Here's Why China Is Killing The Global Recycling Industry
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China has been the leader of the recycling industry for over 30 years, importing materials more than any country in the world and making billions of dollars in the process. But recently, the Chinese government took a tougher stance on recycling, effectively disrupting the global recycling industry. More importantly, China's decision has caused major problems for many Western countries, since they were the ones exporting millions of tons of recyclable waste to China.
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When your hands are always clean, it only means that someone else is doing all your dirty works for you.
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Is that a legit Chinese saying?
@@imluvinyourmum NO THIS IS NOT CHINA, WE LOVE BEING DIRTTYY SO YOU STAY CLEAN AND PAY US MONEY !!
MODERN SLAVERY PAID FOR MY 43 INCH FLAT SCREEN TV I LOVE BEING A SLAVE !
@@imluvinyourmum I'm Chinese and I said that... so yeah I guess it is a legit Chinese saying. :)
Poorly Made in China?
I paid this unemployed guy to clean my house every week. The house had asbestos, but he cleaned it and got sick anyway because he needed the money. One week, he got a decent desk job and said he didn't want to clean my house anymore. Why is he ruining the cleanliness of my house?
@ Me, too.
China paid for this vidio.
This video is a clear western propaganda against China, US controls all informations on youtube. Divide and conquer is US strategy. 20% truth 80 lies.
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West: Give workers better working conditions!
Also West: What do you mean you will stop sorting our garbage with cheap labor!?
yes truly
Better working condition. . .
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not just waste:
- Most cheap clothes and shoes are made in sweatshops
- Electronics are so accessable because the parts are made in low-wage factories with poor safety regulations for your health
- Plantations employ underpayed workers for dirt poor wages so they can sell banana cheaper than apples
We have to face the truth: If we want to archive equality, we must sacrafice many things we take for granted
That's the real hypocritical West that you are dealing with.
I was chairman of a national recycling association for several years from 2009 on. I have also built and run one of the state of the art optical sorting MRF plants.
China allowed recycling to explode world wide, however recyclers recognised the Chinese would someday close their doors.
Despite lobbying our councils and government 10 years ago to develop industries that can process the collected packaging we were ignored.
Ideallists demanded 100% recycling efficiency from such systems, blocking progress even if 95% was achieved. Misguided people who treat their environmental views as a belief structure, like a religion, continuously disbelieve hard factual evidence because it does not suit the narrative.
As a result, world wide, progress is roadblocked by well intentioned passionate people who want perfection rather than, what can be done right now.
So true. There are so many missed opportunities in the USA. There is both a bottoms up and top down problem.
I absolutely agree with you! The challenges in many western countries is that recycling, enviromental and climate politics are more like a religion than common sense about what is realistic to achieve.
Please continue your good work. Its inspiring. The wrong beliefs will change one day. Keep going.
Yeah I ran a recycling operation in the Chicago area and so much of what people put in the recycling was really garbage. You canât recycle styrofoam with leftover food in it.
If I cant have the whole loaf of bread, I dont want the half loaf. That kind of mentality is frustrating! Thank you for your comment. Any suggestions on what one can do to help solve this problem?
*Canada introduces initiatives to reduce waste*
Also Canada: Tries to dump waste in Phillipines but is forced to accept it back
Henati pls
Canada land of mafia and criminals
Only a symbolic amount was shipped back to Canada.
Someone in the Bureau of Customs probably received kickbacks from that though.
Yup Canada is BS
Filipino people are tired of these people
Nothing wrong in China stopping import of waste when it has it's own enough waste.
tru, but americans need to blame them so maybe they (china) consider forget about all money whitch usa own to china right now :)
The materials where also of such poor quality it couldent be recycled
@@worldnews4347 US owes 7 trillion to China and this amount grows like malignant cancer
Same step should be taken by our country India. India may become a dustbin for the developed countries if we don't ban on importing waste. We have a large population which generates tonnes of waste everyday and out of that only 10 - 30% gets recycled or disposed off rest lands up in landfills or dumped here and there because of which India has become the most polluted country in the world.
True, also nothing wrong with not buying stuff from China. Buy local.
Why is it up to the consumer to be the responsible ones to recycle? I say it's also on the companies that profit from selling products that can be recycled. These companies should fork up some capital to find solutions to the waste problem.
