begs the question, why do we not hold them accountable? Why do WE need to pay our hard earned cash to fix this? Those companies fooled all of us, and I bet that most of you didn't know about the recycling scam, I surely did not, and now we are left to scrape minuscule amounts of cleanup for a considerable amount of money just because they fooled us?
*Edit: fixed wording
this is why I disagreed with his whole anti government bit at the end. Our job is not to fund and hold companies accountable, our job is to lobby and support the correct politicians so that they can do lasting good and create legislation to prevent this. Otherwise we are literally paying for their negative externalities just so they can keep polluting
It's because this video is made by someone who doesn't understand that individual action is irrelevant if individuals are powerless against unaccountable corporations. It's a giant contradiction, which most conservatives resolve by fooling themselves into thinking that environmentalism is a scam or conspiracy.
@@xaviwavy3930 well said and thanks 16-bitler. if laws are only for small companies without lobbying power, fixing this starts with pressuring/shaming politicians who feast with these big lobbying companies = nearly all politicians.
@@xaviwavy3930 bro. Im with Jake on anti government. The government profits off of corporations so they will never be autonomous. Id rather control the corporation who in turn controls the government.
“It’s better to be positive and wrong than be negative and right”. -Sadhguru
A friend of mine works in waste-procesing. Their definition of "recycling" is simply to burn it up because: "It's getting recycled into heat energy". Well, that's one way to put it :D
Theoretically he is right.,
@@OZMO4 but environmentally he's wrong burning plastic is like making poison
Yes that is a good way to get rid of plastic
@@OZMO4 No he is not! The plastic doesn't turn into heat!
Let me guess, your friend sucks at chemistry.
The feeling and emotion involved in “doing something “ is just as good as really doing something! Virtue signaling is alway better than reality
Unfortunately, Yes.
Capitalism all the way I love Ayn Rand money all the way
I hate these mediocrity culture as well as cultural Marxism.
@@getsmartquick learn to spell
@@jebipasadegene when someone attacks your grammar you've triggered them with the truth
I am glad it is finally coming out that the plastic isn't being recycled much, and much isn't recyclable.
Genuine question: If we can't recycle most of the plastc, what will we do with it after taking out of the ocean?
Good question. My guess is a landfill.
In an ideal world, whatever isn't super broken could be reused once cleaned. But realistically all of it will probably all go in a landfill and covered up with dirt. Fortunately while no sea animals can eat it I've heard of bacteria that can eat plastic and mealworms that can eat Styrofoam (it turns to dirt after they eat their waste after a couple of times)
Mix with concrete build house.
if society doesn't recede because of some crippling environmental or political disaster, then it's gonna keep being pseudo-recycled until it's cost efficient to just shoot it into space, potentially somewhere with gravity to stop it from coming back. Venus is a nice hellhole I hear.
Do you really think plastic is indestructible? Sweden burns more plastic waste than it produces. There's only CO2 and water left after that, and a small amount of ash that can be used in concrete or possibly broken down to the elements in the future.
Unless I'm wrong in my calculations, 30 millions pounds is equal to 13 millions killograms, or 13 thousands tons. We're far away from the ~3 years worth of plastic equivalent to 30 millions tons. So although the initiative is good, in a concern of honesty, if the #TeamSeas meets its goals, it will not take away more than 1.5% of a yearly ocean plastic waste. :(
They also want to put waste catchers on the rivers that carry the most trash to the ocean so there's less getting into the ocean as well as removing it. Just FYI
10 million tons = 20 BILLION lbs. Cleaning up 30 million lbs is a mere 0.15% of the yearly ocean dumping. It'll only take a few hours for 30 million lbs of trash to be put right back into the water.
This entire campaign is a waste of time because we don't need more awareness of this issue. We are all fully aware of the severity of the situation.
You do realize that the point of trying is to at least bring attention to the problem, and to influence others to help in their own ways? A single campaign means more than just the efforts involved, please take the time to think about the sphere of influence as well.
@@jimbobaggins209 I remember people like you from high school. One person is not enough to do anything yes, but that is the issue. You're only thinking of this campaign as the one campaign it is. You are completely ignoring the fact that there are several other campaigns to help reduce plastics in the world already, and that not one single effort is going to ever take care of all of it at once. It is going to be the effort of several, and I mean SEVERAL years of hard work, cooperation, and revealing liars and snakes in politics in order to keep the work from being undone. Human effort can move both ways, they just need to work together to do so. That's how it got dirty, after all
Better than zero
I'm honestly shocked. I was taught in elementary school by my teachers that the resin identification codes WERE the recycling symbol, therefore making the item recycleable. The number meant how many times you could recycle it. I didn't know they were CODES to identify the product... now I have to rethink everything. (Edited for grammar)
@cqxmrvcoy I don't know. I was a kid and I believed most things adults told me. 🤷
what? how deos a school of all places make that error lmao
School teachers teach mostly lies. Whatever they feel they should say, they say and no one fact checks them. There is no oversight.
Most of the plastics you find around you fall under either the "1" (PET which is short for polyethylene terephthalate) or "2" (HDPE which is high-density polyethylene) category, that means they are recyclable plastics by definition.
