Where Should Landfills Go?

[@gwynnorris2496]

The problem with trash really comes down to the concept of trash itself. We have linear supply chains that start with raw resources and end with trash. We need to move to circular supply chains that cycle resources and don’t create useless resources, which is what trash really is.

[@pennyforyourthots]

It would also help to stop over production. If I remember correctly it's something like 30% of all Goods produced get thrown away, so it's not even just that the supply chain ends in trash, but that at every stage of production a little bit of it getting thrown away

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

Since we are already seeing plastic eating bacteria Should we just make plastic feeder pits for plastivores? Like how we would with other food waste for pigs ect Also the methane is a fuel that we can capture A way to produce electricity So we sort as best we can from non reusable like plastics So a bin full of plastic for plastivores to eat Like how we found it in rock underground, at later date plastivores added to decompose Paper products burned for Power & the ashes used for filler Metal being recycled to remove it from the wastes So we then put a digger claw on this & drop it into a landfill

[@nuarius]

reusability, recycling, and cutting overproduction are all amazingly good ideas that we absolutely should be doing.... But We live under an economic system that has no regard for anything but profits. and none of the above solutions are the most profitable ones, or nessacaraly even profitable at all. Just like the garbage problem.... if you want to Actually solve it you have to deal with the root issues that lead to the issue in the first place..... and I just dont see that ever happening.

[@Nukepositive]

Even nature produces waste. The human body can't recycle its own poo, and gets eliminated. But nature has a separate ecology for animal poop. There can be a separate ecology for some trash like paper and food waste, but there can't be much of an ecology for hazardous materials.

[@fluuufffffy1514]

I'm frequently amazed that we're in the year 2021 and we still haven't figured out trash! I mean, as an ecologist, it's hard to understand how trash is even a thing...

[@nyc90]

The title of this video “Where should landfills go? #teamseas” makes it sound like he supports dumping trash in the ocean 😂😂 . Where should landfills go? I’m on team dump it in the sea of course!

[@fluuufffffy1514]

hahaha hadn't thought of that!

[@GordonSlamsay]

Hell yeah!

[@joeridamian473]

haha my thought too. made me click cause I couldn't believe it.

[@jintanarawdsukumaal3000]

I agree . Really ironic

[@FlightRecorder1]

Everyone needs a make work project!

[@hape3862]

FYI: Here in Germany (and many other European countries) there are NO landfills for domestic waste anymore. "No landfills" as in "none at all"! Everything gets either recycled or incinerated for energy production (electric power and district heating). The ashes are being molten into a sort of glass and go into road building. The only landfills left are for building rubble, i.e. concrete and bricks, but - of course - without steel rebars, wood and hazardous material like asbestos. Steel and wood are recycled as well and hazardous waste goes into a few landfills especially assigned for hazardous material, like deep in former coal mines. The building rubble is currently in the process to be more and more recycled as well instead of dumped into landfills, i.e. as a substitute for gravel and sand in new concrete. Old landfills are closed and sealed, and the fowling gases are captured and used for energy production.

[@pennyforyourthots]

How good are those incinerators for the environment? Even if you collect all the ash from them, I can't imagine the fumes and chemicals are particularly Great.

[@0rangebox]

I work in the industry. They have strict environmental requirements in the EU and they progressively get stricter. While they do produce some CO2 and other harmful gasses the vast majority are captured and removed before they hit the stack. The amount of harmful gasses that make it to atmosphere are significantly lower than landfill and are cleaner than most coal and gas plants.

[@bowez9]

By recycled do you mean sent to a foreign country for me to sort an eventually throw in a landfill? Or is all the recycling done in Germany?

[@chikitronrx0]

You should see this reportage by Planet A about recycling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWpc5WugqmcZ7c

[@Vigo327]

All good ideas that in an excessively free market have to justify themselves with profit. The way we get those things to work in the United States is regulation and taxation to create an incentive structure around it. That is the big hurdle. Many americans have been basically radicalized by one of the political parties to be almost violently, or sometimes violently opposed to taxation even if it creates a net benefit to them. That problem is bigger than cities.

[@greenhawk6839]

The basic problem with landfills is that we're just digging a hole to put our waste in, and then digging another one when that hole gets too full because none of it ever really breaks down. It's ultimately a completely unsustainable way of dealing with waste, meaning the only real solution is to make less of it to begin with.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I’m remembering how 20 years ago I was told “well we obviously can’t keep doing that forever, but that’s okay because we’re always improving recycling”… as far as I can tell, the plastics which recycled easy 20 years ago still do and the ones which don’t still don’t :/ glass and metals recycling also by and large use processes that are very mature. Lead-acid batteries were the only majority-recycled battery 20 years ago and that’s still true today. Etc.