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The title is pretty misleading
So is state controlled media. But you don't seem to mind that.
@Ecological Warrior You are *lying*. American media is famously not controlled by the government.
@Ecological Warrior Name your favourite source in China.
No, it's leading exactly the way it was intended to lead. In this sense, the title was spot on lol.
@@Thisisahandle701 Uh, the revolving door between the "independent" press and the american government renders your defense limp
Reporters (10 years ago): China is the most polluted country in the world.
Reporters (now): China refuses to take more trashes!
Reporter (right now): China plans to build hundreds of new Coal power plants until the year 2035, jeopardising the climate for generations to come. Furthermore, China refuses to allow basic voting right to its citizens.
@@Thisisahandle701
CO2 emissions per capita (wiki, in 2014)
Qatar (highest): 45.4
US: 16.5
Australia: 15.4
China: 7.5
and made in China products serve all over the world, but all emissions of productions are calculated onto every Chinese. If we are talking about the same thing, I wouldn't be so stupid not to assume Qatar or US or Australia etcs are not the bigger jeopardizes to the climate for generations to come!!!!!!!
If you don't know, never say it, in China citizens have voting rights for representatives, representatives then vote for the government.
The last but not the least, I'm here talking about pollutions and critics on refusing trashes. WHAT ON EARTH IS YOUR POINT MENTIONING VOTING RIGHTS?
â@Ecological Warrior I think it's fantastic you are proud of your country's achievements. But I think it takes responsibility to acknowledge your country's shortfalls as well. You accuse me of propaganda, but the only available media in China is propaganda. This is useful if you are an autocrat, because you can tell your people what you decide they should hear which is not always the same as the truth. I don't like to be treated like a child, which is why western beliefs surrounding the primacy of the 'individual' are so important for me. Freedom to decide your own fate, and to criticise what you determine to be wrong, is something I take very seriously. I'm not interested in lying for the 'greater good' because this creates delusion. I believe that motivations for serving the CCP are limited to career advancement and lack of choice. The result, is a machine designed to continue in perpetuity with an endless supply of new enforcers.
@@Floatian
2015 total carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (million metric tons):
China: 9040.74
US: 4997.50
I understand that US per capita result is higher than China. Which is why it is good that the US is moving to renewable energies and nuclear. But China is building more coal plants when it is already the single greatest contributor to Co2 levels.
@Ecological Warrior Germany also systematically murdered 6 million Jews and disabled people as well as starting a war which caused hundreds of millions to lose their lives, having only just started another war which also killed millions. Germany had a dictator at the time.
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it's kinda funny how big countries shaking each other's hand while also pointing gun to each other
Thatâs politics
politics with money dlc
7/26/19 I beg your pardon ! China did not kill âGlobal Recycling â !
In fact, China has most strict rules on recycling own waste. In order to improve Chinaâs environment, China must stop accepting waste from other countries !
I am sure that every country has the ability and responsibility to process his own waste !
Anita Hsiao hi beautiful woman how are you doing today?
Anita Hsiao well yeah ...
I hate people like you
@@lightningbolt4419 must be something wrong with youâŠâŠsee psychiatrist to get helpâŠâŠ
UK is one of the worst western countries in terms of recycling! All the recycling trashes are all mixed up in one bag. The country has never actually recycled anything themselves but export the mixed trashes to the developing countries âŠâŠ.even secretly hide the rubbishes insideâŠâŠ
China: No thank you we don't want your recycling anymore
The world: Surprised, and freaking out Pikachu.
Humble Soldier xD nice one earth chan
why there are many chinese mainlanders lurking around youtube now? Not to be rude, but it's for emotional safety reason. The media potraits China as a heinous thingđ
When we pay for something and it isn't done as agreed and contracted, yes it's Pikachu thunderjolt time. We didn't do u like the Canadians and send bio-waste, we had a good trading partnership, China's moved away from recycling so it goes to other trading partnerships that want it at our tax rates. Settle down and be a man for once, business isn't emotional games.
west country is not the world
yeah
Recycling is big business and hope all western countries import waste products and rubbish from developing countries !
