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[@tim6729]

Hi Jake, love your videos!

[@joeld7398]

ColdFusion copied your Nikola video 🤣 let’s see if they copy this

[@aruthorcarly]

You should put special section for tupperware too

[@soundbreaker8174]

you're late on exposing the government

[@kasperhakim]

Hi my name is Jake, and i hold the Guinness world record for the most targets on my back

[@tomboywarrior3229]

I always say this: They all talk about Recycling, but never talk about Reduce and Reuse.

[@pakistaniraveasylum1396]

The root of it is a production problem. Stop making stuff out of difficult materials, back to the past

[@0xsergy]

@@pakistaniraveasylum1396 it's also a consumer problem. We're the problem. Buy less, etc.

[@0xsergy]

@@amandap9332 that won't happen so all you can do as a consumer is speak with your money.

[@234fddesa]

@@amandap9332 "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"

[@EC___]

If only you knew how different things could be

[@ausieking]

“Recycling is a scam!” “And today’s sponsor is this financial scam”🤣🤣🤣

[@odinsplaygrounds]

"Are you in debt? WELL THEN TAKE MORE LOANS!"

[@Sam_101.]

@@odinsplaygrounds what's better 27% interest (reg cc) or about 3-5% interest like a personal loan? Why is it a scam? It's just a business.

[@enamulhaque1177]

@@Sam_101. i agree with u.... But y i's every1 saying its. A scam?

[@ausieking]

@@Sam_101. it’s just modern loan sharks, a great low interest rate until you can’t pay then there’s massive interest spikes penalty fees. That “business” model has been around for decades.

[@sayfullah8658]

@@Sam_101. interest is not a business.

[@Jonathan_Doe_]

Plastics are such amazing materials, but they never should’ve been used for disposable things like packaging, or for cheap products that aren’t built to last.

[@jesusisdead]

Plastic really isn't durable. It just doesn't shatter like glass.

[@kevinjackson4464]

Why not? Just bury it when you are done with it. It comes from the earth and must be returned to the earth to keep the world safe.

[@funtime1548]

@@kevinjackson4464 It's not as simple as that, if we keep burying plastic we'll eventually run out of land (costs a lot too) and it takes too long for it to degrade to repeat the proccess

[@kevinjackson4464]

@@funtime1548 We will never run out of land for landfills, that has been proven. Landfills are far cheaper than any other form of disposal. Degradation is irrelevant, there is no need for degradation in a modern landfill. Landfills will be treasure troves of resources for future generations.

[@funtime1548]

@@kevinjackson4464 That's true but some day we'll probably find a way to properly recycle it so i guess burying it is fine for now?

[@alZiiHardstylez]

C'mon Jake, you have to have some responsibility when it comes to which sponsors you use.

[@mugiwara1310]

Exactly! 🤦

[@KARENboomboomROXX]

I thought you had no choice in who advertised. Huh...

[@KARENboomboomROXX]

Oh Lord, now I see what you mean🤣🤣🤣

[@MagicMan6657]

​@@KARENboomboomROXX classic Karen

[@KARENboomboomROXX]

@@MagicMan6657 please, elaborate. I love these little quips about myself being my name is Karen. I need more details tho.

[@degiguess]

Honestly the most nefarious part about this whole scam is how plastic companies managed to shift the blame off of them to begin with. "Plastics polluting the environment? How could all of you be so careless as to not recycle your plastic? Look you've made the Indians cry! We're disappointed in you for not disposing of our trash properly!"

[@LeViIain]

Once the product is sold it's no longer their trash, most of the blame about plastic issues goes on the consumers.

[@halguy5745]

@@LeViIain an average has no choice. there's either no alternatives to many plastic products, the alternatives are way less available, time consuming or expensive, because of how the market has been set up for the last half the century. try living completely waste free and see for yourself. even some products that claim to be eco friendly are wrapped in plastic, its all a corporate scam and you gain nothing by defending it

[@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376]

Most pollution is the consumers fault.

[@halguy5745]

@@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376 no, non of the consumers own 10 massive factories that exploit workers in poor countries and destroy the environment

[@wowhowbizarre8176]

All a part of the game

[@Glisterful]

I just love the fact, that this guy telling us the truth about plastic recycle. But promotes loan scam.

[@Patrick.Weightman]

17 minutes of how plastic can't be recycled for 1 minute of "so give us money so that we can recycle it"

[@phoebesama5348]

@@Patrick.Weightman he's talking about the sponsor add at the beginning of the video lmao

[@space_audits]

My man.

[@FrenchCanadianGuy]

He is like the guy from black mirror's 15 million merits episode. He make the bads news nice to hear and digest while selling us the same shit lol

[@Patrick.Weightman]

@@phoebesama5348 Oh whoops I skip along the second one starts going

[@donovangebert7003]

Replacing glass with plastic is a crime against humanity

[@samsunggalaxy3442]

Why?

[@kensmith8152]

I worked in a supermarket in the mid nineties and they had a kiosk for people to recycle the shopping bags for reuse. One day the kiosk was full and I asked my boss what I should do with all the bags. He told me: Throw them in the dumpster! That’s when I learned that the “green” in the green movement was about money!😮

[@realdragon]

How the fuck do you judge whole fucking movement based on literally 1 person. It like I would say everybody in US is dumb asshole because I've met 1 dumb asshole from US

[@russianyoutube]

Lol

[@Marscandy1]

Not gonna lie… they told me the same thing when I worked at the grocery store.

[@GhoulSlayer_]

Bad boss. Worked in a grocery store and all our plastic went to the warehouse. Couldn’t put it in the dumpster cause a) bad for environment and b) makes dumpster get full too quick. That boss was either ignorant or stupid.

[@aaronbrutus2654]

​@@GhoulSlayer_where do you think it went after the warehouse?

[@moneywarfare2233]

For a lot of people, it's not about helping the environment, it's about feeling like you're doing something about it and stop your guilt.

[@christobalcolon6601]

The most sensible reuse of plastic and paper products is to save all of it during the year and then burn it in small home stoves during the winter for heat. Plastic has about 2 times the energy density of wood or paper.

[@IronKore]

@@christobalcolon6601 how much carbon does that burning make?

[@JohnS-il1dr]

Just like today rich people buy Carbon Credits so they can assuage their guilt and even brag they did their part, despite their humongous footprint

[@blitzy3244]

Same psychology of maskcucks.

[@basileusbasil4041]

I only do it because my family makes me.

[@williamclark7872]

The worst part of the whole recycling advertisement shit is that it presents it all as a personal issue. It is the consumers fault for not recycling as opposed to the plastics companies fault for pumping out single-use plastics like crazy.

[@kenshamrock3337]

Nice comment, Very true.

[@remigiuszbisha9658]

Exactly, it's not my fault for buying bread In a plastic bag, there is just no alternative, even my local bakery uses paper bags with plastic slit in it with totally invalidates the point...

[@garbearfar1394]

Same for climate change! They put the onus of cutting back carbon emissions on the Individual, buying and cooking a steak or driving a car. But massive corporations are pumping more pollution out in days than most people do in a year, but somehow its my fault for having a car and eating meat.

[@linusandersen3587]

yeah and then they dont give you any actually good alternatives, its all the same shit with a new creative lie to make you think your choices matter.

[@remigiuszbisha9658]

@@garbearfar1394 I can't remember the industry right now but one of them is producing one person lifetime worth of CO2 every *2 seconds* and it wasn't even one of the major polluters. Now imagine how much pollution bottled water produces being pumped out of the ground in some third world country, put it in bottles made out of oil that *CAN* but *WON'T BE* recycled and drive it houndeds of kilometers away to be sold

[@AwokenEntertainment]

wow.. and to think I've been doing something good all my life..

[@danielcortezzzz]

So happy to have found this channel, thanks for the deep dive into cool topics!

[@ItmeTummy]

As someone who works for a plastic moulding company, the public seriously does not understand how much we waste even before its sent out to customers which then send it to the public. All because of high quality standards set by huge plastic companies. A 1 tonne product can end up making 2 tonnes of scrapped plastic. Its insane how much goes to waste and nobody even knows about it let alone bats an eye.

