Where Does New York City's Trash Go? | Living City | The New York Times
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2014
- New York City has one of the largest sanitation departments in the world, but, with declining landfills, we follow waste from sidewalks and garbage trucks to treatment facilities and upstate farms.
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New York City has the most complex waste management system in North America. This is the history of trash in New York City.
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I respect garbage collectors.
you're welcome, we love when a fellow citizen gives a bottle of water on a hot day
Gadiel Zavala and we like it when you make sure that ALL the garbage comes out when you dump it
@@mrstealyourgrandma7647 well there could be many reasons for that happening, sometimes garbage collectors miss things because there are a lot of houses, other times we just don't like that home owner and we "miss things"
Americans generally worship the rich and famous, who ship your jobs overseas, cut your wages in the USA, sell you crap that you don't need.
@@danpt2000 stop generalizinb also wages aren't getting cut in the usa, theyare increasing yes slowly increasing but they sure are not getting cut
City planning is hard, trust me. I am not a civil engineer, but I play cities skyline.
TWNST LBC2 Lol I can't even properly plan a city in city skylines, I couldn't even dream of becoming a city planner in real life.
Albert Sitoe I play skylines
Lol 😂
Taking care of garbage is easy in C:S. Traffic on the other hand, now that's the real problem!
Lmao
My Dad worked in sanitation for years...i always say they are the most important men on this planet...if the garbage isnt removed we wouldn't go to the fancy restaurants...or even go outside
😂😂😂
Still easily replacible by any moron who can drive a truck and pick up garbage lol
unfortunately, trash collectors also get trash salaries. They are the least look upon and treated badly
Enviotonin85 not out here in California they make great money. And with the newer trucks they don’t even have to get out since they have a claw to grab the bins.
@@Enviotonin85 not really some make 50k -75k a year or more, without going to school and being in debt....what you mean? my uncle drives garbage trucks for living and he makes good money. Im going to do the same.
in Berlin, the organic waste is used to make Bio gas. with this Gas, they operate the Trucks collecting the waste. the save 2.5 Mio. Liter of Diesel each year
Germany is always smarter. We should copy them.
Manhattan alone produces more waste then Germany.
Honestly, when I read "Berlin" and "Gas" in the same sentence, I thought it was going to be a racist joke, but I was wrong and disappointed.
Can't it be used to make fertilizers?
@@arx3516 they make it out of whats left over from gas production
Probably one of the most hardest and smelliest job. God bless them all.
Hardest? Nahhh
its not hard and if you work for a good company you get paid good. Im going to school at the moment to get my CDL class b so i can drive garbage trucks. my uncle does that and he gets good money.
If you live in NYC, ur used to the smell of garbage and sewage. That part is easy.
A plumber is worse
If you can handle this job, are strong enough, both mentally, and physically, the pay can be very good! .... In NYC .... My bet is .... senior sanitation, city workers can make 100, 000 plus! .... Tough, ... "solid" men more than deserve it! ....
If people just stop buying crap and overconsuming things they cant finish, then we wouldnt produce so much waste.
How about office workers that keeps printing paper unnecessarily. Stop sending useless junk ads people dont even read
Why do I get the suspicion that you were eating a Twinkie when you typed this up and threw your plastic wrapper in the garbage?
Lol
j12torts It would be an end to Capitalism so have fun with that
We can talk about it all day probably nothing will change soon at least until it's too late, then we will see changes..
Quality counts too , we had a brown fridge which lasted 30 yrs......it wasnt cheap though
But if people only want cheap then it leads to more waste
Recycle, compost and make power from the waste. Perfect solution.
Yann Gorski yes
power,
make your viberater go off
Ocean dumping till 1934! Thats crazy dumb!
well, back then there was no plastic
@@richardides2035 plastic was invented in 1907
@@basselsalah4604 So? We had no plastic bottles until fall of communism in 1989 we used glass instead.
@@richardides2035 look up the dates again. on cocacola's website they introduced plastic bottles in 1978, also the communism fell in 1991, 1889 was the still the beginning of the revolution.
@@richardides2035 that being said still i guess im wrong about thinking that it was crazy to dump trash in the ocean prior 1934, because there weren't that much of plastic quantity wise and variety wise.
