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I subscribed after I saw you with Internet Historian and I’m hooked. I’m more conservative and nationalistic than you and there are a few things we’d probably disagree on politically but when you make fun of Trump and Johnson it doesn’t come off as preachy and make me want to switch off. You toe that line really well. I’ve seen you make fun of right wingers but I’ve also seen you make fun of twitter feminists. If you can keep toeing that line similar to the way South Park does, taking the piss out of everyone equally, you’ll go far. Just thought you would appreciate some feedback and encouragement from a new subscriber. If you could buy shares in youtube channels I’d be buying some Ordinary things shares for sure as a sound investment
What happened to that micro-bacteria invented to eat plastic? Probably co-opted by the corporations producing the single use trash the same way they push the "recycle" shit to keep people from thinking how stupid it is to attempt to change 7 billions people's habits than holding the people who make plastics, and other eco nightmare products accountable
100% of Suffolks non-recyclable waste gets incinerated for energy and the metal gets removed from the ash and recycled and the ash its self does not get wasted it gets used on roads in tarmac instead of sand . The smoke gets filterd so it lets no hazardous ash into the air .
Hey! >:( As someone who lives in Las Vegas I just want to say I'm offended. Please don't be so accurate the next time you describe this nicely polished steaming turd.
Then you should check out my website Trashplanet.org where I expose the Clinton Foundation,, YNW Melly and Kerry Katona has being members of secret cabal of shadowy figures planning the domination of Sweden. #resistmolach #traploreboss
@@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646 damn, i really busted a gut at the beautifully worded absolute banger of a joke. i really split my sides from this god tier mastery of wit. keep it in the routine, this one? this ones a winner. instant classic.
I`ve worked for a disposal company, every Wednesday I had to destroy about 1 ton of items, whatever was returned to Walmart! Everything that was returned was thrown away! Laptops, TV`s, furniture, computers, household, camping gear... Everything! They were all coming with the sale receipt attached, there was no limit, from the most expensive, to the 1 dollar toothpick, some items were even sealed! Every receipt had a "return reason" on it... from the "doesn`t work" (some never read the instructions) to the "wrong item ordered" or "customer already purchased same item before"... we are definitely doing something wrong with this planet.
@@corystratton5318 nope, absolutely nothing... Not even the never opened item either. It's not just Walmart, i shouldn't only mentioned just them... All the big retail stores, nearly all are having this policy... It's cheaper to throw it away, instead of inspecting them, resale them and deal with the potential problems, remember... People are dumb, they hurt themselves and then they take you to court for stupid reason, they improperly used the product, but the product was a resale one... So nobody wants to deal with this, in the end the planet have to swallow this garbage. The change comes from the consumer, if there's no demand, there's no supply, following 3 simple rules for buying useless crap: Be wise, buy things only if you need it, if you can afford it paying it in full and if you can't live without it!
@@Ravertine for a while we did... Thenwe weren't allowed to do so, some retards got caught selling them on Craigslist, after a while, I've heard that some even ended up back to Walmart for credit in store. After a while, they start locking them and whoever was caught taking anything, was fired immediately, and it did happen to lots of us. Anyway, it's not only Walmart, any big store does the same with returns, they are ending up at dumpster.
I live right by a landfill that has had an underground fire burning for at least 10 years, it's like the tire fire on The Simpsons, nearly a local attraction. To make it more fun they buried all the nuclear waste from the making of Fat Man and Little Boy right next to it, every year the fire gets closer to the nuclear waste, it's a real slow motion trainwreck. HBO did a documentary on it called "Atomic Homefront."
I'm from Tennessee, and I remember "Tennessee Trash". It would run at like 2 in the morning when I was either drunk or stoned. This is literally the first time I can recall being sober when watching it.
You missed a detail worthy of some snarking: A number of pro-recycling PSAs produced by plastics manufacturers, intended to give the false impression that their product is recyclable and therefore green and sustainable. The reality is that plastic can only be recycled to a very limited extent, into lower-grade plastic. Once, maybe twice at best. After that all it's fit for is the incinerator.
Dunno about that, you can break it back down and make new plastic, it’s just not cost effective. Burying it might not be the worst idea, I can see people in future mining out old landfills for metal and shit. Anyway, biggest issue with plastic recycling is it’s difficult to clean the impurities out, and that plastic can only be re-melted so many times before it breaks down and loses its usefulness. As such recycled plastic should be used for stuff like structural parts of buildings or similar, stuff that won’t be thrown out after a day.
@@SkigBiggler you wouldn’t use polymers for house construction, they are completely ill suited and the recycling process is pretty energy intensive so you’d cause pollution. Also you have a difference between mechanical and chemical recycling Ie mechanical being rubber tyres are often cut up to make soft park play area ground. Can’t really cut it much smaller to get further use While chemical is trying to reduce back to monomers or smaller chains, which can’t be done for a lot of polymers, struggles with impurities and requires virgin materials to make of a decent quality
@@chrissmith3587 yeah, for the most part you’re right. There’s also fire risks with making a house out of plastic. Probably the best usage I’ve seen for old plastic that can’t be recycled is as filler for fence posts on farms. The outside is made of new(ish) plastic, and then the inside is bulked out with shredded soft plastic to give it weight and heft. Fence posts tend to stay around until they stop functioning, so it’s a decent use. There’s not a whole lot of suitable uses to get plastic removed from the waste chain and put into service somewhere permanently. Perhaps in future we’ll have technology to break down plastics that’ll be economical, but for now it’s not really all that achievable.
