The Disturbing Truth About Recycling

Have you ever wondered what really happens to your recyclables? In this video, Patrick Bet-David explains the disturbing truth about recycling and the impact it has on our environment in this eye-opening video. From contaminated materials to improper disposal, learn why recycling may not be as effective as we think.
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[@yzwme586]

"The planet is fine, the people, are fucked!" - George Carlin

[@JohnDoe_88]

"The world needed humans, because the world cant make plastic😂" Funny yet sad we live plastic lives. We better wake up

[@mtamech535]

@@JohnDoe_88wake up for what? Burn plastic. The planet will still be fine.

[@sukayna7026]

So true. 😁

[@marcyking461]

George had such a way with words, and they were all true. May he RIP.

[@SliderFury1]

Damn right, he even said it, some plastic may take up to 500 years to decompose, but it will.

[@Proenglish837]

It is all a lie. Knew it a long time ago. We ditched glass bottles , which is much better and healthier, for plastics.

[@MrSpeedysChannel]

Exactly go back to glass and paper bags.

[@splatteryou]

But then we support big oil transporting glass bottles.

[@IntegrityMeansAll]

This is so sickening

[@paulburket]

@@splatteryouyou know the primary component of plastic is oil, right?

[@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure]

😂🤦🏼‍♂️​@@paulburket

[@carmen47freixas96]

I lived in a house all my life, when my hubby died, I moved int a small apartment (hate apartment living) we are told to use different colour bins for different waste, but when the truck comes Tue and Fri. all of the waste in the 12 bins end up in the truck, what a BS. we have to use different bins to all end up in one

[@icreateworlds]

It happens exactly the same here in Portugal. One day I was going to throw a plastic thing in the “right” bin color , but the trash men were there and they just grabbed every color and content and dumped it in the same giant bin in the truck. I asked the guy and he said, recycling is just pretty colors and public relations marketing stuff. Everything was dumped in the same place at the end away from peoples eyes . People just think they are recycling.

[@kimkong86]

That is because it is sorted at the waste station, by a robot. Different color bags go to different places. So it is not a lie. The garbage trucks flattens it but most of the waste stay in the bags. So you are actually helping if you sort👍 that is at least how it works in Scandinavia, I think and hope it is the same where you live.

[@JoATTech]

It's to take your time so you do not have time for thinking. Same here in Poland, plus if I do not recycle I pay a fine ...

[@kimkong86]

@@JoATTech you high?😂😂

[@blumajoel]

Born in the 90s but still remember when plastic bags were the fix for deforestation. Good thing that plastics are a renewable resource like we were led to believe.

[@dbw245]

The truth is they are making us eat it

[@geneboswell2050]

How are we eating plastic? Is it in our food? If so which food is it so I can avoid it.

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

and the vaxxed dead

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

​@@geneboswell2050micro plastics..example water bottles. Plastic wrapped food, condiment bottles, etc. if you eat or drink out of plastic, you consume it:(

[@t-love2366]

​@@geneboswell2050it's 2024, no excuse to be this much uninformed. We're even not eating real food. Our meats come from cloned animals as well. Also, McDonald's chicken nuggets don't have any chicken in it and the fries...

[@IntegrityMeansAll]

This is a great topic

[@tonyr3090]

Starbucks has a garbage lid with 3 different openings: plastic, garbage, paper cups. Under the lid is just one large garbage bag.

[@MGAF688]

Reminds me of Homer Simpson's tour of the Duff Brewery.

[@7996hobguy]

I work in plastic injection molding. We have a very large recycling dumpster that we have to use for the waste plastic. And when the garbage truck comes through they dump the recycling and regular trash together in the same truck. And this happens 3 times a week.

[@yellowdragonflower944]

Now I want to lift that lid and check. 😂

[@ExtremelyAverageMan]

"Duff, Duff Light, Duff Dry".....what a reference! Hahaha@@MGAF688

[@curiousone6129]

Starbucks. Why am I not surprised??

[@mikedemarco4168]

I was in the solid waste / recycling business for over 30 years. Up until about 2007, all of our plastic bottles from our MRF's (Multi-material Recycling Facilities) were bailed and shipped to Indonesia to be recycled. Once this market closed, it started a reduction of what plastic containers were picked up in the curbside programs around the country. Therefore, more and more plastic started showing up in landfills, transfer stations and incinerators (which burn all the trash), the residue is then deposited in the landfills. The same thing happened with glass, we use to recycle clear, green and brown glass bottles. Then it was only clear glass, then it was no glass bottles.

[@Kiaboys392]

this comment needs more likes, its like the elites are trying to cause this crisis just so they can impose more restristrictions on civilians

[@lv4077]

It costs a fortune to recycle.No one can afford this charade.People have been lied to but it appears they’re too stupid to research these lies by themselves

[@StephFrandsen]

I watched a secret documentary about how Indonesia dealt with that trash too. They toss it in the ocean. Yep we package it up for someone else to sweep under the rug. I believe it was from epoch times. I trust that source totally

[@kellyjaramillo3954]

Resell that glass

[@lv4077]

@@kellyjaramillo3954 Know any buyers?

[@CreightonDevers]

I stopped recycling plastic and glass when I followed a recycle truck while I was dumping stuff at the landfill and saw it tip its load directly into the pit the rest of the trash was going. I noticed there were dozens of piles of “recycling” like that all over the edge and dozers were pushing them in to mix it all. Why am I spending extra money for an extra pickup for them to just send it all the same place.

