The meters-high mountain of mannequins in the Midlands

[@TomScottGo]

I did wonder if the mannequins rotted and decayed, just sitting out there in the weather. And then I realised: no, not really, they're fibreglass. That's part of the problem Mannakin's trying to help with!

[@skedyt]

nice

[@throttlebirdjdm4168]

Hello kids reading this from the future

[@lightelf]

Hiii

[@thiccboidexter2863]

They should make mannequins outnof paper mache and sell it with the clothes.

[@vodenmyshi]

It’s amazing all the little things that people are willing to help with regarding the environment.

[@BlueJayYT]

Imagine cluelessly wandering nearby this place and you all the sudden hear on a distant loudspeaker, "You've got 15 minutes to fill up the back of your car with body parts!"

[@ncrranger6327]

Lmao

[@patpierce4854]

@@ncrranger6327 Too funny!

[@Ky_Guy123]

Then at night you just see a big pile of “bodies”

[@CODMReaper]

Two kinds of people in this situation: "oh boy here I go killing again" And "Ahhh!!!! Oh god he's trying to kill me!!"

[@dhawthorne1634]

Imagine wondering by this place and someone shouts over a loudspeaker "you've got 15 minutes".

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

This madlass genuinely incorporated Supermarket Sweep into a profitable part of her business with a Manequin Mountain. Major respect.

[@ciaranreed91]

I’d love to see Gary Brannan give it a go.

[@sycophantic0]

madlass😂

[@PatchCornAdams723]

Gotta respect the hustle, haven't you

[@WDC_OSA]

I have zero use for these things, but if I could pay £50 for that experience, I’d absolutely end up with a car fulla mannequins.

[@comeberza]

How we know it is profitable 😂

[@Aima952]

Okay Tom, you win. I always wondered how nobody seems to know about the things you cover when they're just so cool that surely the locals must know about it - but apparently it's completely possible to pass within a mile of this place every day and then have never heard of it.

[@mdrzn]

I'm wondering how you could never have seen it! It seems like you would notice the mannequins from the road too.

[@elEricV]

Seconded! I needed a couple last year, too, and it turns out there's this many 20 minutes away from me!?

[@ColAlbSmi]

@@elEricV exactly, I needed a bunch of child ones for reasons. I was delighted it was so close by!

[@jeffo7799]

@@elEricV 🤨📸

[@jammin023]

@@mdrzn Perhaps because there's a difference between passing within a mile of a place, and passing right next to a place...

[@paulabunions]

I used to work at a Sears in Canada and we had a mannequin storage area, just rows and rows of shelves with these creepy pale dummies stacked up like dead bodies in a mortician's. Some of them even had little post-it notes attached explaining why they weren't out on the floor, such as "missing left hand" or "face scratched off". We used to call it 'the morgue', it was a fabulous place.

[@Ninja_Penguin]

I'd have been tempted to add new post-it notes like "attacked small child", and "keeps getting naked" 🤣

[@spikepsych]

@@Ninja_Penguin attacked small child lmfao

[@Whyyoutrollinglikeabitch]

Just me or free seghs doll?

[@drpibisback7680]

@@Whyyoutrollinglikeabitch Mannequins lack many of the qualities desirable in sex dolls. In no particular order: - They're locked in positions that are in no way comfortable to "access." - They're solid all the way through and not naturally anatomically correct. - Related to the previous point: they're made of fiberglass, which when cut into produces nasty splinters that are quite hard to get out of your skin. - They're meant for displaying clothes, so there's not a lot of detail for the areas that would be hidden by said clothes. - They're nightmarish, Weeping-Angel-like spawns of the uncanny valley, something which manufacturers of actual sex dolls go to great pains to avoid.

[@MyH3ntaiGirl]

@@drpibisback7680 no wonder seg doll cost a tons Cheapest here cost 3000$

[@ThrashmIO]

Need more places like this "end use storages" or "sorted disposal sites". Indefinite storage with minimum to no maintenance where the potential of reuse exists or to wait for a future recycling process or technology. Going to heap disposed items somewhere, may as well be in such a way that there's a greater opportunity to have a chance to do better.

[@billul1]

Would love being the archeologist uncovering this 10000 years later

[@thursoberwick1948]

Ritual site. Represents people who were safe and effective.

