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New York City is one of the most wasteful cities in the world. But none of its trash is actually processed in NYC. It's sent to waste-to-energy facilities and landfills as far away as Ohio and South Carolina. It takes a vast network of sanitation workers, trucks, trains, cranes, and barges - and $429 million a year - to get it there.
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@martindonoval2162 3 года назад

I hate how society hates on garbage men and puts them as the bad example what happends when you dont study. Tf, theyre SO important its not even funny. Mad respect.

@voteforpedro7332 3 года назад

Dude it sounds like a fun and a well paying job ngl

@martindonoval2162 3 года назад

@@voteforpedro7332 True, it is paid well. The only thing Id be scared about is the health risks, I would 100% use some type of masks. And I remember dreaming about riding on the side of a garbage truck when I was a kid, sounds fun to drive around like that :D

@Sorcerers_Apprentice 3 года назад

In the old days it was looked down upon, now it's a stable city job with a pension and benefits.

@ravigopinathan2835 3 года назад

If a journalist didn't show up for work one day, nobody would notice. But if there was no one who came to pick up our (plastic) trash any given day, everyone on that whole garbage trucks route would not get theirs picked up.

@darell8310 3 года назад

Term it's not even funny used so losely

@dannyzero692 3 года назад

“You don’t smell garbage you smell money” Yo someone give this man a raise

@sydneyd9840 3 года назад

Yess

@Linkwii64 3 года назад

You can tell that guy love his job.

@fuckheinschitt239 3 года назад

That's what I like.

@MSpencer1998 3 года назад

You want to give him trash?

@SevenHunnid 3 года назад

Fun fact: the FEDS ARE trying to lock me up for life just because i smoke weed in my RU-vid videos for a living, subscribe before yo boy is next to bill cosby 😈💀

@jazzyjeff6594 Год назад

Amazing i never realized how much goes into the daily grind of handling garbage love and respect to all of our sanitation workers.

@JC02official Год назад

Unless you are living alone in the wilderness you are always relying on other people for everything, even if it doesn't seem like it. This is big work. So much respect to these people

@NazriB 4 месяца назад

Lies again? Google Drive USD SGD

@CockatooDude 3 года назад

Honestly it's reporting like this that all media outlets should aspire to.

@skeletalforce9673 3 года назад

Yes but sadly original content is expensive. Most "journalism" involves just sensationalizing something you heard about

@NYCmob79 3 года назад

Need to educate the citizens. Maybe go after manufacturers too. Create items that are recyclable.

@VinegarPotato 3 года назад

Maybe, but I wish they wouldn’t put this with the impossible hyperloop which ruins their image

@CockatooDude 3 года назад

@@VinegarPotato What's impossible about the hyperloop?

@phrog.4809 3 года назад

I fully agree, stuff like this is interesting to me.

@mtvh7739 3 года назад

"you don't smell garbage, you smell money." Frank 2021

@jamesa6693 3 года назад

Ever taken a good smell of warm wet money, it’s pretty close indeed.

@Amoebacity 3 года назад

Frank is a definition hustler

@randommay3573 3 года назад

How much do they get paid

@randommay3573 3 года назад

45 to 90 thousand a year for drivers and 13-25 maybe 30 dollars an hour for guys like him i think so i guess he never said it smelled like lots of money

@resist8276 3 года назад

@@randommay3573 where u getting the “to 90 thousand” from? Do your research, these people work with garbage, they ain’t makin anywhere near your dreaming amount😂 highest paid is only in the low 60k and that’s the high 10%, the low is in the 20k so again pls don’t bring opinions where someone asks for facts

@notallthatbad Год назад

I used to have the weirdest job years ago. I would follow around a garbage truck in the wee hours of the morning counting how many "yards" (bags) of trash they would throw into the garbage truck. I even got to ride on the back of the truck once when there was nothing else to do and helped load trash into it. Gave me massive respect for sanitation workers. They are literally keeping society clean and disease free. Without them, things would fall apart very quickly.

@johnshields6852 Год назад

I used to pick up recycled cans, paper, for huge recycling company, it's cool to see how they separate and reuse a lot of trash, big money. And when you see it on conveyor belts being separated it's really not dirty like I'd always thought, plastic, paper, glass, aluminum cans, pretty amazing seeing blocks of aluminum just from cans.

@PowerShellNoob 2 года назад

It’s pretty insane that a lot of these jobs that people make fun of play such a huge part in our daily lives. If these jobs didn’t exist, we probably couldn’t exist or would be a disease ridden world.

@jimmyswindle1934 2 года назад

I work methane pipeline and I love it you get used to smell real quick

@MattWolfe1019 2 года назад

I agree 💯 I don't work in a landfill I work for a construction company where my job is to pick up all the garbage on job sites and toss it into a dump trailer, dump truck or sometimes there's a dumpster on the job site. So yeah garbage is my specialty. After all all garbage whether if it's garbage from construction sites or if it's household garbage it all has to go somewhere.