[@nick5565]

I actually wrote a research paper about the plastic epidemic years ago and was shocked at what I found. On a brighter side I did see something about a young lady in Africa who created a plastic recycling business turning plastic into bricks for homes and roadways. We need more people and companies working to solve this problem and people need to take better care of the earth.

[@cynthusinfinite]

A friend in Ontario Canada urban city tried investing in a company in the 90's who were recycling plastic into a building material but it didn't survive.

[@travisjazzbo3490]

I know in many concrete and stucco applications they mix in fiberglass for better reinforcement. Concrete and asphalt are everywhere and it would be amazing if they could figure out a way to take plastics and create products to work into these, I agree 100%

[@factsdontlie4342]

​@cynthusinfinite As a Canadian, it is hard to start a business here in New tech. Taxes are way too high, too many regulations and a lack of skilled workers. This has been an issue since the 90s. Funny thing about the lack of skilled workers, most of them go to the US for more money, less taxes and less regulation.

[@ET2carbon]

METOO

[@arnoldziffel4943]

We should invest in research to recycle plastics into cigarettes.

[@skipdog9912]

Worked for a major city just outside of los Angeles. I know first hand they’ve been burying the recycling in the landfill for years now.

[@MichelleLyn84]

My bf has said the same thing!!!!

[@YOUARESOFT.]

cardboard, glass, aluminum and steel all get recycled

[@f1y7rap]

Yup, ever since asian countries stopped taking it for $.005/lb and free shipping (empty containers headed back to asia for more cheap off-shored products)

[@mikebrandenburg9922]

They have always been doing that, the same that solar panels are not recycled, not are the enormous wind turbines after they are decommissioned, the same is for all those ev batteries. The stories about how it all can be recycled are there, the truth is, that it isn't, because it is too expensive and if you need to pay for the recycling when you buy your solarpanels, no Ody will buy them anymore.

[@YOUARESOFT.]

solar panels are dumb as shit anyway@@mikebrandenburg9922

[@brunopaiva9203]

Well, in Portugal in 1996 I worked in a supermarket and we reused all the glass bottles, beer and wine, people received a value for the empty ones and discount in the new ones,(remember that glass is 100% reciclable). Then because of the amount of water spent in the reuseged of those bottles they campaign to stop using glass,( we had a huge glass industry in our country, go figer), so they pivot to plastic, so you have everything in plastic packaging! Thanks for the information, hopefully it makes people aware!👏👏🙏

[@glennfrancisheald4008]

People still don't believe me when I say, 'The most damage done to our existence and our environment is caused by the so called 'Green parties' who fight against things such water usage in recycling bottles, ( Which led directly to plastic bottles), Polution from Petrol engines, (Which led to Diesel power), Polution from Diesel engines, (Which is now leading to E:V's which are far more damaging than ICE vehicles). These so called 'Environmentalists are causing more damage than any other problem that Man has made, but there again, 'Environmentalists are a man made problem aren't they....

[@jorgegomez524]

Logoplaste has been doing a fortune since then...no relation :)

[@moralobjection4836]

I always found it funny that we pushed for plastics to make the oil companies that much richer. Then at the same time started talking about recycling. Well before we switched to petrol based plastics everything was glass, and ACTUALLY recyclable.

[@cynthusinfinite]

Remember how it was reported there was a shortage of sand around the world, sand being stolen from shores. Wonder who funded those reports.

[@DougCutler-tn2ey]

I don't buy into CO2 being a huge problem with the climate. More CO2 creates more plant growth. It's a self regulating system. A much bigger problem is the actual pollutants put into our environment by our use of fossil fuels.

[@tobybigham4196]

Roughly 20% of plastics are even capable of recycling. This whole system was a scam setup by manufacturing companies to sell their consumables to people who claim to care about the environment. Unfortunately most of those people are very very very gullible!

[@matthenley3886]

@@DougCutler-tn2eyIt can be but we’ve interfered with that. Mass deforestation and large increases in C02 emissions have an effect on that system. Look at the increases in ocean acidity as well if you think it’s still capable of self regulating.

[@stefanrabenschlag2892]

more CO2 in the atmosphere makes plants grow in area with less water, it makes the planet greener.@@matthenley3886

[@hi-q2261]

PBD I'm a skip driver in the UK. Recycling is a scam. They just throw it in all together

[@michaelfulcher6390]

I live in the US, in Maine. I watch the trash guys pickup our trash and separate recycling bins, which the town makes us do, and toss it all in together. Our town also makes us buy and use their town branded trash bags or the trash won't be picked up.

[@BreadanCotter-vb5xd]

Same I'm in London all goes to the tip and ferries take it too the 3rd world

[@arnoldziffel4943]

@@michaelfulcher6390 Stop shattering my world.

[@djojoreeves]

Yelp, we wash garbage trucks amd the same trucks that pick up regular trash picks up recycling trash too and drop it in the landfill as well

[@perlitalaguna6622]

Wait. I've watched the regular trash truck pick up our trash only. And usually they come first. So I always get to bring the bins back from the sidewalk before I head to work. But the recycles bin doesn't get emptied in the early morning. Only when I get back from work, do I finally bring back the empty recycles bin. So is the recycling truck just bringing my recyclables to the regular trash dump? It seems pointless to do that. Yes...this is shattering my world too.

[@AnthonyJ350]

People need the truth. Every commercial build I have worked at has no means of collecting plastic specifically. Straight to the landfill. Only cardboard and metal get picked up.