[@TristanJCumpole]

Well it IS Lincolnshire. Either that or getting your rocks off with a potato.

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@TristanJCumpole Yes, I suppose Lincolnshire could do with a few mountains.

[@TheFutureIsEloi]

Archiologists always think that everything is connected to religion, so as @Thurso Berwick says above, this could be interpreted as a ritual site. The manikins will represent gods that we worship and the lack of features says a lot about our ritual practices - "they avoided all identity within their gods so that they could project themselves into this role -- this culture worshiped themselves as gods". Probably something profound in that, except that it's total bollox of course.

[@mylairhasnoip]

Terracotta Army comes to mind

[@SolarMechanic]

I love the idea of kids raised in the Midlands moving out into the wider world later in life and having to say "What, you don't have a mannequin graveyard in Kensington?"

[@tonysutton6559]

My only complaint about the film is that Lincolnshire is not in the Midlands, it's on the bloody east coast.

[@bobmcgod5214]

Its in the East Midlands, we class it by area on land, not by sea (North, South East, Wales etc.)

[@tonysutton6559]

@@bobmcgod5214 We class it as East Coast (along with Norfolk and Suffolk) as it is about 150 miles from Birmingham in the heart of the Midlands.

[@bobmcgod5214]

@@tonysutton6559 Norfolk and Suffolk (along with some of Cambridgeshire) are in East Anglia

[@tonysutton6559]

@@bobmcgod5214 Fair enough, Lincolnshire can be North East Anglia then but definitely not the Midlands.

[@carrot1151]

There used to be a business in Glasgow (it's been years so don't know if it still exists) that sold second hand shop mannequins and parts . I got the idea to get one from another photographer who used one to set up his lighting before clients and models arrived. You can also practice with new equipment/techniques. It has saved me so much time/money over the years I would recommend getting one to any photographer with the room.

[@securi-t]

Of all the things one wouldn't think about that should have dedicated recycling, I'd say mannequins were in the top 10. You see them in stores, but they're like shelves or anything else... it's just there and you never give it a second thought. Since they're fiberglass, they don't decay, which means they're perfect for restoring or upcycling to keep them out of landfills.

[@lunaangeleclipse9745]

To be honest, i never realised mannequins would be disposed of like this. I always assumed that companies would just use and reuse the same mannequins indefinitely until the mannequins were truly unusable. Surprised to see that they're treated similar to fast fashion.

[@reachandler3655]

Never give it a second thought? I'm guessing you're not a doctor who fan... 🙃

[@securi-t]

@@reachandler3655 I'm a huge Dr Who fan, but I have no imagination.

[@reachandler3655]

@@securi-t Apparently mine is overactive, I've been wary of shop manikins since Jon Pertwee era!

[@itsciwi]

I came across her website a few months back when I needed a few mannequin legs. I loved not only her incredibly sensible waste reduction, but her self awareness and sense of humour. Really nice video, Tom.

[@miguelifsuzano7244]

O have to ask, why do you needed just the legs?

[@magdeleineannejulie5724]

Whats her website pls thanks x

[@itsciwi]

​@@miguelifsuzano7244 We got torsos for free locally, just needed legs for them.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@itsciwi That's what you call begging the question, with a little extra WTF on the side. Respect.

[@itsciwi]

@@RobMacKendrick 😂

[@jstra]

This would be a really fun place to be wearing a white morph suit.

[@acookie7548]

😭

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Especially at Halloween. Be standing still as people come in, then as they pass you, start to follow them, freezing if they turn back 🤣

[@tijmen131]

@@y_fam_goeglyd thats evil, and genius

[@Gigaguenther]

another commenter here: "I think what makes it so terrifying is our paranoid insistence that something or someone could be hiding amongst the mannequins and you wouldn't even know it." - i think you two should meet

[@1.4142]

Make a surprise appearance if someone is filming a music video.

[@hjalfi]

I ran into someone once who ran an inflatable extra company for films --- blow-up dolls used for bulking out crowd scenes. Apparently they were used a lot for audiences in racing films, because they're typically seen from a distance and frequently motion-blurred. They're much cheaper and more flexible (pun intended) than computer graphics and vastly easier than hiring real people. Apparently walking through a crowd of these was a deeply surreal experience.

[@bruhdabones]

~Apparently~

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

The Inflatable Crowd Company, great team.