@@SkigBiggler fence posts are a solution I’ve not heard of before, do you know the cost vs wooden posts, and how much force could they withstand cause I don’t think enough people would switch unless there was a significant improvement. People tend to like the look of wood I don’t think we’ll ever get recycling to really work economically for polymers, hopefully the work on bio polymers should make trash less damaging though
@@chrissmith3587 These are farm posts, so the looks don’t matter, only functionality. I’m not entirely sure on price, but it’s entirely possible they’d be cheaper or on par with the cost of wooden ones, mostly cause wooden farm fence posts are heavily treated so they don’t rot away after a few years. Main advantage of the plastic ones is that they’re longer lived, they don’t rot away so you don’t need to replace them. On bigger farms that’s quite a big deal, removing old posts and installing new ones takes quite a bit of time and effort. My understanding is they’re pretty robust. Currently most polymers aren’t really economically recyclable. Maybe some of the bacteria based stuff they’re looking into will work out, and then it might be easier to do so, since that removes one of the biggest obstacles to most plastic trash, which is contamination and sorting, as well as allowing targeting of plastics that aren’t normally recyclable.
@@OrdinaryThings Never any low hanging fruit, you are even killing it in the comments. Been binging your videos thanks to Internet Historian... thank you for the amazing content and wit.
@@shuaibchoat3425 I thought its content was pretty good but now that I see his morals and opinions are shitt I don't want to help him make any money. I am now not going to comment anymore for algorithmic purposes. Those videos of people throwing their trash out of their car window and then someone going out picking it up following them and throwing it back in their vehicle all over their vehicle pretty satisfying.
I can't wait to tell everyone on my rez that Iron Eyes Cody is actually Italian! They'll believe me because I heard it from the enemy of our enemy, a Brit!
@@a110100 My dad got to see the dude throw a beer can on the ground ten feet from a garbage when he attended the Wolf Point wild horse stampede rodeo back in the mid-seventies, littering right on the rez. I'm glad he's not a real Native or that would be sad on so many levels.
I went to a landfill a few months ago when I was moving out to throw away some old stuff like my old mattress and I had never actually been to the actual dump part of a landfill before and it's actually kind of horrifying... For example I saw like a dozen drinking glasses on the ground nearby where I parked, all in perfect condition not a crack or chip in any of them.... So I of course took them with me and ran them thru a commercial grade dishwasher at my work the next day. Why would anyone throw away perfectly good drinking glasses or anything that can be reused? The point of trash is supposed to be that you can't use it again...
i collect different cigarettes packs and the best place to look for them is landfill. sure it's pretty hard to find a good and clean cigs packs but i sometimes found a decade old packs and it looks cool after i cleaned it
@@corystratton5318 Just that its useless what you what. Because people would sit ages on there stuff. Not to mention a massiv financial problem when no one can buy things anymore. And you basicly take the right to buy new things away from People. A bigger and way simpler problem are companies. Because they throw away a lot of stuff that is up-to-date and still packaged. But has to go for some reason. Not only food, brand new TV's and stuff like that. Or Companys like Apple who want to make it as hard as possibile for anyone to repair there own property. Throwing away stuff that could be repaired with parts worth just a few Cents. Or that some Stores, atleast in my Country still refuse, to put your fresh Food, Meat and/or vegetables etc in your own Box. Even if they sell them to you. Or silly little changes from people who have no idea what they are doing. For example the "Vape Law" when they regulated how man can sell nicotine, for example. Which in the end does nothing but produce massively small bottles that nobody wants, nobody can really reuse and are just garbage. And solutions like using Mushrooms/mycorrhiza never get mentioned by most People.
I've been bingewatching all of your videos for the past day. How did I not discover this channel sooner. Every single video is pure gold. Thanks for creating amazing content!
It has just been become impossible for ordinary people to even remotely alleviate the problem. I live in Taiwan. We are incredibly conscious about waste, yet we fill up garbage bags almost as quickly as anyone else because there just isn't any choice. Buy anything from anywhere, and it'll be double wrapped in single-use plastic, stored in non-recyclable or redundant packaging. it's quite depressing. I love diving, and it hurts to see sea life caught in our garbage. It's feels extra-bad knowing that despite our best efforts, we can't do much about it.
Im at the beginining of 2021 and yet fell no different from 3 days ago, oh and no it isnt that big yet because they decided to start digging holes in that area to "bury" the trash wonderful.
I’m here from the dirty yellow spot that engulfs 2021s face and I can say... well fuck knows I have no idea how big it’s got I’ll be back once I’m a the sweaty BO armpits of 2021 until then others will keep you informed
Another great video. Also want to commend your delivery of many of the quips, especially "until a small disadvantage was discovered with burning the trash. It was killing everyone" Hilarious!
The easiest way to start cutting out single use plastic is to get a set of thermoses, a filtered water source with interchangeable elements, and a keg. Having your drink always cold is so nice, and stainless steel is easy to clean. Once you’re used to that, cut out fast food. It’s really not that hard to live while using the minimal amount of single use plastic.
Excellent ideas. I think the hardest part is making this kind of simple-living thinking "mainstream". The corporations act like they want to help, but if this kinda thing caught on they'd be out in force making sexy commercials about disposable garbage, possibly claiming that "re-use is for poor dirty people who are most likely criminals of some kind." Lol
@@ArcangelZero7 When you said "sexy commercials" I thought of those ads you see on shady websites but it says "You won't last five minutes...and neither will the Earth if you keep using plastic". Thanks for the laugh man.
