This feels like one of those 16 mm films I watched in school when I was a kid, as made in the 70s. This was a very interesting subject, incredibly timely too. And, kinda nostalgia-inspiring.
It was not what I expected from a Cheddar video. I am used to the Cheddar Explains video series. It wasn't bad. I guess they are going to start a "Revealed" series?
There's a website with all of those old government documentaries, including a bunch of what used to be internal education/training/project-summary videos for armed forces and other stuff that was secret at the time. They are super interesting to watch
75% goes to landfill, sanitation workers have to collect bags by hand; is NYC stuck in the 80s? Meanwhile, just 1% goes to landfill in Amsterdam, and garbage is collected through sensor-based, underground containers.
@@tedarcher9120 I think we have to rip the band-aid off before it gets even worse. It's only going to get more expensive to maintain and even more expensive to update. If we don't fix it now when are we going to?
I respect these workers a lot but the system seems incredibly outdated Seems like they didn’t make any progress on the last 40 years O mean.. landfills? Really? Are we still in the 1800s?
Seems like a pretty crappy system. Good garbage trucks, like the ones they use in most of Europe, don't vomit garbage juice on the street. Landfills are banned in most of Europe too, and in many cities all the heat from the incinerated waste is sent directly to homes/businesses for heating.
"landfills are banned in europe" is 100% a false statement. europe isn't one country, and I haven't heard of any european country not using landfills anymore. we just make a little bit more of an effort than america to separate trash to recycle more of it, and we probably burn a larger percentage of the stuff we don't recycle or export, instead of putting it in landfills. but landfills absolutely still are used as the last resort for the significant percentage of trash that doesn't get separated for some kind of use. some european countries are also pretty good at separating compostable waste to make soil from it (which I think is normally not allowed to be used in commercial agriculture though due to potential toxic contamination). here in germany, the consumers throw away trash in several separate categories: clear glass, colored glass, various glass and plastic bottles that are worth 7-25€cent to return (some are recycled as well-separated material, some are refilled several times), plastic and metall packaging for recycling/burning, cardboard and paper for recycling, compostables, and a catch-all general waste category that's too mixed to be conveniently recycled in one of the other ways. if you have anything particularly toxic, you're supposed to turn it in to the dump separately (batteries and electronics also have their own waste streams), and if you've got big stuff like furniture, you can book a collection in front of your home in advance, which is free once a year.
Neither of us is better than another. Eventually we can combine all these things. I have much more learning to do. An if i make it out without being the most evil thing alive.; be sure to vote for me as world leader.
Building in the sky is “free”. NYC decided to punish people for building up higher, so instead they try to squeeze every last square foot of land out of the city.
@@LeeeroyJenkins Building in the sky is not "Free" as you say, at least in NYC. There is something called Air Rights which is the remaining space above a building no matter the size. If someone wants to build a supertall tower, they would have to acquire the air rights of those around it, and it cost money just as if it was landfill.
You don't need alleys. As a previous comment said, Amsterdam has installed below-sidewalk receptacles that are emptied by equipment, not by hand or shovel.
I live in America. I am from China. I've been to Europe. In terms of infrastructure and city design, America is behind in so many ways and by so many years. It's not that the American people are incapable of doing things. It's the American system, at all levels, that dictates how wealth is distributed and how laws and regulations are enacted and enforced.
too much is going on with laws and permits, its so expensive to do anything nowadays, and people/companies always get backlash when they try to do something its insane, a lot of things barely manage to work and its sad seeing how behind we are in technology
Most Americans haven't left their state, let alone the country. They don't know just how far behind America is compared to other countries. Combine that with the constant "American exceptionalism" bullshit, and it's the perfect scenario to hold a country back.
@@RockBandRS that's true. I had a friend in high school who had never left Arizona untill probably 16 when he went to San Diego. By that time I've traveled to Europe and back probably 5 times.
Certain cities grow during certain periods. They can only replace outdated technology at certain rates. Does your city have free wifi like mexico city?
In Europe most systems have workers get the bins to the back of the truck by hand and the truck empties it. No need for space for letting the truck pick it up by themselves.
@@thomasfreeman7770 They manage in London (with sorting/recycling too). Honestly, the video reminded me of 1980's Britain. There's no excuse for NYC to have a waste system similar to a developing country. Get better standards.
@@180_S well you canat least recycle paper/carton and compost (bread, eggshells, coffee or tea bags, or leafs of your indoor plant). You can even recycle glas and Aluminium. Why do you think that with recyling we only mean plastics?
@@derorje2035 … except contamination is a big problem with paper/cartons. Composing was started ~10 years ago. There’s also practically no market for recycled aluminum - even when it’s easily recycled, companies don’t use the recycled materials.
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc you think these companies are going to put in the effort to properly treat these fumes when they're surrounded by poor neighborhoods?
I worked at Fresh Kills :andfill for 28 years. The garbage that is buried is under one hundred plus feet of dirt. The capped with a non permeable membrane, several feet of sand, then another semi permeable membrane, then several feet of topsoil. There are pipes (with hole in them) that run throughout the garbage in layers, and a gas plant on the premises that separats out the lechate (garbage water) and recycles the collected gas back into municipal gas system. There is also a huge deep undergrond "slurry wall" surroundimg the perimeter of the landfill. That totally contains any and all garbage from leaking out. The garbage will decompose safely. All while providing gas for the community, and a Park on top.
Very funny! Assuming you are being facetious ... In 2022, to collect & dispose of UNSORTED waste is almost as bad as it gets. The worst is not to collect garbage at all.
Why is all of this shit picked up by hand instead of using standardized bins that would be emptied by a machine like in many smaller systems or other countries?
If you've ever been to New York city you would know that there is barely any space on the sidewalk and between parked cars for such a system to actually work.