[@marcussoininen2084]

As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible and try not to waste precious virgin material. Yes, there is always non-reusable waste, but it's hard enough to make a profit even without being wasteful.

[@bricaaron3978]

*"As someone else who runs injection moulding machines, we reuse as much as possible..."* Exactly. What are you talking about, *@Tummypics?* Further, you actually cite "high quality standards" as a problem. My mouth is agape. One thing that I can tell you is that any inefficiency in business is almost always the result of government rules and regulations, and not because business owners love wasting time and money.

[@ItmeTummy]

@@bricaaron3978 high quality standards referring to things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked. While yes we do try to reuse and save costs where we can, you'd be surprised how much just ends up being thrown away due to the cost of 'recycling' it

[@bricaaron3978]

​@@ItmeTummy *"things like if 1 plastic part in 1million has a failed quality standard then it all has to be recalled and checked."* I suppose I understand what you're saying. But this sounds like the type of thing that is the result of either government regulations, out-of-control tort law, or both, rather than the way that a business would willingly handle such an issue.

[@rewjik7998]

Yep, same goes for the blown-film industry, although we regenerate and thus recycle 100% of our waste film. If every branch of the thermoplastics industry did that, plastic wouldn't be an issue. And we are having to put up with tolerances in the 0.001mm range. If we can do it, everyone can.

[@loganw3298]

People forget that reduce, reuse, recycle is in an order. People forget the first two all the time.

[@elenabob4953]

You could in countries where you still produce something that you need to store but in a society where you buy everything it is kind of difficult. I still remember how after Ceaușescu had fallen we have looked in awe at the plastic bottles because they were light and you didn't worry about damage them and losing the content. Everyone used them to store fresh mild from their cow, home made tomato juice, țuică and so on. Nowadays, due to regulations, it is illegal to have your own cow and produce țuică is you don't have specific certificates. With tomato juice, it is even more complicated when you have rains that burn your plants if you don't build an solarium. Times change, people change.

[@thatdamncrow9197]

@SMA Productions what project is that? You mean team sea because thats creates and funded by mr beast

[@Aur-ki1qu]

@Thomas B most shit you don't even need, & what you need you can buy 2nd hand. Plus why support parasitic evil multinationals that hate you

[@Nekrumorfiini1]

Everything is plastic, it's impossible to reduce

[@siddharthgautam159]

reduce

[@NotaArtist]

I work in an electronic recycling plant. I brought up my main concern of how so many of our orders generate so much single use plastic to my boss. One main issue he brought up, Companies don't want to pay more for things to be recycled properly. Two. Companies don't want to work together to generate products made of similar or same materials to make it much easier and more effective to recycle. Three. Companies are just known to massively overpackage their products, and I personally notice this much more in the process of unboxing and sorting materials at work. I'm talking boxes and boxes of small individually wrapped pieces of metal. At the end of the day my boss explained that one. Because businesses don't want to pay extra to properly dispose of plastic our company loses business and they don't get recycled. And also companies refuse to work with each other to cooperate with what materials they are using. In the end the process has a lot of issues. One we should encourage only manufacturing plastics that can be recycled, two, we should unite recycling and production companies to work together to make the process work a lot better. And three putting more reaserch to finding ways to better recycle plastic. Because a lot of things can be recycled effectively with the right tools, but we need more education and also companies to stop abusing single use plastic so much. Because it is a huge issue. Anyways that's my rant I don't know everything but this is just my perspective

[@arazatliyev6564]

Yes,Company..but those compies feed mankind

[@NotaArtist]

@@arazatliyev6564 maybe but at what cost. The overuse of plastic is literally killing us

[@arazatliyev6564]

@@NotaArtist made,sorry,but l am side of God🙂...why? due to themselves' foolish,kill

[@NotaArtist]

@@arazatliyev6564 i don't know what you mean by this but you do you fam. All I'm saying is humans actions have concequences. That's been proven again and again.

[@arazatliyev6564]

@@NotaArtist mate,you want not to catch on...l daying that humans are stupid and consequently are being killed..coz they are ignorance..biggest wealthy is acknowlidge..why you want not to catch on this that? Now you guard these stupids? it dont need this..

[@DoorsToHideBehind156]

When I worked at petco I was really upset at the huge amounts of paper we wasted by printing out the grooming peper for people to take up front to pay for their grooming services that were scanned once and all ended up in the trash. I used to take all of the paper home to my paper shredder and recycle it until someone told on me and I got in trouble because the paper had people's private information on it that I "could be stealing" yet all the papers ended up in the garbage anyways. Thinking back on it was so naive of me to think I, a single employee was making a difference recycling paper in one store out of thousands of petcos.

[@MrBeast]

I love you!

[@zombieat]

hi mrbeast!!!!

[@snafu1635]

Yo MrBeast!

[@Lightning-jc6re]

@@noiJadisCailleach Still better than doing nothing, and maybe after this, the governments of the world might start to take things more seriously and start banning single use plastics as well as ridding the world of the misconceptions about recycling and misleading symbols like the resin identification code.

[@bhaktihidayat5235]

bruh early

[@IbrahimKhalil-xi2ff]

Am early :)

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

I have a friend who once bragged to me about how their house "asked for a second recycling bin" because they "recycle that much every week." I was like "that's not a good thing, you should use less because that's going straight to the trash." I've always said I'm big on the real three R's- reduce, reuse, repurpose- but not recycling.

[@blazereho811]

lol I can’t believe they had that attitude… “yeah I use a shit ton of plastic each week”

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

@@blazereho811 I wish I could say that was the stupidest thing she's said, but it's not. Last year she argued that Trump created the coronavirus and released it in China "not caring where it went or who it killed," because some random person on the internet said so and "made great points."

[@JamesBrown-cx3xf]

@@LizRealGirlBeauty you are absolutely correct use less

[@sneakyninjastreef3549]

@@LizRealGirlBeauty while your friend sounds like an idiot, you sound like a shit person yourself. Imagine going online to talk bad about your "friends" on random comment sections lmao.

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

@@sneakyninjastreef3549 we're not friends anymore. She dumped me for not supporting communism.

[@snowmiaow]

I am glad it is finally coming out that the plastic isn't being recycled much, and much isn't recyclable.

[@ChonysSmile]

Thank you for this information. I was completely unaware of the recycling disinformation. I had even gone through a conservation course included with animal care units, but was not made aware of these factors.

[@stonyh.2810]

Here's an idea, quit making everything into plastic bottles. I remember when water was literally free. You could walk into a corner store an just get water straight from the soda fountain. Nowadays you need buy any & everything. But they want to scream & preach "recycle". How about the companies who actually create the waste be accountable. Nah, that won't happen.

[@DelScorch0]

Consumers purchase the products. It's the consumers responsibility to dispose of it. You don't like plastic, don't buy it. Simple. Is the paper company responsible for your paper trash too?

[@stonyh.2810]

That's right blame those who buy the product. Not the one's who make the bottle, since it cheaper to put it in plastic rather than aluminum.

[@KrazyIndeed]

Ummm. Have you asked for a cup of water lately?? They give it to you free. You can even bring in your own cup and go get some water. You can even put some soda in it, nobody cares. Maybe you just live in a greedy city. That's on you. Water is still free all over the place.

[@stonyh.2810]

Why ask for cup of water? When water fountains were everywhere at one point. You can only get a FREE CUP of water from restaurants, not from any corner store. There you must buy WATER to drink. So no, water isn't free as it used to be.

[@DelScorch0]

@@stonyh.2810 Public water fountains that are outdoors and not maintained were removed for a reason. They are disgusting germ spreading monuments. Indoor drinking fountains are widely available at public places like libraries, city facilities etc. Think about how the pandemic has effected water fountain use, all of them are/were not usable. You can walk into nearly every fast food joint or restaurant and ask for water. Water is just as available for free, the manner served has changed. Corner stores are referred to as "convenience" stores for a reason. Bottled water is highly convenient, cheap and in many cases necessary. You pay for the evolution of the service. I'm commenting on this from the viewpoint from the USA, but the situation is likely similar in any developed country.

