Yeah I find it laughable that our liberal friends espous how much they care, but if they really did they would inform themselves and be pushing for things that actually work, like regulations against planned obsolescence, right to repair, wood stoves, and nuclear energy.
I see this exact point in every thing! And I thought I was was the only one. Everything can be made to last for generations. In medicine and surgery disposable plastic is probably needed. That’s all. But it’s never a sensible thing that runs the world.
In order to ban it, you need government agencies that are properly funded to police it, and punish companies when they're caught doing it. I think we all anecdotally know it's a real thing, but to prove it scientifically, or in a court? That might be difficult. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, though.
Yup, I work in an auto shop and I see the results of planned obsolescence every day, people literally sobbing because their vehicle is falling apart and they got it a year ago. Or the fact that these cars are built like shit so almost every job is a warranty job where the manufacturer can somehow pay you less for warranty work
@@grantquinones yes, more government is the answer, the right application of it. Not random passing of laws for nothing. If libertarianism worked, it would’ve been at some point the dominant force on the planet. Instead, it’s literally been the beta male bitch ideology of those who could not compete in the political sphere since the dawn of time. There is no third perfect option. You will either use the government to get the results that you want which are positive for the world, or you will let evil people take up in the government who will do what they want to you, regardless of what is right or wrong, and only what to advance their personal agendas.
@@ct1762 why funny, its true. i remember when the caravan first came out , nobody (and i worked for chrysler dealership back the) knew how to work on them because the whole platform was new.
I'm rocking a 95 buick lesabre. Windows don't roll down and the Wipers don't work unless they do but when they're working you can't turn them off. I put a little piece of black tape over the check engine light. Not a rust spot to speak of. Stops on a dime.
the info is out there if u are willing to listen, read. there is no government power that is looking out for the betterment of the people. NONE.. stop buying their shit
As a former sanitation worker, I can assure you even though a different truck shows up, 90% of the things you put by the curb get put In the same large hole
It's because electric cars (green new deal) has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with control. They want to be able to shut off your car when you speak out. Or when a covid like event happens again
Yep. For a while I lived in Burbank and paid the landlord for a special recycling pickup and Burbank for separating the trash, lol. $20 per month combined. Know what happened to those special dumpsters? They went into the same hole and we're never separated. It's all a scam. Gore became a billionaire pushing this on dumb people.
It's not a matter of bugs. It's physics and batteries. Batteries carry such a small amount of energy compared to gasoline all the compromises needed you get something decent out of that little energy just limits them too much. As a second car one would be great but as your only transportation they have way too many issues. That is why that idiot who wanted to make all military vehicles electric by 2030 was roundly laughed out of the room Or would have been if anyone in this administration understood a thing about physics or engineering or chemistry or any kind of science or rational thinking at all. PS lousy batteries are also the main reason why neither wind nor solar will likely every be suitable for backbone power generation.
Your Dad gave you some solid advice. Every make, model that's come out in my lifetime has had issues the first year. Some way bigger than others, but they're issues all the same. Another one is never but new get one a year or two old( low miles) let someone else eat the first year deprecation. Some cars loose 1/4 to 1/2 the price. That should be a crime
I mean it's definitely less harmful than plastics which break down to microplastics that end up being a huge issue, but it still definitely counts as pollution, just because it sinks and you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there lol, luckily glass is just heated sand so it's mostly fine, crabs have even used small bottles as homes.
Hybrids with electric power assist are the least worst of the green cars. Hybrids with ICE assist can have big repair bills when their special little engines need to be repaired out of warranty.
My guess is that you are from Norway, the Netherlands take the 2nd position after Norway. But a few major things that explains why your country and my country easily got the pace to speed up with EV's: very agressive governments, lot of money avaiable per capita, esp Norway ( not much people at all and almost everyone is rich or near rich ), in the Netherlands the infrastructure is easy to install charging stations and is top knotch in the world I have to say. Countries like the USA, Brasil, India, China, Russia, most of Africa, Australia, Canada....not so difficult to imagine why it is not easy for them to electrify....and for Norway: you did earn your mega incomes with fosil fuel in the first place LOL, in the Netherlands lot of tax subsidies that started the revolution, easy peasy here also :) And many company cars EV are coming avaiable now for private persons, so I gues my country will be fully electrified within 10-15 years from now, Norway max 10 years or so?
Most plastic is not recyclable. When they realized this they kept the recyclable lie going because plastic was getting a black eye. And it worked. Even today people put plastic in separate containers thinking it will be recycled.
Most recycled plastic is actually worse in quality than the product it was recycled from. Most recycled plastic is actually down cycled. The answer to plastic and electronic waste isn't recycling, it's producing far less of it. That means making things out of far more durable materials that are reusable and or making stuff that doesn't break after a set period of time. It also means making stuff much more repairable by average people.
What he’s leaving out is that giant island of plastic that was floating around in the Pacific Ocean wasn’t just plastic that washed off our beaches, it was dumped in the ocean by Chinese cargo ships that was supposed to be recycled. But they weren’t recycling, they just charged for it. Like a broadcast network used to say, the more you know!
The ccp is the worst people in our world. If we have to go to war with anyone i say communist party in china. We would win easy, and you wanna know why? China messed up with their aggression, and tried to bully too many people. Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and even Vietnam have lost ocean because of china. Australia is constantly in a pissing contest with them as well. If a massive south asia alliance with usa and nato hits Beijing it will then rally the revolutionaries in hong kong and other provinces against the communist party. I say its worth it.
Ocean Cleanup is working to remove that floating garbage, but they'll probably never succeed. They've decided to focus more on keeping the garbage out of the oceans in the first place by cleaning up rivers. They haven't said anything about Chinese cargo ships just dumping it all in the oceans.
@@andrewhobbins1915 expensive and garbage because we are sliding into communism and china ownership under biden. Pay attention. EVs represent control.
We had a Chrysler back around 2001; Some of them could run on pure ethanol. . Why not advertise that and put in an ethanol pump? But the dealership told no one Smh, it's all bs
Man it's more the owners of the company. They make decisions on the direction of shows on certain issues dependent on public knowledge and opinion. For awhile there people were leaning more left on terms of objectives for the direction of the nation. But these companies see the efforts of people on the right showing the truth of deceptive practices. They have little choice ultimately. Stay with the wrong side and lose your businesses.
Yeah, people have been saying that since his "Politically Incorrect" days, butnrust that he will NEVER be a real Conservative. He is a bleeding heart liberal who only occasionally says things that will bring Conservatives to watch his show
That’s ignorant. Complaining about how dumb science was in the past. That coal percentage from 50 years ago and now showing a one percent decrease while ignoring the per cap increases. So disappointed in Bill
@@pingpongpaddlehead People with NASTeC and/or ISCeT certs or related. Before the age of "don't swallow battery acid" warnings, once upon a time there used to be instruction manuals for vehicles written in large part by the design engineer on in-depth maintenance of the vehicle, acting as a guide enabling the end user to be his own technician.
@@GTA2SWcity fair enough. The good thing about mechanical aptitude is that AI cant touch it for the next hudred years or so. Im happy to be an electrical contractor at times like these
I just drove a 25 year old fully electric RAV4 Toyota. It’s still drive fine on the original batteries. Imagine what we could have done if we hadn’t have listens to people like this man. We could have developed cheap electric vehicles, Tesla would have never existed and we would have energy storage so we didn’t need fossil fuels on the grid at all. We could have had clean and cheap renewables by now.
I used to do maintenance at highway service stations. There are holes in the counter with different plackards for glass, plastic or paper. Open up the cupboard door and it 1 garbage can underneath and it all got hucked into a compactor lol
No, just full of trash. Especially if it's connected to trash, as in you take take lid off and can see that the trash and the recyclables go into the same garbage bag.
It's beautiful to watch Bill get more and more conservative as he gets older and realizes he has been lied to all these years by his own liberal party.. GLORIOUS!!
He needs to stay a bit more up to date and not be such a negative Nancy. Coal is dying, EV’s and solar are growing. My model Y is by far the best car I have ever had and should be at twice the price of the gas sipping 2006 Prius, 2012 Elantra, and 2017 Ioniq I once had. An MPGe twice that of the hybrids and charging it on solar which raises that much higher definitely make me feel I am helping make a difference.
You can’t be serious. How many people can afford a model Y? How many are able to afford solar. You may have the ability dumb ass, but the vast majority do not. The only difference you are making, is make believe.
@@whatsittooya3013 Yes fair enough but there are a dozen Apple products that either flopped in their first versions or were abandoned and never spoken of again.
@@leogetz3570 as a citizen of Russia and the USA, I sincerely view the entirety of the USA and most of the west as this episode. If you wonder why, just put yourself in my shoes and consider what I see every day.
In 2021, I invested in Solar Panels, Home Battery Storage, a Smart Meter, 3-Phase Grid electric, Dual-rate cheap tariff, fast car chargers, an electric car and a heat pump. In 2023 it was all going so well, my Wife bought her first electric car but our electric use has quadrupled. The funny thing about all this, is 2024 it'll cost us nothing to run the house and two cars on electricity. We get paid more from the Grid exporting our power, than we get charged for using it. Cheers 😊
Fun fact: Many developed countries smuggle their waste plastics to 3rd World countries as a dumping ground. The cost of recycling plastics is far more higher than making new ones.