IIRC in episode 2 or 3 of Breaking Bad they actually bring up those codes, Walter needed a plastic bucket that could contain acid and not get dissolved by it so he tells Jesse to go to the store and look for a bucket labeled with a specific plastic ID number. Neat stuff.
I work in an electronic recycling plant. I brought up my main concern of how so many of our orders generate so much single use plastic to my boss. One main issue he brought up, Companies don't want to pay more for things to be recycled properly. Two. Companies don't want to work together to generate products made of similar or same materials to make it much easier and more effective to recycle. Three. Companies are just known to massively overpackage their products, and I personally notice this much more in the process of unboxing and sorting materials at work. I'm talking boxes and boxes of small individually wrapped pieces of metal. At the end of the day my boss explained that one. Because businesses don't want to pay extra to properly dispose of plastic our company loses business and they don't get recycled. And also companies refuse to work with each other to cooperate with what materials they are using. In the end the process has a lot of issues. One we should encourage only manufacturing plastics that can be recycled, two, we should unite recycling and production companies to work together to make the process work a lot better. And three putting more reaserch to finding ways to better recycle plastic. Because a lot of things can be recycled effectively with the right tools, but we need more education and also companies to stop abusing single use plastic so much. Because it is a huge issue.
Anyways that's my rant I don't know everything but this is just my perspective
Yes,Company..but those compies feed mankind
@@arazatliyev6564 maybe but at what cost. The overuse of plastic is literally killing us
@@NotaArtist made,sorry,but l am side of God🙂...why? due to themselves' foolish,kill
@@arazatliyev6564 i don't know what you mean by this but you do you fam. All I'm saying is humans actions have concequences. That's been proven again and again.
@@NotaArtist mate,you want not to catch on...l daying that humans are stupid and consequently are being killed..coz they are ignorance..biggest wealthy is acknowlidge..why you want not to catch on this that? Now you guard these stupids? it dont need this..
So the consumer pays for the product, pays in possible negative health effects, and then has to pay to clean up the pollution… meanwhile the producers are living without consequence… companies should be held accountable for the creation and disposal of their products.
And lets keep Jake Tran accountable for his donation. He said in his words he will donate 1,000 dollars to remove "a literal ton" from the ocean, but 1 ton = 2,000 pounds sir. So please make sure to donate 2,000.
Sounds like it’s just better to be a producer than a consumer and one should avoid being the consumer
It's like trashing another person's yard with your garbage and then expecting someone else to clean your mess
WE all consume plastics. Doesnt matter if you are the CEO of a company or a bum on the streets. If you want to ride the moral high horse above all the plastic people, then stop using it...but you wont. In fact, its almost imposable to function in modern-day life without plastics.
There's no turning back now, earthling. Look at it this way... If humans want to exist inevitably, then the planet must be stripped of its recourses and discarded eventually anyway.
Carbon credit fines which they pay easily to the right technocrat gates,Rockerfeller, gore etc...
I’m an R&D engineer and my first project was figuring out how to reuse scrap plastic materials and keep it in the manufacturing cycle. There are tons of companies that have reached out to me with a buy back program. There are tons of applications for scrap plastics, you just need people that care and are willing to do the sorting between thermosets and thermoplastics.
I tend to believe corporations will do what they can to stay in business. But until people educate themselves and change purchasing behavior, this won’t really be solved. Great video.
My question is what can we buy that isn't plastic wrapped, times two or three times these days? They practically infiltrate every part of our lives.
I mean most every day use polyolefins are mostly saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons which every incineration gladly accepts as fuel for their plants when burning other waste.
The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision.
Another issue is that 90% of global pollution of creeks, rivers, lakes and also the oceans happens in low developed south-east asian countries because they simply do not care and lack proper infrastructure for trash collection, reusage and incineration.
@@TentomushiHH "The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision."
The problem is that in many cases there are no choice. As the guy above mentions, everything is basically plastic wrapped these days, when it comes to non-dry foods at least.
@@TentomushiHH to back up ''a n o n y m'', fossil fuel companies have done the same thing (Mobile for example). They run a campaign (many to be exact) the take the blame from them and turn it to the consumer, they even dared to make an add blaming us for environmental destruction while they were the reason for a great oil slick back in 2012 if I remember correctly. Of course consumers can change their habits, but its them forcing these materials and practises because it brings them more money in order to stay in business. Lets not make the same mistake as previous generation, the core of the problem is them.
I dont get the evil fossil fuel and plastic companies thing in the first place. I thought this video meant to be factual. We need their products, because they are useful. Period. You think they are making too much money? Buy their shares. I would argue wrapping every single piece os vegetable in plastic is overdoing it, so im not buying that crap. We should probably prevent it getting into the ocean, but I suspect its mostly the Asian countries doing it. The EU just banned some single use plastics, like ear swabs, straws, and paper cup lids. Is that the solution? Think of all the trees used to make billions of ear swabs. There's no easy way of getting rid of plastics nor fossil fuels.
As someone whose done much janitorial work. I’ve always noticed when cleaning office buildings the workers there would have trash and recycle bins.
