I still remember one of my University Biology classes when another student unceremoniously threw out some cardboard, so I asked her wait aren’t you an ecologist? Figured you of all people would recycle. She explained that it’s better for the environment to set fire to cardboard than burn fossil fuels to ship it to Australia and back since New Zealand doesn’t have a cardboard recycling plant.
@NOYDB what are you trying to say i asked you a simple question "isnt it better to refill a bottle you already have than to make a new bottle" can you just answer yes or no to that question
The packaging industry does us no favors. I'm irked by how thoughtlessly some companies go about packing their goods. Plastics that are way overkill, mixes of different types of plastics. Foiled paper or cardboard that can't be recycled, etc. I understand that a company that's selling a product wants to showcase it well, but it seems there is zero restraint and zero thought of the potential for something to be recycled. I think its time the packaging industry is held accountable. Maybe an opportunity for for some kind of grading system to reward the companies that do it best.
It would be most beneficial if the amount of disposables to landfills reached zero; but in the meantime every little bit kept out of a landfill is helpful in reducing if not eliminating the increase of size of landfills. The 10+/- car parking lot for the apartment building in which I reside is often filled with litter even though there is a double size dumpster right there literally on the parking lot. Even though my continuing using the dumpster for disposables (rather than dumping it on the parking lot) does not reduce the amount of litter on the parking lot, it sure does keep more litter from accumulating on the parking lot.
Yes my same opinion.After i seen that i was only the 4% of my entire city that does. I basically need extra space in residential can for yard waste weeds,branch clippings, So ,trying to save landfills from toxic waste is useless. At least we tried.
Biofuels: Large swathes of millenia-old rainforests in the Amazon and Asia cleared for sugarcane and palm oil plantations. Anti-plastic movement (prediction): More deforestation for wood to produce paper & cardboard
I'm glad you remember the changing environmental narrative too. I felt like I was crazy for thinking acid rain was going to be way more of a problem than it turned out to be.
@@Alias_Anybody People like to forget that the reason certain bad things didn't happen is that we actually addressed it. Then they go on to use the fact that we fixed the problem as evidence the problem wasn't real. In short, it's political theatre on their part. They are intentionally dishonest.
It's all about rebranding the consumer society as something more morally uplifting - just as public philanthropy was a way of rebranding the capitalist system back in Victorian times. Heaven forfend we should put the gravy train at risk by developing some REAL ethics...
I ran a restaurant for a while in the 90s and had customers who were adamant about wanting carryout but refusing plastic wrap and styrofoam. I'm sure they were very proud of themselves. Meanwhile no one ever asked what we did with the big cardboard boxes everything came in.
My grandmother wasn’t an environmentalist but she reused a lot of boxes especially plastic butter bins people who grew up poor know how to reuse and reduce lol
My grandmother did the same with plastic butter bins, and only with plastic butter bins. Was it country crook (think that's how it's spelled)? Also did your grandmother happen to have a bird clock where all the numbers where different species of bird?
@@Sensiblefool Ah okay. I ask because a few of my friends all seem to share in common the above stated facts with at least one of our grandmothers. Really weird.
@@dallyh.2960 "My grandmother..." *People that survived world war and the great depression did it by stretching out the little they could find to survive. The world is much richer now and each person produces much more than she ever could have.*
Recycling is the _least_ important of the 3Rs however it was heavily promoted by various manufacturers because the other two Rs cut into their bottom lines. By promoting Recycling over reducing & reusing the responsibility is shifted on to the consumer but the consumption level never changes and that's _exactly_ what the Recycling promoters want.
Same but I didn't lose my job, I started saving my money and I don't but any useless material or food based crap I don't absolutely need. I fill my trash can only once every two weeks.
New washing machines crap out in 5 to 10 years, usually because some electronic board drops dead from moisture, dirt and vibration, three things necessary to all washing machines. Meanwhile I still use a 35 year old Maytag, that has no electronics, just electric switches. It uses no more water then the new efficient machines, cleans well, and does the wash in less than half the time of the new front loaders that tout steam as a cycle you can choose. Nobody needs steam in their washing machine.
yea, yesterday was garbage day here and i passed a washer on the curb that was, i'm not kidding, one of the newest washers i have personally ever seen. could sneak that thing back into a store and sell it again. had the same thought about an old bullet proof washer that just keeps chugging along too.
Washing mashines are at least die for a reason. A lot of stuff are not only cheaply made, but are designed to malfunction at certain elapsed time of use. These are often things that have no moving parts or have bad environment either. Like consumer electronics. Some are just programmed to. Then there are the others that build cheaply and makes repair illegal and/or impossible, like apple. Some class action suits should sink these dirty scumbags otherwise there is just race to the bottom.
My poor old washer finally died, I loved it. The motor blew. Now I own a nice new model of garbage. I never thought I could hate something so much. I had it for 5 weeks before I called Sears to come and get it. Oh, 5 weeks... sorry, that's 1 week too long. I have NO DOUBT that the person who designed this washer has NO CLUE how to wash clothes. This machine won't last long. I'm from a time when everything was made in America and lasted a lifetime. Now you're lucky if anything works right out of the box.
If you looked under the old washing machines they had a gearbox that looked like it could be used as a car transmission and a belt connecting the motor that could be used as an auto fan belt. The new ones have plastic gears and a large rubber band.
The sale of single-use plastic containers of yogurt, drinks, noodles, etc., seems to grow with no end in sight in the USA. Imo, this is the best place to begin to reduce and re-use.
Meanwhile we are ignoring the elephant in the room, the military industrial complex.... I am past 50 and I have maybe bough garbage bags 2 or 3 times in my life. I avoid goods with too much packaging. I use any packaging as a garbage.
1. Refuse: Stop consuming some items that you can do without 2. Reduce: Consciously consider each purchase to only buy the essentials rather than buying on a whim 3. Reuse: Use as many times as you can. 4. Repair: Mend old things for reuse 5. Recycle: As a last resort!
@@carlbole2142 "Boycott Planned Obsolescence...Demand better products!" *That's a dumb to say. Buying something isn't a "demand", it's reciprocity. Planned obsolescence is "planned material efficiency".* *Example: Anyone can buy a commercial steel sewing machine for $6000 or a plastic one for $100. They are BOTH built with "planned obsolescence" you moron.* *Why would you want a $6000 steel VCR to last a lifetime moron?* *Why would you want a plastic sewing machine built without "planned obsolescence" and have parts that would break in 0 to 1000 years for $1000 instead of a "planned obsolescence" sewing machine for $100 that would last for 5000 sewing projects moron?*
@@dmay3391 keep buying your 100$ sewing machines, and filling up garbage piles. To be content with "landfill products" is the sign of insanity, moron! Demand quality products, with your purchasing power, and let dollar bin die a lonely death!
Reduce Reuse Recycle In that order. Nobody ever said to dump everything into the blue bin. That plastic or glass peanut butter jar? Clean it out and use it yourself. If you don't have anything that needs a non-airtight jar, then still clean it out before recycling it. Worn out CDs that won't play anymore? Use them as cool drink coasters. Milk jug? Clean it out, but also check the labels and the store you buy them at because some stores have a refund on the jugs; bring the empty jug back, get a nickel. Scrap wood from a sandbox or children's play set? Make decorative birdhouses.
It falls back on the consumer to avoid products packaged in plastic (which is inconvenient or almost impossible to do in many areas of Canada). There are a million laws governing individual behaviour, why not some that control the irresponsible actions of those that force us to use so much plastic?
I'm from the UK and i agree with you man, everything is wrapped in plastic. Even things that are already sealed (like tobacco for example) are still covered in plastic. Yet here we banned plastic straws so now we have to use these crappy paper things that disolve into your drink, but magazines are still wrapped in plastic. Plastic lasts for years in the ocean, kills animals and fish. But i suppose that is just the risk that companies must take, they have to prevent people from being able to read a magazine before buying it, otherwise the 3 people in the universe who still read magazines might just read it online like everyone else and then those companies will lose like £2 a month
You need all 3 Rs, ideally. Reduce the amount of straws you use, preferably reuse whatever you have (making metal straws the best ones... atm) and worse case scenerio, vote with your wallet and chose a material that is recyclable, so paper straws is the "worst" best option. . Reduce>Reuse>recycle. Restaurants should all try and use metal straws. Like in the good ol days in Johny rockets (mainly because the milkshake was very thick, and hard to use a plastic straw with. Who would have known it was eco friendly)
The recycling truck here comes on Monday morning, picks up all the blue box stuff, then takes it straight to the dump and puts it right in the landfill.
Then why don't you complain about them doing it and make them take it to a recycling plant? It makes not sense that the response to companies failing to recycle is "well, I guess recycling doesn't work" rather than "we need to force these companies to do what they are supposed to".
I’m in British Columbia. Have you ever heard of Cash Creek? Best dame garbage dump we have ever had. The most cost effective way of dealing with human garbage. Bury it in the desert on a hill 😄 Trash Creek B.C.
This actually hurts me in a way. I am Filipino-Canadian who was born in the Philippines and the main river in Manila (Pasig river) is so polluted with garbage floating on top so this made me hate polluting the environment. My family moved to Canada when I was a kid and I was introduced to recycling and the schools encouraged us to be environmentally friendly so as I grew up, I made sure every recyclable items should always go in the recycling bin. But it's sad that those things I've been recycling over the years might just be ending up in that river in Manila which is the thing that made me start recycling in the first place.
@Derka Derka the only lies are the stuff that comes from the mouth of the lunatic eco-nutjobs..... canada is full of the stupid crazies like you and the prime minister
@Derka DerkaI I think using hyperbole, such as stating "spouting massive ignore" is unhelpful and counterproductive. Canada's recycling program is not really effective. Here is one of several articles that addresses the challenges it faces: globalnews.ca/news/5199883/canada-recycling-programs/ Any factual errors aside, the video rightly points out the system doesn't work very well. To quote the article, "...the notion that Canadians are saving the planet by putting things in a blue bin is proving to be a delusion."
@@alechidde7822 Some things are worth recycling. Some things are not. The best solution is to reduce consumption and make longer-lasting, reusable products. But that won't happen, because modern consumer capitalism pushes for infinite growth fueled by endlessly increasing consumption. The only way this system is sustainable is by making more shit to buy more shit to make more shit.
When I was in grade 1, one of my classmates pushed back on the recycling propaganda. He argued that the recycling process amounts to converting one form of environmentally damaging waste into another, owing to the energy consumed and pollution generated by recycling plants. Seems he was pretty close to the mark. That was 1990. He was six years old.
Lulululuigot some apples - More likely he was expelled from school and is living on the streets. President of his Mensa chapter, mind you, but still on the streets. He was just too smart, even at six, to be allowed to live.
Yes the recycling process takes energy, but so does creating new items, so the 6 year old's point wasn't as good as you think it was. If I had to choose whether to cause pollution recycling items or to create pollution making new items from new material, then recycling would obviously be the better choice environmentally.
As a guy that worked at a reclamation plant or two (as a picker), I can tell you most plants are run by private companies that bought a contract, and are not government unions.
"most plants are run by private companies" *Private monopoly companies granted by government which people must pay for like a tax.* "are not government unions." *Monopoly unions of Teamsters, International Longshore and Warehouse Union , and Machinists Union in the USA.* *Everything bad about government doing something exist with these "government" companies. They lack market competition and price incentive.*
You succeeded at pointing out the essential fallacy of recycling - that the onus for waste management is on the end consumer You failed, however, to point the finger at the *producers* of plastic garbage, who happily funded the kinds of videos you were exposed to as a child, as a means of absolving themselves of the responsibility to deal with their mess.
No. Recycling cost money and its not normally an easy function to fund. You can recycle hundreds of pounds of styrofoam (mind you only specific types) and in return you only receive back a couple of dollars in revenue. This and the fact that you might have paid 2 workers to sort and compact costing you hours of labor at a price yielding a negative return. This is just but one factor in this environmental mess. Very little absolving is done via videos, but i think I understand what you're saying. There are so many legal loopholes and lack of understanding that its become problematic to hold companies/countries accountable for the damage they cause that in reality, one only considers it when their feed or news reports on large scale problems. Note: I have an B.S. in environmental sciences and resource management & conservation. I also work for my local government and specialize in air quality and investigations. In addition to having done consulting.