Why don't we just buy one plastic bottle and keep refilling that until it's usable? There is no reason to keep buying them since they are either filled with sugary drinks that are terrible for your health or literally tap water that's resold for you at 1000x the price. At that point it's better for your wallet and the environment to just cut out the middle man and refill the bottle yourself.
I would much rather have sodas return to glass bottles. Makes it more expensive so people won't buy as much, and that plastic won't be used then. Unless we start running out of glass...
When I was a kid we didn't have plastic packaging. It was super rare. Oil, milk and soft drinks came in glass bottles. Shoping bags were textile, food was wrapped in paper and supermarkets were non existant. Mobile phones weren't in yet..and we turned out perfectly fine. It was a blast to be a kid TOO!
In Germany you get a 25 cent refund each for a majority of Bottles and Cans that you trade in at any store. Combined with the fact that our Rent is so low that seniors are forced to collect those bottles from the trash in order not to starve we're doing pretty good on recycling
I love that you took such a real, serious problem and not only laid it out for what it is, but made it funny. All of your videos make me laugh, and not much does. Also, you're damn right, consumerism is the problem. Single-use plastic is our biggest threat (fishing gear compromising the largest percentage of plastic in the ocean as a whole, however), but do not underestimate the rest of the waste. Textiles are a huge problem that doesn't just degrade (thanks, fast fashion), and our food waste is shameful. Granted, I'm going off US stats, but the UK tends to trend pretty well on those numbers, too.
Now I feel an insatiable urge to litter from a moving car somewhere in Tennessee. That PSA was dang Powerful, maybe a little bit counterproductive, but powerful.
1.Plastic is too cheap too let go and there are no other cheaper alternatives, corporations care about profit not health. They know consumers are too dependent on it's convenience. 2. Reducing your usage will be like taking a bucket and trying to empty the sea.
@@flamesofjihad4069 Well, you have to start somewhere. If every person takes a bucket out every day emptying the sea doesn't seem that impossible, after all it's us who filled that sea in the first place (I know it's just wishful thinking, I recently learned about Sorites paradox and I don't think each individual's change is as insignificant as we think)
@@knightdtd i understand what you're saying but the rubbish output will always exceed the amount that can be cleaned. And if u can't convince people to even wear face masks to protect their own health why would you expect them to care about anyone else. This planet is gonna become a mad max dystopia.
Legislation. Make and enforce pollution and waste taxes so companies are forced to find and use more environmentally friendly solutions. If there's one thing the rich hate more than poor people, it's paying taxes
@@jak2767 thats a whole other field to play in, youd have to deal with too rich and powerful companies, corrupt government officials, ignorant populations and your biggest enemy, the time it takes to enforce these legislations and whether you'll see its positive change in your lifetime.
Hello sir, I just stumbled upon your channel a few hours ago (and I already don't remember how) and I'm watching through all of your videos today at work. I really enjoy what you're doing here, and I'm glad to see you are achieving success!
Man, I've never wanted to litter in my life until I saw that Tennessee trash commercial. It makes littering seem so fun. It's like freedom. Just toss that shit out the side of your convertible, and keep going! Woo!
Another funny and entertaining video. You really deserve more subs. I've noticed that your videos aren't posted on reddit so I'll start posting them. :D
12:18 It's not demand-driven, it's companies maximizing their profit margin. I actually cannot find a product here that is not sold in plastic, even when that plastic is stored inside cardboard and itself arbitrary for anything other than the unboxing experience.
Oof, you got piercingly sincere at the end there. Which is not a complaint, this is a serious problem after all. And it was all the more impactful capping off such a rip-roaring cavalcade of hilarity.
I've seen an actual talking and giggling waste basked at a local amusement park. The kids found it adorable, I found it both dystopian and a bit sad. So fun was had by all.
I just wanna say, I never personally demanded bottled water. In fact most of my life I grew up wondering why the water that comes out of my faucet is poisonous and life ruining. I wish I had a well. Then again, if I did, the water table is like 100% poisoned by human waste or some sort of industrial chemical.
Which is why I bought a water filter, specifically designed to filter all that out. It's basically well water, but with a gravity filter. Cannot recommend Pro One highly enough. Eventually, I'll buy their complete home system.
Very nicely done An important bit you missed was how those adds in the keep america beautiful campaign were designed to transfer the blame for littering off of the companies making the packaging you talk about at the end and over towards the people. It worked and public pressure on companies to curtail their use of packaging evaporated.
Wow, shit’s getting serious! Feels like you’re heading in a new direction, which I’m definitely not opposed to at all. Keep em’ coming, I think you’re headed somewhere great! I think I have a request for railings as an ordinary things! 💜💜
10:47 the real problem isn't just single use plastic, but all of our consumer lifestyle. The idea that you can just buy something new whenever you want, that you don't have to treat what you have well because you can just throw it away. The need to buy something new when the last thing we bought hasn't even earned its value yet.