[@jasono2139]

This is partially because of the many kinds of plastics. Cardboard is cardboard is cardboard (generally)... metals can be sorted. Some plastics simply can't be recycled (thermosets) or would be difficult to do so. Many plastics would require MORE energy to recycle for the little bit of material you get back versus just making virgin material.

[@AnthonyJ350]

@@jasono2139 So just put on the bin which "number rating" of plastic is allowed. Or make it law what type of plastic is allowed for packaging in the country to make it easy to recycle.

[@jasono2139]

@@AnthonyJ350 so we're going to have "cardboard", "metal", and... "Plastic 1" "Plastic 2" "Plastic 3" "Plastic 4" "Plastic 5" "Plastic 6" "Plastic 7" (which is other) ...there's a reason why most recycling centers don't even bother recycling anything other than #1 and #2, because the others are a giant waste of time to sort and/or create so little useable material that they use an inordinate amount of energy to process them. The logical solution would be to insinterate the lighter plastics and use them as fuel for electrical power.

[@jasono2139]

@@AnthonyJ350 otherswise, there are chemical and mechanical reasons why companies use different plastics bottles for water vs shampoo bottles vs food containers vs plumbing... they're not just picking different plastics for the fun of it, so the government inserting itself into that decision is just another way of convoluting the problem or creating new ones.

[@AnthonyJ350]

@@jasono2139 Right, recycling plastic is a scam.

[@RikuLeppanen]

Thanks for bringing this up. Plastics are a huge problem and need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.

[@glennfrancisheald4008]

It's been 'Brought up' for the last 50 years, but like everything else, it's ignored because we all want to be comfortable, let someone else deal with it.

[@marcyking461]

One small solution to help counteract the plastic problem is to go back to using glass bottles with a deposit on them. Think of how many individual bottles people use for water, soda, etc. It all adds up. The deposit assures they get returned to the manufacturer, so they can be washed and reused.

[@lexidecimal9941]

I wish. But there's so many people now, especially in places where we're not even counting them, no that I want that either, but producing goods has a balancing act to maintain. Again, agreed, I wish. Best chance for real though is also globally impossible but shop local at least makes tight communities... we're gonna need em... Escape From New York coming soon.😢

[@MMA4CMT]

That’s no small solution, that’s a big part of THE solution!

[@FTORanger]

Don't inject logic into this conversation!

[@Indylimburg]

I would support this. The problem with glass is the weight makes it cost much more to ship than plastic. Plastic also doesn't shatter when dropped, so items bottled in plastic are arguably more durable. I don't see why major suppliers who package and bottle things in plastic can't wash and reuse their plastic cartons. Soda bottles, the plastic cartons M&M's come in, and laundry detergent jugs could all be washed and refilled.

[@David-NFS]

Our ocean and wildlife deserve a lot better. We need major change.

[@thelastboomer9088]

If groceries go up any more, I’ll have to resort to eating my credit cards.

[@jerry-ze8wr]

Good, maybe people will stop being in debt.

[@73gent16]

Packaging is one of the largest industries in the world. Even podcast like this try push plastic and clothing products we do not need. It all turns to waste.

[@perlitalaguna6622]

​@@73gent16I was just thinking that!!! Lol. I was like "fast fashion? How about your ugly pink shirts that say :The future is bright". It's as cringe as "The future is female". Or anything with a inspiration message on a shirt.

[@N4daGainz]

😂

[@lateblossom]

I feel that 😂

[@daviddassow8508]

Happy You Are Getting the Word Out - We consume a credit card a week of plastic. I stay away from processed foods (micro plastics) and recently purchased a kitchen water purifier (NSF approved) that takes out 99.99% of micro plastics. Keep spreading the news!

[@ProfessorNugget]

I work for a waste management company and trust me it all goes to the landfill. The landfills are fine they are insanely massive and will take years and years to fill and thats for a small quarter square mile landfill that can be built to the sky

[@not_glad]

This is my thinking. I only have one bin in my house, keep things simple and I know where it's going, I can't even pretend to care about recycling. I only buy food from the butchers so I have very little plastic waste anyway, and paper/cardboard I burn at home.

[@D-Fens_1632]

Working in a hospital opened my eyes to how much plastic gets thrown away. I'm personally responsible for literal tonnage in my 4 years there. Being medical they have nothing in place to even pretend they recycle things, even if it's just packaging material not considered biohazard waste.

[@SomebodyPickaName]

Are you by any chance a Falling Down fan? D-FENS!

[@marcyking461]

I was a patient in the hospital for about two weeks, 10 years ago, and you wouldn't believe how many plastic tubs I saved and brought home with me. They held toiletries and such and were very sturdy. They made fantastic cubie bins, dishpans, liter boxes, planters, etc... People in general are much too wasteful, and as for hospitals, those plastic tubs could be replaced with paper bags. So far as hospitals go, that is just a tiny example of the waste I saw. The same was true for those socks with the little rubber thingies on the bottom of them to prevent slipping. When I got out of the hospital, I ended up with about 14 pair of those socks, and still wear them. Waste not, want not.

[@detehoxa1126]

specially in operating's room

[@pmo6801]

10 years working in the medical industry for hospitals it's unreal and most people don't even know

[@bryanwhite3021]

I'm a travel nurse and only one place ever recycled thier plastic. It was in Springfield, MO. I don't know if it really gets recycled (seems like alot of "recycled" stuff just ends up in India) but they had it and in surgery per case we make atleast 5 pounds of empty bottles and trays

[@claytonmatt4334]

Recycling is a psyop

[@stephenguerra4031]

Recycling started because New Jerseys stopped taking New York’s trash over an argument and the government found an opportunity to not waste.

