We want your help expanding Insider's videos about the environment, climate change, and sustainability. Tell us your thoughts in this 2-3 minute survey: bit.ly/InsiderWWWsurvey Thanks so much!
My dad never wasted anything, as he was a product of the post-depression era. One of the many things he did to save was using bar soap to bathe. Once the bar of soap became a sliver, he put it into a bucket that sat in the corner of the shower. Once the bucket filled up enough, he would rub his washcloth in it and suds himself up! We thought he was a little weird for that, but really, he was a genius. 😂 So many memories of the crazy things he'd do to repurpose & reuse. I think it brought him a lot of joy, honestly. 🥰
Gotta say, thank you for making videos like these. It helps cheer me up from the constant awful news in terms of politics, economics and the environment. Good to see people who are actually making a difference.
There’s a company in Australia using coffee grounds to grow mushrooms 🍄 and another has come up with a way to create various nut milks that are in jars instead of tetra packs. It’s also more affordable since one jar of nut milk concentrate can make up to 80litres of nut milk
An interesting point about the cigarette butt recycling. Composting tobacco remains actually acts as a natural pesticide, since that is literally what nicotine is.
Making bricks, etc out of something else is cool, but what happens when the bricks, for instance, reach the end of their useful life? Do they end up in a landfill, or can they be recycled again?
Its going to be scraped eventually somehow, but it also means that we dont have to extract natural resources and refining it to the same extend. Its a winner in the long run, because a lot of it is finite ...And its cheaper for the consumer (For the most part)
The fact that what people throw away can be recycled is a great thing, but that's not the answer for the future. First step is to use less, waste less, re use, or buying in less/no plastic or other environment damaging package.
You can check w/ local regulations, but where I live, if the deceased is buried w/in 3 days of death, there's no need for embalming. My Dad always said he wanted to be buried in a plain pine box, so that's what we did. We held a memorial service a few days later. No embalming + no funeral = very inexpensive send-off. No need to spend thousands...and no chemicals in the environment.
In college I helped in a research project that turned coffee grounds from some nearby cafes into acoustic panels, this was in a dense city where small coffee shops don’t have the space to compost it
There are mushroom farmers who use coffee shop coffee grounds for growing oyster mushrooms, which is a bigger scale recycling initiative than the Ukrainian glasses, but the glasses are also super cool and a great biodegradable alternative to plastic/acetate frames! And in Denmark (i think?) unwanted fish skins from the mackerel industry are used to make omega 3 supplements (which is far more sustainable than mass-fishing live fish for “marine” omega 3) and even human skin grafts! I read the story of a firefighter with horrific burns, who got his body “back” thanks to incredible surgeries and skin grafts using fish skin. Apparently it has potential to work even better than conventionally used pig skin. So much of our waste is actually so useful, we just have a culture of designing and producing insane quantities of single use materials and products and then sending them to landfill😢
The fact that restaurants dispose fish skins is beyond me. Those shits are delicious when fried! (Unless those are spoiled) Also while i love the idea of recycling soap bars,, im concerned with the expiry date if its used for skin. But that should be safe for inanimate objects e.g you use it for washing ur car or carpet
America needs to discover the idea of keep cups. If you drink coffee every day: just buy one. You don't need to create landfill for something that is expected.
@josephmartin5483 except they are a con, they are not biodegradable except with very high heat for very long time. If they go to landfill they will not biodegrade, if they are chucked in the street they will not biodegrade. They are greenwashed plastic.
If you had to pay extra for a disposable cup, like plastic bags in supermarkets these days (at least here in Europe, not sure if it’s the same in North America?), maybe it would encourage people to bring their own reusable cups and save money? You can get these collapsible silicone cups now that take up much less space and weight than original Keep Cup type cups - plus the lid screws on tightly even when collapsed, so any remaining dribbles of coffee still in there after use stay in there, making it safer to put in a bag with other stuff. Which might help those who don’t want to carry a dirty, bulky, leaky cup around upright for the rest of the day!
None of these things help the environment in a measurable way sadly. It's a feel good exercise. When you could get people to have coffee 1 day less a year and it would have the same benefit, or probably more
How about just quit smoking, or drinking too much coffee, using plastic short lasting shoes like flip flops...what I'm saying is : how did people manage to live before all that industrial garbage?! Can't we restart using things that are lifelong and focus on things that are quality lifelong rather than having huge quantity of harmful garbage. By the way where would those plastic toys go afterwards??? That's hilarious when they say that the glu is non toxic 😆😆😆 while the workers are all wearing masks 🤣🤣. With the body recycling did anyone think what would happen when there's too much fungus???? I'm terrified to think about fungus covering the entire planet. People just stop intruding into normal cycle of life as it was intended to be.
I'm absolutely not an expert in recycling, so genuine question here : if you crush very finely and press together plastic and aluminium, isn't the resulting material impossible to recycle ? It sounds more like "re-use" than "re-cycle" to me, or "delayed waste". Someone will have to process this brick in the future and it will be even harder no ? If they just burn/bury the whole thing then it is really just delayed waste no ?
In my point of view, this type of recycling is useless, because they use rubbish in order to make something as useless as the rubbish itself. Who does really need a giraffe made of flip-flops? It's just waste of energy, isn't it be better if these people were planting trees?
@@zyxw2000 1. I don't believe that these bricks are more ecofriendly than these made of clay, which (the clay) is probably the most natural material, 2. I work in Asphalt company in Bulgaria, and here we recycle asphalt , too. So this is not something new, which happens only in New York. 3. Bamboo wood itself is one of the cheapest kind of wood, so it is pointless to collect chopsticks, transport them, "bake" them in order to make them monolite again. And for the people in poor countries I already wrote, that it's better to plant new trees, than to work in these fabrics where they are exploited and you can see how healthy is the environment.
maybe im confused. its great that those materials are recycled "eco bricks" are being made, but what are they then used for, they are essentially plastic and aluminum mixed with acryllics and other things?, are the burned, are they used to make housing, what?
27:21 wait. what the actual fk is that car? what model is that? didnt know tesla had another model other than the announced 4? somebody tell me what model that is!
God bless! Prayer here when you want and know that Jesus Christ saves love! Repent and trust Him love! start a relationship with Him, He, God, wants you!
