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Venice deserves a whole chapter. Being a city with canals instead of roads every service vehicle is boats. Ambulances, Fire Department, Police, buses etc. it's pretty impressive and it's actually a pretty efficient city even with all the uncomfortable conditions the people live in.
There are roads in Venice. Why do people always make assumptions that Venice has no roads at all?
@@automation7295 roads that are suitable for cars are really few and not even closely enough to link the whole city. Most roads are for foot traffic only since they are really too tight and often have bridges with steps to cross the canals. The only vehicle you are able to use to go in every corner of the city is the boat.
People fish off the floating bus stop/piers and pause when a water bus comes along 😁
Sadly there's not that many people who live there any more. The mass tourism there made it too uncomfortable to live there and you could say that the tourism choked the city. Even people working there as tour guides or selling their stuff at small market stands commonly live on the mainland and just take a boat over to historic Venice for work. It's a lovely city, but if you look past the tourism and architecture Venice is just an empty shell of it's former glory.
First from England. The second orange truck from Switzerland. Blue Mercedes from Germany. Italy, Venice, and white Isuzu too. White Renault from Paris, France. And finally England. Greatings from Poland.
I am in Poland right now 🤘and it's great 🎉
On the Swiss truck it is written interlaken which is in the canton of Bern (hence the BE on the plate)
They mist the best one Amsterdam
Yes. The first 2 letters on the registration plate are Local Memory Tags, they show in which area the vehicle was registered for the first time (on this one VN - V = Severn Valley, N = The Motor Tax Office in Worcester). The vehicle keeps the Local Memory Tag until it is scrapped, even if it is sold to an area where another Motor Tax Office has jurisdiction. The 2 numbers shows the year the vehicle was first registered, deduct 50 if the numbers are above 50 (the Veolia truck 2017, the second one 2022). The 3 last letters are randomized by a computer.
@@crossundreisen7324 glad to hear ! have a nice time !
In Germany we do separate the trash.Paper - glas - reusables - waste - organic. Each sort needs specialized trucks.Glas is sorted into green - brown - clear and the trucks have separated compartments.There is a day for each waste. Some every week, some every other week and so on. Depending on the amount. There is one sort with a rotating press. Comparable to a concrete truck, but the rotating part is more horizontally aligned. Greetings from Nürnberg/Germany
we have 10 seperate fractions of trash in denmark at our houses
im pretty sure it is eu rules we have to do a min. of sorting
norway use color coded bags and a machine to sort them and it all fits in the same truck.
so they dont need to pick it up over 5 trips like most other countrys in eu
we have also invented machines in denmark that can sort the trash, most european countrys just wasted to any money on different trash cans and new trucks for them, so they cant afford it
In the netherlands we seperate glass ourselves, you have these big containers that go way into the ground and you sort the glass yourself and they pick it up. We don't have it picked up from our house, but the rest is the same and we sort plastic.
In Sweden we separat, but the system differs a bit from place to place. I have two bins with for compartments each. They are for plastic, cardboard, paper, coulored glas, uncoulored glas, metal, food and "the rest". You can also put a special box to one of them in which you can put batteries, LED lights and small electronic things like calculators.
@@katam6471 Pretty good separation of waste! I forgot that we do have collection points for used batteries etc. in almost every supermarket. Stores that sell electronics, have to take electronic waste up to a certain size. Large waste like washing machines etc. are collected at waste disposal facilities.
@@gluteusmaximus1657 same with glass. we have special dumpsters for one way or non-reusable glass. They get seperated by color. makes it easyer to melt it back in the glass mill. and it saves on resources and energy. Beer bottles for instance are collected at the supermarket and sent back to the breweries. There they get scrubbed, washed, sanitized, refilled and recapped. So if you down a longneck that bottle might have been around for about 50 cycles or more. And the only thing that's really expensive about that bottle of brew is the cap...lol
Rear wheel steering is very common in Europe for trucks that operate in tighter spaces. Not just garbagetrucks who operate in narrow streets, but also for example construction vehicles. Trailers with steered axles are also extremely common for the same reason. The truck and trailers that deliver bricks and stuff can have up to 4 steering axles and the spaces those drivers manoeuvre through is just insane
And short six-wheeled buses have them as well!
right, i drive a DAF CF cooled truck(3 axle) with rear axle steering, asside from that i use a yardtruck to do short distance in my town(3km between certain companies) and we use almost solely steered trailers mostly 3 axle with either 2 or 3 axle steering(mainly made by Krone or Renders)
It saves tires and Axles more than Helping with turns. It of course requires less force to overcome the resistance of the tire too.
That’s not even mentioning stuff like traverse or crab steering on the really heavy stuff like mobile cranes and the big cherry pickers.
@@DexMaster881 u are forgetting, that most garbage trucks in Europe, needs the BACK to throw stuff in, so they are backing up a lot, where rear wheel steering, becomes a lot more important, so u can take tighter turns, as showed in the clip at 3:30
Here in Spain we have "one man trucks" which have an alignment camera so that the driver can operate the lift, no other workers needed. Also you should check out Spain's nocturnal street cleaning, the main streets in most big cities get sprayed with water from big tanker trucks to clean them from goo or other stuff. We also have automatic sweepers,
Same in Italy. All garbage trucks have robotic arms and are operated by the driver. No other operators needed. It has been like that since I was a kid, decades ago...
@@Myria83 So not far off being fully automated then?
The swiss BE stands for City of Bern, the German B stands for Berlin.
For many European cities with ancient or medieval districts, super small trucks are needed (and cars as well ;)
Venice is not on a different level, but on a different planet 😂 I love it.
To be precise, the canton of Bern (which shares its name with its largest/capital city which is the case for a number of cantons).
Often the smaller trucks are also used for streets that are not rated for the weight of the larger trucks.
@@RaXXha Or for smaller streets that are too narrow for the larger trucks. Some are as compact as golf carts.
The BE on the plate stands for the Canton of Bern, the actual town was marked on the side - Interlaken.
