Agree 😊 They really shouldn't have to though...it should be manufacturers taking responsibility for choosing sustainable resources, and taking back their used products for recycling, upcycling etc..then they would act more wisely. Imagine if H&M or IKEA was responsible for their rubbish n had to care for/pay for it...they'd start being very sustainable fast😉
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If they didnt mention things like stopping meat or trying to compare their foods to others that already exist they would do better lmfao no wants a company giving them religious advice.
I know that it's complicated, but if recycled stuff costs SO MUCH MORE than normal stuff, people will still want to use the normal, not everyone can afford sustainability! And THAT is a huge problem!
It's the oil subsidies that's making virgin plastic cheaper than recycled ones. Cancel the subsidies and recycled plastic will automatically become cheaper
The 2nd hand stuff is less expensive n not in bad condition plus you can find more diverse and unique items. So but a few nice things instead of a heap of rubbish...goes for apparel, furniture.. all of it
I bought myself a lunch box a year ago, coming with a plastic knife, a fork/spoon, and a pair of chopsticks. I'm still using the same a year later, they're easy to clean off and the box is made to accomodate them when I take it. A year after, and a lot of lunches after, even if they go to the trash I won't feel like they would be wasted. Still ,they're doing the job just fine.
I'd love to get in to one of these recycling business. I moved from trucking to waste disposal during covid and the amount of stuff we through away is insane and only made worse with so many home
I AGREE! Sounds so cool and fun simultaneously. I’m encouraged to work at a recycling business as well. These inventions and ideas to make the planet more cleaner and safer is amazing! So cool!
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Yeah ok raheemallen2003, i think we were able to read your silly bullshit the first 150 times you wrote it. Just because you lick windows doesn't mean the rest of us do. 🤤
0:20 "Tack för att du Sorterar!" Sweden has always been great an burning most of the garbage we produce, and turn it into electricity, it's gotten so big, that most companies that produce electricity from garbage actually imports trash from Norway, Denmark and Finland. I'm from Sweden, and I am actually happy that people have started to take care of the plastics and garbage that's getting thrown onto the streets and oceans, and use it to produce, etc. Electricity.
The fumes are scrubbed, so it's CO2 that comes out. This would be the case in either way for the load bearing power plants that are needed to make up for wind and solar-power. But yeah, would be nice to take this away as well, maybe use the CO2 in a greenhouse for fast growing bamboo or something like that :)
Huge respect for you guys for covering such an important topic which people are least bother, but i think if mother nature🌷🌳 is save only then our existence is possible and for that it's very important to live life sustainably. Thank you so much Business Insider Team 🤞love from India
Correct me if i am being daft. But if the flowers contain dangerous substances .... how does grinding them and then setting them on fire is not seen as a health risk?
Recycling is hard when you got bits of tissue with shit and pee 😭 sometimes I question recycling cause most people mix all their trash into one big bag I guess it up to all of us to sort out our trash to help the recyclers do their job
This is a beautiful documentary. It gives me hope that each one of us putting effort into recycling, one by one we will tackle the problem of waste in the world😀
55:20 😮 This is a genius idea. The “making is grow tiny plants if thrown away” doesn’t allow the product to ever be considered waste. It’s useful even without the consumer interacting with it.
We did the eternal reef with my papi's remains. He lived in Florida. B4 we got on the boat n dropped it off some where off the coast of Florida (my mom knows the exact location) i shaded a piece of paper over the plaque on it n put it in a frame n have it on my shelf. It was really cool..
I had tears of joy when I saw this video! This is awesome. A game changer when it comes to keeping trash out of the ocean. Hope to see this type of machine at work in every city on all coasts around the world.
Personally I save my chopsticks for reuse I used it for all kinds of things I’m a painter used to stir paint, mix glue and various sorts of projects I do not waste them they’re really useful also mixing Apoxsee.
nope none of that works, plastic producing companies increase making plastic year after year so you can reduce reuse and recycle all you want there's still going to be more and more plastic been made. the companies that keep making plastic are the ones polluting not the people, so the people can not solve this problem only the companies can.