[@nickpilger5190]

Why don't we use Space X's Starship once they have it operational, and shoot our trash into space?

[@nickpilger5190]

Each party involved would make some $$$ and our universe is bigger than our minds could ever wrap around.

[@nickpilger5190]

If there are other intelligent life forms in this universe, they might stumble upon our trash and we could make contact. By no means is it likely, but it is possible.

[@williamlloyd3769]

You totally missed the point that landfills, if they are not totally water tight, have potential to leach into groundwater tables. Where do you think NYC gets water? Upstate NY.

[@TheRealPSKilla502]

Again, it costs a ton of money to ship garbage across the country. It has to go somewhere though. In an ideal world, if money wasn't a factor, we would all ship our garbage out to the desert in Nevada, where there's virtually no water to leach, but unfortunately, that's not economically feasible in the real world.

[@caepa3081]

Leaks into groundwater in live oak canyon, redlands/yucaipa. It'll have to be remediated soon

[@FINNSTIGAT0R]

Process your garbage for god's sake instead of thinking where to dump them!

[@jimurrata6785]

New York City gets its water from surface reservoirs not aquifers. These are located within a protected watershed in the Catskills. 'Watershed' is just like it sounds. Anywhere that could shed water into the reservoir. (basically all land _uphill_ ) You get no argument that landfills could contaminate groundwater if not properly constructed and maintained, but your example is very wrong.

[@RaymondStone]

Come on, Will. Are you saying you have a problem with a little dirty diaper flavor in your drinking water?

[@jintanarawdsukumaal3000]

Singapore : and i took that personally . In Singapore they burn the trash of course BUT they filter out the smoke before releasing it , therefore emitting clean air ( smaller than 1 micron ! ) . And the heat used to burn the trash during the process could generate electricity to houses as well . 90 percent of them are already burnt and remaining 10 percent are ashes . BUT the 10 percent ashes are actually used to build and expand Singapore's land area . And the reclaimed land from the sea that's made by the trash are actually clean . just like a resort ( btw the ashes are actually shipped far away to a man made island . the ashes dumped to make the reclaimed land are actually dumped into a special water that doesn't touch the actual ocean water . )

[@cringefootball2020]

Yeah I’ve heard of this, it sounds interesting

[@jintanarawdsukumaal3000]

@@cringefootball2020 actually i got all of this legit info from a nas daily video

[@cringefootball2020]

@@jintanarawdsukumaal3000 oh so did I 😅

[@jintanarawdsukumaal3000]

@@cringefootball2020 yep

[@mateorios1636]

How did they read my idea from a school presentation back when i was 10?

[@adam6543]

You've flooded my recommendations with team sea. Get it, flooded 😀

[@fortsheridanmc]

Lol

[@mrvan3491]

Yeah me too I've got notifications from more than ten channels

[@tanjoy0205]

Great pun buddy

[@thesilentone4024]

Literally everyone teamsea like have they never heard of investing in working new technologies that do just that. Like a electric trash truck thats skims trash off the beaches without taking the sand.

[@tsbreakout8783]

Fuck yes I agree!!!!

[@elninobritish]

Worked at a landfill engineering firm. I thought I was doing good by making sure the places didn’t leak but I ultimately became really disenchanted by how unsustainable these places were. People were happy that we were just throwing away crap. No consideration was given for how to lessen the waste that goes into landfills, always more more more… and the landfills kept getting bigger and bigger.

[@mrMacGoover]

The issue with methane gas in landfills comes down to the organic waste breaking down that is mixed in with the inorganic waste. More must be done to encourage people to segregate their organic waste into organic bins and have weekly pickup of it where it can be taken to facilities that compost organic waste in a controlled environment to create methane gas to power and heat homes as well as provide healthy compost to farmers as a natural soil builder.

[@MrMrilikepie1234]

Completely agree. While this a great solution to developed countries, and is probably manageable, the problem still remains in developing countries. I think there needs to be some strong investment from richer countries into helping developing countries manage their municipal solid waste.

[@kaitlyn__L]

A lot of UK cities stopped collections for those at the start of covid and to my knowledge haven’t resumed :/ it’s a shame too because, as bad as CO2 is, methane is so much worse (and decays into CO2 anyway after a few decades of harm) that it’s literally better to burn it than release it.