New York produces a lot of trash look at the Giants, Jets, and the Knicks
222222e Nets as well lmfao
Lmao
222222e I wanted to read the comments I started & stoped with yours good 1
And Trump and Clinton. (what a mess)
PLASMA GASIFICATION IS THE SOLUTION TO WASTE!
from 1880 to 1934 they were dumping waste in ocean........
yeah what moronic idiots
Oh yeah, like the europeeons were any better...
bad enough putting recyclables into the land fill yet alone the ocean.
So
well if that disgusts you, don't pay attention to the navel gunnery ranges along the coast. where millions of tons of lead are decomposing out there.
This video was so inspiring! Come on New York you can do it!
seeing people put yard waste and food trash in plastic bags makes me want to cry.
you can buy certain disposable plastic bags which are made out of plant resin and sap that look and feel the same as a trash bag so it could be those rather than plastic ones
haha you're a baby then.
2001lextalionis They're lazy
2001lextalionis If THAT makes you want to cry, God help you.
2001lextalionis where do you put your trash?
i work as a trash truck operator here in albany ny this video is so true on honest let rethink reuse and recycle thank you
the amount of bottled water, plastic bags, is astounding even outside of the USA. Go to the supermarkets of American suburbs, the number of plastic shopping bags, bottled water, plastic or cardboard wraps and packaging. And now China has put restrictions on the sorted trash that it would accept from the foreign countries, especially the USA. The sorted trash is piling up in American sorting stations, all over the USA.
And the “recycling” programs in the US are falling apart because China is refusing specifically OUR trash from further destroying and encroaching their land - notice that your cheap rent-a-city-bikes have magically changed color and name???…Your old ones (because are apparently out-of-date; like your cell phones) are sleeping silently in huge metallic continents in outlining areas of China. And the truth is that the federal gov is giving states the right to grant their cities and towns “waivers” basically allowing them to say “Eff it!” and send everyone’s crap right back into landfills. Don’t let these gentrified videos of happy white privileged farmers just living so smug and warm and happy with over-flowing coffers of beautifully vine ripened tomatoes by the truckload that have extras for bobbing on a crisp Halloween evening. It was all a house of cards to begin with. States and trash douches are actually blaming the Chinese for the problem we are creating every time people wake up in the morning and choose to indenture their stomachs with gross crap. Bravo on the propaganda. Real farmers trying to make ends meet don’t have the luxury of dilly dallying all day and staring media picked fruits and vegetables for the newest Cuomo Super PAC. People need to understand that things are never as they appear on the outside. But, people are so easily du[ed and fooled…over and over…
Robert Kunze …And then some!…👍👍✌️✌️✌️🤘😎
I've always believed sanitation workers have one of the most important jobs in the world. Without them we would all be dead of disease. The trash needs to be taken care of. I commend and salute all sanitation workers. It's a noble and necessary job. The world cannot do without them. On the other hand the world could do without preachers and evangelists just fine. Being a sanitation worker is a real job and vital to keeping our cities and towns clean.
and doctors save lives, and plumbers make sure water can get to our houses, and teachers make sure children learn, and grocery store provide people food, and farmers feed people, and lumber jacks provide wood to build houses, and car manufacturers help people move to places faster to be more resourceful. It's all a joint effort, no one job is more or less important. Its just about how easy one job is compared to another. Doctor smarter, lumberjack stronger. Brains v.s. physical strength.
A preacher is likely one of the most important. Like a mental health worker, helping others through their problems. Sorry you're so regressive. I'm just very Progressive.
My dad works for the DSNY
@@nyctenthusiast3507 okay
I'm ur 100th like
It goes to New Jersey where the people of Jersey use it to build homes. Saved you a click.
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Your wrong. Yes, it goes to NJ, but it all goes down the shore with ten pounds of spray on tan, and it always makes sure to go slow as possible in the left lane
Cowboy Bepop -new jersey resident detected 😂😂😂👊
Yes, they use it to build homes & feed their politicians
The truth is it keeps MOVING to new jersey, by the millions as per the American census.Look it up for yourself.
‘If you’re going to have this many people living on a small piece of land, you cannot do it without infrastructure’
Lagos, Nigeria: Hold my beer
Please explain to me why business's in NYC do not have to recycle?!! They produce huge amounts if waste; mostly in paper and plastics, but there is no law making it mandatory to separate. So biodegradables get mixed in with recyclable!
