We should switch back to *truly* recycled glass soda and water bottles, as well as jars.

@richardharepax123

5 жыл бұрын

And try to send it to the manufacturer. sadly lots of the Pepsi drinks we get are on cardboard box trays not their plastic trays that the plastic bottles come in. In Madison WI they are thinking of sending some to landfill because nobody buys it

@Tikolico

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, every time you buy a drink, there is a deposit on the bottle, watch people start bringing them back, do the same with alcohol, water, any drink. Reusable is the way. Convenience is killing us.

@stevenk8209

5 жыл бұрын

And don’t stop there!!! Get big bags, go to a Target or whatever and scoop some cereal, fill your own container of pop, etc etc. It’s really sad how much plastic has gone from a cool neat technology to overused, practically everywhere, and just gross.

@wufongtanwufong5579

5 жыл бұрын

@Esteban garita Growing up in the 70's in Australia, we would get 20 cents per glass bottle. As kids, 20 cents was a lot of money. Didn't see too many glass bottles laying around.

They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.

@johndowe7003

5 жыл бұрын

china stopped accepting it so cali is fucked hahaha

@GANTZ100pts

5 жыл бұрын

@@johndowe7003 So is Washington. I heard on the radio they are thinking about taking our blue bins away soon-ish. The very same bins they MADE us get.

@oldschoolcy

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you are not charged for recycling, you are charged for the collection and trasportation of your wastes to a sorting facility, where after sorting, separated waste materials are sold to a recycling facility where recycling happens. We usually pay for the first stage of a waste management system, which is collection and transportation..

@user-gh8wt2zi2n

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldschoolcy, in California we do pay. Its called CRV, every container has an additional charge of 5cents and 10 cents on large containers. Most people dont cash these in they just put in their bins. Of course if you tunr them in you get your money back

@aereiq

3 жыл бұрын

@@johndowe7003 its not going to china.

Use it as free fuel to generate electricity

I learned about this problem after the plastic straw ban this summer. I am proud to say, I now strive for a low/zero waste lifestyle. I am definitely not perfect, but I can confidently say I've reduced 75% of my overall consumption and waste. If we consume less, we'll need trash disposal and recycling less.

My area in UK recycles 64% of all waste. Makes food and garden waste into compost free for any gardener to collect.

Glass it would be best to return them to the bottler for washing and steam sterilization like in the old days.

@Tikolico

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, all these drink containers should be required by law to be made as returnable containers, it's not what people want, but it is what we need.

@Barskor1

5 жыл бұрын

@Matthew Brooks Yes it cooks and washes away viruses and bacteria so no harmful chemicals are needed.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

@@Tikolico HUH! We already pay few cents deposit on the plastic bottles

And drinking straws were a problem? 😆🤣😅😂🤣😆😅

Education is key! Many of us had no idea what happens to recycle items after they leave our house. I don’t think most of us want to endanger wildlife. I hope we can turn this problem around!

@FourDollaRacing

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, recycling requires the ability to read, while living in a throwaway society breeds laziness...

Too much plastic water bottles I still drink water from the fountain !

@walden6272

5 жыл бұрын

I carry a stainless steel water container that I just fill up and it will last me a life time.

@mysterybuyer3738

5 жыл бұрын

We pay a five cent deposit on every water bottle and bring them to the recycling yard and get the money back. We can also pick up other people's bottles and make money off them.

@TheUtuber999

5 жыл бұрын

George Singh: most tap water in the US is fluoridated.

Recycling is suspected of being a major driver of the oceanic plastic problem. Unintended consequences strike again.

-then from the divided container it will be mixed in the truck 🤷🏻‍♂️. W

@MrRussian187

3 жыл бұрын

someone didnt watch the video 4:40

Plastics can be used to make ROADS as the binder for the aggregate it is far stronger than the Tar currently used it lasts as a road for a decade without maintenance and can be reprocessed back into being a road when if finally cracks or get holes.

Selling it to our friends, using a diesel ship across the ocean, to save the planet

@mrlopez5009

5 жыл бұрын

I remember when they protested oil drilling in plastic kayaks made from...OIL. #firstworldproblems

@GANTZ100pts

5 жыл бұрын

On an OPEN air transport ship too.

here in my part of oregon they cut off all recycleing except metal several months ago.

