Why The United States Is Turning To Recycling Robots 

yeaaah we need Wall-E hahaha

11:34 Wall E had a a hard hat on... the human doesn't....

We need wall E now. So much trash everywhere

We might be taking off to space early too!

We need Eva to keep Wall-E happy😊

Junk mail has a very important purpose... It keeps our postage costs low.

@@earlspencer7863 I know that. Id pay the extra money to stop the junk mail. It goes straight to the bin, and its wasteful.

I’d be happy to separate my recycling before sending it out if I knew that it would make the process better and have stuff actually get recycled. The issue is that if they go back to that. Then less Americans will be willing to recycle because they are a lot of people who wouldn’t want to bother with the extra few minutes it would take to sort. We would probably have cleaner recyclables but at the same time have more recyclables going to the trash.

I heard there are websites where u can stop junk mail from coming. Pretty sure it was on shelbizleee's channel. And idk about everywhere but in my town we can bring out aluminum cans in you get cash back for our trash while making sure it is recycled properly

@@cheyraqlynn1120 in europe we have stickers that you put on your mailbox if you dont want advertising mail :) and the postman wont put it in at least in slovenia

Meanwhile that "recycling vice president" is telling us they have more value in sorted materials while dumping most of their volume because a larger profit.

And also taking away jobs and giving them to robots

Would common sense suggest that we use LESS plastic? What do you personally do to reduce your consumption of plastic?

@@xinhaoxie3558 Cheap robotic recycling or give people jobs, pick one. Stopping progress in the name of jobs is never good for society as a whole. If you want lots of jobs, give construction workers spoons instead of backhoes and you will see why it is bad to intentionally be less productive.

We are but can you idiots give us more time?

Did you not see the cut the cities take. Let the market deal with this. China refused. Price went up. It then allows US companies to develop tech to bring the prices back down. The govt should out. Every industry where the govt is involved, the price keeps going up (education, infrastructure, medical), private markets bring prices down relative to quality in the long term (tech, electronics, commodities).

Agreed what's also concerning is how dependant we are on china.

You need to spend 750 billion per year on the military whats that %?

@@MrLoobu the carbon footprint of the military industrial complex ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oMozyspFuBM.html numbers still underestimated for obvious reasons...

@@MrLoobu less then 3% of the budget lol

Cough* CHINA, and they know exactly what they’re doing

Shop local if that's not possible ask your local retailer to order it for you. Simple.

@@derekmulready1523 What does that have to do with the packaging and why would he pay a middle man when he doesn't have to?

@@kanikavuthy9465 what about China?

@@kanikavuthy9465 most products are made in China and shipped to distributors elsewhere for branding and packaging purpose.

Americans too individualistic for that

IKR. And yeah, jack up the price for trash, and they'll all individualistically choose to recycle better.

Its not recycling they burn most of it

@the boi it's true Japanese do what they are told like "fly this plane and crash it with you still inside"

@@redhidinghood9337 What exactly does individualism have to do with recycling? Also: to +Kenneth FC - Japan's % of trash recycled- 19. America's % of trash recycled- 35. That's according to OECD (www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264235199-14-en.pdf?expires=1566484299&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=06CF9E20D2C7FB2FA72D22BA407DA258 ). Do you have a better statistic or did I just catch you lying?

I think that unfortunately most Americans do not want to recycle b/c it is like having an 'unpaid job' in their opinion. I was infuriated when my community stopped recycling!! Dumb JACKASSES!!

Switzerland doesn’t have the social economic issues that the United States has. Can you name a country proficient in this topic that isn’t 99.99% Caucasian? Your white privilege infuriates me tbh.

G B Are you honestly suggesting, seperation of waste is a race issue or are you trolling like a pro? It‘s - like my point was - a question of privatization (even though our right gets stronger every year) which we tend to do less than other countries and less than the u.s. certainly. And yes, I agree that switzerland is a privileged place in global politics and economy and I agree to get rid of some of our benefits, but waste recycling is not a global issue, it‘s local. I even agree, that I dont want to put my finger on single citizens responsibilities. Like I said: it‘s political decisions and - the ability to vote against privatization.

@@pamelaminor696 That's sad

@@pamelaminor696 'Americanism' is a disease. I feel sorry for you good informed people down there. Respect and do what you can.

