"We're not gonna spend millions of dollars sorting through that shit when we're already spending millions to convince you we're sorting through that shit." I love that
So true! I worked at McDonalds some years ago and all their separated trashbags went into the same trash press, nicely compressed together into cubes 😂
@@sigridurlennartsdottir4416When I worked at McDonald's, I did have to separate the trash, but when I went to take it out, the guy responsible over there was like AAH WHO CARES, JUST THROW IT ALL IN THE MIXED TRASH, so yea still, the amount of trash we produced in half a day (two massive carts much higher and wider than me) still saddens me to this day
Recycling would work perfectly if everyone would do it properly. This means to separate manually all different materials that are bonded together. For example, with a glass bottle on which there's a plastic cap and a paper sticker, you should remove the paper sticker and the plastic cap from the bottle. Also, dirty paper and cardboard shouldn't be thrown in the recyclable bin, and other very dirty stuff should be cleaned in order to avoid contaminating all the clean paper and cardboard... In many European cities, there are separate bins for each materials (paper, metals, glass and plastic), which is even better and much easier to recycle afterward The problem with recycling is that the infrastructures required to recycle all the different materials don't use the same processes. Thus, if a cardboard recycling facility ends of with tons of plastic bonded with the cardboard it tries to recycle, it becomes very complex to recycle any of it without manually separating everything, which is an impossible task because it would be too time consuming Sorry if my english isn't perfect
@@PG-3462Sounds like the new Religion. The next step is to raise "Garbage wars" when plastic 56 evangelists will throw it to yellow container instead of brown one
In Europe, sorting plastics into their own waste container became mandatory a few years ago. But when the Finnish public broadcasting company YLE started investigating how plastics are recycled in Europe, it was revealed that the plastics were sent to be stored in China, where they also ended up in the sea, because European warehouses were full and the technology for efficient recycling of plastics doesn't yet exist. However, I don't know if things have changed at all since then.
It changed. China stopped importing trash of other countries because their own industry, market and consumption rate skyrocketed so much in the past decade, that their recycling plants and refineries are overloaded even tho literal cities are built around them and mountains of garbage is being piled up around them.
Nope. They haven't. Not one bit. Best thing to do with plastic is probably to just burn if for energy. I don't know if it's just an urban legend but in Switzerland tales are being told of incineration plants having a hard time incinerating because since we're so good at sorting garbage not enough paper and cardboard is in our trash. Frankly, I think the approach to saving the planet needs to be balanced. Don't go dumping used oil into a river obviously but don't fret that much over recycling either. I feel like we are burdened with so many dos and don'ts that people are just sucked dry of both energy and giving a fuck. I said the same thing back during covid. They made us follow so many stupid rules that were obviously dumb that I predicted that once they knew how the virus actually operated, a lot of people would be done with complying to any guidelines. And that's exactly what happened.
@@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse I think that we should be reusing plastic bottles the same way we reuse glass bottles, those plastic bottles can be way more durable than a glass one and for some reason someone had the idea of just disposing them and everyone agreed that it's a good idea.
@@robbieaulia6462 Glass bottles are easy to clean with just very hot water or steam. PET does not like that overly much. So you run into the issue of cleanliness.
Funnier still is nearly all plastic that ever gets recycled is the scrap from injection molding. They load it back into the machines to be melted along side virgin plastic...So when they say something has 15% recycled content they mean 15% recycled content from their own production process, not from stuff you recycled.
Always wondered about those commercials about recycling soda bottles into play equipment. I think it went along the line - "My daddy recycles soda bottles into..." and "He's saving the planet."
There are many kinds of twin trashbins with one for the non recyclable and the other recyclable. Guess what! They are conjoined twins! They share the SAME bin under the opening
@@robertthomas5906 play equipment i believe a little more. like you could probably grind up a bunch of plastic and press it into a wood chip replacement or some shit. or just mold it into big solid peices with a little heat and you got a slide or some shit. a bit easier than making sure its food safe for bottles and stuff. idk
No. No it isn't. Nothings on fire, I"m immunized and I can go to the fucking amusement park again. It is verifiability NOT worse. Unless you are a Christian dominionist fascist. Then sucks to be you I guess.
As someone who has worked in plastic for around 16 years of my life and knows a lot about molecular orientation, this video explains so much better than i do on my many tangents.
0:05 Are we just going to ignore that amazing slap-toss of the plastic bottle into the bin at the beginning?? Perfectly unexpected it even made the other guy smile lol
He would more likely give you a low paying job, but convince you it’s high paying through the use of confusing benefits that cost him less to pay for than the money he could be giving you lol
I’ll never understand how “Chad” shifted from male Karen to something positive over such a short period of time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some clouds to yell at.
@@RagnarokMic Chad was around before Karen, and was always Chad. You mean that you're incapable of understanding how some people attempted to reshape Chad into male Karen and failed horribly, because, they were trying to make Chad something Chad is not.
@@ino_mationExactly, you can't make "Chad" something he's not, which is why it stands for entitled preppy douche, that's what the name "Chad" exudes, like "Tucker." Stereotypical frat boy "Chad" does predate the Karen, but that context of the two were the same.
Exactly. In our consumerist society there is no fucking way every single person needs to have their own person massive as fck car. Like, I’m in the UK, and everyone in my tiny town has their own personal car. You look on the road, 99% of the cars there have 1 or two people in them. What the fuck man, you’re taking the car for your local morrisons? Sorry for the rant, just, it ticks me off the way people demand more, more, more. Like, I don’t think we should all become minimalists, but come on, come on
Recycling reduces crowding in garbage barrels and by extensions lessons the likelihood of encountering refuse related pest problems. You also save money on trash bags and don't go through as many when you don't have plastic and cardboard products taking up space. Most cities only allow you one garbage barrel and one recycling barrel and have a laundry list of rules that give them any excuse to not collect your trash, forcing you to wait a week. This can include having your barrel being too full. So if your garbage isn't being collected because there's too much then what are you supposed to do with all the other trash you have getting thrown away in the meantime? Composting and recycling should be required simply for sanitary reasons alone. There are different classifications of waste and you make your waste collectors job easier and safer by ensuring it's all separated into proper categories.
In New Orleans it was a huge scandal! the garbage companies charging extra for recycling bins only to find out that the recycling bins are being dumped in the same sanitary landfill is all the other garbage
thats why i refuse to pay extra for it. Metal is about the only thing worth recycling which I do at work. 80% of glass in the US is "recycled" into landfill liners. Our cardboard I either use in the firepit or if its not glossy as weed barriers for my garden.
Wait, is garbage collection privatised in the US? In Australia it's all through the local council - you would just pay if you need to have a large hard rubbish collection.
@@muzikkificationin most cities I've lived, garbage collection is contracted out by the city to garbage companies, who often cover a larger area than just one city
As someone whose worked in injection molding for 6 years, yes. There are tons of different types of plastic, even if they all look the same. Companies try to use regrind in as many products as they can to save money but some just can't use regrind because it will make the product too fragile and can cause it to burn or melt in the mold. However, some products are actually made of 90% or more reground plastic. I don't doubt that companies won't spend millions trying to sort through all the plastic. Hell, factories won't take the time or effort to try and grind up and re-use the plastic that runs in and out of the machine before it starts. (We have to waste a lot of plastic trying to get the right color and right temperature before we start making the product, so it's just a big pile of goo coming out of the machine)
There are scientists that are currently working on making a commercial sized facility to turn waste plastic into graphite or graphene. They can already transform the plastic at about $25 less per ton than basic recycling. It doesn't add in the cost and pollution of mining graphite that's used daily and globally.
Reusing plastic once doesn't actually do ANYTHING to solve this problem, it only defers it briefly. Even if plastic could've been be reused multiple times, 10% of 10% of 10% would get us 0.1% recycled after 3 iterations, which is pretty much identical to being non-recyclable. Recycling only slightly prolongs the usage, but as long as we have one-time use plastic goods and packaging, reusing a a piece of plastic once or fee times is irrelevant - regardless whether we recycle or not we will dump plastic at the exactly same levels as we produce new plastic. And our production constantly increases.
@@NJ-wb1cz getting rid of "single use plastic" like grocery bags that are thinner than your typical garbage bag and re-purposing them as such is going to reduce the consummation of thicker plastic bags, therefore reducing plastic needs. Replacing a "single use" plastic bag with paper is way more harmful to the environment. It would take a paper bag to be re-used 40 plus times to be equivalent ( in production and reusability as well as recyclability, energy consumption) to 1 plastic grocery bag,
@@straydogg1000 plastic bags are close to being irrelevant. They usually have an insignificant weight compared to all the packaging INSIDE the bag. They are highly visible and they _look_ big, so it's convenient for companies to focus on them
@@NJ-wb1cz Plus the plastic companies now get to sell me bin-liners, something I always used shopping bags for before they were banned in my area. (Though I generate little enough waste in a week that the cereal box bag works every other week when I have one available).
shitty thing is that they are. fucking brilliant creatures . unfortunately they lack a body that allows them to have use of it. shame for elephants as well.
Heck, they might even be smart enough to actually figure out how to properly recycle plastics into weapons to take over the world. We don't want the dolphins taking over the world so we need to get our act together.
Thanks Roger for being honest with us as usual. As much as I know in the recycling world only: paper, cardboard, glass and aluminum have the best chance of being really recycled. Plastic as you showed in this video is hard to recycle due to its various types and relatively cheep manufacturing of new plastic vs recycling it. By the way I don’t have a problem with it being burnt in an electric generating incinerator with proper smoke filters on it. That is better than the plastic ending up in a land field or worse in the ocean or other waterways.
Put it in a landfill, as far as I'm concerned. In America, all the trash we will generate over the next 1,000 years will fit in to .1% of the available pasture land in the country, and once a dump is full, just cover it up and put a park over it. This is a non-problem.
The funny thing about this is you actually do learn about this in elementary or middle school how many times plastic can be recycled and become less efficient, but surprisingly everybody just forgets about it and not actually pay attention to it. Once I got taught this in elementary I ask the teacher why do we even recycled plastic in the first place and there was a long silence, she was very surprised the thought never crossed her mind.
I can definitely say I was never taught how many times plastic can be recycled and becomes less efficient….how old are you? If you’d be so willing to tell, as it may just be a generational thing: I was born in 88.
Every video I go to with stuff I wish I learned in school and I always see some kid who went to the school that did and I'm left wondering what damn school y'all went to and how y'all remember little questions y'all asked teachers 10 years ago but can't even remember if it was middle or elementary school lmao
Its also a matter of finding a buyer.. In my area, the recycler can accepts #1#2 plastics and clean news paper. THATS IT. The problem is people are putting their greasy pizza boxes in the recycler, or even their used milk jug WITHOUT WASHING IT FIRST. yes.... its up to you to WASH the plastics before sending them off to be recycled! ohh... and glass? nope! they dont take it at all.. in several areas, its been shown to be cheaper to import the virgin raw materials then it is to reuse glass bottles.
Nothing is free. All this fake environmentalism is now costing us in form of global warming. Tsunamis, floods and wild fires. Also Covid. Blame all you want on China but truth is there are many lethal virus waiting among wild life and frozen permafrost that we now are exploiting. If humans become pest nature has it's own pest control.
Problem is the term "recycling" is being used somewhat wrongly. When it comes to plastic, it's not so much about using the trash to make new plastic products (i.e. actually recycling the trash), but rather about disposing it separately. The swiss or the dutch sort their trash and the plastic gets burned using special filters as not to pollute the air. So it does make sense to have different(ly colored) bins for different types of trash. It's just the actual recycling isn't quite there yet.
yet the dutch still throw away most in to the regular bin, you cannot force one to change habits. the dutch are even more angry now we pay plastic tax on anything almost
we throw all "recyclables" into one bin in the us... im sure some recycling companies would get most of the metals and glass out, the rest gets burned (i assume)
@@pebkac1245almost all of it goes to the landfill. Waste companies just have separate trucks to stop hippies from whining. They drive straight to the dump the same as trash trucks. It's unsortable and 99% contaminated. You'd need thousands of workers around the clock to sort it, throw most of it away, then send it to be burnt. So....it's not done😅
In belguim we sort them, in a blue pmd secton: plastics, metal and drinking cartons.. then you design special facilities to sort out those in more details by machines and specialist, since you can indeed NOT expect everyone to start to understand the difference between different kinds ;-). They really get recycled, although i think most recycling is slightly downgrading, still extremely better then single use, and more importantly, sorted mostly and kept out of nature, especially since we banned single use plastic bags, those gotten blown Anywhere...
everyone forgets that in the 80's we stopped using a completely recyclable material (glass) and switched to plastic bottles. But most places stopped recycling glass in the 70's.
Money talks and bullshit walks. My favorites are the people that think their "group" is somehow more noble, knowledgeable, and much much gooder than those other not gooder groups!