4:04 "And did those feet in ancient time, walk up on englands mountains green" sent bloody chills down my spine, hymn "Jerusalem". Sang that shit regularly in the Christina school in Rochester "King School Rochester". Those were the days, although never a Christian, its amazing how we all got attached to singing hymns and the whole experience (opinion of a Russian who immigrated to england when he was 7 and lived there ever since). Christian schools are not all that Christina, but generally teach much more than regular schools. I enjoyed religion classes, where they did not teach religion but philosophy and general ethics, different phalacies as well as paradoxes which really forms certain opinions and makes you respect different opinions and outlooks on life. More schools need this type of thing.
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I subscribed after I saw you with Internet Historian and I’m hooked. I’m more conservative and nationalistic than you and there are a few things we’d probably disagree on politically but when you make fun of Trump and Johnson it doesn’t come off as preachy and make me want to switch off. You toe that line really well. I’ve seen you make fun of right wingers but I’ve also seen you make fun of twitter feminists. If you can keep toeing that line similar to the way South Park does, taking the piss out of everyone equally, you’ll go far.
Just thought you would appreciate some feedback and encouragement from a new subscriber. If you could buy shares in youtube channels I’d be buying some Ordinary things shares for sure as a sound investment
What happened to that micro-bacteria invented to eat plastic? Probably co-opted by the corporations producing the single use trash the same way they push the "recycle" shit to keep people from thinking how stupid it is to attempt to change 7 billions people's habits than holding the people who make plastics, and other eco nightmare products accountable
100% of Suffolks non-recyclable waste gets incinerated for energy and the metal gets removed from the ash and recycled and the ash its self does not get wasted it gets used on roads in tarmac instead of sand . The smoke gets filterd so it lets no hazardous ash into the air .
Hey! >:( As someone who lives in Las Vegas I just want to say I'm offended. Please don't be so accurate the next time you describe this nicely polished steaming turd.
Randomly found your channel recently and been binging all your content. Your work takes me back to the Charlie brokker screen wipe days. Thank you.
things humans have lost wars against:
- vague concepts
- a colorless oderless tasteless gas
- flightless birds
- literally garbage
Bugs too
Things humans have won wars against
- Humans
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@@TheQwerty256 Wrong, just look at all the species we drove to extinction or endangerment. Humanity #1 🥇
U forgot drugs
@@protegegamer1895 I can't believe the drugs won the war on drugs
Pick up that can.
lol, no
Keep calm, and carry one.
@@OrdinaryThings You're worse than Hitler.
Am i the only one who noticed the HL2 refrence?
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This video was trash... I love trash ❤️
Then you should check out my website Trashplanet.org where I expose the Clinton Foundation,, YNW Melly and Kerry Katona has being members of secret cabal of shadowy figures planning the domination of Sweden. #resistmolach #traploreboss
Whoah, I love this crossover. I thought I saw ross' rainbow head in one of these videos...
@@OrdinaryThings The Clington Dynasty is so fun to dig in... their financial and legal stuff is so... interesting.
@@benbehrman550 facts
Trashy rich, that is!
Texas has one of the best anti littering campaigns “don’t mess with Texas” a thinly veiled threat
Makes me wanna litter even more in Texas
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You know someone's an idiot, when they act there they live in a great place....but its named texas.
@@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646 damn, i really busted a gut at the beautifully worded absolute banger of a joke. i really split my sides from this god tier mastery of wit. keep it in the routine, this one? this ones a winner. instant classic.
@@Jam-oi4so it's why I have 15 subscribers and no videos
I`ve worked for a disposal company, every Wednesday I had to destroy about 1 ton of items, whatever was returned to Walmart! Everything that was returned was thrown away! Laptops, TV`s, furniture, computers, household, camping gear... Everything! They were all coming with the sale receipt attached, there was no limit, from the most expensive, to the 1 dollar toothpick, some items were even sealed! Every receipt had a "return reason" on it... from the "doesn`t work" (some never read the instructions) to the "wrong item ordered" or "customer already purchased same item before"... we are definitely doing something wrong with this planet.
I feel it's more of a case of "they" are doing something wrong with this planet. I don't association with the people making those decisions/choices.
wait every return?? So none of it was resold?
@@corystratton5318 nope, absolutely nothing... Not even the never opened item either. It's not just Walmart, i shouldn't only mentioned just them... All the big retail stores, nearly all are having this policy... It's cheaper to throw it away, instead of inspecting them, resale them and deal with the potential problems, remember... People are dumb, they hurt themselves and then they take you to court for stupid reason, they improperly used the product, but the product was a resale one... So nobody wants to deal with this, in the end the planet have to swallow this garbage.
The change comes from the consumer, if there's no demand, there's no supply, following 3 simple rules for buying useless crap:
Be wise, buy things only if you need it, if you can afford it paying it in full and if you can't live without it!
@@RomanTrollanski could you just take some home? I mean who is gonna stop you
@@Ravertine for a while we did... Thenwe weren't allowed to do so, some retards got caught selling them on Craigslist, after a while, I've heard that some even ended up back to Walmart for credit in store. After a while, they start locking them and whoever was caught taking anything, was fired immediately, and it did happen to lots of us.
Anyway, it's not only Walmart, any big store does the same with returns, they are ending up at dumpster.
I live right by a landfill that has had an underground fire burning for at least 10 years, it's like the tire fire on The Simpsons, nearly a local attraction. To make it more fun they buried all the nuclear waste from the making of Fat Man and Little Boy right next to it, every year the fire gets closer to the nuclear waste, it's a real slow motion trainwreck. HBO did a documentary on it called "Atomic Homefront."
That's awesome, atomic mutation will make you live forever
West lake?
