The Next Big Wall Street Stock? It’s Trash. | WSJ The Economics Of

[@VaibhavRungta-s7z]

Love the smart truck tech. Have often seen boxes outside of the bins (thanks to EComm) and I think such behavior adds more work for the people who collect trash. I hope these smart trucks and WM instills better practices 🙂

[@benkitesurfs]

A lot of collectors ask you to put it outside the bins, because the boxes get stuck in the bins

[@Sjalabais]

Those smart trucks are still ancient diesel truck designs. It's a really small step and they could do *so much* better.

[@miles5600]

Lol the US is so far behind on this 😂 you guys still have garbage trucks that look like they’re from the 80s

[@shyman580]

If we do our part, maybe the rates will go down. NOT!!

[@ahoog69]

While I am glad to see a company like Waste Management incorporating Artificial Intelligence and technology into their workflow to reduce waste and increase the capture of recyclable materials, this entire process needs to start much sooner with how things are packaged to begin with. I do my best to separate true garbage from those items that can be recycled, but the way things are packaged makes it so difficult; labels stuck onto plastic and paper containers; mixed materials fused together. It’s really bad. Packaging designers and manufacturers really need to step up and completely reimagine what they are doing.

[@westrim]

The first R is Reduce.

[@o-towncompost9186]

What they don't mention about the methane capture at landfills is that most of the organic waste produces methane in the first 6 months after it's been landfilled, before they install the technology. Also, the technology to capture the methane is notoriously riddled with inefficiencies. The EPA just published a report on it yesterday.

[@blatherskyt]

Yes, but because my hard-earned tax dollars pay for it, it's economically viable now.

[@benjamindover4337]

Don't worry, they'll have the money transferred out of the country before anyone figures that out.

[@piroskakapos6182]

I'm rooting for any kind of technology that may contribute to waste recycling 💯👍

[@4evernut]

It’s nice to see that WM is using the machines from Bollegraaf, mine daily job is to assembly conveyor belts for them in Netherlands.

[@tightlines106]

In Australia we have 3x different garbage bins one for general waste one for recycling plastic and cardboard and one for green waste

[@miltondelacuesta8304]

So does the us

[@fireprint_incinerator]

Congratulations on your new achievement, Li from China, manufacturer of low-temperature magnetic waste thermal decomposition device

[@WELVAS.]

Most trash can be recycled and we need to demand our companies to use recycled materials in their products more. In some places there is a tax on those that continually contaminate what would be recyclable materials. Its a good way to get everyone to recycle and better reuse our resources. Those that recycle correctly don't pay any tax which is a good incentive.

[@viewer-of-content]

Over 30% of trash is "organic materials" and cannot be safely recycled. Capturing the rotting gasses and extracting the methane is an important component of becoming green and not preventative of recycling. You can't safely recycle medical waste for example because of prion's fire resistance. So you're left with rotting gause body parts and needles. You can atleast extract and burn the methane to reduce your climate impact.

[@harrisjm62]

Recycling is good, but I was surprised to learn most plastic can't be recycled. Only the cap on bottles is recyclable. And because of costs, only the tabs on aluminium cans get recycled. It's crazy. I reuse what I can but my main focus is on reduce now.

[@levertmalatji-oj9ok]

I like this business model.

[@GlobalOneMedia]

Wow, major props to WM for stepping up their game! 🌱 It's awesome to see them not just managing landfills but diving into a whole new level of eco-friendly tech. The fact that they're snagging tax credits and federal perks to boost their renewable natural gas plants, smart trucks, and automated recycling? Big mood.

[@7OD-Subscribe-me-Subscribe-you]

I've been saying it for years. Whoever can sort all the trash with a machine will be a billionaire.

[@jarblewarble]

Items with RFID tags might be easy to scan and recover, if they continued to function after being discarded.

[@Laylander]

This is already an enormous industry, and it has been for a century! There are several big companies in the world designing better and better installations. My job is exactly that; designing the layout of a waste sorting plant. The sorting plant in this video was actually manufactured by the company I work for! I wasn't involved in this one, as our long term partner in the USA has designed this one, but it's still something I'm proud of. It's the best job ever. You actually get to contribute to a solution for one of our global environmental issues, and you have to be really smart about it! It's definitely the most challenging job I've had, because the stakes are high and there are many different stakeholders. But the result is oh so rewarding. When you see a plant purring away, recycling more trash per hour than my entire family produces in a year, you know you're contributing.

[@7OD-Subscribe-me-Subscribe-you]

@@Laylander wow that's a lot of words but my point was. A machine that can sort all the trash has yet to be made.

