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  • why don't we use some of these innactive nuclear bombs to blow this stuff up?

  • every country dependent on the u.s. eh? makes me wonder what would have happened if the brittish had maintained controll over america...

  • America wouldnt suck?

  • your an idiot you believe what every they put in front of you,

    you actually believe you got an education with your degree

    watch these videos on you tube

    1. esoteric agenda

    2. kymatica

    America did not win the rev war, within 10 years it was bankrupt and signed a secret treaty giving full control to the crown

    wake up to the NEW WORLD ORDER.

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  • pretty soon we will have a world made of garbage thanx industry

  • dammm

  • Hehe "aluminum"

  • Doesn't matter if you recycle cans or not. Unless you litter they will all make it to a recycling center and aluminum can be used over and over again without degradation. The drink can you have right now has probably been 1000's of cans before it was that one.

  • 300 million? There is 6 billion people in the world...

  • redneck. she's speaking bout the usa

  • 300 hundred million just in the United states

  • Hey Illus, it's an american show, you dingbat. Why are you non-americans so damn dense?

  • stop being an idiot, people like you make Americans hate us you uneducated little fuck

  • Let them hate us. They'll be gone in about 50 years when they get wiped out so it doesn't matter what they think of us.

  • You'll be gone to mingebag. Every country is dependant on the USA.

  • cucumbers ! :D

  • radio active cucumbers.

  • indeed

  • In 10,000 years those mountains of garbage with be petroleum that will be used by our descendents. So don't worry about it.

  • This is just copied off of the UK's Channel 4's "Human Footprint" that was on last year.

    Google it.

  • I know it's just one small consolation, but here in Michigan the majority of people recycle aluminum cans because the deposit on the can is 10 cents. That adds up. So, even if people don't care about the environment, they most likely do care about their pocketbook. They should make it mandatory in all states to recycle or lose money. This could be applied to a lot of things!

  • wow...whats alot

  • thats*

  • I recycle cans and plastic hopefully we all do that too.

  • 5. For women: did you know that over 14 billion tampons, pads and applicators end up in landfills every year? They don't decompose, so they're a significant portion of landfill waste. Try a less wasteful alternative such as Lunapads, DivaCup (DivaCup is available at Amazon also), or the SeaPearl from PandoraPads. (Google them.) There are many others as well, so find one that works for you. Or, send a letter to your tampon provider demanding biodegradeable products! :)

  • 4. Start a compost pile for all that organic waste, such as egg shells, coffee filters, tea bags, banana peels, yard waste (like leaves), etc. It doesn't smell as bad as you probably think, and it has benefits even beyond not sending all that stuff to landfills. For detailed information, benefits, and instructions, try Googling: CompostGuide, HowToCompost, and EPA compost. There's even a way to compost if you live in an apartment or have no backyard.

  • Tips

    1. Recycle. I don't know about your neighborhood, but in mine, recycling bins are free. To find out if you can get a free bin, Google "the recycling center".

    2. Get biodegradable trash bags. If you can't find them in your town, they're available at the Amazon, DrugStore, EcoProducts web sites, and many others.

    3. Get washable cloth bags to use as grocery bags. They're much sturdier, too! Amazon has a variety of them -- just search "grocery bag".

  • or just being your own bag like canvas tote and buy from locals and organic

  • or just use plastic bags that take up less space in landfills, recycling is dumb.

  • why dont you get some massive compressing machine or something and compress it into something smaller,so less junkyards..

  • every garbage truck compacts the trash it picks up

  • the solution's simple: get rid of all the factories and technology and return to a way of life where everything is done either manually or with the help of animals and non-fuel-burning machines (i.e., windmills). that's the only way of life that's actually sustainable.

  • Unfortunatly that won't happen just by us convincing society to do so. Some catastrophy, war or natural disaster would likely force most of the world to that condition at some point though.

  • give me those cans i'll take them to the junk yard and cash them in,why do dumbasses recycle for nothing i take cans to the junk yard and get cash for it.

  • Cus if I did that my parents would scream "OHEMGEEWTHUDOINZ OMG LOOK AT DIS SO DIRTY Y U PUT IT HEREZ GO THROW IT AWAY@@@@" and there's no place to exchange the cans nearby D:

  • having raped and pillaged this planet for over a hundred years now, our greed and ignorance is finally starting to catch up with us--global warming, deforestation, urban/suburban sprawl, dwindling resources. perhaps it's time that we, as a species, take a collective time-out and re-think our approach to life--before it's too late.

  • When you come up with an idea to solve the world's problems let the rest of us know, won't you?

  • boy are we in trouble...

  • Recycle, reduce, reuse, & refuse the urge to buy into the system to the greatest extent possible.

  • Anyone who says we need to bring down the population is fucking retarded. Let's start with you, so we have less stupidity in the gene pool.