Too bad reducing and reusing is bad for Capitalism then.

and how about just teaching the lazy human consumer to properly sort their recycling? i suppose laziness is the mother of invention as they say.

New punctuation for sarcasm -> ¡ & ¿

Most items aren't recycled. Its a scam. We need to force the reduction of packaging by refusing to buy items with excessive packaging.

@@user-jt1jv8vl9r The problems are theft and marketing...and much is not going to change with those. "Disposable" is one mindset that can be changed.

Actually they did improve the pumps on ships since the holes couldn't be repaired except in drydocks, if at all.

You got that right. If it's not reusable it should have a waste tax attached . Like a carbon tax to discourage it's use. Plastic especially shouldn't be used in discriminately.

@@timothylongmore7325 I think there may be a cost if you try to buy single use plastics on Amazon. I use food containers and work and hate washing. But at Walmart is 3 or 5 bucks for 50 Styrofoam containers. On Amazon its like $50. So I comprimised and just got the reusable BPA free plastic 3 section containers for $10. In short, make it inconvenient and pricier to buy single use plastics. Cuz technically small plastics like utensils and straws may end up in the ocean or landfills due to thier size.

Can you imagine the outcry from the "ma' FREEDUMB!" Yosemite Sam types though. We'd have another Teabagger revolt.

I agree with you but I am pretty sure the problem there is with collecting so many different streams. SF has hauling trucks that collect both landfill and recycling,, but adding more recycling containers and streams would be a mechanical and labor mess. What they didn't say here was that even in SF they don't sort the landfill stream that was showing going into the big pit with the front-loaders. Many people don't separate their trash and it all goes straight to landfill.

MakeMeThinkAgain I live in Australia and we have a system like this multiple bins each for a different purpose but apparently only 30-50% of the recycling bin actually gets recycled Government has to try really really hard to make that work

We used to have different bins in Colorado, but they changed that to get more people to recycle, and because China would handle the sorting. We may have to go back to multiple bins. Getting more people on board with recycling, should be our first priority. As well as getting companies to use materials in their packaging that are all recyclable. It amazes me just how many people don't recycle.

Here in Sweden I have 8 different bins (2 w. 4 compartments ea) and I don't really mind sorting it

If RF tech ever became cheap enough then barcodes would disappear and it'd be very easy to recycle components in packaging. Recycling is a fake industry. If the environment genuinely concerned governments then it'd be like the military, police, and fire services, essentials stripped of any profit motive. We're a consumerist capitalist society profit driven to the eventual point of extinction. In a mere blink we've poured more waste into the planet than in any other period in mans existence. Are we the next extinction phase, driven by our own greed, and stupidity?

Or maybe an rfid one everything! Great idea.

@@brynleytalbot778 why would you add more unneccesary waste by adding RFID chips (copper wire, micro CPU chips) ?? Just use IR ink and print large QR codes on the packaging, which can be seen by cameras, but not by consumers.

I think you're on to something there lad.

@@brynleytalbot778 The flaw in your argument is that you are failing to see at what point humans change their minds. We are not consumers by nature, we are simply selfish. However, we are only selfish because the rules of capitalism force us to be. The important point is that our behaviour is not static, but constantly evolving. Thus, when the problem (environmental change) starts to effect us (like literally right now) then we'll change everything we're doing in order to go back to our place of consumeristic comfort.

I caught that also. I am thinking you are right must be tons.

When comes to the units, measure and numbers, there are always many mistakes. 3000 lbs does not make a sense.

Obviously 3000 Stones

Ko

Haha I just came to make same comment, good catch , wcolby

3,000 pounds would be a small dumpster, about two yards.

1 ton is defined as 2,240 pounds in the US. Which means 3000 tons is around 6.7 MILLION pounds.

@@cephalonsadistic9331 : a U.S ton is 2,000 pounds. A "long ton/tonne" is a metric ton = 1,000 kilograms. 3,000 U.S. tons = 6 million pounds.

Until now, I thought that was how all recyclables were sorted.

Pride in every job

For what have you been in prison?

@@jurgendebruijne hehe good one

@@kimjong-un4574 for not paying fines

City should be pay for plastics because city don’t provide nothing but wasted life nothing city does that helps only destruction

50/50 ?