I think one reason is that new york city wants to keep people employed. Everytime the city "screws over" working class theres huge protests n stuff. Machine-pickup systems usually only has the driver , while in new york theres a driver + 1-2 garbage men that pick it up. Firing half the staff wouldnt be popular.
Everywhere I've lived in the US has the standardized bins that are picked up by the truck. I'm guessing that they would have to pick up individual bags if there were excess that didn't fit in the bins, or if people suck and just didn't bother to put them in the bins so they are hanging out on the sidewalk.
NYC is too congested to have that mechanical system in the streets. They would have more lawsuits from the mechanical arms hitting pedestrians and vehicles than anything else. At more trouble than help.
LOL i saw that Rossmann video too! But don't worry the land lords will also be pricing everyone out from renting in the city so less waste then maybe??? 🤗 hahaha
@@LeeeroyJenkins What? So you're saying never improve and make jobs more efficient to keep more people in low paying jobs or what? That's incredibly stupid. Yeah why don't we employ 50 people to each farm instead of having those awful tractors, imagine having 1 guy in a combine harvester instead of 100 people doing the same amount of work in a day. Da fuq
The wheelie bins used in a lot of countries like Australia won't work in a city like NY, especially in Manhattan. Even in the CBD s of major Australia cities they can be a problem for traffic and parking.
man, what a joy it would be i if one would separate glas, paper and green food waste (eggshells, bread, fruit and vegetable peel). The landfills would be a lot smaller.
@Noah’s Navigating New York How does the recycling system work in NY? Do people leave out their recycling waste on a different day? And their composting waste on a third day?
This feels like a propaganda piece to be honest. High praise to the workers on the street though, regardless of how bad the system is, the city would crumble without it.
Feels like those jobs are going to go soon enough. I wouldn't have expected a city as large and lively as New York City to have as inefficient processes as these.
Read the comments! They can't have a bunch of wheely bins because then on trash day you won't have any parking since the whole street will be filled with bins, waiting to be emptied.
@@henryjohnson-ville3834 that's correct. And even in countries with the bins like Australia there are still problems. I'm in inner suburban Brisbane, at a block of ten apartments. Sometimes the bins are all out on the footpath, on the kerb, and in the morning some idiot(s) has parked his car (s )in front of sone of the bins. This is despite all the apartments and houses around here having their own garages and parking areas. Usually it's not someone living here. The garbage man gets angry because he has to get out and move the bins in front of the driveway to empty them. Its does not happen all the time, but I 've seen it happen quite a few times. Sometimes a bin or two is just left and not emptied for two weeks and it stinks and flies come, terrible in summer here. I m usually at home till 10 am, so if I hear the truck coming I 'll go down and move the bins if a car ( or cars ) are blocking access and the drivers are grateful for that. Sometimes I come home at 3 30 or 4 pm and bins are all in front of the driveway or all knocked over because of limited access for the trucks. I can envisage chaos if this system was in NY!
Going back quite a few years, i think it was the mid 70's here in the UK, the 'binmen' went on strike and the local authority set up a designated area for residents to carry their waste to. After 2 weeks, i remember it well, the pile was enormous, like a small hill and the smell was incredible. And as time went by people started throwing their rubbish just anywhere. Bad times.
I work in a hospital and the amount of trash I take out a day is crazy no recycling bins all plastic goes into the garage…I can care less but I can imagine the amount of trash
In my city/State every single garbage truck have automated arms that go down, grip the garbage bins and pour the trash into the opening at the top of the truck, sets it back down while pushing it back near the curb then the driver moves off to another one. It's crazy to me how they have these workers going out and doing these things by hand.
Same here, but it's really hard in my opinion. Many things being said sound easy to do but the people there(many) do not respect the systems and things around them. They don't take care of anything for example the MTA. Plus because it's America, people might not like the new systems and go against it, or have trouble understanding bc they stupid.
This is similar to how things are done here in Devon, 🇬🇧 the main difference is we have zero to landfill, and the waste is either recycled through mandatory recycling, or incinerated using state of the art systems that capture almost all of the pollutants.
Business Insider, I believe, did a video about a similar topic, and covered the air purification process of the smoke from the Covanta incinerators. Why did you not mention this?
For people that use needles, put your sharps into a hard plastic bottle or case of some kind. I personally use Gatorade bottles for my estrogen injections. Protect the people that keep our cities clean
The solid waste industry has heard of recycling......they figured out how to charge everyone for recycling pickup as a second mandatory service... Then they dump the recyclables into the landfill with the solid waste.
@Noah’s Navigating New York the majority of recycling in the US is actually a different set of trucks taking it to the landfill or sending it to other countries to sit until they put in their landfill. .... No America doesn't recycle. Less than 5% of what we claim to recycle actually is.
So glad to be in America, where environmental factors are my most concerning issues at the moment. I don’t have to worry about other neighboring countries attacking my family, food scarcity, or opportunities for work. It’s all about your perspective, the motto of NYC sanitation dept is “New Yorks Strongest” and that’s a fact! Thank you to the sanitation workers who make New York beautiful and livable! I love my city and my country. If somebody got a problem with that, try living somewhere else and lmk how that goes.😊
How frustrating that so many states don’t have redemption value systems in place for aluminum cans. That is, in a handful of states, including California, when you buy a six pack of soda you pay an extra nickel per can. Then at the end of the can’s life it can be collected and redeemed. And thus recycled
@@bjvu9460 That extra nickel DOUBLES the value of their effort. You must not live in a big city where there are lots of low-income people, and thus you don’t see the effort that many people go to Already, at 5 cents.