@@Toastmaster_5000 You literally missed the point of the entire video and OP's comment in regards to it. Glass is not only 100% recyclable, but also economically viable to recycle... compared to say... plastic.
Yeah and the reason they switched to plastic was because of the weight. You can fit way more product wrapped in plastic on a truck than you can if it's in glass. It's also labor intensive to handle and recycle.
It's all technically true; the responsibility to recycle has been shifted onto the consumer nowadays. Companies don't have to push for producing less plastic when the conversation has been turned around onto how much it's the consumers duty to recycle the plastic that they needlessly buy. It's not about recycling plastic, as that doesn't work. You can't indefinitely break down plastic in the hopes of it being reshaped into another useless plastic packaging. You just need to really limit the amount of plastic you buy. That's all you can do. And don't even bring up PLA into the conversation - that's another lovely green washing lie people tell themselves (and which companies have hijacked for marketing and making themselves look so "green", whatever the hell that means nowadays). PLA can be broken down, sure, but it needs very specific conditions to do so which are unattainable in nature. Otherwise, PLA which ultimately ends up on landfills degrades just as long as regular plastic. And people are naive enough to believe companies actually believe in the slogans they use.
@@LucyWest370 The FDA would never let second use plastic bottles onto manufactures as no amount of traditional sterilization would be good enough. All it would take is 1 bottle with some pathogen that wasn’t fully killed and now the CDC has a possible outbreak on their hands. This is why literally nothing is reused in this way instead its melted down to its basic components, and reformed and then sold to factories.
The difference with PLA is that at least it's plant-based, which means that it doesn't introduce long-buried carbon back into the biosphere. But your point still stands and everything you said is correct, AFAIK.
@@LucyWest370 Actually most nations do reuse their bottles, mostly glass without any recycling since a basic dishwater or a drop of iodine is enough to fully sanitize them. If it's good enough for the military, and most non-American nations, then it works. Edit: For example, all bars and most coffee houses reuse steins and mugs, and how restaurants always reuse all their cutlery, plates and cups without issue. Many beverages are also self-sanitizing due to very high acidity, salts added and sometimes alcohol too.
I live in Australia and I used to drive a Tipper for a job. I would collect building site rubbish and take it to different tips multiple times a day. The plastic that we should be concerned about is not that which we throw away in the recycle bin everyday after use. Things like plastic bottles and containers. It's all the other plastic products that we use everyday that end up at the tip. Try this, walk around you house and in one single room count everything that is made from plastic, or has in part plastic components. You will get into the hundreds very quickly. And this is only the tip of the ice berg. Then think about all the construction sites where plastics are used instead of traditional materials. Like plastic concrete reinforcement, plastic plumbing pipe, and plastic electrical wire insulation, etc. All of this rubbish amounts to more than what we throw in the bin everyday. And it never gets recycled, it just gets buried under the ground.
This is an excellent breakdown of some of the issues with recycling. Here are a few notes: - Reducing use of plastics is *far more* important than recycling. - Glass, aluminum, steel, and so on are more recyclable - Avoid "wishcycling". Don't put stuff into recycling unless you know it's recyclable, otherwise you may just contaminate it. - Cardboard is heavily recyclable and recycled. - Paper can be recycled, but check your local company to see what is supported. Most plain office paper can be recycled, but glossy or plasticized paper usually can't be.
You forgot an important part - *reuse* the recyclable materials you have if possible instead of disposing them. Yeah, those plastic shopping bags from the supermarket aren't likely to be recycled - so perhaps use them as trash bags instead of buying other plastic bags to be your trash bag. Cardboard? Has practically endless uses. Plastic soda bottles? Great for plant starters, you can even save a few bucks on groceries that way.
@@QwertyCaesar its funny you mentioned reusing plastic bags as garbage bags, as I USED to do this. Then they introduced reusable bags, which are great in theory if you're an ultra scheduled and organised person, with a comfy 9-5 job, and all your 'life' ducks in a row...but i always always forget my bags, because i never ever PLAN to go shopping- its something I just shove in desperately between appointments and shifts etc, sporadically and willy nilly. On top of this, reusable bags do very poorly as replacement garbage bags. Therefore, the end result is a staggeringly large, and ever-growing, collection of reusable plastic bags, that i never reuse, because no amount of good intentions are going to improve my memory, enlargen my purse, or make my schedule more manageable/organisable. Perhaps, if we didn't live in desolate gig economy environment, I could have a nice routined 9-5, with FULL time hours and benefits, allowing for ACTUAL organisation of my actual life and therefore the sheer luxury of having a modicum of control over what I do, when, and where. Point being, they are actively making even holding down a half decent job harder than it should ever be, and that was BEFORE the pandemic- let alone how often they actively undermine things like attempts to recycle and reuse! These companies are attacking the fabric of our species like a cancer, bent on growth at the almost MANDATORY cost of our destruction. Yes, I truly believe that the CEOs of these companies are genuinely disappointed if they can achieve domination in their industry WITHOUT abusing a child or killing a puppy. That is who they are. These CEOs of these companies, kill millions and millions of people. And if they aren't stopped, they will very likely end our entire planet. Making Hitler- get this- LESS destructive and evil than Oil company CEOs. I know, i know, that sounds grossly hyperbolic on its face, but i swear, the math doesn't lie, its TRUE!!! The only way the CEOs are ANY different is that they do not discriminate- they want ALL living creatures to suffer needlessly. So i suppose, at the very least, they can stand up proudly and say they represent the equal and TOTALLY indiscriminate destruction of all life in this planet. They certainly don't pick and choose- to them, all must die.
[singing] I’d like to buy the pandemic world an all New & Improved COVID-19 Free Horton's Cola and keep my social distance. It’s the real thing this time, really really, truly truly...
After working at a recycling plant it became very obvious that its just a waste of city money to put on a cherade of recycling. The only think they actually cared about was the paper and cardboard. Everything else (glass, metal, plastic) went into the same shipping bales.
@@_Dwarkin that's true but it has lots of costly disadvantages to logistics: it is heavy, it is fragile, it can injure a person with shards when broken, it can't be compressed to take less volume after use. so we still have to choose between compromises
And celuose is useless to recycle. I worked at a paperfactory that was required to use mostly recycled fiber. Problem is that processed fibers are short, so it end up with high recycled fiber products being nigh exclusivly the cheap useless toiletpaper that disolves/breakes apart as you wipe. I say nigh, since some decide they want equally useless householdpaper or napkins.
@@ThrokuPaper is not only recyclable but decomposable. TP and napkins should fall apart when you get them wet. This is a good thing, that way they break down easily in the environment. You don't want TP to clog toilets. Paper towels don't fall apart when wet bc they are partially made of plastic. If your TP is falling apart when you wipe your ass then your ass is too wet.
@@andrefruth41 It is called honest ads not show us how everything works. There is no point in showing off something that works good and as it was intended.
Since Roger is all about honesty I will be honest as well: he's the only reason why I subscribed to this channel in the first place, the only reason why I haven't unsubscribed yet, and the only reason for which I will still be subscribed (if it's the case of course) in the future!
I work in recycling (in the UK) and there's much truth in this - but also some falsehoods. So, plastics are terrible for the environment and companies do tend to hid truths about their recyclability. Plastics can be recycled more than once, in general, but it depends on their quality to begin with. Each time you recycle a plastic, the hydrocarbon chain gets shorter and the polymer becomes weaker. So can you recycle a plastic bottle into another plastic bottle? Yes; but not of the same quality. After that, that new but thinner, weaker plastic bottle may be recycled again - but into a plastic bag. After that, eventually the plastic becomes so weak there's no value in it any more and it isn't recyclable. The comment below that recycling is a charade... it really depends where you work. Some plants do tend to mostly care about paper and cardboard and not want to deal in plastics. I knew one (UK based) council that was locked into a 7 year contract where the plant would only take plastic bottles for recycling and no other plastics. Not great. But it isn't a charade to recycle plastics - citizens, companies and authorities just shouldn't hide behind this as the solution - it's not, obviously. It's better than NOT recycling and reusing plastic, but not better than cutting its use out completely. It's slowing the issue, keeping voldermort at bay if you will lol... rather than putting and end to it. Also... if plastic recycling is all mixed together it won't be too contaminated to work with, but just more expensive to work with. Plastics are difficult to 'contaminate' as they can be washed very easily. Cardboard and paper with food on, different story, that's pretty much useless now. The companies like to put recycling symbols on everything because it makes them look better; here in the UK they say 'check local recycling' - many plastics can be recycled at 'the tip', less so in your household recycling bin. The 'plastic types' system we have here, 1-7, both helps and hinders people's understanding of what plastics are actually recyclable. Things like kids toys and coathangers could be made out of a mixture of types and so aren't generally recyclable. Mostly, 'household plastics' which can be recycled at home are made from standardised types - type 1 (PET - your standard plastic bottle), type 2, HDPE (milk bottles etc)... where it gets confusing is that, type 5 is polypropylene and type 6 is polystyrene (for example). A local authority may ask you to put 'plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays' in your boxes or bins for recycling... which means that a food tray made out of type 5, PP, IS recyclable, and a yoghurt pot, made out of type 6, polystyrene, is too... but expanded versions of these (packaging polypropylene and polystyrene) are NOT recyclable. Also, PP (type 5) may be in the form of a plastic bag and your local authority may not want to take these as there's little value in them / harder and more expensive to recycle at kerbside / people sometimes hide things in them...). So.. forget about what the companies say, or any numbered system.. and ask your local authority what they take. It also comes down to the fact collection crews have to check your bins... if councils accepted an extensive list of recycling, crews would be there for ages checking each bin against a list and would never get their rounds done. 'Is this coathanger a type 5?... or a mixture of types which means it's not recyclable... hmmm'. Not feasible! So local authorities make it simple - plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays. If anything like the UK, the recyclable 'bottles, pots, tubs and trays' (that you can recycle at home) will be those in between hard plastics and soft plastics - 'a bit of give' in them. If you can't bend it / it's brittle and tough, not recyclable at home (yes at the tip), if you can rip it, or it snaps easily like expanded polystyrene, also not recyclable at home, most likely. So items with this 'bit of give in' will be like bottles of fizzy drinks, plastic milk cartons, tubs of washing up stuff - all things you can bend, but wouldn't be able to rip with your bare hands unless you were the hulk! I'm not sure on how the US works and can't speak for all UK local authorities and plants, but the authority I work for is leading and we ensure we recycle ALL our plastics wherever possible in the UK (98% +). Some things leave the country, like paper and card (India have bloody good paper mills to be fair!) - but plastics generally stays because it's so important to control and ensure it's handled correctly. The main problem is, even if you recycle plastic diligently and correctly, eventually, it will end up in the ground, or be incinerated at the very best. You're fighting a losing battle with it. I don't think it's a big lie more than it's the 'elephant in the room'. From being on the inside, I'd say that most places (maaaaybe not companies, who knows - but they're not the ones who have to collect the stuff!) are trying their best with this issue, rather than trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Like anything you're never going to have a perfect system. But for now, until we can come up with something better, I'd say keep on recycling - it's not the answer to it all, but it's better than digging a hole and putting it in there, for sure.
Thank you for this. Here in Norway we are expressily told to recycle only plastics that have been food packadging. All else goes in the "rest" bin. We recycle about 24% of this but hope to recycle more as technology develops.
Roger straps James Bond to the laser table turns on the laser and starts to leave the room, Bond shouts back " do you want me to talk", Roger says no Mr Bond I want you to stop recycling :-)
I thought I knew how cruddy the whole “live green” being forced on the public and not the big corporations but I really didn’t know plastic basically couldn’t be reused.
it can be reused fam. It was even stated. The issue is that it cant be completely remade in its most basic form. You can make building material from it, you can make clothes etc. It is up to us to make as many possible solutions to the problem as possible. Atleast in europe there is a huge trend to cancel single use plastics.
@@istvanendreviletel545 Reused =/= recycled. If I take a plastic water bottle, empty it, then refill it with water, I'm reusing the bottle. If I instead take the empty bottle and melt it down to be made into a shirt, I'm recycling the bottle. Reusing means I don't have to do anything special to get another use from an item. I might need to rinse it, but I don't need to melt and reform it. Recycling means melting it down to be turned into something else, and every time plastic is recycled, the long polymer chains are broken into shorter ones. Shortening a polymer chain makes it weaker, and trying to recycle any plastic twice typically makes it way too weak to do anything. Imagine if the process of recycling wood would turn oak into balsa, because that's pretty much what happens with plastic. Also, the 3 Rs are in order of environmental impact. Reduce, reuse, recycle. If you want to have a green lifestyle, reducing your consumption of goods is the most effective way. If I reduce how much I drive, I burn less gas. Recycling is last because it requires energy to turn something into something else. You are correct about how going green has been forced on people, instead of the massive companies that are destroying the world. The thing is that going green was started by big companies to blame their actions on individuals.
