I have started to buy things that will last for many years, no more plastic for me. I have stopped buying extra clothes and using what i have until i cant anymore. We should start having more shoe makers so we have a place to fix our shoes and not have to buy new ones. I have so many ideas and i have written to one major company (BJs) to help with the over production of using plastic and of course i didnt hear back🥺. I feel i have great ideas that can help the world. I just need the right ears to hear me out.
There are solutions, it would just cost a lot of money and no one wants to do that. It would require taxing products the amount it costs to recycle. We could have 0 waste if we wanted to.
In my Constitutionally protected opinion, Waste Management treats it's employees like absolute shit but makes videos like this so the public gets the illusion that they are so wonderful. I worked there for 5 years. ( The First amendment declaration is because I've seen the company throw money at lawyers to screw with people, again, in my opinion.)
I work with Republic services and they’re absolutely the best company I’ve ever worked with. They take care of their employees and everyone loves their job ❤️❤️❤️
@@carmenmuneton6368 me too, I love Republic. I was so shocked at how they genuinely care about our well being and how they make sure we all have the right equipment for our jobs everyday, and all for free too! They just make you feel accomplished and happy to work here
Anyone think how ridiculous is this? throw all the garbages in one place and seal it up... and then find another place to do it again, yet as a kid they told us not to sweep the garbage under the rug... so this is how we run our planet. how brilliant..
HybridBlueDream I feel America should put recycling dumpsters next to every trash dumpster. And for the actual and less amount of trash we have, landfills should burn it in an underground bunker and have a pipe that reaches from the ground bunker to the sky releasing the smoke for energy
I mean I know literally nothing apart from watching this video just now, but since everyone in the comments is complaining about all the people complaining about landfill without offering any solutions, I'd try and offer my solution... I mean the closest alternative we have is recycling but that of course only works for recyclable products and although companies are producing increasingly recyclable stuff because a) it's right and b) it's good publicity, it's still cheaper not to in a lot of circumstances (although all of this is pure conjecture, so maybe I'm wrong). Surely the solution then is just to ban landfill, forcing companies to produce products only that can be recycled? I mean aslong as we have the crutch of landfill, there's no pressing need to truly clean up our act anytime soon. Ofcourse there's cost issues if you just banned landfill though. I suppose what you're technically doing is banning non-recyclable products which, admittedly, might not be possible for absolutely everything (not atleast until further technological advances). So I guess what you can then do is still have a small amount of landfills heavily tax companies of the waste they produce: based on the amount and size of non-recyclable products a company makes and ships to this country, you charge them, effectively meaning the companies are now paying high prices that fund the landfill plus profit. As such, that gives them an incentive to recycle because it doesn't cost them. As an extra incentive, rather than selling recyled goods back to manafactuers (as I believe is currently done), either offer it freely or do so at an incredibly cheap price. The money you get from taxing non-recyclable products could partly fund the loss of recycling for free however, otherwise, it will just cost the government but it'd be worth it to keep the world green. The big issue is the fact that if only one country does this, it gives corporations a good reason to just up and move to other countries that won't tax highly for making non-recylable products, suddenly it becomes cheaper for them to take their business elsewhere. Arguably then, you'd need enough countries to impose the same policy all at once (the sort of way something like the EU might) so that corporations aren't given so much of a choice/might mean it just works out simpler to accept the change. You'd also need to make sure the idea is worth it for companies in the long run though: even if they'd temprarily be losing money from the high taxes on their products, if they did make it all recyclable, then they'd technically be making profit on the free recyling sent back to them to make more of their products again. Effectively, you're eliminating their cost of materials. Whether that would be enough incentive, I don't know, perhaps you'd need to do more to get them to stay initially, and then slowly cut back in the future. That's just my thought anyway. I suspect it's all a load of bollocks because I don't know anything but if it is a load of bollocks, can someone point out why? I won't learn anything otherwise. I suspect there are a lot of reasons something like this doesn't work, reasons I'm too ignorant to pick up on, so can someone else point them out? Cheers
I also don't know much aside from this video but I'm wondering why landfills are a problem? People are staying it's awful but I really just don't see a problem yet - we reuse the land we covered, we deal with the leachate and methane and water somewhat efficiently. Are there other problems from this I'm missing here?
