Why Plastic Recycling Isn’t Working

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wow, this deserves at least 100k views. I love this!

Please fix audio, music too loud, cant hear you

Great vid. If I had one small criticism I feel some more focus on the "reduce" of part of "reduce, reuse, recycle" could have bene explored more. Especially when Coca Cola is the worlds largest plastic polluter.

Total fuckin fugazi...

Check out Climate Town’s channel on recycling and everything climate change related. He goes deep into the myths behind the carbon footprint which was made up by oil companies to pass the blame onto the consumer. It’s a great channel!

Why the fck just 7 000 views?? 😢

y r u naked

what a bangin video jeez

Pete and Repeat were sitting in a tree. Pete fell off, so who was left?

Conspiracy is a difficult charge to support when the product is so universally transformative for the quality of life of literally every human being. plus, the thing is, they didn't to sell it that hard. Not for long, at least. And they quickly realized that plastic sells itself. There's no evil capitalist conspiracy here. Well, depends on how you look at those who knew better, but didn't say anything. It boggles the mind that Western electorates to this day don't understand the relationship between plastics and petroleum.

Point being, let's not be too hard on ourselves. Let's always strive to be better (be progressive), but let's not condemn the past too quickly.

Because that has a profound effect on the present. It's, kinda----. I guess, just be thoughtful about who your audience is, and about making distinctions, where necessary. A lot of us from back then are still alive, you know?

Incredibly high quality video. Hope this channel continues to produce such content and gains more success in 2024! 🙂

The single use plastic should be burnt not recycled as recycling it doesn't produce reusable plastic. Plastic should be made to be reused not recycled

One thing that bugged me was you telling you're cleaning your food plastic waste as you're told to. Is it really a thing in the UK ? Here in France (or at least where I'm living) we're explicitly told not to, because it's a huge waste of water. Plastics are instead washed at our processing facility.

Plastic pollution is no joke.

This is an incredible storytelling of the realities of plastic waste and the responsibility that we all have to prevent it at the source.

Most waste plastic may be best burned to generate electricity, reducing the use of coal, oil or gas. That’s because the energy needed for recycling of many plastics is approaching or exceeding the energy needed for its original production.

The resin identification code purposefully looks like the recycling symbol but is not the recycling symbol.

You didn’t mention that even PET the supposedly most recyclable plastic, can only be recycled 2-3 times, then it too ends up in land fill or wherever. If we put a tax on plastic packaging, therefore making products more expensive, we would automatically avoid products with plastic packaging and buy less. Producers would then be scrambling over themselves to get rid of plastic packaging and replacing it with truly recyclable packaging.

Brilliant video mate! Glad we could help share some insight. Would love to see the AirTag experiment done on a BIG scale! 👍🏽

It'a a massive and complex problem, nothing new. And it's only getting bigger. We are fucking up the planet. The only planet with thriving life, as far as we can detect. All life needs water, and if water is plastic (or other waste) soup, then the this planet is doomed. Idk. Avoid using plastic at all costs. Single use items should be banned for the most part, except for medicine and such.
Big plastic should be obligated to only make recyclable plastic for packaging. They also should be made to contribute funds for water cleanup efforts. It can't be put on nonprofits' backs. How come big plastic gets to profit, while nonprofits clean up?

We really need to ban or tax the living shit out of single-use plastic

I was watching this while tidying my pill bag. Discovered that the container for my migraine tablets shattered. That "shatterproof" quality is a boldfaced lie. Gimme a foilpack any day...

You're videos are amazing man!

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This is a very interesting video. I like the idea of following the plastic recycling with an air-tag (although technically you aren't supposed to do this). I wish it had given a clearer answer to what happens. I am pretty sure that plastic waste is landfilled in the US and that is okay because it won't be burned and make co2 and it won't wind up in the ocean. Plastic is very hard to recycle and most plastic recycling is just wish-cycling for the reasons you pointed out.
Dealing with ocean pollution is a big issue and I think it is disappointing that the US doesn't see it as our responsibility. Reducing the four pounds of waste that we use in the US down to 2 or less seems like a reasonable start. It should be easy. Everything we buy has too much packaging on it.

Good video

This is such a tough problem but there are some good solutions that need expanding

Western countries sending plastic wastes to SEA Countries and then proceed to mock us about being the largest producers of plastic waste (when most of them came from the west) is such a kick in the balls for us. Im very unhappy

Reycling

this is horrifying, how are you supposed to avoid all this plastic from harming your health?

stop using ai artwork. it looks like shit, and it's all plagiarized. i stopped watching the video and unfollowed you the instant i saw your little polyethylene gif