I can tell you, as a former waste collector, half the recycling is contaminated with food waste.

@cncrssouthbay1902

Жыл бұрын

True…

@minitrashtruck2789

Жыл бұрын

True

@daveleafey9283

Жыл бұрын

So just throw it all with the trash then

@RetroMasters1977

Жыл бұрын

same in the uk

Reporter: I literally saw you with my own two eyes. Garbage man: No you didn't. *DEFENSE 1000000000*

@gregGould

3 жыл бұрын

He's heading to Politics!!!

@doctormcboy5009

2 жыл бұрын

he is racist

@Dave-co1cv

Жыл бұрын

The garbage man is undoubtedly a Marxist Democrat.

@flawdaman305

2 ай бұрын

@@doctormcboy5009 you’re projecting

Chances are they are doing exactly what they are told.

@joseadriancastillo3895

2 жыл бұрын

That is probably what happened. They were probably trying to do two routes to cover for missing crew members or they were probably running on a skeleton crew.

@killuminatiranger4361

2 жыл бұрын

Not by the supervisor the truck driver and pickers did it.

@auto_5

2 жыл бұрын

@@killuminatiranger4361 you must speak from collection service experience

@drakewesterman9798

Жыл бұрын

Yeah like why tf u questioning the workers they just do what there told.

@TheMan750

10 ай бұрын

BINGO

I can careless how they do it. Just dump my shit, that way I have empty trash cans.

@Josh-os4qk

3 жыл бұрын

So you mix everything and don’t recycle?

@I-Told-U-So

3 жыл бұрын

@@Josh-os4qk Man, the whole world is so messed up nowadays. People are dying from COVID. killing , shooting, rob, rapped, people are so unemployed and businesses are closing down big time , etc and it will gets worst. You worried about this little mixed trash???!!! Are you kidding me or what? Once the trash at the dump land. Trash people have to go thru them overall anyway. There are more things to focus on and worry my friend....

@numberone7674

3 жыл бұрын

I just want the fucking shit gone, I dont care how they do it

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

@@I-Told-U-So "Once the trash at the dump land. Trash people have to go thru them overall anyway." Unlikely. Recycling contamination is an issue. That means that if paper, for example, becomes dirty, it's unrecyclable in most cases. Furthermore, it already takes effort to sort mixed recycling. It's dangerous for people to sort through garbage for recyclables as all sorts of things (ranging from dog feces to vomit) are found in garbage. This is why recyclables must be collected separately.

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

@@numberone7674 Fortunately, most people care about integrity and keeping their land clean.

You'd be surprised to see how your recyclables are actually recycled. They're not....

@texasgarbagetrucks6206

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they are you dumb fuck

@MrHunt916

3 жыл бұрын

@@texasgarbagetrucks6206 You have no idea how much single stream ends up in the landfill

@texasgarbagetrucks6206

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHunt916 Yeah Houston Texas has alotta truck loads let day sent to landfill so

@laurin4339

3 жыл бұрын

@@texasgarbagetrucks6206 1. You‘re wrong most recyclables, especially the plastic, are dumped in the landfill because the recycling market is just not profitable at the moment (it hasn‘t been since China banned trash imports to them in 2017) 2. You need to learn to articulate yourself in a appropriate manner.

@EricLing64

3 жыл бұрын

Quite a shame, for glass and metals it should be at least somewhat easier to just melt the material down.

they doing more hard work than that reporter will ever do.

@famoustiz4624

3 жыл бұрын

True but not hard to recycle

@oscarq180sx

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the people on my route who try to recycle boards and trash and who try to tell me that it's recyclable.

@42luke93

3 жыл бұрын

You got it wrong. You meat to say that, “they are doing more hard physical work than the reporter will ever do.” The reporter has to do hard work too investigating and interviewing.

@adamedwards2435

3 жыл бұрын

I heard it's a scam anyway. It all goes in the same pile at the landfill.