The video was really good, but the plug was even better! Smooth!!đ
Until I was a teenager, we had paper straws, returnable bottles (for every liquid)! There was little fast food, people ate their meals either at home or in restaurants. We can easily go back to those practices and eliminate eighty percent of our waste! Oh yeah, we drank water from the faucet!
the good old days, when you took a couple of 3 gallon buckets to the corner bar and had them filled up with beer to take home.
Yep I was there too
We used "straws". Straw grows in soil. Non polluting. No need to recycle. Organic.
And women scrubbed clothes on a washing board and spent most of their day shopping for and preparing food
Speaking of fast food, we could make a different. I walked in KFC for my takeaways, with tupperware carried by my fancy reusable paper bags and requested the staff to pack my order in it. All restaurants I go highly supports this practice, in fact makes their day when they pack something in different looking container and fancy bags. Either you restart it or nobody would.
Years ago, In order to persuade consumers to accept plastic instead of paper bags (and soothe the minds of the environmentally conscience), we were told "It's OK. They're *biodegradable*".
Maybe we should hold whoever sold that line of horseshit accountable.
How many years ago was that exactly
@@LAactor Oh God... this was like back in the 80s or 90s. (Long time ago) I remember a few news programs covering it and how great it was going to be for the environment. It was the angle they used to get people to adopt it.
Excellent idea and totally agree with it (ya know, save a tree and all)... had that been the case.
I still use the cloth reusable bags!
@@aarone8740 such bags were used here in India from ancient times. Infact we became largest manufacturers and users and then 90's came and economy was opened and rest is history.
back in the â80âs Mcdonalds Boasted that that they are switching to styrofoam clamshells to hold their burgers. They took out tv spots where they boasted it would save millions of trees a year. a few years ago, they had a spot on tv where to save the environment, they are going to use cardboard for the burgers
China's shift away from imported recyclables was swift and far-reaching, but as others here have noted, it was not the result of political competition so much as an immediate reflection of that nation's economic evolution. They now generate enough recyclables to supply themselves.
So nice of you to conveniently omit footage of the disgusting, dirty, polluting and sometimes illegal MRF's set up in Malaysia, Thailand and other dumping grounds in lesser developed countries like Guatemala, India etc.
Wow. This video is 2 years late, with a misleading title and from a pretty weird perspective. You don't have to read a lot to reach the idea that the Chinese people were indeed suffering from this thrash trade, and now many citizens of other countries will suffer if it is not implemented properly (a very difficult thing to do). I really expected more from this channel, but it seems like every video that involves China comes from a limited, maybe too American perspective.
More like 4 years late
Sounds like too much flourine in murikan waters and too much brainwash in murikan media
@Buro Dackel Chinese didn't blame you, where do you read that? They just don't want to do it anymore, but what is troublesome is that now other non-recyclable waste ARE exported under the guise of recyclable waste to SE-Asia, among others to Malaysia that is now returning almost 1000 containers to the US and Europe
@Klippy Klop
Moron Personified!
Recent TV docs from the BBC and other networks published this year have made recycaling a trending topic.
Wait so isnât China making the world better because now the world have to think of solutions like what Canada or Vietnam did
Edit: Ok after a few weeks and checking back in and HOW I GOT 500 LIKES AND LIKE SO MANY COMMENTS, REEEEE.
BlackWolfUS Thatâs what heâs implying. The titleâs purpose was just to grab your attention and get you to watch the entire thing.
China, making the world better. Do you know how many corners they cut to speed up their industrial revolution to catch up to the rest of the world.
@@s0nnyburnett He was talking about how china make the other country change not china itself
they snort rhino horns
But then we can think about it the other way if they hadnt created such a big demand for recyclables other countries and companies would have found more incentives not creating these trash.
Banning plastic shopping bags from the stores is one of the best examples to make you feel guilty about environment while not helping at all.
@ThoughtCrime How does it reduce waste if you switch a bag to another kind? Both are recycled to either energy or more products. And they don't just hand them out, they cost 20 cent a piece, at least here. And then there is this little thing that you would have to use the paper bag 11 times before it is as ecological as the plastic bag (840 times for a fabric bag) and none of the paper bags I've seen handle any proper weight, so you need more of them.