[@rexrocker1268]

Glass and aluminum and other metals makes sense. You just melt and reuse. Paper? Meh I guess makes sense, less trees cut, turned back to pulp and made back into other paper products. Also paper biodegrades. Plastic is a joke.

[@Sebastien-ml2zv]

@@rexrocker1268👍Correct 👍

[@piouswhale]

Often times its more expensive to recycle those than make new. Also you run into purity issues. Metal is already melted sometimes but only aluminum is worth recycling because of production costs

[@caiusmadison2996]

It's true. There was an agent tasked with designing and maintaining the lie that reduce reuse and recycle is the future. It was done to help large cities generate large amounts of taxes that didn't exist at the time, but was "needed". Look it up. It's a wild story

[@tayom-dg9td]

probably one of the best PBD videos among many, love the fact he shows studies, plus opens a conversation about solving the problem. really great

[@innsaeimaster]

I made in the nineties a one year study about plastic production in Europe to find a way how to reduce plastic and use recycled materials in the airline food industry. Then I was once in China where i saw that the big US companies like GE shipped used plastics to China. In so called recycling facilities the melted the plastics to make plastic granules in unsafe conditions. Conclusion: there aren’t many plastics that can be recycled to use again for food containers. Even PET wasn’t fully recyclable. We need to do more research and find ways to change this.

[@mikem669]

Early 90's my Twp enacted a recycling program. We (residence) were pressured to take our recyclables to the township building and separate them into individual concrete bins. I played along and very early one Sunday morning when i pulled in there was a backhoe loading a dump truck, mixing all of the separated bins into the same truck. When they saw me, the backhoe and the truck drove around to the other side of the building. Recycling has been a BS lie since its inception.

[@daveassanowicz186]

In the US, YES! Look at Japan and most of Europe

[@perspectiveiseverything1694]

I would have lost my cookies! 🤬

[@helenguilford3136]

Yes. Our borough stopped scamming us. No more recycling.

[@igotnukes6011]

Penn and Teller did an episode on this years ago. I haven't wasted a second of my time recycling since.

[@daveassanowicz186]

Did you reduce your use of one-time plastics?

[@jimbojones9118]

Glass (and some metals) are literally the only thing worth recycling. Everything else is net negative carbon emissions to recycle

[@arnoldziffel4943]

@@daveassanowicz186 I certainly have. I only eat berries that I take from my neighbor’s fields, drink water straight from the streams, and I take my milk directly from the udder.

[@evasoukoreff5592]

We saw that same Penn and Teller, that episode was in 1990s. It’s gotten so much worse, now fruits and veggies are in plastics, used to be in wooden crates.

[@jamram9924]

A few years back in Scotland, some road engineers were testing the use of ground plastic with asphalt. Apparently, roads were lasting longer than just regular asphalt. They were testing this mixture in various seasons to determine its viability.

[@jasono2139]

I can't imagine that'd work too well as most plastics don't like heat and UV exposure. Perhaps, nylon fibers could help to keep the roadway from breaking just like re-bar in concrete. 🤷

[@CommoditySC]

@@jasono2139 What heat? he said scotland

[@jasono2139]

@CommoditySC sorry... I forgot that Scotland residents underground! 😂

[@nathanmoore62]

One of the things that cause people to throw away their clothing so often is quality. The clothes that you buy now days fall apart with in 6 months. Twenty or thirty years ago those same clothes would last years.

[@arthurpendragon3000]

Also people throw away perfectly good stuff because they want something new. I've had t-shirts that have lasted ten years. Once one gets an imperfection I rotate it into the sleep shirt drawer. I don't care if there's s small stain that won't come out or a tiny hole. That shirt doesn't go out in public.

[@Donnie-sh9md]

I used to work at a recycling plant in a bustling city, stationed on a conveyor belt where my task was to swiftly discern and separate plastic from non-plastic materials. With an unrelenting flow of items moving at high velocity, there was no room for meticulous inspection; efficiency was not paramount.

[@NEILANIL1]

I used to see commercials for this growing up, they would promote down syndrome people or people with disabilities to work in these kind of environments and I'm thinking to myself how is this even practical but yet that's what it was promoting. Now this was in New York City.

[@lindaklase3821]

“We” are not the ones to blame. “We” have NO CONTROL of the packaging we are forced to use. “They” need to stop this madness and waste.

[@lowiqleftist8940]

How we spend our money influences how they make money...

[@AceKite00]

@@lowiqleftist8940 Indeed, however, what products are they making available to us to begin with?

[@williestarke]

You're the one that's buying it.

[@arnoldziffel4943]

@@williestarke Lol

[@scott8238]

WE the people aka the sleeping giant could end this tomorrow but the whole planet would have to come together.

[@007.crackthecase4]

Thank you for producing this channel. ❤ Blessed to have authentic education and entertainment♾️🙏

[@jordynncampbell1116]

Thank you for sharing this and using your platform for good!!

[@OldWorldNY]

Known this for a long time. Ignorance is bliss in this sad country.

[@mightyraptor01]

We've gotten lazy is what has happened people would rather spend 24 hours on twitter the no lifrers, theres regression is coming and people will have regret. No life is a sad life.

[@gdb5448]

It's a worldwide ignorance...America is not even remotely the problem...there are 7.6 BILLION people that live outside of America...they are the problem. It's a sheer numbers game....

