Thomas explaining the procedure is in my books a top notch individual, very well explain, true pro in his field, can't say enough....Florida, don't ever loose him, give him a raise.
I've driven for most trucking industries in Michigan with the exception of 3!! Cooking oil waste, garbage waste and sewage the smells are too much for me so I give these guy's a lot of credit and respect that they don't get enuff off for how important their jobs are.
Great video and explanation. I used to work at a class III landfill and loved being part of the operation- it takes a lot of effort and coordination to make the landfill run smoothly.
Used to work on gas extraction systems on landfills doing controls work on flares, generating stations, and gas plants. Landfills are endlessly fascinating to me.
Landfill is not dealing will trash, it’s hiding it for future generations to have to deal with. Very sad when most of it can be recycled it’s just Infrastructure and or cost that stops this happening.
I actually came across this accidentally but it's really interesting to see American solutions to waste. Very interesting oh btw I'm watching from southern New Zealand 🙋
Americans are morons. In Europe we sort the types of waste and dont have so big landfills. For example we use waste for heating houses by steamlines. ;) Economic, healthy and zero waste.
That landfills are still the end station for so many types of waste, waste that can be recycled, but in a country were landfills are a staple i understand that the process to get recycling as the major waste way. It aint an easy way. It aint a cheap way. But to a big extend it is the right way. Good video!
As someone who is in landfills daily, I've never seen one that dry.... and I've never seen them watch what was being dumped, they just roll over anything and everything (even at the Waste Management landfill in Pennsylvania)
Seems to be hit and miss around the country. My local one is *really* careful about what they pack and sometimes have guys in pickups running around the pile and grabbing things, but the one a family member dumps their commercial truck in doesn't care and takes anything and everything.
The guy in the video literally explains why that is; class one vs. class three landfills, you can dump almost any garbage in a class one because there’s heavy regulations and systems in place for those, and with class three landfills there aren’t as much system to protect the environment so there’s only a few items permitted to be dumped (wood waste, concrete, metal, etc)
Really? Pretty messy. We have "landfill" in the center of town and it is like some other factory. No smell, nothing. And we have heat from it for warm water or heating. ;)
@@badmaniak What you probably have then is an incinerator facility, which will have 'scrubbed' smokestacks. Many large cities use one for generating electricity: burn the trash to spin a turbine which spins a generator. But many things cannot burn - tires, drywall, shingles, lots of tin and plastic in construction debris, etc. Your town is likely sorting that out and sending to a landfill somewhere.
I'm pretty sure ours hauls to the landfill. We just recently had a fatal accident with a piece of machine rolling down the side of the hill. Threw her out like a doll from what workers said. People don't realize exactly how high and dangerous this is.
Hey, if you’d like to make a some extra cash, I’m looking for someone to give me access to a transfer station after hours. Will pay to make it worth your time
The most troubling about the whole thing is that that wast land can never be used again because it takes over way over 100s of years for that wast to break down... And how long does that membrane that is rubber mat that they put on the bottom before they start piling up all that wast on last ?? You got to remember if it fails waste water will start leaking in to the water and people will be drinking water that is contaminated that all the big problem that I see and there's technology that by now should have a great solution to recycle everything and no trash gets buried in the earth just like tires there's better ways to reuse them so there's no waste
Actually I was suprised to learn during a tour of my local landfill that they've actually developed some of the land in the front of the facility where the very first active face of the landfill was first built decades ago.
Seems to me that a lot of the items being bulldozed will never degrade. Not convinced that recycling policies are that strong in this area. The commentary is pretty fast . Not entirely sure how this system protects the environment .However they do have categories of landfill. Just hope the system works in a satisfactory way.
My City Canton Ohio did at one time, because of a political issue drove all the trash directly to the land fill. What a mess, they overloaded the trucks so bad they got fined almost 100K which they never paid, then the bypassed the scales on I77 using back roads which they destroyed. The transfire station in town went broke and got bought out by the landfill owner solving the problem
Refuse trucks carry a lot of weight per axle, esp in summertime when folks bag their grass clippings. Back in 70s-80s-90s was not uncommon for drivers to be directed by 'the office' to use alternate routes to avoid DOT and weigh stations. Things are probably better now with the prevalence of trucks with tandem drive axles + a lift axle and national waste companies with QC and accountability programs. But back when smaller/local companies did hauling with single-axle trucks - not as much.