@@roldiny Very wrong. “People can’t solve this only companies can” is not correct. It’s a simple supply and demand thing, people want/need plastic goods, forks, straws etc so these companies make and supply them. If that demand stops or reduces, the company will have to do the same. It starts with people leading more sustainable lives that will force these companies to change their manufacturing processes and materials to be more sustainable. If there’s zero demand or a reduction in demand, companies will have to stop or reduce making plastic products in order to remain a profitable business.
All my love and respect for this company. ❤❤ I could go on and on, saying how grateful I feel to them, for helping tackle a bit, this horrible wasteful society. However, I'll limit myself to say that I am so glad to see this.👌
I would love to have the thongs (maybe an old fashion term ?) but I am 73 yrs old with a hip replacement and I need a shoe with an upper part, and no back. I am sure the material like leather that was shown earlier would do the trick. I also loved the packaging that was also shown that you can tear up and plant for flowers. That product should sell for any packaging except some food ones lol. This video should be shown in school classrooms or made more attractive to watch for kids. Thank God for smart people like these guys. The incense sticks should be sold everywhere...please and thank you!
There is hope for our beautiful planet because of these incredible pioneers and innovators. I am so inspired and grateful and sorta kinda wish I were as scientifically smart. Love this video.
Well you can team up with material scientists and engineers to make ideas happen! Teams of people from all different backgrounds made these things happen. I’m sure you have something great to bring to the table!
11:12 the problem still remains, in the consumption behavior, this is still single use plastic. this is still the part of consumer behavior that causes so much excessive waste in the first place
i'm actually very disgusted of this practice, especially "baking" the sticks in order to kill bacteria. Don't forget these sticks contain food remains and people saliva and god knows what could come out of a persons mouth and hands. And I dont see the good part in it, for what are they doing this? To save trees? come on, i bet there are more appropriate means to do this instead of handling germs, saliva, and cooking them alltogether. I'm stunned how they don't seem worried at all about corona up there in Canada ))
@Viperz926 I don’t doubt that, but me personally I find the way they do it a little simplistic and as they said they are a small scale business, and I suppose they still can improve. Recycling is always good doesn’t matter how it’s done 😃
Still I admit I’m amased by the results, i forgot to specify, regarding that they know what they’re doing. The market should be virgin on this kind of handmade stuff, i bet they can’t keep up with the orders they get.👍
Good Job Sheila, going after the delivery company that has no control over the cutlery and not the restaurants that auto send them regardless of how many times you tell them not to.
These ideas are all so awesome! It’s my dream to work of a company that’s part of the solution. I have a question though.. Isn’t it also toxic and bad for people to burn the incense made of flowers that contain all of those toxic chemicals in the second segment?
27:32 I like how you’re showing footage of farmers having to get rid of their crops because the pandemic ruined demand. They’re not throwing it out for shits and giggles.
@@Mocha-Latte some does, not all. If youre in an area thats producing these things industrially for export, theres just not enough people in the local area to consume all the "misfit" products. Ive seen pictures of dump trucks worth of fruits getting dumped.
The common theme across all these "green/sustainable" programs from big companies are at most a marketing and greenwashing gimmick. The principle attention should be on reducing consumption and re-using already manufactured resources. There is a huge disconnect between scalability and these experimental programs.
I agree. Though the problem with reducing consumption, making products more recyclable, or even degrowth in order to stave of environmental collapse is that there is of course no financial incentive to do so. It is antithetical to the current economic world order. While some of these companies have promise, they all focus on waste; they all focus on the result of a wasteful system and not on the system itself. While it should be their principle to focus on the true source of waste and it’s environmental effect, that is something which-even if they had sufficient financial interest to do- could not actually do anything about. This is something that requires collective action.
They are doing well now, they are trying their best, and at least they do something :))) Why don't you think a way to reduce consumption and do it like they do by yourself
Recycled food. It's good for the environment and OK for you.... Just love the line and had to say it but I definitely didn't' know about some of these and found it very interesting!
There are unaccountable amazing ways of re using waste and produce more incredible useful items. We need more business like this to be erected in oceanic countries to provide employments and boost up their government capital.
America's the most wasteful they're not as resourceful as other places in Europe. America's more about money I find other countries are more about health and trying to fix what is better for the people.
@@spacemahn7474 Bamboo Absorbs Carbon Dioxide - Bamboo absorbs carbon dioxide and releases over 30% more oxygen into the atmosphere compared to an equivalent mass of trees. This makes bamboo excellent for absorbing greenhouse gases and producing clean, fresh oxygen.
