The great recycling LIE (what really happens to plastic)
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Plastic recycling is literally a scam. Or is it? We all know that humanity couldn't exist in the way it does without plastic, however much of the way our currenct society operates with plastic were lies sold to us by the plastic industry.
Since World War II, the plastic industry has been either lying to, or directly manipulating, the population of the planet. And they've done all this for one simple reason: so that they can sell more plastic, and make more money. But the direct result of this is that our planet has suffered, and they've polluted our world with lies, deceit, and disgusting business practices.
The plastic industry wants you to believe that some plastic can be good. When in reality, this is nothing more than propaganda, to keep our species in a cycle of profit, and destruction.
Please let me know your thoughts below this video.
Shout out to Climate Town's fantastic video on this subject, which inspired us to create this. If you wanna watch it, go here: • Plastic Recycling is a...
0:00 - Plastic recycling is a scam
0:38 - The plastic industry's lies
2:40 - Fighting against plastic
4:21 - Why plastic recycling isn't effective
6:11 - The biggest lie in plastic
7:31 - How to fight back
9:17 - Some final thoughts
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Yes it did. Is there anything mushrooms can't do?
Thanks for exposing this. As entrepreneurs, we could be looking at this as an opportunity. The old adage comes to mind, "One man's waste, is another man's treasure." In the meantime, I'm buying locally from the farmer's market and bringing my own bags and containers. The merchants; farmers, craft foods, lotions and potions purveyors already appreciate it and some will buy back their jars, saving themselves and their customers money. Let's also mention the health benefits of not depending on the stupor market with their shelves full of colorfully packaged, processed, 'food stuffs' shipped from miles away... and we can start getting somewhere.
@@climateteacherjohnj7763 that sounds like a really cool market.
Thank you for your precious work and effort Sorelle. 🔥
Sorelle. Are you okay? You look sad. Life is too short to be sad. I love your smile, please laugh more. You are an inspiration.
The older I get and the more videos and documentaries I watch, I’ve come to realize the world we live in is one big scam.
The scam has been going on for decades. FINALLY people are beginning to understand.
Yip Americans started a proxy war against Russians in 2014...
But guess what ? You pay taxes 🙄 to support the Nazi's in Ukrain....
SCAMerica
Yes young people today are totally brainwashed by interest groups and only through years they slowly find out that they were scammed and turn from "liberal" into conservative.
@@tongobong1: Explain why so many "old" people are voting against their interests ie: "liberal".
It is the "liberals" that run the indoctrination institutions known as "Education".
I wish your statement were accurate.
As a physicist, when I told people that it took more energy to recycle plastics than it did to make the origjnal, people called me a charlatan...thanks for the validation.
I totally agree with you... Just like these wind generators we are forced to have..... They will never pay for themselves, let alone make a profit for the big boys.. They made their money on making and selling the units... Carry out an environmental audit and we will see the the con there..... Some time ago I wrote a paper on waste collection, transport and various costs involved plus the ridiculousness of dumping waste into landfill sites.... My process involved in storing the waste, pollution free and in a special way, so that in years to come someone with the latest technology can economically process and use our old waste. My idea was to save up to about 50% in costs, which can be proved in many ways..... (I let it slide as I was stepping on too many toes and I would end up penny less)
Anyway, like you, trying to convince or to prove that one has the costs a*se about face and to change or convince "certain" companies to change does not fit into their profit agenda......
Wonderful video, I have just subscribed.... So enlightening to listen to such an intelligent person with all the true facts given to us on a plate, but what will we do with them?.. NOTHING, years of lies and brainwashing has won the day...
@@dorriennorth5317 Your intuition is quite correct. If you calculate the amount of energy required to build, maintain and eventually dispose of things like panels, wind turbines etc. you never make it to break even. That's why these industries can't make it without massive government subsidies.
Just like the household solar panel industry, the plastic recycling industry is incompetent, inefficient, and corrupt. The technology is sound - but we’ve got the wrong people in charge of it.
Can you cite where you said any of this formally? As a physicist you should be easy to look up right?
@@MrMSBranham You are so right, but it always seems to me they do somehow get government backing (Our tax money).....
I worked as a custodian in a large hospital from 1969 to 1981. During that time, I saw how the hospital went from glass, metal and cloth, to paper, plastic and other "disposables". There were autoclaves on every ward where reusable items were sterilized. Those autoclaves got used less and less. We had our own laundry on site that washed patient gowns, surgical gowns, masks and other items that later were made disposable. What amazed me and no one else seemed to notice was the huge increase in the amount of trash the hospital produced during those years.
must have been an interesting time
Totally agree! The quantity of disposables plastics used in medical care is incredible high :(
I was a child of the 60's and 70's and remember grocery bags were paper and all glass soda bottles had a deposit return price included. Then, I remember the massive plastic campaign to "save a tree". Now look where we are... Our world is dying in plastic and everything we eat has plastic inside it.
Bingo games over. 🎮
@@terryderush2657 huh?
@@victoriakendrick6906 is it so sad to be a liberal that nothing you see 👀 or read 📚 that you just don't understand every thing . Or see 👀 the light of day. God help 🙏 us 🇺🇸 all. Bingo games over. 🎮
@@ozplasmic351 very well said my new good friend. I to am from the 50. See just what you are talking about. It's a shame isn't it.
CA. CHARGES .5 TO .10 FOR PLASTIC BAGS ALL IT IS A HIDED TAX PEOPLE JUST BEEN OVER AND TAKE IT
I am old enough to remember milk being delivered to the house in glass bottles which were returned, washed, and reused. Beer and soda were also sold in glass bottles with a 5-cent deposit which would be refunded (more likely deducted from a purchase) when the bottles were returned. That system worked just fine, and used far less energy than this throw-away and/or recycle system we have now.
As a kid I used to run round the streets of Glasgow collecting empty glass bottles of pop, returning them to the store and exchanging them for money... Then spending that money on full bottles of pop, crisps and sweets.
Homeless people and kids also appreciated it back in the days
Only issue is that washing and reusing glass bottles is cheaper than making whole new plastic bottles, which means less money making of you're the one selling bottles
To use glass bottles in our modern society would not work seen the logistics of it would make a grater impact on the environment due to the weight of the bottles.
In my country all plastic bottles and aluminium cans get recycle by people going to the store and put them in a machine and get 10-20 cent for everyone bottle or can.
@@tiddybearkush Really? The real question is where do the bottles go after they get put in a machine.
I'm a hotel housekeeper, and each room has a recycling container. Trust me when I say that it's just for show. Everything goes in the trash bin at the end of the day.
Such deception and manipulation, and insult to customers, infuriates me. Thankyou for telling us.
Same in the Netherlands.
They mixed all trash. But
I am not sure it's still like
that, b'cause ordinary ppl
in the Netherlands, were
really upset by this news.
Ppl thought plastics were
recycled, but in the end, it
was ALL dumped in same
train-wagon, all mixed with
the other trash. This story
happened many years ago.
haha incredible, well pretty much everything is a scam nowadays
I guess you work in an Indian owned hotel .
I saw that at a hospital. The worker emptied the recycling container into the regular garbage and took one big bag away.
I've worked on the fringes of the recycling industry over the years and quickly realized that it was a giant grift. The only thing any single person can do to have an effect on this mess is to refrain from buying the stuff.