Funny thing is us janitors all go around throwing both in the same trash can and in the same dumpster/ trash compactor. Never seen a dumpster for recyclables before.
Yeah, it just a gimmick
I’ve worked at Walmart and we baled and recycled all plastic both stores. At my current restaurant job we have a recycling and garbage dumpster.
well now i dont feel good about throwing things in the recycle bin at work anymore
True bro
Same. I moved to a new neighborhood with a private garbage company to pick up trash.
They insist that we separate recyclables and garbage into two different bins that get picked up the same day.
I noticed over time that the garbage truck dumps the garbage bin and recycling bin into the same bin. Now I just use both bins as a garbage bin. No point in recycling if the company taking my trash isn't going to uphold the same behaviors.
In a book by dalores cannon, were she mentions of far advanced civilization than us , it is mentioned that when plastic was discovered they decided not to continue with it because how long it stays with out degradation
1) You cannot call out the industry for scamming the public while being sponsored by an actual fucking loan shark company
2) You cannot complain about nonregulation and lack of accountability, then place the onus of cleaning up the oceans on the common man, esp to an ineffective org such as TeamSeas. I appreciate what they are doing but they arent doing enough.
This is a great video that calls this to attention and not many people know about it, but this delivery was tone deaf at best.
While specifically saying he doesn’t want to talk about regulations lol
@drake. You comment would’ve been perfect if you didn’t swear.
@@jaijai5250 Well pardon my impropriety, but it must be asserted.
We can expect him to make a video about loan shark in the future
Team seas is a moral smokescreen for the RUclipsrs making more money than doctors, basically a shiny medal you brand to avoid any and all questions about "their part"and the profit they have.
It's just soul cleaning for the undeservedly rich of a broken platform.
"crying indian act" is the most american thing I've ever heard
Must be canceled as it wasn't a real indigenous American.
@@Marinealver No
@@Marinealver Damn, that just screams even more American
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🤣🤣🤣oh my god you are so right 🤣🤣🤣
16:45 1 ton = 2000 pounds, 10 million * 2000 = 20 BILLION pounds of plastic dumped in the ocean each year.
30 million / 20 billion = 0,0015, so removing 30 million pounds of thrash from the ocean is 0,15% from the yearly amount of plastic dumped in the ocean.
I still like the effort of teamseas though, but its not even close to removing 1 year of trash, let alone 3 years.
He says it is 30 millions "every day" for the next 3 years, so if I understand correctly, will be 5.5 millions tons of plastic per year, half of the amount dumped. Still, I don't like that they are only using American units to market it, and not making those numbers more clear. Can very well be the other way around.
For a video denouncing the marketing shenanigans of plastic companies, he too does a lot of confuse marketing talk
@@Evaldo_Souza I don’t know why he says 30 million a day. That’s completely wrong and they’re cleaning up 30 million total
Yeah I noticed that too, I was gonna point it out, but you beat me to it!
My father did plastic recycling & tyre recycling (he owned the factories) and he used the cashflow to buy real estate cashflowing assets.
Jake Tran is a miracle channel. The amount of knowledge this channel has given me for free that too in the form of entertainment is beyond my understanding.
@@upmindai6812 gonna have to check out Wendover
Without him i would Never known the stories from my grandma that usa sent loads of powdered milk and butter was actualy from nestle.
@Olivia fuck off im sick of seeing spams in my inbox go get a life
Yes and also he is winning big on the algorithm side , i actually subscribed to him few months ago when he was just a small 5k channel , but the quality of the content made it clear that we would get where he is now , am quite proud of him and his amazing work
They gonna silence him soon
Does Jake Tran even sleep? The man is posting the most insane videos so often right now 😂
Dude he has a video editor. All he has to do is write the script and read it
@@biglittledude496 poor video editor
@@biglittledude496 the amount of planning and research is a lot. Jake most likely also jas to do some editing. Cant completely trust an editior to have control over what ur viewers see and feel
@@godmode2461 Im saying it because I am a corporate video editor myself.. lmao
@@biglittledude496 way to go down playing a person's hardwork
"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they're not going to be as concerned about the environment"
@the moon And I'm reiterating it
@the moon that's what the " " are for
@@agnez8646 Can you not?
@@jonathanmckarlison1203 Don't bother man it's a bot
Saves me money on trash bags
Bro I did a paper on this in college and got so much BS for it. Redemption is here.
On recyclable materials there’s usually a triangle recycling symbol with a number inside it from 1-7. Many manufacturers will buy numbers 1 and 2 from recycling companies which makes recycling them worthwhile and helpful to the environment.
But if you see numbers 3 to 7 inside the triangle don’t bother recycling it because the recycling companies can’t sell it and end up throwing it away or sometimes will sell it to 3rd world countries to become their problem, with often unideal outcomes.
Ideally, try not to by things with numbers 3 to 7. And *reuse* as much as possible! Reuse is far more helpful to the environment than recycling.
Don't you mean number three and HIGHER?
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say it only goes to 7. So, numbers 3 to 7 are garbage.
@@shadbakht Right, so ideally try not to buy things labeled 3 and above, not below. If only 1 and 2 are truly recyclable.