Totally agree with you. Even the whole documentary never mentioned one single measure of saving the earth in China, but they "co-incide" to mention 1.4 billion people using chopsticks to creat waste in just one LUNCH BREAK . They want you to feel less guilty when buying from the big company. Oh btw, I notice the machinery in the Avocado Bioplastic factory are made by a Chinese company.
Most disposable Chopsticks are made of bamboo which is a grass that readily grows. It is quite sustainable if we use it to heat homes or make charcoal briquettes for grills. The carbon cycle continues to the air and the bamboo turns it into chopsticks.
Kinda true. However the tables they're making are also replacing ones that might have been made from wood, metal or other materials. So the effect is larger than you're portraying.
I love these ideas! All we need is for new plastic to be just a penny more expensive than recycled plastic and then there will be incentive for companies to use recycled materials. A penny per ton would be enough to shift the big businesses mindset on the matter.
This was the only one which I thought was the most controversial since algae are living organisms. So we’re basically killing the living organisms that small sea life feed on to create a product that would otherwise end up in the small and big sea life environment. The pro’s to this is that they’re farming the algae they could never extract it from the sea since it’s too small. This leaving the sea habitat unbothered. The cons is that there’s a carbon foot print to farm the algae.
At this one work site i bought 10pack of these Palm leaf plates, i shared them with my co-workers and we were stunned. You can actually wash them with super hot water and those plates are like, thats all u got? I ate from that same plate for the next 5 days 2 times a day, everytime washing it with hot water. That blew our minds :D BTW none of us had any stomach nor other health issues after :) Natural cant hurt u, right? :)
My hats off to the people involved in UPCYCLING the used chopstick ! I, myself UPCYCLE, I make round padded chairs that swivel from used tires and I use bicycle tire painted and decorated with a mirror in the center for a wall mirror.
Why do you need chopsticks . It’s just a bloody status thing to show everyone in an Asian restaurant that westerners know how to use chopsticks pffft . . I’m 73 years old and I eat Chinese food with a spoon and fork . Leave the chopsticks to the Asian people and do something to save our planet.
It's pretty terrible to watch this hour and more program on dealing with waste and knowing that the US is doing pretty much *NONE* of it whatsoever. Small businesses in the US are, but none of the big companies are going to bother without some heavy duty regulation or *insane* taxes on their waste (and the waste they deliver to consumers to dispose of - excess and non-recyclable single use packaging, ect).
Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order. We should not be relying on recycling as the main solution. The only reason it takes the front page is because it encourages more consumerism, aka more profit.
Plastic spoons and forks might be uselss in my opinion I mean we have metal ones we can reuse over and over again But since we humans are lazy we made plastic ones that are convenient for use as with all other things There are metal chopsticks as well
My old school used to use metal utensils but they said students broke them but why make metal utensils that cheap when the school gets so much money? *this is why I do cyberschool*
And the plastic forks or spoons often are not able to pick up a bite of food with. Knives seem clumsy and cannot cut a piece of meat. Fork tines snap off on hard plastic ware and the softer ones bend double. 🤔 A complete waste. So much real silverware available in thrift stores.
7:00... Well, if those flowers contain arsenic, cadmium and the like, they sure should not go contaminating the river. But I'm still in doubt whether the idea of turning them into incense sticks and subesquently inhaling the heavy metals makes more sense health-wise. (Okay, people are using incene anyway and thus would be sourcing more fresh flowers, so the double use cuts down on that. Oh well...)
the chopstick recycling is great cause it gives a short-lived item a long-lived use. tables and floors tend to be around for a decade if not multiple. i hope this can scale because with the mass of chopsticks waste mentioned, they could supplement at least a small portion of wood. also huge credit to Bottletop for not just stealing a South American idea but rather build up a community by employing them right there and paying a fair wage. that's how aid is done right.
This is science at its best, As we grow, record, and save data, we can improve our way of life. This one time item for reuse is a great way to show innovation. Kudos to everyone . We know how long these throw aways can last. Now, thanks to Sheila, they are being used for something better that needs to last. That's discovery. One thing leads to another and then you may find its true glory. I think the patterns created now by this unique press, thank you again, that it can be made thinner as a vineer to save on sticks. to many are wasted in the thickness now. This can be a nice texture like natural grain wood, only better.
