The Disturbing Truth About Recycling
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Have you ever wondered what really happens to your recyclables? In this video, Patrick Bet-David explains the disturbing truth about recycling and the impact it has on our environment in this eye-opening video. From contaminated materials to improper disposal, learn why recycling may not be as effective as we think.
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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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I actually wrote a research paper about the plastic epidemic years ago and was shocked at what I found. On a brighter side I did see something about a young lady in Africa who created a plastic recycling business turning plastic into bricks for homes and roadways. We need more people and companies working to solve this problem and people need to take better care of the earth.
A friend in Ontario Canada urban city tried investing in a company in the 90's who were recycling plastic into a building material but it didn't survive.
I know in many concrete and stucco applications they mix in fiberglass for better reinforcement. Concrete and asphalt are everywhere and it would be amazing if they could figure out a way to take plastics and create products to work into these, I agree 100%
@cynthusinfinite As a Canadian, it is hard to start a business here in New tech. Taxes are way too high, too many regulations and a lack of skilled workers. This has been an issue since the 90s. Funny thing about the lack of skilled workers, most of them go to the US for more money, less taxes and less regulation.
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We should invest in research to recycle plastics into cigarettes.
Worked for a major city just outside of los Angeles. I know first hand they’ve been burying the recycling in the landfill for years now.
My bf has said the same thing!!!!
cardboard, glass, aluminum and steel all get recycled
Yup, ever since asian countries stopped taking it for $.005/lb and free shipping (empty containers headed back to asia for more cheap off-shored products)
They have always been doing that, the same that solar panels are not recycled, not are the enormous wind turbines after they are decommissioned, the same is for all those ev batteries. The stories about how it all can be recycled are there, the truth is, that it isn't, because it is too expensive and if you need to pay for the recycling when you buy your solarpanels, no Ody will buy them anymore.
solar panels are dumb as shit anyway@@mikebrandenburg9922
PBD I'm a skip driver in the UK. Recycling is a scam. They just throw it in all together
I live in the US, in Maine. I watch the trash guys pickup our trash and separate recycling bins, which the town makes us do, and toss it all in together.
Our town also makes us buy and use their town branded trash bags or the trash won't be picked up.
Same I'm in London all goes to the tip and ferries take it too the 3rd world
@@michaelfulcher6390 Stop shattering my world.
Yelp, we wash garbage trucks amd the same trucks that pick up regular trash picks up recycling trash too and drop it in the landfill as well
Wait. I've watched the regular trash truck pick up our trash only. And usually they come first. So I always get to bring the bins back from the sidewalk before I head to work.
But the recycles bin doesn't get emptied in the early morning. Only when I get back from work, do I finally bring back the empty recycles bin.
So is the recycling truck just bringing my recyclables to the regular trash dump? It seems pointless to do that.
Yes...this is shattering my world too.
People need the truth. Every commercial build I have worked at has no means of collecting plastic specifically. Straight to the landfill. Only cardboard and metal get picked up.
This is partially because of the many kinds of plastics.
Cardboard is cardboard is cardboard (generally)... metals can be sorted.
Some plastics simply can't be recycled (thermosets) or would be difficult to do so.
Many plastics would require MORE energy to recycle for the little bit of material you get back versus just making virgin material.
@@jasono2139 So just put on the bin which "number rating" of plastic is allowed. Or make it law what type of plastic is allowed for packaging in the country to make it easy to recycle.
@@AnthonyJ350 so we're going to have "cardboard", "metal", and...
"Plastic 1"
"Plastic 2"
"Plastic 3"
"Plastic 4"
"Plastic 5"
"Plastic 6"
"Plastic 7" (which is other)
...there's a reason why most recycling centers don't even bother recycling anything other than #1 and #2, because the others are a giant waste of time to sort and/or create so little useable material that they use an inordinate amount of energy to process them.
The logical solution would be to insinterate the lighter plastics and use them as fuel for electrical power.
@@AnthonyJ350 otherswise, there are chemical and mechanical reasons why companies use different plastics bottles for water vs shampoo bottles vs food containers vs plumbing... they're not just picking different plastics for the fun of it, so the government inserting itself into that decision is just another way of convoluting the problem or creating new ones.
@@jasono2139 Right, recycling plastic is a scam.
Thanks for bringing this up. Plastics are a huge problem and need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
It's been 'Brought up' for the last 50 years, but like everything else, it's ignored because we all want to be comfortable, let someone else deal with it.