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say I see. Yes, I meant 'below' as in quality not number. I'll correct it, as it's confusing.
@@shadbakht I apologize if I came off rude in the correction, wasn't my intention at all.
Watching the end of this video is just laughable. I can't believe this dude literally goes on about all these terrible things that were caused by unregulated markets and then just goes "we shouldn't regulate it though, we should just make the average person pay to clear up a tiny, miniscule portion of the issue instead of actually fighting it at the source."
capitalism is bonkers my guy
@@holundersirup1189 It's not capitalism, it's flagrant greed. Do something about it, pussy.
Sorry tankie, this is not a marxist channel. You can go watch Vaush if you prefer..
@@SynDeus lmao this RUclipsr ist just a biggot
@@SynDeus we can see it's not a Marxist channel by the stupidity at the end.
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness hasn’t given enough away.” Wow. Profound, yet so true.
Lol it isnt true at all
@@likemysnopp how
@@likemysnopp try giving a homeless man a bar of gold. He will have the biggest grin
Money doesn't give Happiness said no Billionaire ever.
@@jessh4016 not deep.
It's a fact.
Thank you for this information. I was completely unaware of the recycling disinformation. I had even gone through a conservation course included with animal care units, but was not made aware of these factors.
Recycling of plastic is quite cheap over in Germany, they have over 100 recycling plants where they not only breakdown 99% of all plastic types but even creating granulate that is being sold to plastic companies way cheaper than it’d be when making it new! You definitely have to have the infrastructure in order to recycle properly and cheap! I know what I’m talking about, I’m a plastics technician/mechanic for injection moulding by trade.
If you don’t have a recycling attitude and no infrastructure to do so efficiently yourself it (and ship your sporadically collected recycling materials to Asia..) won’t work
thats the problem, most american companies dont care to actually help
Isn't plastic recycling in Germany supported by the tax payers to make it ''cheap''? Real question. Can't read German to look it up properly.
@@FlyingThunderRooster Yeah, just because the government is subsidizing it so that it's cheaper doesn't mean that it actually makes sense financially.
@@paulzaim7900 Um actually the government can literally just pass a law to make every free.
@@david52875 No they cannot. You need to read up on economics if you think that is the case
Every thing exists
Jake Tran: "it's a scam."
Because its a goddamn scam! Even life is a scam!
@@anhbayar11 you are Russian so you aren't credible.
@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 He is russian so he is like the most credible.
@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 as a Russian I completely agree
Jake scammed his subscribers with a scam coin and he never addressed it at all, instead ignored it and you guys are like sheep .
Jake is on a speedrun to see how many powerful interests he can piss off before they send assassins after him. Of course, he may be employing the "pink panther" strategy of getting so many assassins after him that they end up killing one another.
Idk who can save him anymore
We can't end plastic pollution without ending capitalism. So you're praising him in vain since he didn't tell us the solution, instead he told us to keep working inside of capitalism therefore continuing unnecessary waste
So its all good to just rip off other RUclips videos huh?
Plz support the original researcher, Climate Town.
ruclips.net/video/PJnJ8mK3Q3g/видео.html&ab_channel=ClimateTown
@@veneering4128 "
And other jokes you can tell yourself
@@veneering4128 yes, I agree, we should go back to feudalism, at least then people wont use any materials at all, and be prosperous and equal, utopia achieved.
I work for a plastic bag manufacturer. We recycle the engineered scrap that we make but most of it we can’t.
What gets me is that when I was in grade 6 & 7, (late '70s) teachers were preaching about the need to conserve and recycle. Industry responded by replacing paper bags, glass bottles and carton egg containers, with plastic. People didn't demand this, it was doled out, and people liked it, because of less breakage and freshness. However, let it be known that it was corporate inspiration that created this demand, at a time when the World was already aware of waste and polution.
"Don't support government regulations to actually stop polluters, just donate to teamseas to remove not even a single day's worth of their damage!" annnnnd you lost me.
Same
Ohhh my god. Felt the same when he started with the donation schedule. Pure blsht.
Yeah because your government regulations will stop US and other countries from shipping plastic to other countries to dump and end up in the global air and water anyway. /s
@@JaySee5 /s?
@Janitor Queen a lot of the time the bottled water industry and the soft drink industry are the same people. Also, I’ve come to the conclusion that most politicians, democrat or republican, are bought out by corporations within a couple years of taking office.
Damn the more he uploads, the more I worry about him mysteriously disappearing 😂😂😂😂
Everything he talks about is public knowledge!! U talking like he is ex cia agent that's leaking top secret shit😂
I still love his vids tho
Next they'll make him sponsor magicians so they can say he made himself disappear...
I smoke weed on my RUclips channel & l reaction videos too😅💯
Don't worry he's cia
He’s not touching stuff like the vax or the trans community. As long as he stays clear of those things he’ll be fine.
450 years to decompose right yet it was invented 100 years ago... i would like to kno how that experiment was conducted.
I remember in high school , back at home we had a recycling can and regular trash can. I remember thinking "who cares it's probably just all going to the same place." And it seems like that intuition may have at least been partly right.