8:31 is Germany. Worth mentioning:
recycling
- yellow lid: plastic, tin, aluminium recycling
- blue lid: paper and cardboard recycling
- green/brown lid: bio recycling
landfill
- black lid: everything else
special/toxic waste at dedicated collecting points
- battery, light bulb, electronic, glass, metal, clothing
The color depends on the region you live. In my hometown, the Paperbin is green.
Jooo, that the ALBA- company in Berlin and the truck is a Mercedes-Actros
@@real_doombastic same here
in the Netherlands
orange: plastic
blue: paper/cardboard
green/brown: bio/gft(groente fruit tuin, vegetables fruit garden)
we have ground containers for things that dont fit under these
worth mentioning is that it all pretty much goes to the same pile after they pick it up...
Dennis is a British company mainly known for production of buses but has a long history of specialized industrial vehicles particularly fire engines.
I think they are what you could call a specialized vehicle outfitter. For those trucks I am not even sure if they build the basic frame themselves or buy them from like Mercedes or Scania for example and put everything on it that makes it specialized. Looking at the cab though, this might well be a complete special built you see in garbage trucks around Europe. I know Mercedes has some close looking ones. What is special about those, besides this one, even for European measures, is a rather small truck. That is also, why they build the cabin so low in front of the truck, more like what you might see in a bus. For one those short ones are easier to maneuver around in narrow streets, or if they have to back into a rather small driveway or alleyway. But mainly it is so low, as the workers have to get in and out of the cab rather frequently, if they do not even walk along or ride along on platforms on the back. And getting in and out is of course a lot more comfortable with such a low cab. The bigger ones may have the regular height cabs as well, depending on where they are used. There are even smaller ones around like a 6.8 ton garbage truck for even narrower situations in our city, that has a high cab as well. The low cab would make it too long. This truck might be somewhere around a 12-14 ton or even some more model I guess.
@@alexanderkupke920 ... Dennis build the vehicles themselves, the company was founded in 1895. They specialise in refuse vehicles, fire engines, buses and airport service vehicles. They are very popular here in the UK, my local council has a massive fleet of them in refuse trucks, in 6 wheeler and 8 wheeler configuration. They are also available in 4, 6 and 8 wheel tippers.
@ianjardine7342 ... Dennis (founded in 1895) build refuse trucks, fire engines, airport service vehicles, buses, and construction trucks. They are available in 4, 6 and 8 wheelers. The buses are now built by Alexander Dennis (founded in 2004) a different company from Dennis who build the above mentioned vehicles.
@@martinwebb1681 they're in a lot of the ex empire. They were in the Australia video.
The Fire appliances division closed in 2007
I'm not sure if it was mentioned already, but the different container colors mean different garbage types (paper/cardboard or plastic packages or anything else) which is burned or recycled, depending on what it is. They come on different days to pick it up. You get a calendar for the year with a color code to know when.
At least where I live in Sweden, we have green containers for combustion waste and brown for food waste.
The same truck collects them both containers, but puts them into separate waste compartments onboard the truck. There is also underground waste management, where the garbage truck suck the waste using vacuum.
And a fun fact..its a mostly useless system. In the end, most of it ends up on the same pile again, shoveld on a conveyor belt and then sorted by hand. To extract the crap thats still worth something. I worked in several such facilitys...behind trash is a big business you wouldnt expect and think its all automated and clean.
In my home town, Gothenburg, Sweden, about 50% of food waste is reused as fertilizer. The other waste is incinerated at the district heating facility. About 80% of all buildings are connected and gets heating and hot water. My own house included. There is still room for improvements and it is being investigated.
Man, canals instead of streets: even my 7-year-old nephew understands that this is Venice
not to mention "venecia" on the garbage bin, gondolas floating by and what looks like Marcus plaza in the background 🤓
Ok, but your name is Giuseppe…😊🌸
there are seven cities in Italy with canals but I think you are right that this one is Venice.
ppl from Rotterdam would be like whaaat???😉
@@theoteddy9665 Rotterdam? Not really, if you said Amsterdam...
Here in Portugal we have underground dumpsters for recycling garbage and they use a crane-truck to take the tank out and dump into it. It was a way to reduce the visual impact of these dumpsters on the streets and it kinda works. They look like a simple metallic trash can or, in some cases, a round-form dumpster sinked into the ground
I wish we would build these in Germany ... at least in the cities. I can not imagen that that works in the rugal villages ^^
@@julonkrutor4649probobly can't use them in most of Germany due to the weather. That is at least true for sweden.
So we use vacuum garbage truck that sucks the garbage out from a full district at once.
They do the run every day but suck out diffrent fraktion diffrent days.
At so.e places the garbage truck use the same road as.the busses do.
Yeah, here in Finland we use those underground ones as well. One meter above ground, two or three meters below, or something like that. A normal garbage truck has a crane the crew can use to lift the huge sack out of the hole and empty it into the garbage truck's container. The above ground structure can look really clean and have a pleasant enough design because it doesn't need to be movable or anything, it's a solid structure fixed in place, aside from the top (lid).
In Finland we have holes dug in ground and trashcan build into it. They take out the top off from it and lift these massive bags to trucks. These are usually in public places but i've seen them in some building inner yards too. Sorry terrible explanation.
Many Dutch cities have these as well. So no garbage day because you can use it anytime and they come to empty it when needed.
In Switzerland there's a garbagetruck that literally get's hung onto a cablecar, because the village that it collects the Trash from doesn't have a road leading to it.
The speed limit signs on the back are because the trucks are limited to certain speeds (as you found on Euro Truck)
Exactly. The lower number is for undivided highways outside of city limits. The higher number for freeways. And yes, that means the truck at 11:54 is limited to 70 km/h (43 mph) outside of town and 80 km/h (50 mph) on the freeway (not that garbage trucks will be travelling too much on either type of road).
Just FYI, those speed signs on the back indicate what the truck is allowed to do on different roads usually. So the 80 would be 50mph max. It may be limited to that being a dustcart.
80 is what is usually allowed for trucks over 3,5T in the EU on highways. Some countrys allow 90. On smaller streets its 60-70.