No. Actually plastic packaging is used because they work and reduce food waste and product loss. This is a HUGE benefit recognized everywhere from rich America to the poorest part of Indonesia. The political response to waste plastics is the problem. The only effective way to treat huge amounts of mixed waste (like the paper/plastic mix in your Amazon shipment) is to incinerate it in a waste to energy process. This will never happen because it is politically incorrect to allow even ppm of potentially harmful substances, while it IS politically correct to claim victory in recycling processes that consistently fail to meet any objective environmental accounting - why because no one does cradle-to-grave checks to see if they are actually beneficial to the planet . The waste shipments to China are off-the-books ; that solves the guilt problem. Finally, recycling creates tax-funded jobs with powerful unions. There is no way to depoliticize recycling and do the job with the trade-offs required in honest science. Dinosaur moralizing will win every time.
Ships that move containers, meter the fuel used in???? mpg ? L/100? nope TONS per hour!!! And this is a non-renewable resource. Not a comforting thought.
@@LowsJuan while their fuel source is extremely high in pollution trans oceanic shipping is by far the least expensive, least energy consuming transportation process per kg available on Earth. for example it is cheaper to raise a chicken in the United States, kill it, freeze it send it to China for processing then send it back to the States for packing and sale. That should be an indication of how cheap the transportation is.
@@otm646 And because ships are getting larger and larger and with the Panama canal able to accept even larger ships things in the container buisiness are more efficient orcheaper or more profitable for the shipping companies than ever. Still just because you can does not make a good decision.
My wife pointed out to me that the ships that come here have to return to Asia, whether full or empty. Might as well put something on it if it's going somewhere anyway.
Life imitates art: I recall a Simpsons episode where Montgomery Burns enters the recycling business and recruits Lisa Simpson into getting the whole town to recycle. He ends up building this state of the art recycling facility. And for what use did he recycle those plastic straps that keep six-packs together? A trawling net! As he demonstrated one such net in action, trawling up all the sea creatures from the seafloor, Montgomery exclaimed to Lisa, "I recycle fish!"
I think of that scene when Lisa tries to stop people from recycling, now transformed into zombies from heavy pro-recycling brainwashing. Still cracks me up...
I grew up in an environmentally aware family where my father ran a geothermal heat pump business. I was unfortunately very aware as a 12-year-old that global warming was the existential monster on the horizon and that recycling was a feel-good red herring. I *wish* I had thought recycling was the big challenge, I was a rather anxious kid...cost me a lot in therapy down the road...
Pencil BFB well duterte only nitpicks countries he can lash out and end up looking like a pussy when it comes to issues with China lol Which is ironic South Korea and China too send toxic garbages in our country and Malaysia did a better job dealing with it and the global diplomatic community responded more with Malaysia's ultimatum by just sending it back unlike our president did.
Pencil BFB but to canada which has a powerful alliance with USA and NATO he can lol Well ironic statements aside, war isnt the only thing in the table, thats why we have "Diplomats" we'd be wasting our money and chances if we dont utilize our smart diplomats
"trash sent over to the Philippines." *It's a island. It's just going to end up in the ocean going there.* *Bizarre that the US pretends in recycling still after it was debunked as non-sense when it first started.*
My father, who passed away 21 years ago, was ahead of his time. When recycling started to be a thing in the late 60's he scoffed at the economics of recycling and insisted that reusing, as we always used to do, was the real garbage solution.
I gotta wonder how much a soda would cost if we still used returnable/reusable glass bottles, as opposed to new plastic. And what would be the cost difference in logistics of buying new plastic or rewashing/reusing glass?
The reason they switched to plastic bottles is because they got rid of local production and distribution centers to save a few cents per bottle. Everyone used to return the glass bottles to the local production center, so the containers didn't become garbage, and the bottles would be washed and reused and any broken bottles could be recycled at an almost 1:1 ratio. The real solution to all of this is to regulate corporations with legislation to stop them from mass producing this garbage in the first place =/
J.J. McCullough Thats pretty interesting considering the “trash” sent to the Philippines was from the Vancouver blue bin program. There’s more to that story, its more about a corrupt port in the Philippines... I tend to believe the Philippino-Canadian businessman’s story tho.
When I was young schools encouraged children to recycle, but different type of recycling. We used to get good points for collecting paper, metal etc and selling to recycle centers which told us value of money and keeping places cleaner.
I think it's quite likely that the USA would use diplomacy to diffuse aggression between Canada and the Philippines because it's absurd to declare war on either of them.
I live in England and we have a very similar scam in operation here. And if we don’t agree with it we get fined £80. Most plastics and actually not recycled because they have multi layers of different plastic. Yet it would be very possible to turn them into fuel thus drive a power plant of sorts. We have a cement factory that uses shredded old worn tyres as fuel to cook the cement. Works a dream. This fuel is cheaper than gas and it gets rid of the mountain of worn tyres. And at the temperature it burns at there is extremely little smoke or particles. It’s proved to be a perfect symbiotic arrangement for all. An excellent example of how things should work.
In America, each piece of plastic has a number on it to show what type of plastic it is. And local recycling takes different numbers depending on what it is made to recycle. Number 1 and 2 tend to be the easiest to recycle. So as long as you can teach people to recycle the correct things, then recycling can work well and is beneficial.
When I was a kid in the 1970's, we had paper shopping bags, soda came in glass bottles that you, as a kid, could collect and get money for at the shop, and we had milkmen who delivered milk in glass bottles that they then took away to reuse.
There is no recycling program where I live, so my mom would take things to a recycling center in the next county. We separated stuff ourselves, between aluminum cans, clear glass, colored glass, cardboard, and paper. The recycling center stopped taking everything but paper and plastic around 2020 (I think I see why now), so I still habitually separate everything, but it all goes to the top of garbage mountain, which is where the drop-off recycling in my county goes anyway.
Another great essay. And yes I was exposed to a never-ending slurry of “recycling” will save the world messages growing up. Every 6 or 7 years, Globe + Mail runs a feature on the failure of recycling in Toronto • Sorting through blue boxes has become an easy way to Virtue Signal •
@@marlond5579 "What are the solutions to our refuse epidemic then?" *There isn't a trash epidemic. There's a recycling scam to get money from self flagellators.* *If trash was a epidemic it would be expensive, like recycling is. Millions of self flagellators are wasting their time on recycling.*
Mexican living in Italy here. In Mexico: we separate garbage as either Organic or Inorganic, the organic trash may be used for fertilizers, compost and stuff and the Inorganic get's sorted in facilities to separate what may be truly recyclable. The problem then is somehow similar to what you describe, on both the way we sort it and the way the facilities do and the place where it goes; In Italy: we are encouraged to separate our trash in different colored bins as either Glass, Metals, Papers, "Wet trash" (Organics) and "Dry trash" (Un-recyclables such as sanitary waste or things crafted from mixed materials). They even pass different days depending on which color of bin they are collecting each time. But there are also scandals on how many plants end up just burning everything all together.
In Belgium, we separate our trash into: paper and cardboard, PMD (soft plastics, metals and drink cartons), GFT (vegetables, fruit and gardening waste which gets composted) and rest waste (which supposedly gets burned and turned into energy?). These are all collected every 2 weeks. Glass jars and bottles get recycled in two large bins for tinted and clear glass that can be found in most neighborhoods alongside a container for collecting old clothes and fabric. Every town has its own recycling center where you can dispose of all formerly mentioned items plus hard plastics, chemical waste (paint, oil, ...), old electronics, batteries, cartridges and all types of insulation foam for free (covered by taxes I guess) and you can also dispose of bulk waste, drenched wood and building waste for a small fee. Everything has its own container of course ;p
I visited central Italy in 1999. I was astonished at how much trash and litter was in the streets. Hope they have cleaned things up over there since then.
Back in the late 80's where I lived in Italy they separated the glass four ways - clear, green, brown, other. Where I live now in the US they just stopped recycling glass. smh
i saw those blue recycling Bins here in the US, .. and i was wondering how things get sorted. In central Europe we have 5 different bins separating metal, glas, paper, plastics and chunk. And as far as i know the metal and glas recycling works pretty well. (Germany 70% of Glas and 60% of Paper gets reused).
They're pissed about the country became other country's dustbin is so understandable. It's happened a lot in Asia recently, also in Indonesia. Is there any certain way to make our garbage more recycle-able???
1, no wet or damp items 2, no food or beverage stained items 3, no biodegradable garbage (etc. Banana peel,) And thats pretty much how to recycle better
@@drsolo7 You *can* technically recycle biodegradable stuff, but most companies don't do *that* kind of recycling. I'm talking about composting. Turning biodegradable waste into fertilizer. There's also other ways like turning paper into new brown paper or turning food scraps into clay then into bricks or just paper mache bricks, but you get the point...
One of the best ways to improve recycling efficiency is to pre-sort your recyclables yourself so the city doesn’t have to. Instead of throwing everything into your blue bin together, you can put all your plastics, glass, and paper in separate bags, then bring them to a recycling station that has dedicated bins for each item.
@@aronenark: "Instead of throwing everything into your blue bin together..." Is that really the system? It amazes me that anyone would think that kind of system would work.
@@tomservo5007 No, I was the only one recycling on my street and then one day I watched and saw the worker throw my items in the garbage truck with the garbage. I called the company and she gave me an answer of oh, well they might do that, it's okay. So then I started taking my stuff to a collection point in the next town. (not far) Thought they were better but over the years I have had my suspicions.
Recently seeing trash bins which now say 'clean containers only' instead of 'plastic' or 'aluminum/cans' like they would have before, I now believe this more (Mohawk college).
Here in Belgium we're still stuck with a system that worked good 25y ago, in fact it was one of the best back then. But by sticking to this recycling system we've gone down in the worldwide ranking massively. The only reason we still have this system is because of corporal interests and no-one here is complaining, while we're just sending most of our trash to Turkey. But I think like 40% of the stuff that is recyclable and we have to put in the right bins also doesn't get recycled.
As a Canadian I need to say my people still don't understand how recycling works. People if anything is touched by food in anyway it becomes organic..no mater if you somehow shake it out. If you add that pizza box into the recycling box..guess what you've just contaminated everything the box just touched..and vice versa.
Dude we had a similar thing in England where we had 3 bin {trash cans} - one for garden waste (hedge clippings, weeds,grass) one for unrecyclable waste and one for recyclable waste. People were fined for putting things into the wrong bin - then All three lots were sent to India to go into the same landfill. What it actually did was allowed the local authorities to reduce our trash collection from once a week to once a fortnight.
I recycle eveything. I put all my garbage including dog dodo and table scraps in a blue dumpster to be taken to the magic factory where it is sorted but on pallets the hauled to the land fill.
Its the same in the UK, they used to pick up our recycling, cans in one bin and paper then another, they use to take the lorry away and dump it all into the same land fill hole. Today the have recycling plant it looks like the things that can be sold are taken out, Aluminum can and steel. If it all going to be burn by others, why don't we built plants that can burn the rubbish and create electric at the same time. Good plan?
Just because certain areas are bad at recycling doesn't mean recycling itself is bad. If the recycling was actually taken to factories to reprocess it, then it could have been reused. It is a fallacy to suggest that no material is capable of being recycled.
The interesting thing in my town is that the curbside garbage pickup will only collect trash out of the one very specific Township-provided can. Any large items can only be picked up on the first pickup day of the month (and you have to call ahead for them to do that. However, we also get a full-sized recycling can to use. So, because of their silly rule that they only collect trash from that one magical can, anything and everything recyclable goes in the recycling just so that I even have room in the can to put my trash out...