@@Ketannabis ahaha or a free grow-your-own-tumor kit
Do you live in TN?
You could roleplay in a make-believe STALKER scene there, _da komrade?_
“Country full of tossers” that is a great pun
I GET IT.
I DON’T GET IT.
Joseph Paulino a tosser is a british slamg term for jerk, but also someone who throws something.
Inside joke
@@PippaPasses R/whoosh
"there ain't no lower class than tennessee trash" ah yes the state of tennessee roasting itself in the best way possible lmao
I can think of trashier states. Alabama might hold the title.
@@vylbird8014 oh absolutely, i'm just laughing that the people who wrote the song didn't think "shit this might just be ammunition against us"
ahem
*FLORIDA*
@@MyDeadWhisper Trashy, but no 'Bama.
West Virginia.
I'm from Tennessee, and I remember "Tennessee Trash". It would run at like 2 in the morning when I was either drunk or stoned. This is literally the first time I can recall being sober when watching it.
they were targetting a certain demographic it seems :P
You missed a detail worthy of some snarking: A number of pro-recycling PSAs produced by plastics manufacturers, intended to give the false impression that their product is recyclable and therefore green and sustainable.
The reality is that plastic can only be recycled to a very limited extent, into lower-grade plastic. Once, maybe twice at best. After that all it's fit for is the incinerator.
Dunno about that, you can break it back down and make new plastic, it’s just not cost effective. Burying it might not be the worst idea, I can see people in future mining out old landfills for metal and shit. Anyway, biggest issue with plastic recycling is it’s difficult to clean the impurities out, and that plastic can only be re-melted so many times before it breaks down and loses its usefulness. As such recycled plastic should be used for stuff like structural parts of buildings or similar, stuff that won’t be thrown out after a day.
@@SkigBiggler you wouldn’t use polymers for house construction, they are completely ill suited and the recycling process is pretty energy intensive so you’d cause pollution.
Also you have a difference between mechanical and chemical recycling
Ie mechanical being rubber tyres are often cut up to make soft park play area ground. Can’t really cut it much smaller to get further use
While chemical is trying to reduce back to monomers or smaller chains, which can’t be done for a lot of polymers, struggles with impurities and requires virgin materials to make of a decent quality
@@chrissmith3587 yeah, for the most part you’re right. There’s also fire risks with making a house out of plastic. Probably the best usage I’ve seen for old plastic that can’t be recycled is as filler for fence posts on farms. The outside is made of new(ish) plastic, and then the inside is bulked out with shredded soft plastic to give it weight and heft. Fence posts tend to stay around until they stop functioning, so it’s a decent use. There’s not a whole lot of suitable uses to get plastic removed from the waste chain and put into service somewhere permanently. Perhaps in future we’ll have technology to break down plastics that’ll be economical, but for now it’s not really all that achievable.
@@SkigBiggler fence posts are a solution I’ve not heard of before, do you know the cost vs wooden posts, and how much force could they withstand cause I don’t think enough people would switch unless there was a significant improvement. People tend to like the look of wood
I don’t think we’ll ever get recycling to really work economically for polymers, hopefully the work on bio polymers should make trash less damaging though
@@chrissmith3587 These are farm posts, so the looks don’t matter, only functionality. I’m not entirely sure on price, but it’s entirely possible they’d be cheaper or on par with the cost of wooden ones, mostly cause wooden farm fence posts are heavily treated so they don’t rot away after a few years. Main advantage of the plastic ones is that they’re longer lived, they don’t rot away so you don’t need to replace them. On bigger farms that’s quite a big deal, removing old posts and installing new ones takes quite a bit of time and effort. My understanding is they’re pretty robust. Currently most polymers aren’t really economically recyclable. Maybe some of the bacteria based stuff they’re looking into will work out, and then it might be easier to do so, since that removes one of the biggest obstacles to most plastic trash, which is contamination and sorting, as well as allowing targeting of plastics that aren’t normally recyclable.
“And it is Wank!” what a line
lol, thanks dude!
Dog poop and orange peels aren't even trash. They're organic material.
So does that mean trash usually refers to inorganic material?
It's renewable trash
Actually some peels like orange peels take some time to decompose (because the shit they put in fruits)although it’s stil WAY better than plastic
@@getcancer1542 So wrap everything in banana peels for packaging already
@@acidset yeah
Despite your gallows humor, this is your best video yet! Your ability to make me laugh is uncanny 😆
haha, thanks. In many ways, the gallows aka: the first place people could get de-platformed from.
@@OrdinaryThings Never any low hanging fruit, you are even killing it in the comments. Been binging your videos thanks to Internet Historian... thank you for the amazing content and wit.
I was curious of what this channel was about but now that I see I'm not subscribing
@@jordoncole3609 It's quite okay not to like his content 🤷🏻♂️
@@shuaibchoat3425 I thought its content was pretty good but now that I see his morals and opinions are shitt I don't want to help him make any money. I am now not going to comment anymore for algorithmic purposes.
Those videos of people throwing their trash out of their car window and then someone going out picking it up following them and throwing it back in their vehicle all over their vehicle pretty satisfying.
Funny, silly, informative, and a tear shed by an Italian Indian. Oh what a joy !
Cheers dude! He was doing the Rachael Dolezal before it was fashionable
I can't wait to tell everyone on my rez that Iron Eyes Cody is actually Italian! They'll believe me because I heard it from the enemy of our enemy, a Brit!