6:15 The truck belongs to the city of Interlaken (which means between the lakes - fun fact), where you can get one of the best tap waters in the world.
8:20 It is B for Berlin. Looks like some government buildings.
10:50 Looks like Venice. A, yes, it is even printed on the side of the garbage container.
I think he was talking about the D on the blue background at 8:20 meaning that both of you are right
B is from belgium
@@gorka16 If it were on the blue, yes, however, the B OP is talking about (on the white) does indeed stand for Berlin
What makes it one of the best tap water in the world?
@@huskytail it comes straight from the purest mountain springs.
Dennis is a specialist truck maker, based in Guildford, Surrey, England. They originated in 1895, building bicycles, but later moved onto cars, trucks, dustcarts (US, garbage trucks) buses and fire engines. Changed ownership, but still building buses and dustcarts.
All English Fire Engines used to be called Dennis
Interesting, I never knew they once made cars. There's a branch of Dennis-Eagle just down the road from my Blackpool office.
for the plastic bags vs bins - some municipalities use bags to enforce payment of utilities, since they can issue limited batch for one year instead of a bin that anyone can put outside and no way to (readily) check if the utilites have been paid for the year.
That Italian boat had to be Venice surely; damn if it isn't one of the coolest things I've seen.
Not sure if you've already seen the Dutch garbage truck, but I highly recommend it.
They use a giant robot arm to pull out the massive underground garbage container to empty the load in the back of the truck. There's often someone watching in awe when it happens.
Also there are many different types of underground containers each with their own purpose; trash, plain glass, colored glass, paper, green waste and even second hand clothing for the salvation army.
Seen those in cities in mainland spain , logical in areas where space is at a premium,or you dont want the ugly dumpsters blocking the view,
Expensive though
In general, I didn't see sideloaders, i.e. where the truck driver moves a robot arm on the _side_ of the truck to pick containers (usually by the 2) and lift and empty them. These are the most common ones here. There usually is somebody walking to somewhat align the containers (in case of parked cars blocking them), so it is not 100% only the truck driver.
@@eastcorkcheeses6448 they also help keep the smell down
Those exist in finland too
@@marcovtjev In the Netherlands the use of sideloaders directly controlled by the driver is very common. They rolled that out years ago. We hardly see rear loaded vehicles anymore, with the exception for dumpsters.
Dennis is a UK Truck, specialise in utility and emergency vehicles. Most UK fire engines were Dennis in more recent years (there used to be loads more like Scammel(though scammell tends to be V heavy vehicles) , bedford, leyland and many many more
8:44 Yeah you're right! ALBA Garbage Truck is from Germany / Deutschland....exactly B-DC 3041 means B = Berlin. Others are DD = Dresden, M = Munich / München, HH = Hansestadt Hamburg (for example):) Have a great Day!
11:56 In Italy all trucks/buses must indicate the maximum speed limit they can do in Freeways (left) and Highways (rights)
While there are differences in the mechanisms and dumpsters they are mostly all compatible and interchangeable with each other with a fairly standard truck/bin interface. A number of the trucks shown are lifting large commercial/communal dumpsters but have a split lift system so they can also lift the smaller domestic 'wheely bins' like the small green ones at the end. You should also look for Edinburgh communal bin collections that have a side lift that is closer to the US style
The little "steps" on the back of some trucks (like the swiss one) are actually fitted with sensors on modern trucks wired into the truck's gearbox. For safety, they can't reverse if someone is standing on the steps at the back.
At least here in Germany riding on the back is also speed-restricted, so on bigger roads the men will climb into the cab (which is why they're always 3-seaters)
The trucks used for overload vehicles also have rear axles that can steer. It helps to make turns easier.
The moment you said: "Cool orange" the camera films the side of the truck, just behind the door. It says Interlaken. That's a town in Switzerland.
Because of the scenery and the name of the city on the side of the garbage bin you can tell it is in Venice. Or Venezia in Italian.
One interesting detail on the garbage boat in Venice, look at the pilot house. You can see kind of rails and the upper part looks like put on top of the lower part. They can actually lower the upper part of that down, to clear lower bridges. Workers collect the garbage in those carts and get it to the boat. No roads for actual garbage trucks.
Speaking of specialized garbage trucks having to go through tight spaces. But I think there is almost no vehicle type they specialized that much for tight places and maneuverability as garbage trucks.
Greetings from Poland! We have usually orange mecedes trucks here, however it depends on the company that handles the garbage. When you live in a detached house, you have the whole schedule for different kind of garbage, for me it's like:
- general trash - every even wednesday, garbage stored in regular bin
- recycling - first wednesday of the month, glass/plastic&metal/paper in different coloured plastic bags
- green trash (grass, leafs, small branches, flowers etc.) every thursday in durable bags
- bio (mostly food remains) every friday
Also they collect christmas trees through the February - you just leave it in front of your gate and it will eventually disappear 😉
About once/twice a year they put a large container where you can put some larger items, like furniture.
So quite well organized, and you need to remember quite a lot.
In Scotland the green waist lorrys are amazing. The binman pops the garden waist wheelie bin on the back of the lorry, the waist gets dumped into the lorry. The whole body of the bin turns like a cement mixer, so the green waist is mulched before even getting to the recycaling center, so cool.
Being Scottish we take the piss out of our lorries by naming them Wee Mac Cycaling, we also name our snow ploughs Snowy MaC No Snow and we name tugs boats things like Boaty MaC Boat Face. You can follow all of these and others on live maps through a app. Got to love being Scottish.
5:34 Seems to be a vehicle from Interlaken, Switzerland, 8:13 this is a vehicle form Berlin ("B") as first letter on the licence plate), Germany. The back of these trucks is like a swiss army knife. There are way more containers which can be automatically loaded as seen in these movies. 10:24 The boat is from Venice, Italy. 11:50 The speed limit signs on the back of the truck are showing how fast this pasticular vehicle is allowed to drive. Lowest number would be in the city, second on country roads and highest on highways/Autobahn.
8:15
That blue truck can take dumpsters and normal, "private" trashcans. When it lifts up you can see two arms support the dumpster, each of these can also move individually with just a normal trashcan.