@raymondpruitt5421 2 года назад

New York is a disease

@raymondpruitt5421 2 года назад

@Matt P didn’t change the fact that New York ships it to other states

@ENDDAYZDIECASTema 2 года назад

Heard of covid?😁

@october1634 3 года назад

"Rain, snow, hail, storm. There's no stopping us" The tide: Say no more

@zwojack7285 3 года назад

To be fair, he did not mention the tide

@tariksefic5628 3 года назад

You sir, have won!

@MrSuperG 3 года назад

Won

@linanicolia1363 3 года назад

NO, this is the post office, not the garbage men.....

@stienogamez8296 3 года назад

Tide is not stopping him either, he just keeps collecting garbage

@beckoningtrack4002 Год назад

Crazy seeing those cranes in a video and not just in person. I was part of a crew that installed the ones you see at 4:20

@AlyssaBonilla2022 Год назад

That’s so cool!!

@unabrazoatodoslosbuenos Год назад

Bless all our sanitation workers. Thanks for your great service.

@pranavkakkar7637 3 года назад

I've started appreciating sanitation workers in the pandemic. Respect.

@shubhamdhaker5017 3 года назад

In india it is very difficult to workers because they do not have gloves or mask or suits. They work very hard on their own. Respect ❤️

@hitnailhalfway2485 3 года назад

nah you don't. the sanitation workers in india are of one caste and one community only. if indians realized that, there wouldn't be untouchability, can't marry intercaste, in india.

@shubhamdhaker5017 3 года назад

@@hitnailhalfway2485 its our past where orthodox peoples thinks like that. The youth of india nowadays are more liberate and aware of all the things going on there. Pls dont conclude anything without knowing it. Love from india❤️

@lexbeltran1354 3 года назад

Without them, you would be swimming in your own trash

@insanity6379 3 года назад

Yep exactly, but its a scamdemic

@tsuoggyy3723 Год назад

"You don't smell garbage, you smell money" he got a point

@JustinKayce Год назад

This is incredible. I would so like to see this start a movement that helps dispose of trash in a way that can be beneficial on top of being healthy for the environment.

@varaprasadperchalla2453 3 года назад

*Respect* to all workers in the line

@HOANGNGUYEN-yn2hw 3 года назад

@qpol 3 года назад

cringe username police

@dagamer1992 3 года назад

yes

@poopDW 3 года назад

@@qpol its just a username,,

@oladiedoo50 3 года назад

@@qpol stfu wii kid

@losethegame1991 2 года назад

As a residential plumber who regularly sticks his whole arm into drains, I have mad respect for trash workers. Hes so right that you dont smell the stink, you smell the $$. These types of jobs keeps America running.

@bigboi9856 2 года назад

the fateful day when your arm gets stuck... Oof

@butterphli3z 2 года назад

copium at its finest

@twistieman1078 2 года назад

@@butterphli3z what's wrong with hard work?

@MRWEDAWEST 2 года назад

@@twistieman1078 AIIHT! You should never look down on a service you use.

@samueltorres4121 Год назад

@@butterphli3z lol yeah really. I mean it's good to accept fate but guys like this talk about it like it's enjoyable

@legendarypillow1450 Год назад

This channel is super interesting. Good on you business insider 👍

@somecuntxxx Год назад

Russell is just that one kind of guy that makes you say he's kind to: neighbors friends family pets fish ghosts the equipment in the factory plants fungus worms inanimate objects the ground the sky trees grass weeds bugs bees anything that exists Russell has to be chill with really

@khangn5354 3 года назад

Its shocking how parents told us not to be garbage men but they are actually important to the society

@matthewcantoran5521 3 года назад

True

@rakeebhossain7099 3 года назад

Also NYC garbage men make like 100k and it’s super competitive to become one.

@LAce. 3 года назад

back then we would make fun of people with jobs like garbage man and plumbing, now we realize it can solo carry a family

@THECARS7879 3 года назад

I took that test 2003, Its getting in that's hard

@THECARS7879 3 года назад

@@LAce. the sanitation is 1 of New York City's best job. I can't speak for everywhere else.

@mydear6788 3 года назад

This video should be played in every class room so kids can see it.

@petarpewtrovic7266 3 года назад

Why? Need ppl to do this job to. It's heavy but good paid

@mydear6788 3 года назад

@@petarpewtrovic7266 because I wached it with my 10 year old and they are saddened of how much people waste. She knows it better than most adults....but she also knows that our neighborhs have times 10 garbage outside than we do....we don't use lots of crap like paper towel, we don't use plastic forks, plates, water bottles, so on...we are farmers and nothing goes to waste, not even chicken poo, they have 100 acre but rake the leafs and have a truck take them? My father was a garbage collector in Hungary for 20 years... they are heros to us.

@utho8080 3 года назад

Ain’t just kids that need to see this. Adults more than kids. Adults need to set the example and teach the youth not to be wasteful.

@jayus2033 3 года назад

@@utho8080 they think they care?

@l.v1473 3 года назад

@@jayus2033 yes tbey do. You maybe dont but everyone else will

@user-mw2vt4wy6c 7 месяцев назад

You doing great job guys❤.. Respect

@davy1458 Год назад

I found a antique wood piano bench in a landfill once and brought it home and my whole family gave me a hard time about it but I spent about a month sanding it all down and refinishing it and now it's beautiful and my family loves it.