Here people mostly switched to reusable bags
Yes, paper bags biodegrade! You never heard of a giant floating paper bags in the oceans.
paper bag has in many respects a worse ecological balance than plastic. And in the Czech Republic, biodegradable PLA plastic is used for bags, it's made from corn and can be composted.
@@KorbenDalasCZ Please provide a link to the study that proves this.
what a wonderful story, how empathy and compassion changed the world. there is hope after-all.
If you produce the garbage you deal with it yourself. Donât pass your dirty work to someone else.
The garbage was produced in China, hence the millions of empty shipping containers that came from China and were unloaded in California. Stop buying Chinese garbage products and we won't have to ship back so much recycling.
@Ecological Warrior Do farmers ban my shit from going back into the ground?
@raymond daubney, but that was because they were growing their economy and they simply needed that money. They were desperate, in a sense.
But now since China is modernizing, it has stopped taking in garbage.
The US, with its high quality of life and lots of money, doesn't need to worry about the things 2nd and 3rd world countries need to worry about.
@raymond daubney Good, you can save that money for yourself now!
Having consulted for landfills constriction and lechate/gas management, it ends up in the landfill. Landfills are extremely well engineered today, but recycling doesn't profit enough. The cost to place it in the fill area is low thus it ends up in the landfill. I don't even use my recycling cans. I have seen where my trash goes and seen the recycling trucks dump into the landfill I was working at.
Where was this? My guess it that it differs per region and country.
@@eric4681702 The mid west from Michigan, Ohio and PA at majors like Waste Management and Republic with some regional companies.
it's easy to do landfill in a place with low population density, like in the US. It won't be easy to do so in Europe, Japan or many other countries, with serious lack of living spaces.
@@anhkhoanguyen8562 Many landfills in the US are unreclaimed strip mines. Some are actually used as a Reclaimation plan to rebuild the tops of mountains or turned in ski slopes in flat area. Their lives are long too, 1 I worked on opened in the 40's and the client has 125 years of capacity left at current rates not including reduction from recycling and break down of organics. With everything built, it is cheap
Same in Australia.
The solution is actually very simple. Instead of transporting individually packaged goods, send them bulk to packaging facilities per city which use either glass or metal containers, the consumer pays a refundable fee for the packaging. When the consumer wants more product he just brings back the packaging, which then gets sent back to the packaging facility.
Remember the good old days when milk was delivered to the front door in glass bottles, every time you wanted more milk, you leave the empty bottles outside with money, in the morning like magic, you would have the old bottles gone and with fresh milk delivered.
Good info and even better plug for business at the end...
What kind of a click bait is this?
We blame China for massive pollution and they stop collecting waste we complain đ€Šââïž
Its because usa is importing trash to china to make new goods
The west should build their own recycle center
If you donât buy we donât send it .. did u hear some in other country is buying it and now millionaire .. it is a service and you get paid .. someone will always have recycle it is good business
China stop buy recycled
Because this is a promise that China needs to fulfill when it joins the WTO as a poor country...but China is no longer a poor country without a doubt.
I love you. STOP blaming China for the lack of proper recycling around the world. The USA began recycling back in the mid 70's, the USA (did NOT) build and promote our recycling effort because it would be good for people. Instead the USA put China as a recycling market AS AN EXCUSE FOR NOT DOING IT OURSELVES. Peace
@6:35 wow that was a smooth transition into a sponsored by Audible đ
The audible plug at the end of the video was seamless lol
When the list of acceptable recyclables was so severely curtailed in 2017 I was surprised that the US wasn't doing our own recycling, or very little of it. Why? This would provide jobs here where they are so sorely needed. Maybe this is what it takes to wake us up.
Make jobs for American workers when it can be exported for cheap to developing countries! PFFFFFFT! What kinda crazy talk is this!/s
I mean right now thereâs a labor shortage in the US. More jobs than there are people willing to do them
If you recycled at American wages you would lose money. It was literally more profitable to ship it over the ocean to China than to recycle it here.
@@thaddadeodead True, immediate profit for the manufacturers. But what happened?
China now as cubic miles of compacted, NOT-recycled stuff they got from us, which means they now have the "natural resources" for future recycling, while we have nothing. They will also have jobs for people to do that.