I've seen so many cans that have a top with one hole for trash and another for recycling, that literally goes into the same bag underneath.
So you did stop recycling?
@@realdragon I quit recycling years ago. 😊
@@helloyall4355 Because you're lazy or because of 1 video on YT saying it was pointless?
@@realdragon It is pointless. Have you read about it and researched it? I doubt it.
You talked 15 minutes about how bad our problem is and that all solutions are not enough. And than at the end you would rather spend some money to get a little bit of trash out of the ocean than having restrictions of the government. WTF???
Ikr, he clearly states that plastic lobbyists are a part of the problem
but apparently restricting the people who started this problem in the first place isn't the way to go?? tf
@@073708539 Yes, I mean government bad!!! /s
@@barlauch9292 it's so on the nose too how he phrases it ("if you're not an extreme environmentalist!"), it's as if we're performing a greater good to give the fundraiser money (and the RUclipsrs who participate some popularity) than it is to vote. It's funny how ironic this whole video is about the perception of trying to not feel guilt for doing something bad to the environment yet he employs the exact same tactics to make himself appear good by using this fundraiser. Hypocrisy at its peak
@@073708539 Exactly. Like here are 10 reasons why it doesnt work the we are doing it now. Lets not change anything.
Wrong comment
I literally don't get how you can upload these well-researched bangers so consistently lol
Lol he literally just takes ideas from other youtubers and switches the script a bit. Jake knows a lot about recycling 🤣
@@Larose- Really?
From which channels?
@@chillonil1534 illuminaughtii for example
@@Larose- and?
He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will.
Told my family this, all they said was "Well we gotta help the environment! Recycling helps the environment and the earth!"
My family says they're conservatives but I know damn well they're liars.
As a sanitation worker, my previous company would charge customers for recycling and dump the recyclables at the regular garbage transfer station.
I was told in school that the "resin identification code" WAS the recycling symbol!
lmao you can now create a mob
Now... don't get me wrong, i agree with the message (of trying to keep our environment clean for ourselves and for the ecosystem of our planet), but my god man, you and people like you, and those guys like Mister Beast(which i do think is a nice guy) are missing the point, Like many people pointed out in the comments already, trying to do the clean up ourselves by donating money won't solve any problem other than making people virtue signal and making them feel like they are saving the planet somehow... well...that is simply put moronic...
To give an example, lets compare the Plastic problem of our planet with a human body:
This is like trying to stop the bleeding of a person while someone else keeps stabbing that very same person every few seconds with a knife, is just not going to do much, is it...
You are "trying" to solve the bleeding problem which clearly doesn't work while the stabbing keeps going on every second, like you said, the companies are getting away with murder with their ingenious and evil plans of "recycling" and yet instead of going against them and the governments that are working hand in hand with them, and stopping them, you want to help them by "trying" to do the cleaning yourself?
Sorry but that is not going to work, that is pretty much the equivalent of hiring a clean up lady to clean up an entire city where garbage is being dumped in the streets every day by thousands of people... is just impossible...
We the people need to just stop buying things that are made of plastic, and yea i know this sounds hard or even impossible, but is the only way, they will gonna keep making more and more plastic as long as the people keep buying it, as long as there is a big demand for it, it will never stop, we need to find an alternative to plastic, a material that does degrade in time and that can be reused for a few times as well, until then, any plan of trying to "clean" the planet of plastic is going to do pretty much nothing, when they keep making more plastic than the normal people can possibly clean themselves.
I'll call you when the shuttle lands
well said bro
If your solution is going back to the medieval ages, you will never succeed at anything
True words. Many smaller businesses are growing these days offering products not packaged in plastic. I just started ordering my cleaning products from a company that uses cardboard, metal, or glass in its storage, and natural cleaning products. it's a bit more expensive then the cheap crud you get at the store, but it's healthier for me and better in the race against plastic.
I still have the habit of saving glass containers from food products I buy at the store. perfect for my homemade salad dressings and sauces, and storing the bone broth I make from my leftover bones. This is all behaviors that my parents (ww2) and grandparents (depression) just considered normal. And it works. It just takes a slight paradigm shift from how the average person looks at things.
We have that reusable, biodegradable material. It's called glass.
I live on a farm in Texas and heat ANY used plastic in a pressure cooker using concentrated sunlight as a heat source. The gasses given off need only be cooled fractionally to produce gasoline for my small engines and diesel for my tractors. FREE !
16:45 30 million pounds =/= 30 million tons.
30 million pounds is equal to 15 thousand tons or 0.15% of the amount of plastic dumped in the water in a year.
I fully support the project (I wouldn't have donated otherwise) but false percentages like these are the cause of the problem this video tackles, if the public thinks donating 10M to clear the ocean each year is enough to pull all the plastic out of the ocean then plastic companies can just donate that amount of money each year as a writeoff and keep the public happy to buy more plastic guilt free.
This was the comment I was looking for. He massively overstated the percentage. The project is fantastic but, in the scheme of things, it isn't doing much towards the yearly 10 million tons in the ocean.
Thank you for pointing this out
@@roel5637 It seems you went a bit off in your calculations, 0,12% of a year is equal to roughly 10 hours and a half.
