Garbage Wars: where does the world's trash go?

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You may not know it, but your trash probably travels more than you do. The moment a plastic container ends up in your bin to be recycled, it's the beginning of a long trip halfway across the world.

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[hellooutthere]

why are not the producers of plastic containers responsible for recycling it? or we could use plastic made from hemp. biodegradable.

[zaynabharakeh]

REducing waste is the most sustainable solution.

[ilovecatsandcars]

Pause to 0:20 then unpause - quickly tap *twice* on the right side of your screen - what do u hear... fu**

[gandalf]

What we should do is stop focusing on what we want, and start focusing on what we need. Fast food restaurants, gone. Bottles liquid of any kind, gone. Unnecessary premade foods and microwavable meal that are packaged, gone. When you go out to eat and want to take home left overs, better have brought Tupperware. By making simple changes and using more easily broken down materials like hemp to package raw healthy foods like the normal whole foods, meat and vegetables, we can make a big dent in the trash problem. Also when you go to grocery stores, instead of bagging your food or even getting them pre packaged expect for the foods i just mentioned with the materials i just mentioned, we bring reusable bags and containers ourselves everytime we go shopping. Let's stop being lazy and destroying the planet for more convenience. Kinda like feeding a dog kibble instead of raw meat like it's supposed to eat. Disgusting. Also I don't care who says meat farms are bad. Meat is just as sustainable as plants are. Plants live too. Somebody who feels just as strong about plants as somebody about animals feels the same way when they see their plants being murdered for consumption. It's the circle of live. We have canines for a reason people. There's my rant. Agree or not. This planet has become a joke. Why are we killing ourselves slowly? It's like a painful and slow death. I'm sure I'm not the only one with these ideas neither. But society literally forces us to live this way.

[camelamanfredi]

So, who is in charge of saving our lives from all the fumes our pollution is putting out in the air...as we burn plastic year after year to satisfy our "needs"... God, Self-Love, the President, the wealthiest people in the world...us? :(

[gonnabeok]

It turns into oxygen within 2 weeks after being scrapped

[Pad_See_Ew]

Bio-degradable hemp based alternative plastic

[aebniala]

Garbage can be turned into fuels easely....