It is all a lie. Knew it a long time ago. We ditched glass bottles , which is much better and healthier, for plastics.
Exactly go back to glass and paper bags.
But then we support big oil transporting glass bottles.
This is so sickening
@@splatteryouyou know the primary component of plastic is oil, right?
😂🤦🏼♂️@@paulburket
If groceries go up any more, I’ll have to resort to eating my credit cards.
Good, maybe people will stop being in debt.
Packaging is one of the largest industries in the world. Even podcast like this try push plastic and clothing products we do not need. It all turns to waste.
@@73gent16I was just thinking that!!! Lol. I was like "fast fashion? How about your ugly pink shirts that say :The future is bright". It's as cringe as "The future is female".
Or anything with a inspiration message on a shirt.
😂
I feel that 😂
Recycling is a psyop
Recycling started because New Jerseys stopped taking New York’s trash over an argument and the government found an opportunity to not waste.
Glass and aluminum and other metals makes sense. You just melt and reuse. Paper? Meh I guess makes sense, less trees cut, turned back to pulp and made back into other paper products. Also paper biodegrades. Plastic is a joke.
@@rexrocker1268👍Correct 👍
Often times its more expensive to recycle those than make new. Also you run into purity issues. Metal is already melted sometimes but only aluminum is worth recycling because of production costs
It's true. There was an agent tasked with designing and maintaining the lie that reduce reuse and recycle is the future. It was done to help large cities generate large amounts of taxes that didn't exist at the time, but was "needed". Look it up. It's a wild story
I work for a waste management company and trust me it all goes to the landfill. The landfills are fine they are insanely massive and will take years and years to fill and thats for a small quarter square mile landfill that can be built to the sky
This is my thinking. I only have one bin in my house, keep things simple and I know where it's going, I can't even pretend to care about recycling. I only buy food from the butchers so I have very little plastic waste anyway, and paper/cardboard I burn at home.
Plastic can be burnt cleaner than natural gas it’s made from petrochemicals and becomes petrochemicals when heated to 800°C with no oxygen
pyrolysis...?!?
In 2007 I was sitting outside an LA coffee shop enjoying a double macchiato with 3 pumps of Carmel and a sprig of mint...yeah right, it was most definitely a black coffee, when a garbage truck pulled up and the guy emptied both the normal trash and recycling bin into the truck with no separation. That's when I knew that Recycling was a Social Programing operation to make us take responsible for big plastic and big oil's ongoing damage to the environment for profits.
about 3 years ago i watching people burning plastic in the drum for making gasoline and diesel. first try i cannot make good clean gasoline. but now each week i can make almost independent diesel only by taking plastic waste from the market. it produce about 9-12 liter fuel per barrel of plastic.
What is your heat source? What are the left overs that come out of the pyrolysis chamber? I know biodiesel has to be washed to be usable, do you have to do anything like that?
Happy to hear you are having success.
But I'm sure that pollutes the air.
I’d like to know how you do it
@@arnoldberk2809
it simple. prepare barrel. pack as much as plastic you can. more dense is more good.
make sure your barrel is seal tight. top on it you make a steel pipe. this thing work like you make a an alcohol drink. cooling the pipe with water.
i burn my barrel with another YT invention. i made a rocket stove use waste wood. since i lived near wood it very easy found wood scraps for burning my barrel. one barrel need about 3 crat scrap wood till it burn all plastic
There's a company in Huntington Beach California that I delivered food to and an engineer said that this is what they have been working on in regards to plastics.
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Wait…. So why are we separating our plastics from garbage if they are not being recycled ?
It's a grift, simply put.
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Hey Pat, I have been watching valuetainment since 2018 and have read your next 5 moves multiple times. Needless to say, you have made a huge impact on my life. This video hits home for me. I started picking up trash around Fort Myers in March of 2019 and those efforts eventually evolved into a community wide effort. After several community trash cleanups, I began asking myself how I could take the trash we were collecting and make money from it. We have tested out multiple ideas and eventually came up with the idea for a golf tee made from 100% recycled litter. Let me know what you think of the idea and how you would go about bringing this to market!
