What Happens To Your Recycling After Being Collected | One Small Step
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2019
- What happens to your recycling after it's collected? We followed the recycling process from the bins to the plant to understand where our recycling actually goes.
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75% of our waste is recyclable but Americans only recycle 34% of what we throw out. Only 50% of New York City's recyclables are being recyclable. One way to crack down on this is reduce using plastic straws and use reusable bags instead of plastic bags. Remember, if it's a hard plastic, throw it in the recyclable bin.
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What happens to everything we use after we throw it away? How does our trash impact the environment and contribute to things like pollution and climate change? From plastics and recycling to food waste and composting - we're breaking down the issue of waste and sustainability piece by piece to answer one of the most important questions facing the world today: How do we save our planet?
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Lucy, your videos on this subject are more thorough and informative than anything else currently on RUclips! I've been binge watching all types of videos on how to save the environment, being lower/zero waste, and plastic and yours are the best. Keep up the incredible work. I hope your channel goes viral!💖💖💖
We learned this in my environmental studies class and the statistics are actually much worse, out of ALL the plastics America produces, only 5% of it gets recycled, mostly due to the plastic bag and straw issue. If you want to help with that, the easiest solution would simply be use reusable shopping bags that only cost $1 a piece, as well as get a water filter and use a reusable water bottle, little things like that actually do make a TREMENDOUS difference and I encourage everyone to do it as not only will it help the environment, but will save you money as well.
In many places, the 'recycle bin' just gets dumped in the same hopper as the trash... So,
"Lifetime Responsibility Law' = the manufacturer of EVERY plastic product must accept it back, from plastic bottles to printers and toys. If manufacturers make things out of plastic, they will be required by law to take it back from the consumers once it is done. Private profit meets private responsibility. Everything: from fast food containers to electronics, to furnature - the manufacturer is FOREVER responsible for the collection and disposal of EVERYTHING they make.
The Public will no longer tolerate public costs and public pollution and public landfills toxic expenses, when the manufacturers collect the profits but take no responsibility.
Pass this law nationwide as a Constitutional Amendment - and make all the manufacturers Bound by law to accept, recycle, and dispose of the waste they created.
The only reason I started watching and caring about recycling is because of you Lucy, so keep it up, you’re actually making a difference
Same thoughts 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for this video! I’m a recycling advocate at my job, I’m going to introduce this video to my EHS team and hopefully get it distributed throughout our facilities, as we are implementing a better recycling program for the company!
And yet people find me weird for recycling 85-90% of my waste including taking stuff I used at work home with me to put it in my recycling bins. 🤦♀️
Fantastic job, Lucy! 😁
This channel is fantastic
Sam really looks like he enjoys his job, and it's great to see (apart from the fact that the very existence of his job is of course a tragedy).
Go girl!!! You are a Greta on wheels. Thank you for spending your time EDUCATING. You are so good at it!!!
Greta of NYC
After watching this i am glad I am going zero waste. I will reuse my stuff until I die
I have seen people asking for double bags when buying piece of gum. So "decycling" has to come first by the "cycler" before any need for "recycling"
Thank you Lucy (& team)!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Hard plastic"? Plastics have recycle codes on them, but much of even approved codes is not accepted by recycle collectors any more. And now, most (all?) trash collectors charge you for recycling service; then they sell the recyclables by the ton. aka: they are getting paid twice. Of course, the BEST way to avoid such waste is also the healthiest for you, and that is to not buy/eat processed foods that come in containers. Eat fresh, unprocessed when possible. However, I am as guilty as the next person of not taking the time to cook from scratch. :-( I do try to avoid plastic containers, though, because of the known toxins leached from them.
Taxes also support private waste hauler profits.
How to deal with those single use straws that come on juice/milk boxes?
They should ban them and just drink straight from the carton like back in the day.
I had nightmares all night after watching this video.
I work at a grocery store and unfortunately a lot of the employees responsible for emptying the recyclables and making sure they’re placed in the correct spot for pickup (egg cartons, paper bags, plastic bags) just cut corners and throw them in the trash chute.