I live on a mountain road that's very steep and narrow. We have two collections weekly with specially designed trucks which can handle the roads. Tuesdays, we have glass and cans and compostable one week, and undifferentiated garbage and compostable the next. Fridays, we have paper and card one week, and plastics the next. All garbage has to be in its designated container, with a bar code specific to the address. General undifferentiated is a small 70 litre sack. Plastic gets a big yellow sack, paper and card a blue plastic box, glass and cans get a green plastic box and the compost goes in a brown bucket. You leave the stuff out the night before the collection. Sounds complicated, but we're now recycling 80% of everything so it's all good. And in the next couple of years the plan is to charge less tax the less you throw out, hence the bar codes.
I should add that the garbage trucks here in Germany usually handle the smaller bins as well as the larger dumpsters like the yellow lidded ones shown here. The lifter unit at the back is split in two, so it can handle either two smaller bins independently from each other or one large dumpster.
Did you notice - none of them was a one man unit with the robotic arm on the side. Because they suck. They break the bins and make a mess, and in most places they wont even work, because there is not enough space for the bins to line up in a way that the arm can grab them.
And you are pretty correct with the locations. The Swiss truck was from Interlaken, a rather famous ski resort in Switzerland. The boat was Venice of course, as you can see the famous gondolas going by, and the scenery. The blue truck saying "ALBA" on the side is from Berlin. It also shows on the plate of the parked Renault car: the letter B at the beginning stands for Berlin, this system is used all over Germany : the first (1-3) letters stand for the city or county where the car is registered.
Denmark and many other countries have switched to underground waste containers that can be picked up by a crane and dumped in the garbage truck.
I don't know if they're one manned, but they could be. Unlike the attempted automation of picking up old school plastic bins, these containers are designed to be picked up by crane. They're very effective, requiring fewer pickups, and a lot nicer to look at.
@@m4ster_root It sure has advantages, looks cleaner ect., but its not without problems, too. So the container needs to be accessable for the truck, and its rather expensive to build. Perhaps a alternative for large dumpsters, in large appartment buildungs, business buildings an so on. But not a solution for everybody.
Sideloaders are the best for residential areas and countryside, they are used a lot here in Sweden. It's a lot faster and doesn't wear on the worker. It's also safer not being behind the truck on the country roads.
Here in the Netherlands we almost have only sideloaders. Works great only one person on the truck. Just takes some extra space on the collection days but those places are reserved for those bins. And in these times there is a lack of employees it is a good solution. Also no need for physical labor. When you live in apartment you will have access to underground waste dumpster. Those even have sensors so they get emptied when needed and saves unneeded movement with the trucks.
@@ronaldod7116 That is interesting. Finland is mostly one person per truck and especially during winter it's hard work pulling box containers on tiny wheels. We do also have containers with large bags that extend straight down to a hole in the ground. Above ground they have a plastic cylinder with a lid. They are easier to pick up using a crane in the truck, but this requires several meters of space above the truck and the container. I guess every method works well only when supported by city planning and careful placement of containers.
In the uk, or atleast around where i live, the bin lorries rear lifting thing(idk what its called) is able to either lift one or two normal bins from a person's home or one large bin you usually see with businesses.
On a more basic level, I have three 'Wheely' bins, One for general waste, one for recycling and one for garden waste that goes for composting. If you look carefully virtually all European bins and trucks have the same layout for the handling lifts. No lifting needed, so much better efficiency and fewer operator injuries.
8:11 if I'm right, the plate has a "B" which is for Berlin, Germany's capital city and the big "A" sign at the back side and the front of the truck are for "Abfalltransport" (waste transportation service)
Unfortunate that no german rotopress was shown. I really love how they work and the rotating tank is fun to watch.
In Switzerland you have to pay for the Trahbags. You fill it and put it out on the Street at the Morning of the Pickupday.. There are Metalcontainers without Tag for the "Paybags" and Containers with Tag (i think NFC). In this case you have to pay for weight or for a single emptying.
Next step is to try to reduce the mount of waste and increase recycling. Here's two videos about waste management and recycling in Finland: "Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) Waste management in Finland" and "RÖÖRI - The automatic waste collection system used in the Jätkäsaari area".
To answer your guess from 14:10 yes it is Venice or in Italian "Venezia" which is right there, written on the cart you can see at 10:46 .
Where you went wrong is 4:16 we don't need different types of dumpster trucks for different sizes of trashbins. You see they have two cylinders? They can empty the bigger dumpsters or two small bins ( as can be seen at 14:55 ) and the best part: in "small bin" mode they can run automatic, you see they start to lift the moment he presses the bin against the mechanism (again 14:55 ).
The standing platforms at the back, to ride on the back of the truck, they can be flipped up. If they are in the "down" position the speed of the truck is electronically limited to prevent/reduce injuries. (depending on country and regulation)
15:08 regarding the clean bins: in our city there is a "bin washing truck" washing and disinfecting the "composting waste" bins inside and out every 6 months.
I really enjoy your enthusiasm about those small things, really - I never thought about garbage trucks before - and now I kind of admire our german ones thanks to you.
And one thing I REALLY love about your reactions - you really are not that stereotype american citizen - you recognize a "D" on a licence plate and immediately make the connection to germany, you recognize the swiss and the italian flag, it is so nice and calming somehow. This even makes me enjoy a compilation of trash getting emptied - weird.
I’m so glad to have read this, I appreciate it. More Americans need to broaden their view on the world. I love our community here on the channel and truly enjoy learning so much
@@IWrocker If you really are into this, then maybe this will blow your mind. Denmark are doing a lot to transition to a fossil fuel free reality. Now the garbage trucks in inner Copenhagen are all electric so they do not pollute or make a lot of noise. And, I do not KNOW if this are a worlds first, but have not heard about any other having similar system, the garbage collection in "Nyhavn" or new haven in Copenhagen have for many years had a pneumatic garbage collection. If you look at photos/clips from Nyhavn you will see several black round "cylinders" placed along the harbour. Restaurants and people living there have a key to open and can then drop their waste and it are then pneumatically transported away to a central gathering point. It have been in function at least 10-15 years now. Off shore windmill farms deliver the electricity to run both. There are nothing to be scared of when transitioning away from fossil fuels. We already have all the technology and all the solutions needed. Most of them are improvements in relation to the ones running on fossil fuels. green hydrogen and electricity are the true future we need to transition to if we wanna survive ourselves. They just do not write about in US media because so many politicise reality of our dire situation.