[@oceanmariep256]

I want to know more

[@bikeny]

I was thinking of the same idea for these things too. Mix and match the blowups with mannequins. And they'd be able to paint these instead of clothing them.

[@Nyerguds]

On Star Wars episode 1's podracing scenes, they apparently used painted Q-tips as audience. That movie is always lambasted for its overuse of CGI, but it actually contains a lot of practical effects and miniatures.

[@protectiongeek]

Creepy indeed, Tom! Kept getting flashbacks to when I watched Doctor Who as a child (a loooong time ago!) and there were episodes when mannequins in shop windows 'came alive'. I think they were call Autons and their hands opened to reveal a sort of gun type weapon. Well done to Roz for trying to stop unnecessary waste.

[@widicamdotnet]

That was the pilot episode of the 2005 run, yes. That wasn't that long ag.... oh.

[@anVlad11]

I giggled at 1:36 because of that

[@ohpurpled]

@@widicamdotnet Autons originate in classic who, complete with "handguns", so it's quite possible they are thinking pre-05

[@widicamdotnet]

@@ohpurpled ooh, okay - I didn't know those were "recycled monsters" as well.

[@Stephen-Fox]

And we've reached a point where I can't tell if you mean Rose in 2005 or Spearhead from Space in 1970 by that. ...How do I feel old from that fact, I wasn't even alive in 1970...

[@rupedog]

This is the sort of person who deserves a new year honours... not any retailer or fashion industry mogul

[@pdlbackup]

She is amazing. I really love how she understands that people might want to have fun there, so she's totally fine with people coming. (and she can even make some money from it)

[@frankupton5821]

It's deep down at the bottom of Uncanny Valley.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@frankupton5821 To be specific, it's the very bed of the Uncanny River.

[@brandonlink6568]

She's weird enough to do something like this but normal enough to know it's weird.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@brandonlink6568 She's normal enough to be weird about it and weird enough to be normal about it.

[@timothymclean]

Throwing away stuff you don't need any more is cheap. Finding someone who can use that stuff and getting it to them, not so much. I'm glad some people are willing to put down the money to let things be used more than once.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

"Throwing away stuff you don't need any more is cheap." It varies a lot

[@romanski5811]

Throwing away stuff keeps capitalism running. So I, on the other hand, am glad that people are constantly buying new things. It's our whole economic system that needs to be sustained.

[@psoma_brufd]

@@romanski5811 except that it is inherently unsustainable.

[@romanski5811]

@@psoma_brufd If capitalism is inherently unsustainable, then democratic socialism is the only alternative.

[@polus2494]

@@romanski5811 "Committing crime keeps the prison system going. So I, on the other hand, am glad that people are constantly being murdered and raped. It's our whole prison system that needs to be sustained."

[@Zveebo]

This is surely the perfectly quintessential Tom Scott video: entirely unexpected concept, surprisingly logical reasoning when explained to you, a crazy but engaging person at the heart of it, and surprise references to 90s UK television thrown in for good measure. Oh and a punny title too 😅

[@Nyerguds]

Definitely the kind of content I subscribed for, yea.

[@LetoDK]

Apparently [Trying to put a spotlight on our society's extreme wastefulness and creating a business out of repurposing recourses] = "crazy"

[@proloycodes]

@@LetoDK nobody said that

[@OrigamiMarie]

And edging carefully past the non-icky horror section . . .

[@everything777]

@@proloycodes the Internet is now a place where one takes umbrage with any position as a matter of course

[@lafcursiax]

The title made it sound like this video would be really depressing, but with someone actively maintaining these mannequins and putting them to good use, it's quite heartening, actually.

[@annakeye]

This woman's a riot. Love her. Thanks *Tom Scott* for yet another look "under the rug" so to speak. I had always assumed that dummies were made from a plastic and no, it ends up being non recyclable fibreglass. Go figure.

[@catatonicbug7522]

Interesting how quickly people responded when one person decided to start a recycling program for otherwise discardable materials. Sometime it just takes an idea, and the world seems to jump on board with it!

[@andan2293]

Companies usually have to pay for garbage disposal, so this might be just money driven...