@longestvideoever Месяц назад

Yeah our culture of disposables needs to stop. Its sad that taking things from the trash is looked down upon. You see the stuff they throw out at Harvard!

@MarloSoBalJr 3 года назад

Last time I've checked, college courses doesn't provide trash pickup classes. Welcome to the real world of hard workers. Respect to these sanitation workers

@tde2019 3 года назад

Probably because you don’t need an education to do this job....

@snabsv4799 3 года назад

@@tde2019 exactly💀💀 idk what this guy is on about lmaoo

@jjettaz3 3 года назад

@@snabsv4799 you don’t need a college diploma to make difference in the world. That’s what “this guy is on about” Expand that mind of yours

@allencantcap1977 3 года назад

@@jjettaz3 frfr

@miso-ge1gz 3 года назад

Because it's not really that hard. It's highly likely i will end up doing something like this after failing at everything else

@20_percent 3 года назад

City planning is hard, trust me. I am not a civil engineer, but | play cities skyline.

@Weensho 3 года назад

Yessiiiiirrr

@DogMeatDelicious 3 года назад

Goddamn I had 80 garbage trucks riding around and yet trash was everywhere

@castellopattimura682 3 года назад

I feel you

@Sam-gj7ol 3 года назад

lmaooo ur comment made my day mate

@dem0000 3 года назад

That second "I" is in a different font.

@alina3254 9 месяцев назад

These people who work for these services are absolute heroes!!! Because of them we do not get sick, we are not infested by rats, diseases, landfill does not get into our drinking water. We keep our air clean, our homes clean and nature as clean as possible.

@heydavedawson Год назад

One man’s discarded Star Wars memorabilia is another fan’s treasure!!! LOVE these people cleaning up our streets... truly amazing system we have. Albeit not perfect, but it’s working!!! What great attitudes they have.

@WolfPrideProductions 3 года назад

New York: "Jersey is trash" New Jersey: "...excuse me, do you want this back then?"

@simonair 3 года назад

@Rest in Pog ah the classic alleyway problem

@annacaitlin2 3 года назад

@Rest in Pog well that’s just the city. It is so densely populated in the city the smell is a lot worse but outside of it, it’s not as bad or you can’t even smell it at all.

@hughjassFrom7YearsAgo 3 года назад

@@Remo50Calx2 just a tip, if you want to promote some music, dont do it in comments. That’s just low.

@josephgarcia4458 3 года назад

New York: yes, to Staten Island.

@hiphop296 3 года назад

@Rest in Pog damn, when I visited I really didn't smell much except when I was literally walking past trash which isn't very common

@marcoaf18 3 года назад

“Getting New Yorkers to waste less altogether” yes but we should also get all those companies to waste less aswell. All that pointless packaging adds up

@darkone12491 3 года назад

You can also choose to buy less wasteful products.

@expectnothing9032 3 года назад

@@darkone12491 that's under the "getting new Yorkers to waste less together"

@damonasavage9916 3 года назад

@@expectnothing9032.?

@QueenDaenerysTargaryen 3 года назад

Agreed

@MrHarney 3 года назад

So very right

@audrasipp7871 Месяц назад

My hubby works at the one in rocklin california he got hurt a few time i respect my them for what they do 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️🥰🥰

@Erin-Thor 8 месяцев назад

I used to visit NYC frequently for business and a few times on vacation, and learned to pick my hotel room CAREFULLY! Nighttime is when almost all deliveries and pickups are done. You don’t want a street side or alley facing room, as the noise level increases exponentially. The higher the better too, as there is less street noise. After so many sleepless nights I began wearing earplugs at night, but then changed to picking a smarter hotel room location.

@tjlazer79 3 года назад

I worked on a garbage truck for three weeks. Hardest job in my life. Respect to those that do it, especially in big cities like NY.

@mrtoocranky56 3 года назад

Some of the guys in the trucks, are hot!

@k.r.99 3 года назад

@@mrtoocranky56 What does this have to do with the above comment and who cares wether they're hot, cold, fried or baked?

@jackmoonie903 3 года назад

@@k.r.99 lmao

@masteroogway2405 3 года назад

@@k.r.99 😂😂😂

@user-pn3bp7kj6f 3 года назад

@@mrtoocranky56 tf

@elijahcullum1684 3 года назад

“ you don’t smell garbage, you smell money “ I gotta use this now props to him

@petarpewtrovic7266 3 года назад

you can find almost anything in trash. once find a bag of good weed

@danielporter7662 3 года назад

@@petarpewtrovic7266 people say its a horrible job but its seems to be just fine for the right people

@petarpewtrovic7266 3 года назад

@@danielporter7662 it's like working in hospital. not for everyone

@giovannipelissero1886 3 года назад

"Pecunia non olet"

@stanhogenelst2555 3 года назад

@@petarpewtrovic7266 Can confirm. (Even some of the right people don't want to do it anymore which is concerning)

@NivedhVadde Год назад

i just fell so grateful for these people they work so hard

@cowpie9828 Год назад

I am a dumpster diver, and I find it a shame to see many many things in the dumpsters that only requires a little handyman fix, like a window ac that only need the filter cleaned, vacumes that the hose only needs to be unplugged, furniture that only needs a little stain or paint would bring it back to life again, microwaves that only needs to be cleaned because they were to lazy to clean it so they threw it out rather than taking a few minutes to clean it. very sad.

