Are We Recycling Wrong? | One Small Step
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2020
- As recycling costs skyrocket, 25% of U.S. recycling is ending up in the dump anyway because of contamination. Why are we recycling wrong? Is there a better way for recycling?
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OSS host Lucy Biggers visited nonprofit recycling org Sure We Can NYC to find out if there’s a better way to recycle.
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I am fond of Lucy's energy and enthusiasm
I love this channel,it's informative, useful, Interesting and Awesome! Who's with me?
Federal gov needs to make deposit a national mandate. Our planet over profit.
I agree!
I always thought the Government should help homeless people by picking them up, assigning them a tiny home. The Government would help them get a job, while they are looking for a job the government would have a bus pick them up every morning and they pick up trash or clean up the local community for money.
This would get homeless people back to work and money to help them be independent again. As well as clean our streets and make our citys look beautiful.
That is a good idea...but the production industries are the ones producing the garbage in the first place and it's all the same greedy people. The ultimate responsibility should be put on the people inventing the garbage in the first place,and the profit hungry governments allowing it to wreck our planet.
This video was amazing! I loved every second of it 😍 thank you for all the work you put in your videos!! I've been watching them for atleast a year.
I love you so much! This channel is so cute,funny and friendly 😚I want to try everything you do,carry on making what you love! 😄
Great job, Lucy! This is a great summary of our work at Sure We Can. Thank you so much for this opportunity. 💕
Thanks Tina!
@@lucylyonsbiggers you're so adorable at the end lol. "He's here! He's waiting!" And you ran to him all excited. That's so sweet! 😄
@@priscillajimenez27 That's my favorite part of the video! i was sooo excited
That ending made me tear up a little, that was very cute and nice of you. Good job!
Liked the episode very much😊
I was so happy that I ran into a canner while making this video! It made my week!
Loved this Lucy 🙌🏻
As a groundskeeper, 90% of the trash I pick up is stuff that could go in the recycling bin. It's maddening to find so much.
We know the feeling. We keep 2 buckets on our mowers when we cut grass. One that's for trash and one that's for recycling. It's crazy how much waste you find.
Hi Lucy! I love your videos, they always inspire me. I live in Germany and here is normal to pay deposit for all glas and plastic bottles (glas 8 cent and plastic 25 cent) and that helps so much, the people bring them back or they let them aside so others can bring them back and make some money, so I say: it should be everywhere in the world like that, greetings!
25 cents! Wow that is wild. It makes sense though, that way people understand they're paying for the material and will get the $ back when they return it
I grew up during the 70’s earning my pocket money from returning glass Coke and milk bottles in South Australia. Back then Coke bottles were 20c and milk bottles 10c.
Queensland reintroduced the bottle deposit scheme for 10c on containers, and the recycling rates have skyrocketed. I rarely see cams and bottles littering the sides of the road these days. I have heard of some people using it for their income. It certainly comes in handy for spare pocket money and keeps the recycling much cleaner.
This depositum is no new thought. That's how we do it in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Here in Norway, we call it "Pant", and the depositum is ca 20 cents or 0,5l bottles, and higher volumes has 30 cents
I really hope the idea spreads out to the rest of the world!
Some US states have deposits on beverage containers, some have had them since the 1970s
Can I just say I LOVE this series! So much inspiration and makes me want to do so much more with my own channel! I love that the word is getting out about so many ways to be better to the planet, Thanks so much for sharing and making the world a better, cleaner place! 💚🌎💙
thank you!!
Lucy, you and your team are doing a wonderful job xx
thank you!
That's a decidedly average system.
In my country every supermarket has a machine in which you place your empties. The machine then prints a voucher for the supermarket equal to the amount of returns.
I love your channel
I dream you visit my Country India, and meet you up😀🥺 huge fan of yours, whatever your making afford. I know it's outside my country, but after all we live in a same planet... hats off for the work you are doing......
Love this!!
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Hey you... Yes,you.
How are you doing in life? What are your dreams... Thoughts.. what is life?
Life is a complicated thing... You should enjoy it ☺️ some may not like you,but who are they to judge? You are beautiful,smart,and an awesome being. Just being on earth with you makes me happy 💝🌍 You should calm down, follow your passions and be happy! Passions doesn't mean what the world wants or tells you,no. What YOU want to do. Sleep? Draw? Work? It's up to you! Go do whatever makes your soul fulfilled. Except if it's illegal- then... Mabey not.
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Nice...
We used to do something like this in Virginia but im not sure if we have a place like this anymore.
Those hefty clear recycling bags are NOT recyclable. I was sad to see lucy using it.
Hefty needs to be called out. Their box markets and manipulates the uninformed. Everywhere I have read, whether the clear bag is tied or not, the bag is not welcome for curbside recycling and the bin will be denied/tagged until someone deals with the consumers mistake.
Just carry your recycling down in the same plastic bin and dump. Bring the bin back up to your apartment to reuse. No need for a bag ...........
Hey! We use the bags to keep our recyclables, but I always dump out the contents of the bag.
@@lucylyonsbiggers awesome! But really the more people seeing others use the bags they might start using them the wrong way, if no explanation or instruction. I hate hefty!
And Huntsville in the recycling plant, I worked there for about three months, and I thought it would be all interesting you now because I know the basics in the formulas I chemicals to break down and use stuff. After all, I have a study on it. Still, their machines were broke. They don't even recycle have to stuff they get.
unfortunately i think that is all too common
This needs to go national.
Have you considered to use the revenue this video accumulates to donate to fund this program? For example, and like mentioned, to buy out the property lot?
I need to watch more of this. It seems to be cutting my depression, as well as my thoughts of slaughtering corrupt politicians, racists, KKK members, and more tumors on the human race.
awesome
I used to give bottles to this old Asian guy who didn't speak English, but he stopped coming around a while ago and I haven't seen him for at least a year now
We need to spread these bottle deposits to more states
Yes! Its disappointing they're only in 10 states right now.
@@lucylyonsbiggers and only about 10% of plastic is recycled. Go figure...
I know, I know.......I live at apartment complex and they do the same thing. It drives me crazy.
Its maddening! I think every building recycling bin area looks the same
Outside of recycling aluminum (and sometimes other metals), recycling does more harm than good. It uses more resources than it saves. It is cheaper in resources, energy and time to make new plastic and glass bottles and responsibly landfill the old ones than recycle them. Anyone who has studied recycling knows this.
Jonathan, I would love to comment but you are not stating any sources, thus so far you don't seem trustworthy to me.
I recycle my own stuff cause I dont see what exactly the city does with the profit 🤔
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It's 5c per can. Did you watch the video?
Anyone else see Lucy pulling out all the white claw cans from her trash😂😂😂
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2020 Covid 19 , 2050 climate change
Unless America and it's greedy ignorant selfish citizenry all magically drop dead tomorrow recycling is the actual civilized world is an act of futility because US policy and consumption is killing us all.