[@Laylander]

@@7OD-Subscribe-me-Subscribe-you There is no need to build such a machine, as some waste streams will never meet. You do not need a machine that can sort both concrete boulders and plastic wrappers. A machine capable of sorting all construction waste, or a machine capable of sorting all household waste, exists. Although you can't really call it a single machine anymore. It's a combination of storage, machines and conveyors, and on that scale you refer to it as a plant ;)

[@AnthonyVilla-g9i]

@@Laylander are human sorters still needed after robot sorter installation?

[@anonymous87654]

$500 million in profits from gas, then why do they need a $250 million tax break?

[@tylerknight99]

To make it competitive with extracting it from the ground, as was said immediately afterward in the video

[@fiamond]

Because of climate change

[@stickynorth]

I wish North America would adopt the 7 colored bag system of Eskiltuna, Sweden that separates all waste into different bags for collecting... That would reduce landfilling astronomically...

[@RudieObias]

Man, most Americans can’t even count that high 😅

[@Youngdanny45]

Americans are too busy adopting the multiple gender system.

[@mariusob]

An american does not understand that the consumer could already separate the waste, that would be too inconvenient for them. Just increase your trash quality, then you will be more sustainable automatically

[@YHDiamond]

The place where I live already has this and it works fine, except for the bozos who decide not to recycle at all...

[@viewer-of-content]

There will always be organic materials that could be contaminated with fire resistant deadly stuff like prions. Seperating out the methane to burn can be a green way to street certain medical waste that could otherwise spread brain destroying proteins like Mad Cow, CWD, or CJD.

[@Fenthule]

@@WaryofExtremesOne Sorry to say it, but that's MUCH more common in the US and Canada than elsewhere in the world. We westerners have this ridiculous ego instilled in us, and MANY of them unfortunately are staunchly conservative for whatever reason... They're the "you can't tell me what to do!" types. Of course you still see jerkoffs like that around the globe, but in NA it's extremely prevalent. Everyone here is raised with the idea that we're all special and the kings of our own little worlds. We're all temporarily embarrassed billionaires in the making. *rolls eyes* Many of us here need a serious ego check.

[@adrukker]

WM is a high-tech business!

[@miles5600]

For US standards? Yea. For western europeans standards? No

[@ショーン-x7f]

High tech but yet they have my dad working in 109° degrees with no working ac.

[@blaquopaque]

Thanks for the updates, just don't know whose best interest is in the market anymore, or who is just posting for views. Recently sold 25% of my $450K portfolio comprising of plummeting stocks that were recommended by certain financial KZbinrs, quite devastating!

[@Curbalnk]

not their fault, the stock market seems to be more of a casino for gamblers now than a place for investors. even if you were averaging down on ailing companies, its your duty to properly research, buying the dip does not guarantee a rebound

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[@anthonyfn]

Would be nice to see them passing on some savings to their consumers not just profits to Wall Street.

[@EsparzaA5]

True, but in the meantime you can always buy a few shares of WM, pretty solid and consistent returns.

[@YHDiamond]

"Wall Street" in your comment refers to people or businesses that purchased shares of WM (a fraction of all profits in the future). Since they paid for a slice of the company, if they feel like the management is doing things that aren't benefiting their wallets as much as possible, they could sue WM. That's how these companies work, and it's why they can't make things nicer for you, because someone paid for that slice of the profits a long time ago.

[@CS-qc7np]

If you owned shares, you would get some of the profits back as a dividend. That’s how I explained it to my kids before they bought companies that they use often. Also, if you have a pension or 401K you are a part of “Wall Street.”

[@YHDiamond]

@@CS-qc7np very good point! If these complainers want some of WM's profits, they should buy shares!

[@waisinglee1509]

Well, you could buy the stock...

[@TheTruth-yq2jb]

Waste to energy makes 10x the energy as trying to capture methane and very little is left for the landfill

[@Fenthule]

are you talking about incineration plants?

[@TheTruth-yq2jb]

@@Fenthule Not exactly. It is more than just incineration. Google waste to energy. Europe has over 1000 of these plants. Burying garbage is so 1950's

[@ChristopherTradeshow]

I've always been a fan of Waste Management

[@masverde2554]

Tax dollars paying this companies so they can be profitable…. And dumping fee just keep going higher…

[@Fenthule]

so buy their stocks?

[@ifinksdereforiare]

This is the kind of strategic thinking more business need, reflecting long-term sustainable advantage. More individuals need to invest in ventures like this, with a profit and a strong social responsibility reason for existence.

[@xilefx]

none of this would be a problem if the packaging industry wouldn't have danced around and lobbied corrupt politicians for decades.

[@bigdada018]

Exciting!

[@SethMethCS]

What about a reuse bin where people can put broken stuff, old electronics, remnants from projects and donatable items so they can be rebuilt / repurposed / reclaimed instead of being crushed into a landfill? Switch it out every 2 weeks for an empty bin.