@Zach-yg4tv 3 года назад

I love how the sanitation department leader is dressed like a soviet war hero.

@user-en701 3 года назад

Seriously, heh it's so comical 😭😂

@itz_lexiii_ 3 года назад

@A M r/woooosh

@braytongleason7033 2 года назад

Lmao! That’s what I was thinking

@joshwoodruff3699 2 года назад

Commrad joe

@jimnuenonne2157 2 года назад

Makes him feel important, otherwise he would be just another garboligest.

@TRENDINGVIDEOSTRV 3 года назад

These are the people that dont get enough credit! I take my hats off to you all.

@michaelc7014 3 года назад

How many hats?

@cian4421 3 года назад

@@michaelc7014 4 atleast, I can tell

@cian4421 3 года назад

@@michaelc7014 4 atleast, I can tell

@BABALAGAJIGAPOO 3 года назад

Take you hats off

@vnelson000 Год назад

Thank you for this video.👏👏👏

@bossyspaghetti 7 месяцев назад

I'm taking Romeo to the arcade. He's gonna get me all the prizes out of the claw game😂

@zoebellanfante5017 3 года назад

We could never survive without these men and women that’s a fact so much respect for them

@misterbig9025 3 года назад

We need more women here

@maddchatter30 3 года назад

What women? Lol

@2ocelyn 3 года назад

@@maddchatter30 women like in the video

@maddchatter30 3 года назад

@@2ocelyn I saw one woman. Let’s be honest. 95% of the people doing the work you can’t survive without are men. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that fact.

@misterbig9025 3 года назад

@@maddchatter30 you read my mind

@soundquake1363 3 года назад

“If I see something that’s Star Wars and it’s good, then I’m gonna take it home.” A man of culture

@MartianWick 3 года назад

@doug2496 2 года назад

Man of culture indeed.

@dariusdauderys6218 2 года назад

Met some fella at a flee market and he had loads of toys. He said that everything he was selling was taken from trash. What i liked there were 8 game of thrones figures. Sadly weather damaged the boxes, but they could have been thrown out in brand new condition. Couple of them in new condition could cost 100-200$ each.

@blackterminal 2 года назад

Except if it's Jar jar Binks

@M4ShermanandCompany 2 года назад

honestly!

@vnelson000 Год назад

Very informative.👍 Lol, Brooklyn 6 Garage is where I took the Star Wars stuff...lmao.

@toxicbear4792 Год назад

Wow wow wow!!!! well now I know where the trash goes.. thank you for this video it was very educational

@j_h_o 3 года назад

The trash cycle for people in NYC is actually super efficient. They just reabsorb it back into their personalities.

@kev_21 3 года назад

Lmfaoo💀💀

@jyotikoshta9603 3 года назад

Big oof

@Hitycooking 3 года назад

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@apeshitclothing 3 года назад

😂

@peskypigeonx 3 года назад

as a New Yorker, I can neither confirm nor deny that

@HatlessMuffin 3 года назад

This type of media reporting, clean, simple, with a positive objective is how I'd like to see main stream media reform themselves into.

@zenfy5814 3 года назад

Yeah

@allergictohumansnotanimals5671 3 года назад

Same, muffin

@silvermediastudio 3 года назад

They totally ignore the real environmental impact of NYC's consumption and trash addiction. Hypocrites who tell the rest of the nation they need to "go green."

@myrandomlife8881 Год назад

1:11 "you didn't smell garbage, you smell money"-Frank I love this quote 4:58 YES

@jeanvielot Год назад

This is fascinating!

@AS-zq2cq 3 года назад

These workers are really underrated. Mad respect to them!

@thegreatestmantoevrwlkthep9986 3 года назад

🙄

@chriskrausesmovie Год назад

why are you mad

@frownless 3 года назад

Wow this feels like a field trip. Without this channel I would have had no clue what happened behind the scenes.

@frownless 3 года назад

@Max Spies thanks for the correction :)

@xinee22 3 года назад

@@frownless field

@Hitycooking 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yp0vGuJIRbsj.htmlt

@hassancharo2029 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--RAglyw6ySk.html

@selenasmith7943 Год назад

I would like to see bokashi and composting implemented into the waste management industry. I can imagine it would reduce trash drastically. I see it maybe neighborhoods implement a bokashi collections bin which would then properly be processed by recycling or composting companies. Better environmental impact as well as possible "free" revenue if they sell the compost to gardeners, farmers or suppliers.

@theworldsmostplagiarizedma2436 Год назад

There's a guy in Shanghai that figured out how to filter air pollution into a vacuum and convert them into bricks. I think every waste processing and manufacturing plants in general should adopt this technology for all of their emissions. Seems like Covanta is already pretty clean and efficient but imagine if they produced modular bricks for cheap housing out of the pollution produce from being trash. There is no such thing as "waste", only byproduct. The trick is figuring out how to utilize all the byproducts.