  • and we should kill off all assholes like u

  • Fuck off. The only asshole is skinheads like you, who lost your "population control" doctrine back in WW2.

    Thanks.

  • ok now ur speaking about stuff that is completly unrelevant!

    and im not a skin head dumbass!

    nor was i alive during WW2 dumb fuck

  • It's copletely relevant. First of all, i doubt you even know what a skinhead is, though you've been lead blindly by them.

    Second, I never said you were alive during WW2, I said your doctrine was.

    Tell me why you advocate genocide, which, is population control.

  • how can i actively support something i never herd about?

    and skinheads are propbably some racist assholes...

  • There's alot of things "activists" support the've never heard about. And since you don't know, I guess it's up to me to explain.

    Skinheads are slang for the white supremacists movement, that has a doctrine dating back to WW2. They have a heavy belief in population control, for groups they deem "leeches" on the human race.

    Namely, blacks and jews.

    Population control, in general though, has always met genocide. How in the hell can you advocate something like that?

  • uhh I live in America, and last time I checked the GOV. doesnt kill people beause of the pigment of their skin!

  • No, we just kill in the name of Democracy. But, this isn't even the point.

    You called me an asshole for speaking the truth on something as horrendous as genocide. Therfore, it became obvious you endorse such a stance.

  • I called u an asshole because ur comment was stupid!!

    and yes we do kill people in the name of democracy...and i dont agree with that either.

  • How was my comment stupid? Am I wrong? Or are you just mad because I'm right? The thoughts that run through minds like yours is of the darkest nature.

    Bottom line, I'm not gonna sugar coat it. You want to rant on with depopulation, start with yourself.

  • not yet anyway. as we move closer to socialism and a collectivist socialized medical model, the cost to keep granny alive will be too great, then the disabled, then by income level and finally by belief system. Government will decide who will live based on what they contribute to the greater group.

    Food and water will be the new weapons. Soon they will be able to kill millions by simply doing nothing. the world's very poor don't consume much, right? So who's next? Do you think?

  • well i dont have that same form of logic that you do...

    Nor can i predict whats going to happend

  • because plastic is cheap

  • damn look at all the shitload of stuff we throw out..... man im gonna start to become a hippy and make an evirmental strike -_0

  • lol good for you :)

  • Its alright, I just throw my trash out my car window, that way I dont have to bother the land fills.

  • lol dont pollute

  • wow man,thats a LOT of garbage that it's fucked up!!I suggest you people to keep your plastic bags that the markets give you to hold your stuff!may god bless you ;-)!

  • did you mean recycle bin on a computer?!?

  • Boycott. Quit buying stuff that's causing this problem. Take plastic bags with you to the supermarket, re-use them. Buy foods in larger quantities = relatively less packaging. Drink water from a tap, fill a thermos flask or glass bottle with your favourite drink. Make the world a better place, start with yourself.

  • This video is garbage itself; these numbers are scary only because you have no context to put them in. Recycling is almost as good at wasting time as it is at wasting money! (excluding aluminum)

  • OK, so what is the alternative? Everyone grows their own garden of food? I'm sure that's very possible in heavily urbanized areas...this video brings up some very good points but what is a practical solution?

  • So true.

  • Yeah, there were absolutely NO PROBLEMS when Clinton was in office. Democrats screwed up this country as much as Republicans. Remember that the Democrats control both houses of Congress. They make the laws in this nation.

  • right and bush has no say in anything

  • We desperately need to sort out our trash and dispose of properly. That means all to be sorted, shredded and prevented with drastic measures in each town. MUCH MORE to be done ASAP

  • Less people = less trash, people shouldnt have so many kids, then we can keep our consumption lifestyle.

  • recycle is the answer ^.^ Clever, me.

  • i care more of people dying like garbage then actual garbage disposal

  • how come if they get so much metal, why don't they build massive structures with it?

  • RECYCLE!!!!!!!!

  • In my country we used to have to reuse everything because it was very hard to buy things new. Door hinges made from empty cans, Cars made from peices of older cars & so on. It suprises me just how much plastic & metal gets wasted now days because people tend to buy things now & lack the creativity to make things themselves anymore.

    In a 10-20 years people might have lost the creativity to be able to fix things with fencing wire & when things go wrong they'll be mostly helpless

  • What's the matter clam-person? are you jealous? or maybe you were deprived of junk as a child? Most likely you were a spoilt child you never had to eat garbage & always had clothes to wear

  • clam person, you have to resort to using the word pathetic loser to make a point? you are indeed a pathetic loser.

  • its like your saying.. Death to all humans... ^_^

  • I care.

  • wow you retard, if nobody cares and does what ever they want like a compleate retard, were gonna be dead in less then five years

  • shit happens.enjoy life while your here

  • hmm... true that

  • shit happens but we can reduce that amount of shit which happens. anyway future generations can't enjoy life if we enjoy life by doing this now.