Lets not forget:
"Through the great gift to humanity, glaciology, we now have a YEAR BY YEAR knowledge of the planets atmospheric Carbon content (and much more) for a period more than 10 times longer since Homo Sapiens left the African continent the first time. For over 850.000 years our atmospheric Carbon content have been relative stable at 220 PPM. 3 times in the 850.000+ years have gigantic widespread global volcanic eruptions raised the Carbon content with 30 PPM and EACH time it have triggered longterm climate changes for a very long time before the planets regulating systems slowly have been able to bring it down to 220 PPM again. It are truth to state that a atmospheric Carbon content of 220 PPM created us and nearly all living species present on the globe with very few exceptions. Besides the Asteriod that hit Yucatan 66 million years ago the largest species extinctions we have been able to document have happened during the 3 times the atmospheric content rose with 30 PPM.
Since the Industrial revolution, just a few hundred years ago, we have raised the atmospheric Carbon content from 220 PPM to now (2022 number) 417 PPM! So humans NOW have caused not a 30 PPM rise but unprecedented 197 PPM!
We are right now in the largest species extinction period since the Asteriod hit Yucatan 66 million years ago!
The worlds oceans are right now heating with the same energy added equalling 5 Hiroshima bombs PER SECOND! That are the sickening facts!"
I’ve seen a few of the Dennis garbage trucks in Adelaide South Australia. I like how they give the driver more sight with the big windscreen and low cut doors.
On that blue truck that was a German plate, and the first letter was showing you from where it is, it's Berlin, the capital.
And rear wheel steering is very common, like with the big semis, it's all about maneuvering the narrow city roads. Great video as always.
8:16 The numberplate with "B" is from Berlin. ALBA is a very large disposal company in Germany, like Remondis, Veolia, Rethmann, Trienekens, ect.
ANTOS is a smaller, short houl version of ACTROS, but the same wight class. There is also a version for municipal services with easier access, as can be seen at 3:18.
Blue is the company colour of ALBA. Municipal vehicles are usualy orange.
This is a "Yellow" container for recyclable garbage, like plastic, light materials, sheet metal. There are "green", "brown", "black" and "blue" containers. They will be picked up separately by other vehicles on different days. Then there are containers for "glass", "electronic waste" and "used clothes", which are in certain places and you have to be brought there yourself. That's what you have to know here.
You can't throw anything in any bin here. Don't mess with the city administration. They finish you off with forms and every form that you fill out incorrectly they send back and every answer takes 6 weeks and if you have filled it out correctly, maybe someday, the deadline for clarification has expired. The tax office is the final boss but the city administration is the level before.
In the past, waste disposal used to be municipal. The job was very popular because as a municipal employee you had good salaries, pensions, working time regulations and a few other privileges. Today almost everything is privately outsourced. When I first went to the States/Canada (circa 1987) we were amazed at private garbage companys. Back then unthinkable here. Today normal.
most garbage trucks in europe can be used for the bigger dumpsters or the smaller ones, as the lifting mechanism is seperated/divided but can be used combined, for the bigger dumpsters seen in Minute 4:30 . If youlook closer, you can see, that not only the hanging shield in the back of the truck is seperated, but the lifting mechanism has a left and right part.
In Sweden I get 2 different trucks for the 2 recycling containers with a total of 11 different compartments. Each container has 4 interior compartments and a small exterior container. The truck hoists it up, but on the top the insert (2 compartment unit) is hoisted further out/back and the 4 different types of recycling is separated into 4 different compartment in the truck. I have to separate paper from cardboard, clear glass from colored glass, plastic, metal, burnable waste, compostable food leftovers, small electic waste, lightbulbs, and batteries. In the city regions some trucks have a vaccuuming unit to suck out the burnable waste from the buildings. We take recycling serious.
I have a grey bin for landfill,blue for plastic/aluminium,brown for food waste and garden waste,green for paper/cardboard and a box for glass in Scotland,picked up on different days.
All the European trucks can pick up both the dumpster type and normal can type, you just toggle it with the buttons on the back. The Dennis Eagle trucks (that’s a British manufacturer who makes both truck chassis and Olympus refuse collector bodies) that I used had buttons with a logo above for the type of bin.
ever seen the underground containers ? in the Netherlands these are getting quite common now basically they grab the public container with a crane and empty it out czcams.com/video/W0fdn2AJwks/video.html we have it for glass, paper, plastic and in some places if you don't have any private garbage collection you can have with a pass access to put regular garbage also in such containers
and the side loaders we also have are also amazing czcams.com/video/qaUvCJwjhm4/video.html
About the Veolia logo on the first truck : It's a big company that sell services in waste management, water management and energy. They operate in a lot of countries, including the US.
The trucks here have two or even 3 different compartments for different types of garbage, and at least some of them cvan be fully operated from the cab. It makes sense in rural areas where most of the time is spent driving between customers.
In my area we sort it:
Paper&Cardboard,
Glass and metal packaging (glass bottles and jars, not drink glasses or mirror glass or other harder glass types, food cans, not old cutlery and stuff)
Food waste,
Plastic packaging(in a clear plastic sack)
Other waste.
Electronic waste we deliver at the same store we bought it.