[@chrisrgfield]

We just need to go back to old ways. When I was a kid (80/90s), bags & boxes were paper, cans were all aluminum and most bottles were mostly glass. Plastic was rarely seen in packaging. All of these things were either biodegradable or actually recyclable. Most plastics are byproducts (waste) from the oil industry that they want to make extra profit off of, hence the proliferation. I think one of the solutions is going back to incinerating waste. Properly done, it can be low emission and stops landfill pollution and can be used to produce electricity. We had the solutions, before these things were made into problems. “Recycling” today is merely a from of government/corporate greenwashing. They pass the buck by selling it to brokers, allowing them to claim it’s been recycled. But, if you follow the waste it rarely is. Oddly though, if you follow the money they’re all profiting at each step… Just another scam perpetrated on society for the gain of a few.

[@xKarenWalkerx]

Bottles were not mostly glass in the 90s

[@chris-cy5ed]

Yep to much profit in waste management frfr public company btw ! Pfff , Also in the 80s prior there was only recycle and no plastic at all it was beautiful and no (canCER at the time basically minUte tiny % of people! So its in the plastic ,and then Food ,and then Water , and chemicals, look at all the lakes you cant fish anymore lakes in Florida are trashed! Lake apopka was clearly clear 55 -60years ago now like a horror movie! We don't need weed killers, etc... forget about green grass, make garden beds, everyone its simply done too ! Then everyone trade and be clean fr to much fantasy land type ishh

[@QueenieQKat]

You're describing the 50s and 60s. By the 70s plastic began taking over.

[@betsybabf748]

That was not the 80s and 90s. LMAO I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Everything was packaged in plastic in the 80s. You are confused with the 1950s. 🤣🤣

[@chrisrgfield]

@@QueenieQKat Maybe it’s because I’m up in Canada. The plastic takeover didn’t really hit here until the 90s. But when it did, the transition was very quick.

[@msnpassjan2004]

Thanks to your friends for letting us into their home and lives. Nice meeting them and their dogs.

[@Karlostorres1994]

Man, Patrick, I love your content, thanks for sharing this valuable information. By the way buddy, love the sweeter

[@embracethesuck1041]

It is encouraging to see more people speaking the unspeakable. That is a prerequisite to finding solutions and avoiding disasters.

[@truther001]

Too bad it ain't gonna do any good. How many of these millionaires and billionaires have investments in plastics.

[@madmat990]

I love the rapid-fire fast-cut production. To the point in a hurry....thanks!!

[@dudeguykach]

A couple of years ago, I also heard that the recyclables don't actually get recycled. I keep "recycling" just because it's less waste in they City trash bags which are a fee per bag. the "recycling" is "free" (built into real-estate tax). So sad.

[@cherylsmith4826]

How nice it is that you pay for bags designated for recycling & it doesn't get recycled. Thieves, plain & simple

[@petedoh63]

UK. Stopped recycling two and a half years ago after being so passionate about it for over 20 years. Read a BBC article that said only 10% is recycled. The rest goes to landfill,burnt or sent abroad. Even the medical waste bin where I work is emptied into the same compartment as the weekly trash on the bin lorry. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

[@JCo.Videos]

Doesnt Oregon offer like 50 cents for each bottle brought back. I think that's a great idea to have people recycle and clean the plastic for pocket change. Can make a huge difference if every state offered an incentive

[@CharlesJackson-tt7ve]

compare to when walmart "encourage" pepsi and coke to switch from glass to plastic.... the freight weight of eliminating glass what a huge cost savor for both walmart, coke and pepsi...but destroyed the environment....

[@GreentipsCo]

Trying carrying glass bottles versus plastic. We just need better waste management. Plastic is here to stay.

[@Benjamin-xv2hg]

My uncle works at a recycling plant. Metal and cardboard are the only things that are recycled 100% of the time. If there's no money in whatever else is brought to them, it is sent to a landfill. There's a few exceptions here and there for hazmat things. But they're just sent to somebody who's going to strip out the hazmat part and send the rest to a landfill.

[@aveenoboom3179]

Thanks for being here Pat

[@Cosmic_Consciousness__123]

There are industrial-strength enzymes that can dissolve plastic into safe, usable soil. The whole recycling situation doesn't have to exist. The enzyme approach is doable now, but is seemingly of no interest to cities and corporations, who seem to be stuck in the paradigms of landfills or inefficient "recycling."

[@QuranReadingClips]

Damn going from 60 lbs to 220,000,000,000 lbs of plastic waste per year is CRAZY

[@IntegrityMeansAll]

It’s insane. Btw the best videos are the ones with PBD alone (or PBD with a guest)

[@villa_fan8882]

@@IntegrityMeansAllyou mean………. Without Adam? I concur, Adam grinds my gears

[@chris-cy5ed]

Yea we miss PhD Pbd By him self speaking these videos they were what blew him up straight valuetainment literally! 😊 miss em more often and longer would be great like 12-20 mins atleast an sum like 20-35mns especially the old one on 1's and these great Insights, how to's , etc...Appreciate it and lets figure out a way to come together and fix this PBD instead of just talking about drama, solve solution based Podcasts alot more brother❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏Amen

[@QuranReadingClips]

That’s true, he is probably just doing what’s best for his business though. Either way, we’re here for the ride

[@mikebrandenburg9922]

Ofcourse what is always missing is the population growth over these years. Doesn't account for everything but does account for a lot. Things made from metal in the past are now made of plastic. So that growth is completely explainable.