I work for sanitation. And although we don't pick up commercial refuse. I can say that they do recycle. Only difference is, private garbage or recycling companies service those businesses.
worked on a tugboat crew fresh kills
mayra dasilva I believed now it's mandatory
i was a bit shocked at the trash vs recycle waste ratio
Because the sheer amount of people it would not matter
Anybody ever see that old episode of Futurama where they shot all the trash in NYC to outer space...& it came back 😂😂😂tb
So much awareness! Educating people to collect there organic waste in a plastic bags, and throwing it all together in the organic waste bin
Without garbage collectors, cities are unimaginable all over the world. They are real heros.
if the USA produced electricity from burning burnable trash then it would be the fastest growing economy. It could take the world's trash, seperate it, and burn the paper, wood, etc. Glass would be melted and reformed, same with plastic.
That's a great idea. I have to say it would be even better to recycle, reduce, reuse, and compost before going to waste. The rest can be used for energy production.
This is what COVANTA does !!! Burns trash to make Kilowatts !!
OAC would come after you for burning anything.
We already do
Run for president 2020
Oh I thought a huge ball was shot into space every 10 years or so.
FearDa2 Lol I saw a video where they looked into doing this, if I remember correctly it would be way too expensive.
1:06 "nobody ever finishes their coffee" I lost it😂😂😂😂😂
God bless New York. The city that never sleeps.
Since 1972, I have been composting all organic waste and recycling all paper, glass, plastic and metals.
how about ending plastic bags in grocery stores. bring you own bags.
In the netherlands, stores are not allowed to give them for free anymore. Very effective, i barely see people buying a bag they mostly just take their own.
Back to good old brown paper bags made in North America from recycled paper only.
johnny6148 my city of Bellingham, WA has done that.
What a great video! Thanks
A great look behind the scenes! This is why I subscribe to The New York Times channel!
I work for a city in public utilities. Other than our sewer guys, sanitation has got to be the smelliest job. It takes an army to keep cities clean!!!
1:19 they see me Rollin...
I never finish my coffee.
Here in Los Angeles we have been recycling wastes for years. Each household has 3 trash cans the green can for green waste( leaves, branches food wastes etc.) that will be made into mulch. Blue can for recyclable metals, plastics, paper, etc. then there is the black can for products that can’t be recycled. There is one truck designated for each type of waste. The black can wastes go to a transfer station and are sorted in case there are recyclables that need to be removed.
When he said no one ever finishes their coffee I felt guilty
We should really get the compost bin across the country. It'll reduce waste much more effectively.
Adventure Guy aren't most American using kitchen sink shredders so it pollutes the water?
Love their idea putting thing back to the earth amazing job guys
At the time of this video being uploaded I was still working for the railroad and we got trash trains from New York constantly. The stuff was so nasty that people who lived up to 15 miles away from the landfill were complaining about the smell and either the county or the city put a ban on it.
Did anyone else notice the guy on a Segway at 1:20?
5:53 How do they separate the plastic out of that food / organic waste? Manually?
rif42 sone bags, like the green one, are compost bags. They'll dissolve over time naturally. Don't know about the other ones though
They hire a bunch of Mexicans
thanks for the info.i loved it
Nice video.
Thank you.
It used to go to Staten Island
I been sanitation worker 7years the smell doesn't bother you after doing this job for so long
Kudos to the NYT for interesting mini documentaries.
We have been doing this for decades here in Europe....well done NYC
Huh, I always thought it went to New Jersey. "shots fired"
the garbage goes down to new jersey. they Bring it down to essex county and they burn the trash there. so you were right all along.
Korosch Studios but she still got her joke in at the same time
Remove rusted bolt
In 120 years they will be like. Remember when they used to dump trash in landfills😂
KK Leo Did hopefully.
So, my Brother worked his way up to Second in Command in NYCSD. Then, stepped down a few ranks before retiring. He was/is responsible for many innovations in the NYCDS. I can't understand why he wouldn't have been interviewed. You all that would know him, he was/is DT. Give him a shout and see what's up. He really cared about you all.
Very interesting, thanks.
And those guys who got interviewed in 4:35, you would expect them to be more sensitive to the trash problem...are holding single-use plastic in their hands.
I was wondering if someone else noticed. That shows how Americans are dangerously disconnected...
Aline G.L. wtf
Some types of plastic can be recycled,
Exactly. How about just getting in a restaurant for 10 minutes and drink it from a regular cup/mug and using regular cutlery? Half of the problem solved.