Soda cans and bottles we also recycle at the same stores we buy them. (We're at 90% and climbing)
There's a lottery regarding drink cartons(Tetrapak carton for milk, juice, ice tea and so on)
Rinse them off, open one, fold the others and stuff them in the first to make a brick. Then write your name and phone number on the brick and toss it in the paper&Cardboard recycling, and every year they draw 120 who wins 10.000NOK and 4 who wins 100.000NOK. (divide by 10 to get approx. Dollar value)
hi from Canada. I think Canada and USA share the same "technology" about garbage collection. plastic container about 30" x 30" and maybe 4 feets Tall (760mm x 760mm x 1200mm) with 2 wheels. 1 truck with a single operator. there's an arm coming out from the side that grab the bin and swing it over the top of the truck. the only difference is that we have 3 bins, a green or black for the trash, a blue one for recycling and a brown one for compost (left over foods) witch is required by law to be put in brown bins ( at least in Quebec province)
Dennis is a massive garbage truck producer from Warickshire in the UK. They specialise in garbage trucks and fire engines. 90% of garbage trucks in service in the UK are manufactured by Dennis. I love your shows buddy, keep them up. I was a garbage man/refuse collector for 20 years. Loved this video. Look into Japan garbage trucks, it's fasinating...
Dennis: Building mainly special trucks. Fire Engines and Communal trucks.
15:31 the trucks are fast because they have hydraulic nitrogen airbag accumulators increase the volume of aviable high pressure hydraulic oil in the system by more than 3 gallons- helps make the functions faster so nothing remains stuck in the bins
We have Veolia in Australia also, they've been around for a while and mainly focus on industrial waste. We have most varieties of waste collection and management here, as I suppose most developed countries do, with some minor variations. I used to drive a side-lift residential waste truck for most of my 20 years with the company I worked for, until a workplace injury sidelined me. I broke my knee, so that put an end to that. I did also drive the front lift and roll on, roll off trucks for a while too. I'd say 99% of the residential side lift units are Iveco 2350G trucks, with Dennis units making some inroads also. The thing about the job I had was that you never had the chance to get bored, even doing 12 hour days. Because you had to be constantly alert and on the ball as far as traffic and other obstacles (parked cars, light poles, pedestrians, etc ), you just could not get bored if you tried. And the most annoying part of the job? As far as other road users are concerned, the rubbish trucks are totally invisible. Even with all the warning lights flashing, and the sheer size of the trucks, no one could see us, and that's something that can take some time to get used to.
Yes the first two were from England, a Dennis garbage truck in London (Dennis a UK manufacturer make garbage trucks, fire engines, airport vehicles and buses and were founded in 1895) although today are owned by the Terberg group. The second was a Mercedes garbage truck owned by Brighton and hove council. (Brighton and Hove being a seaside town in Southern England).
Nice but still very old-school.
These days in many places we have underground garbage silos.
The truck comes lifts it out of the ground and holds it above the truck and dumps the content in the truck.
No more waste above ground and all in 1 spot. Plastic, Organic, Glass, Old Clothing, and the Rest.
The Swiss truck is very modern. You can see the right front enterence is more like from a bus. These trucks are made, so that the stuff can hop on and off in the cabin very fast and not have to climb up into the truck, so they don't have to stand on the platforms when they go a little longer way.
The German Alba Truck was more basic. The boats are from venice. It was written on one of the containers.
Yes, Venezia, as all is by boat, trash have to be too. Interstingly nearly all you saw was still like theme of the same, as Ia have seen intesting collecing in Italy Firenze, from big baggies down under street-level. But as a bit sideways: you got that earlier video of Finland. When talkin "good old things" in Finland, one is the bottle-deposit, "pantti" This system "you get money when returning a bottle" started already year 1950." and we are circulating nearly 100% of the glass, plastic, and alu of beverages.
Thanks for sharing this video 👍👍👍👍👍 almost all trucks in the video have Direction rear axle (until 26 tons).
It is sad see workers doing heavy job like handle with big bags 😢
I work for city hall
Doing this ❤
I also work with cranes,lots of Scania, Volvo, Mercedes and Iveco ❤
Where I live in Denmark we have in-ground containers and residents sort the garbage.. and a truck then comes around when needed and uses a crane to lift a bag liner inside the container up and dump it in the truck top down. Works very well.
Gotta check out Dutch garbage trucks in the cities. There are these massive underground trash bins with just a little thing sticking out with a door that accepts one trash bag at a time, and when the truck comes, it has a crane that pulls the entire bin out of the ground and dumps it in the top of the truck, before putting the bin back. It’s amazing because the bins are probably 6 feet square and 12-15 feet tall.
In Britain we have dustbin lorries they are basically the same except the local council deals with household rubbish ( here in Grimsby we have four wheelie bins green bin for general rubbish, brown bin for garden waste, blue bin for cardboard and paper and a grey bin for glass, plastic and tins) and companies like Biffa and veolia deal with business waste.
I'd like to see your face seeing that in Italy, in some places, separate waste collection is done again with mules. And it is the only possible alternative, where the houses are joined by stairs and not by roads. Such as for example in Amalfi or in Artena (near Rome). 😁
Veolia is a french company who works in garbage collection, public transport, water treatment, building and many other areas. It is a private company but very often works under contract with the state or public authorities to carry out public service missions. It's also a big international corporation.
Everything in Europe is on another level..... glad you noticed and that you make vids where we can all learn a bit about the world we live in....
1:56 Dennis is a British brand building garbage trucks, fire engines and buses. Did not really get off the ground outside the UK and some other left side traffic countries. Here in Germany the City of Frankfurt fire brigade once had a Dennis fire truck, the only one ever in Germany as far as I know. And Veolia is actually a French company for garbage collection and recycling, fresh water supply and waste water treatment. They used to be more diversified in the past, for example public transport.
4:15 looks like a combined lifter. You can either put a large dumpster like the one they have there onto it or up to two smaller, single household bins. Also the following trucks have such a setup.
5:20 the guy from the left is even wearing a traditional Swiss hat.
8:34 yes, Germany. Berlin to be exact, the letter(s) to the left are the city or county of registration and B is Berlin. The Mercedes CUV following the garbage truck is somewhat special (at least for someone not from Berlin) as it has a diplomatic number plate from India. Sometimes I however see them here around Cologne as well because the former capital Bonn still has some government facilities, United Nation institutions and therefore also a large number of diplomats.
10:47 it says Venice - where else would garbage be collected by barge? The crane presses down the bar and because the basket sits on a frame this opens the bottom.
