Shocking Amount of Trash in Landfill Every Hour ⏰ 🚜 

I'm with you. I am a recycling nut. We need to get everyone recycling as a fact of life.

Mike is the kind of employee that keeps a business growing. I’d say that load was 70% recyclable.

I'm not a hoarder, but I could definitely see myself being one if I worked their. 👍👍👍

Employee’s can respect a BOSS that has done it all and not afraid to help out when needed ❤😊

Places like yours are going to set the example for the changes we need to reduce waste in landfills. Some of these landfills are ticking time bombs for future generations to deal with.

The best boss/business owner is one that has done the job BUT still "gets their hands dirty" and mucks in when needed. Hat off to you, Mr Digg!

Your connection and attitude towards the employees are spot on. I spent 25 years with Southwest Airlines because the employees were looked at as the most valuable asset and treated with respect. Companies who recognize the importance of great employees have much greater success.

Mike the driver deserves a little "undercover boss" reward. However, you blew your cover at @18:50.

18:24 ... " i'm retired military I work cuz I want to " ...man what a great attitude, good on you man.

Never thought I'd be watching a dump channel. But I find it interesting.

Recently when we hired a crew of five for a property maintenance project, we brought them lunch, provided snacks, and beverages every day. One of the men thanked us and said "'Most people just look through us as if we aren't really there." Thank you for recognizing your employee family. Family isn't just the ones you grow up with but also the ones you grow better with. Until next time...just do the next thing.

I've always been off the mindset that i would never ask an employee to do something i wouldn't be prepared to do myself. Earning respect builds a good team culture.

Boy, I bet those environmental tree huggers are going crazy seeing all of that cardboard going in the landfill. They'll live. Great Video 👍

I'm with you on recycling the cardboard. I take all my Amazon boxes to the recycler about every three months. Back in the early 80's our yard was a half block away from a cardboard recycler. Working for a large telecommunications company who's first name starts with A and last name starts with T, the middle name also starts with T, we stored the cardboard and it would pay for a beer bust for the entire yard, not just our crew a couple times a year. So we all benefited from recycling. 85% is my guess.

I enjoy your RU-vid channel. Could some of the cardboard be shredded and mixed with soil for top cover of the land fill ? Great channel. 👋👍

Here in Alabama wooden pallets are used again and some are recycled into building things. Cardboard in our larger towns and cities recycle cardboard. They have wire trailers stationed at certain area and businesses break it down and place it in trailers where it is picked up and bailed. That might be an interesting research and idea for your company .

Man Ryan that video was awesome, super informative, really enjoyed that, something extremely interesting about seeing the different things coming in to landfill, just seeing the the trucks an talking to everyone, thank you for sharing an have a good weekend and I look forward to seeing the next video 🇺🇲✊👌🤙💪

YES! More landfill videos

Gotta give Mike a raise. Seems like a great guy

How many metal dumpsters do you go through in a week?

Busy day, Mr Digg I reckon with the sorting line up and running 85% could've been recycled from that load With the added bonus that some trash that's not worth sorting on the tipping floor becomes worth saving cos it's getting sorted out anyway Good plan sir And I hope you remember to tell Zak what a good guy Mike is 👍

Up here in my neck of the woods construction companies have to provide numerous bins for recycling containers metal,wood and cardboard on any job

Amazed at all the cardboard and pallets that people are throwing out!

Holy crap this is horrifying.. We got a lot of work to do as a society to be more responsible with waste

Here in North Queensland Australia we are all but 100% recycling all waste. Looking at what you are putting in we would be recycling at least 60-70% of your 800t a day. Even our domestic kerbside waste we have 2 bins 1 for general waste and the other is recycling and that goes to a dedicated facility where it’s sorted manually and some automated for processing. All our building waste is recycled and the same for commercial waste.

Great video, very interesting and informative, in a friendly and clear way. Mike UK

I have worked for a contractor digging cells for a landfills. We made the cells and lined them then covered the liner with clay. Daily there are tons and tons of trash dumped . And mountains of trash made. And covered with dirt.

I am amazed at how much stuff is dumped. Your crew are very efficient, lucky you.

Thanks Mike... Thanks for sharing!

I started out with nothing 56 years ago, I still have most of left. I have seen way to many people move up at a place and forget what it was like at the bottom. Keep up the good work.

