Can China Dump Its Waste Addiction? | Foreign Correspondent
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- China sent Australia’s recycling industry into a spin when it banned most waste imports. Now it’s tackling a home-grown rubbish crisis. Bill Birtles looks at China’s own war on waste and asks: is it winning?
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Can China Dump Its Waste Addiction? | Foreign Correspondent
I love that the boy skips alongside his uncle as they walk to school. Beautiful spirit.✨
Sell his child, what an ass. Nice uncle, good job. My prayers and respect go out to you.
His uncle really good man i hope his nephew can become great mean one day
He's typical for the older generation in China. good kid, hope things work out for him. I also hope Bill took them out for a big dinner.
He has a great future ahead of him.
@Lewis C. You know what, when they say "sell" I think it's just lost in translation, no parents will make their children suffer, I think by what they call "sell" that means his father let him adopted by a willing able family so the boy can have a better life, and in return the adoption family will help his father financially, but well it is "sell", never mind......
@@TG4KHD people in places such as Cambodia regularly sell their children. The kids are seen as cash cows. The parents are poor and uneducated and so are the kids. Apparently in Cambodia some girls are selling their virginity at young ages eg 13 years old for as little as $300 US. The sex trade is profitable and those that have no money or little education are easy pickings.
So every time you face adversity in life remember if you have a roof over your head and food in your belly your doing better than most of the rest of the world.
Also remember China is a developing country.
Tjia Andre it’s pronounced man not mean
This Kid looks very adorable, God bless him with best Education possible and Kid never forget your Uncle when you become a big man in future - God bless you both and your whole family.
When I lived in Korea, I was pleasantly surprised when delivery was brought in reusable containers that were then picked up about 90 minutes later. It was fantastic.
Not all delivery is reusable. However, I agree, getting proper plates, and metal chopsticks was quite nice! Just placing it outside the door was strange at first, but since everyone in the office did it, I did as well, and like magic, within a few hours, they were all gone!
zhmz888 I am sure the cost of second trip in negligible considering 1) the use of scooters (low gas), 2) that the delivery person is probably delivering while also picking up 3) the tight geographic zoning of these restaurants' delivery service 4) the saving of not having to buy take out containers
WOW Africa can use those bikes
Lisa, great idea. Places also like Bangladesh, Cambodia and Myanmar could possibly use them as well with a fraction of the transport costs. Just my thoughts.
Or hell, scrapped for the money off of raw metal. But I think more money could be made by selling those bikes if refurbished.
yeah that's a whole lot of transportation they could probably just give them away in China to Chinese people. I'm sure there's a lot of people that do not live in those cities who could use those. And yes Africa and many other places could use those bikes.
Not only Africa, but the most developing countries all also need it.
@blacktigertheone
Just dump some african there instead
How can anyone blame China for refusing to receive wastes from overseas?
And yet they produce most of it.
@@Blackheathenly And the shameless Westerner can only ridicule yet manage to recycle way less than the Chinese.
That bike pile is INSANE!
So shameful
15:10
I dont understand, why would they stop the rubbish pickers from cashing in? Doesn't that work for the company and the rubbish pickers?
That uncle is the realest of real. 1
Best Uncle Award
There was a successful Go Fund Me Campaign which raised money for this family and the migrant school:
www.gofundme.com/help-mengnan-finish-school
Best uncle... real love and care
What a great man the uncle is. I'd like to donate something to his family. How can we do that? Please reply, ABC News (Australia). Thank you! Greetings from Switzerland. Also, the West isn't "dumping" its trash anywhere in China! China bought or accepted it because it wanted to. Remember, China has always maintained that it is a sovereign nation and can't be bullied! Can't have it both ways!
www.gofundme.com/help-mengnan-finish-school
Wow already 20k
They already collected 17.175$ through the gofundme campaign. Thank you ABC News for making this possible!
is it legit?
Not fair to say that man, about 200 years ago, some of you dumped opium to China, and China bought or accepted it because addicted people wanted to. China is lucky to be a sovereign nation today that's the reason they can stop your garbage importing. Back then 200 years ago, when China tried to stop opium trade, you triggered the war.
If that had been my cart that was boxed in, I'd build a ramp.
It saddens me
China not only process its own waste but also processed waste from Australia, America.Canada.Europe 70% waste. But it was suddenly banded all those waste from others countries from December of 2017. Now, those countries has big problem on its waste recycle.
Max Williams didnt China contribute to the biggest floating plastic island in the Pacific Ocean?
hell Bent Why do you think the other country has responsible for your rubbish? Do you really banned all products from China? Who will believe you? Let's have a bet. I don't use products made in America for one year. Your family will not use products made in China for one year.
Drunken Society Have you heard the ship collision? Like John S. McCain or Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald crash in Pacific Ocean? Same as when shipping with products or carry your rubbish.BTW, How do you know all those things create by China? Are you sure there will not has your wife's sex toys there?