@@a110100 My dad got to see the dude throw a beer can on the ground ten feet from a garbage when he attended the Wolf Point wild horse stampede rodeo back in the mid-seventies, littering right on the rez. I'm glad he's not a real Native or that would be sad on so many levels.
Your humor is top notch. "It's funny because it's not me" was absolutely brilliant.
uhhh
That’s gotta be like the weakest joke in the entire video lmao
Can't wait for the inevitable automatic garden sprinklers episode!
excellent. I've thought about sprinklers and sprinkles
@@OrdinaryThings and finally, he makes a video on it (not exactly, but lawns are close enough) :)
ye
Glad to hear isreal and Palestine finally settled their differences... oh wait...
I went to a landfill a few months ago when I was moving out to throw away some old stuff like my old mattress and I had never actually been to the actual dump part of a landfill before and it's actually kind of horrifying...
For example I saw like a dozen drinking glasses on the ground nearby where I parked, all in perfect condition not a crack or chip in any of them....
So I of course took them with me and ran them thru a commercial grade dishwasher at my work the next day.
Why would anyone throw away perfectly good drinking glasses or anything that can be reused? The point of trash is supposed to be that you can't use it again...
i collect different cigarettes packs and the best place to look for them is landfill. sure it's pretty hard to find a good and clean cigs packs but i sometimes found a decade old packs and it looks cool after i cleaned it
There should be massive fines for people dumping useable, donatable, or sellable objects. It would be hard to enforce but it is much needed.
@@corystratton5318 Just that its useless what you what. Because people would sit ages on there stuff. Not to mention a massiv financial problem when no one can buy things anymore. And you basicly take the right to buy new things away from People.
A bigger and way simpler problem are companies. Because they throw away a lot of stuff that is up-to-date and still packaged. But has to go for some reason. Not only food, brand new TV's and stuff like that. Or Companys like Apple who want to make it as hard as possibile for anyone to repair there own property. Throwing away stuff that could be repaired with parts worth just a few Cents.
Or that some Stores, atleast in my Country still refuse, to put your fresh Food, Meat and/or vegetables etc in your own Box. Even if they sell them to you. Or silly little changes from people who have no idea what they are doing. For example the "Vape Law" when they regulated how man can sell nicotine, for example. Which in the end does nothing but produce massively small bottles that nobody wants, nobody can really reuse and are just garbage.
And solutions like using Mushrooms/mycorrhiza never get mentioned by most People.
Because people are lazy, sadly
I've been bingewatching all of your videos for the past day. How did I not discover this channel sooner. Every single video is pure gold. Thanks for creating amazing content!
It has just been become impossible for ordinary people to even remotely alleviate the problem. I live in Taiwan. We are incredibly conscious about waste, yet we fill up garbage bags almost as quickly as anyone else because there just isn't any choice. Buy anything from anywhere, and it'll be double wrapped in single-use plastic, stored in non-recyclable or redundant packaging. it's quite depressing. I love diving, and it hurts to see sea life caught in our garbage. It's feels extra-bad knowing that despite our best efforts, we can't do much about it.
That Tennessee trash song low key slaps
the "she goes to a different school" joke had me on the floor
For me It had me on the floor because of depression... God I miss her
The unbelievable black belt out of nowhere referential stabs that you realize a few seconds after they have been delivered. Extra-ordinary :)
I'm so happy people appreciate those gags. they're my favourite to write
Good point about treating the symptom...
That Israel and Palestine gag hasn't aged too well
Wdym it aged perfectly
“Lord there ain’t no lower class than Tennessee Trash.” That straight up rocks.
Here from the arse end of 2020. Is that Indian landfill taller than the Taj Mahal yet?
I'm on the bell end of 2020, isn't the taj like 7 stories high, less impressive to say Edinburgh center Carpark than taj
Im at the beginining of 2021 and yet fell no different from 3 days ago, oh and no it isnt that big yet because they decided to start digging holes in that area to "bury" the trash wonderful.
I’m here from the dirty yellow spot that engulfs 2021s face and I can say... well fuck knows I have no idea how big it’s got I’ll be back once I’m a the sweaty BO armpits of 2021 until then others will keep you informed
Another great video. Also want to commend your delivery of many of the quips, especially "until a small disadvantage was discovered with burning the trash. It was killing everyone"
Hilarious!
AH thanks! Before I started doing this, I wasn't much of a performer. Happy to know I'm starting to get it right
Garbage is great if you don't mind being buried waist-deep in it.
The easiest way to start cutting out single use plastic is to get a set of thermoses, a filtered water source with interchangeable elements, and a keg. Having your drink always cold is so nice, and stainless steel is easy to clean. Once you’re used to that, cut out fast food. It’s really not that hard to live while using the minimal amount of single use plastic.
Excellent ideas. I think the hardest part is making this kind of simple-living thinking "mainstream".
The corporations act like they want to help, but if this kinda thing caught on they'd be out in force making sexy commercials about disposable garbage, possibly claiming that "re-use is for poor dirty people who are most likely criminals of some kind." Lol
@@ArcangelZero7 When you said "sexy commercials" I thought of those ads you see on shady websites but it says "You won't last five minutes...and neither will the Earth if you keep using plastic". Thanks for the laugh man.
Seriously incredible channel right here! Always top tier content and literally every video is better than the previous!
Thanks, you're too kind!
