Waste Management Single-Stream Recycling: Take a tour of our Philadelphia MRF

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  • www.wm.com/ Recycling with single-stream technology is helping communities recycle more waste from their garbage collection. Waste Management is on a mission to drive environmental performance with solutions that minimize waste, recycle valuable resources, and create renewable energy. We are investing in single-stream technology and building recycling facilities, like the Philadelphia Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), to help extract the highest possible value from the materials we manage.

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  • @sweetfunnyawsome
    @sweetfunnyawsome 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Garbage workers should be appreciated because without them our world would be trash

  • @wastemanagement
    @wastemanagement  11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We appreciate your support. Thank you!

    • @Iwilldestroyyoo
      @Iwilldestroyyoo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You people have become the gestapo of the waste management industry, it’s disgusting.

  • @atomgonuclear
    @atomgonuclear 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Neat video. Waste Management is an awesome company. They don't just do trash. They actually provide energy for millions of homes as well. There is a lot more to trash removal than people realize. The common perception is that you just bring it to the curb and it "disappears", but there is actually a whole world of technology behind it.

  • @notstarboard
    @notstarboard 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the guy struggling to use the touch screen at 1:10 just as the woman says WM is "constantly looking at the newest and latest technology"

  • @JuBrew
    @JuBrew 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As an American who has lived abroad in Japan, it makes me really sad to see how much work people have to do just because we are so lazy and nonchalant about separating out own recycling. I'm glad there is a way to sort it all out, but I wish people cared more and understood the processes that are created and carried out for their own benefit each and every day.

  • @wastemanagement
    @wastemanagement  12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It depends on the facility. You can also get additional information by visiting the Earth 911 blog.

  • @shamikroy
    @shamikroy 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    WM is doing a real good job.

  • @hermesbjr
    @hermesbjr 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The government of Recife - Brazil needs to watch this video. The most wonderful city in the country has very serious problems of sanitation and waste recycling.

  • @stevezingerman4956
    @stevezingerman4956 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most people employed at our big recycle plant are half-way house criminals. At least the ones on the separating line.
    Landfills could be almost non-existent if we recycled more. The leftovers could be incinerated in a non toxic furnace. Energy would be made, fewer landfill tonnage.

  • @andreik4321
    @andreik4321 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Recycling help the economy of a country.

  • @MyMPPM
    @MyMPPM 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    the narrator answers your question, "now at this facility ... film plastics and 1 - 7 plastics" implication is that not always that way at this facility, and not all facilities the same.

  • @navyblue1973ify
    @navyblue1973ify 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would be wonderful to have a plant like this in Garden City Kansas. We need something like this to clean up Southwest Kansas. Educate the public on what is available, and I think they will start being more conscious of their every day waste disposal.

  • @SulfurousJesus
    @SulfurousJesus 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Waste Managment needs to hire on people. At my facility we got a 5 to 3 ratio of temps to company employees working. I been working at my MRF for 1.5 years and am STILL a temp. A coworker of mine, 2.5ish years. Still a temp. She also makes a quarter above minumum wage, the same as the rest of us. Its not fair, but I work hard for it. Got promoted to foreman over a month ago. And our bails are below 95% purity. That part made me laugh, haha.

  • @BDragonSky
    @BDragonSky 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    When my dad said that I didn't need to sort my recycling out from my regular trash i thought he was just crazy, but after seeing this and the amount of time and work they do to sort out everything, I am impressed.

  • @longIslandCop
    @longIslandCop 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Japan, the separation of trash done by house hold. Metal trash, Glass trash, Paper, perishable 4 categories taken out in separate date of a week.

  • @marilynd7237
    @marilynd7237 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sure would be nice if Waste Management would walk their talk here in Yamhill County, Oregon. But dumping unsorted garbage at the Riverbend Landfill on the banks of the Yamhill River is definitely a money maker. Waste Management just received permission from commissioners George and Springer to expand the huge dump in the middle of the Willamette Valley. No worry about capturing recyclable materials, just drive up and dump all your unsorted garbage. A huge money maker for corporate stockholders.