That sure made for great viewing bro but yes it's sad to see recyclable stuff in a land fill. Safe travels. Kn.

awesome work.. just curious.. would it pay to have the excavator with the thumb pile the pallets & wood off to the side, like they do the scrap metal & when it piles up bring in the haul truck & move it to the chipper?.. another thing, not sure if your recycle place takes them, but some places take mattresses as scrap..metal keep up the great work!!

100% of the waste we create is recyclable, we just lack the will to recycle it all, I've often said we will eventually dig up these landfills when creating new resources out wieghs the cost of recovering them. The main problem is the environmental cost is not added into the price of mining the raw materisls.

No truer words were spoken. Admire your work ethics.

The main thing wrong with some business management is they have people like you a your position that can’t do the jobs they manage… we need more leaders like you sir!

Nice work Ryan!

I know employees respect their boss, and the boss respects them. You're more than a number. You're a human being, and sometimes managers or bosses forget, and I think you're just disposable

great video - thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing Ryan its wide open at c&c landfill buddy after seeing all the pallets and cardboard be good to see your sorting line when it’s ready 🍻🍻👍👍👍

Good morning from Germany i think 75 - 80 % of that load could have been recycled! could you not use ground up cardboard in your composting soil !?

pallets 99% wood 1% nails recyclable 😁

Bollards.... and the big black plastic square was the base to the plastic storage building

70%+? That load got bigger the more I looked. Ryan, I have nothing but admiration for you and what you do. I hope you can get the sorting line up and running ASAP, 'cos you're loosing money as it stands, just in this load alone, and there were several loads that were, as you say 100%.So much wood, plastic, metal etc. Best wishes from UK

Depending upon whether you use tons or cubic yards. Tonnage is 80% and cubic yards would be 6 75%

My area we have transfer stations. Lowest per ton tipping fee for me is $105. Upstate NY

Hey Ryan, how about come over here and teach Berkeley county how a landfill should be ran. Our road in and out is terrible, tipping floor is unacceptable and trash scattered from the hill to the scale

I used to haul dirt and mulch to my local landfill. It's crazy what some people throw away

❤ the video. We learn a lot. We all through trash away, but rarely anyone has a single thaught after.

Question sir.... Your guys on the tipping floor, Do you allow them to keep the tools and or any item they can use (not sell) that is not ready to be "trashed"?

Awesome video.

Love it! Great job on explaining this! Thank you again!

It's amazing the amount of waste going to landfill I don't mind cardboard or timber but plastic should be stored it should be burnt it will be in the ground for ever I worked on landfill in uk back in the 70ts there wasn't much plastic back then I'm old enough to remember growing up without plastic in the 50ts now everything plastic and its everywhere its in the streets hedges people don't seem to be bothered where it goes it would be interesting to see in an other 60 years what Towns and cities will be like. Interesting videos 👍

Landfill videos like this are cool thanks for sharing wat was your favorite job on the landfill drving the compactor looks like fun

I have been running the landfill here in town for 14 years I am the one and only operator and with machines mostly older than I am or complete junk lol watching your videos really makes me want to make a video of my landfill , its pretty much the opposite of what you got going on you would prolly get a kick out of watchin it

Very good video

That floor looks like the 9 rat holes I was talking about the other day. Stay safe and have a cold Lite!

hmm, take them metal pallets and weld them to the old metal wheels and make a new set for the compacter. just a thought, might have to harden them first tho.

Up here in the northeast (New England) a lot of the landfills are ash only now but they sort threw all the ash from the incinerators where they burn the trash and pull out all the metals then the ash goes in the landfill always wondered about this kind of landfill though because there are lot of old quarrys where you could set up something like this sorting lines sort out metal and wood make mulch like you do and sell the scrap metal out of it turn in all the other plastics and cardboard to sell in bails where you are so close to ports or rail lines / yards be good use of the land instead of just being a big open pit and would supply jobs for a long time before it fills up say someone opened a quarry mined it all out then swap over to something like this even on a small scale thats jobs for 50 to 100 years maybe even more

Hey Ryan I can agree with you on temps coming humidity got to 97 here today we screwed for the summer on the load you ask about I'm going to say around 87% of load would be recycled and you never said a More truer statement than if a business has a good manager you will have great employees and with your employees seeing you out there working and doing what they do rather than just jumping down there throat this will gain you more respect from your employees than anyone can ever imagine good job brother stay cool we catch you on your next video

Ever thought about buying a Skip Loader to replace your backhoe? If you don’t know what a skip loader is there backhoes but without the backhoe in the back. So it will have a loader bucket in the front and a box blade in the rear. Could be handy grading your land fill. Cat, John Deere and Case make skip loaders

nice one thanks

Great video!! I think those yellow plastic things are bollard covers.