@maritzaledesma8104 3 года назад

Kind of scary when you realize Woody and Buzz would’ve been burned alive for two hours

@kevinboseman1461 3 года назад

At first i thought an accident happened and two men fell in a trash burner. But then I remembered toy story and was like🤦 SMH, Lol

@Tycho47 3 года назад

No, the little green mans picked them out

@marco_ramirez23_ 3 года назад

Fax, I didn’t even know till you reminded me.

@DonnieDin 3 года назад

The only claw in the world where you win every time

@smoresblocks9963 3 года назад

Lmao 😂 i mean........ thats quite true

@iamdabeef 3 года назад

someone should lick it.

@citysaltlake 3 года назад

Alot of claw machines have bad grip strength and that wiggly string thing

@jasonmilly3320 3 года назад

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

@722Moo 3 года назад

I wonder if they've ever picked up a dead body lol

@nightshade6693 Год назад

ngl at 3:50 when the guy was moving the trash with the claw it looked oddly beautiful

@chrischin_94 Год назад

Amazing video. Going to show my Environmental Science and Chemistry classes this

@javianjohnson8746 3 года назад

This honestly is pretty good journalism. I didn't know they turned disgusting trash bags into electricity. Pretty smart thinking.

@thedude8046 3 года назад

Good for reducing the co2 emissions don't you think!

@Dial8Transmition 3 года назад

Burning trash and turning it into heat and electricity has been standard practise for a very long time now. Did you think they just threw it into the ocean or something?

@getin3949 3 года назад

Been going on for years, read more.

@educatednegro5897 3 года назад

@@Dial8Transmition I thought they just buried trash deep in the ground??

@Asa...S 3 года назад

In Sweden only 0,8 of the garbage goes to landfills. The rest is either recycled, turned into biogas (for the city buses for instanc) or burned for electricity. We even _import_ garbage from the UK, Ireland and Norway.

@harishdavinci8290 3 года назад

Thank you to the people who’s involved in these process. Good men and women

@slothjones2612 3 года назад

I've always had respect for my garbage guy. But this has given me a mad new respect for them. I'll make it my duty to make water ziploc baggie with a water and maybe fruit inside to hand to them weekly.

@AbdulGabagool83 3 года назад

Underpaid heroes, I wish society would overall pay laborers better, they're admirable positions

@grantOfCards 3 года назад

@@AbdulGabagool83 gucci

@gcproducts1649 3 года назад

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@Dredgen-Yor 3 года назад

@@AbdulGabagool83 Not only we don't pay them well, we also tend to look down on them (they have no social status). I personally have more respect for garbage men, truck drivers, farmers, teachers etc... than some politician or some corporate ceo.

@gooeybrain_ Год назад

These people are so badass. I have so much respect for these people. UNSUNG HEROES!!!!

@PlasticPellets Год назад

everyone is a hero....my warts on my anus are heroes

@dewolf123 5 месяцев назад

@@PlasticPelletsNobody is a hero until they've done something to earn the title. If you aren't brave you are no hero

@shariffbutt927 Год назад

Hard work really appreciate NYC from Brooklyn NY

@Daniel-pc1er 3 года назад

I worked at a garbage company about 10 years ago and EVERYTHING was sorted. We had a department for e-waste, all recyclable material (from metal, cardboard, plastic, paper, aluminum cans, glass bottles, etc.) , we had a department for hazardous waste (that's was my department), wood would get thrown into a woodchipper and given away for free to anyone who wanted some, and everything that wasn't recyclable would then either get sent to a landfill or sent to another state who could then resource whatever they can get out of it. We'd sort through basically everything from all of the main town as well as the neighboring towns.

@GameplayRunner 3 года назад

Are u german 😂 ?

@johnnyoneye2641 3 года назад

California??

@Daniel-pc1er 3 года назад

@@johnnyoneye2641 yes sir! Lol lucky guess

@bobspizza7444 3 года назад

Not as much sorted since China stopped taking most of our recycling.

@p_sher12 3 года назад

l didn't ask for a wikipedia page about whatever that is about

@priyac7054 3 года назад

"you don't smell garbage you smell money" NOW THAT'S THE FIRE NEW YORK SPIRIT I LOVE 🔥💙💙

@yoatemybeans4164 3 года назад

big cities are gay

@priyac7054 3 года назад

@@yoatemybeans4164 thank you

@bobbyo4955 3 года назад

@@yoatemybeans4164 Ram Ranch disagrees

@Nick-wp8qy 3 года назад

stuck in the rat race woo

@aurra7756 3 года назад

@@yoatemybeans4164 ay looks like were gay boys

@shiluo4728 Год назад

this is breath-taking

@chinoman9861 Год назад

I worked for McAllister tugboats on Stanton island north end & we had a contract to haul barges from the city to the transfer station fresh kills & it looks alot better from when i worked there the old dump was open & i have never seen so many sea gulls in my life

@yazmurata.4311 3 года назад

These people make a lot of money and most importantly get rid of the city's filth but people still try to use them as an example of dropping out

@thugginpopsicle7279 3 года назад

Take the scene from the Biggie movie. His teacher told him that he would wind up a garbage man making $28k a year and found out that teachers made $24k, and did the math in front of the class to show the class how stupid his teacher was.