This is beautiful... Reminds me so much of my days on college of agronomy and agriculture, where we were told essentially the same thing by the professors about this subject... How most of ``collected`` ``recyclable`` material is just burned for power, as plastics for example are a vast field of different materials, some of which can be melted and recast into new things, some of which cant ever be remelted and so on... Some which can be melted, but are full of glass reinforcement, be it beads or fibers... All that and so much more... I guess it didnt help my cynicism a single bit... But it sure can make me appreciate this type of cynical content... Just priceless...
@@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745 dosent really matter. Both sides use the same BS tactics. 1. Take Big Money 2. lie and make false promises 3. Win 4. Maintain status quo and focus on re-election.......by lying and taking big money again
Also he should put in that no laws exist for corporations ever unless you're rich enough to sue them because there is literally no enforcement of employees' rights, but good luck for the majority who can't afford lawyers and get to experience pleasant sensations as a result. Sensations such as forced working weekends with no religious exemptions being tolerated, your unavailability is flat out refused, part-time employment but 10 hour days, barely making a living wage while you puke from a constant diet of ramen and come up short on your monthly bills, groping, pompous pig-headed management with such shit experience they enable those long work hours because they're mentally handicapped while engaging in extreme micro-managing or even bullying until coworkers commit suicide. Add a dash of more and more corporations enforcing signing away your right to sue in lieu of "in house arbitration" where the arbitrators are "totally neutral". Oh, and when the company wants to clean an entire department they engage in a witch hunt of false accusations and tell those they surround in a tiny room it's not necessary to read the paper which is a complete admission of their guilt but they can't leave until it's signed. I almost forgot that one.
2:44 🤣we’re not going to spend millions of dollars sorting through it all, when we’re already paying so much to convince you that we’re sorting through it all🤣
"We are not going to spend millions of dollars sorting through it all, when we already paying so much to convince you that we are sorting through it all!"
Sad but very true😅 actually in some developing countries they are much better at recycling than we are. Not out of environment concerns but simply because. of scarcity
@@beldiman5870 you talk like a robot - I pick up what others leave behind to use in my life to be a productive member of society. One example of the many is that I foudn sandals abandoned on the beach, which I use to clean up more trash and find more stuff and tell others to tell the city not to pollute. Was that the answer to your 'serious' question?
"I hear dolphins are very smart" They absolutely are lol. A study team was using dolphins and training them to collect sea waste and garbage, to be brought back for treats. The dolphins quickly discovered that if they just found 1 piece of trash, and tore it up repeatedly into smaller pieces, they could get more treats for less work. Thus proving the shit that makes humans awful, is pretty much baked into our DNA 🤣
@@ADerpyReality not "lazy greed". It's a biologically understandable thing for any animal smart enough to take advantage of it. Maximum gain for least effort does not mean laziness, it means using cunning to achieve the best outcome for the least amount of expended energy. Something that is a driving evolutionary benefit for most. Being able to for example, create a rope to assist in more easily climbing a tree and procuring food from it isn't laziness, it's ingenuity. However, the darker element of this comes from the exploitation of systems and policies to achieve the same results. This is how you get people that scam the unemployed system or welfare systems. Or corrupt politicians that abuse their positions. Understanding that this behavior is a biological reality rooted in the pleasure centers of our brains and associated with dopamine is vital when attempting to come up with systems and policies that might be easily exploited by malactors.
In many cities, we just mix all of our recycling together by tossing it into one big unsorted container and then our cities simply bury it in a landfill. It is often just green theater if you don’t personally take it to be recycled after first cleaning and sorting it yourself.
It came from the land - it goes back into the land, without burning it thus without releasing carbon and energy into the atmosphere. There's nothing "green" about consumerism and convenience, and it doesn't matter what we look at - drinks, food, electronics, appliances, renovations, construction, etc. Heck, instead of entertaining ourselves by sitting with our friends and family and exchanging stories - we burn electricity to run out devices to burn electricity for the internet's infrastructure and to burn electricity on Netflix's server that individually sends you mind boggling amounts of data exclusively for you do watch something, instead of transmitting it just once for everyone like TV used to work. Plastic buried in landfills might actually be among the least problematic parts of it all.
@@s.kasecky8156 waaait. Technically it would've been correct, IF we didn't produce new plastic. Recycling is still absolutely essential to reduce amount of new plastic that we produce, but it can't solve the problem because it merely prolongs the plastics life and we still need to produce plastic.
@@s.kasecky8156 what is actually more ecological, is not buying. Period. Not buying stuff, plastic stuff, metal stuff, electronic stuff - buy as little stuff you can survive on. You know what's the only thing that has consistently shown to reduce emissions? Economic collapse of capitalist markets and end of consumerism. We don't have _any_ other certain ways that can work, the rest are just measures to maybe make the climate change not as bad as it could've been but still bad and getting worse year after year. The most ecological countries per citizen aren't European or Scandinavian countries with their strict standards and ecologically conscious population - it's the countries like India where the people often don't have the means to constantly buy more and more stuff.
A fine example of this: Talking about environment problems in media will always point fingers at the consumers for using plastic, etc.... While consumers most of the times don't even have a choice, if you go to the supermarkets and there's only plastic bags available, whose fault is it? The polluting corporation and factories should take a lot more responsibility for their pollutions, especially since they gain from it.
It's remarkable how much ingenuity goes into tricking people into believing things that are demonstrably untrue, while no ingenuity at all goes into using less awful materials, methods and fuels to create products of equal or greater value, with less harm to the environment that even CEOs and such kinda sorta still have to live in. I mean, they _could_ start terraforming Mars, but it would still take about a thousand years longer than this planet would last at the current rate... assuming they could mine enough water, gases and other necessary materials from wherever they expect to, which would be an enormous undertaking, especially without a planet capable of supporting the immense workforce it would require. And then they'd have to explain to that workforce that no, they're not allowed on the nice new planet, it's only for rich people... so in summary, not the most viable plan for the future there.
Actually, it does a good job of telling you why you should actually investigate for yourself on the things corporations tell you to do. The forest regulation of companies in general is just bad. Some things should be regulated, sure, like the environmental impact that companies have if they actually impact the environment, or the nature of how they are supposed to treat their workers in a neutral manner. Fat forcing the company to recycle all the time, or to adhere to your political beliefs is absolutely fucking retarded
"Not regulating corrportations" ? Anyone who thinks we don't regulate corporations is delusional. In fact, we regulate corporations so heavily that they only ones that the only ones that become really successful are the ones that are in bed with the politicians that are regulating them.
I love how the comments are mostly praising Roger instead of discussing the idea of recycling. Oil companies have won on another level even when the video exposes them. Brutal.
I’m glad I’m seeing this. I’m noticing that the recycling centers have disappeared here in California. So we are still paying at the checkout stand but not getting the refund back
You have no idea how true this is! People feel guilty for overconsuming and throw their old, mostly still working, stuff away? We need to keep making more money, let’s talk about how to take away the guilt! Even governments are in on it! And another advantage of plastic: it makes products unreparable and useless. So instead of getting something repared, you buy the whole thing new.
In the USSR there were state programmes for recycling: people were able to collect paper, metal and glass bottles and then bring all that to the buy-back recyclers near the stores and get money. Today it's impossible to organise the same process even for beer bottles, as 1) each brand insists on having their own design for a bottle, 2) this initiative is lobbied against by the owners of glass factories.
@@elektro3000 The problem is we don't use that many metal items in our households anymore, most things are made of mixed or combined materials - which is another kind of pain in the ass. Besides, metal things are more durable than plastic. metal recycling is much less of a problem.
Penn and Teller also covered this subject in their Bullshit series in 2004. The only thing recycling accomplishes is that it makes you feel good about throwing your trash away.
No, they only concentrated on the cost of recycling. They completely ignored one of the things that it could accomplish. (when done properly) That is, reducing the amount of litter, and reducing the amount of stuff that goes into the landfill.
This whole video is garbage. The angle is focused on recycling for the purpose of using for a single use purposes. Polypropylene, and some other single use plastic types can be recycled many many times and moulded into whatever product a manufacturer wishes to make. Plastics is recycled, processed into raw material and injection moulded. This can be done up to 7 times.
You have to keep in mind that businesses also compete with each other. For instance the coal industry has long used the environmental movement to go after nuclear. The issue is that non-profits end up manipulating the pubic in ways that corporations never could. So, if a nuclear corporation went on the offensive against the coal industry, the public would side with the coal industry because the non-profits support coal. If you really want to clean things up in this country, you need to decouple for profit businesses from non-profit ones. You also need to put in more regulations on non-profits so that they don't fall into the hands of evil men who use them as a weapon against the poor.
I just love Roger's method as he wakes up every day and chooses which one of all the hypocritical concepts of today's world will he be ripping a new one with his sophisticated violence. Good to have you back, Roger.
Honest Ads is Cracked's version of Adam Ruins everything. Only IMO Roger's open contempt for the audience as he acts like the guy who's screwing you is funnier than Adam's "um actually" nerdy corrector persona.
I've been asking for literal decades, "Why don't we just go back to glass? It is more easily processed, reused, or recycled. Why not if plastic is so bad?" Instead, we get garbage paper straws to use with full plastic cups and lids! 😂 🤬
That's easy to answer actually, even if the answer is absurd The plastic is cheaper That's it 🤷 Also it could be changed into an aluminum cans if we talk about drinks, and it's actually recyclable and light in weight but I guess it's a bit more expensive than plastic so companies are like "meh"
@@LoneWolfMikoto I'd say that the environmental damage of using plastic is greater than the damage that would be incurred by extra CO2 emission of transporting glass. But unfortunately damage to the environment does not figure in manufacturers' cost-profit calculations.
@@randomuser6306 “After rebranding the seasonal flu as some mysterious deadly plague that you have to take a test to know if you even have, you’re sure to do whatever we say until after the next fake election.”
i think in the future we will mine trash pits and dumps for metals and plastics because prices will skyrocket to the point it will be cost effective to strip mine a landfill.
I got hired to drive the recycling truck in my town this summer. After picking up everyone's recycling all morning, they made me dump it in the woods near the river bank behind the building. I promptly quit.
My town insists we're separating our recyclables, even though all the trash and yard waste goes into one truck. The trash is taken to a sorting station anyway, according to a garbage company video. I'd tell the State of Illinois about it, but since it's the State of Illinois, well, you can guess how well that will go....despite the laws saying we're supposed to be separating(!)
@@markh.6687The separating thing is stupid and often times that is why a lot off people don't even recycle. They really should just have it all go into the same truck and have sorters everywhere. You can get people more jobs that way, and it would insure that recyclables would actually get properly recycled.
the only real way to ensure plastic is actually recicled, is if you do it yourself. Its hard and isnt as efficient as a production line would be, but that at least actually happens, and you can see it with your eyes, and experiment with whats better for you, and maybe other people too. it actually pushes you to buy less or more depending on how well you are at actually recycling it (usually less since its hard to be good at it and use it all)
In ny family we always use water bottles twice, and then when they are just really broken, we trow it away, whic if this video is true, its most than every "recycled" thing
@@dulcecitarisitas3504that's really really unhealthy, had a friend poisoned from using the same water bottles too much, the plastic leeches into the water. Try buying a metal bottle, it withholds temperature really well and in general is a better choice
This channel needs to do one general "If Commercials Were Honest" and show the reality of commercials always showing people extremely happy about absolute crap. I would love to see that ridiculed to hell and back.
@@MedievalFantasyTV You mean there's one covering the specific angle I mentioned? Because I have seen a lot of commercial categories, just not a general one "yet".
No but seriously i think through this satire you can actually reach a lot of people and talk openly about issues. In this modern political correctness age comedy is one of the not so many tools you can use and speak out about really important issues in a true, genuine way. Great message guys, keep it up. By the way, Roger is back, goddamn yeah!
Aah yes. """""""""""""educational""""""""""""". You mean half true, half lies, wrapped up in hippie nonsense satire. But hey, you bought it, great! Unfortunately, the situation is much more nuanced and complex, as it usually is. But oil companies just care about oil, and youtubers just care about views, and activists just care about their religion, and none of them about the truth. Educate yourself.
@@miltonpopper4181 my man how do you not trust literally anyone at all? As a youtuber who doesnt care about views and also not caring about spreading lies, i can safely say that gravity does indeed make things fall down, therefore disproving your point.
@@LucyWest370 Actually, I like that the video makes people aware of the fact that most plastic is not being recycled, and is difficult to recycle, despite many of the eco-messaging we're getting (mostly from the government btw, not big corporations). However, there are things in this video that are, demonstrably, not correct, and associations are being made that are unfounded, and unfair. Why muddy a good message with typical hippie cliche dogma? This makes the video have an overarching dishonest message. Also, I do not comment on such thing usually, but what's with childish reply? Ok, mine was somewhat snarky, but if you have an issue, let's stick to the issue, and not come up with these lame "gravity...fall down...disprove" type replies. I'm not 12, I hope you're not either. This video does not "educate" it "propagandizes", there is a difference, and that is my issue with it, and the comment that claimed this was "educational".