@brianrivera7889

3 жыл бұрын

@@42luke93 poor guy needs to cary the camara and walk towards a guy to ask him questions Oh wait he has some one to carry the camara, has a car to catch up to them, and has some one to write the script lol

This goes on in most city recycling programs because recycling is a net loss, especially now since we can't ship it overseas.

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY... the ONLY reason cities even participate in a recycling program is to get the recycling subsidies... what this NOSEY eyeball news squad should do is follow their precious recyclables to the dump and really find out what is done with them... now there's your surprise right there

@sarahs2190

3 жыл бұрын

Y7

@curiel45

3 жыл бұрын

If that's the case the private company the city hires in this case Kimble should inform the city, and the public they won't be accepting recycling. It seems like they're getting paid to accept recycling and just throwing it away. That's fraud.

@AbdulKarim-rw9nu

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahs2190 As Salaamu Alaykum wa rahmantullahi wa barakthu

@NicholasLittlejohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@25mfd untrue

The first issue:: consumers do not know proper recycling. They dumped them because it was bagged and also other items can contaminate the recycle load.

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

"it was bagged" Some recycling programs explicitly request that your recyclables be in bags (e.g. NYC).

@DanielWDonuts

3 жыл бұрын

@@nousername5673 most cities request recycling is unbagged so sorting is easier. New York is different due to the fact all the bags are left on the curb, don’t want loose recycling blowing around do you?

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielWDonuts I don't know the specifics of the recycling program mentioned in the video, and you certainly are correct. Here in Canada, my recycling program along with many others in my province don't have recycling bins for houses. Rather, they ask us to bag recycling in clear, blue bags. Some programs allow plastic bags to be recycled curbside; they simply ask that we bundle them into one bag (e.g. a shopping bag) and tie closed, then put it in the blue bag along with the other recyclables.

News anchor has nothing beter to do than to pick on the guy thats really working, what a creep.

@truly_sonic7410

4 жыл бұрын

Jon Cardinali yeah like leave them alone

@NeverEnoughPyro40

4 жыл бұрын

@@truly_sonic7410 maybe if they did their jobs correctly they would be left alone! They are being payed by tax dollars and it was a homeowner who initially caught them on video! And FYI the reporter is doing what he gets paid to do unlike those workers who tried lying and then gave 2 different excuses!

@jcmichael6396

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe its what they were told to do, plus 96% of recycling isnt used, it shiped to places like china and they usually dump it in rivers and oceans or burn it.

@Ryder0910

3 жыл бұрын

They need to do there job correctly and they won’t get followed

@ninofromkitchennightmares1497

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeverEnoughPyro40 What if listening to what their boss tells them to do is doing their job So please Shut Up

If that reporter would spend 30 minutes doing their job he would mind his own business and let them alone.

@buk6708

3 жыл бұрын

They are not doing their job lol. That’s the point. Don’t play ohh boo hoo sanitation worker.

@oscarq180sx

3 жыл бұрын

@@buk6708. Easy to say that when you never worked in that position.

@buk6708

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarq180sx who gives af, what about my $, if they can’t perform get them out. I don’t blame this worker, who cares about him, this company needs to be sued, workers are obviously following orders and just trying to keep a job, owners need to be held accountable and give $$$ back and retrain their workforce (paid training). You can’t justify this. If you agree on a service, you can’t cry later boo hoo have you ever thrown trash in truck. You don’t have to be a Historian to study history lol. Teachers, nurses. Doctors, electrical linemen, 1st responders. Everyone’s job is tough, grow up

@southside8510

3 жыл бұрын

Cedar lake indiana has this problem too.

@4seeableTV

2 жыл бұрын

One of these guys is your cousin or something?

Most of the recycle I pick up ( in bulk bins) is badly contaminated ,when we speak to management about this they ignore us and tell us to Get on with it.

@enriquelopez6937

3 жыл бұрын

Truth spokenAs a former garbageman I did this for many years and you’re right recyclable is always contaminated you only get a handful of people who actually do it correctly the rest put garbage in it so what’s the point some of it even goes to the transfer station and gets sorted out you get more trash out of it that you do recyclable truth be said

That guys just doing what his boss is telling him to do.