[@TheGuindo]

@@andan2293 even if it is money driven, it's still proof that there's a market for this concept

[@Plotatothewondercat]

It's not a recycling program, it's a reuse program. Recycling would imply chemically processing down the plastic in the mannequin parts so that the glass fibers can be reused, and possibly reprocessing the plastic sludge into a different kind of plastic. That's why the priority list is reduce, reuse, recycle. The method with the least waste is just finding a way not to need the thing to begin with. The next most efficient thing is to make sure, once you've decided you definitely need it, that you'll be able to use it many, many times. Only after you've pushed it to its limits and can no longer use it for anything does 'melt it down to reclaim the raw materials' become best practice, because of the definite energy and material cost of manufacturing processes.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@andan2293 that is part of it. but often those same companies or the people running it. will actually get exited to also help someone with a idea like this. at the start the quirky idea is just funny. but after a wile there comes practicality to it and it helps them or there costumers / suppliers. don't get me wrong money is part of it but often there is also emotions involved. especially between entrepreneurs. they often like to get a other starting business owners because it reminds them of there own start.

[@Jehty_]

@@Plotatothewondercat it really isn't a reuse program either (for the most part) Most of those mannequin will never be reused - therefore this is just another landfill. A landfill with a small reuse section.

[@Jazzled]

The stroll at the start slowly reveling more and more mannequins is fantastic. Not sure if I can say the same about the end shot. O-o

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

They come alive and run after you.....

[@gabor6259]

The end shot is fantastic too.

[@jakobvanklinken]

*revealing? (and I agree)

[@drackar]

This was genuinely way more wholesome than I expected. I was expecting "When X mass market clothing store closed down, they needed a place to store tens of thousands of mannequins, so they shoved them all here" Instead its "I re-re-re-re purpose these cursed objects so fewer of them get made".

[@_-_sinexus_-_]

Jo thats actully ingenious. Shes perfectly exploiting unwanted, no cost products both for renting, buying and tourist purposes, in the midlands, next to a highway where Landprices are low, while also protecting the environment. Nothing to say except hats off to her...

[@argentpuck]

These are the businesses we need. Roz is a saint.

[@DemonXeron]

This takes reduce, reuse, recycle to a whole new level. Mad respect.

[@ollie1944]

I've been trying to collect mannequin bits for years and never found any. So glad a place like this exists

[@TheBushdoctor68]

Now you know where they've all gone.

[@VoidKing666]

Cool! Although I am curious why you are collecting mannequin bits..

[@MickeyKnox]

you've got 15 minutes ...

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@VoidKing666 Also curious about what this trying for years consisted of.

[@adamwilkinson5735]

Acould of sworn someone was selling one of these for bout 50quid ,on an upsell show surely theres a few quids worth there?..

[@Phlegethon]

I like how there’s always someone with some random interest you didn’t even know existed

[@rustycherkas8229]

Years ago, I worked (for about a month) in a small Auckland factory producing mannequins. My task was spray-painting the flesh tones and stippling their skin textures (to ensure the clothes wouldn't slide off in the shops' windows.) Woke up from a nightmare of the distant future when aliens come to Earth, long after we're gone. They were busy theorising about the creatures that wandered around inside these permanent exoskeletons all looking exactly the same... just like crabs... Quit the job that same day!!

[@davidk3849]

This video is the perfect balance of wholesome and spooky.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

whooky

[@minoxs]

This reminds me of something I've read sometime ago. People worry that automation "will take away all the jobs". But... look around you, how much work there is to be done. We just don't do 98% of what has to be done because it's "not profitable". Much respect to Mannakin lady!

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

SO TRUE 😳

[@spiceyicey]

it being profitable is the literal only reason to get a job, you don't want to spend your whole life at a loss and then starve to death

[@Whatareyouareyou]

Not everybody wants to STEM not everybody can STEM these are the people who worry about automation taking their paid for jobs and along the same lines not everybody wants to run a business and not everybody can. Mannakin has 3 employees, they are more than likely making some money with the outlays they have now but they aren't going to be massively expanding.

[@rolfs2165]

@@spiceyicey Then maybe we should look for an alternative system where people don't have to rely on their work being profitable to survive.

[@ARockRaider]

@@spiceyicey the trick is to find a way to make something profitable where others don't see the value.

[@jonathanpowell1470]

When was younger and worked in retail, I worked in a shop that had a huge basement. It had many rooms, was dark, low ceiling and damp. One of the rooms had a small mountain of mannequin body parts and was genuinely terrifying. I kept well clear of that room! Felt like they would move or come to life like something out of Dr. Who....