I’ve worked on the fringes too, yes I picked up a can the other day
Back in 1999, I decided to give up plastic. I don't remember the reasons why I choose plastic, but I was experimenting with different kinds of fasting back in those days. One month I'd give up TV, the next I'd give up meat, the next would be something else. Anyway, plastic ended up being one of those things and the one that was the most eye-opening. It quickly became apparent that the only way I could give up plastic entirely would be to strip naked and walk off into the woods. Just try to go shop for groceries and avoid plastic, see how extraordinarily limited your food choices become.
@@Lord_Volkner You'll die if you don't use plastic.
@@allaboutperspective650 Pretty much.
You can't buy food, wear clothing, live in a house, use indoor plumbing, drink water, keep warm in the winter, etc ... you're naked in the wilderness.
That experiment was a real eye-opener for me. We have zero idea how to live without plastic at this point.
Greed will kill humanity
Our garbage disposal service in the Bay Area has mandatory recycling. When I go dump trash from my business at the disposal site, all of the recyclers dump everything that goes straight to a landfill site. The public pays extra to have three different trash cans for recycling trash, yet in the end it all gets buried together.
A very intelligent neighborhood kid near me is really into conservation, gardening, creating a great community, etc. He's a great kid and an old soul, really. I've been hearing bits and pieces about the recycling scam for several years. So, I asked him. "I've been hearing that most recycling doesn't actually happen the way we think it does. What have you heard about that?" He replied, "Yeah, the stuff we put in our recycling bin mostly ends up with the rest of the trash. It's sort of a scam."
Environmentalism like the climate change hoax are pagan religions for the "useful idiots". Yes we should be good stewards and not live like prodigal sons. When I was in engineering school in the late 1980's anyone with a brain knew how foolhardy all of the alternate forms of energy (wind, solar and corn based fuels) were but wlso realized how wasteful government programs would fund (waste) the taxpayers hard earned money to prop up the scams and reward their friends.
the worst part is the rich countries pay to third world countries to throw our plastics to the ocean...hypocrisy at the highest level... then people say "third world countries are the dirtiest" lol
We still have bins. Those of us who go to the dump don't go to the recycling area anymore.
The cost of energy is the big hurdle in this.
Are plastics a scam? I don't thing that is true. The recycling is though...
I have seen with my own eyes how ONE bin truck collected recycling bin and foof waste bin together! Couldn't believe it. Now I do.
Alaska has the Bins ... it definitely goes into the dump to get buried .
About 20 years ago I was sitting in a coffee shop in LA when a garbage truck stopped to empty the sidewalk trash bin. The guy emptied the trash and the recycle bins into the same truck then compressed the loads together. That's when I knew it was all a scam and it's up to the consumer to make the change.
Where I live the so called garbage truck has two compartments. No they dont dump it in the ocean either. Most of these radical leftist missinformation campaigns like the one above would have you believe those poor countries that suffered a disaster such as a tsunami and the garbage in the ocean was from you.
Thank you for your story
In the restaurant I used to work at some of the buss boys would throw the trash away in the recycling dumpster because they didnt know any better and after like a year we all figured it out. It was a running joke that we never got in trouble with the recycling people because they just throw the sh*t away anyway so they dont care.
"It's up to the consumer..." That's what they want us to think. As this video, and observation shows the plastics industry is the only one who can actually fix this. But they won't, as they are continuing to make huge amounts of money. Only when plastics pollution effect the children of those executives will things change.
When I bought our house in 99, there was a recycling bin beside the garbage bin. The previous owner told us to put the recycling bin out on the same day as the garbage bin. We did for many months, until one morning I happened to be looking out the window when the garbage truck came. Garbage and recycling went in the same truck. I watched the following week and same thing happened. I called the garbage collection company and was told the township required them to provide recycling bins, but they didn't actually have a recycling process.
It has become incredibly difficult to find many products in glass. I was so excited when a dairy in the state I live started selling their milk/cream in our local grocery and package it in glass. Yes, there is a $2 deposit on the bottles, the taste is so much better, the bottles are processed like days of old, cleaned and reused.
The most environmentally sound container ever made was the British glass milk bottle. cleaned and reused 14 times then melted down to make you guessed it new milk bottles.
“Sure, pay us and we’ll take the plastic back to China and recycle it”
On the ship, halfway to China.
-“just dump it there”
this is EXACTLY what I have been saying for years to anyone who will listen.
How come there is SO MUCH plastic on beaches and in the oceans worldwide = I dont believe that it all gets washed down rivers, which is the usual narrative - its just not possible
@@irw4350 a lot is from the Japanese tsunami, a lot from the Indo tsunami, but the vast majority comes from Southeast Asia. They have less than 1/20 of the landfill and incineration facilities the west has while having 10 times more people. Many countries just dump it in the oceans, this is a fact. People are truly disgusting.
I'm so glad that someone finally exposed this lie! After my city made it mandatory to pay extra for a recycling bin, I actually followed the "recycling" truck a couple of times to see where they were dumping what they collected. They went into the landfill, right behind the regular trash trucks, right to the same mound that every other truck was dumping on. I tried to get several TV news stations to look into this, but they ignored my repeated emails. Scam indeed!
Record them and upload it on YT. Once it is on the internet, it is there forever!
I have no doubt you followed them around, people are crazy. I just don't believe how you tell it or what you saw.
@@persuasivebarrier2419 Cope and denial.
@@doltBmB That does sound like what you guys are doing.
I drive a front load recycle truck and I can tell you we do not push our loads into the same pile as you put it. We have an area for general waste, another area for construction and demolition waste, another area for cardboard, and another area for co-mingled recycling. We're doing what we can to recycle as much as possible...mostly the cardboard. The plastics are a problem, but not one we created. We're stuck with all the "wish-cycling" coming in that needs to be sorted by hand.
I worked in a plastics factory in the early 80’s. If a part coming out of the mold didn’t meet specs, it was ground into pellets and reused in the injection molding machines. There was a clear difference in the product made from the original pellets and the product made from the grinder. I’ve known for years that recycling doesn’t work because you will always have an inferior product. I wish we could all go back to glass milk and soda pop bottles that got washed and reused. We are an incredibly wasteful society. No product gets fixed anymore, we just throw it away and buy another. What we put in our landfills is a bigger environmental problem than gas powered vehicles.
It truly is sad. Everything is about profit. :(
Look at how furniture is now.
People used to pass down dressers, bed frames, etc through their families.
Now they just dump the furniture and buy new ones from Walmart or IKEA.
Particle board.
Not solid wood meant to last hundreds of years. :(
@@Crowski Don't knock Ikea, a lot of that seemingly flimsy furniture can actually last a very long time. We have some pieces from Ikea that are going on 20 years old, the stuff that fails usually fails in the first 6 months. Real furniture all comes from either China or Vietnam now as they dumped in the 90's and put all the domestic furniture makers out of business. It used to be that it was so big and heavy it needed to be made locally. The same is largely true of kitchen cabinets, a lot come from Asia now.
Even if you consider a 20 year lifespan, it took too much less energy and required less deforestation to make that cardboard furniture that even if the real stuff lasts 100 years it's still more environmentally friendly to use the ikea junk. Now the argument for real furniture is different the SE Asian made furniture is more environmentally unfriendly and certainly would not last 100 years. My quote unquote real furniture is a far cry from what was produced even 30 or 40 years ago, lots of poor quality joinery which inevitably fails rendering expensive furniture generally useless.
@@shaunbava1801 I agree but I believe it also has a lot to do with climate. Real wooden furniture holds up to humidity. Particle board doesn’t. :/
We have a shelf in our living room that’s particle board the past 15 years.
It’s bent and leaning.