12:02 Garbage trucks are usually bought from the truck manufacturer like Mercedes, or in this case Isuzu as bare frame chassis with the cab and then delivered to a company that puts the garbage collection equipment on them. So basically you can use any truck brand you like.
The white Mercedes in the UK and the orange one in Sitzerland are Mercedes Econic trucks (google that). It has a very low drivers cabin to fit throgh low overhanging gate ways and buildings in our European historic/medival towns and villages. The cabin is located in front of the engin. Special design for firefighter and garbage trucks and other puplic services.
The small trucks are used in old citys (typically 16th, 17th, 18th - century small streets). Cannot get the big trucks in there, and if you can, you immediately block all traffic.
The 2nd one was Brighton&Hove with the Merc bin lorry with rear wheel steering - I'm trying to think where that church is and there was a sign on it's side mentioning Churchill Square.
The Swiss one where they leave the bin bags on the pavement is like here in the UK which is the weekly collection - only we can't put them out too early or the night before otherwise foxes and seagulls will tear into them and scatter the contents to the four winds. Binmen used to collect rubbish from bins around the backs of houses, but now it has to be put kerbside on the day for easier collection. Same with the recycle bins in they have to be wheeled out kerbside, but collection of recyclable waste is every fortnight.
I think France has daily collection as do other European countries.
The last french truck.. the green wheelie bins are residential bins used all over Europe.. i have same in UK.. Those wheelie bins garbage system i beleive originated in Germany.. we lived in germany 40 years ago with the milatery and we all had that system then... whilst in UK we were still using metal round bins that were manually lifted and emptied into the trucks by tge bin men... back then I was so impressed with the ferman system which eventually became worldwide
Most German garbage trucks are Mercedes Actros (reliable, fuel efficient and low cost).
The lifting device is usually in two parts, as you can see in the video. Either a waste container (1100 liters) or two smaller garbage cans (120 - 240 liters) can be emptied with this device.
Automatic emptying by the driver was tried in the past but then abandoned again. Firstly, it takes longer, secondly, the driver had to get out too often because the garbage cans were not placed correctly and therefore had to be positioned correctly by the driver (people are lazy).
The garbage disposal has to work quickly because we have 4 different garbage cans in which the garbage is collected separately (paper, plastic, organic and residual garbage).
We were just in Italy this year for our summer vacation (came home august 1st.) and stayed both in Venice and just outside Rome. Almost everything in Venice is very different from "normal towns" because of the canals and the water. A lot of things happen by boat. fx DHL normally deliver packets in trucks. Here they have DHL boats loaded with packets. And coming from Northern Europe where everything very nice and tidy, the way they handle garbage from residential houses is ... Well kind of unsanitary. Where we stayed just outsid Rome, each house didn't have its own trashcan (In Denmark each house have 4 -5 different garbage cointainers to sort the waste in). Here several houses would shared maybe 4 big dumpsters, that seemed to never get emptied so they were overfilled with garbage and people had also thrown aournd the containers, when they were filled.
In the UK we have garbage trucks that have specialised rear loading gear that can handle everything from a standard wheeli bin right up to an 18 yard skip.
the orange truck is from Switzerland, from Bern, and to be more specific, from Interlaken, which is a beautiful place if you ever happen to be looking at swiss places, close to 2 big lakes and surrounded by mountains and waterfalls
Here in the netherlands friesland, we have a garbage truck with a sideways arm for household containers, so those containers don't need to go at the back and can remain on the side walk or side of the road(if there are no cars in the way).
When you have a LOT of sharp corners, even on main roads, and very narrow entries to back into, rear wheel steering saves a heck of a lot of wear on tyres, so they last far longer.
Small trucks have to be used for tighter zones, where a full truck wouldn't fit, but the mechanism is exactly the same.
Over here they use also those kind of rear loading trucks that does have two separate containers for different materials. Well of course here are the also the regular type rear loaders, mostly Volvo, Scania and Mercedes. As now It is now mandatory to have six different thrash bins for different materials (plastic, cardboard, bio, glass, metal, and landfill waste) over here if at least 10 homes use the same bins. Like example apartment buildings, townhouses and overall where there are many homes and only one place to collect all the waste. Also some rear loaders have a crane on top of them to lift these bigger Molok containers which go deep underground and they empty them with the crane to rear of the truck. They are kinda small on top of the ground but it is deep. Those containers are the most popular option in new neighborhoods.
Where I live in England we have 4 plastic bins, black general rubbish, green for recyclables excluding paper, purple paper and cardboard and brown garden waste.
8:38 It's a garbage truck getting plastic from the households and businesses for recycling in Berlin. All bins with a yellow lid are for for plastic in Germany. Blue lid is for paper (if it exist), green lid for biological like earth, flowers, grass etc. and bins with a black lid contains the rest. But those are only the household bins. For other garbage like glass, metal and in some cities paper exist big collection containers in the neighborhoods. Glass has to be separated by color (brown, white, green), too because it's easier to recycle that way. Everything else that doesn't fit in bins like furniture and special garbage like batteries are collected at collection centers. You only have to pay for the black bins (non recyclable waste) and for garbage at the collection center if it's more than a defined amount that is more than a normale household would produce.
10:45 It's Venice the city in the ocean.
The swiss one (Yay, even my neighbouring Town!), where you said about being fined for putting just the Bags out on the Streets: Yes, you get fined for that here in Switzerland too, if you put them out too early. Usually there are Dumpsters, but in tightly buildt up Neighbourhoods, where there's no Room to put them, you'll just have to put the Bags out at the right Time. It's mostly something like: You can put your Bags out earliest at 6 in the Evening before collection Day and latest at 8 on the Morning of collection Day. Each Municipality or City has it's collection Calendar which is being sent out to all Households once a Year, where all Dates, Days and Rules and Recyclingcenters are listed. All it takes to avoid a Fine is reading a Calendar once a Year and then trying to remember where you put it🤔 It really can't get any easier... Or collect until you can fill up the Car and drive to the Recycling center once a Month by yourself, that's even easier🤣
Dennis trucks, from the south of England somewhere: they also have a good name for making fire engines too! They only do specialist vehicles so far as I know.