@@miltonpopper4181 if you ignore me being a jerk because you were kind of a jerk, this isn’t really educational, its a comedic parody that mixes truth in with the jokes. People should be doing their own research anyway to make sure its not just ‘government bad’ put in a more palatable format. Its not going to be 100% accurate nor does it really have to be, but yeah if your going to do something like this maybe lean more on the truth side.
Shows how long this has been an issue - I recall that the plastic manufacturers trying to tell people it was recyclable started in the '80s, so in 1998 this was already going on, and 23 years later nothing has changed.
@@notme2day really? Dammit... again, just trying to help, again, just more lies to sift through. As crazy as it may sound, we just really need to get rid of money. Not just out of gas and oil. Not just out of politics. Not just out of war. Not just out of governments. Out of existence. We need to make money an embarrassing story from our past that will haunt us into eternity so we never make the same mistake again. Money, of any kind, has only served to do harm. As far back in history as ive been able to research that has been true. War is born out of money Almost all crime is born out of the existence of money also. Pollution. Poverty. Homelessness. Slavery. Disease also has a part to play in monetary systems. Even death is made more terrible with the existence of money. Either caused by too much money or too little. It doesnt matter what monetary system we use. They are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past in ever more inventive and horrible ways. Every new system we come up with is going to be the one! Right? We will finally find the one thats fair and righteous and equitable! Right? Never happen. In fact, cant happen. Monetary systems require stratification of any society that uses them. Some will have more than others. Always. Impossible not too. Stratification requires some degree of inequality. Monetary systems can, quite literally, never deliver equality. So, this fight that weve had for the last few thousand years is doomed to continue forever into our future. Theres no way for it not to continue. The power will shift back and forth like a perpetual motion pendulum. Just tick.... tock.... into oblivion. Why? For money? Ignore everything that humans could become for the unliving, unfeeling, unsatisfying rectangle of paper we call currency? Lunacy! Friggin mass hysteria! How TF is this crap supposed to work for humanity? The simple answer is, it isnt meant to work for humanity at all. Never was. It was only ever meant to work for a few. They understood that. We still don't. A world without monetary systems would be a start to us healing both ourselves and our planet. An end to all the lies we are told over anything that concerns money. Would that be utopia? No. We would still have problems to face and hurdles to jump but we could at least see more clearly exactly what those problems and hurdles we face.
@@amandap9332 Well, sorta. In the short term, yes they are as bad as plastic bags (actually they can be worse sometimes). But in the long term they can be better (although by how much kinda depends). BTW, I’m only going off of memory by this- you can disregard this comment if you want to.
Internally the companies regrind plastic that was rejected from their lines and then mixed with new material but never seen outside recycled material. I love these videos.
That stuff isn't contaminated, is pure plastic of known grade with no debris or other material. That's a lot easier to work with than post-consumer material which is a mix of different types and often contaminated with dirt, food/drink residue, paper from labels, and so on. Though even that I'd imagine would only be doable a finite number of times as the plastic molecules themselves degrade every time this is done.
"We're not gonna spend millions of dollars sorting through that shit when we're already spending millions to convince you we're sorting through that shit." I love that
So true! I worked at McDonalds some years ago and all their separated trashbags went into the same trash press, nicely compressed together into cubes 😂
@@sigridurlennartsdottir4416When I worked at McDonald's, I did have to separate the trash, but when I went to take it out, the guy responsible over there was like AAH WHO CARES, JUST THROW IT ALL IN THE MIXED TRASH, so yea
still, the amount of trash we produced in half a day (two massive carts much higher and wider than me) still saddens me to this day
If you use Quotes, do it right
Recycling would work perfectly if everyone would do it properly. This means to separate manually all different materials that are bonded together. For example, with a glass bottle on which there's a plastic cap and a paper sticker, you should remove the paper sticker and the plastic cap from the bottle. Also, dirty paper and cardboard shouldn't be thrown in the recyclable bin, and other very dirty stuff should be cleaned in order to avoid contaminating all the clean paper and cardboard...
In many European cities, there are separate bins for each materials (paper, metals, glass and plastic), which is even better and much easier to recycle afterward
The problem with recycling is that the infrastructures required to recycle all the different materials don't use the same processes. Thus, if a cardboard recycling facility ends of with tons of plastic bonded with the cardboard it tries to recycle, it becomes very complex to recycle any of it without manually separating everything, which is an impossible task because it would be too time consuming
Sorry if my english isn't perfect
@@PG-3462Sounds like the new Religion. The next step is to raise "Garbage wars" when plastic 56 evangelists will throw it to yellow container instead of brown one
I am so glad that Roger is back, the world needs him now more then ever.
He's been recycled. :)
ROGER IS BACK!!!!! 😁😁😁😁
than*
I still miss the after hours crew but cracked RUclips content has been pretty darn good as of late.
Okay so I'm not crazy! I knew this guy had disappeared. But for how long?
The legend returns
I never thought the day would come
Made my day love this guy
I am fan-girl screaming with joy! I’m so excited Roger is back!
When the world needed him
Yup.
In Europe, sorting plastics into their own waste container became mandatory a few years ago. But when the Finnish public broadcasting company YLE started investigating how plastics are recycled in Europe, it was revealed that the plastics were sent to be stored in China, where they also ended up in the sea, because European warehouses were full and the technology for efficient recycling of plastics doesn't yet exist. However, I don't know if things have changed at all since then.
It changed. China stopped importing trash of other countries because their own industry, market and consumption rate skyrocketed so much in the past decade, that their recycling plants and refineries are overloaded even tho literal cities are built around them and mountains of garbage is being piled up around them.
WTF
Nope. They haven't. Not one bit.
Best thing to do with plastic is probably to just burn if for energy.
I don't know if it's just an urban legend but in Switzerland tales are being told of incineration plants having a hard time incinerating because since we're so good at sorting garbage not enough paper and cardboard is in our trash.
Frankly, I think the approach to saving the planet needs to be balanced. Don't go dumping used oil into a river obviously but don't fret that much over recycling either. I feel like we are burdened with so many dos and don'ts that people are just sucked dry of both energy and giving a fuck. I said the same thing back during covid. They made us follow so many stupid rules that were obviously dumb that I predicted that once they knew how the virus actually operated, a lot of people would be done with complying to any guidelines. And that's exactly what happened.
@@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse I think that we should be reusing plastic bottles the same way we reuse glass bottles, those plastic bottles can be way more durable than a glass one and for some reason someone had the idea of just disposing them and everyone agreed that it's a good idea.
@@robbieaulia6462 Glass bottles are easy to clean with just very hot water or steam. PET does not like that overly much. So you run into the issue of cleanliness.
Funnier still is nearly all plastic that ever gets recycled is the scrap from injection molding. They load it back into the machines to be melted along side virgin plastic...So when they say something has 15% recycled content they mean 15% recycled content from their own production process, not from stuff you recycled.
Oh that's really bleak... thank you?
I have always been curious about that thanks
Always wondered about those commercials about recycling soda bottles into play equipment. I think it went along the line - "My daddy recycles soda bottles into..." and "He's saving the planet."
There are many kinds of twin trashbins with one for the non recyclable and the other recyclable. Guess what! They are conjoined twins! They share the SAME bin under the opening
@@robertthomas5906 play equipment i believe a little more. like you could probably grind up a bunch of plastic and press it into a wood chip replacement or some shit. or just mold it into big solid peices with a little heat and you got a slide or some shit. a bit easier than making sure its food safe for bottles and stuff. idk
"Sir 2021 is getting worse than 2020. What do we do?"
Takes deep breath "....its time....call in Rodger..."
No. No it isn't. Nothings on fire, I"m immunized and I can go to the fucking amusement park again. It is verifiability NOT worse. Unless you are a Christian dominionist fascist. Then sucks to be you I guess.
@@DanaTheInsane shhhh, don’t jinx us. There is still a lot of 21 left
@@DanaTheInsane lmao it was a joke about a comedy sketch
It would've been great if he was called a year earlier...
@@DanaTheInsane In the US West, pretty much everything is on fire or very much in danger of it.
We missed you Roger. You basically carried this whole channel on your back lol
LOL You're right. It's the only content I watch from Cracked. Although I like to read articles on their website.
Hahaha so true 🤣 this guy rocks.
And the original after hours crew.
What have you been smoking? Liars all of you.
@@imtruegeordiesballscratche9261 that's a ridiculous thing to say. How much did they pay you to say that?
As someone who has worked in plastic for around 16 years of my life and knows a lot about molecular orientation, this video explains so much better than i do on my many tangents.
Wouldn't a double boiler be a viable way to melt it down plastic?
@@ChrisF_1982 no.
Heat ruins the long chains.
@@samljer I wasn't suggesting a perfect molecular bond, but to a lesser degree than a direct heat source.
@@ChrisF_1982 There's also additives which can't be reliably separated from plastic. And while they still present there it is unreusable.
Even in a video about plastic has people in the comments being "as a plastic I agree"
It is like seeing an old friend, after three years, that you never thought you’d see again.
And he’s taken these last three years in better stride than I think I could at his age…whatever that is
I"m on the verge of tears....
Right? It's like the 'Seeya tomorrow!' 'Last Online: 3 years ago' meme and giving it a happy ending for once.
@@Blue-bx9pb I'm convinced he's immortal.
@@gingy30 yes even Covid couldn't kill him... then again, Covid didn't kill anyone. He should do a video on that (and get banned)
Holy shit! Roger hasn't aged a day! Must be Horton's anti-age cream.
Lol
He's plastic.. And plastic never ages
Roger has a nuclear half-life similar to plutonium. And he's a vampire too!
pretty sure the aging process slows the older you get.
The only Horton's product that actually works, and they don't sell it to the general public, son of a bitch!
*"Burning Air Poison Company"*
*"Life shortening sugar water"*
*"Horseless carriages"*
*"Car Juice"*
*"Gas Paper"*
*"Fresh squeezed fruit blood"*
Blimey, it's going to be jolly good!
And don't forget "Ouroboros".
Gas paper… didn’t get that part. Sorry, still struggling with second languages.
@ Gas as in Gasoline (oil) and paper represents sheets. So sheets made of oil. I think.
@@comradeweismann6947 I see… Thank you for explaining. I actually thought of cigarettes first, but couldn’t relate it to the oil companies. :)
@@comradeweismann6947 I was thinking plastic wrap and plastic bags
0:05 Are we just going to ignore that amazing slap-toss of the plastic bottle into the bin at the beginning?? Perfectly unexpected it even made the other guy smile lol
Has Roger been cryogenically frozen all these years? Hasn’t aged a second. So glad you’ve thawed out, Rodge.
Have you not watched him? He has said don't call him Rodge... 😳
Well, it was really just about 3.5 year, but he does seem unchanged, just even more like himself.
Horton Cryogenics probably.
@@olandir Or Horton Human Popsicle Storage Tubes.. 😁😊😂
@@Ghastly10 Sounds like something Roger would say😂😂
The words “I’m Roger, by the way” fill my soul with such joy. I can’t even begin to tell you.
When cars go eletric the by product will be more expensive than the oil.
@@stephensanderson6386 but will it kill the planet more?
By the time you suck all of the oil from the tectonic plates......its too late anyway..im anti lithium.
Hes my 2nd best Roger
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise yes
And when the world needed him most, he returned
The man? The Myth?? The legend???
only roger master of the ugly truth could teach us, but when the world needed him most, he vanished
👍 Welcome back, Roger! 👏
I like this guy, I would like to receive an unethical and high paying job from him.
I too would like to receive a job, any job, please, for the love of god.
@@advertisingadrian lmfao
He would more likely give you a low paying job, but convince you it’s high paying through the use of confusing benefits that cost him less to pay for than the money he could be giving you lol
it would only be unethical i guess 😂😂😂
Roger is an absolute chad in his generation. Glad the legend is still on camera dropping good information that is digestible for everyone.
I’ll never understand how “Chad” shifted from male Karen to something positive over such a short period of time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some clouds to yell at.
Unlike the sweetened poisons we imbibe daily from portable cellophane sacs.
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@@RagnarokMic Chad was around before Karen, and was always Chad. You mean that you're incapable of understanding how some people attempted to reshape Chad into male Karen and failed horribly, because, they were trying to make Chad something Chad is not.
@@ino_mationExactly, you can't make "Chad" something he's not, which is why it stands for entitled preppy douche, that's what the name "Chad" exudes, like "Tucker." Stereotypical frat boy "Chad" does predate the Karen, but that context of the two were the same.