In the 1500s Italy knew tobacco was a problem, they learned that people would rather smoke than eat, and decided it was a good thing TAX them! There is a book on Tobacco history, and even if a person grew tobacco in their yard like today you can grow up to 6 plants a year, even if you don't smoke there is a tax for more than 3 or 6 plants, these plants are huge by the way. and are good at insecticide when processed. The physicians knew that smoking made people sick with their lungs back in the 1500s too!!
i read in the last 2 years you can only recycle #1 & #2 and they can only be recycled a limited # of times. i try to buy things in glass, but not much is in glass any more.
why did PBD hire Cuomo?
If the trash mixer/compacter thing on a US Navy ship is down, they just toss the trash overboard at night when it begins to fill up the trash mixer room.
Thank you for talking about this.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
That isn’t working. We need a national ideation campaign at every high school with federal grants for prizes to the best ideas. The grants provide some of the start up capital
PBD, take the lead!
Watching old classic films and noticing how few plastic items they had if any.
The government should do something to require and enforce that any and all disposable plastics should be biodegradable (bottles, cups, spoons, forks, straws, etc.). On top of that, there should be a push for more glass containers than plastic. I remember that Snapple used glass bottles up until like 10 years ago, and then switched to plastic. It should be the other way around, more and more beverage companies should switch from plastic to glass. Shopping bags should be made from environmentally friendly materials, and same with trash bags. We need to go back to how things were in the 40's as far as bottles, bags, and containers, with the exception of biodegradable plastics. The only things that regular plastic should be used for are items that are meant for long-term use, but even then, alternative materials should be sought out for stuff like toys, electronics, etc.
We fill up 54 Gallon trash bin every week as a family of 5… 😮 unbelievable when I see my friends that don’t recycle but NOW I feel duped. We have worked hard to alway breakdown cardboard, plastics, etc. It should be incriminating to be lied to about this..
Big problem!
When I was growing up in the 60s we recycled bittles for cash. 2 cents, then 5 cents, then 10 cents. People didnt throw them away cause it was cash.
Years later aluminum cans were collected and recycled for cash.
Theres no $$ incentive to recycle plastic so people don't.
My little contribution to help was to get a Zero water filter and quit buying cases of water every week.
The sad thing is....in Canada...you cannot get a complimentary plastic or paper bag to pack your groceries...it will cost you money....
But almost 60% of all food packaging has a plastic component to it...???
Thank you, PBD - this has bothered me ever since I first heard about the "great garbage patch" the size of Texas out in the ocean. Then I heard there were about 6 of these giant garbage patches all throughout the world, since the plastic has this magnetic property where it gravitates towards itself into clusters (giant clusters of course).
Markets determine outcomes, right? So we need to create a market which produces the technologies for converting plastic into fuel, then sell back the fuel to the plastic companies at a profit.....then watch how fast they all want to be in your new industry. They just don't want to lead the charge until somebody else does the science and tech and R&D first.
Thank you for talking about this subject, we should go back to glass.
Plastic packaging is a nightmare
Best of luck to you with your new announcement, Patrick! I read the comments about Adam so I was hesitant about what you're bringing in with Chris, but I think you're a smart man! And hope you and yours had a very Happy Saint Patrick Day! Changed my clothes multiple times yesterday, wearing blue, green, and white yesterday so was covered! Prayed for your family at Mass and being that he's the patron saint of engineers, Ireland, Nigeria, those afraid of snakes, and protection against snake bites, any of you Indiana Jones out there, I prayed for you as well!
The ending of the prayer written on Saint Patrick's breastplate written by Saint Patrick:
Christ to shield me today
Against poison, against burning
Against drowning, against wounding
So that there may come to me an abundance of reward.
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ in me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength,
the invocation of the Trinity
Through belief in the Threeness
Through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation.
St. Patrick, pray for us!
Hope you have a light-filled peaceful joyful week! Hope you're a Saint Patrick one day! Please pray for me so I can be a saint as well!
PBD, I need that zip hoodie! Looks great!
Don't make plastic the consumer's responsibility, corporations should take back the used plastic and find solutions. Plastic and fake food was forced on us. So, force business to sort out their problem.
When I learned that it's better for the environment with the technology we have available to burn plastic than recycle it my mind was completely blown.
Thanks for reporting on this important topic PBD. It starts with us! Just say no to plastic as much as possible!
And set the standard of picking it up and putting it in the bin when you walk past it every single day ;)
Not that this will solve the problem but it will go in the ground where other rubbish is instead of floating around in nature harming animals habitat
I made a documentary on my account about this problem... it's MUCH bigger than any of us can imagine! Very sad..