Property rent is too dam high, much less space for all those dirty garbage bins

Recycling is a joke. People have been conditioned accepting its costs. You pay for packaging when you purchase something. And you pay for its disposal. They even want you to sort it. The vested interests make sure everyone else is picking up the cost bar themselves. Its a hugely profitable grift that they aren't too keen on winding up.

@basillah7650

5 жыл бұрын

They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.

Recycling is supposed to be good because it saves energy. But since no one wants to buy it for any price other than a severe low ball price to the collectors of the recycling - that means that it costs more to collect and deliver the recycled material than the money that can be saved by reusing it. This material is a commodity and in the world of commodities money translates to the total energy of production. (mining, shipping, forging, etc.) So if recycling is not economical because making the material from scratch is cheaper, then it is not saving energy.

But at the end of the day that split bin is tossed all in one truck. There's your crisis.

@williamhaynes7089

5 жыл бұрын

@Silver Chopsticks- I agree, it gets picked up and dumped into 1 truck

@imzjustplayin

5 жыл бұрын

@Silver Chopsticks The split bin was emptied into two parts of the truck. C'mon people, you really think they would have split bins if it didn't actually do anything useful? They're always trying to increase the rate of recycling, not decrease it. Single stream encouraged recycling.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

@@imzjustplayin So, how does that work? looks like those flimsy tops would need some way to keep them both from opening up at the same time, or do they have a person in the truck holding the correct lid open? At $15 per hour?

THE SAME BIN?? that doesn’t happen up here in Canada. Lucky.

I used to work as a custodian at a factory. They decided to recycle stuff. Look up West Libery Foods in Tremonton Utah and zero landfill. It was my job to work with the recycling. It was a joke. I know. I dealt with it every day. They have split recycling containers. They talked up the environmental wonders of recycling at work. People did not care. The compost stuff, glass, and plastic was all mixed. The production workers did not care to sort it out. I had to dig in trash cans/recycle bins full of peoples lunches, trash, etc and look for pop cans and bottles. It was the grossest task I ever did. I cleaned toilets at the factory. Sorting recycle was worse. I haved moved since and have a better job. Yet I still can recall having to dig in that gross trash looking for things to recycle.

Now I know how all that trash is getting into the ocean.

But people feel good about themselves

What happened to Reduce and reuse? Recycling is a last ditch effort

@aBusybee

5 жыл бұрын

Amazon's 2-day shipping logistics, marketing methods for packaging, and using plastic wrapping to provide a "security" seal for goods have countered these efforts. There's also been a rise in what I consider short-life cheap electronics and appliances. You buy a toaster for $20 and it last 3-5 years and cannot be repaired due being integrated around a circuit board. Finally, economics. We truly live in an age where in many cases it's cheaper to buy a new product than repair it.

New recycle tax... wait for it!

Why can't we keep it here and do it ourselves we recycle paper back into paper products metal back in to metal products we take plastic back in to plastic products .why can't we do it

@scottbc31h22

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, it is cheaper to make new glass, plastic, or paper products. (Metals are widely recycled). American companies refuse to bear the extra expense, instead, denying the problem. If the recycling process were to become cheaper than creating new, more companies would get on board. For instance, when it was discovered that paving asphalt is 100% recyclable, cheaper, and the recycled product is indistinguishable from new asphalt, the stuff they grind off the road before repaving suddenly became a hot commodity. The only other way to increase the use of recycled products would be strong regulations by the government. (I anticipate the conservative talking point bullshit about smaller government, higher consumer prices and corporate profits, to begin shortly.)

@davidgerwin7885

5 жыл бұрын

@@scottbc31h22 Metals can be pretty much melted and reused an infinite number of times. Plastics not so. I worked in a plastic food container plant and just the internally generated scrap had to be limited as to how much could be put back in each new batch. Most post consumer plastic has just one more life and that is as a structural item such as fence posts for example.