Don't get confused and think it's not a good project, every bit counts, just because cleaning all the oceans far surpasses Mr Beast capabilities doesn't mean he shouldn't do it at all.
I just want to make sure people don't just donate 5$ and proceed living in a wasteful manner thinking they aren't harming the planet.
Just FYI they want to put waste catchers on the rivers that carry the most trash into the ocean so there's less going in.
10 million tons = 20 BILLION lbs. It'll only take a few hours for 30 million lbs of trash to be put right back into the water.
This entire campaign is a waste of time because we don't need more awareness of this issue. We are all fully aware of the severity of the situation.
Fun Fact: "Recycled" clothing is literally just used clothes being sold for 10times more
Plus the clothes feel awefull. The material will melt if it catches on fire.
@@elizabethcote9070 Doesnt _ALL_ clothing melt or else burn when it catches fire? 🤷♀️
Natural fibres burn, none natural fibres melt.
@@elizabethcote9070 I suppose the real trouble is used clothes with artificial fibers will melt in the sun. However, I dont know that as a fact... I've bought all kinds of clothing from salvation army & other thrift stores. But the clothes I buy are 100% cotton, because anything with polyester or nylon will just stay saturated when I sweat
The worst example was years ago when I used to wear nylon socks with my leather shoes to church. On any summer or fall day my feet would already be soaking by the time I walked into the auditorium. So I started wearing my regular white athletic socks. My feet always sweat while I work, while the rest of my body stays dry
Anyway, I don't wear anything that's polyester, nylon, or any blend thereof. So I don't know what other people have to live with. Maybe you could enlighten me just a little?
@@magnificentmuttley154 I did not say anything about melting in the sun. I have also bought clothes from Salvation Army,etc. Don't understand what you are trying to rev up here. Just different material. I am a person who sews on a sewing machine and by hand.
Recently learned the chemical in plastics that makes it hard blocks testosterone, and the one that makes it soft promotes estrogen production. Coincidentally, sperm production is down by more than 50% over the past 50 years. I also can't help but think certain social issues might be influenced by this as well.
This.
Where do you think these microplastics we are consuming are mainly coming from?
Men are the targets of the time in many ways than one
How did you find out that sperm is down 50%? lmao please cite your references
I was thinking this the entire video. Many plastics act as xenoestrogens, and since so much is getting in our food, that would explain the huge surge in popularity of a lot of "identity groups" and really just the general direction of society lately.
Reminds me of how Denmark started running out of trash to burn for energy, due to there being more recycling and reuse of it. So we started to import trash from britain using ships (which of course used fossile fuels) we basically evened out the benefit of trying to recycle.
Burning trash is the smartest way to deal with it. Recycling is only useful if it's something that can't be obtained easily like metal. My friend's dad used to own a plastic recycling plant believe it or not. He would hire us to chop big things into smaller chunks to feed into the chipper which is perhaps the loudest thing I've ever heard. Either way nobody wants recycled plastic stuff and it's all a waste of time basically.
I'm sorry but "Team seas" can never have the same impact as collective large scale state action... Not wanting to feel like an "environmentalist" or "SJW" is a silly reason to downplay the role of large scale politics over small scale philanthropy.
@Owoade Dolu it was weird of him to use the term sjw, since its usually people who are correct and are shunned by facists
@Owoade Dolu social justice warrior
@@kellynaz9256 Well. No. Most environment activists have no clue what they're talking about and use emotional empathy as a weapon.
Such a putting Greta Thurnberg at the forefront of their campaign.
The state will not do shit about it. *Your* voice will never be heard by the executives choosing plastic over aluminum or glass for an extra 0 in their checks. Nor the politicians turning a blind eye for a cut of that cash. Grow the fuck up and start tarring and feathering these rich psychopaths.
At least he got off his ass today to make the world a better place, can you say the same?
Plastic grocery bags weren't originally designed to be one use. They were thicker, but still thin enough for you to be able to tuck into your back pocket, to bring along with you to the grocery store. But they started making them thinner when they decided one use was better for business
In USSR, they were rewashed and reused. Carry bags is not big problem, but bottles, etc, how we will fight with that? You can't buy all stuff in glass bottles any more.
I use them as trash bags at home, saving me money on buying bags for my trash bins and also saving on total plastic usage. I also turn as many resealable containers as I can into either drinking vessels or storage containers.
I was under the impression these were normal habits for most of my life, LOL.
Of course they did.
@@RoninCatholicI have always reused them as trash bags. When I ended up with too many I give them to a local charity shop that reuse them for their customers.
When they started the recycling program in our area in florida, I was a kid working in a restaurant. I noticed all the extra work we had to do to wash our garbage separated and take another can out to the road and another truck had to come by and pick up this additional can. I also started to take notice at how the restaurants don't recycle. Drive around the back side of a restaurant sometime and see how much garbage they throw away. And then take note that there's no recycle bin. So I got to thinking about how much trash the average household would recycle versus how much trash any given restaurant could be recycling. That's when I first started to assume it was a scam. Next, I heard from an old-timer living in Florida how the area known as South Tampa used to have a recycling program which took the burnable trash and used it to make electricity. That went on for a particular amount of time where a given area didn't need any power from the grid. The environmental is stopped that because they thought it was polluting the air and then we were back to taking the power from the grid. I'm starting to be convinced that most of what we see in the world is a scam. Follow the money.
california requires restaurants to compost and recycle now.
don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see
Restaurants are the worst for creating waste. I worked in many and we did have recycle bins but they'd fill up in less than a week. Not to mention the amount of food thrown out. Businesses should be pressured to recycle more.
