How They Recycle Tons of Used Plastic Bottles Converted Into PVC Pipes

[@Bob-db2py]

After watching the work conditions these guys work under shows me how blessed I am to be born in the United States!

[@CZpersi]

The Pakistani heavy duty protective sandals and respirator-beards are legendery.

[@mplsmark222]

@@CZpersi at least they are not handling molten metal in bare feet. One gets the feeling they put very little value on the health and well-being of these people.

[@westvalley411]

Haha. Good one...

[@rinvalk3211]

The whole process looks very healthy to me !!!

[@dariozeta3587]

😂😂😂

[@22pcirish]

It’s a job for them, it doesn’t pay much but it puts food on the table.

[@bluestreak3864]

Robert Kennedy Approved

[@caitoxose]

Isn't it amazing? They melt PET bottles and they come out as PVC pipes. Wow! That must be indian magic. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dariozeta3587]

😂😂😂 Es la magia India.

[@bakkenta1]

Pakistani magic.😊

[@gostawestin6418]

Same basic ingredients, so no magic

[@robertmueller6979]

@@gostawestin6418 lol... not even close. PET bottles to PVC tubes would be new chemistry unknown to mortal man. Those are, I hope, drain pipes so it shouldn't be a problem but it's not the same.

[@wwlb4970]

Thing is, PVC pipe is a modern name for anything which looks like PVC pipe. Think of it as a wide brand name adoption, like Pampers or Vaseline. Similarly, they don't mean polyvinyl-chloride pipe, they mean "pee-vee-see pipe"

[@ralfhartmann5050]

I hope the hard working workers have a nice life in their free time. 🤔👍❗

[@RicoD5]

As long as it lasts 🤔

[@Joseph-ut4ui]

I'm glad they can get rid of plastic bottles, but their inefficiency is astounding. They waste a lot of time throwing things on the ground, only to have to pick them up again.

[@marcwieber6989]

Yoga is from that region, right? Maybe it is just yoga exercises included into work: "drop the negative bottle", pick up the energised bottle, let the pvc melt flow etc.

[@ratdetecting4780]

😂😂😂😂😂​@@marcwieber6989

[@MrDelgrigorov]

This is very cheap slave labor.

[@garyb6219]

You think they can afford bins? Nope.

[@gostawestin6418]

Amazing to see all the ridiculing of the process when it’s ages ahead of the American model - throwing plastic into landfills! Perhaps it’s time to create something like this in the USA, with modern machines?

[@gerarderloper]

The entire process can be done by automated machines without harm to humans. These guys will likely suffer terrible health issues by the time their 40-50..

[@edschultheis9537]

But if they don't have jobs to feed themselves and their families, they won't live to be 40.

[@harryboy3305]

Who cares

[@drjojo5551]

So….genius!!! Who among those beggers has the money for your machinery??????

[@СергейИванов-я6й4й]

Красавчики что перерабатывают пластик. Отличные,нужные вещи производят.

[@maradonavisu1521]

Grandioso trabalho de reciclagem ....parabéns ....maradona placas e faixas BRASILIA DF BRASIL

[@fabs1339]

I dont know how you get PCV, when you put PET in. 😅

[@5680996]

PET bottles to PVC tubes -wow new chemistry here

[@imranashraf3136]

PET کو PVC میں بدلنے والی ترکیب ہمیں بھی بتا دو جناب.... 😂😂😂😂

[@marcwieber6989]

Had the same thought. Maybe they actaully use PVC for bottles?

[@scottbrettschneider9782]

The next time I get to feeling sorry for myself I’ll just watch this video. they’re hard working folks.

[@roses9339]

They probably get peanuts for their hard, unhygienic work

[@grandmapamm]

People can laugh and make fun of these workers but they do the best they can with what they have to work with and people should be glad they were not born there it looks like a hard life working with poor equipment and no safety measures in place. I think they do a great job making things with what is available to them.