Yeah I worked at a Procter & Gamble plant and they had three separate bins, one for trash, one for plastic and one for glass and guess what they put all of them in the same bag. It's all a facade
Thats because they figured out IT ALL ENDS UP AT THE SAME PLACE UNSORTED. So why bother. It was a scam since the beginning. Don't play into their derangement. That goes the the Trans mental illnesses, zhe/they shit.
Right. The fuel required to handle and process recycling alone is enough that they don't really do it. They do provide for you to separate it. It ends up that you just think you recycled.
I have a degree in Environmental Science, and I firmly believe that the most environmental contribution you can do is to use your current products for the longest time possible, whether it’s a car, a phone, a tv, etc..
I've been driving my 2005 corolla since 2006. I tell people 'do you realize how long ago 2006 was??' Those things seriously last forever. At only 184k miles, I'll probably have the damn thing for the next 10 years at least!
@@metalgrinch My 1985 Toyota pickup is running fine 230,000 miles barely broke in. I also drive an 02 Lincoln LS, I've looked at and driven $100+K car that aren't as comfortable, so I'll drive it. My Shelby GT 350R is different but I put very few miles on it a year.
Coal is down to 17% in the USA in 2023 and dropping even further. Market share of EV's in the USA was 7.6% in 2023, but that was up 40% compared to 2022. Transitions are hard and even harder on the impatient. Nose to the grindstone and keep pushing.
I bought a 2009 Toyota Prius that I bought about 5 years ago for 7 grand. I put over 100k miles on it had no serious issues and just sold it a few weeks ago for 3.7k. I loved that thing. The amount that I saved on gas for those 100k miles compared to a regular car paid for the car in and of itself. Great car. Held its value well. No regrets. Loved the thing
In the past I wanted to buy a used Prius, but the catalytic converters get stolen ALL THE TIME in California…. Even in the safest areas. The criminals are completely unafraid. I know multiple people who had their catalytic converters stolen from their Prius. One was in broad daylight.
OK, I bought a manual transmission Honda in 2004, got great mileage, put over 300k miles on her and sold her 2 years ago to someone who is still enjoying driving that car. And guess what? Building my car didn't decimate the environment around the factory, and when it does stop being usable, the engine won't leak toxins in a landfill. How special do you feel now, skippy?
I have one of those too. Unfortunately the timing of getting it was poor as I started working 100% remote right after. Have put in just a few thousand kms in the six something years I've had it. Solid ride though and performance is perfectly fine for anything 60-80+ mph, never feeling like I'm slow, I drive it really hard :D
I own an 09 Prius bought it 4yrs ago. 💕 it 42 mi.per gal don't have to charge it. It charges it's self. You are right about the catalytic converter. Sold my original converter. Made a little money..car has been almost maintenance free.. just oil.. I'm going to get another one 👍😎
No, people care, but they care about important things.. 1) cars, don't last as long as SUV's and Trucks.. but the cost just as much.. SO, the car, is a lesser value.. I buy a truck because I can do more with it.. It will last years longer, and it's easier for ME to work on.. 2) Wind and solar electricity is not efficient enough to replace coal fired plants.. It's not cost effective.. THAT is what people give AF about.. value.. Bang for the buck.. the buck they worked hard for..
Most people don't give a fuck, that's why we have to care for them. - Gasoline $8/gall (like it has been in the UK for 20 years) - Raise fuel economy standards to 54 mpg (like it has been in China for 14 years) - Go all in on nuclear power (like Ontario did 45 years ago) - Tax credits up to $15,000 for EVs - Carbon-cap-and-trade - Eco-tax, and eco-tax credit
@@JoseJimeniz So what does one do if everyone does switch to an ev and the current grids don't support them (because they won't)? Also, how many African children do you think are going to die in slave labor the Congo this year digging up cobalt for the western worlds needs? Should we give a fuck about them, because you don't seem to.
In Huntsville, Alabama, they had a bit of a scandal when it was discovered that all the glass that people were bringing to be recycled, and that they had been saying was recycled, had in fact not been recycled. Get this, they even had a rep on TV news saying something like "Come on, it's not like you've never been lied to before. "
Don't lose hope. Many places have much more successful recycling programs, and things will get better. Lots of glass in Alabama is broken down into a smooth rubble that’s used as fill material or gravel.
You can drive a good car/truck/SUV for decades with proper maintenance, unlike electric cars that have to get their batteries replaced every 10 years, which is crazy expensive and a nightmare to get recycled.
Right, there’s those all important feelings again 😂! Feelings are much easier to generate, even over imaginary facts, than the efforts to do something that’s actually planned out and executed properly to justify the good feelings that it would/should. Just saying…
I managed a welding shop that repaired waste management equipment when I first got out of welding school and I can tell you for fact that all the "recycling" facilities were like 20 people who just pulled a token amount of glass, aluminum cans, and laundry detergent bottles out and threw 95% of the rest back in a trash truck and dumped it at the landfill. They also had "green" natural gas fueled diesel motors on some of the trucks that supposedly used natural gas that came from the dump. It didn't, the fueling station was next to the shop and it was plumbed into the natural gas pipeline. It's a BIG FAT HOAX THEY USE AS TAX RIP OFFS. I accidentally ordered the wrong the wrong parts for the trucks once that should have been about 3 grand and it ended up being massive parts that was almost 40 thousand dollars. They NEVER SAID A WORD. They told me to hide them behind the building. They use the old trash trucks as tax write offs too so they were glad I did that. They got caught doing it. They paid a little fine and keep on doing it to this day. It's all a scam. All the way to the tippy top of the federal pyramid.
You should talk about your experiences more. You can help the people that really want to make this place last longer. Get those federales the fuck out of they don't want to do their job!
Yep--80% to 90% of recycling is a money-laundering scam. Steel and cardboard are about the only things that actually use less energy to recycle than they take to create.
I drive a 2001 dodge Ram 1500 pickup. I fix it myself and it’s lasted this many years. I have a lower carbon footprint than a cheaply made new car driver. How many cars have you had since 2001? Ya… trucks are not the issue.
ALWAYS RECYCLE ALUMINUM CANS. Plastic is a whole other story but aluminum is 100% recyclable! Since humans have been digging it out of the ground 70% of all of it is still being used because it’s so easy to recycle. Plastic bottles can also be turned into filament for a typical thermoplastic’s 3D printer if you have one. Lastly, the benefit (imo) of an EV is if you can generate all of your own electricity at home (e.g., solar/wind with batteries) you can just fuel your car for free every night. Plus it’s easier to repair and so long as companies don’t follow in teslas footsteps, it should be cheaper to maintain.
I worked at a gas station, it had a recycling bin at the front by the entrance to the store and the exit of the car wash. those bags were collected, and thrown away. to make people feel good, 4 extra bags were thrown away every single day. I asked if we could just get rid of it, and was told it had to be there by an ordinance. nothing in the ordinance said it had to be recycled, just that it had to be there
I work in a large hospital. There are recycle bins throughout the buildings. Plastics, metal, paper, glass all gathered up...and then it's thrown away in dumpsters with the regular non-recycled garbage. Because it turns out recycling isn't cost effective.
Yeah my city forces us to "recycle" and if we don't we get fined, but all the stuff from our recycle bins get tossed in the landfill along with the regular trash. I had no idea until a friend of mine that works for sanitation told me about it. Lets all put on a good show about how we are helping the environment.
hot rodding is the truest form of recycling, You take an old car body, put it on a newer engine and transmission and suspension and it is great because it doesn't fill up junk yards. But they don't want that, because hot rods are fun and creative and you learn things building them. Hot rods should be a required school class.
The reas9n most stuff doesn't get recycled is because if someone puts one wrong thing in the bin or even just dumps water down it, (or puts a pizza box in a cardboard recycled, because the grease ruins it) they have to throw it all out. None of it can get recycled. So many times recycling plants have to throw everything away because one person messed up or thought the blue bin was for trash
People separate their trash, including plastic. It just doesn’t get recycled. Most goes in the same exact place. Then you have all the appliances and machines that break down in two months after the warranty ends instead of 25-30 years, like they used to.
That's what they really need to fix. Planned obsolescence. If we built things as good as we COULD build them, they'd last forever, but we don't, because then you can't sell them new stuff a year later.
@@demiserofd while yes there is still the fact that the cost of the goods would go to 3 to 4 times the price they are currently which in the long term is fine but the people who are more on the edge then the others will fall behind further for a while. Some people will be able to repair the goods like in previous generations the way we manufacture stuff now would make it more difficult too as it used to be common parts between them all now everything is unique to that brand or even that model from them look at cars they are going the same way.
@@andreweastaughffe1070replacing the cheap plastic or weak zinc parts with good steel parts won't cost manufacturer much more but sales go way down. Price for consumer will increase substantially because of limited sales not due to better parts.