@oo-zo4sk 3 года назад

I know people who have graduated with a bachelor's, and chose to work in public service, and i also know people who drop out and become successful! Its infuriating that anyone would use these people as "drop out" examples. They are an integral part od our society, helping to keep US SAFE.

@TillsRojas7 3 года назад

@Clevelandtx2 langleyRd That’s pretty dumb and an even dumber economic choice.

@WetAdek 3 года назад

@@thugginpopsicle7279 never watched this, hilarious story though

@TillsRojas7 3 года назад

@Clevelandtx2 langleyRd Sorry as loser

@667DOOM 3 года назад

frank got the right attitude. "thats my workout" over here i noticed one african garbageman, he loves his job so much, the guy is literally dancing, on the truck, on the way to the bins, when he empties them and when hes back on the truck. ive never seen someone do such a job with such dedication and happiness.

@ObsoleteTutorials 3 года назад

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs says these are some of the happiest people on Earth. An honest day's work man, an honest day's work.

@bape890 3 года назад

That's the difference of doing an actual, important honest day's work. No pretending required for these folk.

@Sy-X 3 года назад

@Aaron jkbjhknmnkn he never said the guy’s race mattered he just described what the guy looked like, you’re the one who is trying to make it seem like the guy’s race mattered/turn this into some political thing when nothing he said had anything to do with that

@elic1356 3 года назад

@Aaron jkbjhknmnkn Why does politics ("liberals") matter. You bring politics into everything, especially when it's irrelevant to the following conversation.

@godsinbox 3 года назад

union protected job for life. He'd be happy

@highonpie5940 Год назад

This is why our family always gives our local garbage collectors a little gift for Christmas, they are so crucial to society

@velcrow101 Год назад

Very thankful for the men and women working in this business 🙏

@kingoffeel333 3 года назад

I can’t imagine the smell 😷 Huge respect to all of those people that keep our cities clean👏👏👏👏 Very amazing recycle ♻️ process ✌🏼👍🏽

@weirdchickalert 3 года назад

I actually went to one in Australia coz in Brisbane they have warehouses where residents can take chunks of waste, and omigosh the smell was so bad that my eyes watered and my lungs felt like someone was squeezing it.

@jdoritohead4983 3 года назад

They used to it after a while

@TheManuu02 3 года назад

This is not recycling! That's burning resources which could be recycled...

@kingoffeel333 3 года назад

@@TheManuu02 Recycle back to mother nature with minimum impact to our environment. Less gas release to the atmosphere 👍🏽

@johns1187 2 года назад

Not sure you all realize how well done this video was. Personally, I've seen a lot of videos and books in my Waste Management days. This is one of the simplest, yet, very professional and well informative.

@henryrowe7955 2 года назад

I also enjoyed the video, but the way they portray the plant as reducing CO2 is just plain wrong. They say the carbon filters absorb pollutants, but they leave out the percentages, and then go on to say how 'nitrogen' is released from the chimney when in reality it's massively polluting. A good video however it seems like they're pushing the agenda of this specific waste management company. Imo.

@carsonlujan8134 2 года назад

Nitrogen isn’t actually polluting. Nitrogen is the most abundant gas we breath, it takes up approximately 78% of the atmosphere. It’s also very essential for living organisms. Especially plants. Lastly, this facility definitely produces less CO2 than an open landfill does.

@henryrowe7955 2 года назад

@@carsonlujan8134 I think you've misunderstood what I said. The video makes it sound like nitrogen and 'normal air' is what comes out of the chimey, but in reality it's very polluting.

@micro11. 2 года назад

Lift smelly trash and cash out seems like a good job And i also love how theres a trash general

@ahabduennschitz7670 2 года назад

im 10

@shorty004 Год назад

Mam these guys are solid. Respect! 💯

@cynthiacarter532 Месяц назад

I never thought much about how much trash we generate until our area in Oregon started recycling. Hopefully we can recycle textiles someday as well.

@AllenFreemanMediaGuru 3 года назад

It's true. I was a garbage man making money in the summers during college. Eventually your nose shuts down. Year's later I don’t smell much unless I stop and try to smell something.

@kimbaldun 3 года назад

Do you smell money?

@eddycarpenter8989 3 года назад

Imagine what the smell will be like when China attacks our power grid and shuts all of this down

@gamigam6420 3 года назад

Helped me to help my family, we are poor and I want to change our life, fund my transport project in my country please😢😥 or give me alms😞 don't take me for a scammer I just need to be helped

@kz6713 3 года назад

@@gamigam6420 get a job then bum Im loading a truck right making shit money but atleast Im trying

@Creek_Hunter 3 года назад

@@eddycarpenter8989 Queue in the social justice warriors in 3,2,1......Not everyone digs sarcasm.

@rxsydreams302 3 года назад

I can feel the Toy Story Movie coming to life.

@VxW2020 3 года назад

*THE CLAAAWWWW*

@voltaric1908 3 года назад

i thought the same exact thing

@voltaric1908 3 года назад

@@VxW2020 dude literally 21 seconds apart comments

@abhi739 3 года назад

@@voltaric1908 in d fd w de s_get_

@whitesnak8921 3 года назад

Yusssss

@nuggets0717 3 года назад

Big respect to every man and woman in this chain, from the pickup men to the plant workers.