Wouldn't more jobs here in the US mean that more people could afford to pay a slightly higher price for products? What happens when we need the metals stored there? We will have to create more holes in the Earth, with more energy output, while they will process already-mined and smelted minerals.
But immediate profit for the manufacturers was/is more important, I guess.
Union recyclable sorters......no profit there, you'll lose money.
China is moving on. Western countries are arguing, complaining and buck-passing.
Pretty sure he mentioned Western countries taking steps to resolve the issue. Did you actually watch the video?
@@ZacharyRodriguez Talk too much, then actual action steps are ......đ
@@ZacharyRodriguez theyre really beating around the bush. I'm disappointed at my government for banning straws when there are far worse things out there. It's nice but not enough.
China doesn't even have a free press. Settle down.
@Ecological Warrior The thing is, denocracy is good but only effective if everyone is edicated enough to vote what they would actually want. Because of a lack of interest in voting to some, politicians do nothing, while making a big deal of it. Action against climate change is often not the best for the economy (which looks bad on the PM), so its next guy's problem.
The banana leaf packages are pretty genius
Now it is up to manufacturers or inventors to make a biodegradable or reusable plastic. One that is worth getting back just like the days of the glass soda bottles which would get washed and reused like 15 times (that was BEFORE optical sorting machines were invented). Not just cheap enough to throw away. We will collect and clean and sort.
Some assertions in this video apply to plastics but not necessarily to papers. The price of recycle pulp has not significantly decreased since its peak in 2017-2018. Recycling of papers is also simpler than plastics, and so such tragic stories from plastic waste donât occur as much with paper waste.... in fact I canât recall one at the moment
Also China ended paper-waste importing much earlier than they do it on plastic. And paper industry is proved to be able to withstand the pressure.
"To care for their own country first, improving their environment and public perception". USA needs to catch up đ€
True very true, so what's so bad about communism? I've always believed that being free to be garbage isnt such a great claim to freedom... For instance the dirtiest things about the USA are the same
things that the people are so afraid to loose.
Tomahawk heading to your house
Why Should China need to do the dirty job of recycling Western waste?
Logic is astounding
What? Chian is clearing there own sea on fish to catch man ?
When i was growing up, we never even had a garbage compant pick up our garbage, it all went into a burning barrel, and presto it was gone, and it was free.
Taking it one step further, they picked up the garbage and took it to the garbage dump which is where the garbage was burned, in an area not as close to where the houses were
Love how you switch the topic into a business advertisement so CASUALLY 6:42 ;)
So everyone is doing a china video today
Because their country is garbage. Not recycle.
Hey, you are right
They senting it back, so is philipine... back to west , mostly garbage non recyclable
Cigar nmlgb
Cos they gonna take over the universe.
Most recently one of Australia's largest recycling firms SKM went into receivership as the result of continuing cycle of penalty notices and site mishaps in which a large percentage of the materials they use to send to China was no longer being accepted. The final straw was Malaysia saying to Australia "Here! have your garbage back!" and issued notices for containers containing recyclable materials to be returned to Australia. SKM's solution was to stockpile the material in a series of rented warehouses while desperately seeking somewhere to send it. In the end it will all be transported to landfill as the only solution. Why not do our own recycling? We gave away our manufacturing and no longer have the capabilities to do so at the scale required. Australia has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. Why not take the plastic waste and use it as fuel for generating electricity? Environmental regulations in Australia as such would never permit this to happen. If you want to see an example of 20 years of policy failure. This is it folks.
The only material which has obvious value for recycling is aluminum, but people collected cans (even without deposits) long before all the government rules and agencies forced it
Very illuminating. Thanks.
Any anti-Chinese or sinophobia titles can attract more viewers and show the audience how double standard are being defined in your stories. đ€đ€
Exactly. Same thing they do with Russians because they want to blame their collapse on us.
Well... The population is high... so more people care... do some math..
Propaganda runs the world sadly
You know this is the country that kills its own people.. i applaud them for the recycling but fuck their government..
YOUR TRANSITION TO AUDIBLE WAS PRETTY SLEEK.
LAXMIKANT BARIK It was a commercial for Audible all along!