"also fighting for its environment. " *Saying "fighting for environment" non-sense anti-humanism propaganda. Fighting? lol.* *The price is the metric that informs and people make agreements on that information.* *The Philippines is too crowded to send trash too, it has 2135 people per km2 arable land, Malaysia has 99, Indonesia 140, China 145, Russia 9. All theses places have extremely cheap land and labor compared to the US. But not cheap enough to make of the cost in shipping by ocean, trash going overseas is only an absurd "the more cost the better" system like government could do.*
My favourite thing to reuse, which I haven't done in a while because the one store I bought them from seldom stocks them anymore, is Chinet double-insulated coffee cups. Two layers of slightly higher-grade disposable cup cardboard and a take-away style lid. I've gotten as many as six and seven cups of coffee out of one of them before the inside and rim of the cup was so rotted I just had to pitch it. Now I'll signal my nationality by mentioning the store that nowadays carries these so infrequently: the Staples in Auburn, Massachusetts.
There are plenty of materials that can be recycled. Recycling works well when done correctly. This video was too cynical and was focused mainly on pointing out problems rather than actually trying to solve them.
@@greywolf7577 I've seen you under multiple comments pushing your pro-recycling (pro-garbage?) agenda. apparently, you had nothing better to do 2 months ago than to write a bunch of captain obvious comments saying "recycling is good if it works like how it's supposed to!" yes, the whole point of this video is that it doesn't work like we were told it does. most stuff people attempt to recycle is worthless trash that will be burned or dumped into a landfill. and yes, the video did give a solution: DON'T PRODUCE THE GARBAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE! drink tap instead of bottled, use a hand towel instead of paper towels, it's not hard.
There is a dirty little secret about curb side recycling pick up. A lot of cities and towns just throw it in with the regular trash when no one is looking.
@@qam2024 Once it becomes glass it is no longer sand. You also cannot return it to sand. Metals can also be recycled. As I said in a statement burn the rest. Think about it....DUMBASS.
@@qam2024 Recycling glass is actually cheaper than producing new glass because it is more energy efficent. You need lower temperatures to melt glass than you need to produce new glass.
That's because glass, as well as metal, are made from naturally-occurring chemicals that can be molded, melted, and reshaped as many times as you want and still retain its structural integrity. Plastic, on the other hand, is a synthetic polymer of long chains of hydrocarbons that degrade and break down every time you melt it down and reuse it. Because of this, while glass and metal could theoretically be recycled over and over again forever and ever, plastic will eventually break down so much after a certain number of recycles that it becomes unusable and just gets thrown away.
I used to work for a very large city’s municipal park district and know for 100% fact that they pick up their garbage and recycling cans with the same truck, which only has one collection bin so in that case they’re very specifically being mixed, which makes it unusable for recycling. In this instance their “recycling” cans are purely for optics
In your favorite province of Quebec, the recycling industry is adapting to what the asian countries have implemented, as in finding more and more local recycling options, working with packaging manufacturers in hopes of redusing unrecyclable items that are put on store shelves and implementing more accountability when it comes to sorting facilities doing a good job or not. Of course, the first 2 Rs are still the most important, but at least the third R is getting a well deserved makeover.
You do realize that Big Corporations pushed the idea of Recycling back in the 70's & 80's as the responsibility of the consumer & local governments instead of just manufacturing products that are more easily recyclable yet cost more like Glass Bottles & Aluminum Cans & paper cups just to save their own asses. I remember as a kid mostly all soda & juice were sold in bottles, even 6 packs. Now they even have some Beer's in plastic bottles .. =/
Clean energy, recycling, veganism....you have to be critical, as they all have to do with advertising, as much as actually dealing with problems. They're good for startups and companies that need a better PR, but the world? Not so much. The real difference is having less kids, and teach them not to buy so much stuff (but what company would want that right?).
Yep. Reduce, Reuse, and then Recycle (with power generation being a backstop recycling option). Minimal simplified household sorting. Extract the Al, Fe, glass with automated sorting. Incinerate the rest for power / heat in well-controlled facilities.
This information was actually available to students in my school system years ago. They put the emphasis on reduce and reuse as well. They also pointed out products that used less packaging. Like buying meat fresh cut and wrapped in butcher paper not Styrofoam and plastic and refilling products containers with items that had less packaging. Unfortunately my forward thinking schools were no match for the lazy consumer, the greedy corporations and the gross propaganda machine that is news.
Here in California, all soft drink bottles and cans require a 2-to-5 cent "California Redemption Value" deposit when you buy them. There used to be plenty of redemption centers that would give your deposit back when you returned the empty container, but nowadays there are hardly any and the CRV "deposit" works basically like a tax.
I worked as a temp. at a dump for a few days and saw what actually happens to “recycled” products. First of all, pop cans are NOT recycled. Anyone who tells you different is either lying or has no clue what they are talking about. There is a giant hole in the ground and a bulldozer pushes all the cans into the hole. I asked the guy driving the bulldozer : “at what point do they actually recycle the cans”? He said : “never...I’ve been putting these cans in here for 30 years”. I asked him why don’t they melt them down and make new cans out of them? He said because of the paint on the can. It is too expensive to get the paint off entirely. If there is even just a little bit of paint in the tin it would contaminate the internal part of a new can - it’s cheaper to use new aluminium. Which makes sense. Same goes for plastic water bottles. The glue on the label makes them unusable for a new bottle because of contamination reasons. Those water bottles are also segregated in a certain area of the dump and put into a giant hole.
BULLSHIT ALERT!!! BULLSHIT ALERT!!!! You work 4 days as a temp and you're an expert? bwhahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahaa. Soda cans are in fact far and away the most recyclable of materials..And ludicrously cost efficient.. Virgin aluminum is by far the most energy intensive metal production humans do on any large scale.. Recycling saves over 90% of the energy making it far cheaper it Now it's possible where ever you worked had no ability to separate them but it doesn't change the fact that any metal scrap dealer will quite happily take all the aluminum you can give them... Even without redemption values they'll quite happily buy them from you.. If you were seeing "tin" cans for beverages you'd need to be at least 80 as beverage manufacturers made the switch from steel to aluminum in the early 1970's You are correct plastic cannot be recycled easily... which is why there is such a push to change behaviors and habits. In fact Pepsi has announced plans to change the packaging for their Aquafina water brand to aluminum because of recycling issues... What this video misses is the fact just dumping stuff has a cost... The goal of recycling charges is an attempt to place a cost on that.. Throwing stuff away is not free... There are collection costs, hauling costs and most importantly the land costs for the dumps.. As dumps fill up near cities waste has to be hauled further and further to land fills. Without recycling charges the actual costs of the products is not borne by the manufacturer and the actual consumer of the products but by everyone.
You are kidding me. You are kidding me. You are kidding me. I figured the plastic they weren't recycling, but the cans and bottles... wow, all the time I wasted.
GrasponReality ...I never said I was an expert at recycling...I’m just telling you what I saw. If you witness a murder does it make your statement any less valid because you only saw it happen once? You either saw it or you didn’t. I was of the same belief as everyone else. I thought they melted the cans down and made new ones. But they don’t. Again, the problem is the paint. Once the paint is on it you really can use it again. The landfill is in Mississauga Ontario...go for a tour and see for yourself...
Answer me this question, why is there a metal recycling plant in my area that buys this stuff by the pound (copper, brass, aluminum, pewter, circuit boards, tin, titanium, etc.). Why would these companies be set up to buy all these metals to make a profit only to turn around and dump it in a landfill. I am in the USA so I don't know if there is any difference from where you are at.
cloudstrifeification ...they recycle industrial metals to make other industrial products...that is true. What I’m talking about is food usages. Cans for pop or beer or other beverages are essentially useless after they are discarded. Again, it’s because of the paint. Plus cans can’t be used for many industrial products either...because of the paint. The metal is so thin that if you try to scrap the paint off the can breaks open. But, if you have an old washing machine or fridge they will recycle the copper wire and the metal housing. But, recycled metal is never as strong a new metal so the usage of recycled metal is restricted. Don’t believe me? Go to that recycling plant your talking about with a bunch of pop cans and beer cans and see if they take them. Once they refuse to take them, ask them why...
Well Philippines have a massive environmental problem and we are solving it, local governments have innovative ideas on how to deal with garbage like school have pots for plants that are in 1.5L bottles of Sprite and Coca Cola. And citizen also have innovative ways to recycle something. And also, some school all over the country are doing monument that says "I LOVE(or)♡(the school name acronyms)" from something called "eco bricks" which are not actually brick, even a box, its just 1.5L plastic bottle of coke filled with cutted wrappers of everything just to gain weight. Some local governments are also incentivized recycling like some small government gave school supplies to children in exchange of garbage. My city even has this program called "Greenhearts" on which is available in elementary school throughout the city and they will get your garbage in exchange of cash and like if you reach certain amount like PHP 1,500 pesos or $30 US dollars in 10 months worth of garbage, they double it up, and like this happens at a big ceremony on the city hall
Agreed. Been to the country 3 times. While Manila Bay is the most disgusting body of water I've ever seen around the world, I also see people closing up the already beautiful kawasan falls to maintain its cleaness. And on the whole, the country has the best looking sea and ocean compared with neighboring countries in ASEAN
We should return accountability to the people actually producing this trash, we like to pretend that it is the consumer running with their wallet all these giant factories, the consumer has always bought coke, but it is the corporation that decided to switch from glass to plastic. Single use plastics are a relatively modern thing as ultra industralization set in and plastic began to be cheaper and easier to produce than literally anything else. We honestly have to return to a lot of glass and paper, even if more expensive, like selling milk, sodas or even water in glass or paper containers. Remember when orange juice and other products used to come in cardboard? Glass and paper are not only easier to recycle, they also degrade much faster and don't rely on fossil fuels quite as much. In terms of buying more durable things instead of single use products, there is an argument to be made that a lot of durable things require sometimes hundreds of times more energy than their single use equivalent, so while generating less trash... they might be ultimately worse for the environment. An elaborate durable nilon bag might live for a lot more time and require a lot more energy to produce, than hundreds of paper bags that degrade rapidly and require very little energy to be made.
@@damirimamagic5064: I'm not sure if that's what you meant but I don't think the Cod War was the reason as such. However, not wanting to join the Common Fisheries Policy probably has played a big role.
Our school had bins that were "Divided" into two sections, one side had a hole to put trash in, and the other recyling. If you lifted the top off, both holes led to the same bin bag.
Irony is its greener to dump those recyclable plastics and cardboard in an American landfill than to ship it halfway across the planet on polluting ships where most will be dumped in sites next to waterways...
In my town in California, the city used to get paid for recyclables. Now the city pays to have them taken away. And I genuinely do think most of it goes right into a landfill.
They just deal with whatever problems they have today. It's actually a good thing that there are no wars of the scale we has in the 1940s. If one breaks out, I'm sure Canadians would drag themselves to the battlefield like the rest of their allies.
All those kids programs are hypocritical. In 1st grade I won an art contest for D.A.R.E. in which I had to illustrate how smoking was bad... I won a variety of swag from Kool cigarettes because our principal was an avid smoker and forgot to buy prizes.
We studied The Ecology and the effects of Climate change back when I was in high school in the late 1960s. Earth Day was established in 1970. So in 1976 I went to work for my Uncle that had a fairly large local recycling business. We had a conversation about the mafia owning the large scale businesses as the names on the dumpsters could clearly be seen in older movies were same as we were buying in Detroit. So my main job was running the shed where you would bring me your recyclables and I would pay you accordingly. Mixed glass, brown glass, green glass White IBM cards, Pink IBM cards what ever. So the government decided we were going to give a hoot and force recyclying which I refuse to do because I'm not paying you to haul off the stuff you should be paying me for. Guess who got the city contracts for nearly every city in the nation. Waste Industries and Waste Management. Ok So I also worked in a grocery store during my senior year in and paid you for the returnable beer and soda bottles. Paper grocery bags had the recyclable emblem on the bottom of the bag in 1970. But we had to change that because "We care about the Planet" or some other lying crap.