[@squeakycamp207]

This is extremely wrong. In the part you say about teamseas, you said that they are removing 3 years worth of plastic. I assume you must have misread the article because it literally says that the estimate is 10 million TONS, not pounds (those are metric tons by the way). That would mean that teamseas is removing less plastic from the ocean, than gets put back into the ocean every single day. They will have practically no impact on the ocean. However, they are cleaning up beaches and rivers where people live so they are doing some good by cleaning up those communities, but I think the project just shouldn't be marketed as a ocean cleanup, instead people should see it as a community cleanup

[@infwhale9183]

Yes and there shouldn't be fundraisers for this. Products (read plastics) sold as products, in whatever form, should be sold at a cost that covers the whole life cycle, creation to destruction (recycling). We should not be asked to foot the bill to clean up the mess left by products that were not fully life cycle considered before going to market. The fact that that didn't happen is the fault of the producers themselves and the regulators. Those are the institutions that should be paying for the clean-up. Not using my tax dollars or contributions of you saps. Which likely mostly goes on admin as it does with most scams like this.

[@haydenchristensen9278]

ocean cleanup will take billions

[@mariusvanc]

It's just like the tree planting campaign. It achieved literally nothing, in the grand scheme of things it didn't even move the needle. But made a lot of people feel like they are doing something good.

[@takemeout5687]

I agree. I think the project itself is more on bringing big named influencers to actually make it more appealing to a younger generations too. It would be effective if the goal were to get people to take part of the cleanup, rather than just some youtube collab series for people to watch

[@adipokhrel1663]

@@infwhale9183 I agree with your points but even the most 'recyclable' plastics aren't really able to be recycled and just end up in a land fill near a recycle center so unless we bend the hands of big plastic companies and or be as conscious as a village in Japan the dream of not paying anything for the cleanup is going to be just that a 'dream'

[@FoucaultEffect]

So many people i know need to see this. Great job man!

[@redline1916]

Told my family this, all they said was "Well we gotta help the environment! Recycling helps the environment and the earth!" My family says they're conservatives but I know damn well they're liars.

[@itachi2011100]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. These are not alternatives. You only recycle if you can't reduce or resue. Recycling has to be the last line of defence.

[@xrpmaxi8839]

They are not 3 seperate options. They are the basis for sustainability. You do whatever is most sustainable in the long run, and recycling is not always the last option.

[@PolishBehemoth]

I'm africa they reuse every plastic bottle they have

[@THE_SOSC]

I say we make a rail gun and shoot trash into the sun

[@pmurph1]

@@THE_SOSC I'm no scientist and so I'm sure there's a reason we can't do this but I'm so on board my dude.

[@pmurph1]

@@THE_SOSC I like the way you think!

[@zachprice355]

"crying indian act" is the most american thing I've ever heard

[@Marinealver]

Must be canceled as it wasn't a real indigenous American.

[@SquidCena]

@@Marinealver No

[@rgg1009]

@@Marinealver Damn, that just screams even more American

[@matt25675]

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[@Ciana2024]

🤣🤣🤣oh my god you are so right 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulaannstewartTHANKFUL2024]

Jake you are fantastic! Thank you!

[@eekee6034]

I had no idea plastics recycling had been going on and off for so long. I was one of those fooled, thinking recycling was increasing and that was a sign of progress.

[@quack8284]

The worst part is that they blame us for this, while also making so many plastic products that really it would be hard to live plastic free now. They tell us we can fix everything with recycling but really we are making it worse and it’s just so depressing.

[@sultanofswingdrift3021]

YOU ARE BUYING THIS! So yes, it's also 0,00001% your fault. Also, this article is biased as heck, and only loosely aplies to USA, Europe has its plastic sorted out and it's definitely not due to corporate interest.

[@crimson6047]

@@sultanofswingdrift3021 Europe does not have its plastic sorted out ...???

[@phoebesama5348]

the most frustrating thing about it is everything is packed in plastic, even when you try to avoid it you can't and all the so-called bio paper packages only make the products more expensive and honestly i ain't got the money to buy same shit twice the price just coz it's wrapped in paper and not in plastic

[@phoebesama5348]

@@sultanofswingdrift3021 Europe literally sends all their shit to Poland where the trash is being burned no matter the material Europe with some other countries like Australia or New Zealand made a fucking trash container out of my country so yeah i guess it's all sorted out here (if you pretend Poland doesn't exist)

[@crimson6047]

@@phoebesama5348 on top of that I'm pretty sure they also send their "recycled" plastic to various Asian countries where it will be dumped in their oceans instead... Europe dumping away its trash to other countries is not a solution lol I have no clue where that person got that idea ...

[@Andy-hi9do]

I work at a Plastic Extruding company as a electrical engineer. Machines that recycle plastic bags and the such do exist. I repair them all the time. They are usually called "reclaim extruders". The problem like you said, is the process, its expensive to reclaim it. Bags that say "20% recycled" is literally scrap made by our bag making machines and put into a reclaim machine to make more bags. Better than nothing but still. It's sad we still just throw away and bury plastic trash.

[@rkan2]

The only really feasible option for plastics after use is industrial inceneration for heat and electricity.

[@Andy-hi9do]

@@rkan2 the fumes release pretty nasty toxins and tons of CO2. I don't think it feasible. The best thing to do is reclaim what is reclaimable and bury the rest like they are supposed to do

[@rkan2]

@@Andy-hi9do A proper inceneration plant will release little of anything but CO2. Just burning plastics in a fire will release everything burning a garbage dump will. It is the best option. CO2 is not that strong of a greenhouse gas - even if it is the most abundant produced by humans.

[@5Melig]

@@Andy-hi9do Use an after burner.

[@brutusthebear9050]

@@rkan2 Plus, we've probably reach the point where a further ppm of CO² does not create a further greenhouse effect. People seem to think that the greenhouse effect is infinite (including all of the doom models), but it's far more likely that it has diminishing returns that eventually reach 0. And, I believe we have already reached that point, as statistics have shown that we have way more CO² than ever before, but the world is only slightly warmer and this hasn't increased significantly. Also, People forget that there are benefits to CO² as well. Like larger plants and crop yields. Not to mention that fossil fuels keep us alive.

[@rawristikopaidaki]

If you want to skip the ad part go here: 4:04

[@schemefox7551]

This needs to blow up so that more people are aware

[@chefnerd]

A friend of mine works in waste-procesing. Their definition of "recycling" is simply to burn it up because: "It's getting recycled into heat energy". Well, that's one way to put it :D

[@gband4]

Theoretically he is right.,

[@horny_kadipatta]

@@gband4 but environmentally he's wrong burning plastic is like making poison

[@ryanehlis426]

Yes that is a good way to get rid of plastic

[@tjarkschweizer]

@@gband4 No he is not! The plastic doesn't turn into heat!

[@tjarkschweizer]

Let me guess, your friend sucks at chemistry.

[@methanesulfonic]

the thing that most people fail to realize is Recycling come last after Reduce and Reuse 🤦‍♂️

[@tigerofcisewu3462]

@Olivia That's a very interesting take, Olivia :)

[@pathaleyguitar9763]

​@Olivia You really know how to put into words what we're all feeling. thank you for these beautiful and inspiring words...

[@EvergreenHue]

@Olivia so deep😭

[@AntoineViallonDevelloper]

LMAO these bots are getting out of hand.

[@CaptainYourself]

I remember hearing how the marijuana scare campaigns in the 30s was funded by plastics companies because hemp can be made into a material that is like plastic but only takes 100 years to biodegrade. The oil and plastics companies didn’t want the competition and hemp was banned.