@scottbc31h22

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidgerwin7885 Agreed. And that's part of the problem. The recycling of most metals creates little waste product, and little needs to be added to make a usable material. Glass is 100% recyclable, except they cannot remove any colorants in the glass. Paper is also highly recyclable. As you said, plastics have a limited use when recycled. add to that the large variety of types of plastic, that cannot be mixed. Plastic also takes a very, very long time to decompose, when dumped in a landfill. Yet, it seems nobody wants to spend the money researching and developing either better methods of recycling the plastics, or developing plastics that are more recyclable. It's kind of like nuclear power plants, highly efficient in generating electricity, but what do we do with the waste?

@drjwilber

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidgerwin7885 like the idea about fence posts - with wood flour - in Eureka magazine- as decking . Other places make paving tiles . The problem - consumer has to select the item and sought it . I recycle cardboard - into bases for electronic or related to inventions - one of which shelving for the boxes - from ice cream - to place bits and pieces into Consummer selects what to buy , thus consumer job to seperate Al can's , or .... or....or ....

@drjwilber

5 жыл бұрын

@@scottbc31h22 SO !!!! plastic takes long time to decopose - pavement times - are required for longevity - how many times have you seen cracked // broken concrete ones

Wonder how long before they outlaw water bottles

How much fuel does it take to ship that crap to China ?

Out of sight, out of mind. If the waste started piling up here in the US, we'd be more likely to be conscious of it and want to properly handle it instead of just shipping it somewhere else. Not sure what the solution is, but somewhere in the country, somebody has the answer. Growing problems attract eager minds.

@colincampbell767

5 жыл бұрын

The answer is very simple. Recycle only the things where it actually makes economic sense to recycle. Steel is the most easily recyclable material in the world and can be pulled out of the waste stream using magnets. Clear glass is mostly recyclable (although recycled glass is not suitable for windows or applications that require precise formulations). Plastics? Paper? landfills. In fact use composting landfills that reduce the organics to mulch and 20-30 years later open it up to recover the useful materials. (But composting landfills smell - so good luck getting one approved in your city). The biggest problem is that we have been building the wrong type of landfills for over a century. We are very careful to create sealed landfills. However sealed landfills are essentially giant landfills as the oxygen gets used up and decomposition ends at that point. This is why you can dig a 50 year old newspaper out of a landfill and still be able to read it.

Great video ABC7!

Maybe if California would stop putting so may EPA regulations, out we could build facilities Nationwide and not have to export so much. Just starting a lawn waste yard is ridiculously hard, and could easily bankrupt a person trying to do something good.

@imzjustplayin

5 жыл бұрын

California creating EPA regulations... too funny! Believe it or not, the reason why California has any air regulations is because they continually violate the clean air act of 1972 and the law requires them to take measures to mitigate their violations of said law. If California did not violate a several decade old law, they wouldn't be in the business of creating solutions for their continual violation of said law. We do not have recycling facilities in the USA because it was cheaper to ship our stuff overseas. Now we cannot do that anymore.

Society needs to stop putting everything in plastic...

Wait, these countries are just accepting them for free? They don't buy these recyclables?

@chaoticlife311

5 жыл бұрын

@can tho it was an agreement made between the US and China. If given a choice, China wont even buy it.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

@@chaoticlife311 I have always wondered if we were paying the rubbish companies just so they could sell our trash to some else!

In Cornwall England householders separate glass/paper/cardboard/ plastics & metals/clothing , Before its picked up by the councils recycling team.

@munib1000

5 жыл бұрын

Americans are really lazy when it comes to recycling they throw everything into one bin.

@davidtaylor9249

5 жыл бұрын

We used to then they started single sort. Its supposed to go to a facility that sorts it.

Easy solution: no plastic and easy biodegradable paper=fertilizer

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

YEAH!

Here in North Carolina I got a letter from the town, wash your trash before you put it in the bin ... ... .. They must be crazy

@basillah7650

5 жыл бұрын

They are not recycling anything they are just reselling it overseas and at the same time you get charged for the recycling bins lol.

@imzjustplayin

5 жыл бұрын

@@basillah7650 You may get charged for recycling bins but that's cheaper than a large trash bin. Going from a 32 gal to a 64 gal trash can increases my trash bill from $70 to $130 per 2 months while adding a second 96 gal recycle or compost bin adds $10 per 3 months on my trash bill. So obviously I'm going to compost and recycle as much as possible.