Here in the states, in addition to the Recycling....the biggest issues that we were drilled about and fed endless propaganda about was Acid Rain and the Ozone Layer. The reduce, reuse, recycle thing was also pretty heavy in the curriculum. I do remember being told about Acid Rain and thinking that it was a kind of cool, diabolical cartoon plot of some sort where people would just melt if they walked outside while it was raining (i was probably 6 or 7 when the topic came up) Only later found out the issue was both worse and much more benign (no melting people); but apparently fixed through carbon emissions standards that were codified into law in the late 80's and 90's, much like the banning of CFC's in aerosol cans kinda solved the Ozone hole issue.
I learned in college geology that “Regular people” make up 3% of environmental problematic waste. Over 90% of true environmentally problematic waste is corporate/industrial waste. Your plastic bags were never an issue.
@@Joe-ly3si Not dumb at all. Corporate waste is exponentially larger and farther reaching than an average consumer's lifetime of plastic bags. But it makes an awfully good smokescreen for a well-meaning American (like yourself).
J.J.'s accent grows more fascinating with every video I watch. Today I learned he says "Al-oo-min-ee-um" which I don't think is especially common in *any* part of Canada, though I'm admittedly most familiar with the East and all of the "Ah-boots" and "Ah-roonds" already throw me.
I’m so glad I found this channel Every video from this to the Mandela effect to even the Simpsons predictions Iv been screaming for years about and now I finally have a place to back up what I have been telling people
I think it would be useful to mention the subclasses of recycleable materials. Yes general materials are losing value and just being put in landfills, with things like paper products especially being deemed wireless. But things like metal (and, perhaps ironically, things that are rarely recycled at all, like electronics) are still worth recycling. Even still it may be nice for people to remember that the phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle" isn't a nifty catchphrase; it's an order of operations.
0:14 I don't know where you went to school, but in Ontario, Canada, the school curriculum included education about global warming since before the 90's. It's actually been a knowledge held in our society for over 100 years and taught in schools here for at least 50 years. I remember the songs about the environment and cleaning up the planet from when I was in grade one. That was like 20 years ago. There was earth day, tons of classroom stuff about reducing our carbon footprints, the LOCO campaign. It stood for 'lights off, computers off.' It sounds silly, but to this day when I leave a room, I shut the lights off. And so much more.
It was called the greenhouse effect back then. It wasn't a major issue since most thought that the warming effect will take a long time. The ozone layer was the top priority in those days.
Great video JJ. As a Canadian living in the UK, I've realised they are even MORE inefficient than Canada. The recycling men themselves do the sorting in front of your house, which takes them ages, at least 5-10 times longer than the garbage men. Plus their recycling vehicles are littered with propaganda "Most people in Somerset are Recycling, are YOU?" I doubt we're keeping this junk in the UK as there aren't enough factories here either.
7:40 "When you cannot sell something the value of that thing inevitably declines." That explains why I can't find a buyer for my fingernail clippings. That information changes my entire business model.
According to predictions it would take 10,000 years for the U.S. to fill all their trash in a state the size of deleware. We are fine. It's really not a problem.
Not a problem??? Where do you live? Lets start a dump site next to your neighborhood if you think it is not a problem. Ever see the mountains that land fills make? Want to hike up one?
@@madden1957 Yes I have played golf on one, very beautiful area. As a matter of fact, the house I grew up in was in Fort Worth Texas and was built on a land fill. The Asian countries taking our recyclables and not able to recycle them are just dumping in the oceans or substandard landfills and it is washing to the oceans.
Ahhhh, gone are the 50's, 60's and early 70's here in America. There once was a time when milk in glass bottles were delivered to our homes. Before the day of prolific plastic use, we used paper grocery bags to line the trash cans and bird cages. Not to mention the ever popular hippie movement of turning brown paper bags into artistic book covers! Yes gone are the days of our mom's letting us lick the frozen cream off of milk bottle caps mid winter! Although I never read the entire book, Abby Hoffman's "Steal This Book" had some very interesting recycling topics. Such as used tire sandals and old door and cinder block bed platforms. Back in the day being frugal was in style and little went to waste.
palarious, I've told so many people about this, and they look at me like I'm nuts. Wtf. Why isn't anybody but the Japanese implementing this tech?, It's old as fuck.
Hi JJ! I grew up in the Yukon, which is of course very isolated from the rest of Canada. We have one major privately owned/ publicly subsidized recycling depot (that has not turned a profit once in its 30-year life). Our biggest issue up north is the difficulty of getting recycled material to the appropriate processsing facilities. It costs more to ship our waste down south than could be recouped by selling it, so most of our recycling ends up sitting in the landfill anyways, "awaiting transport" On the plus side we grind up old glass and use it to de-ice roads in the winter, so that's cool
He's not like Thanos at all, if he was he couldnt have snapped and said the "ill wage war" mentality with China which we have territory disputes and also ironically sent trash too and south korea too did sent some trash here Duterte just nitpick countries which he can lash and in the end become a pussy with someone viewed "too dangerous" he is not the strong man he claims to be he is a pussy even though he can safely criticize others
Just burn it all and boil water, create steam to make electricity. Then carbon trap the emissions and invest in Carbon Engineering to make cheaper,cleaner fuels
My county here in Alabama cancelled it's recycling program a few years ago. My family still does other things though. We sell our empty soda cans to a scrap metal place, about 4 months of cans produced by a family of 5 is worth about 30-40 bucks. We also compost and run a decent garden, and we burn empty boxes and such. Plastic is about the only thing we throw away.
Lumpia vs Poutine
Lol
Lmao
Maybe maple syrup vs rice
Honestly
Poutine flavored lumpia baybee
I still remember one of my University Biology classes when another student unceremoniously threw out some cardboard, so I asked her wait aren’t you an ecologist? Figured you of all people would recycle. She explained that it’s better for the environment to set fire to cardboard than burn fossil fuels to ship it to Australia and back since New Zealand doesn’t have a cardboard recycling plant.
When it comes to the three R’s, reduction and reuse are more important.
That's why they're first
@NOYDB idk about you but i'd say its better to refill an already made bottle than to make an entirely new one
@NOYDB yeah but if you already have a bottle
@NOYDB what are you trying to say i asked you a simple question "isnt it better to refill a bottle you already have than to make a new bottle" can you just answer yes or no to that question
@NOYDB i dont really see how it would not be better to just reuse it unless its like permanently contaminated or broken or something like that but ok
The packaging industry does us no favors. I'm irked by how thoughtlessly some companies go about packing their goods. Plastics that are way overkill, mixes of different types of plastics. Foiled paper or cardboard that can't be recycled, etc. I understand that a company that's selling a product wants to showcase it well, but it seems there is zero restraint and zero thought of the potential for something to be recycled. I think its time the packaging industry is held accountable. Maybe an opportunity for for some kind of grading system to reward the companies that do it best.
Japan is so bad for this
here here!
It's worse in Japan and Taiwan. I've seen an individual banana wrapped in a plastic container. BANANAS GROW THEIR OWN WRAPPER!!!
@@torenatkinson1986 i know walmart sells pre-peeled oranges in... you guessed it! - a plastic box.
I recycle but to be honest, I just do it because it saves space in the trash can.
Me too.
It would be most beneficial if the amount of disposables to landfills reached zero; but in the meantime every little bit kept out of a landfill is helpful in reducing if not eliminating the increase of size of landfills.
The 10+/- car parking lot for the apartment building in which I reside is often filled with litter even though there is a double size dumpster right there literally on the parking lot. Even though my continuing using the dumpster for disposables (rather than dumping it on the parking lot) does not reduce the amount of litter on the parking lot, it sure does keep more litter from accumulating on the parking lot.
Yes my same opinion.After i seen that i was only the 4% of my entire city that does. I basically need extra space in residential can for yard waste weeds,branch clippings, So ,trying to save landfills from toxic waste is useless. At least we tried.
homeofthegooddeal hA hA haaaaaa!
It's the default in Germany (16% working, some homes heated in the interim, embarrassing for the most part).
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
-Milton Friedman
Facts. If the results aren't good then what's the point?
Head Start. Integration. Civil Rights.
"It's better to be morally correct than factually correct." -AOC
Biofuels: Large swathes of millenia-old rainforests in the Amazon and Asia cleared for sugarcane and palm oil plantations.
Anti-plastic movement (prediction): More deforestation for wood to produce paper & cardboard
@Dr.Rathclyffe777 he was quoting AOC.
I'm glad you remember the changing environmental narrative too. I felt like I was crazy for thinking acid rain was going to be way more of a problem than it turned out to be.
Because they actually reduced sulphur emissions quite drastically?
Derka Derka just because there is a factory somewhere doesn’t mean all of that leftover material in Canada is going there
@@Alias_Anybody People like to forget that the reason certain bad things didn't happen is that we actually addressed it. Then they go on to use the fact that we fixed the problem as evidence the problem wasn't real.
In short, it's political theatre on their part. They are intentionally dishonest.
@@s0515033 yo can you tell what is this derka guy rambling about?
In the future we will look back on manmade global warming the same way... how could people believe such nonsense?
Recycling was a way to make a new generation of consumers feel good about being wasteful and vain.
No, it's a way to make the self righteous left feel good.
it's basically root virtue signaling.
It's all about rebranding the consumer society as something more morally uplifting - just as public philanthropy was a way of rebranding the capitalist system back in Victorian times. Heaven forfend we should put the gravy train at risk by developing some REAL ethics...
I ran a restaurant for a while in the 90s and had customers who were adamant about wanting carryout but refusing plastic wrap and styrofoam. I'm sure they were very proud of themselves. Meanwhile no one ever asked what we did with the big cardboard boxes everything came in.
looking that way
My grandmother wasn’t an environmentalist but she reused a lot of boxes especially plastic butter bins people who grew up poor know how to reuse and reduce lol
My grandmother did the same with plastic butter bins, and only with plastic butter bins. Was it country crook (think that's how it's spelled)?
Also did your grandmother happen to have a bird clock where all the numbers where different species of bird?
No more of a koo koo clock lover
@@Sensiblefool Ah okay. I ask because a few of my friends all seem to share in common the above stated facts with at least one of our grandmothers. Really weird.
@@dallyh.2960 "My grandmother..."
*People that survived world war and the great depression did it by stretching out the little they could find to survive. The world is much richer now and each person produces much more than she ever could have.*
Amen
Recycling is the _least_ important of the 3Rs however it was heavily promoted by various manufacturers because the other two Rs cut into their bottom lines. By promoting Recycling over reducing & reusing the responsibility is shifted on to the consumer but the consumption level never changes and that's _exactly_ what the Recycling promoters want.
to companies a lot of time, ending is better than mending
You know what helped me reduce my carbon foot print. Becoming jobless and not affording anything : /
😂😂 smashed it, it's savage but a true fact... I hope you get back on your feet soon enough
Same but I didn't lose my job, I started saving my money and I don't but any useless material or food based crap I don't absolutely need.
I fill my trash can only once every two weeks.
Y T truth
So Trudeau is actually saving the environment by making us poor?
it's a very effective method. What does that say about us? We only don't indulge when we can't.
New washing machines crap out in 5 to 10 years, usually because some electronic board drops dead from moisture, dirt and vibration, three things necessary to all washing machines. Meanwhile I still use a 35 year old Maytag, that has no electronics, just electric switches. It uses no more water then the new efficient machines, cleans well, and does the wash in less than half the time of the new front loaders that tout steam as a cycle you can choose. Nobody needs steam in their washing machine.
yea, yesterday was garbage day here and i passed a washer on the curb that was, i'm not kidding, one of the newest washers i have personally ever seen. could sneak that thing back into a store and sell it again. had the same thought about an old bullet proof washer that just keeps chugging along too.
Washing mashines are at least die for a reason. A lot of stuff are not only cheaply made, but are designed to malfunction at certain elapsed time of use. These are often things that have no moving parts or have bad environment either. Like consumer electronics. Some are just programmed to. Then there are the others that build cheaply and makes repair illegal and/or impossible, like apple.
Some class action suits should sink these dirty scumbags otherwise there is just race to the bottom.