You act like that is a reason to not bother when in reality it is a reason to be angry at the elite who are laughing while destroying the planet. You should recycle and the government should be making sure that that recycling is actually happening. Billionaires laugh as you vote in their climate change denying puppets.
@@vincentenk4449right id love me a 72 monte. Or an 84 with the 454.. currently i just have a 74 stingray 350 with the 4 speed muncie and 84 z28 currently rebuilding a 350 for it. Considering ls swapping it with some turbos. Well see on that one😂
That's not true. The vast majority of pollution is generated during car usage and not production. With current American energy mix a new Tesla would pay for itself in savings in pollution in just 2 - 3 years, depending on your car's mpg and how much you drive obviously. I know it's intuitive to think that if we use we have it will turn into savings, but it's not the case with talking about electric cars.
Toyota Prius is one of the few vehicles that never has a failed year in America! There is no car that can claim better than Prius! US coal usage has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2022. You can tell Americans anything nowadays, Fox News style!
At least the one using the keyboard here isn’t brainwashing little kids into thinking her policies will have any positive effect. She is backed by the very same corporations that violate nature, because they know they can ignore the rules thanks to lobbyists, but not their compatitors: small businesses.
Planned obsolescence and corporations intentionally making products of throwaway quality just to increase profits I’d imagine is also a large contributor to the waste problem.
Water heaters used to have linings that would make them last 25 years. Refrigerators had accessible coils so you could actually clean them for decades rather than have them get clogged up, suffocate, and burn out after exactly 13 years. Recycling isn't the answer. Getting rid of planned obsolescence is better.
@@jasonkrisko6217 It's much, much harder and you effectively have to remove the entire condenser unit to thoroughly clean them.. What was wrong with the way refrigerators used to be, except that they were too easy to maintain and lasted too long for our modern throw-away economy?
@@cheta616 well at least he's willing to say that we're headed in the wrong direction. Too many people with a platform have bought into it and won't state the obvious truth: the emperor's new clothes are really a scam.
Conveniently ignores "eco friendly" oil, gas, coal and uranium extraction. Definitely not any massive, long lasting, devastating to human & environmental health or anything
Not to mention how ridiculously expensive it is to get these cars serviced. They have to use grounded tools so they won't get electrocuted not to mention the battery under the car can easily explode like an old Pinto back in the day and melt your flesh with the battery acid... Just sayin' 🤷♂️
@@mistrmistr6417 That's a lie. When working on any of the high voltage stuff, they just pull out one or two connectors and the EV battery is completely isolated from the rest of the car. And the battery itself almost never needs servicing. Also, the battery is at no risk of explosion unless someone purposely takes a large drill, shoves it into the bottom of the car and drills through the thick protective metal layer covering the battery (which would take multiple seconds to do).
If we are all dependent upon am electrical grid they can track and control us very easily. Not that they are even close to being able to handle even a marginal increase in electric grid demand now, lol.
The tesla which is full of batteries that need cobalt and lithium mined by slaves and children, by hand, in dangerous mines that pollute the local groundwater with arsenic for miles and miles around. And yes I know, so are all our phones and other battery powered electronics.
Not to mention how the batteries are made, and the fact that you have to replace them every couple of years, and the fact that they're barely recyclable
right. I find it interesting that the US produces the cleanest energy, but out of payback they promote the dirtier energy. Biden begged to buy it. Meanwhile China builds a coal fired plant a week, but we have to turn Green now! China could destroy us economically.
They also have their citizens rationing water because of water shortages. California does not have a water shortage, they grow crops that need LOTS of water in a region where it doesn't rain much and the farming industry lines the pockets of politicians who sends the bulk of the ground water to those crops.
He is honest! Toyota Prius is one of the few vehicles that never has a failed year in America! There is no car that can claim better than Prius! US coal usage has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2022. You can tell Americans anything nowadays, Fox News style!
@@robbetts Maybe, but he did say clearly that "both cars sucked" and the coal statistics which he gave are true. Reality is a hard thing to accept for many people.
During school I had a temp. job working at a Recycling Centre. All the aluminum cans were put into a giant hole in the ground and flattened by a bulldozer. I asked the guy driving the bulldozer: when are the cans eventually melted down and turned into new cans? He said, never. He told me that they have been throwing cans in that hole for 25 years. I asked him why don’t they use the old cans to make new ones? He said it’s because of the paint on the can. It’s too expensive to get rid of the paint. Anything that is used for human consumption has to be perfect. The paint would contaminate the new cans. It is cheaper to use newly mined aluminum. I asked him : so, why do we do all this if it is for nothing? He said it’s so people can feel good about themselves. A lot of the recycling business is based on smoke and mirrors. It's mostly in place to be used as a tool for politicians to virtue signal.
Consumers only do it because we were guilted into it by corporations. This allowed them to keep using the cheapest type of packaging nstead of seeking out sustainable materials.
There is plenty of need for aluminum that is not for consumption. Also, the heat of melting it would burn off the paint and then all impurities get skimmed off of the top. Aluminum is the only recyclable that makes monetary sense.
That's not the issue. The issue is actually the opposite. Tons of people recycle, but we don't have enough recycling centers to keep up with the volume. So tons of stuff that gets recycled ends up being thrown away because they can't keep up with the volume.
@@bunny_0288 that and recycling is a scam it doesnt actually work its a marketing play made up in the 1960s to get people to stop buying glass and metal bottles all the "environmental" movements are completely fabricated, including the current climate change cult its not based on any science, its "95% of scientists agree when we fund them to say what we want"
@@westerlywinds5684 people dont normally throw out trash bins, how would that be harming the environment lol do you think every plastic thing harms the environment just by existing
If someone recycles properly, the recyclables will go to a recycling plant and handled correctly. If someone has an incinerator, the trash will be burned and then afterward the plastic and other recyclables will be sifted and separated. The right way to do things is like what I just wrote. The smoke has to be filtered as much as possible. The EPA has to be realistic. Why do people allow to polute the ocean or the land. The easiest way and the most cost efficient way is to incinerate and to recycle. Let's get serious here. Think about it. EPA is supposed to look out for the environment. They should focus on all aspects of it. It is possible to do this. Improvements can be made and modifications can be made with time. EPA has to cooperate. Leave money out of this. Think of what is best for mankind.
It's more economic, and it's more environmentally friendly to drive a car that is going to last longer. Then it is to drive a car because it makes you feel better.
An EV on the road for 3 years, roughly 36k miles is carbon equal to a gas car. That includes all the mining. Any older gas car is not more environmental. It's more economic for someone's money and I get that. If someone's buying around 30k price though they should buy an EV. It's more economic than a new Camry or Civic.
I kept getting letters from the city about putting plastic in the bin that wasn't recyclable, even though it had the little recycle logo. I got worried about fines, so now plastic goes in the trash.
There are three major problems with recycling: 1. The materials need to be separated either at source or destination: glass, plastic, paper. If you keep it simple on the source side like US, the destination has to sort it but adds to the cost meaning they most likely will not do anything if economics don't work. If you add 3 bins at the source, they take up space so you will need more bins in office areas and such. 2. There are different grades of plastic denoted by a number somewhere on the bottle. Some plastics can't be recycled or can be recycled only in certain areas or using some procedures not available in other places. 3. The material thrown has to be clean. So the person throwing is probably not going to do this step in the first place. If you get a Starbucks coffee for example which has recyclable plastic, the sticker on the cup needs to be removed and the inside needs to be cleaned with water before putting it in the recycle bin. No one is going to do that.
The city has stated policy about what types of plastic is recycled and they provide you the means to let them collect it. It's your personal responsibility to dispose of what they can't accept if that was actually what you cared to do. Ya know, being America and supposedly claiming to be a personally responsible individual with freeodms and all. But you're just dumb and pathetic and think everything works like a 2d cartoon.
@@SahilP2648 thumbs up. Will take it farther. Plastic recyclers only want#1 & #2. The rest gets sold overseas... Lord know what they do with it. I'd separate, and I think most Americans would if there was a realistic bin system. The biggest problem, as I see it, is the supply chain. Feel free to disagree. Most suburbs have a garbage truck that stops, an "arm" grabs the garbage tote, and dumps it in. Later a recycling truck comes by and does same to recycling tote. Your triple bin system would have to allow one guy in truck pick all three containers quickly dump them into separated sections of truck. Nobody want to pay for trucks to drive by 4 times! You create a solution for this, and you will be one wealthy man.
Our area got rid of recycling pick up after deciding it wasn’t cost effective. As an alternative they set up a few recycling drop off spots which turned out to be dumpsters with stickers on it telling you it’s for recycling. Yea, sure it is
I think it's more like "I've never looked into the longterm industrial projects so I don't know why things happened or what's going to happen next, but I've found a few random stats so imma take a big guess".
@@MrKaiRobinson Remember the hole in the ozone being a big problem 10ish years ago? You know why we all stopped talking about it? Because the science was clear, that certain aerosol products were causing the problem, so humans cut back on those chemicals worldwide and we solved that problem. Remember acid rain? same thing. The science was clear and we added scrubbers to all the coal burning plants to reduce the co2 being dissolved in the rain water and we pretty much solved that one too. We can make things better, it just costs a little bit of money that corporations dont want to pay. Bill is blaming consumers for buying trucks instead of blaming manufacturers for making trucks with shit gas mileage.