@Guitar157

3 жыл бұрын

🙄

@garbagemailtrucksandbuseso8685

3 жыл бұрын

No they really are doing it not the boss

@MrGreen-pj1vc

3 жыл бұрын

@@garbagemailtrucksandbuseso8685 Yea they want to keep their jobs so they listen to the man that can fire them.

@joshuaborrelli2913

3 жыл бұрын

Most private companies do this the owner tells them recycling is free which cost company money one small companies can't pay to get rid of someone else's free recycling I'm a garbage man and I work up at the landfill this is complete nonsense most of the recyclables get thrown in the garbage anyways cuz there's no market

@Guitar157

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaborrelli2913 yep

“yea, I’ll give em a call as soon as you leave my office.”😂😂😭

@dwightrucker3299

3 жыл бұрын

Textbook

@dontcaredontcare7193

3 жыл бұрын

I'd be pissed off if I was throwing trash in these people came to harass me. I would tell him to call my office or f*** off

@shantesecrim7014

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

I will give them a call you know as soon as you leave my office.. lolol 😂

@lifeas_jaz

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, you caught that too!

News flash. Recycling isn’t always recycled. Let the men do their job. Give the HARD working sanitation men a break.

@buk6708

3 жыл бұрын

Well then don’t chArge us for it and we can choose a provider that doesn’t lie.

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, by collecting recyclables with garbage, they are adding to their workload.

@DanielWDonuts

3 жыл бұрын

Recycling is free due to the fact the company sells the material for profit

My garbage company did that to me once. I was so thankful because they hadn’t grabbed my recycling in a month and I was tired of putting it out and bringing it back in full

@jennifermoffett9866

2 жыл бұрын

We get that sometimes in Columbus Ohio. They don't take the recycling for weeks! It just piles up. I'm wondering if the recycling places are full and they're just diverting to the landfill? Do they sort at the landfill? Maybe some places but not others? I have become interested in landfills/recycling and where everything really goes and what really happens to it.

Most people DO NOT know how to recycle, and I'm talking about obvious problems I see often: like PLASTIC BAGS, DIRTY items, bubble wrap, STYROFOAM!!, hangers, shredded paper(too small for recycling centers to be handled), paper with crap on it like glitter...even at 3:50 the lady has a plastic cup with a straw...some might take the cup, but from what I've been taught, trash both of them, especially the straw. One day some guy that worked for the apartments I used to work at showed me a LONG list of fines the property got due to contamination...keep in mind I was new at the time, and even now with experience there's no way I can stop hundreds of residents from wrongly throwing their contaminated crap into the recycling. So after looking at this list, I started looking at their "recycling", and was shocked by just how horrible it was then, and how it continues to be now. The rules of what is and isn't recycling are literally on the recycling dumpster itself, but they either don't read it, or don't care. Yet, you have these entitled Karens that want to blame the trash guy, it's not their fault, it's yours. So fox 8, you have earned a dislike from me.

@Leprechaun-qv6mo

2 жыл бұрын

So I haven’t been written up or reprimanded yet for grabbing recycling while others have, I’m township, we do trash then dump then recycle pick up, I have had to explain what you just to so many residents plus the old ladies like the one who complained “so many times” that what I’ve noticed were damned if we do damned if we don’t…. Worst altercation I’ve actually had is we have to hand lift 90gal toter cans, we’re not advised to but we still do it we don’t have the fancy lifter shit, well one guys recycle can was filled with beer bottles cardboard and newspaper and water…. I grab it and like whoa nah I’m not taking this… I wasn’t running the gears so he goes I got it said go ahead he said nah then the driver got out said he’ll get he said NAH and we tag it, this guy storms out of his house and dumps the recycle can…. He’s got 10 bricks at the bottom with atleast 2 gallons of water at the bottom. So we red tagged his house. This guy comes out 3 months later with a shotgun saying if you don’t take it you’re all dead…. I’m about to hop off to grab the 2 cans he has and the truck jolts me back on the step driver sped off and dude fire 3 slug rounds at us…. One hit the truck the 2 idk where they went but this is over trash and recycling… we have no a weapon policy but my truck has a permit to carry because of that route…. The shit we go through.