Your channel is very good, hope you grow more and more

[@Quantum-Bullet]

Informative, unlike MrBeast content.

[@cattatron]

@@Quantum-Bullet agreed

[@GeorgeGraves]

Santa Barbara uses "yard waste" to cover the landfill each night. People that live there think that their lawn clippings are going to go off to be composted into soil. Little do they know, nope, it's just there to cover the smell of the landfill.

[@Sofus.]

In Denmark, the use of landfills has been banned since the 1980s. Burning and Recycling is not perfect, but a better alternative to polluting our drinking water. 💧

[@evansilva3045]

Burning just makes the chemicals and plastics airborne as well as impossible to collect when we do find a solution to waste in the future

[@kylealexander7024]

Still have to bury toxic ash. I worked at a recycling plant. Its like concentrating the heavy metals and other chemicals like arsenic. Extracting methane from landfills is a better alternative to burning trash as well. Pollution wise

[@Steve1766]

@@evansilva3045 open burning yes but incineration in factories does not pollute it's filtered

[@SamaelMoneyStein]

Damm the cult of pretend to save the world is real I didn't even know we drank ocean water 🤔LOL you people are a joke

[@kylealexander7024]

@@SamaelMoneyStein who said anything about drinking ocean water besides u

[@geode9512]

1 step forward 3 steps back. what we need to do is end plastic production, the root of the problem. now that's something i would donate to.

[@BobSmith-mp8ld]

Never gonna happen, westerners are too lazy, and cheap. Plastic is used in pretty much everything.

[@Dtoons]

Glad you're part of Team Seas!

[@Rat__Wife]

I love Swiss waste management. Banned landfills in 2000 and now incinerate their garbage and use the energy to power the city. And they have super efficient recycling and public compost service.

[@SamaelMoneyStein]

Where does the smoke of the burning go to ? Fantasy land ? XD no they go into the air further polluting and burning our ozone.

[@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains]

@@SamaelMoneyStein It's called incineration dummy, burning and incineration are two different things.

[@melono3689]

@@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains Lol look up what incineration means before calling other people dummies... Incineration is literally the disposal of waste through burning...

[@JimmiG84]

The regulations are very strict in Europe. Most of the pollutants are filtered out. This of course has to be stored safely somewhere, but it only makes up around 15% of the waste. The slag left in the incinerator is also processed and any metal that might have been mistakenly burned gets recycled. The remaining slag gravel can be used instead of crushed rock during road construction, for example.

[@alvind5515]

But burning waste produces more CO2 than coal

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I've been doing the recycling thing as long as I can remember, I even wash stuff (not with soap, but I make sure there is nothing left on it) to make sure it actually gets recycled and not sent to a landfill despite being put in recycling because it had a tiny bit of stuff on it..

[@f.r.4329]

Many take away coffee is sold in a non recyclable paper plastic cups. Imagine there are round about 610.000 cups sold every day in NYC alone. If you now use recyclable cups, made out of plastic, that you can return to the coffee shop and reuse it, that would safe a lot of waste going into landfills. To motivate people to return the cups back to the shops put a dollar on those cups if you return them to a coffee shop you get the dollar back. It's a very simple solution but turns takeaway coffees into cycles, but all coffee shops have to agree to accept the return of the cups.

[@f.r.4329]

P.S. This system is already in use in Germany for example

[@megaascension2748]

Part of the problem with this is that a policy like this violates many states health codes. I work at a short order grill in the summer, and we are not allowed to refill drinking cups from other places because according to state health code, we cannot handle outside food and beverages. So it’s not just a business problem, but a law problem too.

[@f.r.4329]

@@megaascension2748 It's simply sad, this system works good for small and middle sized coffee shops in Germany, e.g. a coffee shop in my local commuter rail station, turn in the morning and return in the evening, the owner increases the chances for a second coffee on the way home. So owners of coffee shops should have an interest of changing the law.

[@eliscanfield3913]

When I was a kid, Connecticut's beaches would have to close periodically because of NYC's medical waste washing up. (It'd been dumped in the ocean) I heard there was even an amputated foot found once.

[@mdrichards]

ah, the good ol' days...

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

That sinks 🦶

[@michaelmarkson3564]

"Landfills can't be near airports, since they attract birds." I wonder how they control the birds at Miramar Landfill and keep them from interfering with MCAS Miramar.

[@christopherchan6505]

Marines shoot 'em down. Jk, IDK

[@darkestaxe3415]

IDK about any landfills by MCAS, but you gotta figure that every time a bird gets sucked through a Harrier jet, a Marine dies but a lucrative replacement contract is born.