@@brynnaandersen7739 well from the little I know, you have to keep in mind this video is a very one-sided piece of advertisement to make landfills look very clean and environmentally friendly. Complete with upbeat piano music. Whilst they can capture some of the methane and leachate, there's still a lot of harfmul toxin being shoved into the ground that will pollute the surrounding earth. Things like old computers and tvs aren't going to break down. Plus the idea that in 30 years, the land will be perfectly healthy for building houses upon is pretty simplistic. Shoving stuff under a rug doesn't get rid of it. Plus there's a limited amount of land you can devote to landfill that will increasingly become a problem in the future. Plus it no doubt disturbs wildlife finding an appropriate, open space that you then dig a bloody big hole into. To put it another way, there's only one real advantage to landfill: it's cheap. It earns waste management companies tonnes more money than any other approach will. That's why they do it. CEOs want to get rich
@@sayyyy0018 you raise some good questions and I think you're right. I wrote this comment ages ago and I felt like there were obvious problems with my suggestion, so thankyou for pointing them out. But I'll try to reply to them each anyway 1) I agree, that is a danger. 2) Yes, I'd increase the tax on that too, probably. If you just do that on its own though, there'd still be non recyclable products being produced, plus ordinary people have to pay more for things they could barely afford to begin with. My plan is about forcing companies to only produce recycable products, therefore there will be no non recyclable goods for ordinary people to throw into the trash once it's fully implemented. 3) I mean "it doesn't cost them" as in if we tax companies for all their non recycable goods, that means companies who produce only recyclable products won't get taxed, therefore they save money. 4) The wall is different because it's using race to pin blame, plus the wall is stupid anyway. Although I agree it is unfair companies would have to pay for landfill...however that's also the point: companies will find it unfair and won't want to pay, therefore they'll just make their products recyclable instead...therefore landfills won't be needed. 5) Yes, it would probably mean an increase in taxes yes. To begin with, you'd be taxing the companies who don't recycle heavily, and that will pay for a lot of it. However once there are no companies who don't recycle, it becomes incredibly expensive. That's where you slowly start introducing ordinary costs again, where the companies pay to use your recyling plants. 6) I'd agree with you there, yes. In short, I don't really think my idea is the best solution. I knew at the time I wrote it that my idea would have problems. It was still interesting to try and think of my own solution though
I work for a construction company that builds landfills and there is a lot more to it than this. By the time the landfill is completed there is a zero percent chance of contaminating any environment I've seen 5 landfills built in five years and it's true.
jeffrey roberts you have to look at those landfills 30 years from now. I work at a landfill which was built 5 years ago and I promise you that leachate escapes. We test every 3 months. DEQ and EPA act like they don't know but they would have to be pretty stupid and I don't think they are.
jeffrey roberts true. My dumbass almost ran a 116000 pound compacter off the trash and into the liner and we had to excavate the area and make sure nothing needed to be repaired
I don't know why everyone is complaining. Everyone is recycling more and more now but there will still be garbage that can't be recycled. What other solution is there?
Dr Poldi Incineration releases more emissions of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases. Sure, it gets rid of the trash, but it’s more harmful than landfills.
I find the amount of people complaining hilarious. I work for a refuse company, and I bet these same people throw away at least some recyclables in the trash. Our county passed a cardboard ban, doesn't matter, people still throw clean cardboard in the trash. Food waste that could be composted is in the garbage as well. People don't breakdown cardboard boxes, they have recycling that isn't sufficiently cleaned, garbage in the recycling(including condoms), trash in yardwaste bags, and yardwaste in trash bags. And loose dirty diapers outside of a dumpster enclosure because you couldn't throw it in the dumpster....that shows how close some people are to being animals.
Some can be incinerated. The ash (called bottom ash or fly ash) can be used for other purpose to replace earth material like sand for construction and pavement.
@MI6 sure but it's only in order to find a real solution, landfilling or throwing waste without recovering their resources is plain stupid when there are available technologies to process 'waste' in a such a way. Of course it's better but.. it's not enough and you should not be satisfied with your answer.
@@dannydestroyer Because its talking about a landfill but the color palate is all green like it's an eco friendly thing and the narrator sounds way to happy.
its easy to complain about this. But whats your solution? At least they have a plan and use it to make reusable energy. Where else are they going to put it? And how will you stop co.panies feom making too much plastic.
The best idea is to burn the trash and make energy from that. Also that isn't really harmful since filters are used to stop toxins from entering the atmosphere
Tommy Le he already explained how they prevent that but I’ll add on. They filter the smoke and ash to prevent pollution, then the ash is used for things such as building bricks. Hope this helps!
