@@mrstealyourgrandma7647 well there could be many reasons for that happening, sometimes garbage collectors miss things because there are a lot of houses, other times we just don't like that home owner and we "miss things"
My Dad worked in sanitation for years...i always say they are the most important men on this planet...if the garbage isnt removed we wouldn't go to the fancy restaurants...or even go outside
Enviotonin85 not out here in California they make great money. And with the newer trucks they don’t even have to get out since they have a claw to grab the bins.
@@Enviotonin85 not really some make 50k -75k a year or more, without going to school and being in debt....what you mean? my uncle drives garbage trucks for living and he makes good money. Im going to do the same.
in Berlin, the organic waste is used to make Bio gas. with this Gas, they operate the Trucks collecting the waste. the save 2.5 Mio. Liter of Diesel each year
its not hard and if you work for a good company you get paid good. Im going to school at the moment to get my CDL class b so i can drive garbage trucks. my uncle does that and he gets good money.
If you can handle this job, are strong enough, both mentally, and physically, the pay can be very good! .... In NYC .... My bet is .... senior sanitation, city workers can make 100, 000 plus! .... Tough, ... "solid" men more than deserve it! ....
If people just stop buying crap and overconsuming things they cant finish, then we wouldnt produce so much waste. How about office workers that keeps printing paper unnecessarily. Stop sending useless junk ads people dont even read
the amount of bottled water, plastic bags, is astounding even outside of the USA. Go to the supermarkets of American suburbs, the number of plastic shopping bags, bottled water, plastic or cardboard wraps and packaging. And now China has put restrictions on the sorted trash that it would accept from the foreign countries, especially the USA. The sorted trash is piling up in American sorting stations, all over the USA.
And the “recycling” programs in the US are falling apart because China is refusing specifically OUR trash from further destroying and encroaching their land - notice that your cheap rent-a-city-bikes have magically changed color and name???…Your old ones (because are apparently out-of-date; like your cell phones) are sleeping silently in huge metallic continents in outlining areas of China. And the truth is that the federal gov is giving states the right to grant their cities and towns “waivers” basically allowing them to say “Eff it!” and send everyone’s crap right back into landfills. Don’t let these gentrified videos of happy white privileged farmers just living so smug and warm and happy with over-flowing coffers of beautifully vine ripened tomatoes by the truckload that have extras for bobbing on a crisp Halloween evening. It was all a house of cards to begin with. States and trash douches are actually blaming the Chinese for the problem we are creating every time people wake up in the morning and choose to indenture their stomachs with gross crap. Bravo on the propaganda. Real farmers trying to make ends meet don’t have the luxury of dilly dallying all day and staring media picked fruits and vegetables for the newest Cuomo Super PAC. People need to understand that things are never as they appear on the outside. But, people are so easily du[ed and fooled…over and over…
I've always believed sanitation workers have one of the most important jobs in the world. Without them we would all be dead of disease. The trash needs to be taken care of. I commend and salute all sanitation workers. It's a noble and necessary job. The world cannot do without them. On the other hand the world could do without preachers and evangelists just fine. Being a sanitation worker is a real job and vital to keeping our cities and towns clean.
and doctors save lives, and plumbers make sure water can get to our houses, and teachers make sure children learn, and grocery store provide people food, and farmers feed people, and lumber jacks provide wood to build houses, and car manufacturers help people move to places faster to be more resourceful. It's all a joint effort, no one job is more or less important. Its just about how easy one job is compared to another. Doctor smarter, lumberjack stronger. Brains v.s. physical strength.
A preacher is likely one of the most important. Like a mental health worker, helping others through their problems. Sorry you're so regressive. I'm just very Progressive.
@@richardides2035 look up the dates again. on cocacola's website they introduced plastic bottles in 1978, also the communism fell in 1991, 1889 was the still the beginning of the revolution.
@@richardides2035 that being said still i guess im wrong about thinking that it was crazy to dump trash in the ocean prior 1934, because there weren't that much of plastic quantity wise and variety wise.
Your wrong. Yes, it goes to NJ, but it all goes down the shore with ten pounds of spray on tan, and it always makes sure to go slow as possible in the left lane
Please explain to me why business's in NYC do not have to recycle?!! They produce huge amounts if waste; mostly in paper and plastics, but there is no law making it mandatory to separate. So biodegradables get mixed in with recyclable!
I work for sanitation. And although we don't pick up commercial refuse. I can say that they do recycle. Only difference is, private garbage or recycling companies service those businesses.
if the USA produced electricity from burning burnable trash then it would be the fastest growing economy. It could take the world's trash, seperate it, and burn the paper, wood, etc. Glass would be melted and reformed, same with plastic.
That's a great idea. I have to say it would be even better to recycle, reduce, reuse, and compost before going to waste. The rest can be used for energy production.
you can buy certain disposable plastic bags which are made out of plant resin and sap that look and feel the same as a trash bag so it could be those rather than plastic ones
In the netherlands, stores are not allowed to give them for free anymore. Very effective, i barely see people buying a bag they mostly just take their own.
In San Diego they city dumps have a system of creating energy to provide power. I think we recycle about 85% of our waste. But, we still have problems with older people that throw away everything in the trash, they don't separate it, and they could care less. Mind you, that we have in every apt.building and every household bins for organic materials, recycling and trash and it is still too much work for some of them to separate them. They're used to excess and waste.
Tele Opinions ikr, a few lazy mofos undo the work of one environmentally conscious person who put in YEARS of hard work and cutting back. I wish a plague would sweep thru and somehow knock off all the idiots too apathetic to care.