@@scottashe984 I think you missed the point as well. The "cure" isn't electrified or hybrid cars, it's access to public transport and the dismantling of car culture. This is barely any more than a stopgap.
He just lied about the Toyota Prius! The most sought after vehicle in America besides Camry and Corolla! He lied about Tesla too, one of the the biggest companies in the world and growing by the minute!
Part of the reason why we have larger cars is because there is no incentive to make smaller cars. The EPA fuel standards are based on size and wheelbase. Larger cars can be made just fuel efficient enough to meet the demands. Smaller cars are at the point where they need to have 50+mpg just to meet the bare minimum. This is why you no longer see the Toyota Helix (1/2 small trucks) on the roads anymore. Or things like station wagons which had more space than SUVs. The EPA won't let them be built. And every year the EPA tightens those standards. The EPA is being sneaky about banning gasoline powered cars. Soon even the bigger vehicles will not be able to meet those standards.
Electric cars do not matter unless we power the electrical grid with renewable energy first. If your car runs on electricity but we generate the electricity by burning coal and gas you didn't change anything.
When recycling came into fashion, I meticulously separated my garbage. Until one day, I saw the garbage truck driver all of my carefully sorted garbage dumped into one bin, and then, that bin dumped into his truck. When asked why he did that, he replied that it all ends up in same place anyway. The gulling thing was that the municipality has a “recycling” fee added to the taxes. Apparently, silly me, I thought the recycling fee was for the refuse, but it is actually for recycling my money into their tax revenue.
Almost like you have some sort of responsibility to hold your local government and every government over you accountable and stay vigilant to ensure it cares and acts in your interest rather than the elites you've let corrupt it so fully.
The most ecological thing is to have goods that last
Planned obsolescence is the true evil of our consumerist age
Well said olivier
Yeah I find it laughable that our liberal friends espous how much they care, but if they really did they would inform themselves and be pushing for things that actually work, like regulations against planned obsolescence, right to repair, wood stoves, and nuclear energy.
Exactly. A dude with a 2006 Corolla is more eco-friendly than someone with a brand new Tesla.
I see this exact point in every thing! And I thought I was was the only one. Everything can be made to last for generations. In medicine and surgery disposable plastic is probably needed. That’s all. But it’s never a sensible thing that runs the world.
Ban planned obsolescence if you really want to save the environment.
In order to ban it, you need government agencies that are properly funded to police it, and punish companies when they're caught doing it. I think we all anecdotally know it's a real thing, but to prove it scientifically, or in a court? That might be difficult. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, though.
@@ronarnold1507 So more governments the answer no thanks
Yup, I work in an auto shop and I see the results of planned obsolescence every day, people literally sobbing because their vehicle is falling apart and they got it a year ago. Or the fact that these cars are built like shit so almost every job is a warranty job where the manufacturer can somehow pay you less for warranty work
@@grantquinones And this everyone is why conservatism is going to doom our society.
@@grantquinones yes, more government is the answer, the right application of it. Not random passing of laws for nothing. If libertarianism worked, it would’ve been at some point the dominant force on the planet. Instead, it’s literally been the beta male bitch ideology of those who could not compete in the political sphere since the dawn of time. There is no third perfect option. You will either use the government to get the results that you want which are positive for the world, or you will let evil people take up in the government who will do what they want to you, regardless of what is right or wrong, and only what to advance their personal agendas.
Every car guy knows you never buy a 1st gen. Rookie mistake.
@@Nuggeteer-iq4oj true!
this is actually a funny comment. thanks!
@@ct1762 why funny, its true. i remember when the caravan first came out , nobody (and i worked for chrysler dealership back the) knew how to work on them because the whole platform was new.
@@maddhatter3564 oh i agree. something about it made me laugh. probably all the people paying over sticker to be the guinea pigs somewhat
Except if it's a SKYLINE r32-34.
I adore people who still drive cars from the early 2000s. They are the true eco friendly people.
Thank you it’s cause I’m poor
I got a penchant for low mileage 10+ year old manuals... Efficient little machines.
@@presidentmoose3790 we should be thankful for having a car at all. 😆
I own a 2002 tahoe, a 2002 silverado, and a 2004 corvette. Refuse to buy anything new. I'll maintain these until they return to earth.
I'm rocking a 95 buick lesabre. Windows don't roll down and the Wipers don't work unless they do but when they're working you can't turn them off. I put a little piece of black tape over the check engine light. Not a rust spot to speak of. Stops on a dime.
Bill is getting more red pilled with each passing day.
I'm liking him more and more
the info is out there if u are willing to listen, read. there is no government power that is looking out for the betterment of the people. NONE.. stop buying their shit
Being liberal centrist is what you call being red pilled. So if you as a right winger don’t worship Trump, have you been blue pilled?
Well, he is dissilusioned liberal. As plenty of his (and mine) generation liberals.
@@unorthodoxconsulting5716 Yeah, he's really dumbing down his rhetoric now, all that red meat being thrown at you gets you all hyped up.
As a former sanitation worker, I can assure you even though a different truck shows up, 90% of the things you put by the curb get put In the same large hole
I’ve done construction in trash plants and I can second this
And you get charged extra for recycling in some areas
I went to the land fill the other week and while I unloaded my truck full of trash I watched 5 blue recycling trucks unload next to me
@@Anonymous98630 I mean I can’t say for certain but that’s what it seems like after I saw that 😂😂
I've seen multiple "recycling" trucks at landfills.
We burn coal a lot cleaner than we did back in the day. We honestly need to swap to nuclear power.
Like all this anti-EV propaganda, it wasnt correct to begin with. Only 17% of energy production is coal these days. Far less than the 37% they said.
Welcome to liberal news media
It's because electric cars (green new deal) has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with control. They want to be able to shut off your car when you speak out. Or when a covid like event happens again
We definitely do but its not in the interests of the elites so its never going to happen
The coal thing in 1973 vs 2019 is obvi because of CHINA
Those “blue” bins are for additional fees. The city loves raking in free money.
Yep. For a while I lived in Burbank and paid the landlord for a special recycling pickup and Burbank for separating the trash, lol. $20 per month combined. Know what happened to those special dumpsters? They went into the same hole and we're never separated. It's all a scam. Gore became a billionaire pushing this on dumb people.
Liberals fall for everything
Have... have you never been to a garbage/recycle depot?? Do you even know how the sorting works?
@@mr.ashenfire2624 yes, they sort out stuff that can be burned, and the others to ship to a 3rd world country.
Don't forget while plastic recycling is a complete scam - metal and paper recycling are very much a thing. Not all recycling is ridiculous
That's one piece of advice my dad gave me. Never buy the first year of any model since they're still working out the bugs.
This exactly
Meanwhile, they want to force you to take a brand new jab...
Yep.
It's not a matter of bugs. It's physics and batteries. Batteries carry such a small amount of energy compared to gasoline all the compromises needed you get something decent out of that little energy just limits them too much. As a second car one would be great but as your only transportation they have way too many issues. That is why that idiot who wanted to make all military vehicles electric by 2030 was roundly laughed out of the room Or would have been if anyone in this administration understood a thing about physics or engineering or chemistry or any kind of science or rational thinking at all.
PS lousy batteries are also the main reason why neither wind nor solar will likely every be suitable for backbone power generation.
Your Dad gave you some solid advice. Every make, model that's come out in my lifetime has had issues the first year. Some way bigger than others, but they're issues all the same. Another one is never but new get one a year or two old( low miles) let someone else eat the first year deprecation. Some cars loose 1/4 to 1/2 the price. That should be a crime
You know what doesn't pollute the ocean? Glass bottles.
and paper bags....
Glass has many advantages, but plastic os still pushed
Yeah, they sink to the bottom...
I mean it's definitely less harmful than plastics which break down to microplastics that end up being a huge issue, but it still definitely counts as pollution, just because it sinks and you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there lol, luckily glass is just heated sand so it's mostly fine, crabs have even used small bottles as homes.
Exactly
40.8 % of cars in my country are now hybrid/electric and the number keeps rising
Those rav 4 hybrids are proving popular
Hybrids with electric power assist are the least worst of the green cars. Hybrids with ICE assist can have big repair bills when their special little engines need to be repaired out of warranty.
My guess is that you are from Norway, the Netherlands take the 2nd position after Norway. But a few major things that explains why your country and my country easily got the pace to speed up with EV's: very agressive governments, lot of money avaiable per capita, esp Norway ( not much people at all and almost everyone is rich or near rich ), in the Netherlands the infrastructure is easy to install charging stations and is top knotch in the world I have to say. Countries like the USA, Brasil, India, China, Russia, most of Africa, Australia, Canada....not so difficult to imagine why it is not easy for them to electrify....and for Norway: you did earn your mega incomes with fosil fuel in the first place LOL, in the Netherlands lot of tax subsidies that started the revolution, easy peasy here also :) And many company cars EV are coming avaiable now for private persons, so I gues my country will be fully electrified within 10-15 years from now, Norway max 10 years or so?