Wait tf you pay for that recycling trash can just for them two sell it damn recycling might be one of the biggest scams ever

@imzjustplayin

5 жыл бұрын

Not a scam at all. If you put all your trash in a landfill, your trash bill would be significantly higher than it is now. I get a major discount on my trash bill because I recycle and compost a lot of my trash.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

@@imzjustplayin WOW! Where do you live?

Hmmmm. Soo, are people NOT making products out of recycle materials and using them to reduce the making of regular made products?

How does the fuel emissions of the ship and cost in general not exceed the effectiveness of processing the recyclables in the US? Who thought of this insanity?

@GANTZ100pts

5 жыл бұрын

Democrats of course.

Make those serving time in public service mine the garbage dumps for resuables, recyclables, and metals.

It stuns me that so many people can't or won't read the recycling labels but instead they stuff in things that are not recyclable.

we need to stop using so many materials and resources. buy items with less packaging, use reusable items such as reusable cups/coffee mugs, shopping bags, and travel utensils. We need to start refusing single use items and turn away from plastics and highly packaged items

@mysterybuyer3738

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah then the lack of demand for materials destroys the economy even more than it already is.

@silence19999

5 жыл бұрын

And all the lesser packaged items will get damaged in transport and get thrown away. I work in the retail and deal with this a lot. Better to have good packaging or the whole thing goes to the trash.

Paper and plastic can be burnt for electrical production, glass melted for reuse. The reason industry isn't on the bandwagon is probably government regulations. Micro-grinding and air flow separation is the answer, but it needs to be made profitable.

One problem they don't mention is California's minimum wage. Paying someone $15 an hour to separate the recyclables makes it cheaper to put in a landfill.

@Enviotonin85

5 жыл бұрын

$15/hr is alot, in my country people earn less then $5/hr for cleaning jobs.

@OIdSoIdier

5 жыл бұрын

And that's still not a living wage there.

@bobsjers

5 жыл бұрын

@@OIdSoIdier Maybe if the quit passing laws that make everything more expensive, it would be. For example: requiring solar on all new homes.

@frankgarrett9500

5 жыл бұрын

Bob S Yeah. People who are buying homes are minimum wage earners. Fucking moron.

@seamorgh21

5 жыл бұрын

@@OIdSoIdier That's a political talking point. It's not a legitimate economic term. The leftists are the Flat Earthers of the economic world.

Here in Erie, the Lakeview landfill is the highest point on the horizon and its getting higher every day...what would you do?

3:45 exactly

A few points for consideration and discussion. 1. With the paper, there are some videos on You Tube that show waste paper being converted to bricks for heating. These bricks are made from non gloss paper. The gloss paper is coated with a fine clay, so that it is glossy. Clay does not burn in fires. Can the clay be separated from the paper? Take this further. With your building, do you use untreated timber in the construction of homes? If you do, the waste timber from the building sites, take that back to a central point, run the waste through a chipper and magnet, and use the chips with the pulp. 2. The plastics, from what has been explained to me, was that plastic can be melted down and made into other materials. France, apparently, are converting their plastic waste into road surfacing. The standard of the road is such that it is 'touched up' every year or so, but the cost is comparable to bitumen and cement. 3. Glass is meant to be a product that can be recycled. Why is this not being recycled in larger quantities? The heat that is used to melt the glass should be enough to purify the glass, and you would have clean glass, ready for reuse. The question has to be asked: Where are the 'leaders' of society when they are needed? It would only take a few leaders to step up and lead the way. If done properly, everyone would get on board with the project and take this forward. The leaders can only set things up, it is up to all of us to contribute and make things happen!

@hajjdawood

5 жыл бұрын

The reason glass sometimes isn't recycled is because its so insanely cheap to make why recycle it.

The band was still playing as the Titanic sank !

1:57 that part looks like the W.A.L.LE movie💀 we are fucking dead

4:13 had not heard of split recycling bin

That doesn’t make any sense. Paper is washed when it’s recycled, so what does it matter what goes on it? You can’t tell me that companies in the US don’t want recyclables. Maybe they are charging too much for it.