Rofl that "Tennessee Trash" ad actually makes for a good music video 😂
I'm so glad I found this channel. So good
Ah thanks dude, Appreciate it!
Please don't accidentally throw away the guitar that you put in the garbage pile. If you do I will sift through your bins to hunt it.
lol, no chance of that as it isn't even mine.
I already loved your videos but this was even better than expected!
Cheers dude! Thanks for continuing to watch!
I just can`t imagine a person who dislikes a video like this. So what i think is we need to find them a put on one of those garbage islands to decay
couldn't agree more.
Why don't we just switch back to glass, metal, and paper? Do we really need single use foams and plastics?
problem: it costs more to use and process metals and glass. (obviously it's not an excuse, but that's probably why companies aren't doing it)
@@acmargatroid to be fair we could but the price will rise but paychecks won’t
Why don't we just buy one plastic bottle and keep refilling that until it's usable? There is no reason to keep buying them since they are either filled with sugary drinks that are terrible for your health or literally tap water that's resold for you at 1000x the price. At that point it's better for your wallet and the environment to just cut out the middle man and refill the bottle yourself.
@@tabushka292 Becoming self-sustabable is based and healthy.
I would much rather have sodas return to glass bottles. Makes it more expensive so people won't buy as much, and that plastic won't be used then. Unless we start running out of glass...
Ooh, these are so good. Fantastic video and presentation! This channel will grow like crazy, I bet.
Thanks dude! Glad you like it. I'm having a blast making them
Outstanding. Keep up the good work.
Will do! Good thing I have a big pages file full of ideas
The Gymnopedie No. 1 (10:40) starting a beat early almost made me tear out my hair
Getting proper Charlie Brooker vibes. Great stuff!
Thanks dude! Very much an inspiration
@@OrdinaryThings Very much noticable :D :D
@@OrdinaryThings Would you ever do a collab?
That Isreal and Palestine joke aged like a fine wine
So it did
I was looking for this comment
Your ability to read through marketing campaigns is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the Ghazipur landfill is just 7 meters short of the Taj Mahal. Hopefully we'll see an improvement in due time.
8:03 that aged well
When I was a kid we didn't have plastic packaging. It was super rare. Oil, milk and soft drinks came in glass bottles. Shoping bags were textile, food was wrapped in paper and supermarkets were non existant. Mobile phones weren't in yet..and we turned out perfectly fine. It was a blast to be a kid TOO!
A fantastic gem of a channel, love all your content and very much reminds me of Charlie Brooker!
ah thanks dude! Massively appreciate it
In Germany you get a 25 cent refund each for a majority of Bottles and Cans that you trade in at any store. Combined with the fact that our Rent is so low that seniors are forced to collect those bottles from the trash in order not to starve we're doing pretty good on recycling
Staggering, sobering and yet entertaining.
Awh man, you're too kindz
Most “no littering” signs I’ve seen have trash strewn around them
"something to think about, if you throw trash on texas highways, somebody up there's gon be watching"
8:03 Well this aged well!
dam this was hella good
Dope! Glad you enjoyed
Because of the virus I hasn't seen my classmates for some time now,
so hearing someone joking about my mom was somehow comforting.
I love that you took such a real, serious problem and not only laid it out for what it is, but made it funny. All of your videos make me laugh, and not much does. Also, you're damn right, consumerism is the problem. Single-use plastic is our biggest threat (fishing gear compromising the largest percentage of plastic in the ocean as a whole, however), but do not underestimate the rest of the waste. Textiles are a huge problem that doesn't just degrade (thanks, fast fashion), and our food waste is shameful. Granted, I'm going off US stats, but the UK tends to trend pretty well on those numbers, too.
So supermarkets caused a big boost in litter all around the world?
Sometimes I do wonder if our modern things are really better than the old ways.
No. The only way for everyone not to be farmers is cities
This is probably one of my favourite CZcamsrs, his jokes always caught me off guard and damn they're really funny.
Quality content
thanks, man
Now I feel an insatiable urge to litter from a moving car somewhere in Tennessee. That PSA was dang Powerful, maybe a little bit counterproductive, but powerful.
Great work, keep it coming!
thanks dude! I plan to
how do we change this tho? protest companies that use single-use plastic? try to use it less? problems like these make me feel real insignificant...
1.Plastic is too cheap too let go and there are no other cheaper alternatives, corporations care about profit not health. They know consumers are too dependent on it's convenience.
2. Reducing your usage will be like taking a bucket and trying to empty the sea.
@@flamesofjihad4069 Well, you have to start somewhere. If every person takes a bucket out every day emptying the sea doesn't seem that impossible, after all it's us who filled that sea in the first place (I know it's just wishful thinking, I recently learned about Sorites paradox and I don't think each individual's change is as insignificant as we think)
@@knightdtd i understand what you're saying but the rubbish output will always exceed the amount that can be cleaned. And if u can't convince people to even wear face masks to protect their own health why would you expect them to care about anyone else. This planet is gonna become a mad max dystopia.
Legislation. Make and enforce pollution and waste taxes so companies are forced to find and use more environmentally friendly solutions.
If there's one thing the rich hate more than poor people, it's paying taxes
@@jak2767 thats a whole other field to play in, youd have to deal with too rich and powerful companies, corrupt government officials, ignorant populations and your biggest enemy, the time it takes to enforce these legislations and whether you'll see its positive change in your lifetime.
I never realized how hot Elizabeth the II was.