@@napke8571 Denmark actually,
Most plastic is not recyclable. When they realized this they kept the recyclable lie going because plastic was getting a black eye. And it worked. Even today people put plastic in separate containers thinking it will be recycled.
Most recycled plastic is actually worse in quality than the product it was recycled from. Most recycled plastic is actually down cycled.
The answer to plastic and electronic waste isn't recycling, it's producing far less of it. That means making things out of far more durable materials that are reusable and or making stuff that doesn't break after a set period of time. It also means making stuff much more repairable by average people.
What he’s leaving out is that giant island of plastic that was floating around in the Pacific Ocean wasn’t just plastic that washed off our beaches, it was dumped in the ocean by Chinese cargo ships that was supposed to be recycled. But they weren’t recycling, they just charged for it. Like a broadcast network used to say, the more you know!
The ccp is the worst people in our world. If we have to go to war with anyone i say communist party in china. We would win easy, and you wanna know why? China messed up with their aggression, and tried to bully too many people. Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and even Vietnam have lost ocean because of china. Australia is constantly in a pissing contest with them as well. If a massive south asia alliance with usa and nato hits Beijing it will then rally the revolutionaries in hong kong and other provinces against the communist party. I say its worth it.
Where oh where is the comment?
@@michaelwoolley576 indeed! 🤷🏽♂️
@@JDzAlive im used to being censored. I pretty much went on a rant about how the ccp is the greatest enemy of all nations on earth.
Ocean Cleanup is working to remove that floating garbage, but they'll probably never succeed. They've decided to focus more on keeping the garbage out of the oceans in the first place by cleaning up rivers.
They haven't said anything about Chinese cargo ships just dumping it all in the oceans.
The main issue is that things cost like they will last you forever but they break in a year
This is because profit and greed are the foundation of what all too many lives are built on. 😔
I agree. They are selling expensive garbage.
@@frankowsianik168 because of inflation caused by the fed. Because of their regulations. Bidens forcing EVs on ppl idiot. Its communist.
@@andrewhobbins1915 expensive and garbage because we are sliding into communism and china ownership under biden. Pay attention. EVs represent control.
We had a Chrysler back around 2001; Some of them could run on pure ethanol. . Why not advertise that and put in an ethanol pump? But the dealership told no one Smh, it's all bs
He said global electricity is 37%. In the U.S., it’s 20% coal 80 percent renewable energy.
80% renewable. ROTFLMAO, what the F are you smoking?
Norway followed. Europe and China are following. And 10 years later, Americans will do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
I swear Bill is like a 22 year old guy just being introduced to red pill
"If a man is not a liberal at thirty, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative at sixty, he has no head."
Lmfao, I wanna see him go through a Tate influenced arc.
Man it's more the owners of the company. They make decisions on the direction of shows on certain issues dependent on public knowledge and opinion. For awhile there people were leaning more left on terms of objectives for the direction of the nation. But these companies see the efforts of people on the right showing the truth of deceptive practices. They have little choice ultimately. Stay with the wrong side and lose your businesses.
Yeah, people have been saying that since his "Politically Incorrect" days, butnrust that he will NEVER be a real Conservative.
He is a bleeding heart liberal who only occasionally says things that will bring Conservatives to watch his show
it's called controlled opposition, my 22yo guy.
"Do the right thing" The right thing as in what they tell you is the right thing, even if it is not truly the right thing.
That’s ignorant. Complaining about how dumb science was in the past. That coal percentage from 50 years ago and now showing a one percent decrease while ignoring the per cap increases. So disappointed in Bill
Make user-serviceable products great again.
Ha who would know how to work on them? College grads?! LOL
@@pingpongpaddlehead People with NASTeC and/or ISCeT certs or related.
Before the age of "don't swallow battery acid" warnings, once upon a time there used to be instruction manuals for vehicles written in large part by the design engineer on in-depth maintenance of the vehicle, acting as a guide enabling the end user to be his own technician.
@@GTA2SWcity fair enough. The good thing about mechanical aptitude is that AI cant touch it for the next hudred years or so. Im happy to be an electrical contractor at times like these
People wouldn't buy them.
@@jaythenihilist4689 im a people. Ill buy them
Yeah, fly private and then drive home in an EV. You really are the role model, Bill.
U missed the point bud
@@pablo4yu that it's all bullshit?
@@pablo4yu No he didn't
Go watch the whole thing. Bill does make fun of himself about the provate jet thing. Funny and thoughtful.
Lol i subscribe to larry lawton. You have to explain
I just drove a 25 year old fully electric RAV4 Toyota. It’s still drive fine on the original batteries. Imagine what we could have done if we hadn’t have listens to people like this man. We could have developed cheap electric vehicles, Tesla would have never existed and we would have energy storage so we didn’t need fossil fuels on the grid at all. We could have had clean and cheap renewables by now.
I used to do maintenance at highway service stations. There are holes in the counter with different plackards for glass, plastic or paper. Open up the cupboard door and it 1 garbage can underneath and it all got hucked into a compactor lol
"they're full of sh*t"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And it’s not just the bins
No, just full of trash. Especially if it's connected to trash, as in you take take lid off and can see that the trash and the recyclables go into the same garbage bag.
BTW. Most of the earliest generations of blue bins…NOT recyclable. That’s right. The blue bin is trash. Chew on that a minute.
And so is he.
It only took him 20 years to realize it's all BS. Better late than never.
Yes! I still go into shock every time I hear him say something that I completely agree with.
For once I agree with him on something.
He admits what a fool he is and was.
Too bad he still claims Biden is a better president than Trump despite the disaster we've been having since 2021.
Because maybe it needed that long to gather the data
It's beautiful to watch Bill get more and more conservative as he gets older and realizes he has been lied to all these years by his own liberal party.. GLORIOUS!!
He needs to stay a bit more up to date and not be such a negative Nancy. Coal is dying, EV’s and solar are growing. My model Y is by far the best car I have ever had and should be at twice the price of the gas sipping 2006 Prius, 2012 Elantra, and 2017 Ioniq I once had. An MPGe twice that of the hybrids and charging it on solar which raises that much higher definitely make me feel I am helping make a difference.
They are only growing because our taxes are paying for them. They don't earn their own way
You can’t be serious. How many people can afford a model Y? How many are able to afford solar. You may have the ability dumb ass, but the vast majority do not. The only difference you are making, is make believe.
Lesson: Don't buy a first gen version of a product ...
The first XBOX rocked.
First generation AirPods Pro still working four years later
@@ALucas73 That it did!
@@whatsittooya3013 Yes fair enough but there are a dozen Apple products that either flopped in their first versions or were abandoned and never spoken of again.
@@DivingDeveloper well that may be true this is an exception showing not all first releases of products are trash.
He needs to watch the "smug alert" South Park episode.
Farting into a glass and sniffing it like glue!!! God, that was hilarious!!
Great episode!
@@leogetz3570 as a citizen of Russia and the USA, I sincerely view the entirety of the USA and most of the west as this episode. If you wonder why, just put yourself in my shoes and consider what I see every day.
That's why South Park should be the evening News lol
He should’ve been on that episode but now days he sounds less smug
In 2021, I invested in Solar Panels, Home Battery Storage, a Smart Meter, 3-Phase Grid electric, Dual-rate cheap tariff, fast car chargers, an electric car and a heat pump.
In 2023 it was all going so well, my Wife bought her first electric car but our electric use has quadrupled.
The funny thing about all this, is 2024 it'll cost us nothing to run the house and two cars on electricity.
We get paid more from the Grid exporting our power, than we get charged for using it.
Cheers 😊
Fun fact: Many developed countries smuggle their waste plastics to 3rd World countries as a dumping ground. The cost of recycling plastics is far more higher than making new ones.
Yeah I worked at a Procter & Gamble plant and they had three separate bins, one for trash, one for plastic and one for glass and guess what they put all of them in the same bag. It's all a facade
Thats because they figured out IT ALL ENDS UP AT THE SAME PLACE UNSORTED. So why bother. It was a scam since the beginning. Don't play into their derangement. That goes the the Trans mental illnesses, zhe/they shit.
Right.
The fuel required to handle and process recycling alone is enough that they don't really do it. They do provide for you to separate it.
It ends up that you just think you recycled.
I always learned how to spell my employers names.
@@magnificentfailure2390 Yes, concentrate on a typo rather than the message.
Like the who says it's an eminent front
I have a degree in Environmental Science, and I firmly believe that the most environmental contribution you can do is to use your current products for the longest time possible, whether it’s a car, a phone, a tv, etc..
You correct however in future tech like this should replace it.
Not with a society that’s act like school kids and have to have the newest fads tools.
I've been driving my 2005 corolla since 2006. I tell people 'do you realize how long ago 2006 was??' Those things seriously last forever. At only 184k miles, I'll probably have the damn thing for the next 10 years at least!