[@henningpieterjordan7416]

Gesundes, sicheres und umweltbewusstes arbeiten...😮...toll !!!!

[@W_L_W.]

With all that colouring dust, his lungs are purple

[@JimRNJ]

You cannot turn PET bottles into PVC. But you can make PET pipes.

[@mplsmark222]

It interesting, it shows a printer marking the pipe as PVC, but you don’t get Poly Vinyl Chloride by melting polyethylene and dyeing it.

[@bigvinny333]

It's very easy to test for PVC. You just take a loop of copper wire, heat it till it glows. Push the glowing wire onto the polymer material and pull it off again. Place the copper loop in a flame, and if the flame glows green it shows the presence of copper chloride, hence identifying PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride). Here we appear to have PET so there will be no green flame !

[@thomasrufer6206]

@@mplsmark222 Well... One can stamp whatever they want. Its not necessarily correct. ;)

[@richarddragonetti2308]

What a job peeling labels

[@nielsdubbeld2767]

I already feel my back just looking at that scooping man… so unhealthy allthat dust. I hope these conditions will improve 🌹 But great end product!

[@dariozeta3587]

No hay servicio de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo en India?!

[@joaograca4657]

Nunca

[@ŠtefanPavlík-w5w]

To sú strašné podmienky na prácu,ľutujem tých ľudí😂

[@Wolfemother3441]

Got to get me a a pair of those construction sandals

[@RicardoParada-t3b]

El tornillo de Arquímedes.Que bien..

[@mnmike6884]

Just think how much more productive and effective they would be if they used silos instead of the floor to floor movements.

[@22pcirish]

They don’t have the money to invest in that sort of tech.

[@binary10balls]

Maybe just put the bowl under the chute

[@realmca]

all those plastic dust that poor guy is inhaling :/

[@wurly164]

I think that one guy is the person who answered my call at Dell computer

[@edwardpryor9959]

😂

[@joenop3393]

OSHA needs to pay that place a visit!

[@leavemyrightsalone]

Purple pipe...like it.

[@dirkwagner717]

Green Point,Great

[@leithwhittington8184]

And we are supposed to accept that the processes shown here are environmentally/climate change/carbon neutral etc. etc. with all those electric motors running continuously, not to mention the lack of health and safety provision, they might be reusing the plastic but they are not preventing or neutralising the environmental costs of production in the first place.

[@jhuizi123]

PET bottles become PVC tubes, OK, got it. Not sure how that is possible

[@danking7502]

I missed the step going from shredded green plastic to the white ash. Did they cook the green plastic?

[@istvan3146]

They obviously didn't follow the entire process, they just showed what was happening. It's even possible that the starting material wasn't even a PET bottle. Of course, the end result is very incomprehensible.

[@westvalley411]

Nice to see 3rd century Archimedes screw still in use today somewhere in the world...

[@ManMountainMetals]

@westvalley411 Yeah, they are in wide use throughout the world. Grain augers, combines, silos all use them.

[@edschultheis9537]

These Archimedes screws (augers) are numerous on most farms in the US. There are 1.89 million U.S. farms (in 2023). I can count at least 25 in use on our farm alone (just off the top of my head).

[@jimbennett7283]

good video to show high school kids - no studying results in this manual labor

[@flavioferreira6220]

The employees love their work. You can see it in their eyes.

[@CZpersi]

The ones bleeding from toxic chemicals?

[@markredmond2014]

And on their lungs

[@gerarderloper]

Their bodies must be 30% plastic; so clearly they love this stuff!

[@Amiran_Ramalotti]

вот оно грандиозная промышленность .. главное в тапках и ночнушках работать.. зачем средства индивидуальной защиты?