[@user_not_addicted]

HoA's VS Wall St

[@First1ToComment]

Don't they just ship these out overseas ? 🤔

[@YHDiamond]

Not anymore. China banned importing that stuff in 2019.

[@OgglyGoogly]

We still send ours to Baki, Indonesia, Thailand, Phillipines, India. Were its burnt off into the atmosphere they dont reuse the energy it just goes into the air

[@birger937]

I love this idea.

[@tonicalloway7227]

This is amazing..

[@gissie391]

Why no longer wash bottles out reuse and we ALWAYS used cycling bottles.reused them.why cant just go get bottle filled up from machine we dont drink coke cola but some of the bottles are!thick enough zo wash out reuse.

[@rajt9882]

Finally, here comes Tony Soprano (employee of Barone Sanitation).

[@GaryWinstonBrown]

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[@doomtomb3]

How do we stop the pizza box then? There's a ton of cardboard in a pizza box. Not much mention but I still believe aluminum and glass are far more valuable recyclables than the paper and plastic.

[@Sjalabais]

Many companies can easily recycle pizza boxes. Even WSJ has made reports about that in Nigeria and Indonesia, countries that are miles ahead the US here.

[@YHDiamond]

It's not cardboard in the pizza box, it's oily cardboard. That's useless. Maybe take the oil out of the cardboard before you try and recycle it? Idk what to tell you

[@robyn_southafrica]

Cool.

[@Netryon]

Some places 30 km away from the city have to be so abandoned that trash truck does not visit, because for it to be a valid action village should change it's status to a small city.

[@FastforceRs]

Tony Soprano wouldn't appreciate these kinda talks.

[@tmharperjr]

Burn it! 🔥 Waste to Energy! ⚡️

[@logans3365]

O:31 “here’s how the company plans to use its position to exploit you out of your hard earned money”

[@Someone-cd7yi]

I can't believe that landfills are still a thing. It seems so wasteful.

[@Fenthule]

@@OgglyGoogly A lot of those are used to produce electricity at least, so it isn't JUST burning it for the sake of burning it usually. But yeah, I feel like we really do need a 21st century reapproach to the entire issue.

[@OgglyGoogly]

@@Fenthule No Im talking burning it just burning it into the atmosphere one of the businesses I run is waste management on a much smaller scale then my colleagues and friends. We send 100 metric tonnes to be burnt off into the atmosphere but for political reasons we export to third world ounteies so they do it not us 🤣 makes us look good and them look bad as we dont know thats what they do with it 🤣🤣 but we can claim the tax offset for it

[@seanthe100]

Space is plentiful in the US unless it's in the middle of a city that's a complete waste.

[@Roland_Duson]

@@OgglyGoogly Even a loser can pitch in ruining the earth. They really make it easy don't they?

[@OgglyGoogly]

@@Roland_Duson it wont ruin the earth though, the earth will be going fine long after humans are gone

[@teeconsigliano7631]

Glad this monopoly has found more ways to make $ while ripping off customers.

[@axiilinc7077]

We are in talks right now to get the entire gov to narrow down to only this one department. We talk all the time about it

[@auro1986]

why? if gold and other metals are in electronic waste then petrol can be extracted from plastic

[@TheBen9701]

Denbury has been doing this for over a decade lol

[@AngryTango]

Cardboard, glass, aluminum, steel are highly valuable recyclables

[@balajiram2755]

Hot cash from trash...

[@adstix]

What about yard waste? What do they do with all the bagged cut grass and autumn leaves?

[@WestermanT.]

Ends up at green waste sites and is turned into compost.

[@seanthe100]

Here in Florida it's chopped up into mulch with trees and branches that they use to cover the landfills

[@Aswinkp-si4co]

Moc button

[@jitendraswami4449]

Great work ❤

[@guyjoos9293]

WisdomTree Recycling Decarbonisation ETF..i'm in.

[@_orodrigofernandes]

Very interesting. Let's how this approach evolves and rolls out to other locations around the world.

[@DJC819]

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE

[@First1ToComment]

All about money

[@Wubbay828]

Trash is big business !

[@safnaskk9262]

Shaamile vegm eyth

[@EREN_YEAGERx]

Enthokkeya ivde nadakknne

[@safnaskk9262]

@@EREN_YEAGERx andi

[@Sabahee-r2l]

​@@safnaskk9262😅

[@dona_cattery]

Ezhuthiyo machaa send cheyyo please ❤

[@ciro8861]

ive never seen such clean trash. kudos. and i would definitely buy their stock as we will always need their services

[@pauldannelachica2388]

❤❤❤

[@germanalcomendas760]

wm is one of my watchlist. do I want to pay the premium price right now to be an investors or do I wait to get in the right price?