[@BSWVI]

Oh the Doctor Who vibes are strong!

[@tllayas]

Don't blink.

[@EricaGamet]

All I kept thinking of were the Autons.... RUN!

[@JomirBrands]

Tom finds the most remarkable things

[@picklerichard3600]

I love how theyre so cheerful and calm about this horrifying landscape

[@FollowPhotiniByDesign]

What a fabulous story and an excellent example of up-cycling, our new supplier of mannequins...

[@erizorico]

If they took all of these and put it in a forest with a few as actual people, that would be so scary

[@linuxstreamer8910]

i have a even better idea paint the people as mannequin so that you can't see the difference

[@phelpysan]

Or put some motors and Arduinos in a few of their necks so they turn their heads every now and then

[@masterkeyforfun]

or better, put only one in each forest and move them once in while to a new location.

[@MikeV8652]

I like the lady's attitude and wish her continued success.

[@publiclyshamed5383]

@Tom Scott You really have a knack for finding the most interesting people and places and this time you struck GOLD! Roz is my new hero. I literally became teary eyed listening to her tell her origin story. What an amazing person!

[@degariuslozak2169]

Imagine just going for walk around the area late at night and you're completely new there then you just see the mannequins

[@bronsoncarder2491]

I think my favorite part of this is her whole attitude of, "I know I'm crazy, deal with it." And we're all here like, "No, we're here for it."

[@waffleless]

Can’t wait for these to animate and amalgamate.

[@unironicaluser1867]

cant wait for you to actually watch 13 seconds of the video before commenting.

[@vedvod]

@@unironicaluser1867 can’t wait for you to chill out

[@Bilal2303]

cant wait for the argument about to take place here

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

can't wait to be the sixth

[@davidr.6357]

A perfect place for the nestene consciousness

[@ahmedisl8]

This reminds me of that one Doctor Who episode in which the mannequins come to life. If that actually happened their would be an entire army of them in Lincolnshire

[@MrAwesomestar7]

YESS

[@mkrosoftpaint]

I'm never watching doctor who then hahahahs

[@charmio]

I think it's S01E01 of the shows reboot. The mannequins creatures where called the Autons. This hill would've made for an interesting filming location.

[@Aima952]

I'm forwarding this video to someone who lives half a mile from the site and is a massive Dr Who fan for precisely this reason 😝

[@Quirderph]

@@charmio The same thing happened in the classic series, with equally creepy results.

[@ruslbicycle6006]

Kudos to her for actually making re-use work

[@movezig5]

I am truly grateful that there are people like this reusing materials and mitigating corporate waste.

[@paolocanali3361]

A friend glued the upper torso, head and arm of a discarded mannequin to the wall and posed it as if trying to get out of the wall. Gorgeous conversation piece at almost no cost.

[@johnucc1]

Always excited for Mondays video release, keep up the good work!

[@XaviMacBash]

1:36 Gary, Chris and Matt would definitely do this, in fact the next tech dif ep should be "Gary Brannan stuffs 32 mannequins into a ford focus"

[@StreuPfeffer]

Mistery Manquinn :D maybe ven get some biscuits

[@metalwhere]

"I think you'll find it's a Ford UTE" 😂 "Gary Amounts and Mounts a Mountain of Mannequins in a Makeshift Ute" Tech Diff special

[@sashasscribbles]

Nah, do it in a ford utility vehicle and say Ford Muster hehe

[@metalwhere]

@@sashasscribblesI tip my hat to you... Challenge round of a Ford 'Mus-tang'! 😁

[@Alan_Hans__]

I have some in my shed that were going to go the landfill. I couldn't let that happen so I now have about 4 sets sitting in my shed waiting for a home. I DON'T want any more. Kudos to Roz.

[@VanK782]

I love that Tom decided that this was the best way to end the video and didn't add any more commentary

[@CaptNSquared]

I use a mannequin head to store my VR headset when I'm not using it. Figured you couldn't get a stand better designed to perfectly fit a VR headset then an actual head

[@dramallamarama5300]

This is such a wonderfully mad idea. We need to repurpose things far more often than we currently do and I love this kind of thing, even if this is mildly horrifying.

[@MyOldHandleWasWorse]

Best intro ever! If the title wasn't there, the mountain of mannequins suddenly rising in the background would have been truly disturbing. Here, it's just funny.