[@Zues-reactions]

u the goat with these docs lol i wish i could put it together like this i have the info and data just that editing lol

[@Anthony-ng5pq]

I would have liked to see some coverage on the British Petroleum ad campaign that coined the concept of "personal carbon footprint" to shift blame from itself after the major spills in the Gulf of Mexico. This behavior never ends, and the spin campaigns are getting more aggressive and manipulative every year.

[@matt25675]

Victim blaming

[@sambotros1918]

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[@alanwann9318]

Corporations if examined have a history of pollution. Plus never ending agendas ,global warming .plandemic war on terror, carbon free? Isnt carbon one of lifes elements?

[@spy6205]

Micro plastics honestly terrify me. We’re finding them in our water, in our food, in our bodies, in our PLACENTAS…. It’s everywhere and inescapable. It’s already starting to effect our bodies - blocking hormones, floating around in our blood and causing all kinds of issues. Now we’re creating tiny humans born with microplastics inside them and in the very materials they’re being made of. If we know it’s effecting us already now, how are these microplastics going to effect our most vulnerable and their small, growing bodies? What health issues will they face growing up with these plastics inside them and all around them, consuming them daily? The problem only gets worse by the day as more microplastic is created and the existing microplastics get even smaller and more insidious. It all feels so hopeless and dystopian. I want so badly to help and stop this but i don’t know how - I’m not a corporation or a scientist, I’m an average civilian trying their best not to make unnecessary waste.

[@freedomadventurer8454]

You make a good point. I don't know why there isn't someone out there trying to come up with how to get rid of it yet. It's like they want this to happen or something.

[@freedomadventurer8454]

I got my own theory how to get rid of it. But I don't know any scientist or inventor.

[@diamonddigs6206]

You can do nothing. The only hope is scientists finding something that can fully break down microplastic.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

@@diamonddigs6206 Burn it in the woodstove, and it.s gone forever.

[@Howitgoes799]

@@freedomadventurer8454 Isn’t kind of obvious that they want this?

[@joeharris3878]

That fellow giving Dustin Hoffman advice in "The Graduate" had it right. Plastics were common in the 1060s but by the eighties the change in liquid containers was phenomenal. Motor oil cane in paper quarts. Gasoline containers were steel. Cokes were sold in returnable glass bottles. Beer came in glass bottles or steel cans. I'm still amazed that advertising was able to get folks to buy water in plastic bottles when the very same water was available in any water fountain or from the kitchen.

[@RonKahnJR]

My father did plastic recycling & tyre recycling (he owned the factories) and he used the cashflow to buy real estate cashflowing assets.

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Shoutout aluminum I wish we could get that recycled properly it’s a sick metal

[@criticalmass527]

🤟 sick metal 🤟

[@threecrazynoobs1849]

Aluminium

[@jeseAudio]

Aluminum is the best metal.

[@threecrazynoobs1849]

@@justinharris3429 aluminum (Al), also spelled aluminium, chemical element, a lightweight silvery white metal of main Group 13 (IIIa, or boron group) of the periodic table.

[@kobeh6185]

@@justinharris3429 aluminum is absolutely a metal

[@y.o.s6000]

The output is crazy but I’m fucking with it. Don’t exhaust yourself.

[@corylowe5557]

Yes, don't burn out. This is maybe my favorite channel. That and Ownage Pranks, and he got tired.

[@charlieburton9610]

I hope this gets more visibility. Human beings have a dangerous appetite for consuming anything. Setting the expectation for quality and frequency of videos is important!

[@leeboriack8054]

Job well done, thank you!

[@Imtoobusyslayingrn111]

I remember a scandal in our country, where one politician (Mayor) encouraged reusing items and stopping the usage of plastic wraps, and bags. The other party (his political opponent) heard about his plan and he noticed this Mayor is about to win. Driven by money and corruption, he posted a "cleaning service" on Facebook where they "clean" the side of the ocean. People were confused why there were so many trash on that area, when that was considered to be the cleanest area. Turns out this guy was caught by one passer-by, He was filmed throwing garbage on the sea side then posing as if he's cleaning the garbage. Safe to say, the good Mayor won and recently people have been using paper bags, eco bags, and the plastic straws were all replaced with paper. You'll get fined if you get caught throwing plastic, or using them. It's a nice policy since nowadays, It's easy to breathe fresh air.

[@kevinjackson4464]

Dumb.

[@bad_money]

"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they're not going to be as concerned about the environment"

[@bad_money]

@the moon And I'm reiterating it

[@mW-lx9qo]

@the moon that's what the " " are for

[@jonathanmckarlison1203]

@@agnez8646 Can you not?

[@Mae_Dastardly]

@@jonathanmckarlison1203 Don't bother man it's a bot

[@candlestyx8517]

Saves me money on trash bags

[@AsterSky_]

I'm honestly shocked. I was taught in elementary school by my teachers that the resin identification codes WERE the recycling symbol, therefore making the item recycleable. The number meant how many times you could recycle it. I didn't know they were CODES to identify the product... now I have to rethink everything. (Edited for grammar)

[@AsterSky_]

@cqxmrvcoy I don't know. I was a kid and I believed most things adults told me. 🤷

[@chubbysolaireeaterofpussy3192]

what? how deos a school of all places make that error lmao

[@marks6663]

School teachers teach mostly lies. Whatever they feel they should say, they say and no one fact checks them. There is no oversight.

[@Razar244]

Most of the plastics you find around you fall under either the "1" (PET which is short for polyethylene terephthalate) or "2" (HDPE which is high-density polyethylene) category, that means they are recyclable plastics by definition.

[@Diwasho]

IIRC in episode 2 or 3 of Breaking Bad they actually bring up those codes, Walter needed a plastic bucket that could contain acid and not get dissolved by it so he tells Jesse to go to the store and look for a bucket labeled with a specific plastic ID number. Neat stuff.

[@M.T.Z.P]

Growing up in Poland in the 90's I remember loads of liquids being sold in glass bottles. You would bring the empty bottles back to the shop get some money back for the bottles and take the new ones. We as kids use to love to be able to get some change just by fetching some empty bottles from the street.

[@messju]

that transition to the sponsor was smooth as hell

[@sarahuchoa4018]

Genuine question: If we can't recycle most of the plastc, what will we do with it after taking out of the ocean?

[@watsonwrote]

Good question. My guess is a landfill.

[@tiredbunbun9009]

In an ideal world, whatever isn't super broken could be reused once cleaned. But realistically all of it will probably all go in a landfill and covered up with dirt. Fortunately while no sea animals can eat it I've heard of bacteria that can eat plastic and mealworms that can eat Styrofoam (it turns to dirt after they eat their waste after a couple of times)

[@gur262]

Mix with concrete build house.

[@slyseal2091]

if society doesn't recede because of some crippling environmental or political disaster, then it's gonna keep being pseudo-recycled until it's cost efficient to just shoot it into space, potentially somewhere with gravity to stop it from coming back. Venus is a nice hellhole I hear.

[@illuminate4622]

Do you really think plastic is indestructible? Sweden burns more plastic waste than it produces. There's only CO2 and water left after that, and a small amount of ash that can be used in concrete or possibly broken down to the elements in the future.

[@the-ghost-6669]

Unless I'm wrong in my calculations, 30 millions pounds is equal to 13 millions killograms, or 13 thousands tons. We're far away from the ~3 years worth of plastic equivalent to 30 millions tons. So although the initiative is good, in a concern of honesty, if the #TeamSeas meets its goals, it will not take away more than 1.5% of a yearly ocean plastic waste. :(

[@garbearfar1394]

They also want to put waste catchers on the rivers that carry the most trash to the ocean so there's less getting into the ocean as well as removing it. Just FYI

[@jimbobaggins209]

10 million tons = 20 BILLION lbs. Cleaning up 30 million lbs is a mere 0.15% of the yearly ocean dumping. It'll only take a few hours for 30 million lbs of trash to be put right back into the water. This entire campaign is a waste of time because we don't need more awareness of this issue. We are all fully aware of the severity of the situation.