A Store Clerk at a Big Box Store that offers tp recycle spent batteries told us few companies are taking them now so they toss them in their Dumpster. Can't imagine what it will be like when EV Batteries need to be disposed of?
At Walton County, the trash is dropped off at the transfer station. From there it is sorted into a giant trailer and stored onsite. Once enough trash is accumulated it is sent to a landfill classified for household trash. Walton County's landfill is classified for construction and debris only.
Thete been a COURT case in England/Uk about LANDFILL it was a health hazzard to the citizen in a county in Uk. It even made Jeremy Vine show BBc Radio 2
Drive from Amarillo , to El Paso , Texas and tell me how many landfills you see in between !!?? And that's just a tiny bit of Texas of what you can see , and it's also just one state !! There IS an enormous amount of space !!
3:20 - And whilst all that rubbish is being put in the ground, more rubbish is being sprayed in the sky above it ..... and no one notices or gives a stuff!
The polished/sealed concrete is an excellent surface for the wheel loader to scoop it up, to put in the larger transfer-trailer for delivery to the landfill.
The entire waste system is completely flawed and inept! Its evolved slowly that way from a society of not enough foresight. Trash is an antiquated concept altogether. Nothing should be produced that isn't completely recyclable or compostable. Meanwhile, at least dump everything into one big separater/grinder and super heat/pressurize it to get some heat energy, scrub the emissions and then safely dispose of the small ash residue or mix it into road surfaces. Burying trash is not a solution and older landfills will likely be mined for the metals we wasted years ago.
Old landfills will not be mined for metals. Most likely metals will be mined from space. The waste system is not flawed if it costs too damn much to recycle every damn thing. Relax, the earth isn't coming to an end, there is no such thing as "man made global warming".
Why are you not building plasma incinerator power plants that melt all trash metal, rubber, plastic, organic for power. Plasma incineration burns off everything to where there little emissions, and this technology been around for +30 years.
Lots of landfills use the gas to generate electricity and sell it to the grid. It's not a big component of grid power but it's a much better answer than allowing the methane to escape into the atmosphere.
Our town or county in Washington State has a waste to energy facility where they burn it all in a power plant and make energy put it back on the power grid why can't most cities or all cities do this
@@furyfantoo I know that. they have a special place where all the non burnibles are dumped I'm not that stupid but it would just make more sense if they would burn it and make energy out of it instead of dumping it all in the ground
Why don’t you run all the waste thats going to the landfill through a shredder first before running it over with the compressor. Could shred it in to a pile then load it to your trucks to tip where you want save the public going in the tip face.
I haul to the landfill. Everything goes in there. Batteries…tires…human waste. There is no time for collection of anything. It gets buried as fast as it comes in. He tells a good story though.
Depends on your locality for how well it's done. When I was in that industry 25 years ago, in a sizable city, there was decent sorting between what went to the incinerator (which burned and generated electricity) and what went in the landfill.
Lol. Everything gets dumped in landfill. There are two type of landfills. Household waste landfill and solid waste landfill. So, there's no such a landfill where they actually "recycle".
Spotting lots of easy to recycle items within the waste being landfilled. Very sad that people don’t sort their waste properly. Also in this day and age landfill is an outdated practice. It is sad to think that certain things do not get recycled because of economic costs, if companies sponsored recycling it might be more viable to recycle more things. Landfill is just hiding the waste, not dealing with it so future generations will have to deal with it. Very unfair.
Was thinking the same. Run out of space before long. Could create bio fuel from food waste and the trash in the ground can be used to heat homes. They have YEARS to catch up with the rest of us.
landfills do not break down. old landfills have been brocked into and samples taken for resurch and found papers from the 1980's still readable cardboard packaging is still in perfect condition even vegatables still reconisable. the conclusion is that they are packed so tight there is no oxagen to suport the bacteria and animals to facilatate the breakdown process
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I have big respect for anyone working in the waste management industry. From all of us in society... thanks for taking care of that for us, bigtime.
Thomas explaining the procedure is in my books a top notch individual, very well explain, true pro in his field, can't say enough....Florida, don't ever loose him, give him a raise.