But solid wood shelving hasn’t changed at all. It’s still like it was 25 years ago. XD
It is EXTREMELY heavy I agree with you there. When it comes to moving….good luck. lol
They've experimented with a plasma torch to burn the waste at landfills. A plasma torch will burn anything and the byproduct is just carbon. They also wanted to see if that process could produce clean energy. It turns out that yes it was able to get rid of waste and produce clean energy, but not in a profitable manner. Hopefully, they'll continue to improve, but I don't have much hope.
why is it such a problem?
Wow! This video is totally nuts to me. Over 20 years ago one of my senior college projects was to create a presentation on a technology that had a great impact on human society and for some reason my idea was plastics. It was a group project and at first none of the team members thought this was an important technology which blew my mind. After many arguments I finally convinced the team to go forward with this. I never really thought about it much before but when I did some self brainstorming I thought it was a unique topic. It was a semester-long project and I basically carried all the weight but the more I researched the more I was amazed. My conclusion almost mirrors this video. We got an A+. I’ve been telling people recycling is a sham since and have been ostracized. Really refreshing to see a video like this after so many years. Was the producer of this video on my team 20 years ago?
It's wild. This is really insane.
I remember plastic bags coming out because using them saved trees. I remember groceries in paper bags and glass milk bottles delivered to the door every day or week that were returned, washed and reused. That all worked but plastic was cheaper and meant more profit.
My son used to be heavily into recycling. One day, I saw him throw a plastic bottle in with the regular garbage and I asked him why. He said, “turns out, recycling is a scam.”
No one believes me when I tell them it's a scam. Same with computer equipment. Either keep your stuff until you die, or destroy your hard drives before you "recycle." Never give your phone away for another. Your information is accessable even when you "wipe it clean." There are entire organizations in other countries who buy your used computer stuff to steal identities.
In My country we don't throw plastic bottles in the regular garbage. We go to a store and put them in a machine and get money for it. It is then used to make new bottles. Pet bottles can be recycled and that's how our plastic bottles recycling works. Coca cola has 100% recycled bottles in my country.
The same goes for aluminium cans.
@@tiddybearkush It uses too much energy to “recycle” those though. So essentially your feeding into the scam part of it still
@@tiddybearkush that’s probably because your country goes after companies who don’t recycle. Unlike most countries outside the U.S., our government doesn’t regulate this industry heavily as much as they should. It’s not just a country issue, it’s a humanitarian issue that every country should deal with.
Sad part with the U.S. is that we got politicians who care more about the $$$ in their bank than the future of our world.
@@whocaresguy No but it is in Europe. And i believe plastic should be produced and recycled. It doesn't matter what anyone says, we can't have our modern society without plastic and going back to use glass won't work.
It's easy. Just recycle the plastic and use plastic that can be recycled or sugar plastic that can be broken down by nature in a reasonable time.
It can work but no side want it to.
I am 62, and can easily remember as a child that when my mother bought fish, meat,, cheese, fruit, vegetables etc, those food items were sold wrapped in simple plain paper bags or rolled up in sheets of plain paper. Back in the 60's and 70's our dust bin (trash can) rarely had more than a bucketful of waste in it each week. Now today everything has to be hermetically sealed in plastic boxes, plastic bottles and plastic bags. The packaging industry is huge. And so is the amount of totally unecessary packaging waste generated by even a small average family
OH>>>>>>>> don't your get it? Don't you see it? Don't you know? U are hopeless and their prey. DAMN!
Rockefeller cabal made profits from oil and plastic.
@@positivetimeline2023 They sold their souls to Lucifer for $, power and a supposed a life in hell with AC, fun, 100 virgins and Direct TV with no fee.
@Karl with a K yep let it burn
@Karl with a K until the future is gone.
As someone who grew up with paper grocery bags, had milk delivered in glass bottles, barely had any of those new fangled plastic things in the house LOL, watched this progression, the brain washing regarding recycling, taking the time to understand what plastics can and can not be recycled, it quickly became apparent that there were some serious scams going on. Another thing, just visit one of those places most of us would never choose to visit, that's right your municipal/city dump (or more eloquently described today as a recycling facility (ot's probably off limits to the general public anyways; and just look for your self at the vast amount of plastic crap getting dumped. Yep, just simply use less plastic.
we noticed this a few months ago. We have different bins for everything, one wheelie bin for general waste, another for plastics, another for paper and another for garden waste.....the bins are emptied into different compartments on the garbage trucks but when you see them emptied at the tip, there is just one large compartment where everything goes, its all for show, its bullshit
We don’t separate here ..
I worked at a ski resort in Vermont quite a few years ago as a housekeeper. There were recycling bins in each room so people staying there would recycle their trash. Well when we picked the trash up at the end of the day, it would all go into the dumpster together. Not really recycling. It was fake
Same here. Worked part time as a cleaner at a big store, a lot of the work was just trash collecting. I was always diligent about recycling. I even painstakingly picked out plastic out of paper trash bags and containers or vice versa if I saw a piece out of place.
Until one day I saw the garbage truck drive by and basically... Empty container after container and dump everything together into one common storage tank.
Then I found out my whole life was a lie.
Many places are like this including QVC and the universities I worked at.
When most people realise we are constantly sold lies, it will be too late. This system does not operate on real positive change, it operates on propaganda and the appearance of change, always for the benefit of big business, big government and their donors.
Even the stuff that actually makes it to a recycling center usually just gets thrown away or burned. Partly because it's the wrong type of plastic to be recycled and partly because it's so nasty it takes more time to clean it than it's worth.
Edit: I wrote the above at the beginning of the video. After watching the full video I see she covered this. But repetition is not always bad.
Did they have to pay more?
Honestly, this isn't even surprising. Everything boils down to money in the end. 😮💨
Yep, kaching!
Same with war. The Ukraine Russian war is about resources aka commodities.
What evidence did this video supplied to what it claims? Maybe it is just the opposition trying to hurt the plastic industry and make a profit out of that with regardless of the truth?
Greed reaches deep and wide... In all things.
@@taoist32 and weapons sales
The plastic industry also discourages reuse by making containers too fragile to reuse.
In the 2000s I used 1 liter Pepsi co bottles for backpacking water bottles, now the bottles are the same shape but are way too thin to use.
I can remember when glass was the primary material for liquid and semi-solid household goods. And, while we remember soda bottles and milk bottles being cleaned a recycled, most of the jars and glass containers for items e.g. pickles, peanut butter, shampoos, medicines, etc. were tossed and ended up in the landfill. So, it's not just a plastics problem. The amount of plastics ending up in the landfills has been pretty stable since around 2015. The amount of recycled plastic is about the same as well. The amount of plastics that are combusted with energy recovery has been steadily increasing. One benefit of plastics which is rarely cited is their relative safety compared to glass. The number of cuts and injuries sustained by broken glass was pretty high. Today, you can drop your shampoo in the shower and not worry about stepping on broken glass. And, even though glass is recyclable, only about 1/3 of glass consumed ends up being recycled. We have a long way to go.
A friend of mine has owned a plastic recycling company. He could make granulates from 6 different kind of plastics for companies who used the granulates to create new products.
During the Covid Lockdown when the Oil price dropped below 60 Dollars per barrel, he had to shut down the business because the complete manufacturing industry stopped recycling as making a new product became inevitably cheaper to make from scratch..
So the big green companies suddenly didn't care about the Environment anymore :)
They care about being in the "green" as in money. 💵💲💲💵
That couldn't be good for their ESG Score?
Sounds to me like they were forced to close down, and not bc they no longer cared.
too bad he couldn't hold on till today, cuz the barrel is more expensive than ever!
