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Richardson Gustave works for an unusual project called "The Plastic Bank," which wants to protect the environment and help people escape poverty.
Plastic waste is a growing problem worldwide. The oceans are awash in garbage, causing the deaths of marine animals. Traces of plastics are turning up in our bloodstreams, too. The problems created by plastic waste are especially visible in Haiti. Many people here live in poverty and amid plastic waste. "The Plastic Bank" pays people to collect waste in order to reduce pollution and poverty. The waste is then sold for recycling. Richardson Gustave set up the project to help rebuild his country that was devastated by hurricanes in 2008. It's not easy to implement it in reality. Turning Waste into Opportunity: The Plastic Pickers of Haiti - A Report by Sabine Streich
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Комментарии : 97

@komerwest9520 6 лет назад

Never be ashamed of working to support your family. A real man will take what ever work he can find to do this and can hold his head high.

@DSmith365 6 лет назад

Must respect to the brother who came back to Haiti to try and improve his country.

@DARTH-DISNEY 3 года назад

Tell your brothers bambaklok to get out of Québec before they turn our wonderful place into another Satan's toilet

@bw4500 6 лет назад

2.5mil people and no one's organised a trash service. Yikes. Big respect to Richardson, Denise & Plastic Bank for tackling the problem.

@bobdole27 2 года назад

Its one of those things that sounds simple enough until you realize the massive amount of capitol to do such a thing to scale and how much cooperation you'd need with a government that isn't corrupt and inept

@dflatt1783 6 лет назад

My hat goes off to this man doing his best to better his country. I wish there were more people like him.

@SupremeBapeTV 6 лет назад

This the best documentary channel hands down

@DynamicHaze 6 лет назад

SupremeBapeTV it's terrible the actual translating is trash.

@dlewis8405 6 лет назад

Seriously this country has been an independent country since 1809 but somehow in all that time they have not managed to organize a trash collection service. The most basic function of government.

@Okanagan48 6 лет назад

Corruption at government levels.

@Jesuisedens 6 лет назад

Dave you absolutely right, we've been independent since 1804 and we lack the most basic government functions and infrastructures. Rest assure the will is there and alive within the people but the mean is being suppressed one way or another. Little by little with the willingness of people like Gustave we will get somewhere, we just need to rely less on our government and foreign governments.

@cooldudedewends55 5 лет назад

1804

@ninomiya6614 5 лет назад

@Toodie search "United States occupation of Haiti" on Wikipedia. All the real and accurate sources and references are there too. USA has been oppressing Haiti since long after their independence.

@alanswinney9814 4 года назад

Everyone expects someone to do it for them. Quit throwing your trash on the ground. Clean up after yourself. Quit waiting on government to do everything for you. That's the problem. Everyone thinking "why isn't government cleaning up this mess I'm making"

@pan-africanist7685 5 лет назад

I have so much admiration for this brother. Thank you so much. You're not alone in this battle.

@yahooo949 3 года назад

Thank you for the hard work and the video on this topic. It is heart warming to see all these people returning back to their countries to provide assistance.

@kurita82 5 лет назад

Every work should be respected.

@ashwadhwani 6 лет назад

Trash collector to the politically minded, a hero to mother earth :)

@krababz 6 лет назад

Honorfull man, a lot of resource full immigrant's in Europe should learn from this man.

@Phoenix-ug1ru 6 лет назад

6:38 Don't feel that way, you guys are heroes

@vintagemoth 6 лет назад

Wow this is eye opening.

@kimmy0868 5 лет назад

I’m horrified at the amount of trash here. This is a world wide emergency, other countries need to get involved and help them. This island can be beautiful again

@joemarr5383 3 года назад

Y?they dont help themselves

@neplatnyudaj110 3 года назад

Help them how? Occupation?

@kerryswier4173 2 года назад

Tons of help from other countries and private organizations has been poured into this country. The corrupt government intervenes to keep from being of any great help to the citizens.

@Naturenerd1000 5 лет назад

I am glad the clean up of plastic is creating jobs here and bring people out of poverty. Hopefully more recycling companies can go here in the future and factories to turn them into products to be exported creating more jobs. I think it will help a lot if some American companies move a few of their factories from Ashia to Haiti and try to fix infrastructure. The factories can be powered though waste to power plants for the clean up as well. Then we also need to put reforestation efforts also.

@KevinP32270 6 лет назад

I was just talking about this terrible situation with my sister yesterday. Wooow.