[@thomasr1051]

Some landfills employ falconers

[@samuelhulme8347]

Simple, bird traffic control

[@robertmcdonnold3038]

Good video. I wish you would have expanded further on the pneumatic tube system. The pros and cons of the system. Thanks Bob

[@NirvanaFan5000]

Around 25% of all landfill waste is compostable (and probably the primary driver of the gross, rotten smell, as well as GHGs). Cities need to invest more into composting and recycling systems.

[@ethanbiemer78]

I work on landfills and it is the money being made from them will keep them around for a long time. The gas to energy is start to be the fastest growing sector for “green energy” and gets lots of tax credits.

[@cmdr1911]

I work as a construction concultant in SE Ohio. I have worked an 3 major landfills that were former strip mines. They have been running for 60+ years and have another 100 years in capacity. The goal is to reclaim the land. We are also capturing the methane to run the garbage trucks. There is nothing more disguisting than misting. It is receycled leachate and is horrendous

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

Leachate spray will likely become illegal, can't be great for workers or for air quality.

[@lohphat]

What percentage of “recycling” ACTUALLY is recycled? There is a lot in that stream which can’t be recycled. Greenwashing is a thing and much of it goes to landfill unbeknownst to the public.

[@paxundpeace9970]

I does depend on the system. When waste is properly separate by the consumer it is much easier. But only when waste is properly dealt with by waste management and not landing in a landfill or at sea then recycling can be pretty good. Aluminum from soda can be recycled by almost 100 percent. Pure plastic can be reused too.

[@lohphat]

@@paxundpeace9970 The plastics industry co-opted the "recycling" logo from the 1970s and falsely implies that all plastic types can be recycled. Only 2-3 types can be recycled cost-effectively -- the rest can't and has to be separated out. That plastic waste is still burned or buried.

[@nonec384]

@@paxundpeace9970 thats way there should be a aluminiun and glass and maybe even a iron and miselanion metal bags , metals and glass can be recycble indefined and it is cost effective , so much peoplo can actualy make money from then

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@lohphat also only like 1 kind of plastic can be recycled more than 2 times.

[@brent4adv]

Great video. I was involved with designing and building a system that sucked a vacuum on a landfill so that we could get the landfill gas (LFG) and sell it to a brick plant that used it to fuel their furnaces. When the brick plant wasn't using the gas, we burned it on a flare.

[@Occupant]

The garbage at the bottom of the Fresh Kills Landfall (aka the Staten Island Dump) is under so much pressure, no oxygen can reach it and it never spoils. Researchers have pulled 70-year-old hot dogs out of there that are still edible.

[@ashleyhill6697]

That would be a cool place to be buried.

[@AlexShans1]

Let's go creators - together we can do it all!

[@appleslover]

I love the sense of community

[@cringefootball2020]

Let’s go Team Seas! 💪🌊

[@alsanchez5038]

We have a power plant that Burns waste and produces heat and electricity. In summer the heat is super cheap and used to cool the factory’s and offices around here. It reduces the need for landfills.

[@SansBalance]

1.Put a good incineration plant in every neighborhood, ESPECIALLY rich ones. 2. Forbid trash export. 3. Burn everything not recycled or compostable (unless actually hazardous to equipment), including so called recyclables that don’t actually get recycled. Any person not liking trash burning is welcomed to make less trash.

[@ignasanchezl]

This sounds awesome ngl.

[@hape3862]

Germany already does this, and many European countries as well. No active landfills for domestic waste here anymore.

[@ms_cartographer]

Also, force companies to make reusable/refillable products.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@hape3862 i don't trust those claims, many of those countries used to get away with that by sending it to countries like mine Malaysia so they can keep a squeaky clean image at home.

[@gkp76]

What's the effect on air pollution though?

[@omri9982]

Love this channel!

[@1babysag]

Battery Park City was built on “Clean Fill” not on typical waste (garbage) as is found in landfill. It would not make sense to build tall structures on the unstable ground found in a standard landfill. There is a difference although technically it could all be considered landfills. The Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island was closed and after years it is now being turned into a park, but it is unlikely that they will build housing on that site.

[@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains]

They should be incinerated to generate electricity or Syngas with efficient pollution filtration wash systems to reduce any pollutants. The ashes can easily be trated by enzymes and fungi to completely detox any remaining toxic particles. In belgium the remains from waste incinerators are completely detoxed through bio-remdediation, they can later be used to create building materials which lasts very long and can endure harsh weather conditions while still being non-toxic. I'm surprised the US has been so bad at finding profitable, cost efficient yet sustainable and greener methods of handling trash unlike other countries. Almost all waste-to-energy and recycling facilities are privately owned in Europe.