I've driven for most trucking industries in Michigan with the exception of 3!! Cooking oil waste, garbage waste and sewage the smells are too much for me so I give these guy's a lot of credit and respect that they don't get enuff off for how important their jobs are.
U really don't notice it in the landfill. I only notice it while passing a fill on my way home from work. Not when I'm in a fill working
Yes as others have said great job explaining how all this works, learned a lot
thumbs up! he just keeps talking. knows his stuff. and what he says is most interesting and thorough. Cool!
Thank you for your service.
Great video and explanation. I used to work at a class III landfill and loved being part of the operation- it takes a lot of effort and coordination to make the landfill run smoothly.
Used to work on gas extraction systems on landfills doing controls work on flares, generating stations, and gas plants. Landfills are endlessly fascinating to me.
YEA I also love Sewers for some reason, they both are interesting!
All the people that deal with the trash of civilization are unsung heroes!
Landfill is not dealing will trash, it’s hiding it for future generations to have to deal with. Very sad when most of it can be recycled it’s just Infrastructure and or cost that stops this happening.
Thank u
Excellent video
Very informative video! Great asset to Walton County
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I actually came across this accidentally but it's really interesting to see American solutions to waste. Very interesting oh btw I'm watching from southern New Zealand 🙋
Americans are morons. In Europe we sort the types of waste and dont have so big landfills.
For example we use waste for heating houses by steamlines. ;)
Economic, healthy and zero waste.
What do you all do with your waste
Agree. It would be a very interesting and satisfying job.
G- R -O-O- O- S! Now THATS a dedicated man. i just know those transfer buildings are extremely nauseating. dam.
They enjoy it?!? How about we see and interview the hand sorters.? Lol
That landfills are still the end station for so many types of waste, waste that can be recycled, but in a country were landfills are a staple i understand that the process to get recycling as the major waste way. It aint an easy way. It aint a cheap way. But to a big extend it is the right way. Good video!
Excellent video and the speaker does not have any pauses searching for what he is about to say. Thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!
good video .thanks where is your high vis clothing out on the site ,risky CHEERS 😀
As someone who is in landfills daily, I've never seen one that dry.... and I've never seen them watch what was being dumped, they just roll over anything and everything (even at the Waste Management landfill in Pennsylvania)
Seems to be hit and miss around the country. My local one is *really* careful about what they pack and sometimes have guys in pickups running around the pile and grabbing things, but the one a family member dumps their commercial truck in doesn't care and takes anything and everything.
The guy in the video literally explains why that is; class one vs. class three landfills, you can dump almost any garbage in a class one because there’s heavy regulations and systems in place for those, and with class three landfills there aren’t as much system to protect the environment so there’s only a few items permitted to be dumped (wood waste, concrete, metal, etc)
Cleanest tracks I’ve seen of any landfill
Really? Pretty messy. We have "landfill" in the center of town and it is like some other factory. No smell, nothing.
And we have heat from it for warm water or heating. ;)
@@badmaniak What you probably have then is an incinerator facility, which will have 'scrubbed' smokestacks. Many large cities use one for generating electricity: burn the trash to spin a turbine which spins a generator. But many things cannot burn - tires, drywall, shingles, lots of tin and plastic in construction debris, etc. Your town is likely sorting that out and sending to a landfill somewhere.
That’s awesome
What genius came up with the idea to dump the garbage onto the floor, then pick it up with a bucket and put it into another truck? Real efficient!
You didn't listen, did you? You must be an un-genius.
If every trash truck took they're load to the land fill I can tell u for a fact taxes is going up and trash routes would take days to finish
I'm pretty sure ours hauls to the landfill. We just recently had a fatal accident with a piece of machine rolling down the side of the hill. Threw her out like a doll from what workers said. People don't realize exactly how high and dangerous this is.
I operate a transfer station in North Carolina.That’s the smell of money
I work for a garbage company too it’s all money
Hey, if you’d like to make a some extra cash, I’m looking for someone to give me access to a transfer station after hours. Will pay to make it worth your time
Someone who didn’t want to garbage trucks to drive 3x as much in a day
When do you put all that trash into the big recycler to make it into new stuff?
Look at all the recycle stuff that a garbage disposal company throws in the landfill it’s sickening 😢
I think it would better to burn the trash turn it into energy then Bury the ashes
Waste management is so interesting
We don’t want people to manage the waste we want people to deal with it.