Ignacio Mingo it's recyclable.
It amazes me that it's 2019 and we still don't have garbage figured out. It should have a national standard for whatever solution they come up with, because this is a problem that affects everyone.
Looks like they have it figured out already..where else is it going to go??
What a great job!
Educational video.
New york home of the most happy rats in the world.
And succesful! Some rats can even become respected martial arts masters.
We recykel about 95% of our Garbage in my Contry Denmark, nothing go to waist here in Denmark, we don't use landfield enymore, it's many years sens we did use that, we recykel most of our Garbage, almost 95% and then we have alot of Wind-Power.
Nice! I like to hear this type of things from around the world. But, what happens with the 5%?
Yeah but your country is going broke doing this
In San Diego they city dumps have a system of creating energy to provide power. I think we recycle about 85% of our waste. But, we still have problems with older people that throw away everything in the trash, they don't separate it, and they could care less. Mind you, that we have in every apt.building and every household bins for organic materials, recycling and trash and it is still too much work for some of them to separate them. They're used to excess and waste.
Tele Opinions ikr, a few lazy mofos undo the work of one environmentally conscious person who put in YEARS of hard work and cutting back. I wish a plague would sweep thru and somehow knock off all the idiots too apathetic to care.
Great film.
God this seems archaic. San Francisco recycles or composts 93% of it's waste
Laziness...come live here and you'll see
Great way to get rid of the demoRats
Well.... let's make it 96% and Recycle Pelosi. Add Boxer and hit 99%...
Hahahahaha
I think access is the reason. How much do people make in San Francisco? How about New York City ?
Trash consciousness. I love it. And NYC I love you.
Very nice!
One place in New York state NYC's trash goes to is Niagara Falls. It comes in on trains I believe and comes to a company called Covanta. The containers on the train are picked up and put on a couple of modified long frame semi truck tractors. The trucks just bring the containers a short distance from the train and into a large building where the container is emptied of its trash. A front loader pushes the trash into an enormous "hopper"/ holding cell where a couple of claws suspended from the ceiling of the holding cell and that are about twice the size of a garbage truck come down and take big handfuls of the garbage. It is burned to generate electricity. The ash is used in landfills in the area.
People waste food should not eat for a week ....
K O R i G A N
um...no
K O R i G A N god, you are brutal
I'm glad people like you don't run the world.
Ziggmanster Same
K O R i G A N
Oof there goes three quarters of the US.
Really? That's what is happening in the US?
That's how you guys deal with waste?
I'm laughing my german ass of right now. A "pilot project". That's been going on in Germany for decades. How comes that they haven't been coming up with this earlier?
Britain is also about 50 years behind and that's with everything .
schrimpflosse compare the usable-land size of Germany to the United States'. Then consider the difference in budgets for public works and government expenditure in public infrastructure between the US and the wealthiest Western European countries. Every nation, city, neighborhood, etc. has its own unique and limited necessities and problems and available resources to deal with them. If Germany did it decades ago then that's how the administrators dealt with the problem at that time. Now if the American waste management sucks compared to first-world standards thats another sad issue.
schrimpflosse Weil den Deutsce Volk haben mehr Klasse als uns! Gruße, An American living in New York Cityp.s. Europe is a much older society and has gone through much of the same thing in it's course towards better disposable means!
Always the money but in Britain it's just we are British we know best .10 years ago they started to try be like the rest of Europe .
schrimpflosse It's really incredible and exciting if you think about it! The city has plans in 2018 to begin water purification for drinking and immunization shots for diseases like polio and hepatitis.
4:45 - 4:48
Admire that mentality Russell Hansen!!!
It becomes everyone else’s problem! I live upstate NY in the finger lakes. Lot of it comes here
Yea yea NYC was bad with garbage waaay back when, now you can't see or smell a thing. Relax.
It went to the White House
Amazing
Glad I watched this now I know what compost is wow
Why do you use the same maple leaf us Canadians use on our flag to represent garbage?