[@FlawlessRhythmGG]

That closing was brilliant! Between the dialogue and the shots, it really grabbed me.

[@MrTechblackdog]

This is why i watch 'Tom Scott', for the wtf and odd stuff. That's a good business. free materials shipped to business and then just to short parts, clean and ready them, for sale/shipping.

[@basstheworldofficial]

reminds me of that Doctor Who episode

[@fabianlaibin6956]

Reminds me of Control, the game, with that one Altered Item hunt

[@AnimeFan-wd5pq]

These video’s are so well made that I’m always surprised when I see a new video pop up so soon after I just watched one a week ago. Keep forgetting how good this channel is!

[@KuroshitsujiAndMe]

these kinds of videos always seem like they should come out once in a blue moon because of the effort needed to put into them - but they don't and it's incredible!

[@jaspr1999]

When I was a kid, my dad started handing out little toys instead of candy on Halloween. That idea panicked me as I knew that I was never going to get enough candy as I was supposed to be "too old" for trick or treating. My answer was to dig a hole next to the sidewalk and put a mannequin hand and a red light attached to a light sensor that would groan. It would come out of the ground when the sensor was tripped, the kids ran, and as they ran away I got all kinds of spilled candy. Well, I got some candy, but still... It was fun to see the reactions. It was the 70s. I've loved using mannequins ever since.

[@daviddavidson2357]

How did you get something to play an audio recording over and over using a light sensor in the 70s? Infinite loop of tape like in an 8 track?

[@jaspr1999]

@@daviddavidson2357 - A cassette player and the mannequin arm were hooked up to the extension cord so when the eye was tripped the power came on for one minute then the power was cut. I also had a reel to reel but I couldn't use it outside without possibly damaging it.

[@daviddavidson2357]

@@jaspr1999 That's really cool.

[@rileyrobin2]

hahaha- absolutely diabolical!

[@Jackshaft]

I love this lady and her motivation for not throwing things away.

[@AiYouTubeCoach]

Absolutely blown away by this video and loved it. I WANT to go there and fill up my car! Years ago I saw a mannequin sitting by the curb with other trash. I picked it up, took it home, sprayed it gold, used it in shows and it graced my home for years. I currently have a mannequin, named Roy, in my garage just waiting to live in the backyard again...

[@IanZainea1990]

There really needs to be higher fees for trash when it comes to companies. To encourage them to trash the least amount of stuff. Clearly, it's too cheap to throw out tons of mannequins and clothes, etc. instead of donating them to a place like this or having them repaired.

[@quillmaurer6563]

Totally. I've thought similar about a lot of companies that hand a whole bunch of trash to the customer along with the product. Stuff that, by design, will be thrown away, usually within minutes. Not the company's problem I guess - though we should enact policies to make it their problem. I think particularly of "fast casual" (like Chipotle) and Fast Food restaurants, that always give every customer, even dine-in, a paper bag, aluminum and/or paper fiber bowl, plastic plate, paper cup, plastic utensils, and so on. Because it's cheaper to do that than to have durable goods that need to be washed. What I've thought should be done is a "trash tax" on vendors per any stuff they give customers along with their product that isn't the actual product, such as the aforementioned items. Wouldn't be huge, not enough to notably increase the cost of take-out, but enough to incentivize businesses to provide zero-waste options for dine-in customers. So much of what I see about reducing waste is talking to people as consumers, individuals, saying they should take action, but the reality is most of the difference needs to be made by corporations, not consumers. I suspect corporations are contributing to this, telling everyone the consumers are to blame to avoid being blamed or forced to change.

[@WarrickTaylor]

Push the authorities where you live to implement product stewardship rules. You make it, you're responsible for it. Magically packaging becomes recyclable and minimal when all consumers are allowed to return their old products to the manufacturer. . .

[@davidrenton]

if you do that you would only encourage fly tipping, back in the day , u might remember , you would buy a glass bottle of soft drink and you would get 10p back if you returned it, same with glass Milk bottles.

[@persassy7076]

These recycling enterprises are really on the rise, and it's really good all around. There was a similar idea with a Christmas tree farm somewhere in the US, which would assign you a tree, grow it for the year, and give it to you for Christmas. They would then replant, and continue until the tree reached maturing age (i.e. you can't replant it anymore). They would then plant it in the forest and assign you a new tree. It's great to see that such businesses are able to exist/turn a profit.