If you want to fix the recycling problem, don't focus on the end point. Fix the start point when, where, why, and how its created.

Definitely not running out of places to put it

They are not going to tell me they cant find a way to recycle that into something. Glass ,plastic ,tin cans ,paper,

Stop over consuming, that would help.

@rhondabailey9238

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly...REDUCE+REUSE+RECYCLE ♻️

If you're trying to sell the trash , you will end up with trash problem. Are there any 1 smart enough to think now days in US?

The recycling bin by the snack bar here at the library in Anchorage is just a trash can with a make shift cardboard lid that says bottles and cans. I also had an old-school Redline bike stolen from here and it was locked to a rack and probably caught on camera. Anyway, staying sober is my best way around my social resentments.

Maybe dumping by other countries is the reason we have gigantic plastic rafts in our oceans.

Mixed paper cardboard. Make Menthol alcohol by boiling it at 176 F and distillation it is a valued industrial material. the cellulose waste makes good compost soil amendment or more paper. The inks can be skimmed off after the boiling there might be a use for them.

Americans refuse to talk about their part of the world's problems, it puts a dent in our ego.

@robertwoodpa6463

5 жыл бұрын

How so? Give an example.

@aBusybee

5 жыл бұрын

We literally talk about our impact on pollution in this video...

@OIdSoIdier

5 жыл бұрын

@martin joseph- Do you even know what the upside-down flag means? Because you're doing it WRONG.

@OIdSoIdier

5 жыл бұрын

You're still doing it wrong.

@robertwoodpa6463

5 жыл бұрын

@martin joseph Eat shit. In one way or another your life is better because of America.

What do these people expect, they want us to wash the garbage before we put it in the bin ,

@MrRussian187

3 жыл бұрын

that what you suppose to do if you live in a house and want to recycle or you can be a apartment pig and dump all together fuck the rest and future generation they can figure it out

1st to fix trash crisis turn it into fuel to be burned inside the engines. Also that spit garbage can is stupid when it gets picked up doesnt it just end up in the same place.

@drjwilber

5 жыл бұрын

other places turn it into paving slabs , glass - richmond , surrey uses it in place of sand under flag stones - as sand compacts the glass does not

I'm Trisha Takanawa.....

Only thing we need is cotton cloth paper cardboard glass tin and aluminum. Nothing else is needed to put groceries into.

its actually the producers of goods not wanting to use the right packaging to make it easy or correct. that is where we need to start fixing the problem. plastic jars... make it easy to clean them and not have a one way spout. aluminum cans. all vendors should be required to provide a CRV station at every major store so i can bring a bag and get store credit back.

What's wrong with the old milk cartons they used to use get rid of those damn plastic water bottles

Burn it to power Steam Generators.

@enricoferraresi2118

5 жыл бұрын

not the best but still better than landfill

@itchyisvegeta

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Yes, it is going to cause carbon emissions. However, how much more emissions than to ship to China, added with the emissions for China to do the actual recycling process. Then take into account all the environmental damage talked about in this video of this stuff ending up where it shouldn't.

@royceanderson3389

5 жыл бұрын

@Tony Botchagaloop Your Welcome Snowflake.

@liamhackett513

5 жыл бұрын

yes Royce just convert the tens of millions of tons of waste produced every year into tens of millions of tons of gasses and dump into the atmosphere.

@royceanderson3389

5 жыл бұрын

@@liamhackett513 Do you want to Outlaw Decomposing Plant matter and Natural Gases escaping from the Earth. Trillions of Tons everywhere in the World?

We really need seminar about recycling or make a school subject to educate children.

Your reporting is incomplete! Recycling! What does that mean in view of this story. So all recycled items means not in this Country? Why doesn't the U. S. recycle rather than shipping all items out of the country? Were is this story?

Don't produce plastic anymore.

FIRE FILTERED SMOKE NO WASTE.

That is scary

Watch what is going to happen when Dems require retrofitting or replacing all buildings. Can you imagine how much scrap that will produce. We are going to need a lot more land fills. Also consider how much CO2 will be produced manufacturing all of that new material.