"Horton oil", Roger is a Trillionare by now with the number of companies he owns. 👏🏾👏🏾😭🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣...and Horton Oil sounds like a real corporate company!
The entrepreneurial virtuoso.
He's bezzos in disguise
Why are your emojis black? 😂 Are you one of those "skin color matters" racists?
@@libertyislife8143 that's because it IS a real company, or at least it was at one point, extracting oil in Southern Kansas.
I hate when people shame others for not recycling. Remember, there are three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Hardly anyone talks about the first two.
They're even listed in decreasing order of importance.
This. The first two are vastly more important. Probably the most important things we could be funding research for.
Recycle being the last resort.
Exactly. In our consumerist society there is no fucking way every single person needs to have their own person massive as fck car. Like, I’m in the UK, and everyone in my tiny town has their own personal car. You look on the road, 99% of the cars there have 1 or two people in them. What the fuck man, you’re taking the car for your local morrisons? Sorry for the rant, just, it ticks me off the way people demand more, more, more. Like, I don’t think we should all become minimalists, but come on, come on
Recycling reduces crowding in garbage barrels and by extensions lessons the likelihood of encountering refuse related pest problems. You also save money on trash bags and don't go through as many when you don't have plastic and cardboard products taking up space. Most cities only allow you one garbage barrel and one recycling barrel and have a laundry list of rules that give them any excuse to not collect your trash, forcing you to wait a week. This can include having your barrel being too full. So if your garbage isn't being collected because there's too much then what are you supposed to do with all the other trash you have getting thrown away in the meantime? Composting and recycling should be required simply for sanitary reasons alone. There are different classifications of waste and you make your waste collectors job easier and safer by ensuring it's all separated into proper categories.
In New Orleans it was a huge scandal! the garbage companies charging extra for recycling bins only to find out that the recycling bins are being dumped in the same sanitary landfill is all the other garbage
thats why i refuse to pay extra for it. Metal is about the only thing worth recycling which I do at work. 80% of glass in the US is "recycled" into landfill liners. Our cardboard I either use in the firepit or if its not glossy as weed barriers for my garden.
Dam dirty politicians
Wait, is garbage collection privatised in the US? In Australia it's all through the local council - you would just pay if you need to have a large hard rubbish collection.
@@gretchenk.2516 The american dream
@@muzikkificationin most cities I've lived, garbage collection is contracted out by the city to garbage companies, who often cover a larger area than just one city
As someone whose worked in injection molding for 6 years, yes. There are tons of different types of plastic, even if they all look the same. Companies try to use regrind in as many products as they can to save money but some just can't use regrind because it will make the product too fragile and can cause it to burn or melt in the mold. However, some products are actually made of 90% or more reground plastic. I don't doubt that companies won't spend millions trying to sort through all the plastic. Hell, factories won't take the time or effort to try and grind up and re-use the plastic that runs in and out of the machine before it starts. (We have to waste a lot of plastic trying to get the right color and right temperature before we start making the product, so it's just a big pile of goo coming out of the machine)
There are scientists that are currently working on making a commercial sized facility to turn waste plastic into graphite or graphene. They can already transform the plastic at about $25 less per ton than basic recycling. It doesn't add in the cost and pollution of mining graphite that's used daily and globally.
Reusing plastic once doesn't actually do ANYTHING to solve this problem, it only defers it briefly. Even if plastic could've been be reused multiple times, 10% of 10% of 10% would get us 0.1% recycled after 3 iterations, which is pretty much identical to being non-recyclable.
Recycling only slightly prolongs the usage, but as long as we have one-time use plastic goods and packaging, reusing a a piece of plastic once or fee times is irrelevant - regardless whether we recycle or not we will dump plastic at the exactly same levels as we produce new plastic. And our production constantly increases.
@@NJ-wb1cz getting rid of "single use plastic" like grocery bags that are thinner than your typical garbage bag and re-purposing them as such is going to reduce the consummation of thicker plastic bags, therefore reducing plastic needs. Replacing a "single use" plastic bag with paper is way more harmful to the environment. It would take a paper bag to be re-used 40 plus times to be equivalent ( in production and reusability as well as recyclability, energy consumption) to 1 plastic grocery bag,
@@straydogg1000 plastic bags are close to being irrelevant. They usually have an insignificant weight compared to all the packaging INSIDE the bag.
They are highly visible and they _look_ big, so it's convenient for companies to focus on them
@@NJ-wb1cz Plus the plastic companies now get to sell me bin-liners, something I always used shopping bags for before they were banned in my area. (Though I generate little enough waste in a week that the cereal box bag works every other week when I have one available).
When he said “I’m Roger by the way… and I’m back”.
That’s my “avengers assemble” moment.
Love you being back Roger!
More like the Dark Avengers assemble!
“Maybe we’ll just throw it in the ocean for the dolphins to deal with, I hear they’re very very smart” 💀 lmfao
That was a good one lol
shitty thing is that they are. fucking brilliant creatures . unfortunately they lack a body that allows them to have use of it. shame for elephants as well.
@@jokersdelights4435 No doubt their smart. Not having the right body to utilize that intelligence is a matter of opinion
Heck, they might even be smart enough to actually figure out how to properly recycle plastics into weapons to take over the world. We don't want the dolphins taking over the world so we need to get our act together.
@@Sir_Uncle_Ned
Dolphins hired DC lobbyist to push more Tuna consumption
Thanks Roger for being honest with us as usual. As much as I know in the recycling world only: paper, cardboard, glass and aluminum have the best chance of being really recycled. Plastic as you showed in this video is hard to recycle due to its various types and relatively cheep manufacturing of new plastic vs recycling it. By the way I don’t have a problem with it being burnt in an electric generating incinerator with proper smoke filters on it. That is better than the plastic ending up in a land field or worse in the ocean or other waterways.
Put it in a landfill, as far as I'm concerned. In America, all the trash we will generate over the next 1,000 years will fit in to .1% of the available pasture land in the country, and once a dump is full, just cover it up and put a park over it. This is a non-problem.
*cheap
cheep = sound that birds make
*landfill
@@ep4169as much as your lack of cognitive skill is a non-issue
@@toseltreps1101 lol 4 min ago on a year old video, btw I agree with you
@@toseltreps1101 Uh, what exactly is the counter-argument here, beyond the ad hominem?
What should Roger get honest about next?
Loot boxes from Horton gaming lol
Billionaire space races!
😬 have politicians been done yet?
Honest ad for the honest ads series
About previous Cracked
Roger's "I'm back" puts The Terminator's "I'll be back" to shame.
Seeing him first time
Ready to watch every video he is present in
The funny thing about this is you actually do learn about this in elementary or middle school how many times plastic can be recycled and become less efficient, but surprisingly everybody just forgets about it and not actually pay attention to it. Once I got taught this in elementary I ask the teacher why do we even recycled plastic in the first place and there was a long silence, she was very surprised the thought never crossed her mind.
It's not that people just forget, it's they have to conform to their tribe and reject anything that isn't part of the already approved talking points
I can definitely say I was never taught how many times plastic can be recycled and becomes less efficient….how old are you? If you’d be so willing to tell, as it may just be a generational thing: I was born in 88.
Every video I go to with stuff I wish I learned in school and I always see some kid who went to the school that did and I'm left wondering what damn school y'all went to and how y'all remember little questions y'all asked teachers 10 years ago but can't even remember if it was middle or elementary school lmao
Its also a matter of finding a buyer.. In my area, the recycler can accepts #1#2 plastics and clean news paper. THATS IT. The problem is people are putting their greasy pizza boxes in the recycler, or even their used milk jug WITHOUT WASHING IT FIRST. yes.... its up to you to WASH the plastics before sending them off to be recycled!
ohh... and glass? nope! they dont take it at all.. in several areas, its been shown to be cheaper to import the virgin raw materials then it is to reuse glass bottles.
Nothing is free. All this fake environmentalism is now costing us in form of global warming.
Tsunamis, floods and wild fires.
Also Covid. Blame all you want on China but truth is there are many lethal virus waiting among wild life and frozen permafrost that we now are exploiting. If humans become pest nature has it's own pest control.
Problem is the term "recycling" is being used somewhat wrongly. When it comes to plastic, it's not so much about using the trash to make new plastic products (i.e. actually recycling the trash), but rather about disposing it separately. The swiss or the dutch sort their trash and the plastic gets burned using special filters as not to pollute the air. So it does make sense to have different(ly colored) bins for different types of trash. It's just the actual recycling isn't quite there yet.
yet the dutch still throw away most in to the regular bin, you cannot force one to change habits. the dutch are even more angry now we pay plastic tax on anything almost
we throw all "recyclables" into one bin in the us... im sure some recycling companies would get most of the metals and glass out, the rest gets burned (i assume)
@@verloseryes even when there isnt even plastic on it
@@pebkac1245almost all of it goes to the landfill. Waste companies just have separate trucks to stop hippies from whining. They drive straight to the dump the same as trash trucks.
It's unsortable and 99% contaminated. You'd need thousands of workers around the clock to sort it, throw most of it away, then send it to be burnt. So....it's not done😅
In belguim we sort them, in a blue pmd secton: plastics, metal and drinking cartons.. then you design special facilities to sort out those in more details by machines and specialist, since you can indeed NOT expect everyone to start to understand the difference between different kinds ;-). They really get recycled, although i think most recycling is slightly downgrading, still extremely better then single use, and more importantly, sorted mostly and kept out of nature, especially since we banned single use plastic bags, those gotten blown Anywhere...
I never knew I'd be so happy to hear Roger's voice again.
everyone forgets that in the 80's we stopped using a completely recyclable material (glass) and switched to plastic bottles. But most places stopped recycling glass in the 70's.
Money talks and bullshit walks. My favorites are the people that think their "group" is somehow more noble, knowledgeable, and much much gooder than those other not gooder groups!
Glass is heavy and the type of sand needed to make it is less of a commodity than you might think.
@@Toastmaster_5000 You literally missed the point of the entire video and OP's comment in regards to it. Glass is not only 100% recyclable, but also economically viable to recycle... compared to say... plastic.
Glasd is to common to recycle to justify the cost.
Yeah and the reason they switched to plastic was because of the weight. You can fit way more product wrapped in plastic on a truck than you can if it's in glass. It's also labor intensive to handle and recycle.
It's all technically true; the responsibility to recycle has been shifted onto the consumer nowadays. Companies don't have to push for producing less plastic when the conversation has been turned around onto how much it's the consumers duty to recycle the plastic that they needlessly buy.
It's not about recycling plastic, as that doesn't work. You can't indefinitely break down plastic in the hopes of it being reshaped into another useless plastic packaging. You just need to really limit the amount of plastic you buy. That's all you can do.
And don't even bring up PLA into the conversation - that's another lovely green washing lie people tell themselves (and which companies have hijacked for marketing and making themselves look so "green", whatever the hell that means nowadays). PLA can be broken down, sure, but it needs very specific conditions to do so which are unattainable in nature. Otherwise, PLA which ultimately ends up on landfills degrades just as long as regular plastic.
And people are naive enough to believe companies actually believe in the slogans they use.
Wait so is there a reason they dont just reuse the bottles?
@@LucyWest370 The FDA would never let second use plastic bottles onto manufactures as no amount of traditional sterilization would be good enough. All it would take is 1 bottle with some pathogen that wasn’t fully killed and now the CDC has a possible outbreak on their hands. This is why literally nothing is reused in this way instead its melted down to its basic components, and reformed and then sold to factories.
The difference with PLA is that at least it's plant-based, which means that it doesn't introduce long-buried carbon back into the biosphere. But your point still stands and everything you said is correct, AFAIK.
@@Whoareyoucalling dang so its like in the incredible hulk where stan lee drank that radiation juice.
@@LucyWest370 Actually most nations do reuse their bottles, mostly glass without any recycling since a basic dishwater or a drop of iodine is enough to fully sanitize them. If it's good enough for the military, and most non-American nations, then it works.
Edit: For example, all bars and most coffee houses reuse steins and mugs, and how restaurants always reuse all their cutlery, plates and cups without issue. Many beverages are also self-sanitizing due to very high acidity, salts added and sometimes alcohol too.
I live in Australia and I used to drive a Tipper for a job. I would collect building site rubbish and take it to different tips multiple times a day. The plastic that we should be concerned about is not that which we throw away in the recycle bin everyday after use. Things like plastic bottles and containers. It's all the other plastic products that we use everyday that end up at the tip. Try this, walk around you house and in one single room count everything that is made from plastic, or has in part plastic components. You will get into the hundreds very quickly. And this is only the tip of the ice berg. Then think about all the construction sites where plastics are used instead of traditional materials. Like plastic concrete reinforcement, plastic plumbing pipe, and plastic electrical wire insulation, etc. All of this rubbish amounts to more than what we throw in the bin everyday. And it never gets recycled, it just gets buried under the ground.