I live in south tampa (have for 30 years) and I’ve never heard of this. Very interesting. Thanks for mentioning it
I remember hearing how the marijuana scare campaigns in the 30s was funded by plastics companies because hemp can be made into a material that is like plastic but only takes 100 years to biodegrade. The oil and plastics companies didn’t want the competition and hemp was banned.
Facts 👏
I remember hearing when I was young that plastic bags over paper was saving forests from logging....
aint no fucking way bruh💀
One way or another, trees will be cut down due to million reasons, anyway. I feel myself dumb, after realizing how we got into these company's propagandas
Hemp is a better Alternative, than Logging.
This Plastic Issue, like many things, is pretty easily figured out. Follow the Money!
Corporations, will seek out the least costly way to produce Profits.
My personal Opinion,
Regardless, of the Harm?
Unlike mechanical recycling (melting & remolding), *chemical* recycling (breaking it down into original monomers) can produce plastic that's just as strong or stronger than the original. There's no free lunch, though (it takes more energy), and we'll see if it can ever compete with pulling fresh oil out of the ground.
True, but scientists haven’t discovered a way to achieve chemical recycling yet or it’s just not profitable yet
Honestly the issue comes down to energy production. If we didnt fear nuclear by now we would likely have fusion, and the energy cost of all these projects would be negligible.
@@soul1d True that. But I do not blame people's hesitation, radiation sucks.
@@patrickfrost9405 Think of small tiny changes that boost safety. With automobiles, those concrete dividers on the highway used to not exist. If you stop paying attention you drift into oncoming traffic. That tiny development came from decades of trial and error. Nuclear got hit by several layers of smear campaigns literally funded by fossil fuels and parroted by the stupid (still exists today just look up mockingbird). Imagine what we could have had today, odds are we would have minimum thorium reactors if not fusion by now. Caution in the face of risk is wise, fear in the face of risk makes you stupid and gullible.
@@soul1d Just as a heads up, fusion is likely unfeasible and also produces nuclear waste. The entire containment shell has to be swapped out as it becomes weakened and irradiated by neutron bombardment.
Dude needs to check his math. He's donating $1000 to remove "literally" a ton of plastic from the oceans. $1 = lb of trash removed. 2000 lbs = 1 ton. $1000 = 1000 lbs or 1/2 ton.
9.14 why pp should not be recyclable? In Italy ( where polipropilene is been invented ) we recycle more than 90% of our pp product ( the 10% we lose is do to poor handling and is recovered in the following years, some time our report is higher then 100% recycled plastic ) , if your state is incapable of recycling plastic with a good money return, making it around 100% efficient (money/labor)is do to not having smart people developing product(sending trash to other country is stupid if they don’t use it, we do not do it) . Plastic is an amazing product and it can be handle correctly from the consumer to the new consumer if there is smart people handling it ! ( there is a lot of non working things in italy but plastic recycle is not one of them)
I applaud the initiative. Was wondering what happens to the trash after it's been recovered from the ocean? Your video points out that recycling isn't currently being done in a large scale, cost efficient way. How is the 30 million pounds of trash going to be processed? Where will it go? What measures are being put into place to ensure it doesn't end up back into the ocean? There wasn't much information on the donation website. Thanks.
It’s likely going to be put in landfills where it will decompose into microplastics and wash back into the ocean years later.
well in canada it WAS going to the phillipines landfills. but they got kinda angry about their contract terms recently and started sendign stuff back lol
I was looking for this kind of comment for like minded people. I've always thought it was stupid for people to go abroad somewhere, go on a boat and take maybe a few hundred kg of trash from the ocean. Sure, their cause is noble and I commend them for the initiative, but its misplaced, as if they throw that trash away in a recycling bin, it will go into landfills or back into the ocean, thus all you did was cause more co2 emissions and other kinds of pollution for nothing. I want to know the answers to where this 30m kg of trash will go and how it will be handled... considering plastic doesnt go away!
@@nomnomhaters3312 30 million pounds not kilograms, Jake was misleading on that number. 30 million pounds (13000 tonnes) isn't even close to a days worth of plastic removed from the ocean.
@@sockmon1 yeah i misunderstood/mis-typed, but the question still remains the same, where does the 30 mil pounds of trash go? To a recycling plant where they won't be able to recycle and end up in landfills or ocean again? The initiative and the attention it gathers is great, but maybe the money gathered could be used on getting bright minds together on a different solution than picking up trash then throwing it away again the same way...?
My political views have done a complete 180 in the past few years. But caring for the environment is one value that has never wavered.