Hello sir, I just stumbled upon your channel a few hours ago (and I already don't remember how) and I'm watching through all of your videos today at work. I really enjoy what you're doing here, and I'm glad to see you are achieving success!
I just found this channel. How are you still under 100k after a year?! Your stuff is gold! Hoping for the best for your channel! Keep it up!
110k now
@@chatman4998 Did he really gain 15k+ in 24 hours or did I just see the number wrong?! D:
@@DKoldies_CEO_Drew_Scumbag yup I was shocked too when I seen that🤣
OT is a unique blend of soothing and hilarious, while also being educational.
Man, I've never wanted to litter in my life until I saw that Tennessee trash commercial.
It makes littering seem so fun. It's like freedom.
Just toss that shit out the side of your convertible, and keep going! Woo!
4:09 did the british flag turn german or am I imagining things?
the queen is of german lineage. the nazis didn't lose the war.
As a person who lives in Tennessee, I wouldn't be surprised if people were littering for fun
*I mean have you seen the roads?*
Okay. This is it. I’m doing the ‘no plastic month trial’ as the first thing on my new year resolution. January will be fun. Thanks for this video!
Another funny and entertaining video. You really deserve more subs. I've noticed that your videos aren't posted on reddit so I'll start posting them. :D
you're a hero!
As a Tennessean I am delighted that you have gotten to experience the majesty of Tennessee Trash.
That 2020 part really hits hard now
12:18
It's not demand-driven, it's companies maximizing their profit margin. I actually cannot find a product here that is not sold in plastic, even when that plastic is stored inside cardboard and itself arbitrary for anything other than the unboxing experience.
The Israel-Palestine comment hits different now... 😬
Really happy IH introduced your channel to me, been enjoying your videos, new and old
The music in the Tennessee trash ad is brilliant!
Another great video btw ordinary guy!
this channel has already taught me more than what i learned in school
5:20
"We spend 25M a year on garbage. Let's fund jam band festivals instead."
Oof, you got piercingly sincere at the end there. Which is not a complaint, this is a serious problem after all. And it was all the more impactful capping off such a rip-roaring cavalcade of hilarity.
I've seen an actual talking and giggling waste basked at a local amusement park. The kids found it adorable, I found it both dystopian and a bit sad. So fun was had by all.
"Israel and Palestine finally settled their differences."
Press X to Doubt
I just wanna say, I never personally demanded bottled water. In fact most of my life I grew up wondering why the water that comes out of my faucet is poisonous and life ruining. I wish I had a well. Then again, if I did, the water table is like 100% poisoned by human waste or some sort of industrial chemical.
There are people to blame for it and it's not citizens who litter.
@@Anthonybrother yeah I agree for sure
Which is why I bought a water filter, specifically designed to filter all that out. It's basically well water, but with a gravity filter. Cannot recommend Pro One highly enough. Eventually, I'll buy their complete home system.
In Europe tap water tends to be healthier than bottled water
I have heard of the Pacific Patch before, but never realised how utterly massive it was. That landfill in India was also terrifying to see.
“When the queen was young and shaggable” this got a good chuckle out me touché my good sir
This guy should have his own show.
YES
This is his own show. Cable television is an outdated, dying format.
Wow that israel joke at 8 minutes in hits hard
squash into cubes, coat the cube in cement, then build a pyramid. So simple.
Very nicely done
An important bit you missed was how those adds in the keep america beautiful campaign were designed to transfer the blame for littering off of the companies making the packaging you talk about at the end and over towards the people.
It worked and public pressure on companies to curtail their use of packaging evaporated.
Just watched this in 2023. Israel and Gaza gag still as relevant as ever 😖
Wow, shit’s getting serious! Feels like you’re heading in a new direction, which I’m definitely not opposed to at all. Keep em’ coming, I think you’re headed somewhere great!
I think I have a request for railings as an ordinary things! 💜💜
ooh, railings...that's sparked my curiosity. It's so general that I kinda love that. Going on the list for sure.
Ordinary Things yessss! Thank you! 😻
10:47 the real problem isn't just single use plastic, but all of our consumer lifestyle. The idea that you can just buy something new whenever you want, that you don't have to treat what you have well because you can just throw it away. The need to buy something new when the last thing we bought hasn't even earned its value yet.
i can't believe nobody else noticed the body o' christ box casually in the background
"so as trash could no longer be filtered through the human respiratory system" :) ❤️
The I.R.A: Nice bins you got there.
4:04 "And did those feet in ancient time, walk up on englands mountains green" sent bloody chills down my spine, hymn "Jerusalem". Sang that shit regularly in the Christina school in Rochester "King School Rochester". Those were the days, although never a Christian, its amazing how we all got attached to singing hymns and the whole experience (opinion of a Russian who immigrated to england when he was 7 and lived there ever since). Christian schools are not all that Christina, but generally teach much more than regular schools. I enjoyed religion classes, where they did not teach religion but philosophy and general ethics, different phalacies as well as paradoxes which really forms certain opinions and makes you respect different opinions and outlooks on life. More schools need this type of thing.
These videos are actually amazing. so thought out, well scripted and littered with humour
i c wut u did thar
Great video once again cheers guy.
Awesome. I aim to please!
Barney Harwood is slowly devolving into ScreenWipe Charlie Brooker ....I love it
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. The only important step is Reduce. The others don't work. Force manufacturers to change their packaging.
These just keep getting better, your work is fantastic!