[@NLD987]

It amazes me to hear that in US and still some EU countries, waste is not seen as resource. It amazes me to learn that landfills still exist, that recycling and reduction of waste is not policy and practice. It amazes me to learn that collected waste in oceans is done even though the best way would be to not put it there to start with. People, just do the right thing and do not create so much waste by not buying so much crap!!! It safe u money for thing that really matters and helps the world. Spending money on collecting waste in oceans before we stopped putting it there is waste!!!

[@knobjockey6882]

Incineration is a surprisingly efficient and effective way of removing landfill, but it’s gotta be done right

[@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains]

You're correct! The filtration systems as well as ash treatment has to be highly efficient to completely get rid of any harmful contaminants. I believe all states should look into public private partnerships with companies and startups within this field of waste management with qualitable reputation. Landfills are completely useless in this day and age, we must look forward and embrace new sustainable, cost efficient and greener solutions to waste management in America. I hope more states look into this as a viable option contrary to the inefficient management that's used today.

[@cornloin9732]

Isnt it bad for pollution

[@fuchsia02]

@@cornloin9732 they filter out most of it

[@EnbyFranziskaNagel]

@@fuchsia02 The drawback of filtering is that you end up with highly concentrated hazardous waste.

[@thomasluck5955]

Guys this is a very legit charity that is great at delegating it’s money, donations and resources to actual projects! A 5 dollar donation does a lot

[@Tzar1]

And removes 5 pounds of trash from the ocean

[@ruudpoutsma5273]

I'm flabbergasted. An American I respect and I regard as really smart does not question the concept of landfills at all. It's obvious that we need to separate trash and down/re/upcycle instead.

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

Lets be real, the majority of people aren't going to reuse, reduce or recycle. You're lucky to even get them to toss the trash in a trashcan rather than on the streets. I think the main way to tackle the trash problem is from the top. Namely have companies find ways to make more enviromentally friendly packaging and products that doesn't take forever to break down and/or can be easily recycled.

[@ouicertes9764]

the problem is that we produce items with no protocols or idea of how we destroy and dispose of them. The price of disposal should be included in production, maybe capitalism would then be incentivized to innovate on easily recyclable and quickly biodegradable materials.

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

#ProducerResponsibility

[@GFmanaic]

Syngas or unsorted waste processing (see UBQ material) is a way to process our addiction to plastic while we find long term solutions

[@countpoolnoodleiii99]

I really don't get why the us hasn't widely adopted cogeneration incineration plants. Is upfront cost such a deterrent?

[@iqbalindaryono8984]

Yes

[@MajorOutage]

Some cities had power-generating incinerators up into the 90s, but they were shut down due to the cost of upgrading them to meet new clean air standards.

[@countpoolnoodleiii99]

@@MajorOutage What a shame. Especially considering the environmental impact of landfills is far worse than even the bad incineration plants.

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

@@countpoolnoodleiii99 Burning plastic isn't great. These things should be composted and recycled vs burnt.

[@countpoolnoodleiii99]

@@worldchangingvideos6253 I agree in principle, however for a lot of the waste we produce (including many plastics) recycling them is either impossible with current technology or such an inefficient process that no one wants to bother with it. Even if someone were to put up with the energy intensive process of recycling those goods with low value density this process is also linked to the emission of greenhouse gases, considering the energy mix in most places. So while I agree in principle it is worth asking if trying to recycle every piece of plastic no matter it's properties is really the right approach currently.

[@pongop]

Cool video! I am reminded of that Futurama episode about New New York's garbage. Regarding the seas, I would love to see your take on floating cities and seasteading!

[@myriamnickner-hudon4166]

You should definively do a video on pneumatic thrash systems and other ways cities manage trash collection. The pros and cons of each methods. Innovations . Also cost difference between urban dense area and suburbs.

[@johnstutznegger4817]

My love for city design comes from my love for the environment 20$ to #teamseas

[@ericlotze7724]

Could we get a video on Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), and Landfill vs Incineration vs Pyrolysis vs Gasification etc? Granted may not be your area, but more publicity on landfills vs alternatives should be good imo!

[@LucarioBoricua]

Waste management is one of the most critical issues in urbanism, given its enormous consequences for the environment, public health, land use and economic activities.