Great video and explanation of the process! Its a shame Asian countries just dump into our Oceans!
How many times is that guy going to say "basically" 🤨
The most troubling about the whole thing is that that wast land can never be used again because it takes over way over 100s of years for that wast to break down... And how long does that membrane that is rubber mat that they put on the bottom before they start piling up all that wast on last ?? You got to remember if it fails waste water will start leaking in to the water and people will be drinking water that is contaminated that all the big problem that I see and there's technology that by now should have a great solution to recycle everything and no trash gets buried in the earth just like tires there's better ways to reuse them so there's no waste
Actually I was suprised to learn during a tour of my local landfill that they've actually developed some of the land in the front of the facility where the very first active face of the landfill was first built decades ago.
Seems to me that a lot of the items being bulldozed will never degrade. Not convinced that recycling policies are that strong in this area. The commentary is pretty fast . Not entirely sure how this system protects the environment .However they do have categories of landfill. Just hope the system works in a satisfactory way.
@@michaezell4607 my dad's friend went to a landfill that was closed sense the 1950s and he dug up a phone book and still could read it...
Is there a degree for becoming an operational manager
My City Canton Ohio did at one time, because of a political issue drove all the trash directly to the land fill. What a mess, they overloaded the trucks so bad they got fined almost 100K which they never paid, then the bypassed the scales on I77 using back roads which they destroyed. The transfire station in town went broke and got bought out by the landfill owner solving the problem
Refuse trucks carry a lot of weight per axle, esp in summertime when folks bag their grass clippings. Back in 70s-80s-90s was not uncommon for drivers to be directed by 'the office' to use alternate routes to avoid DOT and weigh stations. Things are probably better now with the prevalence of trucks with tandem drive axles + a lift axle and national waste companies with QC and accountability programs. But back when smaller/local companies did hauling with single-axle trucks - not as much.
A Store Clerk at a Big Box Store that offers tp recycle spent batteries told us few companies are taking them now so they toss them in their Dumpster. Can't imagine what it will be like when EV Batteries need to be disposed of?
Such a shame to see so much recyclable metal being buried
0:28 - wait, so which one goes to the transfer station and where does the trash go?
At Walton County, the trash is dropped off at the transfer station. From there it is sorted into a giant trailer and stored onsite. Once enough trash is accumulated it is sent to a landfill classified for household trash. Walton County's landfill is classified for construction and debris only.
@@waltoncountybocc
Isn't the garbage trucked to Pensacola and spread along the roads in Warrington?
Thete been a COURT case in England/Uk about LANDFILL it was a health hazzard to the citizen in a county in Uk. It even made Jeremy Vine show BBc Radio 2
Lol people really believe things are recycled. Even the new bags you're forced to buy for $0.25 are thrown right into a trash can & never recycled
How long is it gonna take, until the entire US is filled with land fills?
I think you are underestimating the sheer size of the United States.
Landfills as a percentage of total land is absolutely tiny. It would take thousands of years to make a sizeable impact.
I’d say between 2,000 - 10,000 years
Drive from Amarillo , to El Paso , Texas and tell me how many landfills you see in between !!?? And that's just a tiny bit of Texas of what you can see , and it's also just one state !! There IS an enormous amount of space !!
New York City sends every bit of its trash out of state. Some of it gets hauled all the way to South Carolina
3:20 - And whilst all that rubbish is being put in the ground, more rubbish is being sprayed in the sky above it ..... and no one notices or gives a stuff!
Just think years after when this land fill is abdanded just think what's it's like to see what you find
Youll have to dig for it pal 😂 its buried …
@@christaylor6833 do you recycle at home or you mix everything as garbage?
It's impossible to recycle when there's no such a thing.
No Safety vest on in the yard
It is mind boggling to me that they dump it on the floor.
Where else are they supposed to dump it,it’s a transfer station,not a landfill
The polished/sealed concrete is an excellent surface for the wheel loader to scoop it up, to put in the larger transfer-trailer for delivery to the landfill.
Man, I can smell the rot from here. I could not do this job and smell this all day long.
Terrifying we have not woken up to figuring out how to stop producing plastics
Recycleables are hand sorted? Damn, I pity the souls who have that job...
Why is this in my recommend? Pretty interesting nonetheless
Say class 1 transfer station one more time!