@@vottoduder That's probably harmful to the water life in the river. It pollutes, as well
This is no surprise. We have been lied to about most things for decades! Sadly profits over ethics is the norm, not the exception. 🤦🏻♀️😠😒
Nasa is a scam also. Its $$$ laundering organisation. The more you dig the more you find out 😲😳
a very sad fact of life
sad fact is we keep voting in the same do nothing low life government and expect them to change there not changing we need to change them out
@@lancefulbright2685 lol voting in... sure buddy, another scam to push all the blame onto the people, just like the plastic industry did with recycling.
Yup. There is only One Truth
I used to work for a very large entertainment company. In our offices they beat recycling into our heads. One of the people who had been there for many years told me to go down to the loading dock and watch them pick-up all of the materials we have all painstakingly separated. You have probably guessed it..everything was just dumped into one truck headed to the landfill.
Empty peanut butter jars are wonderful storage containers. For example the unused portion of an onion gets cut to fit and with the lid screwed on there is no contaminating smell in the fridge. Also the jars are easily and thoroughly cleanable .
I've known for a lot of years that recycling was a scam, it's just whenever I told anyone, they figured I was just a grumpy old man. I remember when grocery stores switched to plastic bags, it was to save the trees from being used to make paper bags. Now they're blowing in the wind. When I was a kid in the late 50s, early 60s, we would go around and collect soda and beer bottles to take to the convenience stores and collect the deposit on them. Usually enough to get a candy bar or another soda. Can't do that with a plastic bottle.
Well you actually can.
In my country all plastic bottles and aluminium cans can be recycled in the store for a deposit. And then they are made into new bottles and cans.
Ditto. My brother and I did the same thing in Ohio.
I remember when paper bags were a thing. Stupid how much paper is wasted on other things. Also that it’s a special type of wood to make paper.
A company I used to work for still does paper timesheets even though we’re in 2022. It blows my mind sometimes.
The recycling material in my area all goes into it's own material area ...within the same landfill site!
I'm old enough to remember paper bags being blamed for the destruction of trees and how plastic was going to save the planet!!
Annnnnd how is one-shot use of paper bags *not* an issue that's closely related to pointless tree-farming? I'm old enough to remember plastic being pimped by the fledgeling plastics industry, but I don't really recally it ever being touted as a way to save the planet. Perhaps I missed that among the "modern-miracle" pitches attributed to plastic(s).
Okay people then why are the paper bags coming back right now? This blog was b******* recycling is necessary
LOL to that. All the plastic bags are made from paper. Cellulose -> cellophane -> plastic bag.
@@jameso1447 Except that plastic bags are mostly Poly-ethylene.
Early 2006-2008 they blamed the paper mail and tried to have everyone sign up for electronic mail to save the trees, while giving plastic bags at the store. Then about 5 years later they blamed the plastic how its dangerous and only gave paper bags out. ( see the hypocrisy) now they're both bad, but as long as you pay for them it's OK. In the end they have the people pay for a bag now = profit. It's all about the money, even with the mail, why would they pay to buy paper a d envelopes when they could just send you an email with the bill. It's all about scaming the people out of more money.
At my children's school, just a few blocks from my home, they had to separate trash in the lunchroom for recycling. But all the trash cans were dumped into one big dumpster, which was dumped into one truck, with all the trash mixed back together. So why separate the trash in the lunchroom?
Can you imagine big business lying to us 😲😲 it seems impossible. Surely Big Business is as honest and straightforward as a politician would be.
I'm ashamed to admit that I'm 23 and only have recently started questioning what I've been taught by society growing up and only recently learned the truth about recycling.
Take a look at the US Navy Richard Byrd story! That's sum gOod learnin! ..branchez in many directions.. important stuff.🤘🏿👽🇨🇦💞
I was older than you. Better late than never.
Duh im 40. And i learn i was lied to at 2020! And im engineer on top of that!
You're ahead of most!
The problem is, todays youth are too thick to know when they are being conned! would you believe that most of them actually believe that Co2 is a bad thing, when every form of plant life on earth depends on it!
I worked at Home Depot for a while, and while we did have bins separate for regular garbage and recycling, it was all put in the same trash compactor in the back. So yeah, our recycling model was just a sham.
But you were reusing the trash compactor everyday right? That's recycling!
That just means that the decision makers at Home Depot are a POS. Your story does not at all mean all recycling is a scam.
You’re not that smart
@@thedude9014 Explain.
I currently work there, and we do recycle plastic film and cardboard. But if people don't put the paper from the recycle bins into the cardboard pallets, it won't get recycled. That's human error, not company policy.
Thank you Sorelle x. It did sort of blew my mind, almost. On a similar theme, the biggest shock of my life was when I learned about Thomas Midgley & the oil industry.
I love your narration of this most- important issue. I first discovered you on your living-in-Iceland vlog. Thanks for keeping a TH-cam presence. You are most appreciated and good-looking, too.
Amazes me how many of my climate conscious extremist friends continue to utilize 24 packs of bottled waters.
🤣 yikes
Amazes me to!
My parents do that, and I am like why....
why don’t they just get a water filter?
@@FruityHachi because water filters put crap into the water that's bad for us
It's always the same story. Lead, tobacco, aluminum, food, oils, pharma, plastic, preservatives.. it's almost as if everything we've ever been told is a lie from some marketing department to make profit
Profit is not the issue, how you make the profit is.
If people knew what goes into tobacco no one would ever smoke, and these businesses would go belly up. This goes for everything, it's all lies to fool the consumer :(
It's not "almost as if".... IT IS !
@@wesleyedwards1051 It is indeed!
Almost?
An Australian company that was supposed to be 'recycling' soft plastics collected from supermarkets got busted (and then went bust) because it was recycling nothing and just stockpiling the material in warehouses. Australia used to send container loads of recyclables to China but China stopped accepting the materials due to claims of 'contamination' etc.
Switching to plastic was the beginning of the end for us.
It's both enlightening and depressing when that moment of realisation hits where you discover that you've basically been lied to your entire life, and that pretty much every corporation and politician just wants to exploit and manipulate you.
So true.
Yep a big lie but if we dont they will fine us
Yes, same with government. Almost everything is a lie including the pandemic and the Ukraine/Russian war. They give out half truths to make you feel you can trust them, then they bring out the lies.
Just like realising that a whole relationship was a lie, after a break up. Memories, photos...all meaningless.
Main reason I was so scared to get the covid vaccine.
I remember back in the mid 80’s when the environmentalists forced grocery stores to stop using paper bags because of all the trees being used, and replace them with plastic bags. We can thank environmentalists for a lot of problems today! Including the high gas prices to force us to go to EV’s. Which are actually more energy using than gasoline vehicles.
Blaming a vague group is not answering the problem. Divisiveness is limiting solutions. Stop it!
100% correct .
Electric vehicles have to be driven 200,000 miles to offset their production and energy costs.
@@ThunderboltWisdom By 100,000 miles/ten years the battery will need replacing so that 200,000 miles point with never be reached. People are already scrapping their dead battery Teslas.
I remember watching commercials of sophisticated beautiful woman drinking water from a bottle. Heck, we all want to be sophisticated, and drink tap water like cave folks.
It’s true it’s all a lie… my mom worked for some of the big recycling companies and she always said that there’s no point in recycling plastics… but paper and whatnot is what can be recycled but only certain types. It’s complicated but recycling plastic is a lie
You made a really good point about clothing being made with recycled plastic. It's still using plastic, and it doesn't need to. I'd like to see more initiatives of using plastic to make roadways for an example, if it could be incorporated into the concrete, I think that could be a good idea.