Y'all are saying this is awful but I'm genuinely curious: are there actually problems that come from this? It seems like the problems with leachate and methane and water are fought against when making landfills. And the land itself is reused for public purposes. Meanwhile not everything we recycle is actually recycled. What is the problem here?
Honestly most of the people in these comments are libtards that just like to hear themselves complain. They don’t offer any better solution to their quote unquote “problem”. Human beings are incredible intelligent and industrious, and this is the best that out modern engineers were able to come up with. The problem is big corporations influence just about everything in this world and they want more and more people because we are all consumers. Even if that means we have to start piling our trash up into mountains and covering them with dirt lol. They don’t really necessarily care about the environmental repercussions as long as they are making money. But again this was the best that people were able to come up as far as efficiency/environmental impact goes. They are incredibly well built and monitored. However it’s not like there isn’t a footprint at all. There’s a mound of trash under there for years and years still 🤷♂️ sorry to ramble. My father was the head of maintenance at a waste solid management plant so I’m not just spewing conjecture here.
Lol they mean destroyed in their terms, it just dissipates in the form of other gasses and is not methane, because its composition is not that of methane, but it is broken down into a form not considered as methane, but can still be considered a potentially harmful greenhouse gas.
So all this negative replies because Cara Carr expressed how she feels about waste management. People just started assuming things for no other reason but to judge her!? Interesting.
As the dumped garbage continues to decompose and compress after closure of a landfill site, does it not cause the upper layers (and also the surface) to eventually cave-in? how is this (caving-in) prevented?
The landfill is compacted everyday and a layer of soil is added. They use a lot of soil to close it, according to local regulations. They also plant trees and grass, which will prevent erosion.
Cool next time I want to recycle my laptop I will go to the park dig a hole and put it in. After 20 yrs I will come back to get a new one. Wow this is awesome!!!!
Does everyone realize that your toilet waste sits in tanks in your backyard , and seeps into the ground . What do you think happens to the waste we create? Grow up.
Do all landfills produce hydrogen sulphide? At our local landfill the operator says it's not possible, we have measured 3 ppm and its supposedly all coming from groundwater on the site, perhaps old mines!
@@RADIUMGLASS anything is possible. It just takes a individual or a group to work out all the intricacies. So the first be finding out how much that would cost. Who would fund it? What fuel to use (maybe natural resources) Would that correlate to pollution? Also what happens when trash floats around in space? Does it have a chance to reorbit? Every idea sounds great until you break it down. Theres way more to it then these SIMPLE questions.
The only solution for a zero waste lifestyle is.every household must grow their own food and raise their own chickens/cows/etc. Food establishments must not allow take-out orders. All meals be eaten at the restaurant. No More take-out food and beverages!
This is completely ridiculous. Why is it so hard to have laws in place that force people to only recycle? We can ban plastic bags and styrofoam. Anything plastic has alternate material that can be used and yet we act like this is impossible to do.
Yeah, but that garbage produces toxic chemicals. And the materials produced chemically like plastic and styrofoam does not break down. It takes decades. When you're eating fish one day with styrofoam or plastic, let's see what you say then.
So what happens when you seal up the landfill? Does all the matter decompose? I'm pretty sure there's everything mixed in with the landfill like plastic. I hope we could separate compost and recyclables entirely but humans are ignorant and too lazy to tell the difference. It's a solution but there's gotta be a better alternative out there. =(
There’s one in our town that closed some years back. They put methane vents in and collect it for energy, paved over the rest. And now a car dealership sits there. Like it or not this was the best that our modern engineers were able to come up with. We have too many people now because corporations want consumers. And we wind up with mounds of trash.
There has to be a better way!!! We need to use less packaging, more plant based products, composting should be mandatory and as a last resort recycle what must be produced that isn't biodegradable.
There is a better way and it’s have less babies. As long as corporations are running the world they will continue to push people to have many kids. They all become consumers and the world takes a beating in the process. Plus have you driven around during rush hour lately? It’s scary how stupid the population is getting.
Wait so we just barry it and put wildlife around it? That sounds so unsanitary. I would not want to live on top of a landfill or eat what's in the lake next to it.
A properly constructed landfill will be like a bubble out of which nothing can leak. It will have plastic liners and clay walls. There will also be crushed rock at the bottom around the leachate collection pipes to stop them from getting clogged.
this is a dumb solution... how about we become less impatient and greedy by repairing stuff instead of throwing away and by trying to adopt a zero waste lifestyle?
this is the real muthaphuckin answer and it starts with each individual reducing their plastic consumption until it stops, learning how to repair things and stop being such good consumers