@jermained2249

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leprechaun-qv6mo omg I hope he was charged and arrested

@minitrashtruck2789

Жыл бұрын

👍

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!! Everything you "recycle" gets thrown away anyway

😂😂😂 it all goes to the same place any way. 😂

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Recyclables are sent to a materials recovery facility.

@mlez7197

3 жыл бұрын

in your world yes

@PacificNorthwest360

3 жыл бұрын

Facts, I’ve never recycled and contrary to popular belief the Earth will reset soon.

@blazeholt7079

3 жыл бұрын

I work at a recycling center, and we make sure everything that is brought to us is 100% recycled. To see this video of the truck drivers not caring, is just upsetting to me..

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

@@blazeholt7079What do you recycle (plastics / paper / metal / glass / electronics / construction & demolition waste)? What about contaminants?

They are doing their job, it's up to their employer to have them do their job correctly. This isn't the only town in the country that does this.

This happened here also. They did the whole neighborhood! I contacted the company and the city and got no response from nobody, not even the city. Crazy part is the city can fine you up to $50 if you put recyclables included with normal trash lol

@jaezynnotnl3473

2 жыл бұрын

what do people expect? they leave their recycling out in the rain with their lids open and so on, maybe not all people but when you're doing 1500 pickups on one load imagine what happens to that "recyclable" paper and other shit. recycling facilities look pretty identical to trash dumps go be a fucking disposal employee to see how it goes or shut the 🦆up

People have nothing better to do than wait and record the garbage man... geez lol

"You didn't watch me do anything" Best response for someone getting in ur business

The shit doesn’t get recycled anyway

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

If it's uncontaminated and well sorted, then it likely is. Depends also on what material you are referring to (e.g. metal, paper, plastic, and glass).

Yeah hotels do this too. I was watching a cleaning lady at the lobby of a Hilton dump the recycle in her garbage bin where she emptied the trash in. I didn’t seem to ask her until I’ve noticed it for 4 days since I was in a conference at the hotel. I asked her if they recycle and she said we do but we don’t separate them.

More then half the time people throw trash in the recycling bin I know I throw trash for a living

@bdnbdn2055

3 жыл бұрын

Almost everyday there's wood or styrofoam in the recycling bin on my route.

@DanielGarcia-kl6ub

3 жыл бұрын

@@bdnbdn2055 it’s sad people there are people who don’t know how to recycle properly

I called the council in Australia - in Melbourne to be exact as I wanted to know more information about penalties so I can tell my cousin about it as he constantly mixed garbage. They told me “it doesn’t matter if you mix the garbage, they sort it out later” I’m like .....wtf

I know people say they want to throw as much into recycle cuz I think it helps the environment but depending on where the recycle gets dropped off and sorted they have certain regulations on what they can and cannot take usually there's a website or in most cases it's listed right on your recycle container. Got to remember a lot of the recycle goes through a sorting process gets bundled and then sent overseas to places like China and Indonesia and as of lately those places have been not taking the contaminated recycle so the rules get more strict nowadays

To be honest. 90% of recycled materials in up in the landfill.

@SCSITerminator

5 жыл бұрын

This is true. The 3Rs are "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in that order. The first R is reduce, not recycle. And yes, these days recycling isn't that much beyond landfilling....especially with ignorant people dumping so many contaminates into the single stream.

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

You mean plastic? China still accepts uncontaminated, sorted plastic. Also, you ignore metal, paper, and glass recycling.