[@thelastboomer9088]

I recycled one time. I put out my regular trash and my full recycling can and then watched the garage truck driver empty both cans into the back of the truck. I’m not going to waste my time if it’s all going into the same place in the truck.

[@Salty_Balls]

At least they were being honest about it in a way. I went through the trouble of recycling for a long time, and setting two cans out for two different trucks to pick them up. Turns out it all went to the same place as well. They were just doing it on the back end.

[@matthenley3886]

You understand that many trucks have separate compartments?

[@yolandascholten2012]

Recycling is a grift that just makes ordinary people feel better and elites a whole lot richer! Years ago we had one truck to collect garbage, now we have four, but now we have to PAY more for garbage to go to the exact same place it’s always gone to.

[@carolynenochs9139]

Great info and I love the hoodie jacket design! Love. it.❣️

[@Boredaff]

I saw the garbage patch flying to Hawaii. One of the scariest things I've seen. You can see it from a plane for over an hour.

[@OutWestRedDirt]

Instead of yearly war games against Russia, countries should be playing war on pollution in the ocean

[@user-mk2tn5zy9q]

If we poop everywhere on the street, in the ocean, and in the air then we're gonna have problems. Plastics are thrown into the ocean by knuckle heads that's why we have a big problem. Nothing wrong with plastic being dumped in landfill, it belongs there.

[@warehousehhm3694]

I work for a non profit that accepts donations and sells merchandise that has value to the public. Many donations come in card board boxes which the boxes are torn down and baled into 1000 lbs bundles and I have no market to sell for recycling even though major paper mills are within a 100 miles. I sold 42,000 lbs of quality hard cover books, all the top sellers from the last 10 years. I finally sold the semi trailer load for 5 cents per lb which is totally ridiculous AND I HAD TO PAY THE FREIGHT< AROUND A THOUSAND DOLLERS !!!

[@shortsilwady]

Thank you for this very informative video

[@hoffpauirconcrete.semperfidCC]

I like these type of videos good work PBD

[@msm632]

Thank you for addressing ~ THIS!!! Finally, someone who cares enough to say this. I recycle, and it bothers me to know, it’s not a priority in this country. God bless you, for caring & exposing- THIS !!!!!🙏🏼

[@mtamech535]

Burn plastic, don’t recycle it.

[@MyBichSustained]

@@mtamech535 It don't work that way,it's more toxic to burn plastic.

[@mtamech535]

@@MyBichSustained at one time it was toxic to burn coal, then we cleaned it up and refined it. At one time smoke stacks on factories polluted like crazy, but we cleaned them up. It can be done but nobody wants to explore it. We could turn plastic into energy, but instead, we pretend like we just shouldn't have it when it's one of the greatest materials man has ever created.

[@MyBichSustained]

@@mtamech535 ok

[@MyBichSustained]

@@mtamech535 Coal is one thing, plastic is another, the maintenance and facility cost would be astronomical ...there is no profit in burning plastic.

[@jessicamdenham]

Eye opening. Thanks Pat.

[@corgilife241]

Great video!!!

[@jakethesnake4971]

We need more people like Pat! 👍🏻

[@waasiciye5249]

Thnkz for sharing PBD

[@OutWestRedDirt]

Thanks. Stop being lazy.

[@nickb2080]

Im in the metal recycling industry i read an article in a news letter i get and they used to recycle plastic and sell it to china. China quit buying it years ago . The companies that upcharge for recycling just kept collecting.

[@lalad2943]

Yep, China stopped taking our recycling because we sent it with garbage, so it was contaminated. They stopped taking our plastic in 2017-18 I think it was. There are no major recycling processing plants here, so like you say, recyclers keep making money but it mostly goes to landfill. It's been a struggle for years and needs a Fed funding fix to create processing facilities and incentives for industry to move away from consumer plastics.

[@nickb2080]

@@lalad2943 it's quite the psychology/sales study in about 2016 or 17 I saw the article in a industry news letter I get showed it to my dad and he still pays for curb recycling today

[@nickb2080]

@@lalad2943 does it need fed intervention? How much plastic things are even made here? What's worse new plastic or giant diesel barges transversing the planet full of "scrap"? I don't know?china made most of the plastic stuff we were selling to them as recyclable. I am a recyclable material merchant. This will not be good for my business but. What is better for the planet 1 a gas drinking truck from the seventys that still can do work or2 buy the newest most efficient model every 2 or 3 years. Planned obsolescence is killing the planet. Nothing comes out the "tailpipe" of a ev but where did the battery come from? Oh it's good for 3-5 years. The lack of longevity cost the consumer and the environment. Manufacturing cost is a charge to the consumer and the environment.

[@nickb2080]

And if you give ME 300 a ton to "recycle" I'll take all the plastic you have

[@6Braxton9]

Lived in south Houston, worked in the plant life. Comes a point when you begin to doubt the seafood quality.... 😢

[@resonance3486]

Bravo!

[@endtimeslips4660]

about 3 years ago i watching people burning plastic in the drum for making gasoline and diesel. first try i cannot make good clean gasoline. but now each week i can make almost independent diesel only by taking plastic waste from the market. it produce about 9-12 liter fuel per barrel of plastic.

[@TheFredmac]

What is your heat source? What are the left overs that come out of the pyrolysis chamber? I know biodiesel has to be washed to be usable, do you have to do anything like that? Happy to hear you are having success.

[@actorjay]

But I'm sure that pollutes the air.