  • @recycleman975
    @recycleman975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it's better to seperate them by yourself than putting them mixed

  • @paulinspring
    @paulinspring 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i wish they had discussed the economics of recycling. In my community in Texas, everyone has to pay a premium for recycling even though only a minority of us actually recycle. What will it take for the value of materials recovered to cover the cost? Also, our waste company has to run two trucks each trash day, so I suspect that second truck does more environmental damage than the environmental good of recovering raw materials.

  • @4148866
    @4148866 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    One day all garbage will be recycled, I'm sure you are already looking into methods and machines, what about the giant turbines that grind up all the waste then use it as a source of clean energy? The problem with that is you've gotta keep buying those Smoke Stack filters, the ideal would be for WM to own the production of the filters and to then buy them at or below cost. 100% reuse of all waste materials is here, it just hasn't been fully implemented. Great job on the 1 stream Recycling!

  • @hassankuya
    @hassankuya 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is a wise idea to recycle waste materials because to a great extent it is economical and vital for a healthy environment

  • @robertmariduena4844
    @robertmariduena4844 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is single-stream recycling going to effect the trash and recycling bins that we use in our offices and homes?
    The next step of single-stream recycling should address old landfills that have been collecting mixed waste for the past century!

  • @6Mega6Man6
    @6Mega6Man6 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video gives me hope for humanity

  • @sunilsai6271
    @sunilsai6271 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a great great great channel about the most important topic of the world - waste!
    Thanks a lot for all your uploads!
    I personally take waste management very seriously!
    I even use an iPhone app called "unused" by lokesh which helps me track all my items in my home per different categories like electronics etc and then helps me to sell it or give it to charity etc. it even tells me how much money i made using unused items.
    waste is not just plastic etc, even unused things!
    God Bless!

  • @TsunauticusIV
    @TsunauticusIV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic job waste management!

  • @SulfurousJesus
    @SulfurousJesus 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Should probably also include our facility doesn't use fancy optical screens of any kind, its all done manually. We got several sets of screens, a magnet, an eddy current, and lots of people sperating the material. But that's all for the MRF.

  • @megalomaniac7972
    @megalomaniac7972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where do you put the actual trash? in the same bin?

  • @flyersfan6692
    @flyersfan6692 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my new full time job

  • @billkeller7390
    @billkeller7390 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, beginning with recycling of tired old cliches, "one man's trash . . .treasure" at the beginning! Good video about a great and evolving movement.

  • @samirberisa8644
    @samirberisa8644 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In Canada we sort the waste before it gets picked up by waste management

  • @Cosmic-Wanderer
    @Cosmic-Wanderer 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Veolia mrf in gilmoss needs a health an safety check asap the dust levels in there are disgusting

  • @MrAllama123
    @MrAllama123 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    My grandfather has watched this video and is very impressed. He is from India and wants to introduce this video to schoolchildren in India in order to improve waste management in India as well. Can he download and display this video to schoolchildren in Mysore City, Karnataka, India?

  • @bouttobreak12
    @bouttobreak12 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for recycling for us.

  • @activebinhire1575
    @activebinhire1575 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing video! The way the waste has been recycled in the video is really great. Keep the work up.

  • @thelastEnderBender
    @thelastEnderBender 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THANK YOU this really helped me on my report 5 school#thank u

  • @TurboGSR96
    @TurboGSR96 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @ILuvCaroline having a moment? WM has nothing to do with turning recyclables into new material, they simply collect, sort and package for companies to purchase to turn into something new.

  • @kimberlyblevins5952
    @kimberlyblevins5952 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think programs such as single-stream recycling are making great strides in helping the environment. The average person does not have the time or concern to sort all of their waste products. By having a system that sorts for the 'average Joe' is such a great idea. I find the process very clever as well. I wonder if there is a process that can be done to pay recyclers for multiple types of materials the way they pay you for bringing in cans and bottles individually. I am sure that the waste management businesses make a lot of money without having to pay people for their contribution with the single-stream process.

    • @katherinethomas8638
      @katherinethomas8638 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a great video showing how people and technology have made a once difficult process more simple. My community offers single-stream recycling. It's a great way to get everyone involved...thanks!