[@ericlotze7724]

@@LucarioBoricua Yep! But not vary glamorous so not often discussed

[@danwylie-sears1134]

Rather than burning trash (with plenty of oxygen, so that it will actually burn), maybe we should heat it without oxygen so that the volatile components will vaporize, and then burn those to provide the heat for the next bit of trash. The stinky chemicals would be destroyed, along with any potentially disease-causing microbes, but most of the carbon would stay in place. Landfilling the resulting trash-charcoal would sequester the carbon instead of having it go into the atmosphere.

[@DanielQRT]

doing this would probably use way too much energy to justify jt

[@danwylie-sears1134]

@@DanielQRT If the trash is flammable in the first place, it still provides the energy. At worst, you just wouldn't have much carbon left because it mostly had to be burned to heat the next bit of trash. If the trash just isn't flammable, then incineration was an energy-consuming process regardless of whether you're trying to save carbon.

[@paxundpeace9970]

Proportional rural communities are much more wasteful because small communities aren't as efficient as big cities. When talking about pollution and waste it is important to generate not just the image of the dirty and wasteful city.

[@doug282]

Incineration for energy is the best way. Emissions nowadays are similar to car exhausts.

[@Dseated]

It seems simple, the manufacturer needs to submit a product for evaluation, each government determines how much it will cost to recycle the item completely (not just 10% of it) that becomes a recycling tariff on top of the cost of item.

[@thedankgoat7972]

a system of trash tubes sounds complicated (but cool if they can pull it off), instead they should do what the Netherlands does and have drop off points for trash which are big underground containers that can be lifted up and emptied by a garbage truck.

[@henrygeorgecat3189]

Great initiative!

[@roberttaylor9259]

we need nationwide compost sites

[@grizzlybears]

I haven’t seen any vids on landfills with team trees happy y’all did a video on it

[@jeffreylee2993]

Nothing in this video mentioned about the 3 R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We can add a 4th one, ie, Rot. If we could reduce our trash to landfill by 90%, most of this problem would go away. --> make it costly to produce landfill trash. If any manufacturer produces a product with non-recyclable trash, including packaging, or non-compostable trash, it must PAY for it. They either have to collect the trash back themselves (which hopefully will lead to a circular supply chain), or only sell items that they themselves can recycle or compost. (Claiming that a product is compostable is not enough. The manufacturer must off all consumers the means to do it.) Consumers can play a role too. They cannot simply toss anything into a garbage bin. They must separate their trash and return it to the manufacturer (or to a facility that the manufacturer pays fees to in order to do it for them). Unseparated Trash to landfill that can be recycled or composted will then be charged to consumers. You will see consumers avoid products that contain unrecyclable, unreusable or non-compostable materials. The goal will be ZERO WASTE, not just ZERO landfill.

[@Salamander220]

YESSS NEW CITY BEAUTIFUL!!!! question for you sir, can former quarries be used landfills and create more land?

[@anne12876]

Yes! In my city (Montreal), the city and the government recently converted an old 192 hectares (half the size of the Central Park) quarry that was later used as a landfill into a city park (Frédéric-Back Park). They installed a system to capture the methane emissions coming from the waste and reuse it to heat the surrounding buildings (Cirque du Soleil's headquarters and a circus theatre). I visited the site in 2010 when it was still a landfill and today, it's a beautiful green space for the neighbourhood to enjoy. BTW, many parks in Montreal used to be landfills in the 1800's.

[@jk484]

I wish you would have mentioned Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, which is being turned into a massive park

[@cameronnorris2055]

Everything needs to stop being covered in plastic, even damn vegetables and fruit!

[@MatthewCaban]

Edgemere, Starrett City, Rikers island, & Fresh Kills, all landfills filled and closed that were in NYC

[@mackenziebrown9212]

Building development on landfills can result in all sorts of health issues that go beyond bad smells. Look into the Gordon Plaza development in New Orleans. There's a lot of environmental justice issues that go along with the question of where we site landfills and other things with negative externalities.

[@learnerlove6853]

I apologize when I saw team seas i thought you were in favor of dumping in the seas and unsubscribed as an angry floridian… I’m back though :)

[@KhanCrete]

I thought the exact same thing, like, "wow, didn't think anyone was pro-dumping trash into the water"

[@orkanner2183]

4th team seas video i watched #TeamSeas

[@Ascertivus]

2:59 New York City did that with their mail in the 20th century! They could attempt to retrofit the system for trash if it's unused or enters that state in the future.