[@arnoldberk2809]

I’d like to know how you do it

[@endtimeslips4660]

@@arnoldberk2809 it simple. prepare barrel. pack as much as plastic you can. more dense is more good. make sure your barrel is seal tight. top on it you make a steel pipe. this thing work like you make a an alcohol drink. cooling the pipe with water. i burn my barrel with another YT invention. i made a rocket stove use waste wood. since i lived near wood it very easy found wood scraps for burning my barrel. one barrel need about 3 crat scrap wood till it burn all plastic

[@nozrep]

why did PBD hire Cuomo?

[@goldenknightsfanatic]

I love seeing an add on this video that’s for recycling

[@littlegmod]

They shoukd have refill stores where consumers can bring their own plastic bottles, jugs, etc. and just refill them. It would probably cut a lot of the costs down as well.

[@natalianegritto]

Wait…. So why are we separating our plastics from garbage if they are not being recycled ?

[@shtfck6006]

It's a grift, simply put.

[@paulradice3534]

Power

[@BCM16AR]

It can be burned to generate electricity. There are scrubbers that can clean the toxic smoke.

[@young_tech6809]

Great video

[@tiarnola]

Such clean editing on these vids

[@quintonbrown3784]

“20-500 years” really mean “we have no idea how long plastic takes to decompose”

[@gurutimes2]

yes they do

[@jayhawk4578]

Haha. Don't you sell bottled water ? How many bottles of water do you and your Guest go through in a podcast ???

[@SamSquatch80]

There bottles are biodegradable obviously.

[@msm632]

I’m sure they recycle!

[@warehouse1429]

Are you triggered by this? lol he’s not preaching just sharing one of many huge examples of how we are destroying our environment

[@abnoco]

It’s a fair criticism but the larger point is this is a big problem

[@billymeda1848]

They don't they slap a sticker on the bottle lol

[@zenberimbau3085]

I think it would be a great idea to have companies and or organizations like NPOs that are making real efforts to create solutions surrounding this to turn it around slowly, onto your podcast and sound the alarm brother. You’ve got a fantastic platform and you’re one of my favourite examples of people sharing the news as it could be rather than how it is.

[@yellowdog2181]

I live in a state with all kinds of recycling laws since 1990 , today if you ask the local garbage collectors they say it all gets dumped in our local garbage to power incinerator

[@davidmullis7906]

use it to produce energy

[@IntegrityMeansAll]

How? That’s toxic

[@seancain7299]

Google, "Not only is the smoke from burning plastic filled with climate change-accelerating gasses, but it also contains carcinogens like lead, mercury, dioxins and furans, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and brominated polyaromatic hydrocarbons"

[@SomebodyPickaName]

@@seancain7299 Yeah, if you burn it. Turning plastic into fuel still needs to be developed from a scientific standpoint, not a combustion standpoint.

[@johnotoole5786]

Yea I don't get it if it's petroleum based how can we not convert it to energy or someone did n they bought the patent n shelved it

[@seancain7299]

@@SomebodyPickaName so convert it back into fossil fuels...? You don't see a problem with that?

[@garylee12345]

I always tell gas station clerks etc when they give me a plastic bag for items I can carry out. NO BAG !! Its pollution

[@QueenieQKat]

They could use paper bags.

[@TheFredmac]

I have noticed clerks asking if I want a bag more often lately.

[@jimbojones9118]

​@@TheFredmac its cause they are lazy

[@TheFredmac]

@@jimbojones9118 conservation of energy is a law of physics. They are obeying the law.

[@jimbojones9118]

@TheFredmac lol OK. But when I buy a bunch of shit I can't hold in my hands and they ask if I want a bag still, that is being lazy

[@NetScalerTrainer]

Plastic can be burnt cleaner than natural gas it’s made from petrochemicals and becomes petrochemicals when heated to 800°C with no oxygen

[@adamcarranza9959]

Hey PBD great video and I am familiar with this challenge. I completed a research project on grad school on this and I can give you additional details about where recycling really ends up.

[@nothanks3236]

This is why I don't waste the extra money paying for recycling as part of my trash service. Because I know 90% or more of it is just going to end up in the landfill anyway.

[@cendrizzi]

What about paper though, and cardboard? It's not just plastic.

[@kayrutledge1970]

@@cendrizziPlastic is the real problem. People use a lot more plastic on a daily basis and it doesn’t break down like paper products do.

[@BrianK-zz4fk]

@@cendrizzias long as its not glossy I throw that in my compost and use that to grow food so actually getting recycled without any tranportation needs. Glossy paper will not be recycled.

[@nothanks3236]

@@BrianK-zz4fk Glossy paper is treated with kaolin (a type of clay), that's how they make it "glossy." But makes it cost-inefficient to recycle... EDIT: "How do you know?" One of the major mineral exports of my state is kaolin. We have a number of kaolin mines in the central part of the state (Georgia) where a large kaolin deposit is located close to/on the surface.

[@BrianK-zz4fk]

@@nothanks3236 didnt you answer your own question as its not cost efficient to recycle and I dont want clay in my compost either.

[@waasiciye5249]

Who doesn't love the numbers?

[@Mojo-ms8th]

Live in rural area and required to recycle. County said we no longer accept glass and the last 3 times I take plastic and aluminum to center was told to throw in regular trash

[@EnkiWesley]

There's one point I didn't hear you speak about... Only 8% of all plastic produced is even recyclable to begin with it is produced the majority of it is produced knowing it cannot be recycled. Hemp plastic is on the horizon... By the grades quite quickly actually

[@Cyber_Samurai]

There's micro-plastic in ALL of us.