We have this locally and it might help with tin cans, but does nothing for the waste problem and if anything only increases the crack addict population. For as long as I have lived there are bums in every city collecting cans, putting like 10 bags of recycling cans on a cart and wheeling it everywhere they go. When you go to a bottle depot there's always crackheads lurking around or 5 of them taking up spots all inside. Some people who do it are actually real people who may have disabilities or whatnot. However most of it just supports drug addiction which isn't very helpful at all to society. Paying people a penny for recycling is a dumb waste of time. You are either poor and now you focus recycling your cans before plastic or your rich and you don't give a shit about the extra money at all. Instead we should just be forcing companies to be at the forefront of recyclable materials. It should be pepsi figuring out how to best dispose of their product not the general population. While as individuals we do have some responsibility to maintain out planet. There's only so much that can be done when everything is made of different materials and is disposed the same. Every chip bag, wrapper, straw and every other piece of consumerable plastic should be the exact same material. It all should be recyclable.
I don't care what anyone says... Garbage collection is one of the biggest marvels in civilization. Pick up my trash 52 weeks a year for about $300 to $400 a year? Sounds perfect to me.
I think ny has a bottle deposit of like 5 cents. Like you go to a place to drop off bottles and get your deposit back. At least that's how it works in Oregon.
Surely they could improve matters by giving every worker some better protective gear (stab/cut/needle/puncture resistant gloves aren't super-expensive and I am sure if you ordered 7000 pairs or so any manufacturer would give you a decent discount)
As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I remember driving past a big, smelly garbage dump off the Belt Parkway. I think it was by the current Starrett City. I've tried looking for information on its history, but can't find ANYTHING. I think this might have been the Canarsie Dump. If anyone knows anything, please share.
Also remember going past that dump, with the salt and pepper shakers. My Pop told me they were incinerators. Then everything disappeared and high rise housing went up.
@@paulne1514 Thank you for posting. I'd see and smell that dump every time we drove down the Belt Parkway. But when I look for info, it's like it didn't exist. NYC garbage is full of mystery.
One of my first jobs included riding a garbage truck through the alley ways of the small town I was raised in. Sanitation workers are taken for granted by most. It wouldn't take long for our trash to pile up....if not for them...then we'd all look like hoarders...and living in filth.....
In my town our public trashcans works like a iceberg. Above, it looks like a normal trashcan. But below there is a large container. Once a week, 1 man with a truck can empty it all with the help of a crane. works perfectly. And you cannot overfill the trashcan..
No offense to these hardworking folks in trash management, but New York is still the dirtiest places in the world. Even a super luxurious hotel or restaurant would still have piles and piles of smelling trashbags on the side walk and entrance any given time. They don’t have a back alleyways or better places to store or collect them.
Right? All that recyclable material! 😟 I'm in Canada and waste management is part of my job as an assistant superintendent, and I'm shocked at how poorly this waste is sorted!
@@christophers.4007 That's not proper recycling. Proper recycling means separate bins for organic, paper, plastics (and combined), glass, metal, normal waste. Paper waste can be sold for a profit, same with glass, organic waste becomes compost and natural gas (which is used to run the facility or can be sold), plastics and combined stuff (e.g. plastic-coated cardboard) is used for fabrics (fleece) metals are molten and reused. The rest has to be deposited in a landfill or burnt (heating complete cities in winter-time and generating electric power in summer).
This blows my mind how far behind NYC is. If a city like London can manage its waste then I fail to see how NYC has got itself into this state. It’s got a larger population and a layout from hundreds of years ago. Blows my mind how something can be this poorly managed. I feel for the workers, they’re fighting a losing battle against a system and population too lazy to change.
Surprising to me how much physical handling there is of bags and other trash. In my suburb, we put our trash in a can and the truck has a grabber that lifts/dumps/replaces the can. A lot safer for the worker.
I work as a school janitor. I only clean 20 classrooms. Let me tell you, I take out A LOT of trash per day. Like, 6 large 50-60* gallons bags every night. It makes me worry about the environment and the Earth. It’s crazy. Edit: wording.
Not to worry. Just go to any city satellite map and look at the size of the city, then locate the city dump and notice how very very small the dump is in comparison! We have plenty of space in this country for our garbage.
Holy cow I learned today that garbage trucks in the USA have double steering. I never knew that as in the UK we have a single wheel. You gotta respect the man and women that do this kinda work.
Who paid for this video? I think this is a just a propagana by the city… I frequently watch louis rossmann’s vids and it tells a different story. Still, I would like to commend and thank everyone in DSNY especially all the workers working. Thank you for making the city a clean as possible.
Interesting video as a new Yorker living on Long Island we have a landfill here but this video is worth the watch I can only imagine what's in all those bags 😂 needles scissors wow I bet some of those workers thought about opening some of those just too see what people are tossing I know I'd be like should I no 😂
That lardass is bitching about getting stuck with sharp objects. Wells Lamont, one of the world's biggest glove manufacturers, has made puncture-resistant, Kevlar reinforced work gloves for many years. Most cops wear the black ones, especially during a frisk.
That doesn’t actually happen lol. It would cost hundreds of billions and we’d barely make a dent in the amount of trash we have that was actually sent up.
Wow that was mainly recyclable in the UK everyone has to recycle you get 3 bins 2 boxes cans glass cardboard everything even a brown bin for compost items
That's not really the workers fault. It more on the city planers. NYC wasn't really developed with a good waste management system in mind, that's why so much trash is just piled on the curb untill it gets picked up.
I dunno why you would protest incinerators. If you don't like them, don't move close to one? And no, it isn't simply a poor people's problem. People on the Upper East Side got a long existing marine transfer station closed because they bought an apartment next to it. This is now costing the taxpayers additional millions a year to truck it off of Manhattan island instead of offloading the trucks to barges. They called it a 'garbage dump', but nothing was actually stored there, hence the 'marine transfer station' moniker. Of course, nobody wants to live next to any type of garbage, however that does not change the needs of the city's infrastructure.
well, Waste incineration plants significantly reduce the land value around them, even if they filter the exhaust gases properly. This means that the people who lived there before and want to leave will get less money for their house when they move away. Even for tenants it is difficult, because they may only be able to pay their rent there because they do not have enough money.