Always
Anybody else from remember buying soda in 8-packs of 16-ounce bottles, which you would then return to the store to retrieve a deposit amount, which was built into the price? Many of the bottles looked pretty beat up and used, but nobody thought anything of it. It cost an extra nickel or so for every bottle, and you got it back when you returned the bottle. It worked. Nobody would throw away those bottles if there was even a nickel to get back. And now, we have âgarbage islandâ.
Each country needs to handle their own waste. Period. Plus, you have the bonus of not being dependent upon corrupt foreign powers that don't have your countries best interest at heart.
Lol supermarket plastic bags should not be single-use, you can use them in your trash cans instead of buying specific bags for trash that only cause more plastic consumption. I've been using cloth bags to do my shopping for a while and just now the government in my country is forbidding the use of plastic bags in any kind of commercial establishment. Baby steps I guess...
Why ban plastic bags if they are reused? I have a small garbage can made to hold shopping bags so every one is repurposed.
It's unfortunate that sturdy plastic containers cannot be reused for sanitary reasons.
Everything starts at home but when you sort out the trash , accordingly & nobody takes it. Even the people, who collect, and send it to recycling centers hardly take plastic containers or glass containers. When it comes to Glass only Beer , bottles are accepted.
@@nitink.a567 That's kind of when I begin to take the hint that it's all about the money and not so much about the environment. I'm not saying I want to trash the environment but I think we should be able to utilize our own cheap energy options. If it really was about Co2 emissions causing a world climate issue it wouldn't matter if the Co2 was released in China or in the USA or any other country's. They shut down everything for the "plandemic". Next the US will shut down it's people over the climate "plandemic" while china will be at a major advantage because of loss of global manufacturing competition
I love China from Philippines đ€
Lei Usami do you wish to work in China and start a living
*I love china from china, is probably what you meant.
same
nobody can remember when the last fire at the recycling center here in kalispell MT was... then we saw two in as many years.
The part of audible at the end of thd video was amazing
7.48 minute video but none of it says what the title suggest
I Love your channel! A round of applause how you can break down complex stories to the essential components. Plus the After Effects game is strong with you and your team!
everything revolves around 'cheap labor costs' CPC has the upper hand in this department and people there can't complaint about or else ... we know what happens
They'll be exiled to India.
The world must move away from consumption economics and back to how it used to be. Products used to be durable and repairable, and parts can be shared across different products, but consumption economics would bankrupt companies which make durable repairable products.
So what is an economics system supposed to do in the modern world? I would say, to provide a worthwhile & high quality living standard for its population. Would that not discourage massive accumulation of wealth and cause the world immense poverty because of a lack of motivation to be industrious? Well, no, because people chase other things when they don't need to chase immense wealth.
So, a less advanced technology? Just so you know, engineering for creating a simple product is a very time consuming and difficult process. Especially if the product is inherently complex
The Recycling companies should be sued in America, i pay you monthly to property dispose of my Trash and Recycling. They have not been following up to there end of the bargain. They are just stealing our money.
In my country they burn the trash. The heat from the production is used to heat buildings.
@Ecological Warrior japan still sending their trash to developing country. not sure about germanic and Scandinavia country.
wendover productions â video got it much more detail and comprehensive other than just becoz of the documentary thing.
Thanks for sharing..
My compliments on this video. Nice to see that you keep your topics broad.
Misleading title, China did the right thing. We need to solve issues ourselves, maybe spend less on military. Especially the US, this is a major issue being downplayed.
The US probably doesn't even have the funds to build this shit
In agreement with you brother.
The military is still a large part of the economy
OK "Ahmed".
Recycling was done with glass bottles for practical reasons but the thing got away from people when people when they started recycling trash.and then the found out it was a loss.but it isn't a loss.plastic can be used for anything that is made out of cement,like buildings roads ecology blocks extrusion systems curb side walks.take your plastic and punch it into thumb nail sized pieces and dry it and mix it with closed cell foam and ground up regular Styrofoam and powdered cement with krystoloc and make prefab walls for instant house production.this construction is lighter that straight cement and could transform instant house technology.
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What businesses need to do, is allow customers to bring in their own containers and put stuff into their containers and pay only for what they take. Then we won't even need to recycle because recycling itself requires energy and resources. And there's a limit to how many times you can recycle something before it becomes unrecyclable.