[@liamer88]

You do realize that the point of trying is to at least bring attention to the problem, and to influence others to help in their own ways? A single campaign means more than just the efforts involved, please take the time to think about the sphere of influence as well.

[@liamer88]

@@jimbobaggins209 I remember people like you from high school. One person is not enough to do anything yes, but that is the issue. You're only thinking of this campaign as the one campaign it is. You are completely ignoring the fact that there are several other campaigns to help reduce plastics in the world already, and that not one single effort is going to ever take care of all of it at once. It is going to be the effort of several, and I mean SEVERAL years of hard work, cooperation, and revealing liars and snakes in politics in order to keep the work from being undone. Human effort can move both ways, they just need to work together to do so. That's how it got dirty, after all

[@PrioritySaatchi]

Better than zero

[@halaboly8915]

The ad read transition was smoother than butter

[@springhillbouvardia1533]

the symbol is to identify which plastic type it is. in layman's terms, you cannot mix plastic types when you recycle. The symbol is used to seperate each plastic by types then recycle it accordingly to increase the quality of recycled plastic. recycled products are not usually used for the same items. PCBs, black plastic bags (smelly ones), lower grade plastics, electronic bodies (e.g. washing machine, tv) often uses recycled plastics. recycled plastics is hard to retain clear colours, hence, they used it for dark coloured non-translucent plastic products. items such as vinyl flooring, construction materials, often uses recycled plastics too. most of the issues is not the recycling process, but the human beings needs to be taught to shop properly and dispose properly. how do you expect recycling company to thrive when you opt for the cheaper made in china crap? those rubbish came from us, not from plastic companies. if nobody buys it, they wont thrive.

[@victorshaw7173]

So the consumer pays for the product, pays in possible negative health effects, and then has to pay to clean up the pollution… meanwhile the producers are living without consequence… companies should be held accountable for the creation and disposal of their products.

[@gabe9045]

And lets keep Jake Tran accountable for his donation. He said in his words he will donate 1,000 dollars to remove "a literal ton" from the ocean, but 1 ton = 2,000 pounds sir. So please make sure to donate 2,000.

[@brigadierharsh1948]

Sounds like it’s just better to be a producer than a consumer and one should avoid being the consumer

[@grugbug5615]

It's like trashing another person's yard with your garbage and then expecting someone else to clean your mess

[@nateplissken8684]

WE all consume plastics. Doesnt matter if you are the CEO of a company or a bum on the streets. If you want to ride the moral high horse above all the plastic people, then stop using it...but you wont. In fact, its almost imposable to function in modern-day life without plastics. There's no turning back now, earthling. Look at it this way... If humans want to exist inevitably, then the planet must be stripped of its recourses and discarded eventually anyway.

[@marksimons2759]

Carbon credit fines which they pay easily to the right technocrat gates,Rockerfeller, gore etc...

[@adrianradu2332]

I think our only solution will be to look heavily into plastic eating bacteria. Ideonella sakaiensis is a bacterium from the genus Ideonella and family Comamonadaceae capable of breaking down and consuming the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a sole carbon and energy source. They are also genetically engineering this feature to break down PET faster. The future will be interesting...

[@coffee4682]

If it’s heard about in the news again, that is. When you see an article about a cancer cure, often times it hasn’t been tested yet and is proven unsafe/ineffective later on, or just fades into obscurity if it does work

[@Ranstone]

Whoever invents it will become a billionaire. Sell it to big oil and the plastic industry as absolution for their pollution.

[@linusandersen3587]

thats cool, cant wait for the rich to get rid of it, because deceiving us is so profitable that it would be stupid of them to ever stop.

[@sigmamalegrindset8452]

@@linusandersen3587 if they got something that would completely while away their waste products, they’d make more money finding ways to sell this bacteria than they would continuing to deceive us. Imagine the billions to be made from someone selling samples to companies that create a lot of plastic waste. The many Garbage and waste companies that would use this to reduce the massive landfills they operate

[@Markizas.Karabasas]

alternatively nanomachines like in the movie Transcendence

[@TheJoshuamcgowan]

Thank you for your service

[@ryanwade1234]

I'm so glad that I paid for KZbin premium to avoid commercials, but they are built into this video. Nice.

[@GhostSickness]

Jake Tran is the only content creator I know that writes his videos in second person. Love it, keep up the great work man.

[@owenbunny4023]

What is second person in writing?

[@ibrahimshehu859]

@@owenbunny4023 it’s when you use ‘you’ like you were there but the reader or viewer is the perpetrator

[@zander1210]

@@owenbunny4023 Second person is when you address your audience directly and you’ll use pronouns like “you” and “you’re.”

[@owenbunny4023]

I see. I will pay more attention to it when I watch his video in the future. And I wonder what other form of presentation also writes in second person

[@iKingRPG]

@@ibrahimshehu859 ah thanks for explaining

[@RealityAlwaysWins]

This is why nothing changes, we’re all just being scammed by big corporations, but I think this age of awareness may finally start to stop these evil corporates

[@whynot1135]

nope

[@haeresis_]

Naw, the issue is worse than ever because now corps are telling you they are vegan friendly and whatever makes people feel less guilty but it's all a lie.

[@SynWasHereYo]

Sorry tankie, this is not a marxist channel. You can go watch Vaush if you prefer..

[@RealityAlwaysWins]

@Janitor Queen I'm referring to the release of knowledge, there is more knowledge available now than there ever was, a shame that indeed the raging idiots don't seem to notice anything but their own drama.

[@KT-pv3kl]

lol no. the old corporations scamming you will be replaced by hip influencers scamming you ....

[@ZacandCompany]

nice video editing and information

[@incoma6628]

Just have a question. Removing plastic from the ocean is a great thing but what after that? where removed plastic will go afterward? Since it's not degradable, not recyclable, and not in the water, are we gonna need to keep it on land or burrow beneath it?

[@sirguy6678]

The feeling and emotion involved in “doing something “ is just as good as really doing something! Virtue signaling is alway better than reality

[@arhamshafi7175]

Unfortunately, Yes.

[@getsmartquick]

Capitalism all the way I love Ayn Rand money all the way

[@getsmartquick]

I hate these mediocrity culture as well as cultural Marxism.

[@jebipasadegene]

@@getsmartquick learn to spell

[@getsmartquick]

@@jebipasadegene when someone attacks your grammar you've triggered them with the truth

[@TroyAlonzio]

As someone whose done much janitorial work. I’ve always noticed when cleaning office buildings the workers there would have trash and recycle bins. Funny thing is us janitors all go around throwing both in the same trash can and in the same dumpster/ trash compactor. Never seen a dumpster for recyclables before.

[@vonxoliver]

Yeah, it just a gimmick

[@caffienevaccine]

I’ve worked at Walmart and we baled and recycled all plastic both stores. At my current restaurant job we have a recycling and garbage dumpster.

[@Dark_shikari]

well now i dont feel good about throwing things in the recycle bin at work anymore

[@muham2654]

True bro

[@myo39]

Same. I moved to a new neighborhood with a private garbage company to pick up trash. They insist that we separate recyclables and garbage into two different bins that get picked up the same day. I noticed over time that the garbage truck dumps the garbage bin and recycling bin into the same bin. Now I just use both bins as a garbage bin. No point in recycling if the company taking my trash isn't going to uphold the same behaviors.

[@kalliemj]

when team seas removes that trash where do they put it? How do we know that it won't just end up in the water again if they take it to a landfill. How is it properly disposed of?

[@JeffreyRivard]

Recycling from a bin does use less plastic bags and plastic recycling does happen but its minute and usually through redeemable beverage programs. It's actually better to reuse plastic and avoid using it when possible. Plastic can also be melted into gas wax and diesel.

[@SharpForceTrauma]

1) You cannot call out the industry for scamming the public while being sponsored by an actual fucking loan shark company 2) You cannot complain about nonregulation and lack of accountability, then place the onus of cleaning up the oceans on the common man, esp to an ineffective org such as TeamSeas. I appreciate what they are doing but they arent doing enough. This is a great video that calls this to attention and not many people know about it, but this delivery was tone deaf at best.