@@derorje2035 Nope. In most cases these places already existed and the residents encroached on the facility, not the other way around. It's not like companies are going around plopping an incinerator plant in the middle of densely populated neighborhoods. That is why they have zoning laws.
Except for commercial fishermen/crabbers/lobster men, sanitation workers are the hardest working dudes on the face of the earth. Granted it isn't a sort of life/death sort of thing like fishing on the Bearing Sea, but garbage men face all kinds of work related injuries, you need to be strong as hell, flexible, and young to do that job.
with all that garbage. i would think that packaging alone could be reduced by 50% if they ground it up and sorted it prior to compaction some could even be recycled. it's a growing issue. and there are only so many places to dump. plactic could be turned into sheets for building or roads etc
Im from norway and my dad does this for a living and the system here is good but the system for picking up the trash there doesnt seem good, like so much hassle back and forward picking up the trash like why not have huge bins for the trash and having a truck with a hydraulic at the back. But it could just be the NYC system seem bit too much hassle.
This feels like one of those 16 mm films I watched in school when I was a kid, as made in the 70s. This was a very interesting subject, incredibly timely too. And, kinda nostalgia-inspiring.
right? i love everything about this vid
It was not what I expected from a Cheddar video. I am used to the Cheddar Explains video series. It wasn't bad. I guess they are going to start a "Revealed" series?
You old boy!
There's a website with all of those old government documentaries, including a bunch of what used to be internal education/training/project-summary videos for armed forces and other stuff that was secret at the time. They are super interesting to watch
@@zechsblack5891 do you have the name by chance? Even though this comment is 7 months old thought it was worth a try
75% goes to landfill, sanitation workers have to collect bags by hand; is NYC stuck in the 80s? Meanwhile, just 1% goes to landfill in Amsterdam, and garbage is collected through sensor-based, underground containers.
Can't change anything in NYC. 1 kilometer of new subway costs here like 5 billion dollars
@@tedarcher9120 I think we have to rip the band-aid off before it gets even worse. It's only going to get more expensive to maintain and even more expensive to update. If we don't fix it now when are we going to?
@@austinwhitely5483 we? Nobody's gonna fix it. And I don't care honestly, serves them well
@@tedarcher9120 we as in New York City an America as a whole
@@austinwhitely5483 same difference, don't live there
I respect these workers a lot but the system seems incredibly outdated
Seems like they didn’t make any progress on the last 40 years
O mean.. landfills?
Really?
Are we still in the 1800s?
message Elon Musk an tell him to respond to me if he didn't the 2x before. I have a plan
And what’s your million dollar idea to get rid of it?
@@darthjarjar5309 look at what europe is doing and copy that
@@jahajesper Europe uses incinerators, and the video already showed people are trying to shut incinerators down in the US.
@@jahajesper I would look more at Japan
Seems like a pretty crappy system. Good garbage trucks, like the ones they use in most of Europe, don't vomit garbage juice on the street. Landfills are banned in most of Europe too, and in many cities all the heat from the incinerated waste is sent directly to homes/businesses for heating.
couldn’t have said it better as an american who’s lived in Europe for a good amount of time, i was shaking my head the whole video
"landfills are banned in europe" is 100% a false statement. europe isn't one country, and I haven't heard of any european country not using landfills anymore. we just make a little bit more of an effort than america to separate trash to recycle more of it, and we probably burn a larger percentage of the stuff we don't recycle or export, instead of putting it in landfills. but landfills absolutely still are used as the last resort for the significant percentage of trash that doesn't get separated for some kind of use. some european countries are also pretty good at separating compostable waste to make soil from it (which I think is normally not allowed to be used in commercial agriculture though due to potential toxic contamination). here in germany, the consumers throw away trash in several separate categories: clear glass, colored glass, various glass and plastic bottles that are worth 7-25€cent to return (some are recycled as well-separated material, some are refilled several times), plastic and metall packaging for recycling/burning, cardboard and paper for recycling, compostables, and a catch-all general waste category that's too mixed to be conveniently recycled in one of the other ways. if you have anything particularly toxic, you're supposed to turn it in to the dump separately (batteries and electronics also have their own waste streams), and if you've got big stuff like furniture, you can book a collection in front of your home in advance, which is free once a year.
Neither of us is better than another. Eventually we can combine all these things. I have much more learning to do. An if i make it out without being the most evil thing alive.; be sure to vote for me as world leader.
yeah, where he said "system like no other" at the start i thought "yeah cause its stupid
Please don't go to Rome or Naples 😅
The funniest part of this is that New York City sends all their trash to New Jersey hahaha
Ik there's so much that they cannot process it all within the state
@@folx9874 /woosh
Ironic given the fact the the current NYC mayor is a corrupt New Jersey resident.
You're saying it wrong...as USUAL NEW JERSEY CLEANS UP AFTER NYC.
That's not true not all of it is sent there
we rreally need a part two for this video that goes into greater details
WELLLL, you're in luck. The full 24-minute version will be on CuriosityStream soon.
@@cheddar When's it show up? I couldn't find it on curiosity stream?
LOL I was thinking the same....I have questions...
I keep checking as well but can’t find it on there
@@cheddar What aabout a documentary about how they are trying to find solutiuons to the problem
One of the failings of the layout of Manhattan is the lack of alleyways which would ensure more seamless collection of garbage.
Building in the sky is “free”. NYC decided to punish people for building up higher, so instead they try to squeeze every last square foot of land out of the city.
@@LeeeroyJenkins Building in the sky is not "Free" as you say, at least in NYC. There is something called Air Rights which is the remaining space above a building no matter the size. If someone wants to build a supertall tower, they would have to acquire the air rights of those around it, and it cost money just as if it was landfill.
You don't need alleys. As a previous comment said, Amsterdam has installed below-sidewalk receptacles that are emptied by equipment, not by hand or shovel.