We should go back to the old system , no plastics just cotton wrapped and paper bags , glass bottles etc , my mum used to have crates that were returned everyweek , she got money back from the bottles , it worked why change it i hate vacuum packs they spoil the food and are a nightmare to open

PLASTIC CAN BE MADE INTO BOARDS REPLACING PLYWOODS.

@colgatetoothpaste4865

5 жыл бұрын

They wont like your genius idea wood companies

@wangtie9602

5 жыл бұрын

AS LONG AS PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO TURN WASTE PLASTIC INTO BOARDS, NOBODY CAN STOP YOU. ACTUALLY IT IS VERY MUCH CHEAPER AND CAN SAVE A LOT OF TREES. HOPE SOME RICH PEOPLE WILL PUT THE IDEA INTO ACTION. IT IS ALSO VERY PROFITABLE BUSSINESS. MANY POOR PEOPLE WILL BUY THE PLASTIC BOARDS.

@colincampbell767

5 жыл бұрын

The problem is that you cannot use those products in anything that's load-bearing. Plastics do deform over time. So you cannot use them for anything load bearing (walls, roof trusses, etc.). And unless the plastics are PVC - you can't use them where they are exposed to sunlight. So you are not going to replace most wood used in construction with plastic. And the wood that does get replaced is replaced by fiber-reinforced concrete, which is made from cement and wood fibers.

@wangtie9602

5 жыл бұрын

AT LEAST WE ARE ABLE TO MAKE USE OF THE PASTIC WASTE AND REDUCE THE PLASTIC POLLUTION.

@dand3975

11 күн бұрын

The plastic boards made out of recycled plastic or heavy as heck. There was a business nearby that made picnic tables out of recycled plastic years ago, the picnic tables couldn't be moved by two people, they needed to be picked up by a forklift.

Get those piles of paper and make them into insulation, treat them with a flame retardant chemical, as a construction worker, I can tell you that houses burn just as quickly when insulated with fiberglass as if they were insulated with paper, might as well use the paper.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

AMEN!

What about the carbon footprint to ship the material?

Burn it and filter the smoke

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

I agree, and make power with the heat.

Ends up in the ocean. Like duh!

I still dont get why we use newspapers...i mean We can stop that significantly.

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

I was in the grocery store the other day, and the local paper that used to be probably 20 pages long is now an 81/2X11 5 page paper. Won't be long before it just disappears altogether.

Recycling needs a combination of lateral thinking and Gov't Laws. Find new uses and new ways to recycle and enforce it nationwide! Personally I'd burn most of it.

@SteveLeicht1

5 жыл бұрын

Burning causes air pollution. Recycling is b.s. Running well-run landfills is and always was a waste of time (no pun intended.)

@rosewhite---

5 жыл бұрын

@@SteveLeicht1 landfills now colect the methane to turn generators.

@SteveLeicht1

5 жыл бұрын

@@rosewhite--- I actually "mis-spoke" on my message. I'm pro landfill. Thanks for the update. :)

@rosewhite---

5 жыл бұрын

@@SteveLeicht1 I actually contacted my local council about the landfill gas and they said a landfill takes about ten years to reach maximum gas output and then it continues maybe 20 years for profitable collection.

@colincampbell767

5 жыл бұрын

@@rosewhite--- Unless the landfill is designed to do this from the start. You need to provide it with just enough oxygen so that materials compost and produce heat - without providing enough oxygen to allow combustion.

So let's send our problem to a different country...got it! "If we can't see the issue, then the issue must not be there," is the motto America enjoys living by.

Single use plastic should be illegal all together. You are just delaying the work and cost to the future.

In australia we have a separate bins for general waste and recycling. Still all of the recyclable materials are shipped to China (used to be),Malaysia and other countries who would buy our waste. The recycling industry here is on the brink of collapse. We produce too much waste and not enough countries to take our waste. That was shown on 60 minutes Australia not long ago.

Can any one imagine ,I can hardly go on vacation,but people sending their water bottle to China?

A light bulb on! People + plastic + mold = bucket + sandals + boards = money. What do you think?