I do waste disposal. This mostly happens on roads that multiple trucks cant get to. So they just grab recycling on the trash truck too to lighten the load on the actual recycling truck

So the I team had nothing better to do but act like a bunch of Karens

@FLINTmitten810

3 жыл бұрын

The world caters to the Karen’s

Try trying pack out early lmao I understand the struggles

Wow such a groundbreaking story. Smh 🤦‍♂️

@coolbreezeGP

3 жыл бұрын

This video changed my life

Can't ever get mad at the worker bee, look at the owner

As a trash truck driver I see companies weekly dumping right next to me that claim to be recycling only. Both my trash and their recycling will get pushed up into the same pile too. It all goes to the same place in my region apparently

I'm pausing the video at : 24 to comment. I drive a garbage truck for a living and been doing so for the last 18 years. Mixing garbage, organics, cardboard, and general recycling is hardly newsworthy. The naive people of the world who don't know how the waste business works might be shocked, but no one inside this industry would be surprised. On rare occasions I have someone off the street comment, "Hey did you just dump the garbage and the recycling together?" My reply is, "It's the way the office put my route together today. Give them a call. They might have made a honest mistake." For anyone who truly wants to make a small, but positive change in the area of reduce, reuse, and recycle - the first 2 should be your top priority - recycling is by far the least effective. You'd be blown away by how much genuine recycling gets dumped at the garbage dump. If you see a recycling truck collecting straight recycling, and you think "Oh I feel good about that" it often goes straight to the incinerator or landfill without you knowing.

@havenzhai5187

3 жыл бұрын

You are right on brother. Had my time on a garbage truck and when the recycling depot said no more, we dumped the recycled in the regular garbage.

@Janotes

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on!... I've said on many comments that the only solution to waste is to not create it in the first place.

Why the hell even recycle in that town ? I'm sure the drivers are encouraged to do this practice, unreal !

@kantas9712

4 жыл бұрын

Lino DeMarchi why the hell don’t you recycle?

@newmexicorefuseentertainme9406

4 жыл бұрын

No the supervisor probably ordered these employees to do that to save money on gas as this looks to be a very contaminated recycling room so it’s probably not worth even bringing it to the recycling center

“Wants you to believe virtually every can is filled with trash” proceeds to flip lid and show 2 cans with pieces of plastic wrap that are not recyclable, AKA Garbage

I've seen the city trucks do the same thing here in San Diego. The only reason that I have any concern about it is that the city is complaining that they are running out of room at the dump. It will be some expensive bureaucratic solution. At one time, the city of Tijuana offered to take the trash in San Diego for less than what it cost for San Diego to process it. Bureaucrats and politicians were screaming that it would be taking unfair advantage of Tijuana, so they didn't do it.

We should get paid to recycle. Then we wouldnt have this problem

@Nonamegoodsir4332

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad recycling actually costs money so if anything people should pay to have their shit recycled until it becomes profitable. It’s a privilege I guess to feel like you’re not polluting even though you are

Bro why tf do people make such a big deal abt it

@AbdulKarim-rw9nu

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly over some damn trash

At the end of the day... I wouldn't give a crap as long as they pick it up!

Facts we separate the trash at least 7 diffrent ways anyways. There are 5 different grades of plastic that have to be separated. Paper glass and food waste also

Lol there are some garbage men that actually are nice and actually does their job right I will forever be great full for the drivers who treated my brother with special needs like he was apart of team by bringing him vest and letting him help out just in front of the house something so little meant so much for him for us So respect to all them who does their job with love even through it’s be hard at times

You'd be surprised how people wake up so early just to watch us!

@texasgarbagetrucks6206

3 жыл бұрын

Shit I do. I film the trucks

@paullavery4776

3 жыл бұрын

We get the same shit in Scotland when we empty the bins

@Janotes

3 жыл бұрын

My favorites are the "peepers" Those are the people who peek from behind shades or pinch open blinds.. I would always see them on the night shifts I worked. I always waved hello to them.

@hunterhalgas5711

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite is when they check the can right in front of you lol like did you not just see me dump you're tote bitch?