I live in America. I am from China. I've been to Europe. In terms of infrastructure and city design, America is behind in so many ways and by so many years. It's not that the American people are incapable of doing things. It's the American system, at all levels, that dictates how wealth is distributed and how laws and regulations are enacted and enforced.
too much is going on with laws and permits, its so expensive to do anything nowadays, and people/companies always get backlash when they try to do something its insane, a lot of things barely manage to work and its sad seeing how behind we are in technology
Well most European and Asian cities were built to modern standards because they were bombed to oblivion.
Most Americans haven't left their state, let alone the country. They don't know just how far behind America is compared to other countries. Combine that with the constant "American exceptionalism" bullshit, and it's the perfect scenario to hold a country back.
@@Otter-Destruction that doesn't even... what?
@@RockBandRS that's true. I had a friend in high school who had never left Arizona untill probably 16 when he went to San Diego. By that time I've traveled to Europe and back probably 5 times.
They’re still 40 years behind the times. Garbage men getting poked with needles and knives? Why not use automated trucks and wheelie bins.
Certain cities grow during certain periods. They can only replace outdated technology at certain rates. Does your city have free wifi like mexico city?
The guy picking the bags in the video is not even using protective gloves, he’s using basic gloves lol then he wonders why he gets slashed.
Bins won’t work due to parking and traffic.
In Europe most systems have workers get the bins to the back of the truck by hand and the truck empties it. No need for space for letting the truck pick it up by themselves.
@@thomasfreeman7770 They manage in London (with sorting/recycling too). Honestly, the video reminded me of 1980's Britain. There's no excuse for NYC to have a waste system similar to a developing country. Get better standards.
How can this city justify not having a mandatory recycling program?!
Recycling doesn’t work
Recycling is a lie.
@@180_S well you canat least recycle paper/carton and compost (bread, eggshells, coffee or tea bags, or leafs of your indoor plant). You can even recycle glas and Aluminium. Why do you think that with recyling we only mean plastics?
@@derorje2035 … except contamination is a big problem with paper/cartons. Composing was started ~10 years ago. There’s also practically no market for recycled aluminum - even when it’s easily recycled, companies don’t use the recycled materials.
There is tho… we have to separate our trash from paper/bottles/plastic or we could be fined.
Why bury 3/4s the trash in landfills that might pose a health risk for generations to come, when one can incinerate it for heat/electricity?
inceneration does not create a problem? its outlawed in many citites
With proper treatment of fumes, it's definitely less harmful than landfills.
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc you think these companies are going to put in the effort to properly treat these fumes when they're surrounded by poor neighborhoods?
@@MotorCityPhoenix313 Depends on the laws, I guess. It ain't about the burning. It's about how much effort you put into after-treatment.
I worked at Fresh Kills :andfill for 28 years. The garbage that is buried is under one hundred plus feet of dirt. The capped with a non permeable membrane, several feet of sand, then another semi permeable membrane, then several feet of topsoil. There are pipes (with hole in them) that run throughout the garbage in layers, and a gas plant on the premises that separats out the lechate (garbage water) and recycles the collected gas back into municipal gas system. There is also a huge deep undergrond "slurry wall" surroundimg the perimeter of the landfill. That totally contains any and all garbage from leaking out. The garbage will decompose safely. All while providing gas for the community, and a Park on top.
We are making steady progress. Is it enough? Don’t throw that question in the garbage just yet.
Love to see how the zero waste initiative is working
Its not.
doubt it will, ever
Very funny! Assuming you are being facetious ...
In 2022, to collect & dispose of UNSORTED waste is almost as bad as it gets.
The worst is not to collect garbage at all.
Probably not even started!
Love the narrator and music! Makes it feel like an "official" TV show.
if TV is so great then why don't you go watch it? this is exactly what's wrong here - utube immitating TV
That's alot of my music and anime tastes
Lol! My food choices Too!
Why is all of this shit picked up by hand instead of using standardized bins that would be emptied by a machine like in many smaller systems or other countries?
If you've ever been to New York city you would know that there is barely any space on the sidewalk and between parked cars for such a system to actually work.
Most USA has this system.
I think one reason is that new york city wants to keep people employed. Everytime the city "screws over" working class theres huge protests n stuff. Machine-pickup systems usually only has the driver , while in new york theres a driver + 1-2 garbage men that pick it up. Firing half the staff wouldnt be popular.
Everywhere I've lived in the US has the standardized bins that are picked up by the truck. I'm guessing that they would have to pick up individual bags if there were excess that didn't fit in the bins, or if people suck and just didn't bother to put them in the bins so they are hanging out on the sidewalk.
NYC is too congested to have that mechanical system in the streets. They would have more lawsuits from the mechanical arms hitting pedestrians and vehicles than anything else. At more trouble than help.
Judging by Louis Rossmann videos, the answer is: they don't.
LOL i saw that Rossmann video too! But don't worry the land lords will also be pricing everyone out from renting in the city so less waste then maybe??? 🤗 hahaha
Crazy that the sanitation workers still have to grab all the garbage by hand! Get some bins, and trucks that can pick them up themselves.
That would mean firing 2 guys off of the three person truck. Good luck trying to fire 2/3 of a workforce without mass protests and strikes.
@@LeeeroyJenkins They're unionized too.
@@LeeeroyJenkins What? So you're saying never improve and make jobs more efficient to keep more people in low paying jobs or what? That's incredibly stupid. Yeah why don't we employ 50 people to each farm instead of having those awful tractors, imagine having 1 guy in a combine harvester instead of 100 people doing the same amount of work in a day. Da fuq
@@RuffleCoptah idk ask Americans they kept slaves for farms
The wheelie bins used in a lot of countries like Australia won't work in a city like NY, especially in Manhattan. Even in the CBD s of major Australia cities they can be a problem for traffic and parking.