[@wyliehj]

While specifically saying he doesn’t want to talk about regulations lol

[@jaijai5250]

@drake. You comment would’ve been perfect if you didn’t swear.

[@SharpForceTrauma]

@@jaijai5250 Well pardon my impropriety, but it must be asserted.

[@harrydo4200]

We can expect him to make a video about loan shark in the future

[@lasarousi]

Team seas is a moral smokescreen for the KZbinrs making more money than doctors, basically a shiny medal you brand to avoid any and all questions about "their part"and the profit they have. It's just soul cleaning for the undeservedly rich of a broken platform.

[@puppable]

"Don't support government regulations to actually stop polluters, just donate to teamseas to remove not even a single day's worth of their damage!" annnnnd you lost me.

[@otakumangastudios3617]

Same

[@davidmendizabal7508]

Ohhh my god. Felt the same when he started with the donation schedule. Pure blsht.

[@JaySee5]

Yeah because your government regulations will stop US and other countries from shipping plastic to other countries to dump and end up in the global air and water anyway. /s

[@belkYT]

@@JaySee5 /s?

[@jocelyncooper1738]

@Janitor Queen a lot of the time the bottled water industry and the soft drink industry are the same people. Also, I’ve come to the conclusion that most politicians, democrat or republican, are bought out by corporations within a couple years of taking office.

[@yesnt5797]

My town doesn’t really even try to pretend to recycle anymore, they just throw what’s in the recycling bins into the garage truck along with the rest of the trash

[@AlexanderHQ]

Reminds me of how Denmark started running out of trash to burn for energy, due to there being more recycling and reuse of it. So we started to import trash from britain using ships (which of course used fossile fuels) we basically evened out the benefit of trying to recycle.

[@user-un4mu1hj5o]

Burning trash is the smartest way to deal with it. Recycling is only useful if it's something that can't be obtained easily like metal. My friend's dad used to own a plastic recycling plant believe it or not. He would hire us to chop big things into smaller chunks to feed into the chipper which is perhaps the loudest thing I've ever heard. Either way nobody wants recycled plastic stuff and it's all a waste of time basically.

[@Leicht_Sinn]

As a polyere engeneer in Germany reading this title: Our battle will be legendary After seeing the video: please watch Kurzgesagt video which is way better then this USA based generalised video which misses the point where the problem is 1:21 well this isn't true gernerally if you look at in house recycling where they directly put the waste back into the system or when we look at bottle to bottle production when done right ! 2:09 well this happens if no well working recyling industrie exist like in India or South Africa,China... 2:13 and landfills are near gone in most europe countries -> changed to material/thermal recycling ... So if there is a political will it can change 2:30 compared to the 80s most products are made from the same material and it depends more on the product desinger if it is recycleabel or looking nice which means product desinger have to put a lot of effort also so products are easy to sort and filter 6:10 isn't this the hole problem of the american dream -> like city planing in the USA or generaly extensive Capitalism ? 6:56 well what you compleatly forget/not mention is what other resoucces would have been wasted if plastic wouldn't be used what most people forget there is a difference between environment and clima but they are connected soo if you replace plastic pagaging whith paper the products like meat which is one of the most energy inefficent products is wasted even more (by 30-50% ) due to the shorten time it can be consumed also if we look at vehicels which use plastic -> they save a ton of oil in the long run Look at planes moving from aluminum structure to now carbon expoxy based material (sidenote: glue or expoxy is a plastic too) fuel reduction 8:03 well this is a USA problem not moving forward -> politcal and econical stagnation 9:14 this is simple wrong if we look at a modern recyling plant you can recyle more then 2 types of plastic easily throw computer based camera filtering Sidenote: Seateam won't change anything in a greater aspect is only can show one problem fun fact germany recyels every year 1,5 million tons of plastic and europe 8,5 million tons it is a 3 billion euro huge industry 9:34 saying you can use plastic only 3 times is again false ! If it is filtered right the granulate from recycelt plastic is the same as from new plastic ...also there is chemical recycling which deconstruct plastic so it can be polymerisated again (energy itensive but the plastic which comes out of this process is litterly the same as new) also please don't generalise the recyling industry with a national flawed system as USA is a bad exaple of a recyling waste 10:32 well we don't protect the planet we protect ouself from our stupity 11:32 if you have a functional recyling system like in Europe it saves alot of energy and co2 emission a plastic bag is way more clima friendly then a cotton bag 13:30 USA date not the World ! 17:00 well it is a whaterdrop in a huge lake So if anyone read this feel free to commend if you need some more data/infomation i only covered the biggest uffs

[@danielwinder6343]

Massively underappreciated comment, my fellow European!!

[@Shadow10123]

I was so confused reading the title but yeah your comment more or less summarizes what i know about recycling as a fellow european

[@demp11]

Thank you! Seeing how your comment has such a low amount of likes is painfully hilarious. Americans just don't want to accept that it's there country just fucking it up and not only with there plastic industry. If companies are rich enough they can do what ever they want in America literally. It's really painful to watch what happens there politically, but the EU isn't a white sheep either wanting to invade the privacy of billions of people. Actually really nice to see that my country is recycling 1.5 tons every year! Actually didn't thought that with those already incompetent politicians we had to deal with… but nothing compared to America 😅

[@chartreux1532]

Thanks for posting this detailed response to the video. Watching this Video as a German and realising it's US-centric without mentioning it up-front to the Viewers is is such a common occurence with big popular Videos by American Content Creators, i always wonder if that's done on purpose or if the Creator doesn't even consider the Nuances and Differences from Country to Country and believes that any Topic/Conclusion that applies to the USA also automatically applies to the Rest of the World Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps

[@aleksnedovic7985]

@@chartreux1532 it's just US being US (and it's citizens), completely oblivious and self-centered. It is that type of culture created over the years. As a country still immature, and like a teenager, think they know everything but lack life experience.

[@alphapham2060]

Every thing exists Jake Tran: "it's a scam."

[@anhbayar11]

Because its a goddamn scam! Even life is a scam!

[@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122]

@@anhbayar11 you are Russian so you aren't credible.

[@TusharSharma-cy9xo]

@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 He is russian so he is like the most credible.

[@fosatech]

@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 as a Russian I completely agree

[@yettiman8941]

Jake scammed his subscribers with a scam coin and he never addressed it at all, instead ignored it and you guys are like sheep .

[@p.a.andrews7772]

TVs are a BIAS the very rich wanted the working-class to hear .

[@birdisthezv]

The number is referring to type of plastic, like the PET 2 is the most common type, but there's a variety of other types of plastic, there's recycling plants where workers are sorting common waste according to type so it gets recycled.

[@Dividendology]

Does Jake Tran even sleep? The man is posting the most insane videos so often right now 😂

[@biglittledude496]

Dude he has a video editor. All he has to do is write the script and read it

[@OZZOZZ]

@@biglittledude496 poor video editor

[@godmode2461]

@@biglittledude496 the amount of planning and research is a lot. Jake most likely also jas to do some editing. Cant completely trust an editior to have control over what ur viewers see and feel

[@OZZOZZ]

@@godmode2461 Im saying it because I am a corporate video editor myself.. lmao

[@londonstone3441]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnvRe2ujgJiEack

[@certifieddarkboi2561]

Fun Fact: "Recycled" clothing is literally just used clothes being sold for 10times more

[@elizabethcote9070]

Plus the clothes feel awefull. The material will melt if it catches on fire.

[@magnificentmuttley154]

@@elizabethcote9070 Doesnt _ALL_ clothing melt or else burn when it catches fire? 🤷‍♀️

[@elizabethcote9070]

Natural fibres burn, none natural fibres melt.