[@SeanBZA]

I just recycle the same plastic tree that has been with me for the last decade or two. Next year it will be the turn of the tree my parents had, which has been doing sterling duty every year since I was a child. Just alternate them now, packed away complete with decorations and lights, though it seems every year I get a new decoration to add to it.

[@PianoKwanMan]

Reduce Reuse Recycle. It's actually Reusing them. It's vastly superior to recycling.

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

@@kameljoe21 I'm incredibly skeptical that they can be replanted as easily as this company claims. Trees don't like being migrated and replanted even with the best of conditions and transport.

[@justinhsu3253]

If those mannequins are destined to be thrown away just after a few times use, why bother make them out of fiberglass? They are not canoe or bathtub which are meant to be exposed to water and weathering. It could be much greener and cheaper to make those mannequins from paper pulp or recyclable plastics.

[@stephen1r2]

For most manufacturers the fiberglass _is_ the cheapest option. Or sawdust filled plastic resin for those I've seen--also not recyclable

[@thomasjohannesen1003]

Fiberglass is an extremely flexible (figuratively speaking) material. It's used in speedboat hulls, car bodies, and bathtubs, but also in soft insulation and flexible car headliners. It's easy and relatively cheap to form into a detailed mold, and typically lasts a long time.

[@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh]

Better than plastic since at least it doesn't break down into microplastic and end up in waterways. Plus most recyclable plastic isn't recycled and can only be recycled a limited number of times.

[@richardschofield2201]

@@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh but if mannequins were made of plastic and ended up in landfills then they wouldn't end up in watercourses anyway so the result is the same.

[@stephen1r2]

@@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh Fiberglass and Filled resins are plastics, they are composite materials. Plastic resin and either glass fiber reinforcement or sawdust to bulk up the pour. They also use a hard expanding plastic foam in some types.

[@axelprino]

This is a whole new level of weird, yet completely mundane when you think about it for a second.

[@aatheus]

This is is the type of quiet whimsey that makes Britain great. Love it.

[@izanegi]

putting the hands in the nooks in the pallet is great for storage, but oh my lord is it creepy

[@mxlje]

Your ability to find and showcase places that are so unique and interesting, but at the same time consistently make me go „wat“ is unparalleled on KZbin. Thank you.

[@ononearts]

I love it! She’s making good use of what should never, is utterly absurd to, be discarded so flippantly. The fashion industry sucks in so, so, so many ways.

[@liddad]

This might be one of my favourite Tom Scott videos

[@theludonarrian]

I love the nonchalant opening with the background.

[@hierismail]

Oh amazing! I could listen to her all day. This person is an actual part of saving the world. This made my day

[@TheGuindo]

Right!! I'm so glad people like her exist

[@mannakin]

Thank you Rebecca that means a lot ♥️

[@TheEggoEffect]

How many meters of mountain could a Midlands mannequin mount if Midlands mannequins could mount mountains?

[@sullenskulls9709]

Many many meters!!

[@w5527]

I can FEEL the creative energy coming from there. Someone’s gonna have a lot of fun with these guys in the coming year

[@Civilian08]

This is so much more interesting than the title would suggest. I held off on watching it because I figured it was just a landfill where someone who ordered too many mannequins dumped them.

[@quindanning]

This is the best 30 seconds intro to a video ever.

[@KnightOfAwesometon]

Well, ain't that one of the most terrifying backgrounds I've ever seen Tom in front of.

[@parksidemerchant1843]

Tom, this channel is truly one of a kind. Somehow you never cease to discover the most obscure, entertaining places and unanswered questions from the far corners of the interwebs. Well done! 👍

[@BlindluK]

This is just down the road from where I live. Cool to see the Midlands put on the map even for something as storage as this.

[@magdeleineannejulie5724]

Where is it Please ?

[@richardharrold9736]

@@magdeleineannejulie5724 Stragglethorpe, Lincolnshire, close to the Nottinghamshire border.

[@NaudVanDalen]

Markiplier: screams in fear at the sight of those mannequins.

[@Radium_Alarie]

I love the subtle dolly zoom in the last shot, well done!

[@TheVanderfulLife]

It should be criminal to throw perfectly good things away that just need a little care - I honestly hate this profit driven society we've developed!! Love what this lady is doing

[@horacegentleman3296]

Authoritarianism is bad.