Bought 4 metal raised beds like yours on special for next year's gardens. Summer project was putting in a solid wood fence. Hope this will keep the deer out. They even chewed off the tops of my tomatoes. Put side supports so the soil won't bow out the sides of the raised beds.Have already started composting on the bottoms.
Love these types of videos :) Regarding the bread in France... If a bakery makes 50 banquettes a day but only 40 sell.. then the following day they should only make 40. This would reduce the left over bread, no ?
Not necessarily. If a business is constantly sold out because it didn't produce enough, it leads to a reduction in business over the long term. Consumers tend to spend less time in an understocked shop/bakery than they do in a fully stocked one. It is a hard balance to reach and ultimately will produce waste based on common consumer habits. We could change the habits in time, but until then the waste needs a way to be used.
@@laurent3415 good point. In my country, we call this "hungry eye phenomenon", where we decide to take a product out of large bundle instead that one that's sitting alone on the shelf. But on the other hand, in our culture, bread was never wasted. Bread crumbs are one of the most common products, sold by bakeries, supermarkets, small grocery stores etc. We also make them at home by simply drying pieces of bread and grinding them in a food processor, blender or in a simple pestle and mortar.
@@a_l_e_k_sandra Exactly, we do the same since decades, always dry our left over bread in grind them for several uses, now adding it to pastries and cakes is a surplus.
I’ve worked in the restaurant/bar business in the US for 23+ years. Lauren T is absolutely right. We work on a par system, but if we have 40 steaks and 41 guests that want a steak, that 41st guest complains to us and their social circle, they get something free in return, and the odds that any of those people come back when they can go next door is hugely decreased. It’s a constant balancing act. You know Americans; better to have more than you need and throw the extra away than to ever have less.
Our local bakery routinely cuts unsold, bread into cubes or crumbs, for resale. I do that with my own bread. I put the cubes into buttered bakeware, along with any appropriate 'leftovers' & herbs, pour well blended eggs, and topping of grated cheese, and it becomes a dish called a Wifesaver. It can be frozen or stored 4 days in the fridge. Delicious.
This is so fascinating to watch. It's lovely to see individuals stepping up to the challenge of re - generating excess wastage into productive products,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
The fact is that every problem we can solve always will bring another problem, but i'm really appreciate and respect those who try to solve the world's problems rather than those who only know how to criticize here and there. Y
This really hit home. I had no idea how bad things are and how we all should be using these sources. Really made me think. I love the first one, the recycled chopsticks. Am going to look into this one more. I really hope that the IKEA recycling takes off.
The environment is the least of your worries right now. Landfills are a more than acceptable place to put our waste. Plus, they are way more environmentally friendly than recycling plastics. Unfortunately, everyone has been sold the recycling lie.
This is so important to see happening for our cultures. Manual labor has been behind much of our culture’s art work, mostly slave labor. It is good info. I’d love to use some banana fiber art work.
I look at the fashion industry segments and think that, if more people knew how to mend clothes, this might not be such a huge problem. Also, it's the reason I shop mainly at second-hand places.
Incredible inventions! I hope people will start to realize about waste problem.. These stories of innovation and eco-concerned production are sooooo promising..
so recycled chopstick furniture is comparable to genuine hard wood furniture, 3-4x the price of IKEA furniture. This is where recycling just gets ignored, it's necessary but the masses won't pay more for reused products. It just won't happen.
I met Troy Donahue of Shasta County California in 1992 when I ran the Ecology Village educational exhibit in Marin County. Troy founded his company Shasta Magic Mushrooms and lectured endlessly about remediation of landfills and soil contaminated with petroleum by introducing mushroom spores to the sites. Mushrooms eat through the waste and plastics.
The reason biogas is not used in most countries is that it requires consistent high temps to produce. Anywhere outside of about 25 degrees from the equator would require artificially heating the digester at least part of the year, offsetting the modest amounts of gas production with higher heating costs.
There were about 3 million tons of sargassum along the Atlantic and washing ashore in Florida beaches earlier this year (2023). Algae is great marine food, fertilizer and so wonderful that California scientists can now make into biodegradeable flipflops!