@dancollins8296

3 жыл бұрын

City hall blonde is hot as fuck

Lets be honest here, recycling is one of those things that make tree huggers feel happy about themselves, it all goes to the dump lol

Slow news day huh

Reporter: just watched you put them both in Garbage man: You didn’t watch me do anything Bro has some nerve

3:52 has plastic bags in the cart, try harder Bonnie

@texasgarbagetrucks6206

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@TheAustralianGarbologist

3 жыл бұрын

That’s correct. Technically they have to throw that in trash

@Guitar157

3 жыл бұрын

😆 the town I work in likes to recycle dog poop diapers food waste there a little more progressive than most lol

Y’all try doing this job perfectly in negative degree temperatures. Cut it out…

As a sanitation worker I can honestly say people do mix trash and recycling together. If we don’t take it recycling won’t take it

I better watch out for paparazzi next time 😂🧐

That dam news reporter on how he act!!!!pshhhhh middle finger lol

People DO throw garbage in with the recycling. It's not an insult, it's simply reality. I find myself looking it up and thinking wow, this is garbage, I woulda tossed it into recycling. Then you have people who don't think twice. They think it should be able to be recycled, therefore it will be. Or they think these sorters are infallible magical machines that never break and are super cheap.

I see this all the time! I was thinking why even take the time to separate the garbage if they’re just putting it in the same truck. Doesn’t make sense.

@rooster6271

4 жыл бұрын

They have different separating processes now then they used to.. alot of recycling plants now use big hoppers that every goes into, that has a huge fan on the bottom (like those indoor skydiving things).. those fans blow all the paper and cardboard at the top, and the heavy metal and such stays at the bottom and it also does more neat stuff that I dont feel like typing...

@texasgarbagetrucks6206

3 жыл бұрын

If you see a side loader doing this it's probably a split body. It has a divider to keep trash and Recycle on their separate sides

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

I encourage you to reach out to your government.

Everything goes to the landfill anyway

@evanworthington1

3 жыл бұрын

👍😉

"You didnt watch me do anything " lol

as a former garbageman i can tell you this happens more then people know numerous times my supervisor told me to mix garbage & recycle usually when another driver calls out & were the only truck in the area..... but usually he would tell us to get all of the recycle first then come back around & get garbage so residents wont know 😂

@craigklein5563

Жыл бұрын

There's nothing funny about deceiving people!

A story worth reporting! This is what the media should be doing. Making an actual difference. Great job guys!!!!!

@byerkey9092

4 жыл бұрын

@TrashPanda RaccoonI was referring to the general lack of good informational news. Seems like most stories we see are opinions anymore and not based on any facts. #ImADemocrat 👍🙄🤦‍♀️

@nataliaengelby9251

3 жыл бұрын

Your dumb af I wish you knew how hard this job is and dangerous. Im a trash man but we don’t have the loaders everything is done by hand. Recycle is a huge hassle along with it only makes people lose money and it can’t be shipped overseas.

@byerkey9092

3 жыл бұрын

@@nataliaengelby9251 k bye 👋

@byerkey9092

3 жыл бұрын

@@nataliaengelby9251 if your going to try to insult me do it right... It's "you're dumb af" 😉 I care about our planet. Recycling is important if done properly. I never said a job as a waste management professional is an easy one, however it's a job that you chose to have so it should be done properly. I'm a phlebotomist. Children and elderly are hard to stick. Doesn't mean I can take shortcuts because it's hard. 🤷‍♀️ OK, now officially k bye

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

@@nataliaengelby9251 You mean plastic? China still accepts uncontaminated, sorted plastic. Also, you ignore metal, paper, and glass recycling. Also, the garbage collectors should not even be touching the recycling bins.

You didn’t see ME do anything to they separate it at the dump? Your workers were just confused about procedure to blaming the customers, yadda yadda yadda. Just be honest and stop charging for recycling if your just dumping it in the same place.

I will give them a call as soon as u leave my office 😂

@bdnbdn2055

3 жыл бұрын

She keeping her job 😂

Used to work sanitation in Ny.that shit deadass goes the same place lol.

HAHA we have been doing this for years! 🤣🤣🤣

Plot twist: the garbageman is a rapper now who raps about not recycling properly

You only supposed to put one in each truck that's why they have recycling and trash

That's true. They do separate the trash and recycling at least were I live.

When the dude says yea they do and touches his nose, usually a natural body language for lying 🤥

Gawd I am soooo happy that my city doesn't outsource contractors

The home owner they should get $600 dollars fine they are old enough to know better and know the difference and the company are picking up o collecting the trash they should get $600 dollars fine for dumping Recycle products into Regular trash !!