[@Jehty_]

@@horacegentleman3296 how is that authoritarianism?? That's just society. We don't allow certain stuff that harms our society.

[@horacegentleman3296]

@@Jehty_ read a book

[@Jehty_]

@@horacegentleman3296 can you recommend a book that has the same stupid definition for authoritarianism as you have?

[@clray123]

It should be criminal to tell people what they may or may not do. Maybe one day you will understand when you are on the receiving end of orders.

[@verdatum]

This is NUTS. I tried to buy a mannequin once and the cheapest I could find was hundreds of dollars. Also this is nuts because it is extremely creepy.

[@T-minus-infinite]

missed opportunity for "many meter midland mannequin mountain"

[@TheVagolfer]

Your best, and creepiest video yet. Well done, Tom !

[@andrewfrance1047]

I like her. The world needs people like Roz.

[@Drew791]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@SodThisGiveMeABeer]

I feel like this episode could have easily been twice as long

[@IambiguousSegment]

Why does Tom Scott mainly make 5 minute videos?

[@robbybevard8034]

​@@IambiguousSegment Algorithm. People generally stop watching after a few minutes, and if there's a large drop of in views halfway through the video youtube punishes you for it and promotes the channel less. Also it auto includes ads at a midpoint if you cross a certain length. 10 minutes was the sweet spot a few years ago so you'd see a lot of videos from all producers padding just a bit to hit that mark, but it doesn't matter if people stop watching after 7.

[@protocetid]

I’m happy it was short and to the point

[@iamaparanoidandroid1]

Still think you should have delivered this whilst doing the Supermarket Sweep 15 mins into a car thing, even if you just unloaded them all at the end... Would have been an even more hilarious watch....

[@ZNotFound]

Imagine if Doctor Who series 1 episode 1 happened here.

[@veggiet2009]

Or they could just reintroduce the Nesteen in series 14 😁

[@disgruntledwelsh3817]

That's why it's actually there. UNIT used it to dispose of all the auton corpses

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

I was just thinking that myself!

[@nozyspy4967]

Archaeologists in 1000 years: "There was a terrible massacre here and this is a mass grave".

[@awookieandagerman]

This lady should be in a movie.

[@Consume0]

Oh my goodness I used to do delivery driving around Lincolnshire and wondered where this could be, its right opposite a builders yard I used to frequent, small world :)

[@TheDaniiboi]

Last time I had 15 minutes to fill my car with body parts the police caught me.

[@henryginn7490]

The confusing thing here is that surely shops would reuse the same mannequins? It’s not as if the human form changes much or shops suddenly reduce in size often, why would they be getting rid of so many?

[@Hamsterdam91]

because they are damaged and a new one costs less than repairing or at least is more cost effective for big companys

[@orngjce223]

@@ragnkja No, but if they're cotton or mostly-cotton socks, ones that are getting thin in places make excellent washcloths (put your hand inside and dab soap on the outside). Or stuff a couple other socks inside to use as a dog toy. There’s many different types of reuse.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@orngjce223 unfortunately fiber glass isn't very absorbant so I don't think that idea will work

[@orngjce223]

@@Alucard-gt1zf No, but imagine a mannequin head with a large hole cut in the top being used as a plant pot, or an arm (without hand) as a tall vase! It would look like a life-size chia pet

[@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh]

Probably costs less to buy new than to store and maintain.

[@agargamer6759]

A classic Tom Scott video for the new year!

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

You cover things very informatively, where even local residents, wouldn't have known for decades.

[@phil2of3]

The hacksmith would go nuts there

[@aboudi0507]

A meters high mountain of mannequins: “exists” My mountain of laundry: but.. but I’m bigger

[@timothymclean]

Presumably less fiberglass, though.

[@namewarvergeben]

now combine the two for an even bigger mountain of mannequins dressed in dirty clothes?

[@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh]

It's not laundry day, It's underwear shopping time.

[@ivurivurivur]

Jesus, this is terrifying. I love it.

[@airspeed_alive]

I love how you can do a video about any topic and still make it interesting 😊

[@matthewstanulet1441]

0:59 "This madwoman in Lincolnshire who will rehome unwanted dummies." Oh, how convenient, my parents are about to kick me out.