@two2young93 5 лет назад

Wow. Great story. Thank you.

@KevinP32270 6 лет назад

Live long and prosper.

@3907David 6 лет назад

The plastic bank project really helps these families. I just wonder whether there is a time they clear All the plastics around and lose this job in the future.

@kerryswier4173 2 года назад

Doubt it. The world is drowning in plastic and it just keeps coming.

@Mr_Chris__ 4 года назад

A wide variety of things can be done to reduce plastic wastage. Plastic manufacturers will continue to supply plastic while the demand for it remains. Every time we buy food that is wrapped in plastic packaging, (fruit and vegetables for example) we contribute to the demand for that particular type of plastic. We can reduce the demand if we choose to buy loose fruit and vegetables. Independent fruit and veg stores don't use a large amount of plastic. Most of all their fruit and vegetables are sold loose. Another thing we can do to reduce demand on plastic is to buy milk in glass bottles. I buy milk in glass bottles from a local milk delivery company. The price is higher but it's very convenient to have milk and other groceries delivered to your door.

@IvanPlayStation4LiFe 6 лет назад

I love this channel DW. Germans make awesome unbiased documentary unlike the United States of America which is all lies. I hope Haiti gets clean up and very rich. They should copy the Dominican Republic we are not perfect but mostly clean somewhat stable with a growing economy. They should not be ashamed of collecting trash is honorable job cleaning I salute them.

@soursop1972 5 лет назад

These countries need to abolish school fees, it is a huge burden on the people. Plus they should want to have an educated population.

@nicholasrodriguez4990 3 года назад

People keep blaming Haiti’s poverty on its 21 billion dollar 💵 independence debt which was paid of in 1947 the poverty in Haiti today has only sprung up recently who’s fault is this? Billions of dollars has been pumped into Haiti 🇭🇹 at this point they have no one but themselves to blame, even in France was to pay the reparations to Haiti 🇭🇹 it would go into the hands of the government and be looted the country is a lost cause.

@Thehokage36 5 лет назад

We recycle plastic to turn it into more plastic? There has to be another use for it.

@charlesschulz8416 2 года назад

What would be ideal also a small pyrolysis plant to turn that waste plastic back into petrol and diesel

@alexandrabruno2950 5 лет назад

Where mine Haitian people at?

@lucrativelyrics8131 6 лет назад

(@11:00) why's kanye west working in haiti ?

@zairabasulto6885 6 лет назад

This documentary is so sad

@Blaquekaktus 3 года назад

Why sad? Work is being done and progress is being made. Also, thanks to this documentary, awareness is behind made, which will inspire others to get involved. #PositiveChanges

@Maurazio 6 лет назад

so much wasted energy, they could fuel a power plant with all that

@derpityderp-derp4007 6 лет назад

Excellent idea!!

@bandit4true 5 лет назад

So what if he collects garbage. These people have too much false pride. The man is doing an honest job making an honest living. They are poor and have nothing but have all this dawn false pride. smfh

@JJ-ok2sm 5 лет назад

Wowwwww

@KevinP32270 6 лет назад

They need dump trucks and giant bucket cranes to remove that mess.

@10AntsTapDancing 6 лет назад

quest 77036 those things are too expensive and would take the solution to the problem out of the people's hands. Charity doesn't work but giving people the ability to help themselves is the solution to the problem. In the west we are too used to someone else dealing with our issues and have the infrastructure to do it. Those men who didn't want to be filmed show that the Haitians are sad that their country is a mess and are working as best they can to save themselves. Perhaps there is something that you can do that would give them that power?

@sumimaind 6 лет назад

Hi DW, as a suggestion, you could also make a video about theorigins and consequences of racism. Its a very current theme that nobody really explains it in the bigger picture or in a global scale. Its talked about and its divisive but we keep seeing these fights on social media comments but little explanation from the media about how it works, its origins and the impact. What is true and what is not. You guys make great videos and I think this is a topic that we need to talk about in the political climate we currently are.

@muhwaq123 6 лет назад

Yes this issue is rising day by day, any good documentary would illuminate people.

@westkomer5570 5 лет назад

Only way to solve this is to stop using plastic

@louisdjemyarnoldgalette6482 3 года назад

The solution its not "DO NOT USE PLASTIC". As you know it plastic is a global production and industry. So thinking about how to manage plastic is the best way to get income plastic flow. Lookup the plastic as an opportunity to create something new not as a waste. Everything invented by human, can be transferred in an other product or project.

