"THE TROUBLE WITH TRASH " 1960s CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FILM 18354

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This color educational film is about the problems with Trash and it is called: THE TROUBLE WITH TRASH. Its motive is pushing for sanitary landfills NOW. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of the production remains unclear but due to things mentioned its the late 1960s, either 1966 or 1967.
Title card: A Caterpillar presentation and then images of lush snow, deserts, fields, nice looking areas followed by a polluted wasteland of debris and fire (these images are intercut a few times) (:07-:59) Our host starts talking about pollution. Followed by everyday people talking about how we need to care about our environment. Junk, trash, refuse is shown. Large areas of trash are shown (1:00-2:29). Trash men fill a truck. A guy throes trash off the side of the highway. A bulldozer pushes trash heaps over. Where to put it all? (2:30-2:41) Opening title: THE TROUBLE WITH TRASH (2:42-2:46). Title card: A Calvin Production. Our host talks about trash. Where can trash be thrown? Trash dumps breed rats and flies and disease. Burning trash is being discontinued in most areas (2:47-4:14). Getting rid of single use containers is one way of treating the trash problem. Converting solid waste into a semi-liquid to be piped out of a city. An artist drawing is shown for how (4:15-5:56). The city of Chicago is experimenting with a machine that packages solid waste into smaller portions. Madison, WI is experimenting with shredding machines (5:57-7:15) Recycling is an option. Houston, TX is working to recycle. Break apart the waste and see what parts can be used again in some fashion. Separation of trash is shown. Paper, plastics. Plastics are the biggest problem (7:16-8:58). Some ideas are a little ridiculous. There seems to be 2 ways to deal with it: burn it or bury it. Chicago burns a lot of it in an incinerator plant. The way it happens is explained and shown in detail as well as the cost (8:59-11:26). Proper pollution control devices are discussed. Burying trash is discussed. Richard Eldredge, former director of training of the Bureau of Solid Waste Management for the US Public heath service is now a private consultant and talks about burying trash and what is wrong or right with it. He then shows a picture of how it is done. Live action footage of a bulldozer is then shown and we see how it's done with live action. Sanitary landfills are discussed by Richard (11:27-15:26). A sanitary landfill if properly created might work. Richard Eldredge speaks again about gas coming from solid waste underground. Hamilton, OH has landfills with things built over it. Parts of Miami of Ohio University have buildings over a landfill as does a paper company but when they wanted to build in a populated area of town, there was a pushback. Residents speak about their opposition. The public works director speaks about it and what they did to prevent problems from arising from it (15:26-19:53). In Chicago, sanitary landfills are being made and public relation officials speak to residents and explain everything when asked. John Larken, a sanitation company official speaks. Footage of the trench method is shown (19:54-21:52). Ft Worth, TX in 1966 was forced to change its method due to inefficient incinerators. They decided to do a sanitary landfill. They now have 5 landfills. There was opposition initially but it worked out when explained. No odor, no flies (21:53-25:42). There are ways to deal with trash troubles. Landfills seem to be the best option right now. Experts give their opinions (25:42-27:00) For most communities, the options are: sanitary landfills or open dumps. The choice must be made now. America must remain livable (27:01-27:41) End credit: A public service presentation from Caterpillar(27:41-27:46).
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[@lewiemcneely9143]

Thanks, Periscope! Good to see the old D-8's rumbling around. Thanks again!

[@wrightmf]

And to consider we are currently 20% into the 21st century and still faced with these challenges. Also consider Lady Bird Johnson championed a new cause to beautify America which led to stop littering campaigns, stopping waste disposal which was common along highways. It caused problems for many auto junkyards, America still needed places to put cars no longer drivable.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

Johnson caused Vietnam war..but picked up soda cans..

[@wrightmf]

@jason9022 Many junkyards were forced to move or shutdown. Obviously there were some that operated like open pits but it was a huge industry with a "lot of customers" as many cars didn't last as long as they do now, in just 10 years many cars became junkers (most did not last 100K miles).