When I found out nyc still uses an archaic system for their subway, I knew any other infrastructure they have is going to be shitty
It’s just outdated
man, what a joy it would be i if one would separate glas, paper and green food waste (eggshells, bread, fruit and vegetable peel). The landfills would be a lot smaller.
@Noah’s Navigating New York How does the recycling system work in NY? Do people leave out their recycling waste on a different day? And their composting waste on a third day?
@@peterdunlop7691 They usually come the same day as garbage day. Each neighborhood has their own garbage/recycle/compost collection schedule.
I expected more modern technologies but we still have people sorting by hands smh
one day they'll back at this and say "look at all those valuable resources not being utilized "
This feels like a propaganda piece to be honest.
High praise to the workers on the street though, regardless of how bad the system is, the city would crumble without it.
Pretty much everything is a propaganda piece now.
Feels like those jobs are going to go soon enough. I wouldn't have expected a city as large and lively as New York City to have as inefficient processes as these.
Simply amazing...Solid waste or wastewater (which is how we deal with landfill leachate) are hidden gems when it comes to a career. Seriously.
this. absolutely 100%.
Now the garbage just sits on the sidewalks and decomposes….
I bet they can't wait until someone invents the wheely bin.
Read the comments! They can't have a bunch of wheely bins because then on trash day you won't have any parking since the whole street will be filled with bins, waiting to be emptied.
@@henryjohnson-ville3834 that's correct. And even in countries with the bins like Australia there are still problems. I'm in inner suburban Brisbane, at a block of ten apartments. Sometimes the bins are all out on the footpath, on the kerb, and in the morning some idiot(s) has parked his car (s )in front of sone of the bins. This is despite all the apartments and houses around here having their own garages and parking areas. Usually it's not someone living here.
The garbage man gets angry because he has to get out and move the bins in front of the driveway to empty them. Its does not happen all the time, but I 've seen it happen quite a few times. Sometimes a bin or two is just left and not emptied for two weeks and it stinks and flies come, terrible in summer here. I m usually at home till 10 am, so if I hear the truck coming I 'll go down and move the bins if a car ( or cars ) are blocking access and the drivers are grateful for that. Sometimes I come home at 3 30 or 4 pm and bins are all in front of the driveway or all knocked over because of limited access for the trucks.
I can envisage chaos if this system was in NY!
Sanitation department is just as important as Police and Fire Department. These three departments keeps a city liveable.
Going back quite a few years, i think it was the mid 70's here in the UK, the 'binmen' went on strike and the local authority set up a designated area for residents to carry their waste to. After 2 weeks, i remember it well, the pile was enormous, like a small hill and the smell was incredible. And as time went by people started throwing their rubbish just anywhere. Bad times.
I work in a hospital and the amount of trash I take out a day is crazy no recycling bins all plastic goes into the garage…I can care less but I can imagine the amount of trash
In my city/State every single garbage truck have automated arms that go down, grip the garbage bins and pour the trash into the opening at the top of the truck, sets it back down while pushing it back near the curb then the driver moves off to another one. It's crazy to me how they have these workers going out and doing these things by hand.
Unions and the mafia
In New York City they don’t use bins. Too many people, and there would be no parking spots.
Landfills are a disgrace; especially in a first world country.
Ok so find a better way without being ignorant
@@thediecastdesk3556 you're too kind sir
lots of respect for these unsung heros that keep the world going in every country.
I wish an efficient automated sorting system could be implemented in the future to increase the reliability of recycling & waste management.
Same here, but it's really hard in my opinion. Many things being said sound easy to do but the people there(many) do not respect the systems and things around them. They don't take care of anything for example the MTA. Plus because it's America, people might not like the new systems and go against it, or have trouble understanding bc they stupid.
Can't have nice things like other countries, it is what it is
This is similar to how things are done here in Devon, 🇬🇧 the main difference is we have zero to landfill, and the waste is either recycled through mandatory recycling, or incinerated using state of the art systems that capture almost all of the pollutants.
Almost I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. Link in my about tab.
Business Insider, I believe, did a video about a similar topic, and covered the air purification process of the smoke from the Covanta incinerators. Why did you not mention this?
Upgrade the filters in the incineration plant, it works really well and clean in Europe
Why does this sound more like an episode of "How It's Made" than a typical Cheddar video?
In some cities they have underground pneumatic pipes for trash collection. No more garbage trucks necessary.
Genius!
You comment appeared as I thought it. Im already on that when it comes to product/food delivery an of course thought that with it.
Roosevelt Island in NYC works this way
Nice to know the 1990s movie tralier voice over guy is still finding work
(jk, I know he passed away - RIP - and it was also a past Cheddar video lol)
Oh, I really liked the voice and wanted more. Sad to hear that.
For people that use needles, put your sharps into a hard plastic bottle or case of some kind. I personally use Gatorade bottles for my estrogen injections. Protect the people that keep our cities clean
Definitely appreciate these guys! 🙏🏾
I never knew the plant at 5:38 was a garbage incineration operation. You drive past it on the pulaski skyway.
Good luck getting 9+ million people to go zero waste. 😂
well, at least half of it is reusable, paper/carton, compost and glas doesn't need to be burnt or dumped on a giant hill.
Just completed 23 years..
Thanks for the memories.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but America has not heard much of recycling 😑
The solid waste industry has heard of recycling......they figured out how to charge everyone for recycling pickup as a second mandatory service... Then they dump the recyclables into the landfill with the solid waste.
NY. Not the same elsewhere
@Noah’s Navigating New York the majority of recycling in the US is actually a different set of trucks taking it to the landfill or sending it to other countries to sit until they put in their landfill. .... No America doesn't recycle. Less than 5% of what we claim to recycle actually is.