Y do u think
+RoIIingStoned he set himself up for that one ;p
Well,YOU do the math on that one! Lol !
well canada is trash
I think that leaf signifies Public Parks or something of that nature
"More than 7200 men and women...go out in...collection trucks." What she means, of course, is 7198 men and 2 women ;)
Garbage Collectors is the Modern New Hero , Good Job Guys , heads up ✌
I thought NY would be an ideal place to live in the world but i was wrong. How they are super power. I thing Japan, singapore etc are better than USA
1:41 What's Trump doing there?
quick eyes
Alex Janssen A Billion Bucks buys a lot of lifetime.
Lol probably an Easter egg
TDS confirmed
Alex Janssen 😭
Sitting out on Sandy Hook, barge after barge went past loaded with trash...I asked my guide where it was going and he shrugged and said he didn't know. Much later, I found out it was shipped by rail to PA and Ohio landfills. Here in Erie, PA, the highest thing on the southern horizon is the Lakeview landfill...and its getting higher each day. It does not drain into Lake Erie, however. That is a different watershed.
One time NYC had a garbage strike. A friend of mine put his in a shopping bag and left it on the back seat of his car with the window down. Somebody stole it EVERY DAY. regular pickup was twice a week
There is no point in separating the trash. If the garbage man is throwing it all in the same truck mixing it!!
+Syed Ilyas Why don't you shut your mouth, and open up your ears!
+Drew Minatti lol
Exactly. BIG globalist scam!
I take where you live, it goes in one type of truck.,,,,?
Syed Ilyas ???
New York is the armpit of the United States, California is the other armpit.
Sure, the two states that produce the most tax money along with Texas are the armpit of the US. It is definitely not the numerous federally dependent states of the South.
And ur my taint.
California is the asylum of the world.
TERRORIST chicago will drain all of worlds fresh water by the human cattle reliant on broken infrastructure
People forget that organic waste is essential in helping to decompose other, non-organic material. By removing organic waste from the traditional garbage pile, you may in fact be slowing the rate at which non-organic waste decomposes. Something to consider.
Very intresting
Hmmm...where are the women?
I was wondering the same thing when I had to register for the draft.
Regina what about the equality? Or you only cherry pick the good stuff?
Meew In feminists dreams
They're looking for equality only in blue collar jobs... they only want feminism when its to their advantage/benefit
When DSNY gets exoskeleton contracts, we'll give women an equal opportunity to get used the smell too!
Too many people war world 3 needs to happen ....
Korigan cards & coins that's a horrible thing to say. Wonder if you would be among the ones to go?
something like that will happen, looking at "our" history, it´s long overdue.
I hope to nuke the world
war world 3 will happen if world war 3 starts, and that's gonna be the 3rd world war.....
Korigan cards & coins hope everyone asking for the war dies first y'all would cry at the sight of war
To Staten Island of course.It's almost Jersey.
Very good
It mostly goes to Schuylkill and Luzerne county in Pennsylvania
This is great.
I worked for the supply department at a naval facility in Louisville, ky. I worked around contractors and the administration officers: there was a "BID" for a contract to TAKE the excess garbage from New York, I believe the three TOP BIDS were: IOWA, Kentucky (I forget the other) but anyway ALL three BID for that contract & they became excited when Kentucky received the contract: Contract was 1988. They moved it to Hardin County. Also Hardin county implemented the first human sludge (human waste from septic systems) 2008. use for fertilizing soils. nice huh? Basically because they do not have anywhere to put it: IF it is all that bad, we should go back to the use of "outhouses" like in the old days! :(
Lmao 1:07 "Nobody ever finishes their coffee."
Even here in NZ landfills may start running low on space, one invention that would make life much easier, an incinerator that is not air pollution prone, but takes about 10 tonnes of trash, and the aftermath is nothing but few amounts of ashes which are properly disposed of by the council
Back in the old days ppl reused a lot of materials like returnable bottles ect.
This should be adopted world wide! Love the earth!
cool video, thx
Maple Leaf in the Garbage....Thanks from Canada
Hoping, my city Dhaka will apply this method soon.
Innovative 😀
Sanitation workers are awesome
Scandinavia (dk/no/sv) switched to incinerators because too much metal ended up being burried. Give it to them.
3:58 Don't forget methane gas, here in Norway we use it to power busses.
One company that contracted to haul some off left several box cars sitting on train tracks for months in a small town in Alabama
Much of it comes to the incinerator plant right down here in Chester, PA .. then the ASH!!! goes to the landfill, not always the actual trash .. don't know why this step in the chain is so often overlooked
come to Goa our garbage plant puts out only 6% to landfill