[@14x7j4]

They want pure, ‘uncontaminated’ recyclables in their collection because it makes their process more profitable. Recycling paper products can be done multiple times regardless of what’s attached to it, it’s separated through the slurry process. WM does this in NY without any problems.

[@Bob_games103]

its easy to wash out milk bottles etc. why make it out to be them being greedy?

[@lego4av]

Wheelabrator is saying "hold my beer and see what I do with these " resources" "

[@pamelahomeyer748]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@beire1569]

remember how aggressive the garbage pile got shipped away overseas when 9-11 happened not even bothering to investigate the dustparticles for traces of explosives material ! I laugh with this

[@cezar684]

So…. The residents/tax payers fund these local ventures through their municipal taxes and the company scolds them for not sorting the trash. 🤔 only in America 🇺🇸 😢

[@AlanThompson-q4b]

Cool.

[@codelessunlimited7701]

They just send those garbages abroad, that will fix the problem.

[@mariacheebandidos7183]

thumbs up, maybe do more positive topics / videos ?

[@alicestewart5453]

Handsome Do you think we should invest in the garbage company I do specially this one WM❤

[@jaddyrose9318]

Really makes me think differently about trash and what can get ruined before it can ever even be reused, at least once

[@beefweiner]

how much money you spending on smart trucks for a 20% reduction? it would be smarter to make them run on methane.. oh or fix the issue they currently have of exploding?

[@jdelacruz6854]

And they pay dividends. Really good stock to have.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Wall-e...

[@dona_cattery]

How to write this video description please help ..I want writing description

[@caesargyllhamn1330]

Really need a de-esser on the talking

[@CaptainMarvel007]

Some of the profits should be passed onto the consumer who separates the materials before they collect it from their homes.

[@MrMarumari]

Funny how things magically become profitable once government tax breaks are introduced. HUH!

[@finalfan321]

feels like a commercial. what % of total waste are we talking about here

[@hrsabhi]

Malayali undo 😌

[@tomhenry897]

Not a market for most recycled stuff It just piles up as can’t take it to the land fill

[@eklim2034]

No more dumping unrecyclables into South East Asia ?

[@Wilson-ww1yv]

🤔

[@Manjunathnswamy]

Good solution for plastic problem is making bricks to build homes instead of reuse as consumptions

[@danishdani7095]

😮

[@Sjalabais]

Haha, srsly, Americans! In 2026, 15% of WM's business is supposed to be sustainable? What is this, 1983?

[@mishmohd]

the narrator's voice is hot

[@cinemabunny]

Increase recovery from 32% to 33%

[@catsupchutney]

The odd thing about this is, that a capped landfill should not produce any gas after a few years, so are these tax breaks encouraging landfill owners to open up the caps and allow rainfall to facilitate Methanogenesis?

[@Fenthule]

iirc the design of them allows them to clear out the broken down material after some time and push in fresh stuff to continue the process going. Kinda like a compost bin getting turned over and adding more stuff to break down.

[@time2fly2124]

so which is it.. yes or no to pizza boxes in recycling!

[@YHDiamond]

If it's oily, no

[@aspiringhomesteader636]

I would love to better understand the role of waste to energy incineration plants, and how they compare in terms of cost and profitability to recycling. If capturing landfill gas is profitable, it seems like directly burning those biodegradable materials could be cost competitive.

[@MrTmenzo]

Watch again they said it's more expensive to separate the methane to be used compared to drilling natural gas.

[@bigbrotherisasob]

Because trash never ends. It will always exist as long as people exist. That equals guaranteed money. The MOB has known that for decades.

[@joeyaldente8858]

They're investing in themselves what's the big deal?

[@andrewblasko3697]

So its only profitable now because the taxpayer is paying for it😂.

[@Zing_ff]

ICA >>> മക്കൾക്കു ❤️

[@wonjoomin]

Monopoly much?? DOJ

[@michaelfriend3990]

Go start your own trash route

[@maxwalker1159]

!

[@NaungNaung-w6h]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

Lol, you can't recycle a used pizza box, my city can. Your camera system is a fine fee Generator 😂

[@my2moneypits]

I bet working there stinks

[@smb7304]

Coca cola r a joke

[@psych0r0gue1]

I had WM as my pickup provider for a month. They did a terrible job. Not once did they pick up on the schedule they said they would. The only thing they did right was to fully refund my money when I cancelled their service.

[@Nick-zw7gg]

Oh, I thought this said "Why Wall Street is Trash at Investing"

[@gojo404]

Hlo

[@gojo404]

Arokke und chmkmil