I think that too. The city is killing the business

Or don't buy in places that produce too much garbage, like starbucks. You can make your own coffee in your house or job with your own cup and spoon.

Baljeet Bhachu Exactly - we need LAWS to enforce every producer has a recycling lifecycle for all the products they create and put into the world 🌎- that eventually go into the landfill 🌎 🗑 .

@@fenrirgg that'll never work, too logical:)

@@cybair9341 no, that is stupid, more robots on the otherhand:)

@@bthemedia totally agree. Consumers and government bodies shouldn't bear the brunt when the fatcats have the deep pockets.

@justlove05 Let them only use Amazon boxes. They'll end up in there anyhow.

lets make the Manufacturers AND the consumer more responsible... particularly the manufacturers, ultimately in a free market society the consumers will never have a desire to be responsible, if the manufacturers are though that provides more convenience on the consumer and if their items are easier to reuse and or recycle then you will see the consumer reuse and recycle more.

why? wont it be easier to attack the problem at its root? force the manufacturer of goods to package more conscientiously.

maybe awareness, if responsible that means someone has to monitor, manage implement, and then result on higher taxes

YES...More would watch if it was 5 minutes...so I'd be more likely to "SHARE" the video

Oh that was the same clip? I thought I just accidently clicked back in the video

A little passive aggressive there lol

Might even consider it recycled material

You are watching you tube, for crying out loud! just how much is your time worth?

Possibly cellophane, too.

@Bert Dasher I don't think you have that right. The Wiki entry says it's 100% biodegradable. It's production with carbon disulfide is toxic, though.

Barry Branton Every time I walk into a department store like Walmart I say to myself this is a giant landfill waiting to happen. ...... consumerism is our problem

@@alexf800 theres a reddit page called r/BuyItForLife and i agree with that sentiment products shouldn't be made of materials that have a lifespan over 300% of the use of the product we need the casing around a nuclear reactor to last for more than a hundred years, not drink lids i have these jump boots i pushed my toe into the heel so much the sole is coming off, so im going to make a steel guard for nails and reglue i dont want to live a disposible life because its unnecessary my needs can be met with products that have long lives there are "quick charge" single use battery packs that have perfectly good batteries that people are encouraged to throw out and i kinda want to just make a buisness that refirbishes batteries like that for repeted use just to sate my OCD and keep usable lithium batteries on the market

Cleaning glass and recycling cardboard costs more than just throwing plastic away. Most consumers like cheap stuff and convenience and everything we buy/consume is artificially cheaper because capitalism externalizes the true costs of manufacturing to poor countries and or the environment for lower costs and maximum profits. Capitalism demands infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. The only way to rectify capitalist profit with minimal impact to the environment is through tough laws and higher costs for everything. That's political suicide for any legislator...

Its all about over-packaging

How about giving up your entire way of life and going back to Victorian era! Sounds like a lot of fun! Dying of preventable diseases.

They have to keep buying those votes and pay the Unions, so politicians can stay in Office.

Somebody has to pay for all the free stuff Democrats promise.

@@hse6144 Or maybe someone has to pay for the roads and commonly used social amenities that we all use which Republicans don't think government should pay for.

Night King except every single democrat city has crumbling roads and infrastructure. How’s the water in Flint?

@@hse6144 : a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR forced the changed water source. Thanks for playing, numbnutz.

but americans are lazy

Governments unfortunately don't have the luxury of operating along ideals like this. Many people outright refuse to do so and or miss-categorize what is recyclable. It likely costs less to build these intelligent systems than to enforce and educate.

I try to still recycle as much as i can

That depends of your county is a zero sort recycling. Our recycling truck just shoves everything into one truck.

@@btfrost They could integrate this in addition to the systems and put recycling into the education system. That way more children can learn to recycle from a young age and if someone doesn't do it correctly the recycling still gets sorted and recycled. While the costs would be more expensive for something like this, larger cities could do this, the result being as or more beneficial as using just the systems.

Too slow

How do you propose to quickly sort by bar code? You would need every piece of recycling to have the barcode facing up, no crushed bottles, cans or boxes. Its just not practical.