I think you're talking about LG and Samsung washing machines. Those two are the worst for electronic parts breaking.
My poor old washer finally died, I loved it. The motor blew. Now I own a nice new model of garbage. I never thought I could hate something so much. I had it for 5 weeks before I called Sears to come and get it. Oh, 5 weeks... sorry, that's 1 week too long. I have NO DOUBT that the person who designed this washer has NO CLUE how to wash clothes. This machine won't last long. I'm from a time when everything was made in America and lasted a lifetime. Now you're lucky if anything works right out of the box.
If you looked under the old washing machines they had a gearbox that looked like it could be used as a car transmission and a belt connecting the motor that could be used as an auto fan belt. The new ones have plastic gears and a large rubber band.
The sale of single-use plastic containers of yogurt, drinks, noodles, etc., seems to grow with no end in sight in the USA. Imo, this is the best place to begin to reduce and re-use.
Stop bitching a propose a solution. If not, shut yer yap.
Kip does Stuff Refillery grocery store? Idk
Meanwhile we are ignoring the elephant in the room, the military industrial complex....
I am past 50 and I have maybe bough garbage bags 2 or 3 times in my life. I avoid goods with too much packaging. I use any packaging as a garbage.
@@KipdoesStuff i got this spot in the middle of my chest that forms a depression i just tell them to pour the noodles into it.
1. Refuse: Stop consuming some items that you can do without
2. Reduce: Consciously consider each purchase to only buy the essentials rather than buying on a whim
3. Reuse: Use as many times as you can.
4. Repair: Mend old things for reuse
5. Recycle: As a last resort!
THIS!!
Boycott Planned Obsolescence...Demand better products!
@@carlbole2142 "Boycott Planned Obsolescence...Demand better products!"
*That's a dumb to say. Buying something isn't a "demand", it's reciprocity. Planned obsolescence is "planned material efficiency".*
*Example: Anyone can buy a commercial steel sewing machine for $6000 or a plastic one for $100. They are BOTH built with "planned obsolescence" you moron.*
*Why would you want a $6000 steel VCR to last a lifetime moron?*
*Why would you want a plastic sewing machine built without "planned obsolescence" and have parts that would break in 0 to 1000 years for $1000 instead of a "planned obsolescence" sewing machine for $100 that would last for 5000 sewing projects moron?*
@@dmay3391 keep buying your 100$ sewing machines, and filling up garbage piles. To be content with "landfill products" is the sign of insanity, moron! Demand quality products, with your purchasing power, and let dollar bin die a lonely death!
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
In that order. Nobody ever said to dump everything into the blue bin. That plastic or glass peanut butter jar? Clean it out and use it yourself. If you don't have anything that needs a non-airtight jar, then still clean it out before recycling it. Worn out CDs that won't play anymore? Use them as cool drink coasters. Milk jug? Clean it out, but also check the labels and the store you buy them at because some stores have a refund on the jugs; bring the empty jug back, get a nickel. Scrap wood from a sandbox or children's play set? Make decorative birdhouses.
Look on the positive side - in 50 million years when that material has decomposed Asia will have a lot of oil fields.
Nice, Asia can look forward to some sweet oil wealth in as little as 50 million years. Ni hao baby.
and they'll be concentrated in a few energy dense places.
actually it won't be that long if the bio breakdown is artificially accelerated...
Haha awesome!
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Wasn’t oil produced by the fallen dragons? How else did they breath fire?
It falls back on the consumer to avoid products packaged in plastic (which is inconvenient or almost impossible to do in many areas of Canada). There are a million laws governing individual behaviour, why not some that control the irresponsible actions of those that force us to use so much plastic?
I'm from the UK and i agree with you man, everything is wrapped in plastic. Even things that are already sealed (like tobacco for example) are still covered in plastic. Yet here we banned plastic straws so now we have to use these crappy paper things that disolve into your drink, but magazines are still wrapped in plastic. Plastic lasts for years in the ocean, kills animals and fish. But i suppose that is just the risk that companies must take, they have to prevent people from being able to read a magazine before buying it, otherwise the 3 people in the universe who still read magazines might just read it online like everyone else and then those companies will lose like £2 a month
@@violenceisfun991 yeah and paper straws are in plastic containers 💩
You need all 3 Rs, ideally. Reduce the amount of straws you use, preferably reuse whatever you have (making metal straws the best ones... atm) and worse case scenerio, vote with your wallet and chose a material that is recyclable, so paper straws is the "worst" best option. . Reduce>Reuse>recycle.
Restaurants should all try and use metal straws. Like in the good ol days in Johny rockets (mainly because the milkshake was very thick, and hard to use a plastic straw with. Who would have known it was eco friendly)
The recycling truck here comes on Monday morning, picks up all the blue box stuff, then takes it straight to the dump and puts it right in the landfill.
That's happening everywhere.
Lmao
Then it seeps into the water systems. Perfectly perfect recycle system. It'll eventually recycle it's way right back to us.
Then why don't you complain about them doing it and make them take it to a recycling plant? It makes not sense that the response to companies failing to recycle is "well, I guess recycling doesn't work" rather than "we need to force these companies to do what they are supposed to".
I’m in British Columbia. Have you ever heard of Cash Creek? Best dame garbage dump we have ever had. The most cost effective way of dealing with human garbage. Bury it in the desert on a hill 😄
Trash Creek B.C.
5:33 WTF are you doing to make that much trash in the morning alone!?
That's exactly what I thought, I make maybe 1/100 of that for my lunch
Aric Wood | I make more trash than JJ does.
Maybe he was hosting brunch.
Grocery day?
oliver warmflash how?
This actually hurts me in a way. I am Filipino-Canadian who was born in the Philippines and the main river in Manila (Pasig river) is so polluted with garbage floating on top so this made me hate polluting the environment. My family moved to Canada when I was a kid and I was introduced to recycling and the schools encouraged us to be environmentally friendly so as I grew up, I made sure every recyclable items should always go in the recycling bin. But it's sad that those things I've been recycling over the years might just be ending up in that river in Manila which is the thing that made me start recycling in the first place.
Born and raised Canadian of 54 years . Never ever heard a Canadian say " A Boot ... instead of About ... until I heard you "
Release the Hounds !!
That should also encompass "Anyhoo"
J-Man I know! He’s saying it the way we’d expect an American to say it, right?
I think he just has a speech impediment. lol
It does seriously seem put on. He sounds like an American pretending to be Canadian
*hoonds
As a fellow Canadian, I love the fact you are tackling and critiquing the "sacred cows" that we hold so dear. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Now all we have to do is get rid of CPP and old age pension.
they are only sacred cows to leftists, to everyone else they are irritating wastes of time and money
@Derka Derka the only lies are the stuff that comes from the mouth of the lunatic eco-nutjobs..... canada is full of the stupid crazies like you and the prime minister
@Derka DerkaI I think using hyperbole, such as stating "spouting massive ignore" is unhelpful and counterproductive. Canada's recycling program is not really effective. Here is one of several articles that addresses the challenges it faces:
globalnews.ca/news/5199883/canada-recycling-programs/
Any factual errors aside, the video rightly points out the system doesn't work very well. To quote the article, "...the notion that Canadians are saving the planet by putting things in a blue bin is proving to be a delusion."
@@alechidde7822 Some things are worth recycling. Some things are not. The best solution is to reduce consumption and make longer-lasting, reusable products. But that won't happen, because modern consumer capitalism pushes for infinite growth fueled by endlessly increasing consumption. The only way this system is sustainable is by making more shit to buy more shit to make more shit.
When I was in grade 1, one of my classmates pushed back on the recycling propaganda. He argued that the recycling process amounts to converting one form of environmentally damaging waste into another, owing to the energy consumed and pollution generated by recycling plants. Seems he was pretty close to the mark. That was 1990. He was six years old.
You should hit him up on social media and see if he is a scientist or advisor
Lulululuigot some apples - More likely he was expelled from school and is living on the streets. President of his Mensa chapter, mind you, but still on the streets.
He was just too smart, even at six, to be allowed to live.
Yes the recycling process takes energy, but so does creating new items, so the 6 year old's point wasn't as good as you think it was. If I had to choose whether to cause pollution recycling items or to create pollution making new items from new material, then recycling would obviously be the better choice environmentally.
I call cap on this story. No 6 year old is capable of making the connection from energy consumption to effectiveness of recycling.
@@dr.doppeldecker3832 6 year olds are halfway decent at parroting what their parents tell them.
As a guy that worked at a reclamation plant or two (as a picker), I can tell you most plants are run by private companies that bought a contract, and are not government unions.
In Canada or the USA?
@@bradypostma3708 Everywhere, even here in Germany.
"most plants are run by private companies"
*Private monopoly companies granted by government which people must pay for like a tax.*
"are not government unions."
*Monopoly unions of Teamsters, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
, and Machinists Union in the USA.*
*Everything bad about government doing something exist with these "government" companies. They lack market competition and price incentive.*
Can confirm.
Not generally unionized. Win contracts with open bidding so not monopoly either....
"That has pushed my county to the brink of war" - my new favourite JJ quote
You succeeded at pointing out the essential fallacy of recycling - that the onus for waste management is on the end consumer
You failed, however, to point the finger at the *producers* of plastic garbage, who happily funded the kinds of videos you were exposed to as a child, as a means of absolving themselves of the responsibility to deal with their mess.
just like jay walking.
What a stupid comment.
No. Recycling cost money and its not normally an easy function to fund. You can recycle hundreds of pounds of styrofoam (mind you only specific types) and in return you only receive back a couple of dollars in revenue. This and the fact that you might have paid 2 workers to sort and compact costing you hours of labor at a price yielding a negative return. This is just but one factor in this environmental mess.
Very little absolving is done via videos, but i think I understand what you're saying. There are so many legal loopholes and lack of understanding that its become problematic to hold companies/countries accountable for the damage they cause that in reality, one only considers it when their feed or news reports on large scale problems.
Note: I have an B.S. in environmental sciences and resource management & conservation. I also work for my local government and specialize in air quality and investigations. In addition to having done consulting.
No. Actually plastic packaging is used because they work and reduce food waste and product loss. This is a HUGE benefit recognized everywhere from rich America to the poorest part of Indonesia. The political response to waste plastics is the problem. The only effective way to treat huge amounts of mixed waste (like the paper/plastic mix in your Amazon shipment) is to incinerate it in a waste to energy process. This will never happen because it is politically incorrect to allow even ppm of potentially harmful substances, while it IS politically correct to claim victory in recycling processes that consistently fail to meet any objective environmental accounting - why because no one does cradle-to-grave checks to see if they are actually beneficial to the planet . The waste shipments to China are off-the-books ; that solves the guilt problem. Finally, recycling creates tax-funded jobs with powerful unions. There is no way to depoliticize recycling and do the job with the trade-offs required in honest science. Dinosaur moralizing will win every time.
@Derka Derka
In what way has did it fail to point the finger at plastic producers?
Also shipping this junk to Asia and back uses a lot of fuel.
Ships that move containers, meter the fuel used in???? mpg ? L/100? nope TONS per hour!!! And this is a non-renewable resource. Not a comforting thought.
@@LowsJuan while their fuel source is extremely high in pollution trans oceanic shipping is by far the least expensive, least energy consuming transportation process per kg available on Earth. for example it is cheaper to raise a chicken in the United States, kill it, freeze it send it to China for processing then send it back to the States for packing and sale. That should be an indication of how cheap the transportation is.
@@otm646 And because ships are getting larger and larger and with the Panama canal able to accept even larger ships things in the container buisiness are more efficient orcheaper or more profitable for the shipping companies than ever. Still just because you can does not make a good decision.
Y T According to Polymatters, the ships leave the west coast full of junk and return from China with exported products to save the fuel.
My wife pointed out to me that the ships that come here have to return to Asia, whether full or empty. Might as well put something on it if it's going somewhere anyway.