@thelmacummings425 3 года назад

Thank you men and women. God bless you all.

@davidkirianki162 3 года назад

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@cap6741 3 года назад

Thats weird

@hassancharo2029 3 года назад

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@timrichards8533 Год назад

I love this video I work as a millwright and occasionally Covanta will hire our company to change out the conveyor belts that they had in the ash house basically there’s a bunch of rubber belts like 50 feet long and it separates the ash down even more there a whole pile there full of thousands of quarters and other non metallic metals but apparently we aren’t allowed to take them cause technically they are burnt and not useable per say covanta but I also work inside that bag house they were talking about that place is nasty full face respirator is needed inside there

@vanessahello9888 Год назад

wow well made video explaining it all, makes sense why we get charged for garbage! Thank you boys for the hard work!!

@LetsGoCanada 3 года назад

Imagine pirates accidentally looting this cargo ship. Pirate one - show me the money. I can smell it. Pirate two - bruhhh. 😖

@_Medico 3 года назад

😝😜

@evolutionmax9791 3 года назад

*Thats pretty funny.....*

@sxli3340 3 года назад

@eliasziad7864 3 года назад

@Leroy Moman imagine it having sex?

@tamiyaharrison9774 3 года назад

@@eliasziad7864 ????

@VellaiRoja 3 года назад

*The Sanitation Workers need recognitions of this sort to show people of their sacrifice & tolerability.*

@charlespanache7047 3 года назад

Call them essential... oh wait. All kidding aside wages will never improve.

@Miguel.Garcia 3 года назад

Aka more pay. Stop with the recognition just give them more money

@AwesomeTea 3 года назад

@@charlespanache7047 Sanitation workers, especially public sector ones, make very good wages. Better than most Americans make. Their benefits are also pretty solid. Private sector is more hit or miss but Republic Services and Waste Management do have decent salaries and benefits.

@hardowider5054 3 года назад

None of them want more respect. Garbage men are happy the fact many americans despise the job, because it means more work and money for them. Why waste time being in school when you can make more money throwing garbage around than university graduates do.

@adr0hub416 3 года назад

every job does that stop acting like garbage men are military

@billi5820 Год назад

Shoutout to the everyday workers doing the dirty jobs. I love and appreciate you all helping the world turn.

@StanleySweet14 Год назад

Spectacular I just love that they aren’t burying this crap, at least we’re getting energy out of it.

@clintoruss153 2 года назад

The Claw, you have saved our lives we are eternally grateful.

@horacevu 2 года назад

You have been chosen! Buzz Buzz buzz lightyear to the rescue! Lol

@ronniepayton7882 2 года назад

You saved our lives we are eternally grateful.

@hotrodgt66scarbuildsandmor46 2 года назад

wooooaaahhhhh 👽

@captainMony 2 года назад

Best comment of the week hands down

@funsimulator7246 2 года назад

Forgive me claw for I have sinned

@gilangak4525 3 года назад

"If you know where it's going, and then you don't like where it's going. Maybe you'll find ways to recycle things" I like that❤️

@darrickwhite1986 3 года назад

8:31 I literally was at this part, reading your comment.

@lovelove9108 Год назад

The woman at 4:44 is right. “We create a lot of garbages as a population “! Great video. Very educational!!! Please try to make this video in various languages to educate everyone from every city, especially New Yorkers!!!

@antoniovitale9770 Год назад

“You dont smell garbage, you smell money” GOAT QUOTE FROM FRANK!!!!!!

@kurtkaster5666 3 года назад

I can't help but think part of the problem IS that "once the garbage man comes and picks it up, you don't think any more about it". That disconnect has to drive a blasé attitude about generating waste.

@qwertyman9560 3 года назад

Highest respect to these people and the important work they do. People need to respect sanitation workers and janitors. It takes only a few days of them not turning up to work to realize their value. Great story BI, this is such a welcome change from the mainstream media trash we are typically fed.

@F_M20 3 года назад

many of them.in my country doesnt have proper payment, sanitary, nor proper truck. seeing how USA have better garbage truck, proper tools and protection for the workers makes my country has the shittiest garbage management. gosh.....

@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi 3 года назад

I don't get this type of comment people are making. "Respect sanitation workers" as if they are doing something more honorable than regular people with job. These people are getting paid six figures. Yes it's dirty work but they get paid to do what they do. Doesn't mean when we flip burgers at Mckey D we do not deserve respect. We don't need to call them disrespectfully or specially. They are just regular workers like we are. They are getting paid for what they do.

@pixiedust2082 3 года назад

@@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi exactly what I was thinking

@F_M20 3 года назад

@@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi where in the world do they get six figures? have you do search? whats the differences of garbage workers in each country? maybe in some of rich country payed high amount, as far as i know not here.

@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi 3 года назад

@@F_M20 Where is this documentary filmed. IN USA THEY GET OVER 6 FIGURE. PLEASE SIT DOWN.