Here in Los Angeles we have been recycling wastes for years. Each household has 3 trash cans the green can for green waste( leaves, branches food wastes etc.) that will be made into mulch. Blue can for recyclable metals, plastics, paper, etc. then there is the black can for products that can’t be recycled. There is one truck designated for each type of waste. The black can wastes go to a transfer station and are sorted in case there are recyclables that need to be removed.
And those guys who got interviewed in 4:35, you would expect them to be more sensitive to the trash problem...are holding single-use plastic in their hands.
Exactly. How about just getting in a restaurant for 10 minutes and drink it from a regular cup/mug and using regular cutlery? Half of the problem solved.
Sitting out on Sandy Hook, barge after barge went past loaded with trash...I asked my guide where it was going and he shrugged and said he didn't know. Much later, I found out it was shipped by rail to PA and Ohio landfills. Here in Erie, PA, the highest thing on the southern horizon is the Lakeview landfill...and its getting higher each day. It does not drain into Lake Erie, however. That is a different watershed.
So, my Brother worked his way up to Second in Command in NYCSD. Then, stepped down a few ranks before retiring. He was/is responsible for many innovations in the NYCDS. I can't understand why he wouldn't have been interviewed. You all that would know him, he was/is DT. Give him a shout and see what's up. He really cared about you all.
We recykel about 95% of our Garbage in my Contry Denmark, nothing go to waist here in Denmark, we don't use landfield enymore, it's many years sens we did use that, we recykel most of our Garbage, almost 95% and then we have alot of Wind-Power.
At the time of this video being uploaded I was still working for the railroad and we got trash trains from New York constantly. The stuff was so nasty that people who lived up to 15 miles away from the landfill were complaining about the smell and either the county or the city put a ban on it.
One place in New York state NYC's trash goes to is Niagara Falls. It comes in on trains I believe and comes to a company called Covanta. The containers on the train are picked up and put on a couple of modified long frame semi truck tractors. The trucks just bring the containers a short distance from the train and into a large building where the container is emptied of its trash. A front loader pushes the trash into an enormous "hopper"/ holding cell where a couple of claws suspended from the ceiling of the holding cell and that are about twice the size of a garbage truck come down and take big handfuls of the garbage. It is burned to generate electricity. The ash is used in landfills in the area.
It amazes me that it's 2019 and we still don't have garbage figured out. It should have a national standard for whatever solution they come up with, because this is a problem that affects everyone.
Really? That's what is happening in the US? That's how you guys deal with waste? I'm laughing my german ass of right now. A "pilot project". That's been going on in Germany for decades. How comes that they haven't been coming up with this earlier?
schrimpflosse compare the usable-land size of Germany to the United States'. Then consider the difference in budgets for public works and government expenditure in public infrastructure between the US and the wealthiest Western European countries. Every nation, city, neighborhood, etc. has its own unique and limited necessities and problems and available resources to deal with them. If Germany did it decades ago then that's how the administrators dealt with the problem at that time. Now if the American waste management sucks compared to first-world standards thats another sad issue.
schrimpflosse Weil den Deutsce Volk haben mehr Klasse als uns! Gruße, An American living in New York Cityp.s. Europe is a much older society and has gone through much of the same thing in it's course towards better disposable means!
schrimpflosse It's really incredible and exciting if you think about it! The city has plans in 2018 to begin water purification for drinking and immunization shots for diseases like polio and hepatitis.
I'm not ganna lie I like hearing the dumb truck in the morning when I wake up lol also I eat probably once per day so I'm not generating as much trash yaaaa eco friendly lol
Sure, the two states that produce the most tax money along with Texas are the armpit of the US. It is definitely not the numerous federally dependent states of the South.
I worked for the supply department at a naval facility in Louisville, ky. I worked around contractors and the administration officers: there was a "BID" for a contract to TAKE the excess garbage from New York, I believe the three TOP BIDS were: IOWA, Kentucky (I forget the other) but anyway ALL three BID for that contract & they became excited when Kentucky received the contract: Contract was 1988. They moved it to Hardin County. Also Hardin county implemented the first human sludge (human waste from septic systems) 2008. use for fertilizing soils. nice huh? Basically because they do not have anywhere to put it: IF it is all that bad, we should go back to the use of "outhouses" like in the old days! :(
Even here in NZ landfills may start running low on space, one invention that would make life much easier, an incinerator that is not air pollution prone, but takes about 10 tonnes of trash, and the aftermath is nothing but few amounts of ashes which are properly disposed of by the council
One time NYC had a garbage strike. A friend of mine put his in a shopping bag and left it on the back seat of his car with the window down. Somebody stole it EVERY DAY. regular pickup was twice a week
People forget that organic waste is essential in helping to decompose other, non-organic material. By removing organic waste from the traditional garbage pile, you may in fact be slowing the rate at which non-organic waste decomposes. Something to consider.
@New Yorkers: I visited in June and noticed a frequently reoccurring stench every couple hundred yards or so. Quite unpleasant. Is it like this all year round? Williamsburg was especially awful.
Much of it comes to the incinerator plant right down here in Chester, PA .. then the ASH!!! goes to the landfill, not always the actual trash .. don't know why this step in the chain is so often overlooked
great story, the linked article is an interesting feature I suppose, but for the new york times? I wanted a article version of the video, this had good info but you cant site a video, plus its not like a publication of your size couldn't handle it.
You would think they would be a bit more up to date. Here in Indiana we incinerate our trash and produce steam with it. Which then gets sold to the power company that produces electricity. Some of it is sold as thermal heat as well.
25yr retirement,100k a yr makes the smell easy to deal with. Amazing how these men dont retire on 3/4s pay like cops and firemen,especially being this is by far the most physically demanding.