@@jimyarbrough9935 Good points! Even now, though, some containers are coded to enable matching with recycle-center bins (helpful both to those depositing recyclables & to the staff laboring to get them all in order). Maybe this (complex local, regional, national, & global) work (on a small & finite planet) could be incrementally moved forward. (It wasn’t so terribly long ago, e.g., that the Wright brothers made the first 1st powered flight.)

Could work, just need clear conveyor belts incase the code is on the bottom

My GF is always taking the labels off of plastic bottles because she thinks they will go straight to the landfill if it has a label when recycled. AKA the label has the barcode.

Der Grune Punkt, Duales System Deutschland. Congratulations Germany from Seattle, Washington, USA!

The "green dot" has nothing to do with recycling. It's about prepaying the trash handling costs for packaging and keeping that out of communal trash processing.

Government officials are all LIARS who use statistics as tool of propaganda and consent. Germany is cheating like the U.S. and other countries do by manipulating the data. They export millions of tonnes of plastics abroad dumping them into third world countries.

Have to make this sound appealing to the simple folk out there somehow.

Shiuan Dai unfortunately it isn’t that good in Germany, we have mostly separate garbage bins for paper, plastic and organic, Glas is brought to collection stations also for plastic bottles there is a deposit, but...burning wast is also classified as recycling. It’s still better then landfill which is not allowed in Germany, burning generates energy at least but we there is a lot of toxic wast out of the burning process. Also wast was sold to China as well. In general a lot of our wast can’t be recycled at all, so the best is to reduce packaging and wast whenever you can

More importantly we consume less, less plastic, less water, less energy ... for a better standard of living than in the US!

philippe chevereau because Germany is smaller than the US

Balla Jallow - well, I am not talking that much in absolute value and pro capita. Look at all metrics, the consumption of the US is a multiple -again per capita- of all similar economies of the OECD! ... it is basic way of life, no need for a truck when a sedan dies the job, no need for a pint coke when half is enough, same for the AC, same for the water flush ... whatever is initiated in the US, so far, has been driven by assured cheap consumable and uneducated ie a population brainwashed into consumerism!

philippe chevereau well at least you guys call it recycling when all it ever was sending your waste to China

It seems like Amazon would be smart and have a reusable box...like a hard plastic bin goods are shipped in...then they are returned to be reused. Put a barcode on every box...when they ship it to you you get charged a small fee then when it is returned you get a refund. I guess this increases shipping costs with more weight..but you don't have to keep making boxes.

Wow, brilliant.

9. Ceramics 10. Wires (plastic+ little a non-magnetised copper) 11. Bubble-gums and balons 12. Water-plants waste 13. Gypsum and asbestos 14. Nappies 15. Home chemicals waste 16. Batteries 17. Pizza insulated boxes and milk tetrapacs (it's not a paper and not compostable)

@@aucklandnewzealand2023 Bubble-gums and balons would fall under Ruber right? Also Wires fall under E-waste.

9:Trump

Don't forget tiktok girls

9. used cooking oil you really can't put it with anything else

Only right way. But people like shiny things.

or at least try to minimize recycling as much as possible so we don't have to resort to it as much.

Chevron Phillips Chemical's new $6 billion plastic manufacturing plant in Sweeny, Texas. Oil companies plan to triple plastic output in a few years. Consumers can't keep pace. We need gov't to step in and make virgin plastic less marketable, invest in tech etc..

Their adversaries got jobs in the Trump administration.

In my underwear

cfltheman Ha,Ha...That a good one because now all the major trash needed recycling are coming out of Donald Trump mouth and the revolving door of peoples,who are going through at in his Administration.

You been watching without attention (recycling) "Power is yours"

@@hyberqb169 you've been assuming too much. And you know what happens when people assume.

You're right. I was trying to remember where I saw her from.

Man, good memory!!!

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not all but a good start!!

no, that is not all. note the 3 R's. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. when you see that symbol with the 3 arrows that's what each arrow indicates, and it's about reducing the amount of waste we produce, reusing certain things so they can find a different purpose, last longer, and be less likely to get thrown out, then recycling so the materials can be used again even if there's so many uses. but overall, we need to cut down on waste in general so there's less trash, and we need to find better ways to dispose of trash so it's better for the environment.

Even if you separate your recycling, if the company who picks it up is single stream than it get mixed back up

Because a lot of useless people would be out of a job otherwise.