What a world it has become

fact is; all that garbage was found to be able to press and pellet, and be resold as building materials by the cities who could be making money of garbage, they are truly stupid, i saw an article online that talked on pellets of garbage, into building materials

Ha! I've have customers put dog shit in the recycling cart. Most here in my community think the recycling cart is a supplemental trash can

For plastics and paper, they should be burning it for clean energy. Plastics and paper burn very hot and clean when done properly. Lots of the developed world does this. It takes a vast amount of fossil fuels to transport all of this from place to place even if it doesn't go overseas. Burn it cleanly and cut your losses. You may not know this but many townships burn things like tires to generate energy. I live in NY an it is even done here. You'd never know it was happening because it is so clean.

*Well RePlanet just shut every site down.*

I recycled plastic for 4months, when I too them to the recycling center I got back 18 dollars. I've stopped recycling all together. You want people to give a shit about recycling, pay out more for it! California taxes the fuck out of me, they should have figured this problem out a long time ago!!

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

You got that right! I pay $190 every 2 months for a 2 person home. It's too much, I am NOT seperating my trash anymore!

Retailers dont want want that glass back. It’s dirty, smelly, uses storage space, needs to be transported...... besides. As a consumer, why am I expected to pay for it, clean it, pay for the water to clean it, and get zero $$ for my effort? Especially w/ what I’ve heard about recycling companies only allowing 50 containers a day per person to be recycled?

@henrythompson7595

Жыл бұрын

One of the recycle places in our area closed, the other doesn't take some plastic, only containers that have recycle stickers on the labels.

It's a lost cause.

Here in Canada, Vancouver at least, we separate into 3 bins. Mixed paper and cardboard, tin cans and hard plastic containers and organic waste. The rest we have to sort and take to recycling centres. Do it right or dont bother. Its much simpler for the house to sort it than a huge facility with hundreds of trucks dumping hourly. Why do they not get this?

@nicevideomancanada

5 жыл бұрын

from Calgary here. Before China stopped taking these recyclables we too shipped it all to China as well, but not anymore. One thing I don't like is that most manufactured goods are Trucked across our country. Why can't we buy goods in bulk and reuse the plastic jugs ect. Just my rant Paul.

@Bogie3855

5 жыл бұрын

Well Kenny we are not 100% but at least we are doing something. I know some cities in the US are approaching the hopeful 100%. Here in Van we recycle kitchen organics and all of the plastics except soiled stuff so our garbage bin has just a tiny amount. None of us are told where it all goes but sooner or later we will have to deal with all of it regardless. I really do not see where the sanctimonious criticism comes from and it is not called for. And for Gods sake, DON'T call me a Liberal. Thats just a low stoop. Then again its easier to criticise than actually do something.

@coltendixon1782

5 жыл бұрын

Paul just ignore this idiot. First off he thinks Cali is bigger than Canada ahah

Don’t know what you got til its gone.

THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO IRRISPONSIBLE AS THEY THROW TRASH EVERYWHERE , ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN HOME OR CARS & DONT GIVE A DAM WHERE IT ENDS UP !!! CAMERAS ARE NEEDED & PEOPLE THAT TRASH THE ENVIRONMENT PROSECUTED !

If it's matte paper and carboard, burn it.

Stop making plastic water bottles.

@lucypearlmorgan3115

5 жыл бұрын

Jedi Luke I agree, but here is a better idea: NO plastic use for anything associated with food or beverages. All paper could then be used for composting and definitely no styrofoam.

@Enviotonin85

5 жыл бұрын

@@lucypearlmorgan3115 not sure if you are aware that most paper product used for food is not recyclable and using more paper products mean more trees needed to be cut down and then the forest will suffer and the naturalist will start whining.

@lucypearlmorgan3115

5 жыл бұрын

@@Enviotonin85 I have lived long enough to see how plastics have taken over in more ways than just a few and it is getting worse...this is what was given to us out of convenience(I guess). Metal/tin, coated cardboard/paper (juices, milk,and broths can still be found in them), and glass were used then, not to mention the abundance of restaurants/fast food places did not exist where doggy-bags or carry-out was attached to them, and that's just a few examples. So, if things do not change then what?

in Germany all Landfills are closed and most material is recyled in the Country.

Maybe someday we will admit that most stuff just gets buried and one turd who Chuck's a garden hose in a bin ruins the batch...but sleep well