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Ur doing great work.
what's goes to bale, which one isn't sold?
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Thank you
Nice people recycle. 🌱
You should have just two bins: biocompostable and all other (latter is separated by machines like Sims)
Also building processing plants for separated stream such as plastic bags next to the sorting facility would make sense
yay lovin this show!
If anyone wants a more in depth video of recycling, then check out much channel of my most recent upload where a company allowed me to film their process
Now day's mostly into the dump. The rest is mostly shipped over seas. The United States recycles almost nothing.
I think when this was made it was well known that while they may be sorting and baling plastic, plastic is not being recycled in any meaningful amount. That's been a couple of years now. Plastic is burned or landfilled.
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My winter coat from Lands end made from plastic bottles! Love it😁
When is the us gonna realize that there is a market for processing recyclables now that many countries are literally bailing on high waste countries?
Love how in the bag you took at the bottom was a container with liquid still in it, this is what they don't want at the recycling plant.
They can't recycle liquid
In California they make you pay a 5 cent fee for bottles and cans but then you can go to recycling places like I do and get your 5 cents back.
Same thing in NYS
They have a 5 cent deposit on pop, beer and other alcohol containers in Iowa. The grocery stores and others complained about having to take these back, even though they are the ones that sell them, our Republican legislature then made it harder for people to return these.
we should just sort the recyclables first before sending it to the recycling center
A lot of countries have separate bins for materials
Just because you stand a genuine nature caretaker... I will share this balanced comment with you...
1. All this is a fashion created by western countries
2. When metal was used ... Plastic was invented to replace it
3. All thanks to the one and only... World leader... The US!!!
4. You import everything... It directly means... An additional burden for other countries of the world... For your needs...
Instead of optimization of resources... The Americans sell guns... Now isn't that Wow!!!
The end result is your youngsters end up earning from waste segregation...
Very sorry to say this🙏
I love this channel!! ❤️😊
i tried to recycle my star bucks cups at the recycling place but they wouldnt take em
I think products should say on them wether they're recyclable or not. I was told by our garbage people, they were having to pay someone to take cardboard, which was making it harder for them to recycle cardboard.
Seeing the facts, WHY AREN'T ALL COMPANYS USING RECYCLED PRODUCTS TO CREATE THEIR PRODUCTS!😤😤😤
It is sad. People *know* plastic is harmful towards the environment but we are so dumb we nonetheless use it _and_ don't even recycle it properly.
Half-assed reporting. We learned nothing from. Recycling, just sorting. What happens to those bails after they are sent to the "third parties"? The reality is we ship them to poorer Asian countries with minimal regulations. Some private importer over there hires poor ppl to sift through it and take the ~10% of the clean and really recyclable material and Chuck's the rest in a landfill or abandons it in the forest. Recycling never worked, just stop consuming so much!
True, there is an entire other side to recycling, but I think she did a good job nonetheless covering the sorting part.
This doesn't happen with NYC recycling, which is where this video was filmed. But I acknowledge that this operation is not the norm for most recycling in the US. It would be helpful to publish a video on what happens to recycled items outside of NYC.
Burn the unrecyclables and make energy out of them.
Yeah that will be good for the environment
@CJ DUNROVIN probably certain materials
Can you do an episode on how recycling has stopped in our country and go into why China has stopped accepting our recycling?
collection accumulate recycling is not suitable to environmental Science. Decentralise and digestive bacterias. Go next step.
I believe most metal is recycled but i always doubt that plastic is recycled.
What a load of BS. Due to the the fact there are so many different types of plastics, such as PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP, etc. then sorting, washing, melting, reusing them, is more expensive than using new plastic made from oil. This results in that maybe at most 15% of the plastic reaching the recycling plant actually gets recycled. The other 85% is burned or put into a landfill.
In conclusion, everything that you seperate, and put into a seperate bin, is basically going to a landfill, except 15% of it.