Roger's back. Yeeeeeeaaaaah!
Oh yes! Let the good times roll.
Rejoice
please be a vaccine manufacturer next...
don't we all love that ending? He's secretly showing us how old timey oldies rock music's cooler than young people's music
We need a "If CRACKED were Honest" video!
This is an excellent breakdown of some of the issues with recycling. Here are a few notes:
- Reducing use of plastics is *far more* important than recycling.
- Glass, aluminum, steel, and so on are more recyclable
- Avoid "wishcycling". Don't put stuff into recycling unless you know it's recyclable, otherwise you may just contaminate it.
- Cardboard is heavily recyclable and recycled.
- Paper can be recycled, but check your local company to see what is supported. Most plain office paper can be recycled, but glossy or plasticized paper usually can't be.
You forgot an important part - *reuse* the recyclable materials you have if possible instead of disposing them. Yeah, those plastic shopping bags from the supermarket aren't likely to be recycled - so perhaps use them as trash bags instead of buying other plastic bags to be your trash bag. Cardboard? Has practically endless uses. Plastic soda bottles? Great for plant starters, you can even save a few bucks on groceries that way.
Reducing and reusing should ALWAYS come first, and at a much greater quantity. There's a reason they come first in the mnemonic!
@@QwertyCaesar its funny you mentioned reusing plastic bags as garbage bags, as I USED to do this. Then they introduced reusable bags, which are great in theory if you're an ultra scheduled and organised person, with a comfy 9-5 job, and all your 'life' ducks in a row...but i always always forget my bags, because i never ever PLAN to go shopping- its something I just shove in desperately between appointments and shifts etc, sporadically and willy nilly.
On top of this, reusable bags do very poorly as replacement garbage bags.
Therefore, the end result is a staggeringly large, and ever-growing, collection of reusable plastic bags, that i never reuse, because no amount of good intentions are going to improve my memory, enlargen my purse, or make my schedule more manageable/organisable.
Perhaps, if we didn't live in desolate gig economy environment, I could have a nice routined 9-5, with FULL time hours and benefits, allowing for ACTUAL organisation of my actual life and therefore the sheer luxury of having a modicum of control over what I do, when, and where.
Point being, they are actively making even holding down a half decent job harder than it should ever be, and that was BEFORE the pandemic- let alone how often they actively undermine things like attempts to recycle and reuse!
These companies are attacking the fabric of our species like a cancer, bent on growth at the almost MANDATORY cost of our destruction.
Yes, I truly believe that the CEOs of these companies are genuinely disappointed if they can achieve domination in their industry WITHOUT abusing a child or killing a puppy. That is who they are.
These CEOs of these companies, kill millions and millions of people. And if they aren't stopped, they will very likely end our entire planet.
Making Hitler- get this- LESS destructive and evil than Oil company CEOs. I know, i know, that sounds grossly hyperbolic on its face, but i swear, the math doesn't lie, its TRUE!!!
The only way the CEOs are ANY different is that they do not discriminate- they want ALL living creatures to suffer needlessly. So i suppose, at the very least, they can stand up proudly and say they represent the equal and TOTALLY indiscriminate destruction of all life in this planet. They certainly don't pick and choose- to them, all must die.
@@QwertyCaesar Agreed. I guess reuse is already something that feels natural to me so I didn't mention it.
The little Tetra Pak cartons that single serve juice and other stuff comes in has the recycle logo but can only be recycled at 2 locations in USA.
Roger is back. Covid can't stop him!!
Nothing can stop that badass Roger!
nature so cleand up without humanity that Roger come back.
[singing] I’d like to buy the pandemic world an all New & Improved COVID-19 Free Horton's Cola and keep my social distance.
It’s the real thing this time, really really, truly truly...
@@Zebra_3 Must be from Canada. Timmies haha
Covid can't stop 98% of the people on the planet.
After working at a recycling plant it became very obvious that its just a waste of city money to put on a cherade of recycling. The only think they actually cared about was the paper and cardboard. Everything else (glass, metal, plastic) went into the same shipping bales.
The best recyclable material is glass. Crush it and it becomes a simple sand you can use anywhere.
@@_Dwarkin that's true but it has lots of costly disadvantages to logistics: it is heavy, it is fragile, it can injure a person with shards when broken, it can't be compressed to take less volume after use. so we still have to choose between compromises
@@АндрейОнищенко-з8хTrue, but that's another question 😂
And celuose is useless to recycle. I worked at a paperfactory that was required to use mostly recycled fiber. Problem is that processed fibers are short, so it end up with high recycled fiber products being nigh exclusivly the cheap useless toiletpaper that disolves/breakes apart as you wipe. I say nigh, since some decide they want equally useless householdpaper or napkins.
@@ThrokuPaper is not only recyclable but decomposable. TP and napkins should fall apart when you get them wet. This is a good thing, that way they break down easily in the environment. You don't want TP to clog toilets. Paper towels don't fall apart when wet bc they are partially made of plastic. If your TP is falling apart when you wipe your ass then your ass is too wet.
😂😂😂😂 “nothing is more important than you love the plastic”
You need the plastic
please be a vaccine manufacturer next...
@@andrefruth41 It is called honest ads not show us how everything works. There is no point in showing off something that works good and as it was intended.
@@zarddin9561 huh
@@zarddin9561 except, corporations make money off of something that is needed to live, they did a healthcare episode I think
Since Roger is all about honesty I will be honest as well: he's the only reason why I subscribed to this channel in the first place, the only reason why I haven't unsubscribed yet, and the only reason for which I will still be subscribed (if it's the case of course) in the future!
Well, there are definitely more on the way!
I second this. Big fan of these. Glad there back.
me too!
Same thing man
i think I watched 2 non Roger based , cracked vids
Holy sheet Roger's back!!, but damn he's more savage than ever lol.
The older you get the fewer fucks you give. He's aged into a delectably savage wine.
@@0001captainawesome indeed 😂
I work in recycling (in the UK) and there's much truth in this - but also some falsehoods. So, plastics are terrible for the environment and companies do tend to hid truths about their recyclability. Plastics can be recycled more than once, in general, but it depends on their quality to begin with. Each time you recycle a plastic, the hydrocarbon chain gets shorter and the polymer becomes weaker. So can you recycle a plastic bottle into another plastic bottle? Yes; but not of the same quality. After that, that new but thinner, weaker plastic bottle may be recycled again - but into a plastic bag. After that, eventually the plastic becomes so weak there's no value in it any more and it isn't recyclable.
The comment below that recycling is a charade... it really depends where you work. Some plants do tend to mostly care about paper and cardboard and not want to deal in plastics. I knew one (UK based) council that was locked into a 7 year contract where the plant would only take plastic bottles for recycling and no other plastics. Not great.
But it isn't a charade to recycle plastics - citizens, companies and authorities just shouldn't hide behind this as the solution - it's not, obviously. It's better than NOT recycling and reusing plastic, but not better than cutting its use out completely. It's slowing the issue, keeping voldermort at bay if you will lol... rather than putting and end to it. Also... if plastic recycling is all mixed together it won't be too contaminated to work with, but just more expensive to work with. Plastics are difficult to 'contaminate' as they can be washed very easily. Cardboard and paper with food on, different story, that's pretty much useless now.
The companies like to put recycling symbols on everything because it makes them look better; here in the UK they say 'check local recycling' - many plastics can be recycled at 'the tip', less so in your household recycling bin. The 'plastic types' system we have here, 1-7, both helps and hinders people's understanding of what plastics are actually recyclable. Things like kids toys and coathangers could be made out of a mixture of types and so aren't generally recyclable. Mostly, 'household plastics' which can be recycled at home are made from standardised types - type 1 (PET - your standard plastic bottle), type 2, HDPE (milk bottles etc)... where it gets confusing is that, type 5 is polypropylene and type 6 is polystyrene (for example). A local authority may ask you to put 'plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays' in your boxes or bins for recycling... which means that a food tray made out of type 5, PP, IS recyclable, and a yoghurt pot, made out of type 6, polystyrene, is too... but expanded versions of these (packaging polypropylene and polystyrene) are NOT recyclable. Also, PP (type 5) may be in the form of a plastic bag and your local authority may not want to take these as there's little value in them / harder and more expensive to recycle at kerbside / people sometimes hide things in them...). So.. forget about what the companies say, or any numbered system.. and ask your local authority what they take.
It also comes down to the fact collection crews have to check your bins... if councils accepted an extensive list of recycling, crews would be there for ages checking each bin against a list and would never get their rounds done. 'Is this coathanger a type 5?... or a mixture of types which means it's not recyclable... hmmm'. Not feasible! So local authorities make it simple - plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays. If anything like the UK, the recyclable 'bottles, pots, tubs and trays' (that you can recycle at home) will be those in between hard plastics and soft plastics - 'a bit of give' in them. If you can't bend it / it's brittle and tough, not recyclable at home (yes at the tip), if you can rip it, or it snaps easily like expanded polystyrene, also not recyclable at home, most likely. So items with this 'bit of give in' will be like bottles of fizzy drinks, plastic milk cartons, tubs of washing up stuff - all things you can bend, but wouldn't be able to rip with your bare hands unless you were the hulk!
I'm not sure on how the US works and can't speak for all UK local authorities and plants, but the authority I work for is leading and we ensure we recycle ALL our plastics wherever possible in the UK (98% +). Some things leave the country, like paper and card (India have bloody good paper mills to be fair!) - but plastics generally stays because it's so important to control and ensure it's handled correctly. The main problem is, even if you recycle plastic diligently and correctly, eventually, it will end up in the ground, or be incinerated at the very best. You're fighting a losing battle with it. I don't think it's a big lie more than it's the 'elephant in the room'.
From being on the inside, I'd say that most places (maaaaybe not companies, who knows - but they're not the ones who have to collect the stuff!) are trying their best with this issue, rather than trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Like anything you're never going to have a perfect system. But for now, until we can come up with something better, I'd say keep on recycling - it's not the answer to it all, but it's better than digging a hole and putting it in there, for sure.
Hey! What's the idea Robby.. They should really have you write a book you know, a Novel or perhaps an entire library about this stuff. Like WOW! 🍷👌
@@evm6177I'd buy this book
I was working for fucking Veoila in London, shit not recycling, same for sorting this for other company, everything is going to china. Big bullshido.
Thank you for this. Here in Norway we are expressily told to recycle only plastics that have been food packadging. All else goes in the "rest" bin. We recycle about 24% of this but hope to recycle more as technology develops.
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"I'm Roger btw... and I'm back!"
Roger that!
Affirmative
Get out of there, it's gonna blow!
We love Roger! His corporation is diabolical, but we still love him!
That's representative of all corporations in the USA, Inc.
he's been responsible for most of the worlds problems but atleast he doesnt lie about it
He's the only honest one in the business, so his corporation is already much better than the actual ones.
Roger straps James Bond to the laser table turns on the laser and starts to leave the room, Bond shouts back " do you want me to talk", Roger says no Mr Bond I want you to stop recycling :-)
I thought I knew how cruddy the whole “live green” being forced on the public and not the big corporations but I really didn’t know plastic basically couldn’t be reused.
it can be reused fam. It was even stated. The issue is that it cant be completely remade in its most basic form.
You can make building material from it, you can make clothes etc.
It is up to us to make as many possible solutions to the problem as possible. Atleast in europe there is a huge trend to cancel single use plastics.
It can be reused but it's not profitable to do so. Newly made plastic is also cheaper to buy.
@@istvanendreviletel545 Reused =/= recycled. If I take a plastic water bottle, empty it, then refill it with water, I'm reusing the bottle.
If I instead take the empty bottle and melt it down to be made into a shirt, I'm recycling the bottle.
Reusing means I don't have to do anything special to get another use from an item. I might need to rinse it, but I don't need to melt and reform it.
Recycling means melting it down to be turned into something else, and every time plastic is recycled, the long polymer chains are broken into shorter ones. Shortening a polymer chain makes it weaker, and trying to recycle any plastic twice typically makes it way too weak to do anything. Imagine if the process of recycling wood would turn oak into balsa, because that's pretty much what happens with plastic.
Also, the 3 Rs are in order of environmental impact. Reduce, reuse, recycle. If you want to have a green lifestyle, reducing your consumption of goods is the most effective way. If I reduce how much I drive, I burn less gas. Recycling is last because it requires energy to turn something into something else.
You are correct about how going green has been forced on people, instead of the massive companies that are destroying the world. The thing is that going green was started by big companies to blame their actions on individuals.
PET can be recycled and made again into bottles pretty easy. Dunno but here in the GER, 90% of our liquid whatever bottles are made this way.
@@istvanendreviletel545 Single use plastics must be outlawed. Those plastics cannot be reused. 10000000000000% The ban needs to happen now.