Wrong, steel doesn't undergo generational breakdown. Some plastics do, some don't. And consumer confidence will go to zero when everyone is sneezing and putting their booger hooks in the baked bean vat at the grocery store.
Well, obviously I'm not expecting shops to lay out their food like some sort of buffet, but go watch some videos on 'zero waste shopping' and see how they do it. Some shops are trailing this kind of model like Waitrose in the UK and Foodstuffs in New Zealand. There are even some shops that offer this service in America.
We have hemp now. Time to go back to paper.
A simple solar oven can reach the 300 degrees Fahrenheit needed to melt down the #2 polyethylene plastic bags. The melted plastic can be put into forms to make anything after that (plastic lumber, Lego-style blocks, toys, playground equipment, etc...) I'm mentioning this because energy and the cost of energy is a limiting factor in recycling. Solar and litter are both free for the taking! So, perhaps localizing and downscaling the tech, making it accessible and convenient to all can help?
Itâs time for rich country to clean your mess on your own, because China is getting richer. As I observe, many American are not aware concept of recycling, instead of that, they waste huge. The good thing is that they have big chain second hand store.
Here in Red Deer AB Canada the .gov just admitted that they have not been recycling....It goes to landfills.
A similar situation in Ohio where they had collection containers that had compartments to sort the various materials by type,this process was being done for free by the public at dropoff, thus getting the most valuable link in the chain for free. So the waste recycling local authority took what was a salable commodity with value and made it worthless by removing the dividers inside the containers and allowing the materials to commingle rendering them wrthless. The public was still sorting to the properbin labels ,but for no reason. The people that run these programs are dedicated , enthusiastic and hard working but don't seem to have a profit oriented agenda. And profit is what seems to be missing in the whole cycle of recycling .
When this video was published new cutting edge Australian recycling plants had already opened in several locations, with more opened since. These plants can recycle several types of plastic that previously could not be recycled, and the resulting recycled product is the same quality as freshly made plastic.
In my state (MaineUSA) there is an effort to reduce the use of plastic bags by making people buy them. Even though it is a nominal fee I see people carrying items out of the store without a bag. I think that making people take responsibility for their participation in the degradation of our environment is critical to making a positive change. This type of solution should also be brought to the companies which produce the waste.
6:46 that was smooth
It make more sense to keep seperate bins for paper plastic and other waste. Its our responsibility to take care of our consumed leftovers. I already have seperate bins in the beginning I was giving it to the garbage collector but when I asked him he said he puts everything back together and it will end in landfill. I felt so bad and then I took charge of my own waste and now every month I sell my paper and plastic waste to the recycler. I feel much happier now. đ
It's time for the hypocrites to rethink their hypocrisy and reuse, reduce and recycle.
It seems we could have done it without abusing those who works in the recycling field. This is why sorting trash from domestic level is important and recycling workers should be paid same amount as manufacturing workers
Everyday we recycle more than one metric ton of single use plastic bags and turn them into synthetic rubber sheets for footwear industry and cattle farm. We are located in Hazaribagh, Dhaka.
They just discovered recycling in Poland... im so amazed by this government here. *clap clap*.
How dare the Chinese think about taking care of China first.
Sarcasm. Good one.
Should anyone come to your house and tell you where you should put your chair......
That's right.
America first should be the aim for everyone in the world. We owe the US for so much, how can we not serve you in every way you could wish
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Nobody cares where you put your chair.
We do care if you are poisoning your kids, or releasing noxious gases into the neighbourhood. Likewise on an international scale, human rights and anti pollution concerns are not just internal to a country
As if they've ever thought about doing that. What does The Chinese Communist Party do to someone who disagrees with the government? The CCP puts the CCP first and screws China.
Thank you for the video, there are still lots of urgent questions to be answered.
The capitalistic consumerism and fossil fuel industry are fundamental to creating where we are. And the focus on individual responsibility through guilt inducing ads / carbon footprint was created by the fossil fuel industry too
Why do you and Polymatter always upload videos at the same time? Just curious, outstanding content as always :)
Theyre brothers
Maybe they study at the same place and get the same news in the same time zone
They must communicate and compete with each other
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This title is click-bait >:(
Benjamin S itâs advertising tactics my friend, advertising tactics m
Sadly this has to be done for people to watch
@@meltup3668 Yea you guys like to click such title. You wont give it a shit if it's"Why China is getting the global recycling industry better".