Life imitates art: I recall a Simpsons episode where Montgomery Burns enters the recycling business and recruits Lisa Simpson into getting the whole town to recycle. He ends up building this state of the art recycling facility. And for what use did he recycle those plastic straps that keep six-packs together? A trawling net! As he demonstrated one such net in action, trawling up all the sea creatures from the seafloor, Montgomery exclaimed to Lisa, "I recycle fish!"
Zero is a percent
Lil' Lisa Slurry!
I think of that scene when Lisa tries to stop people from recycling, now transformed into zombies from heavy pro-recycling brainwashing. Still cracks me up...
Just because some recycling processes is bad doesn't mean recycling itself doesn't work. There are plenty of items that are made of recycled material.
@@greywolf7577 would you consider it bad if recycling cost more money and polluted more than it helped?
I grew up in an environmentally aware family where my father ran a geothermal heat pump business. I was unfortunately very aware as a 12-year-old that global warming was the existential monster on the horizon and that recycling was a feel-good red herring. I *wish* I had thought recycling was the big challenge, I was a rather anxious kid...cost me a lot in therapy down the road...
Oh yeah, We, South Korea, also have a lot of trash sent over to the Philippines. Big problem.
Pencil BFB well duterte only nitpicks countries he can lash out and end up looking like a pussy when it comes to issues with China lol
Which is ironic South Korea and China too send toxic garbages in our country and Malaysia did a better job dealing with it and the global diplomatic community responded more with Malaysia's ultimatum by just sending it back unlike our president did.
Right. And it's called "k-pop".
Pencil BFB but to canada which has a powerful alliance with USA and NATO he can lol
Well ironic statements aside, war isnt the only thing in the table, thats why we have "Diplomats" we'd be wasting our money and chances if we dont utilize our smart diplomats
@paru paro I think you just solved world hunger my dude
"trash sent over to the Philippines."
*It's a island. It's just going to end up in the ocean going there.*
*Bizarre that the US pretends in recycling still after it was debunked as non-sense when it first started.*
I still think we should just grind up all the recyclables, mix them with concrete, and make building materials out of them.
This is definitely one of the better ideas!
Finally someone with a plan. 🤔
Theres also companies that take non-recyclable trash, bury it under a hill and it produces natural gas we can harvest.
I've often wondered how much of the soiled paper and cardboard that people try to "recycle" could actually be used to make mulch for fertiliser.
*sniff* *sniff* "why does this wall smell like ketchup??
Wow! Are you using a new camera? Whatever you've done, it looks pretty sharp :D
My father, who passed away 21 years ago, was ahead of his time. When recycling started to be a thing in the late 60's he scoffed at the economics of recycling and insisted that reusing, as we always used to do, was the real garbage solution.
I gotta wonder how much a soda would cost if we still used
returnable/reusable glass bottles, as opposed to new plastic. And what would be the cost difference in logistics of buying new plastic or rewashing/reusing glass?
The reason they switched to plastic bottles is because they got rid of local production and distribution centers to save a few cents per bottle. Everyone used to return the glass bottles to the local production center, so the containers didn't become garbage, and the bottles would be washed and reused and any broken bottles could be recycled at an almost 1:1 ratio. The real solution to all of this is to regulate corporations with legislation to stop them from mass producing this garbage in the first place =/
Philippines: remove ur trash
Canada: f*** u
UK: *spits tea*
France: *spits wine*
US: *spits coke*
Philippines: NANI?
US spits Coke, lol so true
Correction.
Canada: F*** u bud*
@@ericcartmann
Correction:
Canada: Sorry but, f*** you, bud!
ThinWhiteAxe not really
SPITS COKE IM CHOKING
Lmao when I opened this video I had an add for recycling bc “that’s just what we do in BC!” (BC = British Columbia (a province in Canada))
British Columbia actually has one of the best recycling regimes in North America! If I had more time I would have gone into it.
Ad, not add.
J.J. McCullough Thats pretty interesting considering the “trash” sent to the Philippines was from the Vancouver blue bin program. There’s more to that story, its more about a corrupt port in the Philippines... I tend to believe the Philippino-Canadian businessman’s story tho.
@@JJMcCullough because bc is the best province
When I was young schools encouraged children to recycle, but different type of recycling. We used to get good points for collecting paper, metal etc and selling to recycle centers which told us value of money and keeping places cleaner.
Canada? Fighting?
*Gasp*
Ginja Ninja do you not know of GSP?!?!?!!!
1812 bitch
Aaron H Canada didn’t exist yet
All fun & games till a moose chokes on a plastic bag.
Canadians are ferocious fighters in war, they're just really friendly at peacetime XD
Philippines: We declare war on Canada
United States: You're doing what now?
NATO: *Demonic laugh*
M M most countries contribute less than the minimum required, what’s your point?
@@CranKun This was a joke, not an invitation for debate
US also has treaty with Philippines
Mutual Defense Treaty: Am I a joke to you?
I think it's quite likely that the USA would use diplomacy to diffuse aggression between Canada and the Philippines because it's absurd to declare war on either of them.
I live in England and we have a very similar scam in operation here. And if we don’t agree with it we get fined £80.
Most plastics and actually not recycled because they have multi layers of different plastic. Yet it would be very possible to turn them into fuel thus drive a power plant of sorts. We have a cement factory that uses shredded old worn tyres as fuel to cook the cement. Works a dream. This fuel is cheaper than gas and it gets rid of the mountain of worn tyres. And at the temperature it burns at there is extremely little smoke or particles. It’s proved to be a perfect symbiotic arrangement for all.
An excellent example of how things should work.
Not much smoke or particles. You know why? The hydrocarbons are split up, and some of the end product is of course lots of CO2!
Yet CO2 is actually good for plants. It’s their main food source.
@@cosmoanayiotos6924 Only if we plant more plants. Until then it's a greenhouse gas, but way less harmful than the others.
They are not because of the colouring hence dyes used on the bags.
In America, each piece of plastic has a number on it to show what type of plastic it is. And local recycling takes different numbers depending on what it is made to recycle. Number 1 and 2 tend to be the easiest to recycle. So as long as you can teach people to recycle the correct things, then recycling can work well and is beneficial.
When the storms hit the Western Pacific a lot of these 'recyclables' end up in the ocean for a lifelong swim.
Yep, and that in itself is a tragedy. So many sea animals stomachs filled with plastic now
When I was a kid in the 1970's, we had paper shopping bags, soda came in glass bottles that you, as a kid, could collect and get money for at the shop, and we had milkmen who delivered milk in glass bottles that they then took away to reuse.
i try to recycle,,, but my fat mongol relatives just throw allsorts of shit in the main bin after their unelcome visits on sunday
There is no recycling program where I live, so my mom would take things to a recycling center in the next county. We separated stuff ourselves, between aluminum cans, clear glass, colored glass, cardboard, and paper. The recycling center stopped taking everything but paper and plastic around 2020 (I think I see why now), so I still habitually separate everything, but it all goes to the top of garbage mountain, which is where the drop-off recycling in my county goes anyway.
Another great essay. And yes I was exposed to a never-ending slurry of “recycling” will save the world messages growing up.
Every 6 or 7 years, Globe + Mail runs a feature on the failure of recycling in Toronto • Sorting through blue boxes has become an easy way to Virtue Signal •
What are the solutions to our refuse epidemic then? Surely there must be solutions
@@marlond5579 "What are the solutions to our refuse epidemic then?"
*There isn't a trash epidemic. There's a recycling scam to get money from self flagellators.*
*If trash was a epidemic it would be expensive, like recycling is. Millions of self flagellators are wasting their time on recycling.*
Mexican living in Italy here. In Mexico: we separate garbage as either Organic or Inorganic, the organic trash may be used for fertilizers, compost and stuff and the Inorganic get's sorted in facilities to separate what may be truly recyclable. The problem then is somehow similar to what you describe, on both the way we sort it and the way the facilities do and the place where it goes; In Italy: we are encouraged to separate our trash in different colored bins as either Glass, Metals, Papers, "Wet trash" (Organics) and "Dry trash" (Un-recyclables such as sanitary waste or things crafted from mixed materials). They even pass different days depending on which color of bin they are collecting each time. But there are also scandals on how many plants end up just burning everything all together.
In Belgium, we separate our trash into: paper and cardboard, PMD (soft plastics, metals and drink cartons), GFT (vegetables, fruit and gardening waste which gets composted) and rest waste (which supposedly gets burned and turned into energy?). These are all collected every 2 weeks. Glass jars and bottles get recycled in two large bins for tinted and clear glass that can be found in most neighborhoods alongside a container for collecting old clothes and fabric. Every town has its own recycling center where you can dispose of all formerly mentioned items plus hard plastics, chemical waste (paint, oil, ...), old electronics, batteries, cartridges and all types of insulation foam for free (covered by taxes I guess) and you can also dispose of bulk waste, drenched wood and building waste for a small fee. Everything has its own container of course ;p
@@polwijnen Same here in Germany. Its a good system, but still alltogether energy inefficient and time-consuming as fuck.
I visited central Italy in 1999. I was astonished at how much trash and litter was in the streets. Hope they have cleaned things up over there since then.
Back in the late 80's where I lived in Italy they separated the glass four ways - clear, green, brown, other. Where I live now in the US they just stopped recycling glass. smh
@@Hi11is Yes, there is no market for glass anymore. Glass is just sand that has been heated.
i saw those blue recycling Bins here in the US, .. and i was wondering how things get sorted. In central Europe we have 5 different bins separating metal, glas, paper, plastics and chunk. And as far as i know the metal and glas recycling works pretty well. (Germany 70% of Glas and 60% of Paper gets reused).
They're pissed about the country became other country's dustbin is so understandable. It's happened a lot in Asia recently, also in Indonesia.
Is there any certain way to make our garbage more recycle-able???
1, no wet or damp items
2, no food or beverage stained items
3, no biodegradable garbage (etc. Banana peel,)
And thats pretty much how to recycle better
@@drsolo7 You *can* technically recycle biodegradable stuff, but most companies don't do *that* kind of recycling. I'm talking about composting. Turning biodegradable waste into fertilizer.
There's also other ways like turning paper into new brown paper or turning food scraps into clay then into bricks or just paper mache bricks, but you get the point...
Burn the garbage in a geothermal reactor and get energy out of it. Export any excess energy produced to the US.
One of the best ways to improve recycling efficiency is to pre-sort your recyclables yourself so the city doesn’t have to. Instead of throwing everything into your blue bin together, you can put all your plastics, glass, and paper in separate bags, then bring them to a recycling station that has dedicated bins for each item.
@@aronenark: "Instead of throwing everything into your blue bin together..."
Is that really the system? It amazes me that anyone would think that kind of system would work.
Just follow a truck that picks up the "recyclable" waste to see that it is heading directly to the landfills.
yep, it's dumped in a specific section of the landfill, for another truck to haul off to a recycling plant
@@tomservo5007 No, I was the only one recycling on my street and then one day I watched and saw the worker throw my items in the garbage truck with the garbage. I called the company and she gave me an answer of oh, well they might do that, it's okay. So then I started taking my stuff to a collection point in the next town. (not far) Thought they were better but over the years I have had my suspicions.
I live in Texas, and I have a friend that did just this. Yes, it was dumped at the dump, not at a recycling center.
@@tomservo5007 It would be nice if that was the case. But it is not.
Recently seeing trash bins which now say 'clean containers only' instead of 'plastic' or 'aluminum/cans' like they would have before, I now believe this more (Mohawk college).
Here in Belgium we're still stuck with a system that worked good 25y ago, in fact it was one of the best back then. But by sticking to this recycling system we've gone down in the worldwide ranking massively. The only reason we still have this system is because of corporal interests and no-one here is complaining, while we're just sending most of our trash to Turkey. But I think like 40% of the stuff that is recyclable and we have to put in the right bins also doesn't get recycled.
As a Canadian I need to say my people still don't understand how recycling works. People if anything is touched by food in anyway it becomes organic..no mater if you somehow shake it out. If you add that pizza box into the recycling box..guess what you've just contaminated everything the box just touched..and vice versa.