Don't buy bottle water!!!! Stop! When I visited Mexico they have shops with 55 gallon drums of all kinds of liquids. Laundry soap, hand soap, shampoo, dish soap. You bring your bottle from home and they charge by weight when you get a refill and it's dirt cheap. They also had bulk dog food and cat food, those bags are made with plastic. There was absolutely no plastic shopping bags in Mexico or Canada. Just stop it now. Stop buying laundry soap in plastic jugs, buy the sheets for the washer. Never, Never use a plastic straw. They end up in the ocean and turtles are dyeing from eating or going up their nose. buy a bamboo reusable straw if you need one. Each family can do so much to stop all this plastic, if you cut plastic out of your life you will have less cancer for sure. Since China stopped taking our recycling, we ship it to other island countries and destroy their lives as well. We need to just stop but there is so much shit in the world who has time to fight everything. Super sad for the future generations.
I watch the show that was doubtful about how some of these European nations had such high recycling percentages. It turns out that they counted incineration as recycling so they just incinerated everything in the winter time, so they had almost perfect recycling record. But all they would do is just pile everything up in the summertime and then burn it in the winter. It was recycled into energy.
Lets go back to the '70's! Not to much plastic around except for Moms Tupper Ware party
Even the cardboard boxes that hold our cereal are printed on with toner made of finely ground plastic. That is so unnecessary. Can't we at least stop that? Use natural inks.
I notice it's mostly water an soda bottles, I remember when those corporations used glass recyclable bottles. We buy what's available. I agree the clothes are us. Let's all of us do better, corporations to. We all have some blame, let us assess it correctly.
Seriously, what would you rather grind up and put in your garden plastic or paper? An incandescent bulb or a compact fluorescent?
We need to reduce demand simply but marketing is designed to do the opposite spend spend spend
Patrick, have it shipped to a power plant where it can be burned for electricity. Instead of a coal powered plant you could burn the plastic instead. Place an insert similar to a catalytic converter in the chimney so it burns cleaner. We get rid of the plastic out of the ocean, as well as the land fills, and we can power a small city. Whether that is in the USA or a smaller country that needs cheap power, it kills two problems at the same time.
when did bottled water come out? sodas went from cans to plastic
Maybe if we get 3-D printing to a better place, we can mount all of our plastic and reuse it to make whatever we want to 3-D print
We had glass bottles. My grandmother has soda and milk delivered in glass bottles.
I invented PersonaGrip on the Sawgrass Expressway the day before it opened...mid-to-late '80s.
Thermoplastics are different than thermosets because thermoplastics can be made like new again with a simple reheating process....translation: EASILY recycled.
A change in attitude about the wholesale condemnation for plastics in general would be a good start.
I have steering wheels that have been in HARD racing service for over 2 decades.
They can be RE-molded (recycled) with a heatgun to a new condition or better with a different design or surface texture.
...instead of being thrown out.
I've spoken at 3 engineering conferences worldwide about empowering end-users with the ability to fine-tune the Human-Machine Interface, but shifting paradigms in conventional wisdom is not for the light hearted, believe me.
Even when they can be used to help bring manufacturing jobs back to America!...this, according to NIOSH who EMG-tested it.
The timeframe for plastics to deteriorate is inaccurate with regard to those plastics in the ocean. Because, the salt in salt water accelerates oxidization and break down of materials.
No one was forced to smoke. no one was forced to be wasteful and buy things they don't need live in homes with more room than they need or drive cars with more than 100hp to drive to the supper market to buy more food than they will eat. Take responsibility for your choices and actions.
Great video
Recycling is probably more harmful to environment than simply burning everything in contained area in very high temperatures and using that energy as heating or for electricity production.
Can plastics be turned into a plastic that is used for plastic model cars, planes etc? If so, bring back model manufacturing in the US.
Great question. Plastic can only be "used" once or twice before it begins to degrade. There are thousands of different types of plastic that cannot be melted together or combined. It's actually much cheaper to make new plastic. Word to the wise chuck, use glass as much as you can, especially in your kitchen. Microplastics are a serious problem that few are talking about.
This is the kind of information we need. Not some stuff from Cuomo. Ditch the lier.