I'm a garbageman and 95% of people do not recycle properly and put trash in the recycle cans anyway. So it really doesn't matter!

Fox needs to leave these people alone bagged stuff can’t be recycled

There's other stuff going on in this world and you guys care about this

These people ain’t got nothing better to do than hate as working men.

@noonehere4332

3 жыл бұрын

The men with real jobs.

They must’ve moved too my town. We have Rumpke and I’ve caught them numerous times dumbing recycle in the trash truck.

Bagged recycling doesn’t go into a recycling. I’m a garbage man and if I see a contaminated recycling I’ll dump it. Glass and dirty plastics do not go into recycling

That reporter couldn't last 10 minutes doing thier job. If I was the workers I wouldn't have said one word to him!

@edward6749

3 жыл бұрын

If I was a worker there I’d prolly get fed up with the job and leave since recycle doesn’t look like it’s being handled properly

Don’t make the trash man mad , he’ll win in the end. If you care about recycling that much then bring it your self.

Karen's husband called the I-team.

China stopped accepting your recycling last year. Where have you been??

@Josh-os4qk

3 жыл бұрын

Build your own facility in your own country

Who the fuck cares. The only reason i recycle is cause i run out of room in my can. I dont give a shit where it goes as long as it gone when i get home from work.

@Josh-os4qk

3 жыл бұрын

You are uneducated and lack of knowledge

We do that here in chicago all the time in commercial garbage/recycling there is no money in recycling these people have no clue what us garbage guys go through honestly the company threw those guys under the bus i can almost guarantee that the company tell those guys to mix because they are short handed drivers and short on recycling drivers so they have the garbage guys get everything

Former recycle driver. 75% of the cans I pick up contain more trash than recyclables . And the whole tagging the can situation is pointless. You would be tagging almost entire neighbor hoods and no ones recyclables would be picked up . No one recycles correctly

Bags can’t even go in recycling anyway!

@robmoney4life

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo

Be a garbage man for a day

@timlaxtonsr3729

3 жыл бұрын

Shoot even the managers most of them has never done the work ..

thing is, most garbage is sorted, the trash trucks at the warehouse pick up both the cardboard and trash cans at the same time and the same truck

All you ppl who say you dont care what happnes to your shit.... Y'all need to look thus shit up and see our trash issue FOR REAL!!!

Its common practice. All the airlines do it; as to most hotels and other businesses such as Whole Foods. They just mix all the garbage together. The separate containers are only to pacify the stupid customers. Recycling is a stupid waste of time and money and most businesses won't do it.

Most of these guys are private contractors these days. They save a ton of money in dumping fees doing that crap. My town had a huge scandal years ago over bribes between contractions and and town officials.

As a retired sanitation driver most of the time there’s garbage in the recycling cans anyway. Recycling is a big money loser anyway, my cities recycling program loses nearly 600 k every year on recycling program.

It is a national crisis.

They do so much work give them a brake

@nousername5673

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, by collecting recyclables with garbage, they are adding to their workload.

Coming from a trash man you’ll be shocked how many people put trash in the recycle bins...

Caught this in my city. The mayor was shocked.

Recycled trash and regular trash literally end up in theSAME PLACE. Hahaha!

The problem is privatization. Please let professions like this be public sector.

I have a better idea if I rode with that driver who lied to the news reporter. I would have tossed his little "fantasy" world into the back of that truck and would have turned the packer on. Recycling is NOT a lie. It helps preserve our planet. Do you want to preserve this planet? I would. Let's all straighten up here.

My home towns dump sorts out recyclable shit. Did community service there and sorted it myself

Saving the environment. Straight to landfill instead of driving around collecting in seperate truck take to recycle centre to end up in landfill.

The supervisor is telling him to do this....Tired of seeing the news post drivers mixing them. Who gives a fuck

Recycle is dead folks. I manage a recycle center. Very little plastic is recyclable anymore. No market for it. Period so get your facts before you jump on your garbage guy.