  • I care

  • okay, if you don't care, I'll come dump all mine and all my neighbors' trash into your house every day, where do you live? Then we'll see if you seriously don't care...

  • Kill more!

    Uh...I mean Killmore...yeah!

    Just Kill more...kill more, less trash!

  • Can anybody here figure out what the hell MonkeyShit is talking about and what point he is trying to make?? If there is a point somewhere in his comments I sure can't find it. I think he is just helping to pollute the planet by posting a bunch of garbage here.

  • Why the hell don't you stop? Are you thick or what? You "pollute" just as much as he does, so shut the hell up if you dont have anything to say that doesn't relate to the video and HAS A POINT (and yes I will apply my words to myself).

  • send all the trash to outer space

  • its funny when people are so retarded that they have to have a conversation on youtube. this section is for comments about the video. My comment for the video is, very informative. At some point someone could make money from all this recyclable material.

  • I'm bored and have time to kill, I don't know about the other guy.

  • Amazing, Recycling is important and saves a lot of waste from actually becoming waste.

  • xD yeah,I kinda knew that in kindergarden :3.

  • Hey everybody. MonkeyScout thinks that all business people are totally honest (maybe there are actually a few who are) and all politicians have perfect integrity. Well, this 16 year old MonkeyScout is going to be in for a very rude surprise when it is time to leave home and go out into the real world.

  • Don't take me as a child who doesn't know evil in the world. You are just as bad as the middle school kids I had to deal with my life and you're 41... How sad. I KNOW corruption happens, its everywhere. I KNOW this, yet I still don't think the pay off is good enough in the end. If you read the newspapers, we are in a housing slump. You SHOULD know this if you are teasing me about not reading up. You might have been naive and clueless as a child, doesn't mean I am.

  • Hey why ditn you two knock it of already? All that bullshit about developers has nothing to do with the video, ok?

  • I like the idea of a roof over New York ;-)

  • wow thats a ton shit

  • I use plastic shopping bags as trash bags when I'm done but I guess it would be better if I used cloth shopping bags and recycled, sure but in order for this to catch on with the rest of the public we need to make recycling easier and more convenient.

  • Aluminum and plastic are the only materials worth recycling. Aluminum because it takes huge amounts of electricity to smelt aluminum ore, and plastic because oil is a non-renewable resource. As for the idea that we're running out of trees: bullshit, we have tree farms for paper just like potato farms for fries.

  • Recycle, use cloth shopping bags.

  • Then, what's the point???

  • 'Thats enough aluminin to build a roof over NYC!" Then why don't we?

  • but why?

  • why not? we have the materials right? :P

  • Aluminium is too weak to do such thing, and it would cost to much money, for something that in the end is not worth it. Haven't you ever steped on a can and squashed it?

  • Recycle!!! Seriously, we really need to get our act together and recycle everything. Programs should be set up so that everyone recycles... or maybe an incentive to motivate those people who don't care...

    Japan is very good for this... we should adopt their recycling system...

  • yea we recycle a lot of the trash we use

    (no no not just that blue bin)

    everything is considered "recyclable"

  • That's really commendable to your family but A LOT of people don't. And that's the problem.

  • People forget that landfills have dirt put on them, are made flat and become into places for housing or golf courses.

  • MonkeyScout, Would you buy a house that is on top of millions of pounds of garbage?

  • Would you care? A house is a house and you even smell the damn garbage. My schools stadium is built over a landfill, I didn't know until a teacher told me.

  • MonkeyScout, Have you ever heard of a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York called Love Canal? Look it up on the internet sometime. It was built on top of a landfill.

  • There are areas put aside for toxic waste. And the Love Canal issue happened when people weren't as concerned about it. I'm damn sure that if toxic garbage was found now, they wouldn't build houses over it... A golf course is a maybe, but I'm not sure about that.

  • MonkeyScout, Okay, I believe you. No toxic waste ever gets into landfills and no real estate developer will ever do anything even the slightest bit illegal or immoral. I also believe that all politicians are honest, America has 500 years worth of petroleum reserves, and if we all sprinkle fairy dust on ourselves and think happy thoughts, we can fly just like Peter Pan.

  • You honestly think a real estate developer would take such a risk? Unless they had a lot of money to bribe officials and build houses, a big cost, they wouldn't do it. It won't pay off in the end.

  • MonkeyScout, Corruption happens every day in every kind of business. Don't you read the news? And believe me, only a very tiny percentage of people ever get caught. That is why they are will to take the risk. The only thing you can do is decide if you want to participate in it or try to keep yourself clean. Hopefully you will grow up better than most of the people I have worked for.