THANK YOU
@@metalgrinch My 1985 Toyota pickup is running fine 230,000 miles barely broke in. I also drive an 02 Lincoln LS, I've looked at and driven $100+K car that aren't as comfortable, so I'll drive it. My Shelby GT 350R is different but I put very few miles on it a year.
Coal is down to 17% in the USA in 2023 and dropping even further.
Market share of EV's in the USA was 7.6% in 2023, but that was up 40% compared to 2022.
Transitions are hard and even harder on the impatient.
Nose to the grindstone and keep pushing.
I bought a 2009 Toyota Prius that I bought about 5 years ago for 7 grand. I put over 100k miles on it had no serious issues and just sold it a few weeks ago for 3.7k. I loved that thing. The amount that I saved on gas for those 100k miles compared to a regular car paid for the car in and of itself. Great car. Held its value well. No regrets. Loved the thing
In the past I wanted to buy a used Prius, but the catalytic converters get stolen ALL THE TIME in California…. Even in the safest areas. The criminals are completely unafraid. I know multiple people who had their catalytic converters stolen from their Prius. One was in broad daylight.
OK, I bought a manual transmission Honda in 2004, got great mileage, put over 300k miles on her and sold her 2 years ago to someone who is still enjoying driving that car. And guess what? Building my car didn't decimate the environment around the factory, and when it does stop being usable, the engine won't leak toxins in a landfill.
How special do you feel now, skippy?
I have one of those too. Unfortunately the timing of getting it was poor as I started working 100% remote right after. Have put in just a few thousand kms in the six something years I've had it. Solid ride though and performance is perfectly fine for anything 60-80+ mph, never feeling like I'm slow, I drive it really hard :D
It’s still a shitty Prius. Live life brother.
I own an 09 Prius bought it 4yrs ago. 💕 it 42 mi.per gal don't have to charge it. It charges it's self. You are right about the catalytic converter. Sold my original converter. Made a little money..car has been almost maintenance free.. just oil.. I'm going to get another one 👍😎
conclusion: most people don’t give AF
So I shouldn't either, I guess?
No, people care, but they care about important things.. 1) cars, don't last as long as SUV's and Trucks.. but the cost just as much.. SO, the car, is a lesser value.. I buy a truck because I can do more with it.. It will last years longer, and it's easier for ME to work on.. 2) Wind and solar electricity is not efficient enough to replace coal fired plants.. It's not cost effective.. THAT is what people give AF about.. value.. Bang for the buck.. the buck they worked hard for..
Most people don't give a fuck, that's why we have to care for them.
- Gasoline $8/gall (like it has been in the UK for 20 years)
- Raise fuel economy standards to 54 mpg (like it has been in China for 14 years)
- Go all in on nuclear power (like Ontario did 45 years ago)
- Tax credits up to $15,000 for EVs
- Carbon-cap-and-trade
- Eco-tax, and eco-tax credit
Why should they give a fuck about total bullshit?
@@JoseJimeniz So what does one do if everyone does switch to an ev and the current grids don't support them (because they won't)? Also, how many African children do you think are going to die in slave labor the Congo this year digging up cobalt for the western worlds needs? Should we give a fuck about them, because you don't seem to.
In Huntsville, Alabama, they had a bit of a scandal when it was discovered that all the glass that people were bringing to be recycled, and that they had been saying was recycled, had in fact not been recycled. Get this, they even had a rep on TV news saying something like "Come on, it's not like you've never been lied to before. "
Yikes.
That’s true in most places. Read the history of bottled water to find out why.
Don't lose hope. Many places have much more successful recycling programs, and things will get better. Lots of glass in Alabama is broken down into a smooth rubble that’s used as fill material or gravel.
some people don't like the petrodollar. im not sure about plastic, but evs are having a good time
You can drive a good car/truck/SUV for decades with proper maintenance, unlike electric cars that have to get their batteries replaced every 10 years, which is crazy expensive and a nightmare to get recycled.
Bill, your valet was taking the bus.
I'm guessing he's considering that better
That bus costs $95,000 and he has a chauffeur. He pays him $1.75 a day. -Something Steve Harvey would say
In 2001 the economy wasn’t absolute shite
@@adidnac we were in a recession in 2001
Speaking for GOOD valets.. Nah duck we make way more than you would ever imagine!
it's about making you feel like you're doing good, not about actually doing good
Recycling domestic waste is the equivalent of turning up after a hurricane with a dustpan and brush.
Right, there’s those all important feelings again 😂!
Feelings are much easier to generate, even over imaginary facts, than the efforts to do something that’s actually planned out and executed properly to justify the good feelings that it would/should.
Just saying…
Not sure about that. Just got a Tesla. "Fuel' savings after just a couple of months is quite impressive. Sure is doing good for my wallet.
And fine you and charge you and tax you in the name of it
@@jackfrost8439no worries, soon you will be taxed by the mile anyways offsetting all the taxes you aren’t paying in “fuel taxes”
We want homes as cars. Sitting in the back seat watching movies chilling till we get to the destination.
He’s only talking about America. Electric and Hybrid cars are everywhere in Europe.
I managed a welding shop that repaired waste management equipment when I first got out of welding school and I can tell you for fact that all the "recycling" facilities were like 20 people who just pulled a token amount of glass, aluminum cans, and laundry detergent bottles out and threw 95% of the rest back in a trash truck and dumped it at the landfill.
They also had "green" natural gas fueled diesel motors on some of the trucks that supposedly used natural gas that came from the dump. It didn't, the fueling station was next to the shop and it was plumbed into the natural gas pipeline.
It's a BIG FAT HOAX THEY USE AS TAX RIP OFFS.
I accidentally ordered the wrong the wrong parts for the trucks once that should have been about 3 grand and it ended up being massive parts that was almost 40 thousand dollars.
They NEVER SAID A WORD.
They told me to hide them behind the building. They use the old trash trucks as tax write offs too so they were glad I did that.
They got caught doing it. They paid a little fine and keep on doing it to this day.
It's all a scam. All the way to the tippy top of the federal pyramid.
The first comment that is actual facts
You should talk about your experiences more. You can help the people that really want to make this place last longer. Get those federales the fuck out of they don't want to do their job!
It's an excuse for more tax
Yep--80% to 90% of recycling is a money-laundering scam. Steel and cardboard are about the only things that actually use less energy to recycle than they take to create.
Good job on using anecdotal circumstance
That's why I'm still driving my 16 year old Toyota Tundra V8. I swear, it'll never die.
99 ram with 260k. I'll drive it til the wheels fall off and then put them back on.
Yeah baby! None of this hippy electri. Stuff!
God bless you😢
Yep, i still drive a Toyota caldina, stick shift 1998.
16 years! That's virtually brand new for a Toyota!
I drive a 2001 dodge Ram 1500 pickup. I fix it myself and it’s lasted this many years. I have a lower carbon footprint than a cheaply made new car driver. How many cars have you had since 2001? Ya… trucks are not the issue.
ALWAYS RECYCLE ALUMINUM CANS. Plastic is a whole other story but aluminum is 100% recyclable! Since humans have been digging it out of the ground 70% of all of it is still being used because it’s so easy to recycle.
Plastic bottles can also be turned into filament for a typical thermoplastic’s 3D printer if you have one.
Lastly, the benefit (imo) of an EV is if you can generate all of your own electricity at home (e.g., solar/wind with batteries) you can just fuel your car for free every night. Plus it’s easier to repair and so long as companies don’t follow in teslas footsteps, it should be cheaper to maintain.
He wasn’t taking one for the team. He was purchasing a luxury and getting their respective benefits.
A prius is luxury?
Oh he's soo virtuous 🙄
@@AL-wv8jx Prius owners think so 😂
A Prius is not luxury hahahahahahahahahah
@@Leslie_Knope No they don't 😅
I worked at a gas station, it had a recycling bin at the front by the entrance to the store and the exit of the car wash. those bags were collected, and thrown away. to make people feel good, 4 extra bags were thrown away every single day. I asked if we could just get rid of it, and was told it had to be there by an ordinance. nothing in the ordinance said it had to be recycled, just that it had to be there
I work in a large hospital. There are recycle bins throughout the buildings. Plastics, metal, paper, glass all gathered up...and then it's thrown away in dumpsters with the regular non-recycled garbage. Because it turns out recycling isn't cost effective.
Yeah my city forces us to "recycle" and if we don't we get fined, but all the stuff from our recycle bins get tossed in the landfill along with the regular trash. I had no idea until a friend of mine that works for sanitation told me about it. Lets all put on a good show about how we are helping the environment.
@@Nikephorus I'm in the twin cities area, so I believe most of our stuff gets incinerated, which I prefer
@@Nikephorus In my town the trash and recycled bins get thrown in the same truck so I'm now convinced it's one big scam.
Recycling is a scam anyway, even when the stuff actually gets recycled
hot rodding is the truest form of recycling, You take an old car body, put it on a newer engine and transmission and suspension and it is great because it doesn't fill up junk yards. But they don't want that, because hot rods are fun and creative and you learn things building them. Hot rods should be a required school class.