Parts of Australia at our waste management facilities we also have a shed and yard with secondary bits and pieces of windows, timber and tool that can be purchased. your facility would be over time with all of that stuff coming in. What happens if you get a fire? lithium ion batteries are a big concern now days

I took my old mattress to the scrapyard. I took off all the padding material first, but all the springs got recycled

great walk around .and 45 %

I agree with you that that load looked like mostly new construction debris and 100% of that was recyclable.

Has to be recycled here in uk very few land fill sites now

My local MRF has a 30 pole with a hook on it. It’s basically a 4x8 steel box beam with fish hook barb looking end. They attach it to the tipping floor loader to help pull loads out of the trucks when they get stuck. Gets a lot of use in the winter when our loads freeze in the box. Would be interesting to hear from the Scale house what tonnage the recorded in the hour

Every owner or boss should work from the bottom up, so they see the reality of how the business works.

Did you save all that high voltage cable and recycle it???

Would like to see videos of the recycling center.

I wonder if you put a spotter camera over your scales if you could redirect the wood heavy loads to a separate tipping floor. Give it a quick pick out with an excavator.

good watch thank you

I'm amazed you have a shredder type crushing machine with a conveyor belt shoot on it to break all the materials for a better packing ability.

I always enjoy your videos, viewing from County SLIGO Ireland 🇮🇪 😎🤠🚲📷✍

We had a company that would give us free dumpsters and would split the paper and cardboard 50/50 for the profits...

It is to bad that things like the cardboard and pallets were not taken to the right spot. Landfill space runs out quicker when putting the wrong things in it. I know it cost a lot of money but a sorting plant will help. I know it is not practical but it would nice if all the trash was ground up. I do not know if that would help it break down any quicker. Plastic and cardboard are such huge problems. Thanks for the video.

I think we would want some wood and cardboard in the mix to help some of the landfill content to return to the earth. You think?? Anyway, good work, guys, keep it up!!

I love your videos. Clay is the worst. Got my tractor stuck two times in one week.

Another great video sir!

It used to normal in my past for not tasking any worker to do a job that you're not fully capable and experienced in doing yourself. Sadly many modern industries have moved away from that style of management and as a result their workers eventually lost most / all the respect for the management in those industries. Stand in their shoes and know how tough it is, then task and reward accordingly if you want to develop a good working relationship that benefits the company and its staff...

The landfill I dump at has 4100 gradall to to clean those compactor containers. They add a 5 foot extension on the gradall boom. Good luck

You could almost have a dedicated machine on the tipping floor with a thumb to pick all the wood out and leave it aside until the end of the day when you can load it in a container to haul to the grinder to make mulch. With that volume of wood being saved would extend the life of the landfill.

so everything goes to the landfill and then gets separated and sorted after that?

Good stuff Ryan!! I'd love to work there but it would be a bad idea because I'd want to bring crap home everyday!!

I would love to have that mag bucket I didn't even know that was a thing

love watching the videos

Love it , live cam would be nice, lol

worked in a trash landfill got 3000 tons a day so that was in 1986 your dump is easy for construction and cardboard

About 70% recyclable in that load

talk to Zwicky recycling in Pa they will set you up to reclaim all that valuable material

You mentioned stripping the insulation off of the wire. How do you do that?

60% all those pallets are premium wood for dyed mulch

I think the working world would be a much nicer place if the university business professors studied your management techniques and passed them along to their students.

Ya this is why I trash pick on a small scale. I save so much stuff that can be reused that is thrown out. Really what I throw away is pure junk. Everything else gets recycled. OR even scrapped for a few bucks

@Mr. DiGG when a boss gets rite into the work and gets dirty or that boss has worked the same job his guys do there a respect for your workers and they give it back

love the landfill videos

Always a good time at the landfill

The excavator that you have pulling metal out of the dump piles maybe you need to set up some sort of double axle trailer that he can grab with the bucket and drag along with him and load up and take back over to where he dumps it into the roll off boxes it would save fuel and time and maybe even have something like it set up for like all the pallets until you get something more permanent set up

Ah the day at the "dump". I live in a community that has single source recycleables which is nice for the homeowner. It is collected here then hauled 50m to a sorting center. There is a CAT plant here and they are assembling some compactors in the 980 class. Good show. I'm sure it wouldn't take long to cure ya of "hoarding"..... LOL