Glass and tin-can guy here from another era. Snapple and soda glass bottles and those old jumbo-sized, tin-cylinder Hawaiian Punch cans were the way to go before everything went to plastic. They call it "progress", but I call it "regress" and a "sham" as the older stuff were better to break down & melt for a better environment.
It does seem that we've gone backwards in many ways.
All about profit.... And profit goes above everything! Humanity and the planet
Absolutely! How much better off would the planet be if we continued to wash and recycle glass bottles🤷 I have always thought that their is something very nuferious going on since all things trend towards things that aren't better for the environment and it's inhabitants.Why can't we get rich doing good? It's just not the model being pursued, ever! We have all the solutions and nature is abundant but because people which to monopolize for their own benefit rather than for the good of all people.Surely this is how previous civilizations corrupted themselves to the grave, through blatant greed and drunk on the need for more power and wealth.I ponder our very existence, since our motivations are so far from the nature that surrounds us.One of total abundance , but then man turns it the other way
Glass is not good for the environment either. Perhaps not as toxic but causes other problems. Everyone who has tried to walk barefoot in a modern society knows this. Normally you don't notice it but take of your shoes and you'll see how much glass there is.
@@jerryhall5709 not where i live. in the USA maybe, but AUS is quite clean
I worked in the plastics industry for just over 37 years. We mostly made home exterior products where I worked. As for re-use and recycling; it's complicated.
Recycled plastics are cheaper, but each time plastics are re-used it becomes weaker as the longer polymer molecules are "sheared" or broken in the process. Meaning the polymer becomes weaker and more brittle. There are some products, like gutter splash blocks, where this isn't really an issue, but most products have industry standards they have to meet so that limits the use of recycled plastics.
Often plastics can be re-processed; meaning additives can be mixed back into the polymer at a greater expense to help recover some of the origional characteristics, but it's never quite as good as the virgin material. The law, via the FDA, in most areas is that any plastics touching a food product must be a virgin plastic, even though processing achieves temperatures high enough to kill any germs, virus or bacteria.
Most recycling "do something" programs are all about feeling good and are in effect a form of taxation for the consumer at the point of purchase. We are paying for recycling that in many areas, like most government programs, simply doesn't happen, or the program doesn't function as well as it was sold to the public.
At the plant that I worked at, we had rows of bins full of regrind that we couldn't use, waiting for someone to buy them up for recycled use .. Even the few things that we made with that regrind had at least 50% virgin resin mixed in. You probably know what happened when all the bins got full, and we had nowhere to put any more regrind.
Instead of all the I-knew-it commentaries this is way more differentiated and adds well to the very brief mentioning of it in the video. You helped me understand the situation way better. Thx :)
Probably better finished off as fuel for the saleable item to be produced.
@@Green.Country.Agroforestry Yes, I worked a plastic, silicone rubber plant , had the same problem, then the EPA came along and banned some of the chemicals needed to process some compounds in the USA, so that all went to China ,where there are not the same or no restrictions
@@benscoles5085 Which is one of the biggest mistakes they made.
Especially given that we basically are sustaining the CCP's rule and already unstable and fragile economy.
I am writing a book titled "Death of Planet Earth" what you are talking about I have in my book, I am glad you are doing your part to expose these divisive people!
I’ve been saying that for more than a decade and people always fooled me because of that. Guess that in the end Ive been right all along. Same goes for the electric cars and green energy. Dont be fooled. You separate the trash so they will put it all together again to burn.
I teach high school Environmental Science and unlike my peers in the department who paint recycling as a 'Wondrous Idea' I tell the kids what really happens.
I wish more teachers were like you.
Did you talk to them about geoengineering? How man made climate change really happens..
Based
Tell them about geoengineering, and the huge spike in aluminum in our water.
@@declineofthewest. Classes don't begin again until the end of July so I have time to look into it and how I might slip it in if appropriate.
Back in the 1970s, there was a 'Get It In Glass' advertising campaign on British television, as part of the backlash against plastic bottles and containers. Soft drinks also came in glass bottles, with prices that included a refundable deposit for the bottle, and milk was delivered in glass bottles carried on electric-powered milk floats. It must be hard for people who weren't alive then to imagine that!
O yes remember it well we also had a bilco truck come round buy a bottle then the next time they were round you gave the emptys back
Are you old enough to remember Fleetwood Mac ?
@@nps5886 Corona soft drinks did something similar.
Those were the days. 🎵💚😎
they've brainwashed younger people to think life as it is now is the way it has always been. As the video mentioned the world was far better with material conservation before plastic and gargantuan corporations decided lying to us to make their profits higher was all that mattered.
As a truck driver I hauled many loads of recycled plastic to Winchester Virginia where they recycled plastic into a product called Trex. Plastic planks to make decking.
I learned this a few years ago when some countries in Asia started refusing shipments of plastic waste from Canada, and they started sending the ships back with plastic. I remember seeing pictures of giant waste lands in poor Asian countries, and then massive amounts of waste piling up in Canada. It makes you realize that the government is lying to us, as long as people feel like they're doing something good, it is enough for them.
That was thanks to climate barbie ,and I was shocked that only 6 percent was recycled here and the rest sent to Asian countries,that return cost us over a million and yet she kept her job then retired saying she accomished what she wanted,plus now collecting a fat pension and a Job with the UN
A few years ago I saw a programme on Lagos Nigeria
As I child I often passed the Harbour there.
It was surrounded by palm trees and local sandy beaches.
what I saw on TV was our Western waste of plastics mountains of it...absolutely shocking and I tried there and then not to use plastic which I didn't tend to do much anyway
@@stevejones1563 It's about feelings and virtue. Truelly a female lead world.
You should visit india and their mountain of landfill waste. It was so beautiful that I could smell it through the screen of my smartphone lol!
i think they take the trash and pay foreign countries companies to recycle. These foreign countries or companies take the money and just dump them in the ocean instead.
I've known about this for a while.. No one believes us when we bring it up, they immediately get defensive and sometimes outright insult you. Completely brainwashed... I appreciate you in bringing this scam to more people's attention!
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
-Mark Twain
Now get on to the other sham, lookup the hunger stones ,peace spread ,
@@Crosshatch1212 deflecting the discussion to another topic.
I've encountered this behaviour as well. We need to prepare people and bring them into open minded state before we tell anything that contradicts their belief.
People love paternalism, because that's what everyone experience in the childhood. People want to be cared and protected. We have to bring people out of this childish state and ask them to behave in an adult way. This is a deep psychological problem.
The town I live in never recycled. When friends came back to visit they were always asking about people’s recycling bins.. I always laughed and explained most of what’s in this video, and they would just look at me like a right wing nut. Some people can’t handle the truth, and big business / government are very aware of this fact.
ya ya glad I'm not the only one who forgets the bonus to SLB is on the WWW! Thanks for the reminder. I have just turned on the tube for so long a hard habit to break. So laptop open with YT is the way.
YT was too much for me to put out videos. Kudos, and many thanks for your commitment.
IN New York State plastic soda bottles and beer bottles have 5 cents added to the price when you buy them. You get 5 cents for every bottle you recycle. There is a machine in every supermarket you put the bottles in and it spits out 5 cents in coins for every bottle you insert. Then it chops them into small pieces that get compressed. Trucks bring this stuff to a factory on Long Island where they melt the plastic and this is turned into plastic lumber. That is used to make signposts, boardwalks, and other things left outdoors. You don't have to paint it and it never rots.