The reas9n most stuff doesn't get recycled is because if someone puts one wrong thing in the bin or even just dumps water down it, (or puts a pizza box in a cardboard recycled, because the grease ruins it) they have to throw it all out. None of it can get recycled. So many times recycling plants have to throw everything away because one person messed up or thought the blue bin was for trash
There are very few countries, that recycle majority of plastic like Japan, which recycles around 85% of its plastic waste.
People separate their trash, including plastic. It just doesn’t get recycled. Most goes in the same exact place. Then you have all the appliances and machines that break down in two months after the warranty ends instead of 25-30 years, like they used to.
That's what they really need to fix. Planned obsolescence. If we built things as good as we COULD build them, they'd last forever, but we don't, because then you can't sell them new stuff a year later.
@@demiserofd while yes there is still the fact that the cost of the goods would go to 3 to 4 times the price they are currently which in the long term is fine but the people who are more on the edge then the others will fall behind further for a while. Some people will be able to repair the goods like in previous generations the way we manufacture stuff now would make it more difficult too as it used to be common parts between them all now everything is unique to that brand or even that model from them look at cars they are going the same way.
@@andreweastaughffe1070replacing the cheap plastic or weak zinc parts with good steel parts won't cost manufacturer much more but sales go way down.
Price for consumer will increase substantially because of limited sales not due to better parts.
You act like that is a reason to not bother when in reality it is a reason to be angry at the elite who are laughing while destroying the planet. You should recycle and the government should be making sure that that recycling is actually happening. Billionaires laugh as you vote in their climate change denying puppets.
3d printing. Start replacing the weak plastic yourself and maybe they'll make it with something more durable thats harder to print.
My 1972 Monte Carlo is greener than any EV. 50+ years and it keeps on rolling.
If you get rid of that, you deserve to be "Dad Slapped"! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@vincentenk4449right id love me a 72 monte. Or an 84 with the 454.. currently i just have a 74 stingray 350 with the 4 speed muncie and 84 z28 currently rebuilding a 350 for it. Considering ls swapping it with some turbos. Well see on that one😂
@@brucem6442 if your gonna do that DEFINITELY reenforce the unibody & gusset the torque arm!
Haha nice sarcasm. 🤣🤣🤣
That's not true. The vast majority of pollution is generated during car usage and not production. With current American energy mix a new Tesla would pay for itself in savings in pollution in just 2 - 3 years, depending on your car's mpg and how much you drive obviously. I know it's intuitive to think that if we use we have it will turn into savings, but it's not the case with talking about electric cars.
And yet he's still the first man on the poop train telling everyone else to get on
US coal usage has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2022. You can tell Americans anything nowadays, Fox News style!
Y can't people buy what they want, without being criticized for buying what they want. There's room for both gas and electric.
Toyota Prius is one of the few vehicles that never has a failed year in America! There is no car that can claim better than Prius! US coal usage has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2022. You can tell Americans anything nowadays, Fox News style!
Greta is so disappointed in Bill. How dare he?!
She's a little hero.
@@scottoakman5078 oh please
At least she's not sitting at a keyboard expecting things to get done on their own.
At least the one using the keyboard here isn’t brainwashing little kids into thinking her policies will have any positive effect. She is backed by the very same corporations that violate nature, because they know they can ignore the rules thanks to lobbyists, but not their compatitors: small businesses.
@@scottoakman5078 Hope that was sarcasm.
Planned obsolescence and corporations intentionally making products of throwaway quality just to increase profits I’d imagine is also a large contributor to the waste problem.
Even a Ferrari 458 Italia is more eco friendly than some of today’s 4 cylinder cars which is pretty amazing.
Water heaters used to have linings that would make them last 25 years. Refrigerators had accessible coils so you could actually clean them for decades rather than have them get clogged up, suffocate, and burn out after exactly 13 years. Recycling isn't the answer. Getting rid of planned obsolescence is better.
If you have a screw driver and the knowhow you can still get to the coils.
@@jasonkrisko6217 It's much, much harder and you effectively have to remove the entire condenser unit to thoroughly clean them.. What was wrong with the way refrigerators used to be, except that they were too easy to maintain and lasted too long for our modern throw-away economy?
Nobody explain fractional reserve banking to him, he’ll have a seizure.
Shit when I learned about that I developed high blood pressure
Huh?
@@wesleytwiggs7687 what do you need explained
@@twixt999 just what that has to do with the video
@@wesleytwiggs7687 huh? Is engrish your first language or no?
"No one followed me"
.. it wasnt because of the car, Bill ..
Coal is now 18%. Quite the shift in 5 years.
Bill: Everything sucks and I have no plan to fix it.
I'd love to change the world but I dont know what to do so I leave it up to you
😂😂😂
@@jizzyjake6783 Great song and pretty much sums up Bill Maher.
Can't stand people that sit on their high horse complaining with no solutions.
@@cheta616 well at least he's willing to say that we're headed in the wrong direction. Too many people with a platform have bought into it and won't state the obvious truth: the emperor's new clothes are really a scam.
You failed to mention those “eco friendly” cobalt mines!
Cobalt is used in the refinement of crude oil.
Fine, lithium mines.
Conveniently ignores "eco friendly" oil, gas, coal and uranium extraction. Definitely not any massive, long lasting, devastating to human & environmental health or anything
Doesn't have to be perfect to be better.
@@qctye,
If you want to be pedantic literally ANYTHING we do isn't eco friendly
Wait till he finds out where the electricity to charge his car comes from
😂
He just said lol
wait till he realizes how gasoline is made
Not to mention how ridiculously expensive it is to get these cars serviced. They have to use grounded tools so they won't get electrocuted not to mention the battery under the car can easily explode like an old Pinto back in the day and melt your flesh with the battery acid... Just sayin' 🤷♂️
@@mistrmistr6417 That's a lie. When working on any of the high voltage stuff, they just pull out one or two connectors and the EV battery is completely isolated from the rest of the car. And the battery itself almost never needs servicing. Also, the battery is at no risk of explosion unless someone purposely takes a large drill, shoves it into the bottom of the car and drills through the thick protective metal layer covering the battery (which would take multiple seconds to do).
They want us to buy EV then say our power grid is strained.
If we are all dependent upon am electrical grid they can track and control us very easily. Not that they are even close to being able to handle even a marginal increase in electric grid demand now, lol.
Restricting the movement of the serfs is the objective.
because a giant wave of Chinese cheap EVs are coming. goodbye to American auto makers and American jobs.
When you've been drunk on the Kool-Aid for the last 40 years😂
You have two a's in your name. Nothing you say will ever be taken seriously.
@@FU7IM7CANADIAN and you like Kool-Aid ✌️
Find the full clip. This is misleading as hell.
What does being Christian have to do with anything? Why kool aid? Is that a reference to the christians of the people’s temple?
@@heavymetal6714 It has more to do with Jewish Muslims than Christians ✌️
Save the planet:
Buy a Tesla and charge it with a gas generator.
The tesla which is full of batteries that need cobalt and lithium mined by slaves and children, by hand, in dangerous mines that pollute the local groundwater with arsenic for miles and miles around.
And yes I know, so are all our phones and other battery powered electronics.
Not to mention how the batteries are made, and the fact that you have to replace them every couple of years, and the fact that they're barely recyclable
EVs are disposable cars, while gas-powered cars are reusable.
The best part is the same state that is making residents buy electric vehicles have rolling blackouts because they don’t have enough electricity.
right. I find it interesting that the US produces the cleanest energy, but out of payback they promote the dirtier energy. Biden begged to buy it. Meanwhile China builds a coal fired plant a week, but we have to turn Green now! China could destroy us economically.
More junk
They also have their citizens rationing water because of water shortages. California does not have a water shortage, they grow crops that need LOTS of water in a region where it doesn't rain much and the farming industry lines the pockets of politicians who sends the bulk of the ground water to those crops.
The Los Angeles Times had an article the other day with a headline saying that rolling blackouts are good and will help with climate change.🙄
This is why I make my own electricity. No dependency on the shitty utility company.
It's amazing he finds so many interrelated issues, but yet fails to connect the dots as to why all those things are the way they are
I like how honest he is, and saying “yeah this is not the way, and I was wrong”.
He is honest! Toyota Prius is one of the few vehicles that never has a failed year in America! There is no car that can claim better than Prius! US coal usage has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2022. You can tell Americans anything nowadays, Fox News style!
@@am.b5688 prius is garbage
Fun fact, most types of plastic aren't recyclable even if they do end up in the right bin.
Poor Bill. Getting bitch-slapped around by reality.
better late than never
Find the full clip. This is misleading as hell.
@@robbetts Maybe, but he did say clearly that "both cars sucked" and the coal statistics which he gave are true. Reality is a hard thing to accept for many people.
Like normal
I'm honestly excited for climate change. Can't wait for all the climate refugees and the ecological collapse and the empty grocery store shelves.