OH NO, NOT THE TRUTH. 35 Years ago I watch someone remove labels from soup cans, tin, plastic bottles and glass all to be recycled and I thought "what a scam and waste" think of the water alone wasted washing things to be recycled not to mentiin time spent. In the trash it goes now. If its valuable, someday, they will be mining landfills searching for the metals, glass and plastics that become valuable.
We should have technology by now that makes glass less rigid for packaging, and all drinks should be in glass! For whey less pollution.
There is some truth and some scaremongering from both sides
Not that PBD would ever read this. I would not give away the solution for free which there is profit potential.
I have a self written book on viable solutions to a few of the issues we face as a species. Been writing for over 20 years now to be honest.
The first step is to understand that these issues (including plastic) are not by accident, and a purposeful agenda.
Our systems seem broken, but they are working exactly as intended.
BP- 😮
Does plastic ever truly decompose? Don't we just end up with microplastics that end up in our water, air and food?
How can you get a patent for a product and get it into the marketplace without a detailed plan as to how the waste the said product will make can be mitigated?
There are algae’s that can be converted to serve same purpose. Not enough demand yet
I’m convinced it’s a mindset problem. Can anybody name one thing that they own that was built to last more that 10 years? Can anyone name anything that was built in the last 100 years that will even be relevant in another 100 years? We’re convinced that we’re living in the greatest period of human history but 1000 years from now archeologists are going to discover a few hundred year blip in history when nothing of note occurred at all.
We can make literally anything out of plastic, for cheap and it would last forever. But what do we make out of it? Pointless and almost immediately useless garbage. Humans used to do great things. Now we just make pointless junk for our own selfish convenience and pleasure.
Plastic isn’t the problem.
Design and build a home appliance recycling machine (fits in the garage or closet) that can grind, separate, accumulate, transform plastics into a source material block for use in a 3D printer (also a home appliance) or selling source material block to those who would need large amounts for their home business 3D printing projects and can't accumulate enough material on their own! I'm spitballing here but I DO KNOW that with capitalism, and creating a home/business piece of essential equipment (like the microwave, coffeemaker, television, toaster, etc) that could be used to make "legacy products" (picture frames, building materials, toys, furniture, etc...) and placed in millions of homes and businesses would be a market driver on many levels...., AND, helping clean up the environment by "capturing" and holding plastic materials in other forms for longer periods of time and possible to recycle again in the future, and NOT having to go to a landfill and mine it!
I do miss beverages in glass.
The good old days
When bottled water became a thing is when it really took off.
Hemp-based plastics
Yeah, good one. Just one more thing. Why's all of this plastic in the ocean, not any other inland seas or lakes. Wave you ever wondered? I don't know if it's true, please Investigate. According to what I heard first world countries only force people "recycle"so that they can easily get rid of the plastic by paying African countries with low cost to take it all in. They on the other hand are either dumping it onto the desert or plainly burning it all down periodically. Mostly it's being dumped and then carried with the wind into the ocean. If that's true the best way to take care of the environment would be NOT to recycle. Please investigate this further if you read this.
hemp could have been an alternative for decades but we don't talk about that
Why are plastic sheds more expensive then metal now days?
Cann't there be robots or machine analysing the waste, pickin it up, separating it etc. so it isn't circulating in the environment?
It's the bottled water. We got convinced the bottled water was cleaner and safer to drink than tap water.
how ironic even the vlog background is surrounded by plastic,
I would like to go back to glass bottles, like when I was a kid.
In Australia we have plastic bottles, glass bottles drop off recycling centres. You get 10c per bottle. People are making extra cash this way.
Different topic. Australia has a work superannuation scheme. Every job you do a % of your income is put into a super fund. You can access it when you reach retirement age. Every au
Patrick got rich running an MLM. Now he gets his income through “guidance” to mostly young males. The question is, does he have your best interests in mind? Again, consider history… 🤔
Cons gonna con
Put a tax on plastic and make other sources for containers cheaper by tax cuts.
Wow!!
Flash it into Graphene get Ian Crossland on to talk about it
It all gets ground up and thrown into a landfill mixed with liquid waste. Recycling is a scam.
I love the effort to recycle. But why only 5% of containers are successfully recycled?
The phrase "Reduce, reuse, recycle" has been around awhile now. Of the three, recycling has the least value. Gotta get off the consumer train...