What job left after destruction

Correct ! I walked past a friend's bin. I saw trashbags with foodwaste, recyclable items, diapers, etc. I asked why they did not have a separate recycle bin. She told me, the company said it all gets recycled where it ends up. 😞

@@mainemavin That's the sort of person who spills food on the floor, and says "let the cleaning staff earn their pay"

@@HansLemurson - ohmygosh ! I AM a cleaning person with clients like this.

Hemp?

@@bournefromscrap2408 It's a good idea but there's a fair amount of people allergic to hemp. I do think our paper market should move primarily to hemp-based paper instead of tree-based because then we could stop/slow deforestation, but it would need to be clearly marked so no one gets sent to the hospital for anaphylactic shock!

Thats actually not as helpful as you might think. Cardboard is an excellent material for many things and when its dry almost completely recyclable. Yet add just a little oil stain and you ruin a whole batch. It makes me happy when I see pizza places putting wax paper under the pizza. The whole box can be recycled. If it has oil stains the best disposal is incineration. But how do you effectively separate these two? Film plastics are not recyclable as a polymer but they could be gasified and reprocessed quite effectively if the facilities existed for it. These facilities are extremely expensive and there's only a few in the entire US. Meanwhile the exact same materials that are thicker can be recycled.

Actually great idea, or also requiring different plastics to have a specific color/pattern could help too to make sorting easier

That reduces the amount that Americans recycle. If people have to sort it they’re less likely to recycle and will just place it in the trash.

@@NickCBax That's why you limit the amount of bags/trash they can throw out each week. forcing people to recycle.

BubberGroves then they just illegally dump it somewhere

@@NickCBax Why not implementing stick and carrot policy? Starting with the manufacturers

Do both, *just* is an error. If robots learn to classify at a very high speed, it could lead to a detail separation at a very low cost, increasing the value and allowing us to recycle stuff that we can't today. Also we do have lazy people.

Yes here in Europe in most countries in Europe at least have automated processes of waste sorting and recycling.. America has a problem with their recycling system that's based on profits over long term goal of actually reducing waste in best way possible..

What country do you live in may I ask?

@@olitesla5891 The Netherlands.

Morph Verse cool my uncle lives in Amsterdam

...And, the US is behind yet again. But we are the world's only, uh, super power...

Excellent ideas. I started years ago - hardly needed a rubbish bin - one full bag of plastic wrapping only and the occasional pushbike tire. Compost bins in the garden and if too much is produced put in green bins to take away already composted. I have about 2 feet of rich soil from composting over the years. A friend of mine got delivered free mulch from the council and free lawn clippings and covered his whole backyard a couple of feet. he could grow everything - fruit trees, pistachios, tomatoes grew wild, everything. Recycling becomes part of the lifestyle - it has to be done anyway and takes minimal effort - a few minutes here and there. Most problems facing recycling industries are the public acting irresponsibly or being uninformed /uneducated.

@@hj179 having the space to compost is definitely the way to go!

12:00 as well

They went alittle too far from the point of the story and needed to reorient you towards the robot recyclers story. But yeah @12 min its definitively repeating.

The topic deserves reiteration obviously!

They're repeating themselves?

Not a lot of people have the option nowadays single stream recycling is the only way its collected in most communities.

Or as human "freed." Purina human chow. Chow, chow, chow. ♡ T.E.N.

You get a sharp knife and cut that piece free. 15 secs work extra.

Esmeralda Loredo same here. My parents don’t seem to understand. So really its up to a 13 year old to change the way that stupid generation does things in this household

America has also big problem that ppl buy water from shops in plastic bottles... In finland we have refund system where you can return the bottles to the shop and get money to use again in the shop so over 95% bottles are recycled

The problem is there isn't a lot of non-plastic alternatives. Even bringing your own container to the meat deli, they have to use plastic sheets to scoop the meat. There's also the matter of convenience and expenses, which is more appealing- driving farther than usual to buy groceries that cost more or one close by that is cheaper. At the very least, collect and sort your recyclables instead of throwing it all into one bin.

@@schwartzy65 USA used to have that but the environmental nazis stopped that long ago

you need to recycle your parents too

"future" in europe are this systems since years. This is nothing new.