In my city in the UK we work hard to recycle but then the council just burns it!
While the rich people waste their money poor people are working all day just so they can have food
They should recycle a bunch of materials and then make better bags and supplies for the trash pickers. They earned it a thousand times over. 🇺🇸
Every one needs an Uncle like him
I would like to thank Bill Birtles for this wonderful story and ABC News Australia for creating a gofundme page for the boy ( www.gofundme.com/help-mengnan-finish-school ). When I clicked on the video, I honestly was not expecting much from it, but I was very pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the story, the fact that the correspondent Bill Birtles spoke fluent Mandarin and that they even helped the family. I stumbled over this video by accident and probably never watched anything by ABC News Australia before, because I am German, but this story made me subscribe to your CZcams Channel.
thank you for sharing .
thank you for uploading this. your channel is getting better and better!!
This broke my heart. I can very much relate to these kids. When I was a kid, my mom left my two sisters and I with our grandparents so she could immigrate to Canada and make a life and eventually sponsor us. My dad didn't really know how to raise us so he was mostly working and ignored us. After 8 years we finally saw our mom and moved to Canada, but it was really hard growing up without her. Our aunts and uncles hated us and would abuse us both physically and mentally. We were like stray dogs around the house and no one cared if we did well in school. My grandfather would constantly remind me how ugly my small nose is just because I didn't have his nose. I hated myself and still do to this day. I would kill myself but I'm too scared to do it and don't want to hurt the people around me. I am constantly second guessing myself and even though I've been in a relationship with the most wonderful guy for over 13 years, I still wonder what he sees in me and think it's only a matter of time before he realizes how pathetic and useless I am and leaves. I don't know if my mom leaving had an affect on my current mentality but if it does, I wouldn't wish for any kid to grow up the way I did. I know my mom feels regret for leaving us, even though she was trying to provide a better life for us, so I never bring up how we were raised or how we felt living without her
China is an ancient civilisation, Chinese people are smart and hardworking. So to answer the question: "China’s own war on waste and asks: is it winning?" I'd say yes, eventually.
Nightcor EDM I doubt that statement.
devin you do realize china is the only ancient civilization thats still here today? There is no more Egyptians, no romans, aztecs,mayans, Persians etc. China is still here and is a super power. So I would say they are winning
where are all the professionals and specialists in boosting efficiency?
i can see that things, like the streets, could be more efficient, but only in general.
Yes the Egyptians still exist. And they built the pyramids too.
vietnam is a special kind of something.. they extra asf..
japan tried to adopt romaji.. i guess unpopularity, culture, and history made them change their mind..
korea has its people know a bit of hanja.. maybe, vietnam needs to do the same with chu nom..
I am a Canadian living in China and I really had no idea how the recycling system worked before watching this, so I really learned a lot. It's true, my city has bins with both waste and recycling side by side but if you look in the recycling it's always just a mish mash of waste. People don't know how it works, they aren't aware and there needs to be more awareness. It's also tough for me because when you go to the grocery store you need to individually wrap all your produce in single use plastic bags in order to get them tagged to go through the till- it's just a lot of unnecessary waste and I don't know how to go around it. I hope for a cleaner, greener future in China, for my students at least.
The uncle is a great, great man. Hope their future is solid
3:04 omg! That guy's nails are like vampire.
A+ on this reporter’s Chinese👍
Who would sell their kid
wondering who exactly was gonna buy him
Dan
Some infertile couples do and some people just love to have more kids in their family.
There are thousands of Chinese kids adopted by Americans each year and a "donation" has to be made to the government facilities that houses the kid. I am pretty sure that donation exceeds the amount that kid would sell for in the market.
The donation goes to the fund to support the disabled abandoned children that no one would want to adopt.
cachem11 except they get siphoned off into some pockets.
chinese people, that's who. they think of children as their property. barely any proper child protective services in that country kids are kidnapped all the time
people that face a poverty worse than most poor people in the west face.
Recycling and rubbish sorting is all good - but what is needed is to stop producing one use items in the first place. And this is a difficult thing to do - because businesses need to change their business model.
I can use that bicycle.:(
what a waste of metals, they could reuse the metal on bicycles instead of just dumping it there!
Fuuj Sei it’s cheaper.
doing that costs money and is a longer and more complex and continous process whereas just dumping them is a quick solution. Just look at the poorly built neighbourhoods made of incredibly cheap materials that are falling apart 3 years after they're built. They can afford to make them, but once they've made their profit, there's no reason to reduce it by doing anything like recycling or re-using or any kind of lasting program.
Hold bicycle company accoutable for the dumping if yr govt let this dumping just grow, then u got a stupid govt....
What if... they built houses out of the bikes? Yikes!