"The planet is fine, the people, are fucked!" - George Carlin
"The world needed humans, because the world cant make plastic😂" Funny yet sad we live plastic lives. We better wake up
@@JohnDoe_88wake up for what? Burn plastic. The planet will still be fine.
So true. 😁
George had such a way with words, and they were all true. May he RIP.
Damn right, he even said it, some plastic may take up to 500 years to decompose, but it will.
I lived in a house all my life, when my hubby died, I moved int a small apartment
(hate apartment living) we are told to use different colour bins for different waste,
but when the truck comes Tue and Fri. all of the waste in the 12 bins end up in the
truck, what a BS. we have to use different bins to all end up in one
It happens exactly the same here in Portugal. One day I was going to throw a plastic thing in the “right” bin color , but the trash men were there and they just grabbed every color and content and dumped it in the same giant bin in the truck. I asked the guy and he said, recycling is just pretty colors and public relations marketing stuff. Everything was dumped in the same place at the end away from peoples eyes . People just think they are recycling.
That is because it is sorted at the waste station, by a robot. Different color bags go to different places. So it is not a lie. The garbage trucks flattens it but most of the waste stay in the bags. So you are actually helping if you sort👍 that is at least how it works in Scandinavia, I think and hope it is the same where you live.
It's to take your time so you do not have time for thinking. Same here in Poland, plus if I do not recycle I pay a fine ...
@@JoATTech you high?😂😂
Born in the 90s but still remember when plastic bags were the fix for deforestation. Good thing that plastics are a renewable resource like we were led to believe.
The truth is they are making us eat it
How are we eating plastic? Is it in our food? If so which food is it so I can avoid it.
and the vaxxed dead
@@geneboswell2050micro plastics..example water bottles. Plastic wrapped food, condiment bottles, etc. if you eat or drink out of plastic, you consume it:(
@@geneboswell2050it's 2024, no excuse to be this much uninformed. We're even not eating real food. Our meats come from cloned animals as well. Also, McDonald's chicken nuggets don't have any chicken in it and the fries...
This is a great topic
I always found it funny that we pushed for plastics to make the oil companies that much richer. Then at the same time started talking about recycling. Well before we switched to petrol based plastics everything was glass, and ACTUALLY recyclable.
Remember how it was reported there was a shortage of sand around the world, sand being stolen from shores. Wonder who funded those reports.
I don't buy into CO2 being a huge problem with the climate. More CO2 creates more plant growth. It's a self regulating system. A much bigger problem is the actual pollutants put into our environment by our use of fossil fuels.
Roughly 20% of plastics are even capable of recycling. This whole system was a scam setup by manufacturing companies to sell their consumables to people who claim to care about the environment. Unfortunately most of those people are very very very gullible!
@@DougCutler-tn2eyIt can be but we’ve interfered with that. Mass deforestation and large increases in C02 emissions have an effect on that system. Look at the increases in ocean acidity as well if you think it’s still capable of self regulating.
more CO2 in the atmosphere makes plants grow in area with less water, it makes the planet greener.@@matthenley3886
I was in the solid waste / recycling business for over 30 years. Up until about 2007, all of our plastic bottles from our MRF's (Multi-material Recycling Facilities) were bailed and shipped to Indonesia to be recycled. Once this market closed, it started a reduction of what plastic containers were picked up in the curbside programs around the country. Therefore, more and more plastic started showing up in landfills, transfer stations and incinerators (which burn all the trash), the residue is then deposited in the landfills. The same thing happened with glass, we use to recycle clear, green and brown glass bottles. Then it was only clear glass, then it was no glass bottles.
this comment needs more likes, its like the elites are trying to cause this crisis just so they can impose more restristrictions on civilians
It costs a fortune to recycle.No one can afford this charade.People have been lied to but it appears they’re too stupid to research these lies by themselves
I watched a secret documentary about how Indonesia dealt with that trash too. They toss it in the ocean. Yep we package it up for someone else to sweep under the rug. I believe it was from epoch times. I trust that source totally
Resell that glass
@@kellyjaramillo3954 Know any buyers?
I stopped recycling plastic and glass when I followed a recycle truck while I was dumping stuff at the landfill and saw it tip its load directly into the pit the rest of the trash was going. I noticed there were dozens of piles of “recycling” like that all over the edge and dozers were pushing them in to mix it all. Why am I spending extra money for an extra pickup for them to just send it all the same place.