@thatmalecna9895 8 месяцев назад

I’m a utility operator at winwaste a waste to energy plant people have no idea how mush trash we burn. It’s insane

@uweinhamburg Год назад

I have visited such an incineration plant here in Hamburg Germany. Total high-tech! 15 personal for each shift. As landfills for household trash are forbidden in the European Union, everything has to be recycled or used waste-to-energy. The flat i'm sitting in right now is heated by steam distributed via a huge pipe system to big parts of the city. The average energy equivalent of our normal household trash is something like lignite (brown coal).

@eliburlingame19 3 года назад

My dad works in the removal of methane gas from landfills which then is used to make clean energy and he was talking about how the ash that is put on the landfills is horrible because it stops the flow of the methane(basically like a dead layer)and when it hardens, it's like rock and creates water drainage issues.

@bluescripts100 3 года назад

You should try to see if you can get higher up in the food chain to see if youcanr stop

@hunterhq295 3 года назад

I've seen some some landfills get dirt cover over them and the land reclaimed to grow trees over.

@aaronlandry3934 3 года назад

@@hunterhq295 Yeah, that’s what’s usually done. I don’t know why anyone would use ash made of burned garbage instead of dirt? How do you expect things to grow over the landfill if you use garbage as soil?

@mdapplekhan4111 3 года назад

@@aaronlandry3934 ইংলিশ

@ishouldbestudying251 3 года назад

they deserve all the respect and a crown on their heads for what they’re doing, we owe them

@thejunebugbros5579 3 года назад

Yes we do owe them. That's why we pay a bill to the trash company every week

@TheKhaos85 3 года назад

Their paid well, wish I could get in. Basically have to know someone to get in.

@AceWillBeCaptured-mt2zt 3 года назад

shut up

@mikemerc74 3 года назад

Well I wouldn’t say a crown

@piggybank4559 3 года назад

@@AceWillBeCaptured-mt2zt why

@360conscience Год назад

I will never look at trash the same again. This was very informative 👏.

@lilesmw Год назад

This is an excellent video.

@Dante. 3 года назад

Everyone needs to see this. Hopefully more people would think twice before just throwing something away man

@onekoolfella 3 года назад

or even purchasing it in the first place.

@Dante. 3 года назад

@@onekoolfella EXACTLY!!!!

@jamesgizasson 3 года назад

Yes. Burning it for power is a good idea. But we need to develop better sorting and recycling too. Japan does it; I learned more about recycling from anime than I ever did in school! X3

@jhowardsupporter 3 года назад

I produce zero rubbish. I avoid meat with bones usually, Nike shoes go to Nike Grind, tech goes to tech recycling. I don't even compost.

@commoveo1 3 года назад

So true yet so many of us run blind until the very sad ending encompass their lifestyle. Big corporations should investigate better ways of packaging etc. which leads to so much waste. Our society is as if a drunken driver is at the wheel running wildly to a bitter end no man knows or could comprehend its bitter end. God save us if it were even possible. ✌️

@VEE3RDEYE 3 года назад

This video is excellent

@oo-zo4sk 3 года назад

I agree

@e2dwf976 3 года назад

They should do this to the whole World 👍

@kaimas1005 3 года назад

after this video feels like make trash is good xd

@du4lstrik3 3 года назад

Another worthless comment from a verified RU-vidr.

@gulllll 3 года назад

All of insiders videos are

@Frankflexxxx Год назад

Yesss... I work at the plant that burns the trash. I operate the crane at Covanta. 😁👍🏾

@JohnDoe-bt9qp 2 месяца назад

Is there a way you could sell me 10,000,000 tons of trash?

@TheBanjoShowOfficial 3 года назад

Highschool senior quote by romeo- "I want to become a giant claw expert" 15 years later-

@DJWixel 3 года назад

@Rik Mehta ok? good luck i guess👋

@babababababa9439 3 года назад

@Rik Mehta Too late I did it with her yesterday

@davoz9773 3 года назад

@Rik Mehta stay hydrated and stay focused !!

@zeroeightniner 3 года назад

@Rik Mehta good luck bro :D

@paulsuprono7225 3 года назад

Symbolic family talk, I'm lovin it ! 🤗😎

@xeli3046 3 года назад

"What ever we throw away, it's Jersey's problem now" - NYC, probably.

@oo-zo4sk 3 года назад

I genuinely chuckled, ty :)

@dannybaldwin7343 3 года назад

Yep 😁

@yeahsureray5747 3 года назад

Excellent profile pic my friend!

@saeedwalayat 3 года назад

No, it's not.

@saeedwalayat 3 года назад

@@dannybaldwin7343 it's a no not a yes

@gitknownmedia3655 Год назад

Anyone working in sanitation needs a lot more respect to help lead to this “zero waste” future but if we treat them poorly like society tends to do then it’ll never scale

@jimbennett3788 Год назад

Saying thank you to all these mighty hard working people - from end to end

@Willing2Learn 3 года назад

genuinely surprised how all these work together. Big props to the people who clean up after us.

@farmbear1231 3 года назад

Why? Not like they doing us a favour or do it for fun. They also dont clean up after us, we clean up after ourselves. They choose to accept pay to do the job.

@Willing2Learn 3 года назад

@@farmbear1231 i meant more like the technology used. Also, just because they get paid doesnt mean their jobs are any easier to do.