Blind Squid we have toccyange their mindset. Maybe you should change your username from blind before you post negative comments.

Blind Squid blind republican views.

such early versions of tech like that never do, and it will probably be a could decades before it looks like it could be useful, if you looked at computers back when they were first used, you would say the same thing, but now they run the world.

@@tiny99990 why they dont use human for sorting, it can solve unemployment problem right? and they can use imigrant to do that, for lower payment

@@miteonmybed Robots work for a much lower wage, have fewer mistakes and can generally do it faster... granted right now the tech for this is still in it's infancy but even the automation we have tends to still be faster, cheaper, and more efficient than human work... once we have a boom in our robotics technology society is going to have to go through a massive and sudden change... it likely will not be a seamless or peaceful transition... because automation will take 90% of all jobs leaving millions of Americans unemployed, and if you count the 1st world countries that will leave billions unemployed, with no work available... I work at an amazon warehouse and due to automation about 50% of the human workforce has been removed, and it's merely a matter of time before they program a robot to do even more of the jobs... luckily the warehouse still employs about 5,000 employees making it one of the largest employers where I live, and that kind of fine automation is again not available yet and may not be for a decade or two.

It’s a start

It actually did

Shortly after he became mayor of New York City mr. Bloomberg realized that recycling was a fraud, and most of the sorted material was still going to landfills, just sorted in different piles. You can only use so many plastic benches made from recycled soda bottles. He ended up giving up.

should be done many yrs ago on conveyors

Paper and carboard has almost no value to recycle, the chemicals required to remove the ink create a toxic sludge that classifies as industrial waste and you end up with an inferior product which cannot re-enter the market. Plastic comes in so many varieties which are insanely difficult to separate and again yields an inferior product. Aluminium and ferrous materials though are 100% recyclable. Sometimes recycling is worse for the planet eg with paper and carboard, other times its impossible eg plastic.

@@AvNotasian Seems to me, then, that cardboard and paper should be (roughly) isolated and burned at a waste to energy plant. Solves two problems in one! You could probably do that with other plastics that fall through the cracks etc - get some energy out of it instead of landfilling it... and reduce the need to make that energy from coal or natural gas.

@@Comments_From_All_Channels That would only feed the fires more. If organic waste could be separated out, it could be decomposed to make methane and used in a fuel cell to generate clean electricity.

J M if the health and longevity of our planet isn’t incentive enough, we are indeed screwed.

Probably because the entire population of Finland is comparable to any American major city. Anyway, the US actually performs slightly better than Finland in terms of percentage of waste recycled (35% vs 33%). The big difference is that Finland incinerates 42% for power generation, compared to the US at 12%. That percentage we don't burn goes to the landfill. We used to burn alot more, but environmental regulations have made it almost impossible now.

@@joshua43214 I agree with what you said. Yes, Finland is good at the incineration of waste for energy purposes, i.e. water heating and producing electricity. Sad that in the US most of that waste which could be used for power generation goes to the landfill :(

Nikita Evdokimov are you finland??

Meow meow meow meow

Yeah,even in clean sweden they are fooling people to separate waste, for example: clear glass, green glass and brown glass, but when I saw the truck coming to empty the bins they just emtied all the bins together on the same truck and probably tok it to a landfill, that was when I stopped separating the waste.

They're made out of paper -- what more do you want?

@@TruckTaxiMoveIt The video mentions Starbucks makes their cups out of paper in some cases, and also plastic, so that smart recycling vision systems have a huge problem because they can't discern between the two which otherwise look identical.

Exactly! Landfills will essentially become mines.

100%? Let’s not forget that robots are so difficult to make, especially efficient ones as the video stresses. It’s extremely expensive to develop such robots so no, it’s not just profit. :)

It is still lucrative right now

Very UNLIKELY - faulty logic. No, robots cannot “clean” our landfills into recycling. That would be VERY expensive and likely impossible... much easier and cheaper to build and ensure a recycling lifecycle for all products as they are produced. Force Humans to “do the right thing”.

Computer User “fines” over imprisonment, as the problem is economics and convenience to pollute & fill landfills.

You don't see the dark side of the government, they want the money for waist management too..the government is the number one problem

Huh?