If you kids keep playing with fireworks you’re going to end up delivering food on a bike.
Great uncle n wonderful human being
That boy's father was wicked to even think of selling his son. Thank goodness his uncle stepped in. I hope they'll find somewhere (that won't be up for demolition) else to live.
all those bikes should be given to poor countries in the Middle East and Africa to children who go to school. My cousin in Afghanistan walks 1.5 hours to get to school.
why wouldn't the recycling increase? In your description your saying Australia wasn't recycling they were shiping it to china.
I don't understand why the bicycles cannot just sell at very cheap instead of throwing it away like that.
Can we donate money to help this kid? Any ways?
I will like to help the kid and his family too.pls let me know if you got some information ,thank you
Hey Guys, Due to viewer responses we've created a GoFundMe for Mengnan to help him finish school and support his family, it can be found here: www.gofundme.com/help-mengnan-finish-school
thanks for your great work
This bicycle shot is humbling. We really need to go back to society when we made things to last and not to be often replaced.
damn even bottle pickers are getting replaced by automation.
Why don’t they donate those thrown away bicicles to their forgotten children from this video I just watched.
That's all we want as humans. To see our love ones survive and we do all we can for them.
let them make all nececarry stuff from bamboo
if i were rich , i will adopt all the needy kids i met financially
The ancient civilizations left back pyramids made of stone with architectural wonders. We will be remembered for the mountains of plastic waste we leave behind. Everything else we build today will be reduced to rubble in 200 years time. What a way to go modern civilization!
WE NEED TO START A GO FUND ME PAGE
好真实，so real
Why don't they ship the bikes to Africa? They could do with them there.
Someone should set up a go fund me for the boy and his uncle.
Believe it or not, it’s far more economical as well as much better for the environment that waste is processed in one place, but, the question is WHERE and let’s face it, China needs resources more than it needs anything else.
Why is an Australian channel reporting on China’s waste?
The bicycle part got me scared
yeah the solders have to get around somehow once the US finally starts a war with china
What is the song that plays aafer the bike dump in the beginning?
That picker is a hero
What a waste? Why don't send these to the rural areas for free!
government should then be making sure those displaced people have sources of income
kid reminds me of my nephew, hope things work out
I can buy a bike if I get it at one tenth of the actual price (including shipping charges).
It’s more like Australia needs to figure out to take care of its own waste with the Chinese ban on trash import.
What happened to the other brothers?
Thanks ABC Australia for setting up the donation page and everyone who made the donations. $14,570 has been raised as for 3:43 PM GMT+8 Aug 10, 2018.
I just want to say that it's more than enough for him to finish high school and the public university system in China is very affordable. $1000-$2000 tuition and $2000 room/boards annually would be sufficient.
Helping him is great, but don't destroy him by giving his family too much money. They probably will misuse the fund.
donation page... where???
www.gofundme.com/help-mengnan-finish-school
Yeah, like, where's my GoFundMe??????
We need an update on wang
He should get that kid involved in Playing Basketball; that kids got Hops and may be at good Jumper around the Rim and scoring the Basketbal! Very sad story for that Kid, being told by his Dad, that he would be Sold, is some Cold and Crazy Minded Stuff. Great Uncle though!
OMG so many really good bicycles, i could make bussines for selling them for cheap.
I wonder if there’s a 22 inch bike in the rubble?
Mandarin is hard for Caucasians, surprisingly very impressive indeed
Why is that guy riding a rusted out bicycle when there are a gazzilion of them brand new laying in a dump?
i could use 1 of those bikes
That Australian guy's chinese is brilliant
Just finished watching this with my 10 year old daughter.
A small suggestion sell those to poor countries at affordable cost
You should check on Myanmar too . All Human sewer waste in one big hole under every new building . All waste ?
That's what they use for Landfill when the make another artificial Island in the ocean...like a resort, or an airport.
china- the example of time when educational level can't catch up to economical level
Long Lee . They we'll soon they have high IQ on average good genes for brain
@ Sagendo: look. This may sounds racist but there is no doubt that Asian excel in brain power but lack muscle strength. Each race has their own strength and weakness. Chinese are very innovative and are genius in business. The problem is their greed. Chinese society has been built on greed. For example, after 1945, China understands that they couldn't catch up to world power, so they decided to take in proven technology as shortcut instead of inventing. It works, but it also results in a society that looks for shortcut for profit, for growth, for everything. THAT is why China is rotten. Granted, any country has good and bad people. But chinese government and bussiness people? They care little for the people. So yeah, Chinese has already has high IQ, but that doesn't equate to high educational level.