  • @MrLazzyG
    @MrLazzyG 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:03 you missed the aluminium can :D

  • @cindymadrid7143
    @cindymadrid7143 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    i hate nuclear waste landfills... ans way to go WM keep up the good work

  • @Woggyflush
    @Woggyflush 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    of course, a real paper magnet would be impossible, as paper is non-magnetic. I checked WM's website and found, they use the word only as a figure of speech. Actually, it's just an overhead vacuum cleaner, like the one shown in the video which sucks up the plastic bags.
    hope I could help

    • @leehaelters6182
      @leehaelters6182 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can imagine an electrostatic attractor.

  • @150ftrek
    @150ftrek 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    so what happens if it rains on the reclebles and they get soaking wet? how does the paper get recycled then? thanks

  • @RWSmith-gk4xw
    @RWSmith-gk4xw 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I effin love recycling.

  • @skitter43
    @skitter43 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    how i wish i could be able to download your video and show it to my community Environmental Department. Keep up the great job that you are doing to clean up you city an

  • @rdcc1945
    @rdcc1945 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we have a question. what about the wet waste (i.e. the food waste generated from restaurants and households). How does that food waste is taken care by your single stream recycling system?

    • @GuyMarsdenMakesStuff
      @GuyMarsdenMakesStuff 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Organic waste is a completely separate process. Some municipalities are now setting up systems to recover this waste to use as agricultural fertilizer and/or bio fuel.

  • @kennybird
    @kennybird 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    The narrator's voice reminds me of the resident evil movies.

  • @pintosalangit
    @pintosalangit 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys are AWSOME!

  • @myfeeling4you
    @myfeeling4you 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    wet paper and cardboard, if clean are pulped, meaning they are boiled with hot water so being wet makes no difference.The only thing recyclers won't accept is contaminated material.

  • @UnitedPebbles
    @UnitedPebbles 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard most of the people that worked at WM are either obsessed with reuse trash or are really careless. I would be crazy too if bombard with so many things and ask to find a solution for it.

  • @MithunOnTheNet
    @MithunOnTheNet 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    What percentage of garbage WM processes lands up in a landfill? Does WM have the technology to convert/burn garbage into electricity?

  • @langerhanna
    @langerhanna 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    It would be nice if all garbage was gone through and all the recycling taken out

  • @ridovem
    @ridovem 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    The woman who's putting her recycling out (@1:49) empties her plastic bag and then puts it in her pocket (see @1:52). Is she responding to a request NOT to include plastic bags in her "single stream" container? ^..^

  • @CheapSushi
    @CheapSushi 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really great video actually. Something I don't think to deep about. So it was neat seeing the process.

  • @mjmaurer
    @mjmaurer 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    The factory tour starts at 3:30. Before that is corporate introduction.

  • @springfield03sniper
    @springfield03sniper 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad they are trying. It's really about money though. The more they can salvage, the more they can ship over to china for money.

  • @DavidKlausa
    @DavidKlausa 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder why this video does not show people discarding caps from plastic bottles before recycling them - in most places you're supposed to do that.

  • @Bikes5969
    @Bikes5969 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello. I work at Burrtec in Rancho Cucamonga California. I work on the line like the ones shown in video. I was wondering if anyone else here works like this in another state. How much do you guys get paid.

    • @DavidKlausa
      @DavidKlausa 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      manuel gonza Check on glassdoor.com

    • @anderivative
      @anderivative 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      manuel gonza What's the worst common things that comes thru the line? I'm going to guess food sticking perfectly good stuff together!

  • @daltonslone
    @daltonslone 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    im 14 and there is a road above me so I climb up a hill and pick up cans and plastic bottles but I cant get glass cause there is no glass reclycing place where I live or I would have tons of glass to move

  • @xenirov
    @xenirov 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing stuff, we try to do a bit here in India but we're way behind...

  • @KingOfTheEngineers
    @KingOfTheEngineers 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe the workers can sort that quickly all day long. Really a sucky job, and I don't think they are paid what they deserve.