We all have to share this planet, we need to take care of it. I think this plastic clean-up initiative is a great idea. I did a beach clean-up in highschool and it was unbelievable how much trash we found just wandering around for a few hours. And it was the off-season! No one else was visiting that time of year.
As I watched this video, I realized I already heard everything in it, in pretty much the exact same order, minus the loan scam at the beginning. Then I realized, Climate Town did a video on this a year ago.
Mix the melted plastic with sand, and make park tiles out of it. Or maybe roof tiles.
A thousand dollars = a thousand pounds = 500 kg .... a tonne is 1000 kg ...
And what do Team Seas do with the trash once they take it out of the ocean?
use diesel trucks to throw it in other place u can't see xd
@@INWMI 😂
Jake is on FIRE with the uploads lately…damn
highest rate of micro plastics: apples, broccoli and carrots. OMG healthy foods aint even good for us anymore. jakes vids are fire but also depressing af
Wait until you start digging into the "healthy foods" industry
You have to grow your own food to avoid them. Plus your own homegrown food will taste incredible compared to the stuff at the grocery store
do a bit of research about what things are made of to begin with..
Use glass. It can be recycled over and and over again
My brother in law's family owns a LARGE waste management company where I live (I mean they do multiple town's trash plus dumpsters) and he told me it's a waste..... most the "recycling bin/can stuff goes straight to the dump..... they're just making money off our municipalities
Brother in law's family....?? So you just mean your spouse's family? Your in-laws? I'm confused why it's specifically "your brother in-laws family"
By example, my sister's husband is a brother-in-law to me, but his none of his family is a spouse of mine.
@@amg9163 .....what????
Something super relevant to recycling viability is the infrastructure and dedicated taxpayer money to make it happen. I live in the SF Bay area of California, which has some of the most comprehensive recycling infrastructure in the States and yet its still not enough, but most of us have 3 bins. In many or most other parts of the country its 2 or just 1 bin, and there is little separation done both at the waste management level and the personal level.
It doesn't matter how recyclable a material is if there is no way to feasibly recycle it.
Right my community doesn’t even have recycling
There is nothing sustainable about that city in the first place, from fertility rate to cost of living, the recycling system there is just luxury virtue signalling.
I'm so glad you mentioned the codes, I remember my parents teaching me about them. I would mention it from time to time when someone would ask me why I didn't recycle certain plastics. People would legitimately think I was making it up. Also friends and roommates asking me why I never put a bag in the recycling bin. Laws are different all over, but where I grew up we weren't allowed bags until about 5-6 years ago.
They basically need to stop producing plastic. It's really that simple.
Took a quick inventory of what was close to me. Literally, plastic is in almost every product. Your fridge, fan cover, serving tray, cups, bags, etc.
It's also in your medication. In fact, the entire medical industry was created by John D. Rockefeller when it was discovered that drugs could be made from petroleum. "Medical school" was created to indoctrinate "doctors" into using these newly created drugs as the basis for "health".
@@TheCynicalDude_ Yeah well, that's just your "opinion" man.
@@princeigor8550 Not at all.
Plastic is perfectly fine in your fridge and fan cover. How often do you throw out either? The cups and bags are a problem though (If they're disposable).
The part about paper recycling is somewhat true. I worked in a virgin paper mill, but I've visited the ones that use recycled paper as well and they smell to high heaven and the process is absolutely disgusting. It smells and feels like a waste dump because people throw their greasy pizza boxes into their recycling bin. The part about bleaching being bad for the environment, is meh. Bleaching processes use ClO2 to bleach the board, but they have scrubbers that remove at least 95% of pollutants from the ClO2 generation process and send the VOCs back to the recovery boiler to be burned. Don't know anything about the deinking process, but I imagine it's pretty nasty too.
I didn't know paper got recycled. Why do you need to recycle it though? Isn't it biodegradable? It comes from trees right?
@@hittingyouoverthehead You're right, but it all goes back to money. I quit my paper mill job in 2019, but when I was there tree prices were going way higher (we bought mostly hardwood which is expensive and some pine which was kinda middle of the road price wise). Back when trees weren't that expensive, it was usually cheaper to make virgin paper so some mills didn't run their recycling operations, but around start of 2018 tree prices were going up fast and it continued through 2019 and then Covid hit (which i assume made it go up even more). At that point some mills restart their recycling processes or the company starts buying recycled paper from a recycling company. Recycled paper is not cheap though so usually our pulp mill analyst would crunch the numbers to determine which was the "better" route to go.
@@TheLouisianan Honestly though there are probably smarter ways to recycle paper. They mentioned de-inking and all that but recycled paper doesn't need to be used to write. Papers with ink on them (like newspapers) can be recycled into bags or paper cups or plates.
@@hittingyouoverthehead That's typically how it is recycled, but it's still an energy intensive process to recycle it vs letting it degrade over the next 50 years. I worked in a Containerboard mill so we made things like you mentioned, cardboard boxes, paper plates and cups (Dixie products). Ours was made with virgin paper though. Not sure what the FDA needs if you use recycled paper for anything food product related.
What’re VOCs?
Recycling was my first view into shady business, I remember seeing the trash and recycling bin in front of my house into the same compartment in a garbage truck