So glad to be in America, where environmental factors are my most concerning issues at the moment. I don’t have to worry about other neighboring countries attacking my family, food scarcity, or opportunities for work. It’s all about your perspective, the motto of NYC sanitation dept is “New Yorks Strongest” and that’s a fact! Thank you to the sanitation workers who make New York beautiful and livable! I love my city and my country. If somebody got a problem with that, try living somewhere else and lmk how that goes.😊
How frustrating that so many states don’t have redemption value systems in place for aluminum cans. That is, in a handful of states, including California, when you buy a six pack of soda you pay an extra nickel per can. Then at the end of the can’s life it can be collected and redeemed. And thus recycled
yeah, that extra nickel is going to make people recycle. the trash is a product from earth and will be heading back to earth
@@bjvu9460 That extra nickel DOUBLES the value of their effort.
You must not live in a big city where there are lots of low-income people, and thus you don’t see the effort that many people go to Already, at 5 cents.
We have this locally and it might help with tin cans, but does nothing for the waste problem and if anything only increases the crack addict population. For as long as I have lived there are bums in every city collecting cans, putting like 10 bags of recycling cans on a cart and wheeling it everywhere they go. When you go to a bottle depot there's always crackheads lurking around or 5 of them taking up spots all inside.
Some people who do it are actually real people who may have disabilities or whatnot. However most of it just supports drug addiction which isn't very helpful at all to society.
Paying people a penny for recycling is a dumb waste of time. You are either poor and now you focus recycling your cans before plastic or your rich and you don't give a shit about the extra money at all.
Instead we should just be forcing companies to be at the forefront of recyclable materials. It should be pepsi figuring out how to best dispose of their product not the general population.
While as individuals we do have some responsibility to maintain out planet. There's only so much that can be done when everything is made of different materials and is disposed the same. Every chip bag, wrapper, straw and every other piece of consumerable plastic should be the exact same material. It all should be recyclable.
You can give however many nickels you like on everyone’s behalf.
I dump my trash on leftists cars, here inCommiefornia. Leftists literally drive mobile dumpsters, so...
I don't care what anyone says... Garbage collection is one of the biggest marvels in civilization. Pick up my trash 52 weeks a year for about $300 to $400 a year? Sounds perfect to me.
Is there any separation process for plastic, glass and metals?
NYC has a separate bin for recycling and a separate truck picks up just the recycling.
I think ny has a bottle deposit of like 5 cents. Like you go to a place to drop off bottles and get your deposit back. At least that's how it works in Oregon.
Surely they could improve matters by giving every worker some better protective gear (stab/cut/needle/puncture resistant gloves aren't super-expensive and I am sure if you ordered 7000 pairs or so any manufacturer would give you a decent discount)
They're missing the 426m (1396 ft) tall pile of trash located on 432 Park Ave so I don't think it's that great of a system tbh.
I couldn't help but think of Toy Story the entire time... 🤣
As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I remember driving past a big, smelly garbage dump off the Belt Parkway. I think it was by the current Starrett City. I've tried looking for information on its history, but can't find ANYTHING. I think this might have been the Canarsie Dump. If anyone knows anything, please share.
Also remember going past that dump, with the salt and pepper shakers. My Pop told me they were incinerators. Then everything disappeared and high rise housing went up.
@@paulne1514 Thank you for posting. I'd see and smell that dump every time we drove down the Belt Parkway. But when I look for info, it's like it didn't exist. NYC garbage is full of mystery.
They made this video so heroic
One of my first jobs included riding a garbage truck through the alley ways of the small town I was raised in.
Sanitation workers are taken for granted by most.
It wouldn't take long for our trash to pile up....if not for them...then we'd all look like hoarders...and living in filth.....
Ryan I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. Link in my about tab.
I wouldn't hoard. I would continue to dump my trash on leftists cars, here inCommiefornia. Leftists literally drive mobile dumpsters, so...
In my town our public trashcans works like a iceberg. Above, it looks like a normal trashcan. But below there is a large container. Once a week, 1 man with a truck can empty it all with the help of a crane. works perfectly. And you cannot overfill the trashcan..
Just seems outdated to me.
Wow, who knew that the whole city weighed 14,000,000 tons that’s crazy
Nothing but respect for those guys who do a job so that modern civilization can continue.
It’s incredible to think while all this is going on I’m sitting on the toilet having a crap. Amazing.
No offense to these hardworking folks in trash management, but New York is still the dirtiest places in the world. Even a super luxurious hotel or restaurant would still have piles and piles of smelling trashbags on the side walk and entrance any given time. They don’t have a back alleyways or better places to store or collect them.
Crazy that the sanitation workers plow the streets here, it’s like having your math teacher as your soccer coach
Why don't you separate your trash and recycle?
Watching this from Germany, this feels like looking at a third-world county. And it makes me ANGRY!!!
Right? All that recyclable material! 😟
I'm in Canada and waste management is part of my job as an assistant superintendent, and I'm shocked at how poorly this waste is sorted!
That’s why sometimes the states is called the 1st industrialized third world country
there IS a separate bin and separate truck that picks up recycling.
@@christophers.4007 That's not proper recycling. Proper recycling means separate bins for organic, paper, plastics (and combined), glass, metal, normal waste. Paper waste can be sold for a profit, same with glass, organic waste becomes compost and natural gas (which is used to run the facility or can be sold), plastics and combined stuff (e.g. plastic-coated cardboard) is used for fabrics (fleece) metals are molten and reused. The rest has to be deposited in a landfill or burnt (heating complete cities in winter-time and generating electric power in summer).
This blows my mind how far behind NYC is. If a city like London can manage its waste then I fail to see how NYC has got itself into this state. It’s got a larger population and a layout from hundreds of years ago.
Blows my mind how something can be this poorly managed. I feel for the workers, they’re fighting a losing battle against a system and population too lazy to change.
This is a terribly polluting system...
Surprising to me how much physical handling there is of bags and other trash. In my suburb, we put our trash in a can and the truck has a grabber that lifts/dumps/replaces the can. A lot safer for the worker.