Here's the thing: We've known this for at least 15 years. I remember living in NYC and getting curious about the effectiveness of recycling as it became all the rage and was being enforced harshly. Building superintendents were having to sort through garbage I'D ALREADY SORTED to prevent hefty fines against a building for trash not properly sorted. And it came out that most of the waste wasn't actually being recycled, just shipped elsewhere. When I tell people this they look at me like i'm anti-environment or something. No, I was heartrbroken actually. The environmental movement has become such a scam. Cuz if ya wanna see scientific lies, just dive into "Climate Change". Read Koonin's Unsettled to see how badly you are being lied to about that. There is no institution in society that I can trust anymore, which is a signal of a failing nation.
Right there with you, We were told to sort our trash and after something like two years, they started FINING us for unsorted trash, and a while after that, I found out that NYC had NO vendor to actually recycle plastics. This was YEARS after the sorting laws were established. SO MUCH pointless effort, by a city government that has zero respect for it's citizen's time.
Thanks for the book recommend
Why don't you reduce your consumption of non renewables?
@@leagarner3675Did I say I didn’t reduce my use of consumables? I have done so for a long time. In response I ask, why are you such a presumptuous, arrogant scold?
@@glenn2745 Hard to say. It's your doom speak that got to me I guess.
And I don't believe you based on your comment that everything recycling and climate change is a scam, and by the fact that a simple question triggered you to go ad hominem :)
25 years ago I worked in advertising as an illustrator. The more I learned the more unhappy I was. I finally walked away because the higher I rose the less I respected the people I met. Finally I was vomiting whenever the phone would ring. Then I sold everything & left everything behind. I look at the thugs in the WEF with their virtue signaling about the environment & I see the same people I walked away from.
Unfortunately, we live in a fallen corrupted world.
Well said.
It’s a sad commentary.
I check the WEF membership for anyone I suspect.
Congratulations! you walked away and kept your integrity, that's not easy.
@@pauldrake1858 Didn't have a choice. I think I might have died inside if I hadn't.
@@artytomparis I have the same analysis of the sick care business!
They claim to make medicines to make people healthy but really just to make them sick.
One of the GOOD things about the early "Earth Day" buzz was that it cut down immensely on people littering, which was a HUGE problem. A lot of the packaging these days is ridiculous, you almost need a chainsaw to get through some of the plastic packaging, and good luck trying not to slice yourself open on the sharp plastic when you finally do cut it.
Well said. I remember some of the packagings were so hard to get through that I feared I'll damage the actual product inside the packaging.
Yeah its such a tedious task. Packaging is so hard to take off
My city used to recycle. They gave everybody a big blue container to put our recycling materials in and we'd put it out on the curb every other week and the special truck would dump it. After a year of this, the city didn't want to pay to pick up recycling so they scrapped the whole thing. Now we had the big blue cans sitting at our homes not being used, (I used mine to put horse feed in).
The city then began picking up those same cans and dumping them in the SAME TRUCK as the regular garbage! It makes me wonder has this been a scam all along? BTW, I still keep horse feed in my big blue can.
About a year ago, my wife started making an effort to buy things in glass containers instead of plastic.
A glass scam? 😄
@@evgenyzak2035 Glass goes to the landfill. No market for it.
@@ficklefingeroffate unless you reuse it. And at least it is better for the environment when it does go to the landfill.
@@Sarah-psalm127Yup, filling the landfill with inert glass is a wonderful approach.
As a child and young adult I used to think our government cared about the environment, our health and happiness. It has become crystal clear that they only care about making us think that.
You are very, v ery close: But making us think that enables us to keep providing them with career perks and money. THAT is what they care about.
They want us gone! Do you know who they are?
world leaders only care about two things ..... MONEY AND POWER ..... period
They definitely don't care 🤣
Well when everytime the republicans are in power they cut spending and support for environmental protections, and whenever they democrats are in power they argue amongst themselves so much they barely get anything done what did we think was going to happen? In the end though there is still clearly one side that is against protecting our environment and one side that at least kind of cares about it. I would prefer to vote for the side that at least is trying to improve things (yes clearly not doing a great job of it, but it turns out improving things against obstructionists in both parties is really hard) than vote for the side that clearly does not give a crap about our future.
I think this is your best video to date! Well done Sorelle 👏
Wow, thank you!
Company Greed has ruined the world, I mean geez I can't even go a day without seeing a million advertisements
When I was younger, I remember my dad and grandfather going to the grocery store to drop off empty glass pop bottles (soda for those who are not from my region). Back then the factories would actually buy these back, to be sanitized and reused. It wasn't much money back, but the older generations were always in the mindset to take value in everything. They grew up in the 1920's-40's. If the TV broke, at least you can find a repairman to come out and fix it. Things just lasted more, and the older generations cared to make everything last as long as humanly possible. I learned what mason jars were very quickly. They had certain wisdom that is now lost to most people.
It seems, just like with plastics, society has been conditioned to make everything disposable. Tech companies have been known to deliberately sabotage older tablets and phones (or just stop supporting them) to force consumers to go out an purchase new phones (more plastic waste). We are conditioned to throw away rather than preserve, and the results speak loud and clear for anyone who is willing to listen. Until we can be reconditioned and those corporations responsible can be truly held accountable (instead of their marketing campaigns gaslighting us to thinking that they really care), nothing will change.
Planned Obsolescense is what it's called. There's a great podcast on 'Stuff You Should Know'.
Well said.
Not to mention the planned obsolescence! My i-phone is 12 yo, and it works! but it's incompatible with almost all of them modern apps and new versions of all functions, the old versions being systematically disabled and deleted.
I used to be a truck driver years ago. I often would pick up trash that was gathered in from recycling bins around New York City. Metal was separated and crushed into bales. So was paper and glass so on. Then they would load these neatly bailed and separated prepared for recycling raw materials into the back of my 53 foot semi trailer and I would haul them to a huge landfill in Sunbury Pennsylvania. I couldn't believe what BS all that recycling crap was!
whoa!
So they dont actually recycle any of it? Niether paper nor glass as well as plastic? Then what's the purpose? Is it just to keep us buying more while we think there is less waist? A fools self-righteousness?
My workplace replaced all the card-board boxes we were using to hold paper recycling. Now they use (recycled) plastic bins. Yep.
The town my Mom lives in doesn't have recycling facilities. Despite that... the residents are encouraged to separate their recyclables and given two separate bins. Recycling and garbage are even collected on different days. Then the town mixes it all back together and sends it to the dump.
In the early 1970's working with the League of Women Voters I opened one of the first recycling centers in Connecticut. It just so happens in the town that I lived in was a well-known person who controlled the waste industry. One day this person rolled up in a chauffeur driven custom Lincoln Continental, rolled down the window and ask me what I was doing. I told him we were recycling glass, news paper and aluminum. He laughed and said: "Kid if there were any money in this I would be doing it". After an hour of a interesting conversation with this gentlemen he asked me what I did with all these glass bottles. I told him I sold them to a glass jar manufacturing company and they melt it down and turn it into new jars. He laughed and said - no they don't. They have a fund to buy it from you for public relations purposes and at night when nobody is looking they haul the glass bottles to the dump and have them buried when nobody is looking. Incredulous I asked how do you know that? He smiled and said- I own the dump. I have been a big skeptic since- KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Votes don't count. What counts is who counts the votes
- Stalin
He was trying to increase business for the dump.
@@hydrolito He who owns the dump need not hustle to increase revenue. He holds all the cards and can charge any price.
@@hydrolito How if anything it would make me not want to.
These fat cats are malevolent liars. You should never believe a word they say about anything. Back yourself and do what you believe is right and let God decide the outcomes is my advice. They hate this.