I live in York (the one in Yorkshire, UK - not that New one) and watching the bin lorries getting down out narrow streets is impressive!
Dennis are based in Guilford Surrey they also make Buses!!
@@normanwallace7658 Head office is in Warwick, but have places all over the country & specialize in different types of vehicles.
DENNIS were based in Guildford but have moved their Municipal Vehicles division under the name of Dennis Eagle to Warwick. Dennis is now part of ADL, the Alexander Dennis Ltd Group, manufacturer of Buses and Coaches, making chassis in Guildford before moving them to Alexander Bus Builders in Falkirk in Scotland plus also to ADL's bus building plant in Scarborough.
5:43 Yes Switzerland, Bern. The third axle is called "Nachlauflenkachse" (NALL), meaning follow up steering axle or something like that.
Look at: no garbage day in Amsterdam from "Not just bikes" Total different level then the old school you reacted to.
here in Norway we have 4 containers, one for household trash, glass and metall, paper and carton and food waste. they have different days in the month for different pickups. I dont pay for food waste , cause I have a documented compost system at home. we also have a tax/deposit on plastic bottles, so when you return it to a returning point, you get your money back. that makes recycling effective and plastics go back where it can be used again.
The theme on Euro trucks is the flat nose to save overall length for cargo and trailers. We don't have (any or many) Peterbilt "nose" trucks here anymore.
That UK street looked pretty normal sized to me, definitely wouldn't call it a "narrow street" if I was driving on it.
Here 4 containers per household.Metals plus glass in one,paper,pap?,plastic,dirty plastic etc., recycling, food leftovers for gas, some of the trucks evs.
In my town, they use a similar system. They use the big, wheeled cans, and, the trucks use a hydraulic system, mounted right behind the cab, to pick them up. It's a side-loader, so, the truck just drives ahead, stops briefly at each house, and, dumps the garbage right in the truck's hopper. No spillage, and, no one has to get out. Takes about 10 seconds per house.
The reason you don't see Isuzus as garbage trucks here is that, they aren't very well made, or, reliable. Larger Isuzus are nothing but trouble.
The ones where they are craning what looks like an oversized janitor cart onto the small boat is in Venice, where there are few roads, and most traffic is by water / canal. I believe the "precise aiming" of the cart over the relevant receptacle on on boat is achieved by the crane being partly computerised.
You should look at some suburban garbage trucks to. For example in sweden all the garbage trucks that operate in a suburb have dual chambers, one for normal waste and one for food waste. Something interesting is that the food waste is turned into bio gas that the trucks run on, so they are kinda powering them self.
at 2:50 you can see the name of the street with the post district W1 which is Central London (Westminster, Mayfair and nearby)
at 3:50 you can see "Brighton and Hove City council telling you where that is
at 7:09 you can see the truck says "interlaken" an area of Switzerland
10:40 Venice water-transport for everything in Venice
Here, however, only rear loaders can be seen. In Europe, there are also many side loaders on the road that can be controlled directly from the driver's cab. For very narrow streets, there are also garbage trucks on about 16,500 lbs and about 7700 lbs basis. Last one sees more often in pedestrian zones, in order to empty there the garbage cans. These are built on delivery-van chassis and they are then loaded completely by hand, without mechanics.
The Mercedes Econic garbage truck is actually sold in the states, but badge engineered aa a Freightliner. Of course both are Daimler companies. It is pretty much the only Daimler Truck product that crosses the Atlantic absolutely unchanged except for the badge on the front, cab, engine transmission are unaltered except for a bit if tinkering to address slightly different emissions regulations.
Dennis used to make Fire Engines, they have been making trucks since 1907. They are partnered with Volvo and are the largest producer of garbage trucks in Europe.
Look up the "Bettmeralp" in Switzerland. It's a small village atop a very high mountain, with no road access. So they have a Unimog for trash collection, which they get to the village by STRAPPING IT TO THE CABLE CAR.
I had a good laugh as I saw two years ago a DHL-Boat in Venice, delivering Parcels.
The second plate was Switzerland (Bern Area), the blue one was indeed Germany (Berlin), the installation on the British grabage truck is of the brand Terberg which is a Dutch company that manufactures special utility vehicles. The garbage boat is in Venice Italy. Because Italy is actually not capable to process its garbage they bring it by train to The Netherlands because The Netherlands has overcapacity to recycle and burn garbage. The last one was Paris.
(I must be doubling previous comments.)
1) About your upload: "Italy" is Venice, as shown on the first boat pictured and by the passing gondolas. "Germany" is Berlin, as shown by the number plate: "D" in white on blue for Germany, the number starting with "B" for Berlin. (Without checking) "Dennis" must be where traffic keeps left: UK or Ireland.
2) I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The canals have always been used for disposal of everything (but not for sewage anymore), and also for the transport of garbage. Searching CZcams for "stadsreiniging" even without "amsterdam" may be enough to find some old footage. Like czcams.com/video/drFgerErTh0/video.htmlsi=tL8aj4daT1WOvUtg
The horse-drawn containers pre-date me, but I remember seeing those cranes. I think that they could also be used with the first(?) generation of garbage trucks, those pre-dating the bigger ones with the rotating drum. These older trucks could tilt their beds up, in order to have the garbage move away from the opening. The beds (well, containers) would be hoisted unto towed barges and shipped to the incinerators (power plant). Later, the trucks with drums would dump their load into those barges. You can see part of these actions in the material shown. The first months of 1963 had everything freeze over, so they had to resort to using a landfill (small hills in a park they were creating).
3) Nowadays (at least here in Amsterdam), garbage collection for households has generally been replaced by containers (often with underground storage) that can be exchanged and driven to the incinerators. Garbage collection for businesses is done by private enterprises, often using these containers on wheels that get tipped into the truck.
4) Apart from sweeping the streets (by vehicles), Amsterdam also features boats that can skim the canals. However, shopping carts and bicycles don't float.