  • @MyMPPM
    @MyMPPM 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for doing what you do, I sincerely appreciate that your business is to clean up after us and to multiply your returns with intelligent resource management. Keep up the great work.

  • @jkoteswararaoni-msme3086
    @jkoteswararaoni-msme3086 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best of a machine

  • @rowland5951
    @rowland5951 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Need some robots sorters in there.

  • @alejandrosalazar5550
    @alejandrosalazar5550 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    WM, do you think the best option is the Single Stream recycling? What are doing the people with organic waste? How avoid the contamination of recycling waste with organic waste?

    • @Nokichel
      @Nokichel 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      What I would do is to take the organic waste and use it as compost for my plants... just as simply trow the peel of my bananas and place them there. I guess :)

    • @DavidKlausa
      @DavidKlausa 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alejandro Salazar Desgraciadamente, most places in the USA don't have any organic waste plan, so either individuals compost it themselves or it goes to a landfill. And NO! The best option is never Single Stream. The more you sort your recycling, the more efficient the process is. For example, in my city, glass in single stream is crushed and used as "ADC" in the landfill, whereas glass separated and taken to a recycling facility is remade into bottles. And to avoid food/liquid contamination, all containers should be empty and rinsed.

  • @franklinbarrero8989
    @franklinbarrero8989 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Necesito su opinion sobre que equipos deberemos de adquirir para manejar 1000 toneladas diarias de basura en nuestra ciudades en Colombia.,y si ustedes estarian interesados en construirnos una planta llave en mano

    • @DavidKlausa
      @DavidKlausa 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Franklin Barrero Mejor vea su sitio.

  • @georgewashington8338
    @georgewashington8338 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    jesus they have to do so much in so little time, those conveyors are FLYING past them piled with crap and they have to sort out everything

  • @laurawong570
    @laurawong570 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who do you guys sell it to wastemanagement ? Do you Guys sell it to local farmers that are starting a new garden?

  • @everythingrubbish7993
    @everythingrubbish7993 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Recycling is one such important aspect of trash management and rubbish removal that it can no longer be sidelined. Many waste management companies across the world are now incorporating recycling in their work. This comes amidst growing environmental concerns as waste mountains increase in height everywhere. Know more about rubbish removal services at:
    Everything Rubbish
    3A/80 Shirley Road,Wollstonecraft NSW 2065
    Phone: 1300 559 052

  • @alexlovesjesus2
    @alexlovesjesus2 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    How I can recycle my garbage I live en green acres west Palm beach Florida.

  • @bellezayverdad
    @bellezayverdad 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    If it wasn't for the laziness of people when it comes to separate their waste, this recycling technic would not have any sense... Is it really that difficult to separate one's waste in three different containers?

  • @gregelliott5016
    @gregelliott5016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well it's 2021.

  • @Mishugana
    @Mishugana 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is a paper magnet?

  • @081210112405
    @081210112405 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is San Ramon? Is it in the US? What state?

  • @danielmorrisonrhymes
    @danielmorrisonrhymes 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, great video, I just have a question about the numbers: At the start of the video, it claims the facility processes 8.5 million tonnes of material per year, but then at 3 minutes it says it's 20,000 tonnes per month, which about 240,000 per year. Also how much would a facility like this cost?

    • @lakhdaraness68
      @lakhdaraness68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      صقفغعغ و كاين لي يرقد في العالم لىرلقققؤؤر ىىل للل

  • @ameenahsoliman7751
    @ameenahsoliman7751 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was looking for more information on your paper magnet innovation, do you know where I can find it?

  • @EvolutionIXRR
    @EvolutionIXRR 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Workers not wearing mask?

  • @erickyoung8453
    @erickyoung8453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    sickkk 2011 vid

  • @OUfootballAuthority
    @OUfootballAuthority 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work at WM, and it is a nightmare. They pay pretty good and have decent benefits, but the flip side is they are the worst company in America to work for. They monitor you with camera's in the truck and at the facilities. If they see you so much as take your eyes off the road for a second, you get 3 days off without pay. Managers will treat you like you are incompetent despite the fact that they have no idea how to do the job themselves. You work long hours, the equipment they have is outdated, broken, and violating multiple DOT and environmental laws. Very few trucks have A/C and you are EXPECTED to work overtime, no choice in the matter. The managers will reprimand you if you go slow and try to be safe. But if you get in an accident or something malfunctions on the truck, then you will be stabbed in the back by the same managers and given 3 days off with no pay. There is a lot more I could tell you, but honestly, WM will probably punish me just for saying what I wrote here. But if you don't believe me, just stop you local WM trash driver and ask him.