[@freyallarganswald4746]

It’s great that they are recycling those massive amounts of plastic and saving them from landfills. These guys work long hours for little money, shame on their employers who don’t provide better working conditions or even basic safety equipment such as masks, safety hats etc. N.B… recycled plastics can and are being used to produce new PVC products and other plastic products. PVC is a polymer of plastic and can be used in the process of manufacturing all sorts of rigid or foam pvc and plastic products. The white chopped up plastic is actually chopped up recycled PVC. When mixed with the chopped up recycled plastic its used to make PVC pipes and other products

[@Fizzbomb123]

Yes I agree with your statement and it’s nice to see brown people do this dirty work and we white people give them the right prices for their products

[@حسیننظریراد]

خوبه لوله تولید میکنن دو تا فنر بندازین توش انقدر بیل نزنین

[@CarolShypulski-pj1nc]

Ther really should be wearing masks while working

[@darrenfarrell-bn2cb]

Oceans are destroyed in them bring back glass and returables, 0:57

[@vanina.villaf]

Está bien que reciclen, pero siguen mostrando un montón de desperdicio en el proceso, sin medidas de seguridad para los trabajadores, aparte 😢 ❌⛔☢️⚠️

[@marypintos722]

X favor usen barbijos❤

[@islawilliams9572]

steady job.

[@robertoaraujo9834]

Pobre gente, las condiciones de salubridad y/o seguridad son inexistentes...una vergüenza que en pleno siglo XXI se esté trabajando en ésas condiciones..

[@ManMountainMetals]

WHY IS IT ALWAYS PVC??? 🤨 ABS, PP, PET, LDPS doesn't matter what plastic they start with it is always gonna be PVC pipes.

[@thardyryll]

The one thing Westerners learn from these videos is that there are no tables, work benches or other elevated surfaces in Pakistani factories.

[@brettweiler9381]

I always love how these videos are so modern and so backward. I'd be worried about Plastic Lung.

[@stryker819]

Wonder what their lungs look like after a few years of working in this.

[@ariesone13]

Ein super Ausbildungs Job 😂😂😂

[@p0tat0_Child]

Something we should be doing here in the states with all our plastic garbage

[@deplorablesunited7168]

Hey, honey, I'm going off to work for the next 18 hours.I'll see you later😂

[@nedsackmann2215]

If they had an EPA,OSHA,Medical Dept,or a union they would be out of business.

[@markforan4812]

The way things are going, we won’t have any of those either.

[@paulgillard2258]

No wonder the planet is becoming rooted

[@tdmjason]

I think Abu needs to put the labels in a bucket or something instead of them floating around back into the piles.

[@bobbylong4443]

That's what we need to start doing

[@lionellosanti]

Safety first boys!

[@thepubliceye]

Most recyclers remove the bottle cap because it is a different kind of plastic.

[@tomasmourguet]

Absolut Green technology

[@hollandtimelapse5040]

They will never grow old, but they will grow old enough to get 5 children!

[@arphaksad01]

Are plastic bottles shipped from US to Pakistan/India for recycling?

[@AsianSkillsMedia]

No

[@arphaksad01]

@@AsianSkillsMedia ok. So they are local. I’m impressed with your ingenuity in using low tech to get the job done. Congrats!

[@MaKro-d1b]

I te wszystkie etykiety od butelek fruwające po ich całym śmierdzi stanie😂

[@peteypops]

…and the intermediate fines are distributed on the ground level containment facility before being mechanically transferred to an overhead hopper…rinse and repeat…

[@StefanKarlsson-r8f]

Hey, let's do it on the floor , I mean everything....🙂

[@leavemyrightsalone]

This was why pottery was so wide spread many many years ago.

[@DanielJohn-ke9fr]

My guy has nightmares about big bottles chasing him!!!!!!

[@lavoisier16]

Seeing the conditions these people work in breaks my heart. These guys are damaging their health with each particle of dust they breathe. Instead of making sarcastic comments we should try to improve their lot!!

[@likamuitaluz1411]

Sem máscaras, sem luvas, sem protetores auriculares, sem botas. Amazing? I don't think so. Trabalho escravo

[@SebastiaoGeraldo-ne7ls]

Como pode trabalhar asim cem segurança nenhua

[@dariozeta3587]

Si, se parece mucho a mano de obra esclava. Mucho.