As Sorelle said in another video, actions speak way louder than words. I live in South Africa, where unemployment is close to 35%. "Waste pickers" are people who rummage through your garbage and take out what they can get money for (ie recycle). Metal, glass and cardboard are sought after. But the plastic almost never gets touched. Now it is obvious why: it has no recycling value.
It burns tho. Everything that burns is worth something/
Also people picking garbage are likely not those that know if something has value LOL
@@nescionetizen295 those picking it are the only ones who seek ways to reuse it and truly recycle it. the rest just stays there. and burning ability is a point but the problem is it harms environment terribly and applying methods to contain the poisons when burning cost more than the value the burning can give. that's why the plastic stays there and fill all the environment
i'm glad you think the unemployment rate is 35%
@@nescionetizen295 Eish, i respectfully disagree. Waste pickers sell what they find, so if anyone knows the value of trash, it is them.
I have seen people collecting cans from recycle bins on recycle nights. I met someone who used to do the same, but he received a warning from the police that it was a crime because the recyclables belong to the recycling company once they are left on the curb, so he stopped.
I saw the garbage/reclycle truck throw everything together many many times, everything ends up in the same landfill 😔
I went plastic free for a whole year to the best of my ability with even replacing plastic items for everyday use with reusable items and tallied every time for exams I would have used a plastic straw or drink from a plastic btl. I had a tally list and at the end of the year it was insane how many plastic straws & btls I WOULD have used but didn’t…close to 1000 btls and around 800 straws plus other items I did tally too. We all need to do better with at least swamping some items into reusable ones.
It's worse than you think. When recycling bins came out my dad said, " they're dumping that shit with the rest of the trash". I, a good little elementary school recycler argued vehemently against that. 6 months later our trash company owner was indicted for doing just that. And it continues to this day. I watch my garbage man throw it all into the same compactor truck.
Your dad is absolutely right
when I was a kid, pop bottles were made of glass, and each bottle came with a small money back scheme, if the bottle was returned to the shop you bought it from clean and intact then you got money either 10p or 12p.
I always saved up a number of these bottles to be able to get another bottle of pop.
Yeah was 10p near where i lived
This is still happening in Austria, and even now some companies are starting to bottle their milk in glass again! I hope that soon all the companies do the same!
Yeah bring back the pop vans. Barr pop glass bottles. I still drink Barr pop 40 years later
This is your best video to date. Very to the point and informative! High five
Plastic’s is one of the worst things that happened to mankind. Plastic is killing us all.🦋
I stopped participating in recycling as a teenager. I took a job at a grocery store that has recycling bins and containers set up. I had to empty them and asked management what to do... they told me to throw it all in the dumpster. they only had the bins set up to attract customers that cared about things like that but had no actual recycling going on. From then on I knew it was all a sham.
Assume that everything is a scam, you'll be far far closer to the truth than assuming they're all legit
Don't be a sheep and just believe one uninformed store manager. Sometimes they are not the best source of information.
@@leagarner3675 Yeah not all places are like this, but the corporations are. The owner or manager could send it to the correct recycling place, but the recycling place itself is part of the scam lol.
LOL....... I saw the same thing one evening, as I was riding my bike around. The lady from the market was out back, smashing glass bottles into the dumpster, per her bosses' instructions. She told me not to tell anyone, but that is what they always do, because it is cheaper than recycling, even though they had refunded the .05 deposit fees..
You have to ask yourself: can you justify the energy needed for the 30 ton trash truck that picks up the small basket of recycling you've dutifully sorted, trucks it to the recycling center where the 100 ton machines provide a sorting line to countless workers, in the climate managed building actually reduce energy overhead?
Of course the answer is no, otherwise like true recycling (scrapping) people would pay you for it, not the other way around.
Recycling is and has always been a scam. Stop hurting the environment, either avoid products that can't be reused or stuff it into the trash can.
August 2017 I was working in Falmouth docks in Cornwall, UK. On one of the quaysides there were hundreds of what looked like plastic wrapped hay bales, about 5 or 6 feet in diameter. Closer inspection revealed they were full of plastic and cans - recycling. I asked about and found that this was some the recycling that was collected in the "bumper box" recycling scheme. I was told that all the recycling would get loaded aboard a ship, the ship would then sail to Plymouth where it would all be off loaded onto trucks and taken to landfill. Meanwhile the residents of Cornwall were being fined by the "bin police" for not putting recyclable items in the "recycling"
I told people what I had found out and most refused to believe me, they want to believe they are good people for following rules and doing the recycling.
Most people like to believe they are intelligent, intelligent enough not to be scammed. And so the problem continues.
Yo Dan.... Fellow dockworker from Penryn here... 😊
It is easier to trick a man, then to tell him he has been tricked.
It's easier to fool the people than convince them they've been fooled.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but all of the people all of the time?
Well that takes time......
Once I set our trash outside for it to be picked up just in time for the pick up. I “did the right thing” and had everything separated out for recycling. When the trash pick up came the guys pick up the normal trash and dumped it into the compactor. Then they pick up the recycling bin and dumped it into the same compactor and drove off. I stopped separating my trash at that point.
Thanks for the information about the ‘recycling’ numbers!
When I was a kid, they replaces soda bottles from glass to plastic...I knew then this was a poor decision and knew the recycling lie.
Time has shown that your initial gut feeling was correct.
The old fashioned dispensers outside of retail stores used a paper cup and filled it with soda, hot chocolate or coffee, no need for glass and paper can be recycled.
We shouldn't be drinking soda in the first place. It costs money, makes us fat, which makes us depressed and/or we end up spending more money at a gym to lose that fat. Not to mention all the negative effects of fructose sugar, which quite honestly should be deemed as poison. But again... corporations, lobbying, super-pacs, donor money, buys politicians. Look at what Coke is doing to that small Mexican village...Take their water and sell them Coke...OMG.
"We recycle!" ~ The lies they tell us smoothly convert to the lies we tell ourselves.
If only fewer of us were ever born; the world would be so much better off!
@@mikemetague7973 Much like how termites eat away at wood, or cockroaches feed on garbage... destruction and pollution for short term gains is in our nature. So it could be that things are playing out as nature intended. The universe will carry on with, or without us.
We also need to talk about the packaging industry that pretty much get's ignored. They do all they can to make the plastic containers we use, single use only. The examples are everywhere if you look and the motivation as was said in this video, is to stop you using containers again and force you to buy yet more plastic!
In Montreal, they were just dumping everything in the garbage dump several years ago. Recycling is a feel good thing. In Pennsylvania the glass bottle unions and industry fought against recycling for years.
When I was really young I asked my father why we don't recycle. He told me that he used to do it. When he did they required individuals to put all their recyclables into these blue trash bags for them to be picked up. He did this for years until one day he had to bring a truck load of stuff to the landfill. While he was there he saw a huge pile of these full blue trash bags that had clearly never been opened.
Also, our government pays poor countries to take shiploads of plastics. Most of which cannot be melted down and made into new things. These countries have become open air landfils and its sickening.
Large countries like China and India and even large cities like New York barge trash to the ocean and dump it. They are largely responsible for the trash island that has accumulated in the ocean.
Plastic has been revolutionary but equally devastating to the world
the poor countries also get E-waste,
I honestly never cared idc about pollution and stuff but I happen to burn all my trash as I know I would rather it be but we and become carbon dioxide than to be come something that might harm the environment. Yeah carbon dioxide is bad but at least we can counter that and the effects won't be seen for thousands of years. Now we have to fight the rest of the pollution..destroying environments is equally bad but co2 is the problem right greenhouse gasses are evil how dare they exist like idgaf about future generations I care about mine let's fix this shitty recycling industry then worry about future generations. After all I want to see change that makes a difference not changes I'll never see happen for the next thousand years.