Dude we had a similar thing in England where we had 3 bin {trash cans} - one for garden waste (hedge clippings, weeds,grass) one for unrecyclable waste and one for recyclable waste. People were fined for putting things into the wrong bin - then All three lots were sent to India to go into the same landfill. What it actually did was allowed the local authorities to reduce our trash collection from once a week to once a fortnight.
Remember kids always use common sense when recycling
Adult diapers covered in human stuff AREN'T recyclable
Of course they are recyclable. You see that flamming brown bag on your doorstep, now step on it?
I recycle eveything. I put all my garbage including dog dodo and table scraps in a blue dumpster to be taken to the magic factory where it is sorted but on pallets the hauled to the land fill.
If you only knew how much of a joke this actually ISN'T. People are gross.
@@chrisg1621 that's why I made the joke
@@bootdude7527 word, I didn't know if you had any experiences similar to mine when I worked in the recycling industry lol
Its the same in the UK, they used to pick up our recycling, cans in one bin and paper then another, they use to take the lorry away and dump it all into the same land fill hole. Today the have recycling plant it looks like the things that can be sold are taken out, Aluminum can and steel. If it all going to be burn by others, why don't we built plants that can burn the rubbish and create electric at the same time. Good plan?
You need to go to parliament my man and MAKE THIS BILL!
Just because certain areas are bad at recycling doesn't mean recycling itself is bad. If the recycling was actually taken to factories to reprocess it, then it could have been reused. It is a fallacy to suggest that no material is capable of being recycled.
At least the metal gets recycled. And waste-to-energy would be an excellent idea, especially for the USA
The interesting thing in my town is that the curbside garbage pickup will only collect trash out of the one very specific Township-provided can. Any large items can only be picked up on the first pickup day of the month (and you have to call ahead for them to do that. However, we also get a full-sized recycling can to use. So, because of their silly rule that they only collect trash from that one magical can, anything and everything recyclable goes in the recycling just so that I even have room in the can to put my trash out...
Thanks for educating us all a year before John Oliver educated everyone else on this alarming reality.
Not just the Philippines, JJ. Malaysia is also fighting for its environment.
Yes we are!
We're progressively fighting the western world over their trash
and Indonesia more recently
"also fighting for its environment.
"
*Saying "fighting for environment" non-sense anti-humanism propaganda. Fighting? lol.*
*The price is the metric that informs and people make agreements on that information.*
*The Philippines is too crowded to send trash too, it has 2135 people per km2 arable land, Malaysia has 99, Indonesia 140, China 145, Russia 9. All theses places have extremely cheap land and labor compared to the US. But not cheap enough to make of the cost in shipping by ocean, trash going overseas is only an absurd "the more cost the better" system like government could do.*
No one is forcing you to take the trash. Your government agreed to take it for money.
My favourite thing to reuse, which I haven't done in a while because the one store I bought them from seldom stocks them anymore, is Chinet double-insulated coffee cups. Two layers of slightly higher-grade disposable cup cardboard and a take-away style lid. I've gotten as many as six and seven cups of coffee out of one of them before the inside and rim of the cup was so rotted I just had to pitch it.
Now I'll signal my nationality by mentioning the store that nowadays carries these so infrequently: the Staples in Auburn, Massachusetts.
We praised the building of a "Recycling Center" at the Rochester area. Then cheered when it was dynamited.
Gov't boondoggle and money pit.
There are plenty of materials that can be recycled. Recycling works well when done correctly. This video was too cynical and was focused mainly on pointing out problems rather than actually trying to solve them.
@@greywolf7577 the solution to everything is the government going away
@@greywolf7577 I've seen you under multiple comments pushing your pro-recycling (pro-garbage?) agenda. apparently, you had nothing better to do 2 months ago than to write a bunch of captain obvious comments saying "recycling is good if it works like how it's supposed to!" yes, the whole point of this video is that it doesn't work like we were told it does. most stuff people attempt to recycle is worthless trash that will be burned or dumped into a landfill. and yes, the video did give a solution: DON'T PRODUCE THE GARBAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE! drink tap instead of bottled, use a hand towel instead of paper towels, it's not hard.
Filipino here past midnight as this video was uploaded. Here before the influx of government-funded troll bots people...
_dds_
@Jay The Gamer no offence to Philippines sovereignty but I honestly wish America never dropped you in the 40s. Would've made a great state honestly.
There is a dirty little secret about curb side recycling pick up. A lot of cities and towns just throw it in with the regular trash when no one is looking.
NO truer words have ever been spoken.
I cannot speak for Canada but glass is still quite useful in recycling. Ground glass is used in asphalt.
Otherwise burn it like we used to.
Glass is sand. You are recycling sand. Think sbout it.
@@qam2024 Once it becomes glass it is no longer sand. You also cannot return it to sand. Metals can also be recycled. As I said in a statement burn the rest.
Think about it....DUMBASS.
@@qam2024 Recycling glass is actually cheaper than producing new glass because it is more energy efficent. You need lower temperatures to melt glass than you need to produce new glass.
JJ lives in a sheltered urban bubble of privilege. He’s not the end all and be all.
That's because glass, as well as metal, are made from naturally-occurring chemicals that can be molded, melted, and reshaped as many times as you want and still retain its structural integrity. Plastic, on the other hand, is a synthetic polymer of long chains of hydrocarbons that degrade and break down every time you melt it down and reuse it. Because of this, while glass and metal could theoretically be recycled over and over again forever and ever, plastic will eventually break down so much after a certain number of recycles that it becomes unusable and just gets thrown away.
My favorite part about your recycling story is that is recycle rex was successful, the dinosaurs wouldn't be extinct... ;)
@@CallieMasters5000 they are recycled. I fill my gas tank with recycled dinosaurs every week.
helpconflict because dinosaurs went extinct for not recycling enough???
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 my joke was in the context of the cartoon's own world (I.e. a world of sentient dinosaurs, who will presumably go extinct).
I used to work for a very large city’s municipal park district and know for 100% fact that they pick up their garbage and recycling cans with the same truck, which only has one collection bin so in that case they’re very specifically being mixed, which makes it unusable for recycling. In this instance their “recycling” cans are purely for optics
In your favorite province of Quebec, the recycling industry is adapting to what the asian countries have implemented, as in finding more and more local recycling options, working with packaging manufacturers in hopes of redusing unrecyclable items that are put on store shelves and implementing more accountability when it comes to sorting facilities doing a good job or not. Of course, the first 2 Rs are still the most important, but at least the third R is getting a well deserved makeover.
The production value of this video is much greater than your other videos, JJ. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! It took a lot of work. I am glad you noticed!
You do realize that Big Corporations pushed the idea of Recycling back in the 70's & 80's as the responsibility of the consumer & local governments instead of just manufacturing products that are more easily recyclable yet cost more like Glass Bottles & Aluminum Cans & paper cups just to save their own asses. I remember as a kid mostly all soda & juice were sold in bottles, even 6 packs. Now they even have some Beer's in plastic bottles .. =/
So I live in Asia (South Korea), where we are required to separate all of our recyclables. So do we send it to Canada?
Lol
Hahaha … sure we can bury it for a nominal fee !
Love the illustrations and sound effects used in the video. Keep up the great work.
Clean energy, recycling, veganism....you have to be critical, as they all have to do with advertising, as much as actually dealing with problems. They're good for startups and companies that need a better PR, but the world? Not so much. The real difference is having less kids, and teach them not to buy so much stuff (but what company would want that right?).
Just burn the stuff! Modern incinerators burn exceptionally cleanly and use the heat to generate power.
Yep. Reduce, Reuse, and then Recycle (with power generation being a backstop recycling option).
Minimal simplified household sorting.
Extract the Al, Fe, glass with automated sorting.
Incinerate the rest for power / heat in well-controlled facilities.
The energy costs would go up
but muh global warming. can not burn too much pollution.
This information was actually available to students in my school system years ago. They put the emphasis on reduce and reuse as well. They also pointed out products that used less packaging. Like buying meat fresh cut and wrapped in butcher paper not Styrofoam and plastic and refilling products containers with items that had less packaging. Unfortunately my forward thinking schools were no match for the lazy consumer, the greedy corporations and the gross propaganda machine that is news.
the world is beating me into accepting that convenience will always be chosen over a thoughtful solution.
Here in California, all soft drink bottles and cans require a 2-to-5 cent "California Redemption Value" deposit when you buy them. There used to be plenty of redemption centers that would give your deposit back when you returned the empty container, but nowadays there are hardly any and the CRV "deposit" works basically like a tax.
I worked as a temp. at a dump for a few days and saw what actually happens to “recycled” products. First of all, pop cans are NOT recycled. Anyone who tells you different is either lying or has no clue what they are talking about. There is a giant hole in the ground and a bulldozer pushes all the cans into the hole. I asked the guy driving the bulldozer : “at what point do they actually recycle the cans”? He said : “never...I’ve been putting these cans in here for 30 years”. I asked him why don’t they melt them down and make new cans out of them? He said because of the paint on the can. It is too expensive to get the paint off entirely. If there is even just a little bit of paint in the tin it would contaminate the internal part of a new can - it’s cheaper to use new aluminium. Which makes sense. Same goes for plastic water bottles. The glue on the label makes them unusable for a new bottle because of contamination reasons. Those water bottles are also segregated in a certain area of the dump and put into a giant hole.
BULLSHIT ALERT!!! BULLSHIT ALERT!!!! You work 4 days as a temp and you're an expert? bwhahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahaa.
Soda cans are in fact far and away the most recyclable of materials..And ludicrously cost efficient.. Virgin aluminum is by far the most energy intensive metal production humans do on any large scale.. Recycling saves over 90% of the energy making it far cheaper it Now it's possible where ever you worked had no ability to separate them but it doesn't change the fact that any metal scrap dealer will quite happily take all the aluminum you can give them... Even without redemption values they'll quite happily buy them from you..
If you were seeing "tin" cans for beverages you'd need to be at least 80 as beverage manufacturers made the switch from steel to aluminum in the early 1970's
You are correct plastic cannot be recycled easily... which is why there is such a push to change behaviors and habits. In fact Pepsi has announced plans to change the packaging for their Aquafina water brand to aluminum because of recycling issues...
What this video misses is the fact just dumping stuff has a cost... The goal of recycling charges is an attempt to place a cost on that.. Throwing stuff away is not free... There are collection costs, hauling costs and most importantly the land costs for the dumps.. As dumps fill up near cities waste has to be hauled further and further to land fills. Without recycling charges the actual costs of the products is not borne by the manufacturer and the actual consumer of the products but by everyone.
You are kidding me. You are kidding me. You are kidding me. I figured the plastic they weren't recycling, but the cans and bottles... wow, all the time I wasted.
GrasponReality ...I never said I was an expert at recycling...I’m just telling you what I saw. If you witness a murder does it make your statement any less valid because you only saw it happen once? You either saw it or you didn’t. I was of the same belief as everyone else. I thought they melted the cans down and made new ones. But they don’t. Again, the problem is the paint. Once the paint is on it you really can use it again. The landfill is in Mississauga Ontario...go for a tour and see for yourself...
Answer me this question, why is there a metal recycling plant in my area that buys this stuff by the pound (copper, brass, aluminum, pewter, circuit boards, tin, titanium, etc.). Why would these companies be set up to buy all these metals to make a profit only to turn around and dump it in a landfill. I am in the USA so I don't know if there is any difference from where you are at.
cloudstrifeification ...they recycle industrial metals to make other industrial products...that is true. What I’m talking about is food usages. Cans for pop or beer or other beverages are essentially useless after they are discarded. Again, it’s because of the paint. Plus cans can’t be used for many industrial products either...because of the paint. The metal is so thin that if you try to scrap the paint off the can breaks open. But, if you have an old washing machine or fridge they will recycle the copper wire and the metal housing. But, recycled metal is never as strong a new metal so the usage of recycled metal is restricted. Don’t believe me? Go to that recycling plant your talking about with a bunch of pop cans and beer cans and see if they take them. Once they refuse to take them, ask them why...