This is beautiful... Reminds me so much of my days on college of agronomy and agriculture, where we were told essentially the same thing by the professors about this subject... How most of ``collected`` ``recyclable`` material is just burned for power, as plastics for example are a vast field of different materials, some of which can be melted and recast into new things, some of which cant ever be remelted and so on... Some which can be melted, but are full of glass reinforcement, be it beads or fibers... All that and so much more... I guess it didnt help my cynicism a single bit... But it sure can make me appreciate this type of cynical content... Just priceless...
*facepalm* Thats is recycling. They are used. What the hell are you even talking about?
@@websterrirecycling as acid rain
Roger was the reason i subbed so long ago, Great to see he’s back.
Same.
Ditto
Same
Mine was After Hours but Roger was still pure awesome.
The "soak 'em up sticks" was the first Honest Ad I ever saw and I couldn't hit the subscribe button fast enough.
I hope Roger does one called "If voting ads were honest." That'd be dope.
Have to point things out from both sides and do a line by line of bills or you end up partisan.
@@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745 dosent really matter. Both sides use the same BS tactics.
1. Take Big Money
2. lie and make false promises
3. Win
4. Maintain status quo and focus on re-election.......by lying and taking big money again
It'll be just a couple minutes of Roger laughing
I think we need someone to do one investigating why people think it's acceptable to believe them. Those people are the bigger problem
@@FlightX101 And some how they are able to get voted back in. Over and over again.
"Life shortening sugar water" most accurate description of soda ive ever heard🤣🤣
He said sack, so maybe caprisun
Not just soda, energy drinks too, and probably some other ones, like some certain canned coffees.
I thought he was talkin about beer....Oh wait that mostly comes in aluminum and glass, which IS recyclable! Save the Planet, DRINK MORE BEER!
@@felironmaden1429 I approve this message XD
Reminds me of how (during covid) the town dump refused to deal with plasitic recyclable and told use to just put it in normal trash.
In our neighborhood recycling truck stopped coming by after COVID and recycling bins have been left out so now unfortunately no one recycle.
True Fact: Roger and Emperor Palpatine pledged the same fraternity.
welcome back Roger!
Hmm
@@willydoer8730 nailed it. Wokeism is the death of truth.
@@Hawlkeye-e9p What did he said ? Since he deleted his own comment
I... Didn't expect to see you here.
Lol this guys great wish he was my science teacher
What Roger should do next: Corporations actually caring about their employees, and how HR is a complete cover for protecting the companies survival.
Do you care about the corporation?
@@RenegadePeon No Bill, I don't 😂
Also he should put in that no laws exist for corporations ever unless you're rich enough to sue them because there is literally no enforcement of employees' rights, but good luck for the majority who can't afford lawyers and get to experience pleasant sensations as a result. Sensations such as forced working weekends with no religious exemptions being tolerated, your unavailability is flat out refused, part-time employment but 10 hour days, barely making a living wage while you puke from a constant diet of ramen and come up short on your monthly bills, groping, pompous pig-headed management with such shit experience they enable those long work hours because they're mentally handicapped while engaging in extreme micro-managing or even bullying until coworkers commit suicide. Add a dash of more and more corporations enforcing signing away your right to sue in lieu of "in house arbitration" where the arbitrators are "totally neutral". Oh, and when the company wants to clean an entire department they engage in a witch hunt of false accusations and tell those they surround in a tiny room it's not necessary to read the paper which is a complete admission of their guilt but they can't leave until it's signed. I almost forgot that one.
Facts lmao
HR its just a legal front to protect the company from possible lawsuits, by creating a bullshit wall that most people cant afford to to scoope out
2:44 🤣we’re not going to spend millions of dollars sorting through it all, when we’re already paying so much to convince you that we’re sorting through it all🤣
"We are not going to spend millions of dollars sorting through it all, when we already paying so much to convince you that we are sorting through it all!"
Sad but very true😅 actually in some developing countries they are much better at recycling than we are. Not out of environment concerns but simply because. of scarcity
@@beldiman5870 I know - some of them actually build cities out of trash - kind of like what I do in my life
@@extropiantranshuman LOL. What are you doing in your life, what is the job where you build cities out of trash?
Politics in a nutshell.
@@beldiman5870 you talk like a robot - I pick up what others leave behind to use in my life to be a productive member of society. One example of the many is that I foudn sandals abandoned on the beach, which I use to clean up more trash and find more stuff and tell others to tell the city not to pollute. Was that the answer to your 'serious' question?
"I hear dolphins are very smart"
They absolutely are lol. A study team was using dolphins and training them to collect sea waste and garbage, to be brought back for treats.
The dolphins quickly discovered that if they just found 1 piece of trash, and tore it up repeatedly into smaller pieces, they could get more treats for less work. Thus proving the shit that makes humans awful, is pretty much baked into our DNA 🤣
I would love the source to that information if you know it off hand
@@MrCleanAteMyWife I'm afraid I don't. : /
But I'm sure it couldn't be hard to dig up online
Lazy greed is not for human intelligence only.
@@ADerpyReality not "lazy greed". It's a biologically understandable thing for any animal smart enough to take advantage of it.
Maximum gain for least effort does not mean laziness, it means using cunning to achieve the best outcome for the least amount of expended energy. Something that is a driving evolutionary benefit for most. Being able to for example, create a rope to assist in more easily climbing a tree and procuring food from it isn't laziness, it's ingenuity.
However, the darker element of this comes from the exploitation of systems and policies to achieve the same results. This is how you get people that scam the unemployed system or welfare systems. Or corrupt politicians that abuse their positions. Understanding that this behavior is a biological reality rooted in the pleasure centers of our brains and associated with dopamine is vital when attempting to come up with systems and policies that might be easily exploited by malactors.
@@alexanderrahl7034 Very well said. Cheers
I am glad that the Roger made it through Covid, I was really worried about him.
What's Covid?
@@MrScooter46290 bad
@@MrScooter46290 Have you read the news in the past 18 months or so?
New Roger is AI generated, because paying actors would go against Roger's principles
@@MrScooter46290 did u live in a cave in the middle of the woods.
About 20 years ago Penn and Teller's BS! program did a recycling video, and it still holds up well for the most part. Highly recommend.
Yeah, just don't watch the one about smoking. All the rest is great, though, can't go wrong with good ol' P&T :)
I saw that episode of Bullshit too. Changed my whole outlook.
In many cities, we just mix all of our recycling together by tossing it into one big unsorted container and then our cities simply bury it in a landfill. It is often just green theater if you don’t personally take it to be recycled after first cleaning and sorting it yourself.
It came from the land - it goes back into the land, without burning it thus without releasing carbon and energy into the atmosphere.
There's nothing "green" about consumerism and convenience, and it doesn't matter what we look at - drinks, food, electronics, appliances, renovations, construction, etc. Heck, instead of entertaining ourselves by sitting with our friends and family and exchanging stories - we burn electricity to run out devices to burn electricity for the internet's infrastructure and to burn electricity on Netflix's server that individually sends you mind boggling amounts of data exclusively for you do watch something, instead of transmitting it just once for everyone like TV used to work. Plastic buried in landfills might actually be among the least problematic parts of it all.
The thing is, burying is more ecological, than recycling the platics, since they can't be recycled in an ecological way.
@@s.kasecky8156 I am talking about the mixing of all recycling together including paper, glass and aluminum into landfills, it’s pure green theater.
@@s.kasecky8156 waaait. Technically it would've been correct, IF we didn't produce new plastic. Recycling is still absolutely essential to reduce amount of new plastic that we produce, but it can't solve the problem because it merely prolongs the plastics life and we still need to produce plastic.
@@s.kasecky8156 what is actually more ecological, is not buying. Period. Not buying stuff, plastic stuff, metal stuff, electronic stuff - buy as little stuff you can survive on.
You know what's the only thing that has consistently shown to reduce emissions? Economic collapse of capitalist markets and end of consumerism. We don't have _any_ other certain ways that can work, the rest are just measures to maybe make the climate change not as bad as it could've been but still bad and getting worse year after year.
The most ecological countries per citizen aren't European or Scandinavian countries with their strict standards and ecologically conscious population - it's the countries like India where the people often don't have the means to constantly buy more and more stuff.
Thank you for bringing Roger back
It is ABSOLUTELY my pleasure entirely
"So, we decided to make you blame yourself for, like, everything. Is that alright?" "Do i have to pay for that as well?" "Sure do!"
A fine example of this: Talking about environment problems in media will always point fingers at the consumers for using plastic, etc....
While consumers most of the times don't even have a choice, if you go to the supermarkets and there's only plastic bags available, whose fault is it?
The polluting corporation and factories should take a lot more responsibility for their pollutions, especially since they gain from it.
It's remarkable how much ingenuity goes into tricking people into believing things that are demonstrably untrue, while no ingenuity at all goes into using less awful materials, methods and fuels to create products of equal or greater value, with less harm to the environment that even CEOs and such kinda sorta still have to live in.
I mean, they _could_ start terraforming Mars, but it would still take about a thousand years longer than this planet would last at the current rate... assuming they could mine enough water, gases and other necessary materials from wherever they expect to, which would be an enormous undertaking, especially without a planet capable of supporting the immense workforce it would require. And then they'd have to explain to that workforce that no, they're not allowed on the nice new planet, it's only for rich people... so in summary, not the most viable plan for the future there.
@@hazukichanx408 Destroying is always the cheaper option. That goes both for products, resources and physical&mental health of the workforce.
Better than anything else, this four minute skit does an excellent job of explaining why not regulating corporations is suicidal levels of psychotic.
Actually, it does a good job of telling you why you should actually investigate for yourself on the things corporations tell you to do. The forest regulation of companies in general is just bad. Some things should be regulated, sure, like the environmental impact that companies have if they actually impact the environment, or the nature of how they are supposed to treat their workers in a neutral manner. Fat forcing the company to recycle all the time, or to adhere to your political beliefs is absolutely fucking retarded
Being a government cocksucker gets you China and India, which are actually the problem.
"Not regulating corrportations" ? Anyone who thinks we don't regulate corporations is delusional.
In fact, we regulate corporations so heavily that they only ones that the only ones that become really successful are the ones that are in bed with the politicians that are regulating them.
I love how the comments are mostly praising Roger instead of discussing the idea of recycling. Oil companies have won on another level even when the video exposes them. Brutal.
Dread it, run from it, corporatism arrives just the same.
And when the world needed him most he returned!
"Wether we have a planet or not" really got me xD
I’m glad I’m seeing this. I’m noticing that the recycling centers have disappeared here in California. So we are still paying at the checkout stand but not getting the refund back
Oof. That sucks.
California gets screwed again - giving up power to politicians is never a good idea 😿
That's what you get for voting for dems
@@vectrom21 They do suck, but in this particular instance it's not like the other party are friends of the earth either.
@@vectrom21 or voting for any ghoul regardless of the letter beside their names
"So long and thanks for all the plastic..." 🐬 😂
Recycling is the pacifier consumers need to keep consuming.
You have no idea how true this is! People feel guilty for overconsuming and throw their old, mostly still working, stuff away? We need to keep making more money, let’s talk about how to take away the guilt!
Even governments are in on it!
And another advantage of plastic: it makes products unreparable and useless. So instead of getting something repared, you buy the whole thing new.
Exactly.........good summary.
In the USSR there were state programmes for recycling: people were able to collect paper, metal and glass bottles and then bring all that to the buy-back recyclers near the stores and get money. Today it's impossible to organise the same process even for beer bottles, as 1) each brand insists on having their own design for a bottle, 2) this initiative is lobbied against by the owners of glass factories.
To be clear, please keep recycling metal. It can be melted down and reused infinitely many times. All the other "recycling" is a scam.
@@elektro3000 The problem is we don't use that many metal items in our households anymore, most things are made of mixed or combined materials - which is another kind of pain in the ass. Besides, metal things are more durable than plastic. metal recycling is much less of a problem.
Penn and Teller also covered this subject in their Bullshit series in 2004. The only thing recycling accomplishes is that it makes you feel good about throwing your trash away.
No, they only concentrated on the cost of recycling.
They completely ignored one of the things that it could accomplish. (when done properly)
That is, reducing the amount of litter, and reducing the amount of stuff that goes into the landfill.
They also did admit they have zero problem with recycling metals, since they're 100% reusable.
This whole video is garbage. The angle is focused on recycling for the purpose of using for a single use purposes. Polypropylene, and some other single use plastic types can be recycled many many times and moulded into whatever product a manufacturer wishes to make. Plastics is recycled, processed into raw material and injection moulded. This can be done up to 7 times.
That is assuming the CEOs have a minor degree of science to understand any of the science that goes into recycling.
@@chronicbackpain6047 No. The CEO'S hire people to make those decisions for them. I work in the plastics industry, this video is far from the truth.