The entire waste system is completely flawed and inept! Its evolved slowly that way from a society of not enough foresight. Trash is an antiquated concept altogether. Nothing should be produced that isn't completely recyclable or compostable. Meanwhile, at least dump everything into one big separater/grinder and super heat/pressurize it to get some heat energy, scrub the emissions and then safely dispose of the small ash residue or mix it into road surfaces. Burying trash is not a solution and older landfills will likely be mined for the metals we wasted years ago.
Old landfills will not be mined for metals. Most likely metals will be mined from space. The waste system is not flawed if it costs too damn much to recycle every damn thing. Relax, the earth isn't coming to an end, there is no such thing as "man made global warming".
I have wondered that perhaps rare Earth metals in the future, centuries from now won't be found in just China but all over the world
Karl is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Well you are not a bulb at all. ;)
Plenty of stuff to turn planet into spaceship
Why are you not building plasma incinerator power plants that melt all trash metal, rubber, plastic, organic for power. Plasma incineration burns off everything to where there little emissions, and this technology been around for +30 years.
A lot of trash does not get recycled., I worked at BFI and they told us just throw out the recycling. Cost more money to go thru it all.
Hot load sounds like a good idea
That's trash talk right there!
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Why not collect the gas and sell it instead of flaring It Off
They are starting to do that.
Lots of landfills use the gas to generate electricity and sell it to the grid.
It's not a big component of grid power but it's a much better answer than allowing the methane to escape into the atmosphere.
Our town or county in Washington State has a waste to energy facility where they burn it all in a power plant and make energy put it back on the power grid why can't most cities or all cities do this
Many large cities do. And I assure you, your locality isn't burning it all. Drywall and metal construction debris doesn't burn well.
@@furyfantoo I know that. they have a special place where all the non burnibles are dumped I'm not that stupid but it would just make more sense if they would burn it and make energy out of it instead of dumping it all in the ground
@@rexross7086 You said 'they burn it all' and 'why can't most or all cities do this'. I merely responded to what you posted...
Why don’t you run all the waste thats going to the landfill through a shredder first before running it over with the compressor. Could shred it in to a pile then load it to your trucks to tip where you want save the public going in the tip face.
I haul to the landfill. Everything goes in there. Batteries…tires…human waste. There is no time for collection of anything. It gets buried as fast as it comes in. He tells a good story though.
Gotta seem like ur by the book when the cameras watching
Depends on your locality for how well it's done. When I was in that industry 25 years ago, in a sizable city, there was decent sorting between what went to the incinerator (which burned and generated electricity) and what went in the landfill.
Lol. Everything gets dumped in landfill. There are two type of landfills. Household waste landfill and solid waste landfill. So, there's no such a landfill where they actually "recycle".
Spotting lots of easy to recycle items within the waste being landfilled. Very sad that people don’t sort their waste properly. Also in this day and age landfill is an outdated practice. It is sad to think that certain things do not get recycled because of economic costs, if companies sponsored recycling it might be more viable to recycle more things. Landfill is just hiding the waste, not dealing with it so future generations will have to deal with it. Very unfair.
Ooooor they just could recycle everything.
(mumbles)atruckcomeinemptiestheboxandweloaditfronthesmallertruckandputitintoalargertrucktotakeittothelandfilltosaveonfuelcharges
I burn all my trash takes up less space.
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Mcmcm
Imagine still using a landiflll in 2022, the US should learn how to recycle
Was thinking the same. Run out of space before long. Could create bio fuel from food waste and the trash in the ground can be used to heat homes. They have YEARS to catch up with the rest of us.
@@simonr6643 Come on over and give us a hand.
Recycling is usually a scam. Very little plastic is truly recycled worldwide.
Not everything is recyclable. Are you new?
Another Gen Z’er that thinks they know something
landfills do not break down.
old landfills have been brocked into and samples taken for resurch and found papers from the 1980's still readable cardboard packaging is still in perfect condition even vegatables still reconisable.
the conclusion is that they are packed so tight there is no oxagen to suport the bacteria and animals to facilatate the breakdown process
Thomas is a very knowledgeable person but in the field I didn't see him with a vest or a hard hat
Fill land
Sponsored by Little Caesars basically the whole company deserve to be in the dumpster