It won't, very high intial cost would cost billions of dollars

@@younesalawaji8613 China did it why can't the US, wont it pay off in the end.

Will Zipf of course it will. People are just lazy.

Transporting the raw material to the US would cost too much.

@@WillZipf it did it because China desperately needed raw materials despite the heavy cost of processing

That's a lot of trash that could be used in incinerators to produce electricity. Hopefully, electricity that isn't renewable.

Also composting

You're assuming the issue is one of education. The reality is that most people don't recycle for want of knowledge, but because they don't care. One of the common features of human psychology is that most people have a difficult time associating their choices with outcomes when the chain of causality is obfuscated by significant magnitudes of time, scale, or complexity. The end result is that while most individuals in the developed world are well aware of the issues at hand, few possess the will to do anything about it when the consequences are so far removed from their actions. Single stream recycling, while having some kinks to work out, will ultimately prove to be the correct choice.

@@macberry4048 What does one even do with compost? Relatively few people have gardens, let alone ones large enough to make use of all of their biological wastes.

@@allseeingeye93 Knowing how to help and reinforcing that helping is important simply by putting the effort into teaching motivates action. Apathy is born of not knowing how to help and not feeling it is important either socially or in a real sense.

When the westerners live a less prosperous life, the earth will finally be saved. I kinda like that idea. Japan produce less garbages and they really value recycling. Check out what China is doing in Shanghai.

@Ashley C At least give them an argument, Ashley.

As a skateboarder I can tell you not only does glass asphalt slow us down if I hit a patch of rough terrain while moving I can be thrown off immediately. Maybe it better overall but Im guessing Im not the only person within this solution to be universal.

@@blocka4 Yes, so important ¡

Glass in concrete causes fast tire wear.

Agreed!

Computer User They could make it work. It's the transition that will cost some time and money. But it's certainly doable. Many companies already do this. For example, when I was younger we had a popular local business that made simple cane sugar sodas with dozens of flavors. They were sold in local groceries, restaurants, and gas stations. You could buy just one, or a dozen in a crate. They let you come into the factory and pick out which flavors you wanted, mix and match. The bottles were glass with the brand printed on it, and they came in sturdy wooden crates. The sodas were cheap, especially if you picked them up yourself and brought back the bottles. As we used them, we put the bottles back in the crates. Once a month or so, we would load the crates into the car and go get some more and try different flavors. There was a deposit on the bottles. It worked out great and people loved it. Nothing to throw out. We recycled the cute metal caps. The soda didn't taste like aluminum or plastic. Aluminum is very toxic, and plasticizers are hormone disrupters. It wasn't super sweet high fructose corn syrup, that can have mercury in some of it. The portions were smaller so the crates weren't super heavy. They were the perfect size portion. I think it would work again because it would be sort of rustic retro, that is stylish now. And I think we now have a way to make metal caps that are reusable, too. I miss those days.

How are you going to get every single piece of trash back to its original manufacturer a lot of them aren't even in the US do you have any idea how costly that would be

Hahahaha there were 15 people on that barge totaling 3000 pounds

All the media are lie, haven't you knew that?

Why not both?

@@capras12 because it's a waste of energy

@@xPhilxHC how? Innovation helps in all sorts of ways, and even better and less packing will still get recycled, should we just throw that all away? It's also not like the effort that being used to innovate recycling methods would just magically become effort somewhere else. Very naive.

@@capras12 you just need something that's compostable that you then use at home, so it doesn't need trucks carry it around

Josh Merc 😂

But he did 😁

Excellent - agree fully.

@LAD Teknologies More educated? lol? If that was the case they wouldnt be choking in their own skyscraper high taxes, sky high gas prices, and massive debt/capita (way higher than the US). And I live in the EU.

The region of the Netherlands that I live in does so too, other regions are bit behind but are catching up.

True...lazy American s lol

Yes we (Sweden) take a lot of your garbage...

@@DesertStateInEU it is not more expensive to live in Europe than in USA, even that it have more taxes in Europe.

No i think 'they' ment 3000000 pounds.

@@echoskelet Either way, they were off by three orders of magnitude, which shows you the profound innumeracy of most people in media.

Yea because government is super efficient and will do a good job just like going to the DMV

The reason not to have government doing it, is to force innovation. Example the video you are watching.