I love how your channel has evolved! Thanks for getting the truth out there!
Always!
☺️
Such a great channel alright.
Thank you for the video. I’ve always wondered about all those numbers on the bottom of the bottles.
I worked for landfills and have spoke with countless others that worked for them.
I'll never forget the first time I saw the "recycling truck" back into the fill and dump the load right there with the regular trash.
I was stupid enough to ask my boss about it and he told me to let it go and that our business is trash. Now everyone I've talked to that has worked for landfills all across the country has a similar story. Don't get me started on medical waste
Ooooh, haven't thought about medical waste. Nightmare, I'm sure.
@@bsota8513 the way it's disposed of is in fact a nightmare. Hospitals and clinics pay a crazy amount of money to have their medical waste "disposed of properly" and yeah it's often not.
I like how when something goes wrong in the world it’s usually a consumer or citizens fault, and not the people at the top calling the shitty shots. 🤷♀️
What? Politicians are to blame? Never. All politicians are perfect. They all tell us that and never admit fault.
@@MGAF688 but we can trust the Government. Their trying to protect us. 😷
Like using plastic bags at the grocery store, but most store don’t provide any other options. Also, “consumer waste”, but if you ever order anything online, they will ship one or two terms in the biggest box possible!
@@Maki-00 I remember when they started asking “paper or plastic “ back in the 80’s. But I couldn’t understand why plastic would be the better option for the environment. Paper will break down, and we grow new trees in a matter of a few years.
@@rdd7919 I think the last time I saw paper bags in a grocery store was in the 80s, then they just vanished. By the time I was an adult (in the 90s), I never saw them again. The only place I saw them was when I lived in Brooklyn a few years ago at Brooklyn Fare where they have these high-quality paper bags with handles. I always wondered why they didn’t use this type of bag at all grocery stores if plastic bags were such a problem.
My little league baseball coach worked for a waste management company and he told me when I was like 12-13 years old that recycling was utter BS and explained why, ever since then I've just laughed in sadness at the big lie. The amount of arguments and dirty looks I got because I don't recycle. It's been a scam the whole time.
Your little league coach is correct. US
sells recyclables plastic, cardboard, etc. overseas for $$$.
@@sunlover4755 and then china dumps it into landfills.
You are right but I think you can still do what you can, like reusing plastic bags. You can even use the same one all over your lifetime!
i always enjoy your videos. Straight to the point and with a good story.
I remember when the Dairy Companies decided on plastic. They had public meetings where I was the speaker representing public. These issues we raised? They publicly promised they would receive back plastic milk bottles. It was a rort. My final comment after that was 'we don't trust you'...
Ever since I worked as a debt collector for companies back in the early 2000's (for a few months I collected for big telecoms companies, o2, Vodafone etc), I understood that companies can be pretty unethical, while at the same time trying to sell a message that suggest they care about people and the world in general.
Nowadays they seem to be acting like they care more than ever, at times trying to use guilt and shame on the public. I stopped buying into company BS a long time ago.
I knew this many years ago, someone who worked in a recycling spot told me. I still do recycle but mainly I try to live not consuming, basically live more organically. The problems in nature are caused by the industrialization and the big companies. We have been set up basically...
I think that's a better solution - less plastic being used in the first place.
The big companies cause the problems and then blame us for what they have done just because we used their lousy products. They are criminals!
If we all realise this scam from these big companies and we start to live more like our grandparents did: using glass or wood for example, buy veg and fruit in markets, no packaging, basically not going to supermarkets, bit by bit this can be stopped, but it is something only we can do, not by just talking but to really live absolutely different to what we were used to, being an example for our children. It is not easy, but it is not impossible, every bit helps.
When the "recycling business" tries to dismantle plastics, they end up releasing lots of microplastic particulates into our already dangerous oxygen supply on Earth.
@@lidialopezmartin so true what you say here...it all begins with us changing inside, changing our perspective, and changing ourselves first. Going from "Impossible" to I'm-possible (I am possible)
I worked for a plastic company in 1999 the waste was unbelievable.Printpak part of Rampart packaging.
It's kinda like deforestation. The only thing the loggers do differently these days is do it out of view of major highways so people don't see it. Do some snowmobiling. The trails will lead you to these logging operations so that you can see them first hand.
In 2021 we received a notice from our town that glass was no longer going to be accepted in the recycle bin, due to the 'decreased demand' for glass. I thought the point of recycling was to actually recycle, not make money or not recycle due to no demand from exactly who??? So, they sell the items we put in the recycle bin and that is what it's all about once again...the almighty dollar. They told us all glass will need to be put in the trash barrel instead. That told me all I needed to know about the whole recycling scam!
Yep, it seems a lot of it is about business.
Do you have children? Climate changes will become more radical, too. Yellowstone Park is closed for the first time due to flooding. Mother Earth is going to recover just fine once the Humans are gone.
The glass bins in my hometown recycle center were closed because people couldn't be bothered to sort brown or green glass away from clear glass, contaminating the whole bin full, making it only fit for the trash. Also I sometimes saw panes of broken windows in with bottles and jars. Not cool!!!
@@Diana1000Smiles what does your bs climate change have to do with anything?
Conversation from glass to plastic is a soft kill agenda.
BPA has been part of a inferiority effort incorporated into plastic containers, and all food wrap materials.
People who have ignorantly bought into the recycling scam are the same ones buying into the climate change one.
Good job American public education system, you win again.
@@Diana1000Smiles btw the way, are all your children cyborgs?
I’m a Girl Scout leader for a group of 10 year olds. We took a tour of our local trash & recycling facility. During the tour a girl asked if plastics were really recycled or if they went into the trash. They said to be recycled they have to be clean. They can’t be recycled dirty and it cost too much and used too much water to clean it. If someone throws food into a bin of recycling and it gets on the plastic usually the whole thing gets thrown out. If the bin of recycling is contaminated with food or dirt it goes to trash. He estimated 20% of plastic people put in their recycling bin was able to be recycled.
He’s likely full of shit even giving you that number.
So ... they do blame it all on consumer at the end of the day!"It is not that it's chemically impossible to recycle, it is because you naughty kids didn't clean it!"
So if I clean it at home I will have used too much water then I guess?
@@Baconstripify yes! That’s basically what he said. Pretty much only water bottles that were never mixed with any other trash are recyclable. But, when my recycling truck comes it’s the same type of truck that takes the trash and they tell us not to bag it yet everyone’s bin gets mixed in together so if one person doesn’t do it just right it’s all ruined 🤷🏼♀️
There wouldn't be a Pacific garbage patch without recycling. The ships would come to pick up the plastic dump it in the ocean and come back for more
I just saw the title of your video and was able to answer the question 30 years ago, but nobody wanted to hear it back then!
I followed a Garbage truck 20 some years ago. Garbage cans and recycling cans were sitting along the road. The cans were opened by the said waste company. Garbage one color, recycling another.
The truck dumped all cans into the back of the garbage truck. Didn't matter the color. It wasn't a oops at one stop. It was at every stop
As a kid growing up in the 1950s and 60s, we recycled glass soda and beer bottles, newspapers and more.
Always follow the money and the power!
And all the young kids of today say WE ruined the planet! Give me a freaking break!
The industries of the world are all basicaly a scam against the people
@@jerryleroy9187 Well....
"Always follow the money and the power!"
That quote is quite useless without context. Just pasting it after your first line does not add much here.