[@ericamaine8139]

Thanks for bringing attention to #teamseas !

[@Walkingcedar2006]

Landfills, especially in South Carolina and states like them, are SPECIFICALLY built in or near minority populations. I didn't expect it to be mentioned here). This is done for the same reasons American waste company try to ship their waste to non-eurocentric countries. I know people don't want there to be a social aspect, but there IS A LARGE ONE, something that should NEVER simply be glossed over. Though, I stop short of suggesting that that's the case here, as I have a more positive feeling with this channel. Thus, this is merely a "just sayin'" moment.

[@tommyr9531]

We have a landfill in a former quarry in our town that has had huge issues and it can be smelled all across town at might and some people believe there is even a subsurface fire

[@daprovocateur]

Awesome to See you joining up w Mark rober and My Beast! TeamSeas!

[@Sd1v8v]

I know in London there was a plan to dig up older landfills for the metals people dumped.

[@ingloriousday8811]

Good cause! Commenting to boost for the algorithm

[@duMaurier15]

you should do a video on new york/the bronx transformation from the 80s to now.

[@corey2232]

Still hoping for an episode on Buffalo's city design. One of the country's greatest landscape architects (who designed Central Park) helped design it & called it *"the best planned city in America, if not the world."* Of course, it's fallen a long way since then, but at the time of its inception, it was designed to be beautiful.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Cities need to grow organically, not be designed by one guy. No one person knows what land use pattern works for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of residents.

[@corey2232]

@@mirzaahmed6589 I wasn't referencing growth, but actual city planning. Buffalo was specifically located & chosen based on similar reasons to Chicago & other great lakes cities, but it's layout & design were commissioned & well developed by the country's greatest talent at the time & was beautiful. But regarding your topic, there was a reason Buffalo quickly grew to a top 5 population in the country at one point. Geography, city planning, the Eerie Canal, adopting electricity faster than any other city, etc. But again, discussing what went into the unique concept that made it recognized for its ingenuity is what I am interested in.

[@saeidnourian4237]

Why is TeamSeas not listed in charity navigator websit? I like to check efficiency numbers there before donating

[@Vigo327]

Last-mile indeed. This is a good area for subsidizing more efficient vehicles to do that work. Government should lead by example on reducing climatic impact from buildings and vehicles. Unfortunately that money has to come from somewhere. Ironically, the money to make that possible already comes from customers in areas that have no public option and the private sector is able to price accordingly to their lack of competition, but the money doesn't go into reducing climatic impacts. So, the public needs to be sold on the either/or proposition of spending more to reduce waste byproducts into the environments (via either the trash or the trucks) or laying in the bed we make by being indoctrinated cheapasses. Tax policy again, DANGIT.

[@lothean2099]

I truly believe we can recycle everything that goes to the landfill, even food scraps.

[@Rytoast99]

As an environmental systems engineer you can definitely recycle a lot of what goes into landfills, but there are certainly lots of items which absolutely cannot be reused. These include batteries, the non rechargeable kind, diapers (the materials used in them once saturated cannot become unsaturated and many more. industrial waste products such as bricks cannot be reused for really anything while concrete can be crushed and is frequently used as a backfill material in construction. Brick doesnt work the same way as its density does change as linearly with moisture which would create pockets making it unsuitable. Asphalt is a perfect material and has been forever as it is 100% reusable. All it needs is to be rebroken up and heated and it can be added to hot mix. Organic wastes such as trimmings, lawn clippings, food scraps, and some wood can be composted, but pressure treated woods shouldnt be, instead they should incinerated. Ironically the people pushing for trash incineration for energy hate coal because its ‘dirty’ when the same scrubbers that remove virtually all emissions from incineration plants were quite literally created for coal and work even better for coal plants. As far as fossil fuels go, coal is incredibly cheap, and modern practices has it just as clean as or more so than NG, and much cleaner than petroleum.

[@brendanmcdowell5362]

Wait, you didn't mention anything about composting food waste. Most of the GHG and Methane is created by rotting food waste. We could reduce the amount of waste headed to landfills by 30 percent through ambitious composting programs.

[@TrueLifeRetelling]

I can already see the New York pneumatic tunes getting clogged on purpose

[@nowaruku]

Speaking of landfills, you should make a video about City View Center in Garfield Heights, Ohio.

[@daveassanowicz186]

Some spots of NYC look like a landfill

[@rexx9496]

So much trash can be reduced by more efficient packaging of goods. So many things you buy use excessive packaging. And sometimes the larger packaging is just to give the illusion of importance.

