We used Apple AirTags to track plastic reycling. Here's where they ended up.
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Much of the nation’s plastic problem has to do with packaging. Whether it's food, water bottles, or cleaning supplies, you might think it's okay to buy items that display the triangle recycle symbol.
But what happens once you put all of that plastic into the blue bin? Where does it go? We're working for you to track those plastic recyclables. So here's how we're going do it.
CBS 8 anchor Neda Iranpour got a 4-pack of Apple AirTags to track their location through her iPhone. She used heavy-duty glue, she put them inside on the bottom of each container.
She attached an air tag to a water bottle, a yogurt container, an orange juice bottle, and a wipes container. She also made sure the "find my" feature on her phone was in sync with each AirTag.
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The trouble is with these stories is: you can’t recycle an air tag. So, of course it’ll end up in the trash if the sorting is done well. Why not just ask the recycling center to watch how their process works?
Because they don’t trust an honest answer.
It could be that the Air Tags themselves tweaked the recycling process. The items tagged might have been rerouted from the normal recycling because of the Air Tags. This is not a good experiment.
Should probably give credit to the guy that did this a few weeks ago on the news.
she spelled Yogurt incorrectly
British spelling
Everything goes to a transfer station and is handled from there. China, once one of the biggest handlers of U.S. recyclables has not been taking them. There are diminishing places for them to go and get processed.
Another channel tracked an air tag from that transfer station in Orange County, and it went to the Riverside Dump. It wasn't recycled at all. None of it.
@@sdilluminatigrandfounder1813 how do you know they didn't separate the tag?
@@BicycleFunk You could not see the tag, and they did a much better job making it secure.
Recycling is a "Feel Good" thing.
The plastics industry (petrochemical industry) likes it.
@@YTPartyTonight Only while it's extremely disunited and ineffcient
@@Sandmouse6942Only as long as it’s profitable.
To the garbage
so now batteries from the airtags are in the plastic....
Do you think yourself clever?
There are a lot, a LOT, more batteries than that!
Millions a year😂😂
Yog “hurt” 🤣🤣🤣
Okay, I wasn't tripping when I saw that. 😂
British spelling
YOG NO LIKE BE HURT! YOG WANT EAT. DRINK. SLEEP. 💪😎✌️
I thought I was tripping too
Result: We don’t know
exactly, shouldn't have even done the story, it was useless
Not sure why they just don't come out and say the truth. Most plastics are sold and shipped overseas to be burned for energy.
This is the realist thing on this whole episode
China hasn't 🇨🇳 taken plastics since 2016
Not anymore. They are simply burrying plastic now.
@@lloydchristmas1086it’s incredible countries don’t incinerate their trash and use landfills instead.
It seems that the airtags didn't hold up very well. Because they are not recyclable, perhaps the plastics to which they were attached were rejected as "contaminated". Or they may have been crushed in the compacting process.
Separating trash at home isn't difficult. I have four pull-out bins in my kitchen for steel cans and glass bottles (those bins at the recycling center are next to each other), aluminum cans, plastic bottles and incinerables. I have boxes for mixed paper and cardboard in the mud room. I save newspaper for a neighbor who uses it to start her woodstove.
I work in recycling. If there is something other than plastic it gets sorted out. THIS STORY IS STUPID.
When shopping, try to buy glass products as our bodies are now full of microplastics.
Sadly, that won't do a bloody thing. It's in the air. And no filter fan, air conditioner, etc. is removing plastic particulate. You'd have a better chance to enter hurricane Beryl and try to dodge all rain drops.
you're a dreamer
@@jazziez6467 and you a moaner
I never use the blue bin
3:48 I usually take those drink lids marked with the #1 PET, roll them up and shove them into a recyclable #1 PET water bottle. Also, I use #2 water jugs to collect #2 plastic ties, then put the cap on. Is that OK?
3:57 food companies could make it easier to recycle by using clear plastic containers - what about the plastics that have been printed upon?
How do you spell recycle?
LOOK IN THE DESERT! 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Hey why doesn't the media do a story on how microplastics are created? Recycling plastic massively increases microplastics in EVERYTHING - just read a study about this.
how big do your eyelashes have to be! Should have put a tracker on those!
That's ridiculous, I remember when they said not to use plastic and tried to force paper bags, then the government said that paper was strangely no longer recyclable and implemented the plastic bag tax while trying to enforce that only plastic be recycled and that the consumer had to separate their plastics before they were collected to be recycled, it's all a scheme to try and keep stringing along the innocent. All they'll get from me is that if it's plastic, I throw it away in the recyclable, paper goes in the recycle, and trash goes in the garbage, I am most certainly not spending any of what little free time I have to sort out everything for who gets paid to sort things like that out. Maybe if someone ran the place, like someone with the right mind, who actually could provide better employment opportunities at waste centers, people wouldn't be feeling threatened to help out who the governemnt is supposed to help out, not my circus, not my monkeys, not my show
It's because it's all bullshit.
Maybe it should be!
0:18 OF VIDEO ZOOM IN ON CLOROX CONTAINER WHICH CLEARLY SAYS "CANISTER NOT RECYCLABLE UNLESS LABEL REMOVED" 1:22 CLOROX CONTAINER PLACED IN RECYCLING WITHOUT REMOVING LABEL. FOR A STORY ABOUT RECYCLING YOU'D THINK YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY TRY FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS PRINTED ON THE CONTAINER!!!
Our county hand sorts all garbage using one container and is bundled and bailed and recycled these separate bins for garbage.are a scam
DONT BOTHER WATCHING. THEY DISCOVERED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL.
That's a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere for saving the planet.
Thank you for educating the Public
yoghurt
We have millions in prisons. Make them seperate the trash
Paper bags of plastic
What a waste of time . Don’t you guys have important stuff to report on?
"Most of the nation's plastic problem has to do with packaging." No, flip that. Most of the nation's plastic problem comes from consumption.
You did not specify "civillian consumption". All products recieved are 'consumeed', or they arent sold. The majority of plastic is used in industries like fishing. So the biggest producers AND consumers are big corporations, and we have no say in it. Do you think we can do anything about that? Then start a boycott of plastic packaging or something instead of moaning about it. We can easily have a closed loop of glass and other packaging (like hemp), and when it leaves the circle? It decomposes into organic matter or silica bits, or the glass shards get buried naturally. People side with big corporations when they blame it on regular people.
YOGHURT
Don’t ever flush a GPS tracker. You don’t want to know where it goes.