One small solution to help counteract the plastic problem is to go back to using glass bottles with a deposit on them. Think of how many individual bottles people use for water, soda, etc. It all adds up. The deposit assures they get returned to the manufacturer, so they can be washed and reused.
I wish. But there's so many people now, especially in places where we're not even counting them, no that I want that either, but producing goods has a balancing act to maintain. Again, agreed, I wish. Best chance for real though is also globally impossible but shop local at least makes tight communities... we're gonna need em... Escape From New York coming soon.😢
That’s no small solution, that’s a big part of THE solution!
Don't inject logic into this conversation!
I would support this. The problem with glass is the weight makes it cost much more to ship than plastic. Plastic also doesn't shatter when dropped, so items bottled in plastic are arguably more durable. I don't see why major suppliers who package and bottle things in plastic can't wash and reuse their plastic cartons. Soda bottles, the plastic cartons M&M's come in, and laundry detergent jugs could all be washed and refilled.
Our ocean and wildlife deserve a lot better. We need major change.
Working in a hospital opened my eyes to how much plastic gets thrown away. I'm personally responsible for literal tonnage in my 4 years there. Being medical they have nothing in place to even pretend they recycle things, even if it's just packaging material not considered biohazard waste.
Are you by any chance a Falling Down fan? D-FENS!
I was a patient in the hospital for about two weeks, 10 years ago, and you wouldn't believe how many plastic tubs I saved and brought home with me. They held toiletries and such and were very sturdy. They made fantastic cubie bins, dishpans, liter boxes, planters, etc... People in general are much too wasteful, and as for hospitals, those plastic tubs could be replaced with paper bags. So far as hospitals go, that is just a tiny example of the waste I saw. The same was true for those socks with the little rubber thingies on the bottom of them to prevent slipping. When I got out of the hospital, I ended up with about 14 pair of those socks, and still wear them. Waste not, want not.
specially in operating's room
10 years working in the medical industry for hospitals it's unreal and most people don't even know
I'm a travel nurse and only one place ever recycled thier plastic. It was in Springfield, MO. I don't know if it really gets recycled (seems like alot of "recycled" stuff just ends up in India) but they had it and in surgery per case we make atleast 5 pounds of empty bottles and trays
Early 90's my Twp enacted a recycling program. We (residence) were pressured to take our recyclables to the township building and separate them into individual concrete bins.
I played along and very early one Sunday morning when i pulled in there was a backhoe loading a dump truck, mixing all of the separated bins into the same truck. When they saw me, the backhoe and the truck drove around to the other side of the building.
Recycling has been a BS lie since its inception.
In the US, YES! Look at Japan and most of Europe
I would have lost my cookies! 🤬
Yes. Our borough stopped scamming us. No more recycling.
Haha. Don't you sell bottled water ? How many bottles of water do you and your Guest go through in a podcast ???
There bottles are biodegradable obviously.
I’m sure they recycle!
Are you triggered by this? lol he’s not preaching just sharing one of many huge examples of how we are destroying our environment
They don't they slap a sticker on the bottle lol
I don’t think this was a debate about “who” is causing the problem. As opposed to, an attempt to open a conversation on how to fix it. Don’t get caught up on such a small figure in the equation. Such as a single member of a major industry, full of people that generate more waste than PBD and his entire team. Rather, think a little deep on the matter. Then suggest something with more substance than, “you shouldn’t be contributing to the problem”. Our world is set up where plastic is in everything we have. You want him to stop using it? What is the solution, that he can still operate his businesses? You will always have an opposing argument. No matter the current available material of choice. Plastics lead to pollution and health problems. Metals have their known and assumed issues when comes to food grade or even contact with skin. Paper needs some kind of coating to hold liquids. Then don’t forget, “you’re killing all the trees for paper”. Is glass the answer then? How much longer can that last before the sand faucet is turned off, due to excessive usage? The point I’m trying to make. Is think more broadly then a simple attack on a person that is not really anymore guilty than you or I in this.
Known this for a long time. Ignorance is bliss in this sad country.
We've gotten lazy is what has happened people would rather spend 24 hours on twitter the no lifrers, theres regression is coming and people will have regret. No life is a sad life.
It's a worldwide ignorance...America is not even remotely the problem...there are 7.6 BILLION people that live outside of America...they are the problem. It's a sheer numbers game....
Penn and Teller did an episode on this years ago. I haven't wasted a second of my time recycling since.