[@nitehawk86]

So, the title of this video is "Where Should Landfills Go? #TeamSeas", which makes it sound like "Where should Landfills Go? Into the seas!"

[@vlaDVille]

This is why we need a space elevator to yeet it into the Sun.

[@dafeels3085]

you'll have to attach mini rockets so it can escape earth's gravity

[@nonec384]

@@dafeels3085 it would work in the moon wih high speed tracks tho

[@carlosandleon]

volcanoes bruh

[@ouicertes9764]

that's how we get the plot of Wall-E

[@FGH9G]

Futurama has entered the chat.

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

great video

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

please do a collaboration with " not just bikes"

[@jillengel4124]

One of my fave KZbin channels.

[@laiyuzeng8195]

When you say those trash were shipped to other places in America, it's partially correct. Some of the trash were shipped in shipping containers back to South East Asia or other poorer countries ever since China has developed recently and stopped taking in trash. Full containers of useful goods to Western countries, empty containers back to their manufacturing country? That'll be a waste, so they ship trash instead. My country Malaysia is one of the victim to that, check out this video from Cheddar kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4Wzd4GshNx-qbM. AND! Not just trash, but rare earth refining from Australia too. Check out Lynas Western countries like to say they're good at recycling and keeping the environment clean, yet sometimes they shipped all those dirty polluting trash to poorer places. Out of sight out of mind, then bashing those countries not doing enough to save the environment. Hypocrite and double standard.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

It's like we make more garbage than ever before. Milk carton have a plastic pull tab to open a screw top. Before pears were wrapped in paper but now it's plastic mesh. Any fruit or vegetable sold in more than 1 means plastic containers or plastic mesh bags. Yogurts and margarine tubs use a ton of plastic. If you avoided buying any plastics you would be hard up to find anything to eat.

[@Jessie-vm6kq]

Is it just me or is all I could think about is that one futurama episode where the trash ball from Old New York comes back and so they throw out all their stuff to make another trash ball to repel the old one. “People of New New York, stop recycling!”

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

Ideally, it starts at the top. There need to be laws put in place that incentivize and eventually force businesses that produce a lot of waste to move to recycable or biodegradable materials. There's not much we can do with the existing trash but we can limit future trash.

[@RaffySonata]

the tag #TeamSeas after the title without context make it seems like you are team dumping to the sea

[@magicluka9384]

Wow... Such a long way from NYC to South Carolina landfills

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Them there hills are gold.

[@Reavenk]

We're going to talk about the landfill problem in NewYork and not talk about that one Futurama episode?

[@mattsmocs3281]

Time to make #teamseas videos

[@mattyphilpotts3745]

The title makes it sound like you're on the side of dumping landfill in the ocean

[@shlubbers1778]

Thank you MrBeast and Mark Rober for making all the best youtubers upload! Oh, and for cleaning the ocean and stuff!

[@c.h.175]

Aw man...you need to research the landfills in New Castle County Delaware.

[@Verwijderd435]

here in the netherlands empty plastic bottles are brought back to the store for money.good system.

[@Cacowninja]

What about landfill mining where you sort through trash to recycle even if it's been put in a landfill.

[@tombrennan6312]

You know, just because the PR flacks in the garbage business call dumps "landfills" doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to follow suit. We can speak plainly and call dumps...dumps.

[@alexbur6021]

If only trash could be turned into fuel as it could be used to power vehicles like buses and metros that could be possible maybe in the future trust could be transformed into fuel for public Transportation

[@WoddCar]

We should just toss it into Yellowstone when it starts erupting

[@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains]

No, we should generate energy from it. Any ashes remaining can be completely de-contaminated by an efficient wash method using enzymes and certain bio-engineered fungi as a part of a quick bio-remediation process. When completely de-contaminated the ashes can be used as create construction materials that are sustainable and durable even in the harshest weather conditions overall improving the life span of buildings etc. Ik that's how they do it in Belgium, most ppl ask whether pollutants are released in the atmosphere after the trash has been incinerated for energy, but most of these facilities have efficient filtering systems that de-contaminate the smoke from the incinerator and convert it into water vapor and small amount of CO2 which makes it a lot cleaner, environmentally friendly and efficient than burning trash in the open or dumping it in a landfill.

[@vitaminluke5597]

Are you at Scripps Pier in San Diego? I live nearby!

[@williamoverton1548]

My prayer is send it to utah!

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

Electric and quiet, clean waste trucks are coming! *Does NY use trains to export waste? I believe so.