@kerryswier4173 2 года назад

True, but conversion has an energy cost, also. So, great reduction of one-time or little use is necessary.

@internationalpulse 6 лет назад

I remember Sunny Hostin the hosts from The View show said she has ties to Haiti

@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 4 года назад

The problem with haiti is they wait for foreigners to pay them to to this. This plastic collection organization is funded by foreigners. These people can't do anything without being given direction

@pietrojenkins6901 6 лет назад

Haiti and India are in the same class when it comes to massively failing the sanitation grades.

@seemarawal5717 6 лет назад

Pietro Jenkins How right you re! This could very well be a straight lift from a huge dumping ground in India but the thing is more or less these garbage piles ve become a global problem

@wendyalexander5342 6 лет назад

Better than here. It's hard to recycle

@9inchpp 5 лет назад

It shows 2 things here; how one man vision and effort has changed the life of many, and how useless Haitian government is.

@zoefofo7769 6 лет назад

I've always had that idea

@ketiaoxizius1985 5 лет назад

Haiti is sitting on a lot of money

@user-gw2gg1jj9r 5 лет назад

Why not sell drinks in some natural organic bottles instead of plastic ones? Just forbid transporting plastic to Haiti.

@kerryswier4173 2 года назад

Even if no plastic comes into Haiti, there will still be somewhat of a plastic problem. Just look at Henderson Island which is uninhabited and 70 miles away from any inhabited place Island and is in the middle of the South pacific. Its beaches are covered in plastic that floats in across the ocean.

@b.cdrisk2035 6 лет назад

Just remember, Trump calling this place a shithole was wrong

@thubuntu 6 лет назад

Made my day.

@rodfranc7597 6 лет назад

This is going to be our future if we keep electing Republicans like Trump into office who wants to cut all our social programs

@RU-zm7wj 4 года назад

The people are human beings, with more dignity than Trumps' over-privileged ass.

@neplatnyudaj110 3 года назад

@@rodfranc7597 You're right. "Liberals" in Portland demonstrated how it can be done.

@steve-o6413 6 лет назад

Hi Sunshine, the idea sounds great on the outside, but this is not the finished product. It's a disaster filled with Human an Planet suffering that needs to be Stopped. Raise your Consciousness, your Spirituality, the Ascension process check it out and bring balance back to the Earth an your body, while raising your Consciousness for a new 5D Tech World. May peace an prosperity be with you always.

@budsio 6 лет назад

Lol

@ShermaneKDor 2 года назад

They call it recycle ♻️ that's why we pay less for some many juice,Tampico,Busta,Ragaman,Toro,Sprite,Coca-Cola,Cola,Couronne.When you do this put face mask and 👓 glasses

@Florida305all Год назад

This is the real Haiti 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🤢🤮

@vvvspqr 4 года назад

I boycott all the adds

@manatee2500 6 лет назад

It starts with real elites who live above Petionville and just gets worse going down. It's good to see a positive story about the commercial sector working in Haiti, commerce is not the enemy. There is no left or right in Haiti, just look at how both Aristide or Preval failed to reform the land registry (even after the earthquake) - the one measure that only Haitians could change and one which would have benefited the Haitian people much more than the UN agencies and their employees and most of the NGO's. Haiti can do much better than what is seen today, there's ample evidence on the other side of the island. The narrator should pronounce of Port-au-Prince in English.

@ItsDefOver9000 6 лет назад

manatee2500 I'm no expert on Haitian politics but the president they have now seems to be really intent on improving the basic needs of the country with the road building projects, and his efforts to electrify the whole country etc.

@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 5 лет назад

@@ItsDefOver9000 how wrong you were

@shivarakesh5541 Год назад

be a pro planet people

@d-bosssavagestak3708 2 месяца назад

There's things that matter some over look trying to deal with one problem instead tackling all in 1 each idea as situation there are other factors behind solutions not just 1 solution for that situation my secret is magnificent as well effective

@nicholasrodriguez4990 3 года назад

Destroying the land and destroying/polluting the Caribbean Sea wonderful

@xizoxd2467 3 года назад

And the Elites there love it. The government is practically their play ground making all the rules. The Haitian Americans been caught on to this but our questions is why go back and help when our own people will carry hits on us made from those same elites. Pretty sure the people can’t overthrow the Elites regime since it’s backed by the US and UN claiming they want stability which in code is to steal resources while the country is fcked all over.