[@stuartschnare152]

It’s as though health and safety mean nothing. Can’t imagine breathing so much micro plastic. I’m all for recycling but this is bad for workers. We need to come up with alternatives to plastic wherever possible.

[@deplorablesunited7168]

The carbon foot print is greater then if you just coverd it with dirt and made the pipes from scratch

[@حسیننظریراد]

زیر تخلیه مواد میتونن قیف بزارن و با فنر انتقال دهنده .بره به مکان دیگه .و انقدر نیروشونو هدر ندن .مثل انتقال دهندهای دان تو مرغداری

[@angelluistoledocarpintero3066]

Very interenting !! Thank You !!

[@bingefeller]

for me, it’s the disregard for safety

[@01SilveradoLT]

That is brutal. They really need N95 masks if they are going to do it that way.

[@rbrown3164]

What’s sad is those guys are making Pennie’s per hour and risking their lives in the process. I bet there are a lot of respiratory issues with those guys.

[@robertedwards2442]

Life expectancy of a field mouse

[@englishterry8084]

Ffs stop criticising , at least they do something with the plastic bottles , most of the UKs go into landfills …

[@westvalley411]

Neighbors..."whats that noise?"

[@stimpyueediot]

why do these guys enjoy doing stuff 2-3 times? pick it up, put it on the ground, pick it up, put it on the ground, pick it up, put it on the ground.

[@ВикторАлександрович-л5в]

Дело хорошее, но производство ужасное!

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Went from green pet bottle waste to white pvc granules, we missed something there.

[@JimGarver-tx8rj]

I feel sorry for the men working in that hell hole!

[@nubi78]

Where is my guy who stands above the plastic grinder shoveling plastic in? Looks like automation took his job. 😮

[@garyb6219]

Guys in sandals and dresses make all the junk from junk.

[@dacrd]

The machines look like they are from a shipwreck

[@andreopah1216]

where are the work clothes and health protection for these men?

[@westvalley411]

He almost forgot 3 spoonsful of curry!

[@gltrout]

safety standards at work are either non-existent or non-existent, just look at your shoes and the dust that hits the environment.

[@vulturetribe6866]

I think these pipes at. just used for houses gutters. links.. not high pressure.. so its ok

[@richarddragonetti2308]

Breathing in the dust all day must be good for the lungs

[@johnholmes5674]

It’s cheaper than smoking or vaping 👍

[@frankdriesen9419]

Ah, the safety flipflops are here again.

[@Made.in.Gujranwala.]

Hard work 😢

[@ApxuMeD21]

Как у них коленный сустав остаётся живым?? Сидят часами и угол меньше 90.

[@TheOriginalAndysGarage]

What is the point of cutting off the labels their plastic also

[@keithnichols7983]

The bottles are PET (polyester) the caps are PE (polyethylene) and the labels are PP (polypropylene) so the aim would be to keep separate as much as possible. There is no PVC in those pipes,

[@baysubutay]

That is not U-PVC. That is not PET. That is PP!

[@markjlewis]

Mmmmmm, can't you just smell those dust particles in the air? Just think of what they are doing to their lungs.

[@stevedriver1476]

i wonder what is the hourly rate,,, how many paid sick days do they get, how many paid weeks holliday per year and paid parent leave when his misses has a baby. We have basic human rights in Australia and thats why the bottles dont get recycled here. What happened to that word machinery. Theis is stone age and my hat goes off to the brave people who work like the 19th century in this corrupt country. I am glad they arent using 10 year old kids.

[@George083]

Now I know why they migrate to other countries and become uber drivers.

[@Mikefngarage]

This is what foreign labor is all about. This could never happen in America. But so all the recycled materials would end up in landfills. This way even though there are no safety regulations the job gets done.

[@AngelCourty-fb7kj]

There are not PVC pipes, there are PEX pipes.