Wrong Title
Correct Title is - Why Western Countries are not Recycling their own plastic waste?
I heard some years ago. Some one was macking plastic out over corn
PolyMatter, Wendover, Business Casual. Which other channels have this type of content??
Cold Fusion
Toms scott
Not exactly because he's more american-focused, but Company Man and the footage is less shiny
Coldfusion is better than all those and best channel in general
His is more reading random facts than a comprehensive story such as the others.
Didn't knew *GARBAGE* is a 100 billion industry.
Your videos makes my brain cells to reproduce.
Think of it as used material and it changes your perception. It's also easier to not blame the West for dumping its "garbage" on China but instead selling it the used material it needed.
Everything could be a billion-dollar industry, most people just donât see it.
Time to start a recycling business. đ
@@Poemi10304 try to find volunteer for that ungrateful underpaid job and very smelly too.
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Audible is right in his approach that it is not correct to blame a country but we should rethink that extra and extra ordinary packaging on material must be avoided and newspapers must go without advertisement so there will not be bulky like today
Nice one. Nice video.
This video is very odd. Itâs extremely informative while at the same time very transparent propaganda. [Sounds like a caricature from childhood history lessons about World War 2]. The video uses selective language to make China sound like the culprit causing the problem, while it frames the western world as the ones âlooking for solutionsâ. Iâm a citizen of western society, born and raised in Britain, and we need to take ownership for our consumption, waste and the poor job weâve done at managing (covering-up) these over the years. At every point weâve opted for capital and convenience over whatâs more correct; Just imagine the carbon footprint of shipping waste to China instead of domestically processing it!
The Chinese government has its problems - I take particular exception to the Uighur situation - and Iâm sure broader Chinese society has its issues too, maybe opioid addiction, pedophilia or invading foreign lands to âsecure interestsâ, but this video is shameless and irrational in its contempt for China - hallmarks of prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and racism.
Not sure whether to give a thumbs up for finally giving some transparency to our âspecial arrangementâ to make our problems disappear, or a thumbs down for the propaganda.
Donât really see that big of a bias. It just states it how it is at that point in time. China benefited itâs not like they took our recycled waste out of the goodness of their heart. They received money from the US to process its recycling in addition to the fact that they got free resources that they lacked such as the paper, ofc thereâs nothing wrong with them stopping once their economy has developed. But donât be under the misconception that China did it for free. Itâs a win win for both sides at the time, it was just more saying the west wasnât prepared for China changing its policy
And ofc itâs going to focus on how it affected the west because this is a western channel. Look at Chinese videos they r way more biased not saying that this is how we should model our ideology by just being better than China because thatâs a low bar considering they are a communist dictatorship at the end of the day but itâs important to take into perspective that this is a channel written for western viewers
@@kelvin4833 they aren't really very communist. I agree with the rest of what you said. đ
@@kelvin4833 they paid for the trash! They never received a penny for it!
Right now im actively developing a extremely cheap strap that is completely degradable. The material im testing seems to be a favorite of the earthworms and pillbugs in my compost
What is wrong with; bring your own bag and good old fashioned returnable bottles, just like we had just a few short decades ago. My first foray into the business world was taking my Red Rider wagon, going house to house, asking if they had any returnable bottles they wanted to get rid of, at 2 cents a bottle, I made a lot of candy money.
First step would be starting with the plastic waste from soda companies. Glass is more expensive but washing and re bottling .
use the Yugoslavian packing model from years between 1960 to 1990...reusable glass bottles, limited use of paper...many other things.
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Indian state ...tamilnadu also implemented ban on single use plastics
Singapore burns all waste material, which produce electricity. All waste materials can be turned Into useful resources.
There is actually a way to make sorting plastic products easily enough using the basic machines and that's is to simply mandate the colouring for different plastic products. Like say all bottle lids made from one type of plastic to all be one colour, another type a different colour, and the same goes with all the bottles. If it is one type of plastic, regardless of the makers or brands, it is one colour. Then you can simply chop up all waste plastic products and use optical sorting machines to sort them out very easily.
killing? sounds more like a reforming to me.
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