Well Philippines have a massive environmental problem and we are solving it, local governments have innovative ideas on how to deal with garbage like school have pots for plants that are in 1.5L bottles of Sprite and Coca Cola. And citizen also have innovative ways to recycle something. And also, some school all over the country are doing monument that says "I LOVE(or)♡(the school name acronyms)" from something called "eco bricks" which are not actually brick, even a box, its just 1.5L plastic bottle of coke filled with cutted wrappers of everything just to gain weight.
Some local governments are also incentivized recycling like some small government gave school supplies to children in exchange of garbage. My city even has this program called "Greenhearts" on which is available in elementary school throughout the city and they will get your garbage in exchange of cash and like if you reach certain amount like PHP 1,500 pesos or $30 US dollars in 10 months worth of garbage, they double it up, and like this happens at a big ceremony on the city hall
Brit? Is that you?
Agreed. Been to the country 3 times. While Manila Bay is the most disgusting body of water I've ever seen around the world, I also see people closing up the already beautiful kawasan falls to maintain its cleaness. And on the whole, the country has the best looking sea and ocean compared with neighboring countries in ASEAN
We should return accountability to the people actually producing this trash, we like to pretend that it is the consumer running with their wallet all these giant factories, the consumer has always bought coke, but it is the corporation that decided to switch from glass to plastic. Single use plastics are a relatively modern thing as ultra industralization set in and plastic began to be cheaper and easier to produce than literally anything else.
We honestly have to return to a lot of glass and paper, even if more expensive, like selling milk, sodas or even water in glass or paper containers. Remember when orange juice and other products used to come in cardboard?
Glass and paper are not only easier to recycle, they also degrade much faster and don't rely on fossil fuels quite as much.
In terms of buying more durable things instead of single use products, there is an argument to be made that a lot of durable things require sometimes hundreds of times more energy than their single use equivalent, so while generating less trash... they might be ultimately worse for the environment.
An elaborate durable nilon bag might live for a lot more time and require a lot more energy to produce, than hundreds of paper bags that degrade rapidly and require very little energy to be made.
I remember schools pushing recycling so much. I didn't expect this channel to turn out nostalgic :)
Ah, government school propaganda. What they pretended then compared to now.
It’s like Canada and Denmark fighting about Hans Island.
That one was even dumber.
Or the UK and Iceland for fishing rights in the cod war.
Luka Tomaš I think that’s the main reason why Iceland didn’t join EU.
@@damirimamagic5064 Didn't know that.
@@damirimamagic5064: I'm not sure if that's what you meant but I don't think the Cod War was the reason as such. However, not wanting to join the Common Fisheries Policy probably has played a big role.
Our school had bins that were "Divided" into two sections, one side had a hole to put trash in, and the other recyling. If you lifted the top off, both holes led to the same bin bag.
In the states we just secretly reroute the blue bins to the dump; it's less wasteful.
Irony is its greener to dump those recyclable plastics and cardboard in an American landfill than to ship it halfway across the planet on polluting ships where most will be dumped in sites next to waterways...
In my town in California, the city used to get paid for recyclables. Now the city pays to have them taken away. And I genuinely do think most of it goes right into a landfill.
MURICA!
So garbage pick up company’s charge customers more to feel good over saving the earth
Canada in the 40s: Kicking ass in D-Day
Canada today : Military is buying outdated weapons, fighting for recycling
** Getting longest confirmed sniper kill
@@ericcartmann Exactly
They just deal with whatever problems they have today. It's actually a good thing that there are no wars of the scale we has in the 1940s. If one breaks out, I'm sure Canadians would drag themselves to the battlefield like the rest of their allies.
All those kids programs are hypocritical. In 1st grade I won an art contest for D.A.R.E. in which I had to illustrate how smoking was bad... I won a variety of swag from Kool cigarettes because our principal was an avid smoker and forgot to buy prizes.
"adult diapers and banana peels" Don't know why I laughed at that.
Because it's hecking funny and pathetic at the same time, and also disgusting. Toilet humour never gets old.
@@ThinWhiteAxe it does
@@ThinWhiteAxe when your 13
@@ThinWhiteAxe unfunny adult diapers
We studied The Ecology and the effects of Climate change back when I was in high school in the late 1960s. Earth Day was established in 1970.
So in 1976 I went to work for my Uncle that had a fairly large local recycling business. We had a conversation about the mafia owning the large scale businesses as the names on the dumpsters could clearly be seen in older movies were same as we were buying in Detroit.
So my main job was running the shed where you would bring me your recyclables and I would pay you accordingly. Mixed glass, brown glass, green glass White IBM cards, Pink IBM cards what ever.
So the government decided we were going to give a hoot and force recyclying which I refuse to do because I'm not paying you to haul off the stuff you should be paying me for.
Guess who got the city contracts for nearly every city in the nation. Waste Industries and Waste Management.
Ok
So I also worked in a grocery store during my senior year in and paid you for the returnable beer and soda bottles. Paper grocery bags had the recyclable emblem on the bottom of the bag in 1970. But we had to change that because "We care about the Planet" or some other lying crap.
You saw what happened to Warren's (Detroit's largest suburb) mayor? There trash organized crime is still very alive.
Meanwhile, the elephant in the room, the military industrial complex is taking car of business, as usual...
Here in the states, in addition to the Recycling....the biggest issues that we were drilled about and fed endless propaganda about was Acid Rain and the Ozone Layer. The reduce, reuse, recycle thing was also pretty heavy in the curriculum. I do remember being told about Acid Rain and thinking that it was a kind of cool, diabolical cartoon plot of some sort where people would just melt if they walked outside while it was raining (i was probably 6 or 7 when the topic came up) Only later found out the issue was both worse and much more benign (no melting people); but apparently fixed through carbon emissions standards that were codified into law in the late 80's and 90's, much like the banning of CFC's in aerosol cans kinda solved the Ozone hole issue.
I learned in college geology that “Regular people” make up 3% of environmental problematic waste. Over 90% of true environmentally problematic waste is corporate/industrial waste. Your plastic bags were never an issue.
How dumb of a thought is that? So companies are making plastic bags for who? Themselves? No, it's all to sell to the people! Wake up lol.
@@Joe-ly3si Not dumb at all. Corporate waste is exponentially larger and farther reaching than an average consumer's lifetime of plastic bags. But it makes an awfully good smokescreen for a well-meaning American (like yourself).
J.J.'s accent grows more fascinating with every video I watch. Today I learned he says "Al-oo-min-ee-um" which I don't think is especially common in *any* part of Canada, though I'm admittedly most familiar with the East and all of the "Ah-boots" and "Ah-roonds" already throw me.
I’m so glad I found this channel
Every video from this to the Mandela effect to even the Simpsons predictions Iv been screaming for years about and now I finally have a place to back up what I have been telling people
I think it would be useful to mention the subclasses of recycleable materials. Yes general materials are losing value and just being put in landfills, with things like paper products especially being deemed wireless. But things like metal (and, perhaps ironically, things that are rarely recycled at all, like electronics) are still worth recycling.
Even still it may be nice for people to remember that the phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle" isn't a nifty catchphrase; it's an order of operations.
0:14 I don't know where you went to school, but in Ontario, Canada, the school curriculum included education about global warming since before the 90's. It's actually been a knowledge held in our society for over 100 years and taught in schools here for at least 50 years. I remember the songs about the environment and cleaning up the planet from when I was in grade one. That was like 20 years ago. There was earth day, tons of classroom stuff about reducing our carbon footprints, the LOCO campaign. It stood for 'lights off, computers off.' It sounds silly, but to this day when I leave a room, I shut the lights off. And so much more.
It was called the greenhouse effect back then. It wasn't a major issue since most thought that the warming effect will take a long time. The ozone layer was the top priority in those days.
I too had a religious education
Great video JJ. As a Canadian living in the UK, I've realised they are even MORE inefficient than Canada. The recycling men themselves do the sorting in front of your house, which takes them ages, at least 5-10 times longer than the garbage men. Plus their recycling vehicles are littered with propaganda "Most people in Somerset are Recycling, are YOU?" I doubt we're keeping this junk in the UK as there aren't enough factories here either.
7:40 "When you cannot sell something the value of that thing inevitably declines." That explains why I can't find a buyer for my fingernail clippings. That information changes my entire business model.
lmao
According to predictions it would take 10,000 years for the U.S. to fill all their trash in a state the size of deleware.
We are fine. It's really not a problem.
Yup. I remember though in the late 80's the media was panicking about landfills and trash. They were wrong.
Meanwhile a lot of the "recycled trash" is being dumped in the oceans. Great job environmentalists!
@@marshall4759 You blame environmentalists for dumping trash in the ocean????? WTF? That is nuts and wrong.
Not a problem??? Where do you live? Lets start a dump site next to your neighborhood if you think it is not a problem. Ever see the mountains that land fills make? Want to hike up one?
@@madden1957 Yes I have played golf on one, very beautiful area. As a matter of fact, the house I grew up in was in Fort Worth Texas and was built on a land fill.
The Asian countries taking our recyclables and not able to recycle them are just dumping in the oceans or substandard landfills and it is washing to the oceans.
Ahhhh, gone are the 50's, 60's and early 70's here in America. There once was a time when milk in glass bottles were delivered to our homes. Before the day of prolific plastic use, we used paper grocery bags to line the trash cans and bird cages. Not to mention the ever popular hippie movement of turning brown paper bags into artistic book covers! Yes gone are the days of our mom's letting us lick the frozen cream off of milk bottle caps mid winter!
Although I never read the entire book, Abby Hoffman's "Steal This Book" had some very interesting recycling topics. Such as used tire sandals and old door and cinder block bed platforms.
Back in the day being frugal was in style and little went to waste.
Start a backyard garden. All the paper products and kitchen scraps can be easily composted into black gold.
Look up plasma gasification. Pretty great tech.
You're right that habitat loss and pollution are serious issues.
palarious, I've told so many people about this, and they look at me like I'm nuts. Wtf. Why isn't anybody but the Japanese implementing this tech?,
It's old as fuck.
Hi JJ! I grew up in the Yukon, which is of course very isolated from the rest of Canada. We have one major privately owned/ publicly subsidized recycling depot (that has not turned a profit once in its 30-year life). Our biggest issue up north is the difficulty of getting recycled material to the appropriate processsing facilities. It costs more to ship our waste down south than could be recouped by selling it, so most of our recycling ends up sitting in the landfill anyways, "awaiting transport"
On the plus side we grind up old glass and use it to de-ice roads in the winter, so that's cool
If you think about it the president of the Philippines is just like thanos but not really at all
He loves hos country actually, but sometimes his words backlash
@@putikeswarasudarsono ummm what/who's thanos?
He's not like Thanos at all, if he was he couldnt have snapped and said the "ill wage war" mentality with China which we have territory disputes and also ironically sent trash too and south korea too did sent some trash here
Duterte just nitpick countries which he can lash and in the end become a pussy with someone viewed "too dangerous" he is not the strong man he claims to be he is a pussy even though he can safely criticize others
That's why I said he's like him but not really
"president of the Philippines"
*He seems like drunk Chinese party leader just before he disappears.*
Just burn it all and boil water, create steam to make electricity. Then carbon trap the emissions and invest in Carbon Engineering to make cheaper,cleaner fuels
most sensible thing ive heard
Dont waste money on dealing with CO2, the plants will take care of it.
My county here in Alabama cancelled it's recycling program a few years ago. My family still does other things though. We sell our empty soda cans to a scrap metal place, about 4 months of cans produced by a family of 5 is worth about 30-40 bucks. We also compost and run a decent garden, and we burn empty boxes and such. Plastic is about the only thing we throw away.
Speaking of being "loonie" is that a picture of Trudeau behind you?
I noticed tht too. I hope he uses it as a dart board target.
Well ... he also has a picture of Trump. Trudeau becomes the lesser of two evils.
He's also got pics of Trump and Pence. 😳
Trump 2020
@Touko Mizu "Lesser of two evils" implies that Trudeau is also an evil. I have no love for him. I see English is working well for you. Good for you.