During school I had a temp. job working at a Recycling Centre. All the aluminum cans were put into a giant hole in the ground and flattened by a bulldozer. I asked the guy driving the bulldozer: when are the cans eventually melted down and turned into new cans? He said, never. He told me that they have been throwing cans in that hole for 25 years. I asked him why don’t they use the old cans to make new ones? He said it’s because of the paint on the can. It’s too expensive to get rid of the paint. Anything that is used for human consumption has to be perfect. The paint would contaminate the new cans. It is cheaper to use newly mined aluminum. I asked him : so, why do we do all this if it is for nothing? He said it’s so people can feel good about themselves. A lot of the recycling business is based on smoke and mirrors. It's mostly in place to be used as a tool for politicians to virtue signal.
Absolutely horrible and disgusting!
Consumers only do it because we were guilted into it by corporations. This allowed them to keep using the cheapest type of packaging nstead of seeking out sustainable materials.
There is plenty of need for aluminum that is not for consumption. Also, the heat of melting it would burn off the paint and then all impurities get skimmed off of the top. Aluminum is the only recyclable that makes monetary sense.
@@a2cryss Aluminum and glass are the 2 that can be endlessly recycled.
@@ph1shstyxlithium can also be recycled.
Fact: The blue recycling bin contents are dumped into a landfill.
If you want to do something for the environment, don't litter.
Moral of the story? If Bill thinks it’s a good idea??? Then do the opposite!!
he says its a bad idea, should you get an EV now? They are trash
You are a first generation Prius Bill.
Plastic recycling centers should operate like scrap metal ones. You start paying for it, you'll have all kinds of people participating.
That's not the issue. The issue is actually the opposite. Tons of people recycle, but we don't have enough recycling centers to keep up with the volume. So tons of stuff that gets recycled ends up being thrown away because they can't keep up with the volume.
@@bunny_0288 that and recycling is a scam
it doesnt actually work
its a marketing play made up in the 1960s to get people to stop buying glass and metal bottles
all the "environmental" movements are completely fabricated, including the current climate change cult
its not based on any science, its "95% of scientists agree when we fund them to say what we want"
@@bunny_0288 If there was profit to be made, there wouldn't be a shortage.
@@bunny_0288 That would make sense if the level was greater than 30%
BUT 5%?? that's not a volume of demand problem, that's a severe lack of effort.
I've noticed that they don't pay the dollar amount they claim. They shortchange folks.
Look who finally woke up!
PSA: Don't set out your recycling to the garbage man if you want it to be recycled. Bring it to a bottle depot if there's one close.
Literally no difference, lol. Cute though.
Lol 😂what a absolute blunt tool in the shed
Ive noticed lol we use plastic trash bags to throw away our trash 😂😂
…..in a plastic garbage or recycling bin.
@@westerlywinds5684 people dont normally throw out trash bins, how would that be harming the environment lol
do you think every plastic thing harms the environment just by existing
@@westerlywinds5684 and a lot of plastics cant be recycled 😂
If someone recycles properly, the recyclables will go to a recycling plant and handled correctly. If someone has an incinerator, the trash will be burned and then afterward the plastic and other recyclables will be sifted and separated. The right way to do things is like what I just wrote. The smoke has to be filtered as much as possible. The EPA has to be realistic. Why do people allow to polute the ocean or the land. The easiest way and the most cost efficient way is to incinerate and to recycle. Let's get serious here. Think about it. EPA is supposed to look out for the environment. They should focus on all aspects of it. It is possible to do this. Improvements can be made and modifications can be made with time. EPA has to cooperate. Leave money out of this. Think of what is best for mankind.
Because the rest of us have brains
Buying a new car when your previous car is 9 years old is worse than buying gas over electric.
Amen! My 2004 Honda manual trans is still going strong, 300k miles and counting.
It's more economic, and it's more environmentally friendly to drive a car that is going to last longer. Then it is to drive a car because it makes you feel better.
An EV on the road for 3 years, roughly 36k miles is carbon equal to a gas car. That includes all the mining. Any older gas car is not more environmental. It's more economic for someone's money and I get that. If someone's buying around 30k price though they should buy an EV. It's more economic than a new Camry or Civic.
We just need stuff that last
He is talking like senior citizen 😂
Electric cars are a lot better than they were in 1895
I kept getting letters from the city about putting plastic in the bin that wasn't recyclable, even though it had the little recycle logo. I got worried about fines, so now plastic goes in the trash.
I didn't realize there are trash police.
There are three major problems with recycling:
1. The materials need to be separated either at source or destination: glass, plastic, paper. If you keep it simple on the source side like US, the destination has to sort it but adds to the cost meaning they most likely will not do anything if economics don't work. If you add 3 bins at the source, they take up space so you will need more bins in office areas and such.
2. There are different grades of plastic denoted by a number somewhere on the bottle. Some plastics can't be recycled or can be recycled only in certain areas or using some procedures not available in other places.
3. The material thrown has to be clean. So the person throwing is probably not going to do this step in the first place. If you get a Starbucks coffee for example which has recyclable plastic, the sticker on the cup needs to be removed and the inside needs to be cleaned with water before putting it in the recycle bin. No one is going to do that.
The city has stated policy about what types of plastic is recycled and they provide you the means to let them collect it. It's your personal responsibility to dispose of what they can't accept if that was actually what you cared to do. Ya know, being America and supposedly claiming to be a personally responsible individual with freeodms and all. But you're just dumb and pathetic and think everything works like a 2d cartoon.
@@SahilP2648 thumbs up.
Will take it farther.
Plastic recyclers only want#1 & #2. The rest gets sold overseas... Lord know what they do with it.
I'd separate, and I think most Americans would if there was a realistic bin system. The biggest problem, as I see it, is the supply chain. Feel free to disagree.
Most suburbs have a garbage truck that stops, an "arm" grabs the garbage tote, and dumps it in.
Later a recycling truck comes by and does same to recycling tote.
Your triple bin system would have to allow one guy in truck pick all three containers quickly dump them into separated sections of truck.
Nobody want to pay for trucks to drive by 4 times!
You create a solution for this, and you will be one wealthy man.
Our area got rid of recycling pick up after deciding it wasn’t cost effective. As an alternative they set up a few recycling drop off spots which turned out to be dumpsters with stickers on it telling you it’s for recycling. Yea, sure it is
Let me summarize this for you: "Things are bad so there's no point in trying to make them better, give up."
I think it's more like "I've never looked into the longterm industrial projects so I don't know why things happened or what's going to happen next, but I've found a few random stats so imma take a big guess".
Except they aren’t making things better
The point is that the cure is more dangerous than the disease.
@@MrKaiRobinson Remember the hole in the ozone being a big problem 10ish years ago? You know why we all stopped talking about it? Because the science was clear, that certain aerosol products were causing the problem, so humans cut back on those chemicals worldwide and we solved that problem. Remember acid rain? same thing. The science was clear and we added scrubbers to all the coal burning plants to reduce the co2 being dissolved in the rain water and we pretty much solved that one too. We can make things better, it just costs a little bit of money that corporations dont want to pay. Bill is blaming consumers for buying trucks instead of blaming manufacturers for making trucks with shit gas mileage.
@@scottashe984 I think you missed the point as well. The "cure" isn't electrified or hybrid cars, it's access to public transport and the dismantling of car culture. This is barely any more than a stopgap.
plastic recylcing is USELESS
it only makes economic and environmental sense for metals
He just lied about the Toyota Prius! The most sought after vehicle in America besides Camry and Corolla! He lied about Tesla too, one of the the biggest companies in the world and growing by the minute!
Bill has a lot in common with those blue bins.
yep...empty but full with shit.
Underrated comment
Democrat trash?
Bins are full of shit indeed, figuratively and literally.
@@johnreese7973 Better than red biohazard
Recycling is the feel good hit of the summer.
Part of the reason why we have larger cars is because there is no incentive to make smaller cars. The EPA fuel standards are based on size and wheelbase. Larger cars can be made just fuel efficient enough to meet the demands. Smaller cars are at the point where they need to have 50+mpg just to meet the bare minimum. This is why you no longer see the Toyota Helix (1/2 small trucks) on the roads anymore. Or things like station wagons which had more space than SUVs. The EPA won't let them be built. And every year the EPA tightens those standards.
The EPA is being sneaky about banning gasoline powered cars. Soon even the bigger vehicles will not be able to meet those standards.
Electric cars do not matter unless we power the electrical grid with renewable energy first. If your car runs on electricity but we generate the electricity by burning coal and gas you didn't change anything.
When recycling came into fashion, I meticulously separated my garbage. Until one day, I saw the garbage truck driver all of my carefully sorted garbage dumped into one bin, and then, that bin dumped into his truck. When asked why he did that, he replied that it all ends up in same place anyway. The gulling thing was that the municipality has a “recycling” fee added to the taxes. Apparently, silly me, I thought the recycling fee was for the refuse, but it is actually for recycling my money into their tax revenue.
That should be easy to double check for you. What area was this?
In Germany we have different trucks for each type of garbage. They basically end up in the same area to be burned or end up in a landfil.
@@Enforcer_WJDE yeah, Romania.
Almost like you have some sort of responsibility to hold your local government and every government over you accountable and stay vigilant to ensure it cares and acts in your interest rather than the elites you've let corrupt it so fully.
That's my new bumper sticker " those blue bins arnt full of plastic they're full of shit! "