Long Lee .true but we are more adaptable . And our muscle type is different , I believe pound to pound on average Asian are stronger than whites
@@longlee1100 if you actually looked in your own back yard you would see that every society that has ever existed was built on greed and the west is the most greedy of all societies
@@bjorn1583 The west is the greediest of all ??? Honey, there are plenty of genocides caused by the east aka pol pot genocides, Genghis khan, the mass killing of scholars committed by Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang for examples. Also, Chinese has been THE greediest country in the entire world. Sure counterfeit is everywhere but dear lord, it is the most rampant in China. They even produce fake rice, fake dim sum, fake egg, fake noodle (both soup and noddle) and much more. There is no country whose majority readily feed others harmful chemical to earn extra profit like China. Let see, what else. Oh, Chinese elites are known to eat babies too (though I hope it is just rumor and I am wrong on this). Sure, not all Chineses are bad. but if one speak of a country, one must speak of the majority. For now, the majority of mainland chineses are BAD and GREEDY
It look like there is a big social inequality there in China..... the uncle is working hard but he even have to pay a fee for his nephew to go to school... and that food delivery guy it look like he work from morning till night (regardless his disability) but it look like he is earning very little.... he have to share small apartment with 11 other people....
It look like there is not much space for compassion.
It looks like only a few extreme examples were selected to be on this propaganda video
sonic070 Don't worry too much. The West we get social inequality. The US and Australia are currently transitioning to a "user pay"economy as housing becomes less affordable. And the cost of living is eroding the middle-class completely. Homeless rates are already starting to balloon in both paces.
@Yongjie Jiang what the hell is wrong with you and GOD talking about "propaganda". This IS the experience for many people in China but you Chinese get all embarrassed unless Western media shows you rich people in Shanghai. China has MILLIONS of peasant farmers who toil and labor while you rich and middle class Chinese take the credit. It's China's peasants who built your buildings, roads, subways ..and we can go all the way back to the Great Wall and Terracotta soldiers. They built them and often died in the process!! Yet what do rich and middle class Chinese do? they mostly look down on them and stand apart from them on the subways because they are "dirty and smelly". Frankly, the behavior and disdain of China's wealthy and middle class is often disgusting.
@@junsu21 so your saying the chinese middle class treat their poor EXACTLY the same way the western middle class treat their poor, its time you got over yourself because everywhere has rich and poor and the poor are treated the same no matter where you go
@@bjorn1583 so you are excusing the actions of people in China by pointing fingers at the West?!! Brilliant rebuttal. You should be given a reward for your debating skills. smh. The thrust of my point above was to show that the video was NOT "highly selected" as some stated. Obviously, the poor are treated like shit in many places but too many Chinese who complain about Western "propaganda" like to pretend they don't have poor people in their country. Sorry, that's just not true. China was, and is, built on the backs of its peasants who get almost no praise and honor.
Great respect to the humble Chinese people who work hard everyday for China's and the world's improvement.
Why don't they do up those bicycles, and send them out around the world, in some sort of scheme, where people can make good use of them, then problem solved!
24:45 ...and so does Stralya!
What an excellent human this man is.
Despite the incredible odds.
I hope Karma gives him a wonderful long life. 🕊️💚
It seems you need a better office.
this so call "dumping ground" is somewhere u can't just go in and pick bike...so it isn't dumping ground
May God bless Uncle bountifully
Can u plz tell me location of bikes
7:23 "it's growing like a building"
I didn't know buildings could grow but whatever
blacktigertheone HAHAH
They can turn the rubbish into Dirt or Soil.
ABC.thank you !!
Australia should be much more concerned about what is happening to Australian farming land. Australia has been one of 4 major Wheat Exporting nations. However, our Wheat crop has been gradually falling away since 1990 -- so that we imported Wheat for the first time in 2018. The acreage suitable for growing Wheat and other crops is declining. Australia has been in severe drought for about 7 years -- the worst drought since accurate records were kept. Quite likely Australia will cease to be a Wheat Exporter in the near future. Combined with the drought are record high temperatures. Half of the "Great Barrier Reef" died in just 2 years from warmer seas -- in 2016 & 2017. The LNP Govt does not even believe in Global Warming. They are opening a new Coal Mine (Adani), which will exacerbate the loss of farming land, and the shortage of water. Australia is more vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change than any other Continent.
China has stopped accepting "the West's" rubbish, so we will have to solve that problem ourselves.
Won't be long now, there are too many people and we are trashing all of this planet. This is the most important problem in the world and very few of us are even talking about it or finding ways to deal with it. I'm glad I am in the last segment of my life instead of the first part.
just cry,,deeply
I've never seen anything like this
Thank you so much ABC News for raising fund for Mengnan!
How about they just stop producing plastic waste in the first place.
do you know how important plastic is ??? seriously
Haiti would love those bicycles
father bless this family to help the child have a great future.may he be amazing!
Good to know that you
with the gov't system they have it shouldn't be hard to tackle.
It’s actually 35 dollars.
Wow no tip 😫
Wonder if the “VOLCANOS” would solve some of garbage problems