Rethinking recycling
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2020
- Follow the path of what people discard in the blue bin to the recycling facility that sorts and tries to profit from it. Recycling faces many challenges, but new solutions promise to improve how communities manage the ever-increasing flow of solid waste.
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I could listen to that dude talk for hours and hours, great video!
I like this guy. He talks about fact and practical solution. Not imaginative idea that would be thrown out right away on the parliament table.
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It's interesting to me that most of these videos focus on the end of the waste stream not the beginning. They focus on the consumers and what we do that causes waste. But not the makers of the actual materials that enter the waste stream. Manufacturing packaging and products that are easily recycled or composted needs to be done from the start. No one is making the manufacturers responsible for what they make or use as materials. The different types of plastics that aren't recyclable. The technology is there to make packaging that's compostable , but they don't really want to change what they've been doing for decades. That's the only way to ensure that the stream of waste is more manageable. Every country is going to have to enforce that. And burning garbage still creates emissions. So who wants to live near that. It can all be done so much better.
I agree, the companies should be held accountable and forced to use packaging that can be used multiple times and easily recyclable. However, there are two issues with that. First the petroleum and chemical companies that make plastics are financially able to manipulate government officials. Think about how many water bottle would not be thrown away if the government would insure the water coming into your home was truly drinkable! Every time water is determined unsafe sale of bottle water increases.
Second, those same companies have created marketing campaigns that convinced people plastic is a better option than materials because of cost. Money talks! Go to the market and look at spaghetti sauce the one in the plastic bottle will always be cheaper than the one in the glass bottle. This is the same type of sin-of-omission marketing that resulted in Walmart rising to power. We were told Walmart was cheaper and gave unskilled American workers jobs. They never mention the stuff is cheaper because it is imported and results in skilled workers losing their jobs.
Fascinating video, thank you for sharing this.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Best video I’ve seen with a solution to shipping plastics to other countries and making best use of non recyclable products well done 👌
This video genuinely informed me that there is a way to make energy out of everything, we just need to put the effort in it like these guys do!
Thanks for watching!
100% of our waste weather it’s from a sorting facility or not needs to go through an incinerator aka, trash to steam aka waste to energy. 100%.
Besides the many benefits pointed out in this video it also simply saves space. Land is finite and expensive. No one wants a new landfill opened in their backyard. Simply reducing the footprint of the trash is a benefit in and of its self.
Very interesting. If everyone who can tried to live more zero waste the garbage stream would be reduced considerably
At least with waste to energy, they're keeping the stuff out of valuable landfill space which would keep us from using more land for garbage
Excellent video.
Thank you!
In schools should be introduced videos for children's how to recycle & learn respect the nature.would be grate specially in UK.where people throwing all in streets,what recycling,no one cares....as it no education from school😉😎
If the government would spend more time informing people about what to do rather than all the political BS that we see on mainstream media these recycling issues could be reduced considerably. You can't cure stupid at all but you can reduce ignorance and most of this is just the ignorance of the public. Most people wont go read government websites and I will admit that it is hard to find usable info on them anyway. A 5 minute non propaganda video would do wonders.
This is great but I live in the US where some places don’t have recycling opportunities and it’s frowned upon to recycle
Where in the US is it frowned upon to recycle and who’s doing the frowning?
Wtf
I agree with one of the comments. Plastic shouldn't exist. We should cut a tree for each chair we need or every time we need a bag. We shouldn't have to put a plastic bottle in a bin we should have paper bags so we can throw them freely on the street because are biodegradable.
I live in London, where they pick up recycle every 2 weeks and if they see a white pater most of the time they don't pick up the bin and I have to wait another 2 weeks. So I have all the respect for the people that recycle but have no respect for the system that just try to take more taxes and money. And collecting recycle is not free at all, we pay a fortune to council and to them to.
Since last year in London every one have to pay only to have gas or electricity (elegantly called standing charge aprox 9-10£ ) and after that we can pay for the one that we use. And in top of those we have to pay because is raining but that charge is hidden so well in the water bill.
So no, recycle don't have to be rethink. Have to be done properly because we pay sooooo much for it. An UK recycle centre is 67% efficient compare with some of European countries about 80% and not talking about some of engineering art in japan that are 95% efficient
Who is this company?
I'd love to see this with just normal trash. I live kn a small apartment in a small town so it's hard for me to recycle everything. I recycle paper and plastics but I need to drive 30 minutes to drop it off. What happens to my normal trash I just put in the dumpster?
It depends where you live. Some areas send trash directly to a Waste to Energy facility which turns the trash into energy and allows for many materials like metals to be recovered (as explained in the video above). But the waste to energy facilities are expensive to build so they are frequently only available in high population areas that prioritize the solution. If you don't have a Waste to Energy facility and your trash doesn't go to a sorting facility for recycling than it is likely just going to landfill.
Thanks@@bridgethunnicutt7901 ! And to add to that answer... here's our story about "recycling it all" -- why don't we just put all the rubbish in the same bin, and what would it take to get to a system where we could? knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2020/recycle-it-all
This has changed my perception
If you live in a small town, what ever does not go to recycling goes to the landfill. And probably much of what went to recycling ends up in landfill too. We just don't have enough the social will power to make recycling economically viable.
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Companies and people generate waste, but for the most part they are not held economically responsible for responsibly disposing of it. Throw it in the garbage bin and let someone else worry about it.
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Wow!! That's a scary thing to see & think about 10 years from now??? What can we humans do to avoid all these coming chaos on our only planet earth to keep it clean for the next generation?? We need to come up with some solutions or ideas to slow down the garbage or the recycle stuff before it overflows & buried us underneath lol
We need more attention here and less on EV
Marco trying to geta point over.
Sure, and dioxines don't leak out in to the athmosphere the burning plant.
So there's so many hazard en The garbage Recycle en you guys pay is no good an hour
There are systems that can burn coal or trash with now discharge into the air of anything or ash left after burning. We are soon to have free energy so don't know how these systems will work with no need for the electric or heat put out by these systems. The systems shown here are outdated I'm sorry to say.
So if we reduce our garbage we potentially lose energy, and jobs we have created from recycling.
Well if US don’t care what can we say about rest of the world
09:21 Actually, you've saved 19 dollars a ton. Also, if it's all so rosey, why does Germany export 60% of its waste plastic to East Asia? And why don't you guys segregate trash in the US? XD You literally throw mixed waste and segregate it by hand. WTF is wrong with you?