  • @elisoil
    @elisoil 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can one engage their solutions in Nigeria?

  • @wastemanagement
    @wastemanagement  12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!

  • @xomegannnnn
    @xomegannnnn 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there someone I can contact at the facility about an environmental science project?

  • @jman1948
    @jman1948 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shouldn't be a problem to download it.

  • @UnitedPebbles
    @UnitedPebbles 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah dudes, if you actually buried these right...millions years from now, those landfills would turned into mines of valuable resources of aluminum, oil, and other mineral and salts. WM is the shizzy as future landowner of mines across North America.

  • @MrMacman98
    @MrMacman98 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some powerful blowers you use!

  • @girlsdrinkfeck
    @girlsdrinkfeck 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow america is behind the times ,UK did single recycling a decade ago ,one bin for all recycling

    • @mrpipeshere
      @mrpipeshere 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video is 4 years old now. There was single stream recycling in many parts of the U.S. a decade ago as well. The U.S. if 40 times larger with 5 times the population of the UK. So what what works for one country may not always work for the other or happen at the same rate.

  • @MrMacman98
    @MrMacman98 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    The disk screen is called a classifier

  • @myfeeling4you
    @myfeeling4you 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, I've read many people over in the States are paid poorly,it saddens me as you good folk are very patriotic,you fight for a cause yet there are so many people unemployed and homeless. The US has to compete with China yet your wages are low too so who is making the money? big business and the white collar sector. There is a division now between the reral workers as we see here in this vid and those behind the scenes getting paid huge salaries for for doing very little,I don't understand why.

  • @j.koteswararaojagannadham1058
    @j.koteswararaojagannadham1058 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Waste Management Single-Stream Recycling

  • @sitoda1
    @sitoda1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work here I wana get hired with the company and Im a screen cleaner n I du a good job

  • @robertk3850
    @robertk3850 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not they are getting PAID to pick the scrap up and waste....Big money in JUNK and paper, glass etc.....................

  • @pablomoralesandreau
    @pablomoralesandreau 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is very interesting, but... what abot all the energy they spend in this place? all those machines moving so fast... I wonder if the cost-benefit really justify the cause. And... I see all those shiti products and different kinds of packaging and I think that... it will be better if we stop using many of those stupid products that are not really necesary for life. What do u think?

  • @ahakamaki
    @ahakamaki 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seems 3D-work to me: dirty, dull and also dangerous (small particles in the air, smell etc.. I hope this kind a work will be robotized asap.

  • @Flopsaurus
    @Flopsaurus 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:14 is the end of the video.

  • @Memiss
    @Memiss 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    im doing this in my geography lesson in school

  • @yuansalen
    @yuansalen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi

  • @Memiss
    @Memiss 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is fucking swag

  • @yuansalen
    @yuansalen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello

  • @mikeygonzalez2329
    @mikeygonzalez2329 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Philly mrf

  • @UnitedPebbles
    @UnitedPebbles 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Or how about address the issue at home, thus reducing the effort of classifying "waste" objects into either functionality or chemical content?
    I.e. give consumer an incentive to recycle, make it easier to classify their recycle "waste"?
    I mean you only have metal, paper, plastic, glass. Metal and glass is rarer than paper and plastic. It doesn't have to be perfect. These materials are not pure in the beginning, nor are re -use because the materials need to be pure.

  • @KevinSun242
    @KevinSun242 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:03 I hate watching people place their bins like that... making the operator of an automatic garbage truck get out anyways to turn it facing the right way.

  • @DeanWilson-i8c
    @DeanWilson-i8c 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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  • @user-sl4rh9gl5e
    @user-sl4rh9gl5e 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    New York separate paper can or bottles, this way better