I work as a school janitor. I only clean 20 classrooms. Let me tell you, I take out A LOT of trash per day. Like, 6 large 50-60* gallons bags every night. It makes me worry about the environment and the Earth. It’s crazy.
Edit: wording.
Yes imagine the restaurant, business, schools in the whole state, The country, even. Better the whole world.
Yo much trash and water bieng used ..
Not to worry. Just go to any city satellite map and look at the size of the city, then locate the city dump and notice how very very small the dump is in comparison! We have plenty of space in this country for our garbage.
Holy cow I learned today that garbage trucks in the USA have double steering. I never knew that as in the UK we have a single wheel. You gotta respect the man and women that do this kinda work.
*Plot twist: NYC started their own TeamSeas.*
RESPECT TO TRASH COLLECTORS THANK YOU TO EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
Who paid for this video? I think this is a just a propagana by the city… I frequently watch louis rossmann’s vids and it tells a different story. Still, I would like to commend and thank everyone in DSNY especially all the workers working. Thank you for making the city a clean as possible.
Underground garbage bins would be an improvement
It's called the NY subway.
@@massimookissed1023
LOL!
Cheader needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
And how they don't collect your data unlike sh!tty Google.
that's a good start, now if we could get the rest of NYC there too.
Man, haven't seen 4 other channels do this in recent memory. How original.
1:55
Two Drivers, Like An Airplane!!!!!
Interesting video as a new Yorker living on Long Island we have a landfill here but this video is worth the watch I can only imagine what's in all those bags 😂 needles scissors wow I bet some of those workers thought about opening some of those just too see what people are tossing I know I'd be like should I no 😂
That lardass is bitching about getting stuck with sharp objects. Wells Lamont, one of the world's biggest glove manufacturers, has made puncture-resistant, Kevlar reinforced work gloves for many years. Most cops wear the black ones, especially during a frisk.
I'm sure bodies, drugs, and other nasty things. I know that I have tossed used brake pads and other heavy things in the trash.
This is crazy... they trash everything from paper to cans together.... no recycling in mind. Madness.
And then they shoot it into space, where it will wander the cosmos until it comes back to Earth 1000 years later.
That doesn’t actually happen lol. It would cost hundreds of billions and we’d barely make a dent in the amount of trash we have that was actually sent up.
@@stev6963 Not with Musks continuing advancements. Ypu could even make it incinerate in space if getting it close to the sun doesn't work.
Heck, if we can all just get rid of plastic trash bags we'll make a huge step toward easier dealings with garbage!
What a horrible city
Wow that was mainly recyclable in the UK everyone has to recycle you get 3 bins 2 boxes cans glass cardboard everything even a brown bin for compost items
Typical union workers “without us things won’t be too pretty” you blind? The city already has trash everywhere you’re doing half a job at most
That's not really the workers fault. It more on the city planers. NYC wasn't really developed with a good waste management system in mind, that's why so much trash is just piled on the curb untill it gets picked up.
Hopefully ppl in new york try keep it clean or anywhere where your from its nice to have clean places
I dunno why you would protest incinerators. If you don't like them, don't move close to one?
And no, it isn't simply a poor people's problem. People on the Upper East Side got a long existing marine transfer station closed because they bought an apartment next to it. This is now costing the taxpayers additional millions a year to truck it off of Manhattan island instead of offloading the trucks to barges. They called it a 'garbage dump', but nothing was actually stored there, hence the 'marine transfer station' moniker.
Of course, nobody wants to live next to any type of garbage, however that does not change the needs of the city's infrastructure.
well, Waste incineration plants significantly reduce the land value around them, even if they filter the exhaust gases properly. This means that the people who lived there before and want to leave will get less money for their house when they move away. Even for tenants it is difficult, because they may only be able to pay their rent there because they do not have enough money.
EPA/air quality/anti toxin regulations
@@derorje2035 Nope. In most cases these places already existed and the residents encroached on the facility, not the other way around. It's not like companies are going around plopping an incinerator plant in the middle of densely populated neighborhoods. That is why they have zoning laws.
@@ShawnJonesHellion 21st century technology solves that, bzzt sorry.
Great vid more vids like this on trash work on NY and other states!
Except for commercial fishermen/crabbers/lobster men, sanitation workers are the hardest working dudes on the face of the earth. Granted it isn't a sort of life/death sort of thing like fishing on the Bearing Sea, but garbage men face all kinds of work related injuries, you need to be strong as hell, flexible, and young to do that job.
Amen
No one is going to talk about those Jersey boys going a turbine a “turban” 😂
wow, people still pick up the rubbish bins in the US? Australia is automated now, the truck arms picks them up.
Land fills… A future archeological gold mine!
Schools must take part in this endeavor so students at their young age will learn to be responsible in cleaning their environment !
Thank you for the work you do
2:10> would make a dope ass sample.💯 Bout to drop an album just to throw that on there LOL. Great video, shit was entertaining. 👍👍💪✌️🙂
This world is in trouble FOLKS. We did this to ourselves. We are at a point of no return.
We gotta thank all these people for trying to keep our cities clean and doing there best even if they get cut by a needle or a knife or some scissors
i live in a small town where we have to take our own trash to the dump, & we toss it in the required bin.
with all that garbage. i would think that packaging alone could be reduced by 50% if they ground it up and sorted it prior to compaction some could even be recycled. it's a growing issue. and there are only so many places to dump. plactic could be turned into sheets for building or roads etc
What happens if we shoot trash into the sun
Coincidentaly I watched this and how to with John Wilson about this topic on the same day and the guy with the goatee appears in both!
Im from norway and my dad does this for a living and the system here is good but the system for picking up the trash there doesnt seem good, like so much hassle back and forward picking up the trash like why not have huge bins for the trash and having a truck with a hydraulic at the back. But it could just be the NYC system seem bit too much hassle.