[@magnificentmuttley154]

@@elizabethcote9070 I suppose the real trouble is used clothes with artificial fibers will melt in the sun. However, I dont know that as a fact... I've bought all kinds of clothing from salvation army & other thrift stores. But the clothes I buy are 100% cotton, because anything with polyester or nylon will just stay saturated when I sweat The worst example was years ago when I used to wear nylon socks with my leather shoes to church. On any summer or fall day my feet would already be soaking by the time I walked into the auditorium. So I started wearing my regular white athletic socks. My feet always sweat while I work, while the rest of my body stays dry Anyway, I don't wear anything that's polyester, nylon, or any blend thereof. So I don't know what other people have to live with. Maybe you could enlighten me just a little?

[@elizabethcote9070]

@@magnificentmuttley154 I did not say anything about melting in the sun. I have also bought clothes from Salvation Army,etc. Don't understand what you are trying to rev up here. Just different material. I am a person who sews on a sewing machine and by hand.

[@marshallwhitley82]

I work for a plastic bag manufacturer. We recycle the engineered scrap that we make but most of it we can’t.

[@Steezy_Mx]

Funny, my city just did away with recycling barrels. One day I put it out front and it never came back. They did give us another regular trash can though 😂

[@16-bitler37]

I broke down the numbers to be a bit more comprehensible, large numbers will always confuse or put people in awe. For every Dollar 1 pound (500 grams) of plastic will be removed, if you were to achieve the fundraiser goal that would account to the following: 30 million pounds of plastic waste would be collected. Converse that into Kilos (factor of roughly 2,2) amounts to 13.5 million, which in tons (kilo to ton conversion factor of 1000) would be about 13,500 tons (Thirteen thousand five hundred tons). In opposition to the 300,000,000 TONS of YEARLY waste, that would be a one time (I assume) reduction of 0,0045%. The ocean cleanup part would therefore amount to about 0,14%. This is a noble goal and I know that there needs to be a start somewhere, no offense. Especially the education about the recycling scam. Though in contrast this literally is a droplet into an ocean. I mean, imagine, 30 million dollars is a metric ton for a simple man like myself, but for a company (which literally caused this mess) that amount of money would be pocket change. So that begs the question, why do we not hold them accountable? Why do WE need to pay our hard earned cash to fix this? Those companies fooled all of us, and I bet that most of you didn't know about the recycling scam, I surely did not, and now we are left to scrape minuscule amounts of cleanup for a considerable amount of money just because they fooled us? *Edit: fixed wording

[@xaviwavy3930]

this is why I disagreed with his whole anti government bit at the end. Our job is not to fund and hold companies accountable, our job is to lobby and support the correct politicians so that they can do lasting good and create legislation to prevent this. Otherwise we are literally paying for their negative externalities just so they can keep polluting

[@radishpineapple74]

It's because this video is made by someone who doesn't understand that individual action is irrelevant if individuals are powerless against unaccountable corporations. It's a giant contradiction, which most conservatives resolve by fooling themselves into thinking that environmentalism is a scam or conspiracy.

[@cubertmiso]

@@xaviwavy3930 well said and thanks 16-bitler. if laws are only for small companies without lobbying power, fixing this starts with pressuring/shaming politicians who feast with these big lobbying companies = nearly all politicians.

[@naysaynetwork5271]

@@xaviwavy3930 bro. Im with Jake on anti government. The government profits off of corporations so they will never be autonomous. Id rather control the corporation who in turn controls the government.

[@imabbqurazz5251]

“It’s better to be positive and wrong than be negative and right”. -Sadhguru

[@cr3070]

I’m an R&D engineer and my first project was figuring out how to reuse scrap plastic materials and keep it in the manufacturing cycle. There are tons of companies that have reached out to me with a buy back program. There are tons of applications for scrap plastics, you just need people that care and are willing to do the sorting between thermosets and thermoplastics. I tend to believe corporations will do what they can to stay in business. But until people educate themselves and change purchasing behavior, this won’t really be solved. Great video.

[@christianedwards9025]

My question is what can we buy that isn't plastic wrapped, times two or three times these days? They practically infiltrate every part of our lives.

[@TentomushiHH]

I mean most every day use polyolefins are mostly saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons which every incineration gladly accepts as fuel for their plants when burning other waste. The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision. Another issue is that 90% of global pollution of creeks, rivers, lakes and also the oceans happens in low developed south-east asian countries because they simply do not care and lack proper infrastructure for trash collection, reusage and incineration.

[@ano_nym]

@@TentomushiHH "The problem starts in everyday usage by the consumer and their decision." The problem is that in many cases there are no choice. As the guy above mentions, everything is basically plastic wrapped these days, when it comes to non-dry foods at least.

[@geologist5838]

@@TentomushiHH to back up ''a n o n y m'', fossil fuel companies have done the same thing (Mobile for example). They run a campaign (many to be exact) the take the blame from them and turn it to the consumer, they even dared to make an add blaming us for environmental destruction while they were the reason for a great oil slick back in 2012 if I remember correctly. Of course consumers can change their habits, but its them forcing these materials and practises because it brings them more money in order to stay in business. Lets not make the same mistake as previous generation, the core of the problem is them.

[@peterdeak6631]

I dont get the evil fossil fuel and plastic companies thing in the first place. I thought this video meant to be factual. We need their products, because they are useful. Period. You think they are making too much money? Buy their shares. I would argue wrapping every single piece os vegetable in plastic is overdoing it, so im not buying that crap. We should probably prevent it getting into the ocean, but I suspect its mostly the Asian countries doing it. The EU just banned some single use plastics, like ear swabs, straws, and paper cup lids. Is that the solution? Think of all the trees used to make billions of ear swabs. There's no easy way of getting rid of plastics nor fossil fuels.

[@ChaceBonanno]

Bro’s really promoting a consolidation loan, like all his subscribers are in credit card debt 😂

[@slappy8941]

Jake is on a speedrun to see how many powerful interests he can piss off before they send assassins after him. Of course, he may be employing the "pink panther" strategy of getting so many assassins after him that they end up killing one another.

[@Domjackson747]

Idk who can save him anymore

[@veneering4128]

We can't end plastic pollution without ending capitalism. So you're praising him in vain since he didn't tell us the solution, instead he told us to keep working inside of capitalism therefore continuing unnecessary waste

[@jamesbarker6373]

So its all good to just rip off other KZbin videos huh? Plz support the original researcher, Climate Town. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnvRe2ujgJiEack&ab_channel=ClimateTown

[@thepastaprogenitor851]

@@veneering4128 " And other jokes you can tell yourself

[@yogurtedmale2028]

@@veneering4128 yes, I agree, we should go back to feudalism, at least then people wont use any materials at all, and be prosperous and equal, utopia achieved.

[@monsta8279]

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness hasn’t given enough away.” Wow. Profound, yet so true.

[@likemysnopp]

Lol it isnt true at all

[@mikasaackerman1762]

@@likemysnopp how

[@uzouma9893]

@@likemysnopp try giving a homeless man a bar of gold. He will have the biggest grin

[@patriotenfield3276]

Money doesn't give Happiness said no Billionaire ever.

[@fattytan1377]

@@jessh4016 not deep. It's a fact.

[@stevetonnesen3666]

Other than chlorinated plastics, most plastic volumes can be safely burned as a high energy output fuel, including to make electric energy. That is what happens a lot here in Pinellas County, Florida.

[@GungaLaGunga]

When you get older, you realize everything is a lie. But by then, it is too late.