"Exploitative business practices will exist as long as they make a small group of people an obscene amount of money"
-Roger Horton, 2017
You have to keep in mind that businesses also compete with each other. For instance the coal industry has long used the environmental movement to go after nuclear. The issue is that non-profits end up manipulating the pubic in ways that corporations never could. So, if a nuclear corporation went on the offensive against the coal industry, the public would side with the coal industry because the non-profits support coal.
If you really want to clean things up in this country, you need to decouple for profit businesses from non-profit ones. You also need to put in more regulations on non-profits so that they don't fall into the hands of evil men who use them as a weapon against the poor.
I just love Roger's method as he wakes up every day and chooses which one of all the hypocritical concepts of today's world will he be ripping a new one with his sophisticated violence. Good to have you back, Roger.
Roger realizing his own mortality doesn’t give a shit about sugarcoating anything.
Because he knows that he lived his life and will be dead before you or me will get killed by the rebellious dolphins
please be a vaccine manufacturer next...
Honest Ads is Cracked's version of Adam Ruins everything. Only IMO Roger's open contempt for the audience as he acts like the guy who's screwing you is funnier than Adam's "um actually" nerdy corrector persona.
Not to mention Adam is full of shit, and often incorrect.
@@calysagora3615 when has he been incorrect?
@@FatherTime89 there’s actually a lot of times, pretty sure there’s a good video on RUclips that sums it up if I find it I’ll link
ah hah hummmmm actualllyyyy....
You take that back! I Love Adam! Roger just has his own, not-for-public-tv appeal 😉
It's Roger!!! I couldn't click on this video fast enough. Glad to see these videos are back.
Many more on the way!
@@cracked 200 thousand are ready?
@@zachryder3150 Yeah haha
I've been asking for literal decades, "Why don't we just go back to glass? It is more easily processed, reused, or recycled. Why not if plastic is so bad?"
Instead, we get garbage paper straws to use with full plastic cups and lids! 😂 🤬
That's easy to answer actually, even if the answer is absurd
The plastic is cheaper
That's it 🤷
Also it could be changed into an aluminum cans if we talk about drinks, and it's actually recyclable and light in weight but I guess it's a bit more expensive than plastic so companies are like "meh"
@@LoneWolfMikoto Aluminum is the only material that is cheaper to recycle than to produce.
Simple. Because glass is much heavier and therefore more expensive to transport.
is it bad or good? @@drottercat
@@LoneWolfMikoto I'd say that the environmental damage of using plastic is greater than the damage that would be incurred by extra CO2 emission of transporting glass. But unfortunately damage to the environment does not figure in manufacturers' cost-profit calculations.
This is my first video seeing Roger. But when he said " I am back!" I felt excited.😂
If you haven't already binged all of the Honest Ads, you are in for a good time!
@@TimJenningsVideo I am addicted to this channel yo
@@TimJenningsVideo yess! Cracked's older stuff is definitely a staple that got me through! Jordan basically brought this channel back from the dead
You might wanna check your GayMeter
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mine is at 10%
Well it never gets old
I love Roger. Good he is back. People need hard truths.
Ikr?
Now do the CDC
@@randomuser6306
“After rebranding the seasonal flu as some mysterious deadly plague that you have to take a test to know if you even have, you’re sure to do whatever we say until after the next fake election.”
that people dont give a shit about
This is the most honest recycling information I have ever seen.
I also laughed my ass off.
reminded me a bit of John Olivers last week tonight piece on recycling TBH
@@cha0sr1pper or.... Penn & Teller’s Bullshit episode on recycling.
i think in the future we will mine trash pits and dumps for metals and plastics because prices will skyrocket to the point it will be cost effective to strip mine a landfill.
That's...
Holy shit, you might be right.
nah... methane recovery from landfills is where the easy money is.
*YES!!!* Honest Ads was always one of my favorites!
And you got Roger back!
Heck yeah!
I'm pretty sure everyone here can relate to the absolute feeling of joy seeing this pop up in their feed
Absolutely!
God Damn it's a good day when Roger is tell me how we're all garbage
Haha exactly
I love that Roger just delivers facts in a friendly tone that is ultimately cynical realist gold.
Seeing Roger back in action just elevated my Monday from this level to THIS level.
I got hired to drive the recycling truck in my town this summer. After picking up everyone's recycling all morning, they made me dump it in the woods near the river bank behind the building. I promptly quit.
You should report that to someone.
Edit: if you did not report that you are just as bad.
@@pdn9609 💀
What the hell?! (Them, of course)
My town insists we're separating our recyclables, even though all the trash and yard waste goes into one truck. The trash is taken to a sorting station anyway, according to a garbage company video. I'd tell the State of Illinois about it, but since it's the State of Illinois, well, you can guess how well that will go....despite the laws saying we're supposed to be separating(!)
@@markh.6687The separating thing is stupid and often times that is why a lot off people don't even recycle. They really should just have it all go into the same truck and have sorters everywhere. You can get people more jobs that way, and it would insure that recyclables would actually get properly recycled.
"I'm Roger by the way... and I'm back".
A Million Likes!!!
He chooses not to appear during Republican presidencies
the only real way to ensure plastic is actually recicled, is if you do it yourself. Its hard and isnt as efficient as a production line would be, but that at least actually happens, and you can see it with your eyes, and experiment with whats better for you, and maybe other people too. it actually pushes you to buy less or more depending on how well you are at actually recycling it (usually less since its hard to be good at it and use it all)
or not throw things away/scrap it either way unless it's not practical to use it anymore
In ny family we always use water bottles twice, and then when they are just really broken, we trow it away, whic if this video is true, its most than every "recycled" thing
@@dulcecitarisitas3504that's really really unhealthy, had a friend poisoned from using the same water bottles too much, the plastic leeches into the water. Try buying a metal bottle, it withholds temperature really well and in general is a better choice
@@dulcecitarisitas3504 why not get metal bottles then? Refillable as long as you don't break it.
@@AscheOfTheLake we have those, as well.
I'm so happy Roger is back. Makes the year bearable.
This channel needs to do one general "If Commercials Were Honest" and show the reality of commercials always showing people extremely happy about absolute crap. I would love to see that ridiculed to hell and back.
It exists already. Just search in the channel's page.
@@MedievalFantasyTV You mean there's one covering the specific angle I mentioned? Because I have seen a lot of commercial categories, just not a general one "yet".
@@charles2241 I propose a video about "If commercials were not cringey AF".
@@damyr😁
THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND, ROGER IS BACK.
Roger is the only source of great new comedy skits (and real news) on RUclips. Thanks for keeping a smile on my face Roger!
I thought you died!! Welcome back.. we missed you, Roger :)
He didn't!
Roger can't die
Do you even know how many life-saving medicines his company has the patents for and refuses to share? He's going to outlive the fucking sun.
@@maxhydekyle2425 he is just as powerful as the queen of England
The globe thing totally got me. That guy needs a role in a blockbuster.
Roger is back!!! The man doesn't age at all. Long live Roger.
The ending was really good))
It's because he stays away from the life shortening sugar water.
@@SESK98 that is definitely one of the factors that can greatly prolong your life or at least the quality of your life.
This actor was nailing the role of Roger, and I'm SO GLAD he agreed to return!
(Why the 4 year gap?!)
Please don't leave again mate! 👑 🍻
I have been subbed to yall for years waiting for this moment, thank you
Awesome! Thank you!
Lol I actually forgot why I was originally subbed till now.
No but seriously i think through this satire you can actually reach a lot of people and talk openly about issues. In this modern political correctness age comedy is one of the not so many tools you can use and speak out about really important issues in a true, genuine way. Great message guys, keep it up. By the way, Roger is back, goddamn yeah!
well-said!
You are aware that pc have been censoring comedy for decades now, aren't you?
THIS is the humor we need, "educational humor" lol seriously though
Aah yes. """""""""""""educational""""""""""""". You mean half true, half lies, wrapped up in hippie nonsense satire. But hey, you bought it, great!
Unfortunately, the situation is much more nuanced and complex, as it usually is. But oil companies just care about oil, and youtubers just care about views, and activists just care about their religion, and none of them about the truth.
Educate yourself.
@@miltonpopper4181 nice
@@miltonpopper4181 my man how do you not trust literally anyone at all?
As a youtuber who doesnt care about views and also not caring about spreading lies, i can safely say that gravity does indeed make things fall down, therefore disproving your point.
@@LucyWest370 Actually, I like that the video makes people aware of the fact that most plastic is not being recycled, and is difficult to recycle, despite many of the eco-messaging we're getting (mostly from the government btw, not big corporations).
However, there are things in this video that are, demonstrably, not correct, and associations are being made that are unfounded, and unfair. Why muddy a good message with typical hippie cliche dogma? This makes the video have an overarching dishonest message.
Also, I do not comment on such thing usually, but what's with childish reply? Ok, mine was somewhat snarky, but if you have an issue, let's stick to the issue, and not come up with these lame "gravity...fall down...disprove" type replies. I'm not 12, I hope you're not either.
This video does not "educate" it "propagandizes", there is a difference, and that is my issue with it, and the comment that claimed this was "educational".
@@miltonpopper4181 if you ignore me being a jerk because you were kind of a jerk, this isn’t really educational, its a comedic parody that mixes truth in with the jokes. People should be doing their own research anyway to make sure its not just ‘government bad’ put in a more palatable format. Its not going to be 100% accurate nor does it really have to be, but yeah if your going to do something like this maybe lean more on the truth side.
I can't get enough Roger. Please more!!!
"I'm Roger and I'm back."
Cue rock music. Cue me wanting more videos.
More on the way!
@@cracked
Pls do a short bio video on the actor. I'd love to see more of him, too.
@@YoYo-gt5iq Of Jack?
@@cracked jack Hunter yes he's a really good actor
@@minecraftoniansminecraft3584 Yes he is.
So it was true, the line in Lost in Space 1998 movie, "School children have been lied to, recycling is not going to save us." was actual fact.
Shows how long this has been an issue - I recall that the plastic manufacturers trying to tell people it was recyclable started in the '80s, so in 1998 this was already going on, and 23 years later nothing has changed.
You should research reusable bags .. just as bad as plastics.
@@notme2day really? Dammit... again, just trying to help, again, just more lies to sift through.
As crazy as it may sound, we just really need to get rid of money.
Not just out of gas and oil. Not just out of politics. Not just out of war. Not just out of governments.
Out of existence.
We need to make money an embarrassing story from our past that will haunt us into eternity so we never make the same mistake again.
Money, of any kind, has only served to do harm. As far back in history as ive been able to research that has been true. War is born out of money Almost all crime is born out of the existence of money also. Pollution. Poverty. Homelessness. Slavery. Disease also has a part to play in monetary systems. Even death is made more terrible with the existence of money.
Either caused by too much money or too little.
It doesnt matter what monetary system we use. They are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past in ever more inventive and horrible ways.
Every new system we come up with is going to be the one! Right? We will finally find the one thats fair and righteous and equitable! Right?
Never happen. In fact, cant happen. Monetary systems require stratification of any society that uses them. Some will have more than others. Always. Impossible not too.
Stratification requires some degree of inequality.
Monetary systems can, quite literally, never deliver equality.
So, this fight that weve had for the last few thousand years is doomed to continue forever into our future. Theres no way for it not to continue. The power will shift back and forth like a perpetual motion pendulum. Just tick.... tock.... into oblivion.
Why? For money? Ignore everything that humans could become for the unliving, unfeeling, unsatisfying rectangle of paper we call currency?
Lunacy! Friggin mass hysteria! How TF is this crap supposed to work for humanity?
The simple answer is, it isnt meant to work for humanity at all. Never was.
It was only ever meant to work for a few. They understood that.
We still don't.
A world without monetary systems would be a start to us healing both ourselves and our planet.
An end to all the lies we are told over anything that concerns money.
Would that be utopia? No.
We would still have problems to face and hurdles to jump but we could at least see more clearly exactly what those problems and hurdles we face.
@@amandap9332 Well, sorta. In the short term, yes they are as bad as plastic bags (actually they can be worse sometimes). But in the long term they can be better (although by how much kinda depends). BTW, I’m only going off of memory by this- you can disregard this comment if you want to.
@@amandap9332 But the problem about that is lack of motivation. Who's going to want to work and provide services to you if you don't compensate them?
Internally the companies regrind plastic that was rejected from their lines and then mixed with new material but never seen outside recycled material. I love these videos.
That stuff isn't contaminated, is pure plastic of known grade with no debris or other material. That's a lot easier to work with than post-consumer material which is a mix of different types and often contaminated with dirt, food/drink residue, paper from labels, and so on. Though even that I'd imagine would only be doable a finite number of times as the plastic molecules themselves degrade every time this is done.
"or maybe we'll just throw it in the ocean for the dolphins to deal with it, i heard they're very smart"
Hilarious 😂😂