Did you reduce your use of one-time plastics?
Glass (and some metals) are literally the only thing worth recycling. Everything else is net negative carbon emissions to recycle
@@daveassanowicz186 I certainly have. I only eat berries that I take from my neighbor’s fields, drink water straight from the streams, and I take my milk directly from the udder.
We saw that same Penn and Teller, that episode was in 1990s. It’s gotten so much worse, now fruits and veggies are in plastics, used to be in wooden crates.
Well, in Portugal in 1996 I worked in a supermarket and we reused all the glass bottles, beer and wine, people received a value for the empty ones and discount in the new ones,(remember that glass is 100% reciclable). Then because of the amount of water spent in the reuseged of those bottles they campaign to stop using glass,( we had a huge glass industry in our country, go figer), so they pivot to plastic, so you have everything in plastic packaging! Thanks for the information, hopefully it makes people aware!👏👏🙏
People still don't believe me when I say, 'The most damage done to our existence and our environment is caused by the so called 'Green parties' who fight against things such water usage in recycling bottles, ( Which led directly to plastic bottles), Polution from Petrol engines, (Which led to Diesel power), Polution from Diesel engines, (Which is now leading to E:V's which are far more damaging than ICE vehicles). These so called 'Environmentalists are causing more damage than any other problem that Man has made, but there again, 'Environmentalists are a man made problem aren't they....
Logoplaste has been doing a fortune since then...no relation :)
We just need to go back to old ways. When I was a kid (80/90s), bags & boxes were paper, cans were all aluminum and most bottles were mostly glass. Plastic was rarely seen in packaging. All of these things were either biodegradable or actually recyclable. Most plastics are byproducts (waste) from the oil industry that they want to make extra profit off of, hence the proliferation. I think one of the solutions is going back to incinerating waste. Properly done, it can be low emission and stops landfill pollution and can be used to produce electricity. We had the solutions, before these things were made into problems. “Recycling” today is merely a from of government/corporate greenwashing. They pass the buck by selling it to brokers, allowing them to claim it’s been recycled. But, if you follow the waste it rarely is. Oddly though, if you follow the money they’re all profiting at each step… Just another scam perpetrated on society for the gain of a few.
Bottles were not mostly glass in the 90s
Yep to much profit in waste management frfr public company btw ! Pfff , Also in the 80s prior there was only recycle and no plastic at all it was beautiful and no (canCER at the time basically minUte tiny % of people! So its in the plastic ,and then Food ,and then Water , and chemicals, look at all the lakes you cant fish anymore lakes in Florida are trashed! Lake apopka was clearly clear 55 -60years ago now like a horror movie! We don't need weed killers, etc... forget about green grass, make garden beds, everyone its simply done too ! Then everyone trade and be clean fr to much fantasy land type ishh
You're describing the 50s and 60s. By the 70s plastic began taking over.
That was not the 80s and 90s. LMAO I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Everything was packaged in plastic in the 80s. You are confused with the 1950s. 🤣🤣
@@QueenieQKat Maybe it’s because I’m up in Canada. The plastic takeover didn’t really hit here until the 90s. But when it did, the transition was very quick.
I love the rapid-fire fast-cut production. To the point in a hurry....thanks!!
“We” are not the ones to blame.
“We” have NO CONTROL of the packaging we are forced to use.
“They” need to stop this madness and waste.
How we spend our money influences how they make money...
@@lowiqleftist8940 Indeed, however, what products are they making available to us to begin with?
You're the one that's buying it.
@@williestarke Lol
WE the people aka the sleeping giant could end this tomorrow but the whole planet would have to come together.
I used to work at a recycling plant in a bustling city, stationed on a conveyor belt where my task was to swiftly discern and separate plastic from non-plastic materials. With an unrelenting flow of items moving at high velocity, there was no room for meticulous inspection; efficiency was not paramount.
I used to see commercials for this growing up, they would promote down syndrome people or people with disabilities to work in these kind of environments and I'm thinking to myself how is this even practical but yet that's what it was promoting. Now this was in New York City.
A couple of years ago, I also heard that the recyclables don't actually get recycled. I keep "recycling" just because it's less waste in they City trash bags which are a fee per bag. the "recycling" is "free" (built into real-estate tax). So sad.
How nice it is that you pay for bags designated for recycling & it doesn't get recycled. Thieves, plain & simple