[@adventurelogs]

FACTS 💯💯💯💯💯

[@xaviwavy3930]

Great video until the end segment. We should not be paying to clean up corporations negative externalities just so they can keep on polluting, that just means we're literally making the cost of doing business cheaper for them. Instead we need to lobby and support the correct politicians that can legislate and create law that holds corporations accountable. The take you had at the end was extremely short sighted and clueless. We need a long lasting future proof idea, not a clean up now and let them keep doing it approach

[@Wokesha]

as long as you support any politician w capitalism as their base ideology then we'll get nowhere, that's just the truth. it'll literally take a social revolution to 100% stop this bs

[@silvermilk...49]

U have a point, why dont they pass a law where companies have to clean up the plastic based on how much money they make so $1 for 1 pound butttttt I dont think itll happen

[@xaviwavy3930]

@@Wokesha completely agree with you there

[@ShaunDreclin]

Yeah.. smells like corporate boot licking to me. Keep polluting and the masses will pick up the tab for the cleanup bill! Fuck that. Tax the rich and fix this damn planet before it's too late

[@kimle2461]

nah, political will never be effective enough and as reliable as market demand. Either enough consumers drive away from plastic, which is very unlikely because the market is too big and plastic is too profitable, if they can't sell to one part of the world they will be able to sell to other parts of the world. And also we don't have that public will, we are too distracted and divided, especially in something like environmental problems. Or we find a material or multiple material affordable enough to replace plastic products. I see the success in electrical cars as something hopeful, a combination of technology, market demand (aka capitalism) and the public will. Long story short, truth is capitalism runs the world, these companies gonna go toward profits so we have to make plastic less profitable than something else. Maybe one day plastic bags can be replaced by something else, and then plastic bottles, and then so on, eat the elephant one bite at a time.

[@barlauch9292]

You talked 15 minutes about how bad our problem is and that all solutions are not enough. And than at the end you would rather spend some money to get a little bit of trash out of the ocean than having restrictions of the government. WTF???

[@073708539]

Ikr, he clearly states that plastic lobbyists are a part of the problem but apparently restricting the people who started this problem in the first place isn't the way to go?? tf

[@barlauch9292]

@@073708539 Yes, I mean government bad!!! /s

[@073708539]

@@barlauch9292 it's so on the nose too how he phrases it ("if you're not an extreme environmentalist!"), it's as if we're performing a greater good to give the fundraiser money (and the KZbinrs who participate some popularity) than it is to vote. It's funny how ironic this whole video is about the perception of trying to not feel guilt for doing something bad to the environment yet he employs the exact same tactics to make himself appear good by using this fundraiser. Hypocrisy at its peak

[@barlauch9292]

@@073708539 Exactly. Like here are 10 reasons why it doesnt work the we are doing it now. Lets not change anything.

[@CashIReality]

Wrong comment

[@Soundsaboutright42]

Bro I did a paper on this in college and got so much BS for it. Redemption is here.

[@dukenukem7043]

it is so disgusting what these corporations have allowed to happen

[@longbow857]

It is so easy to point at companies. We let ourselves be decieved en we let ourselves to become greedy comsumers that buy all the throw away items.

[@dukenukem7043]

@@longbow857 speak for yourself, i don't purchase plastics . maybe just on a rare occassion like a certain car part or something required

[@longbow857]

@@dukenukem7043 I speak for the majority because the evidence is there. I am anti-capitalist and a minimalist by heart, but still my point stands true for us as a spicies.

[@dukenukem7043]

@@longbow857 yeah well its the solution that would be more attainable would be for the corporations to change their ways rather then get the entire population educated and more mindful

[@Imightberiding]

Dude needs to check his math. He's donating $1000 to remove "literally" a ton of plastic from the oceans. $1 = lb of trash removed. 2000 lbs = 1 ton. $1000 = 1000 lbs or 1/2 ton.

[@LostTerminalVideos]

Watching the end of this video is just laughable. I can't believe this dude literally goes on about all these terrible things that were caused by unregulated markets and then just goes "we shouldn't regulate it though, we should just make the average person pay to clear up a tiny, miniscule portion of the issue instead of actually fighting it at the source."

[@holundersirup1189]

capitalism is bonkers my guy

[@normalman6078]

@@holundersirup1189 It's not capitalism, it's flagrant greed. Do something about it, pussy.

[@SynWasHereYo]

Sorry tankie, this is not a marxist channel. You can go watch Vaush if you prefer..

[@holundersirup1189]

@@SynWasHereYo lmao this KZbinr ist just a biggot

[@douglhorvath]

@@SynWasHereYo we can see it's not a Marxist channel by the stupidity at the end.

[@Linda-on3no]

Where does the plastic go after it is taken out of the ocean? Back to landfills?

[@peterkwolek2265]

Wow, this is possibly the first YT video that actually shocked me. I always thought the arrows around the number meant recyclable and the number was for sorting at the plant.

[@kevinjackson4464]

They do mean "recyclable", specifically, they mean which can be and which can't. That way you know which go to recycling and which go in the landfill.

[@aughlnal7333]

16:45 1 ton = 2000 pounds, 10 million * 2000 = 20 BILLION pounds of plastic dumped in the ocean each year. 30 million / 20 billion = 0,0015, so removing 30 million pounds of thrash from the ocean is 0,15% from the yearly amount of plastic dumped in the ocean. I still like the effort of teamseas though, but its not even close to removing 1 year of trash, let alone 3 years.

[@Evaldo_Souza]

He says it is 30 millions "every day" for the next 3 years, so if I understand correctly, will be 5.5 millions tons of plastic per year, half of the amount dumped. Still, I don't like that they are only using American units to market it, and not making those numbers more clear. Can very well be the other way around. For a video denouncing the marketing shenanigans of plastic companies, he too does a lot of confuse marketing talk

[@jamesoheyne]

@@Evaldo_Souza I don’t know why he says 30 million a day. That’s completely wrong and they’re cleaning up 30 million total

[@agginswaggin]

Yeah I noticed that too, I was gonna point it out, but you beat me to it!

[@DavidNwokoye]

Damn the more he uploads, the more I worry about him mysteriously disappearing 😂😂😂😂

[@jesuscuzz7299]

Everything he talks about is public knowledge!! U talking like he is ex cia agent that's leaking top secret shit😂 I still love his vids tho

[@Iksvomid]

Next they'll make him sponsor magicians so they can say he made himself disappear...

[@SevenHunnid]

I smoke weed on my KZbin channel & l reaction videos too😅💯

[@princeofthehills3259]

Don't worry he's cia

[@realbanger]

He’s not touching stuff like the vax or the trans community. As long as he stays clear of those things he’ll be fine.

[@Sableonix]

*Stares at personal water bottle*

[@johndodson8464]

Shreaded plastic is a great soil additive. It aerates and helps to retain water.

[@shadbakht]

On recyclable materials there’s usually a triangle recycling symbol with a number inside it from 1-7. Many manufacturers will buy numbers 1 and 2 from recycling companies which makes recycling them worthwhile and helpful to the environment. But if you see numbers 3 to 7 inside the triangle don’t bother recycling it because the recycling companies can’t sell it and end up throwing it away or sometimes will sell it to 3rd world countries to become their problem, with often unideal outcomes. Ideally, try not to by things with numbers 3 to 7. And *reuse* as much as possible! Reuse is far more helpful to the environment than recycling.

[@well_as_an_expert_id_say]

Don't you mean number three and HIGHER?

[@shadbakht]

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say it only goes to 7. So, numbers 3 to 7 are garbage.

[@well_as_an_expert_id_say]

@@shadbakht Right, so ideally try not to buy things labeled 3 and above, not below. If only 1 and 2 are truly recyclable.

[@shadbakht]

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say I see. Yes, I meant 'below' as in quality not number. I'll correct it, as it's confusing.

[@well_as_an_expert_id_say]

@@shadbakht I apologize if I came off rude in the correction, wasn't my intention at all.

[@L2PlayRunescape]

I remember in high school , back at home we had a recycling can and regular trash can. I remember thinking "who cares it's probably just all going to the same place." And it seems like that intuition may have at least been partly right.

[@motty328]

I've seen so many cans that have a top with one hole for trash and another for recycling, that literally goes into the same bag underneath.

[@realdragon]

So you did stop recycling?

[@helloyall4355]

​@@realdragon I quit recycling years ago. 😊

[@realdragon]

@@helloyall4355 Because you're lazy or because of 1 video on YT saying it was pointless?

[@helloyall4355]

@@realdragon It is pointless. Have you read about it and researched it? I doubt it.

[@dsmdriver2588]

When I went to Philippines a few years ago, soda was in glass bottles and grocery stores gave me paper bags.

[@EffortlessAnchor]

Thank you so much for the truth