[@wrightmf]

Now I'm many talking from my memories and from material I read years ago, I am old enough to remember those days with TV commercials of anti-littering ads in the days when TV also had cigarette commercials ("Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" also Doral "taste me, taste me..."). My comments are most likely very strange for those younger but that what the world was like back then. PF posts these videos that give us insights of what viewpoints and perceptions were like.

[@alexanderx33]

The start of this is so comedically heavy-handed 🤣

[@wierpkevin]

First we got rid of the rodents, next we had a cigarette.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

In my opinion, sanitary landfills should be banned. All waste should be sorted for recyclables, then either burned to produce electricity, or burned and run through the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn garbage to gasoline. Only the incinerator bottom ash should be landfilled. The ash is sterile and won't change its volume because it won't rot. Sanitary landfills STINK to high heavens for miles around, and the ground subsidence from decomposition means that the area is mostly unusable.

[@slongger]

China was the buyer of recyclables. Now nobody buys them and you cant get rid of them. Recycling is dead. As of now its stockpiled but eventually goes back to the landfills.

[@wrightmf]

Problem is nobody wants to pay to do recycling. It seems we established a process of different bins but we now realize it was a trash sorting process. Looking closely many times it all goes to the landfill. This compounded by we generate a lot more trash i.e. cheap clothes, cheap electronic gadgets, wrappings from online orders, etc. "ground subsidence from decomposition" ugh, this is also a problem many don't want to think about.

[@MIRV888]

Recycled aluminum costs 2-4% what manufacturing new aluminum costs. Plastic is the issue. It doesn't decompose in a timely manner, It gets everywhere, any there's no viable way to get it out once it breaks into minuscule particles. Plastic is what's f*cking us long term. In the meantime burying solid waste is the obvious solution. Buried trash isn't perfect, but there's no vermin or burning issues. Ground water not so much.

[@wierpkevin]

Every morning angry wives could tell where their husbands had been all night by the fly ash on the car.

[@curtislowe4577]

At 7:30 the Metropolitan Waste Conversion of Houston, Texas segment shows the largest stumbling block to all recycling processes: Separation. Separation is labor intensive and requires segregated collection and storage equipment. IMO people will never separate effectively as it requires too many separate bins taking up too much space. The separation must be maintained during collection and collection costs increase as the amount collected during a given stop decrease. Daily recyclables pickup would be necessary with a different recyclable on each day running through a week or greater cycle. Ugh! People just aren't going to undertake the effort necessary to reduce recycling costs. Recycling will always be too labor intensive to be cost-effective.

[@michaelpeterson2962]

1970.

[@tomservo5007]

ship it to another country

[@darthstanley166]

Make America bigger by adding it to the coast line.

[@sswcustomsewing4276]

I wonder if there is a save and sell for defense video ?

[@chargermopar]

Funny when I moved to the country my wast production went down to almost nothing. Fix instead of buy new, burn some waste in the gassifier and scrap metals that are no longer functional.

[@ceciliagood4811]

Third World blues! Need a National directive that Sanitation be considered as per this video.

[@satanofficial3902]

Trashy is trashy and waste is wasteful.

[@satanofficial3902]

And... the sun is sunny.

[@satanofficial3902]

I recently got promoted from Captain Obvious to Major Obvious. With a higher paygrade, of course. One day, i hope to achieve the rank of 17-star General Obvious. Only time will tell the tale to be told.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

It's about plastic in ocean and green house gas from carbon fuels...

[@PatrickRosenbalm]

Well that was a trashy film!!!! ;-)

[@BeryJensen]

land fill huh?

[@wierpkevin]

Curlers in your hair ? Shame on you !

[@wrightmf]

old guy here, I remember those commercials! and one with a woman behind steering wheel and she pulls down the visor to hide her hair from the camera.