[@atillathehungry3145]

You're also filled with all kinds of dust. Is plastic so much different? I haven't heard that explained.

[@dontworrybout2664]

@@atillathehungry3145bodies see lots of plastics as estrogen like chems. It’s a reason why the average 18 year old now has the T of a 70 year old man of 25 years ago.

[@seanmcalarney2261]

So glad someone big is talking about this. HUGE problem that no one wants to discuss. Thanks PBD! keep leading the way in bringing back AMERICA!

[@corneliusmartin6600]

In condominium high-rises, the maintenance people put blue containers for plastics,paper, and boxes on every floor, including the lobby. Afterwards, they pick up the containers and throw everything in the garbage, And they recycle absolutely nothing. It’s all a big lie. They tell me it would take too much manpower to separate the items to recycle.. and they don’t wanna do it! This is similar to the lies they tell us that that, if you give people, free, healthcare, free, shelter, paid by the taxpayers, free food that they want to go out and get a job which is a big lie!

[@SacredKaw]

In 2007 I was sitting outside an LA coffee shop enjoying a double macchiato with 3 pumps of Carmel and a sprig of mint...yeah right, it was most definitely a black coffee, when a garbage truck pulled up and the guy emptied both the normal trash and recycling bin into the truck with no separation. That's when I knew that Recycling was a Social Programing operation to make us take responsible for big plastic and big oil's ongoing damage to the environment for profits.

[@BillyHades]

Recent study shows we all consume a credit card worth of plastic a week through micro-plastics in the air, food and water.

[@SomebodyPickaName]

Yep, he mentioned that

[@vendomnu]

And EVs are to blame for a good portion of that. They go through tires a lot faster than normal cars and tires are made of plastic.

[@BillyHades]

@@SomebodyPickaName I didn't catch it, I probably have too much micro plastic in my brain 😅

[@SeventeenSeventySix]

I tried to tell people years ago, but they didn't listen.

[@ifixyourmix]

I agree!

[@ianisbell500]

Good work PBD

[@SomebodyPickaName]

Thank you, PBD - this has bothered me ever since I first heard about the "great garbage patch" the size of Texas out in the ocean. Then I heard there were about 6 of these giant garbage patches all throughout the world, since the plastic has this magnetic property where it gravitates towards itself into clusters (giant clusters of course). Markets determine outcomes, right? So we need to create a market which produces the technologies for converting plastic into fuel, then sell back the fuel to the plastic companies at a profit.....then watch how fast they all want to be in your new industry. They just don't want to lead the charge until somebody else does the science and tech and R&D first.

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

Best of luck to you with your new announcement, Patrick! I read the comments about Adam so I was hesitant about what you're bringing in with Chris, but I think you're a smart man! And hope you and yours had a very Happy Saint Patrick Day! Changed my clothes multiple times yesterday, wearing blue, green, and white yesterday so was covered! Prayed for your family at Mass and being that he's the patron saint of engineers, Ireland, Nigeria, those afraid of snakes, and protection against snake bites, any of you Indiana Jones out there, I prayed for you as well! The ending of the prayer written on Saint Patrick's breastplate written by Saint Patrick: Christ to shield me today Against poison, against burning Against drowning, against wounding So that there may come to me an abundance of reward. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity Through belief in the Threeness Through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation. St. Patrick, pray for us! Hope you have a light-filled peaceful joyful week! Hope you're a Saint Patrick one day! Please pray for me so I can be a saint as well!

[@tstep522]

PBD, I need that zip hoodie! Looks great!

[@nikschmidt7499]

Hey Pat, I have been watching valuetainment since 2018 and have read your next 5 moves multiple times. Needless to say, you have made a huge impact on my life. This video hits home for me. I started picking up trash around Fort Myers in March of 2019 and those efforts eventually evolved into a community wide effort. After several community trash cleanups, I began asking myself how I could take the trash we were collecting and make money from it. We have tested out multiple ideas and eventually came up with the idea for a golf tee made from 100% recycled litter. Let me know what you think of the idea and how you would go about bringing this to market!

[@ravenheart1439]

It's an absolutely scary situation...plastic goes no where for ever....there is Miles of it on shore lines across the globe killing fragile marine life...I've known this for awhile so it's not quite not talked about, just most are ignorant to it, amongst other things...

[@773superprguy]

My wife is going to be upset 😂

[@Travelwindows999]

Return to glass, aluminum and paper products for our packaging needs which all are easily recycled and or decomposed. The public must demand Congress ignore the oil industry’s lobbyists and create laws that outlaw the manufacture and use of plastic in all consumer products. Industrial and automotive use of plastics can continue until replacement materials less environmentally damaging can be developed!

[@katth6439]

Big problem!

[@ronaldruymgaart4625]

Refuse plastic items, demand packages of cellulose. Bamboo, hemp, leaves and stamps of banana trees and so on are 100% recyclable 😅. Takes a little effort, but is doable 👍👏

[@britasha1194]

You should also make sure your clothes, beds and products don't have toxic materials for your own health.

[@work3229]

PBD, I agree this is a big problem but what are your ideas/ solutions?

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

good video, man.

[@dudefromtheearth]

Whoa what another dynamite educational video dropped Pat! Man I really appreciate you talking about this environmental issue because it is a problem on so many levels. The Gorillaz were going the right direction when they came out with the album Plastic Beach.