  • MonkeyScout, Your comments are funny in a tragic kind of way. I just checked your channel page and found that you are 16 years old. You have no idea who is going on in the real world outside your house. You are so naive. Well, I worked in construction for years. I saw business owners lie, cheat, and steal hundreds of times. In fact, it is pretty much standard procedure. And yes, I do know of cases where officials took bribes in cash or favors.

  • Yeah? My parents work in construction and they got screwed over so many times by people who took advantage of them. I think I know how bad things are after seeing them suffer. Don't assume things about people you don't know. After all, you might be so wrong that it's tragic.

  • MonkeyScout, What do you mean "Don't assume things about people you don't know"? You just did exactly the same thing when you said that real estate developers wouldn't build on contaminated land. (which they have done many times) Why are you telling me not to do something when you are doing that same thing? That seems very hypocritical.

  • My assumption makes more sense, though I admit I was hypocritical. I want to know... Why the hell is a 41 year old arguing with a 16 year old? And I also notice you didn't challenge my other argument about how it wouldn't pay off because of a housing slump.

  • MonkeyScout, What are you talking about? I never said anything would pay off as you are falsely implying. I just said I saw corruption happening. And then you admitted you know about it thus verifying my point - even though you had previously lied and said it didn't happen. And why the hell is a 16 year old arguing with a 41 year old. Don't you have anything better to do - like going to school perhaps?

  • I never said it didn't happen. I said it won't pay off to happen. The ends don't justify the means. I already did go to school. I'm here on my spare time. Shouldn't you be doing something more productive?

  • Hey MonkeyScout, Wow, you really are a hypocrite. Now you are criticizing me for arguing with a person of a different age when you are doing exactly the same thing!

    Anyway, the arguement was about whether or not their is corruption in the construction business. I said there is. You said there isn't. Now you have finally admitted that there is and that you already knew about it. Thank you.

  • I said it wouldn't pay off so it wouldn't make sense now, I don't remember saying it isn't there, thats something you made a assumption on. But hey, you criticized for me being 16. Don't complain when someone pulls the same arguments on you.

  • Hey MonkeyShit So you are now claiming you never said there is no corruption in the construction business. But before you said, "they wouldn't build houses over it" You also said, " You honestly think a real estate developer would take such a risk" You know, the comments you made in the past are still here and anybody can read them and see your contradictions, hypocrisies, and outright lies. Are you going to continue to humiliate yourself this way?

  • Hey MonkeyShit, I didn't criticize you for being 16 as you are now falsely claiming. Maybe you need to read that again. I just figured that your lack of life experience was the basis of your ignorance and utter stupidity. But I'm willing to consider the possibility that there may be other causes for it. A serious head injury or use of illegal narcotics perhaps?

  • Though I had a head injury, it won't do anything. I said they won't take such a risk because it won't pay off, like I've been saying. I notice you still didn't challenge that it won't pay off. I'm bored, thats my reason for continuing this. Are you another 16 year old posing as a 41 year old because you're bored too?

  • Hey MonkeySucker, What the hell are you talking about?? I never said that taking such risks in business would pay off or would not pay off. So I have nothing to defend on that subject. Dude, you seriously confused!! I just said I saw those things happening. I didn't say what the result was. If you want to create a fantasy world in your own mind and pretend the world is perfect and noboby then go right ahead and do that.

  • Its what I said. You criticized it. You made my point into something else entirely. So therefore, eat your own words. And I say you are thirteen because I never seen a adult act so much like a teenager. Easy enough to tell apart your own kind.

  • Hey MonkeySucker. Oh yeah, I'm a 16 year old. I started working in construction when I was a baby. DUH! Moron Alert!!

  • WOW no wonder our planet is so dirty

  • that would be way too expensive

  • I agree with you! Of course space is a terrible answer. eventually we'll run out of resources. there's only so much aluminum on Earth. (plus it's much cheaper for everyone to just recycle it anyways than mine for aluminum.) If we would just get our act together as a planet and recycle, this wouldn't be problem. Plus, I don't want to fuck up the all important sun.

  • send it to space? have you any idea how much this would cost?

  • give your trash to white people, they like it...(white trash)

  • Hilarious

  • moron. why don't you do humankind a favour and go cut your wrists? do something good with your life

  • recycle people!!!

  • coscolluela95, Yeah, environmentalists are such hypocrites! They tell other peoplet to recycle everything. But then they want to be buried in a box.

  • um... they do? what about environmentalists with other religious beliefs who don't believe in embalming or permanent burial? or environmentalists who choose a "green" burial (no box, no embalming)?

  • You don't want a garbage comment, do you? :P

    /Futurama reference

  • "comet"... it's spelled "comet". not "comment"

    but yes, that would suck!

  • coo coo

  • i can't stand those fat-ass North Americans with their soda cans everyday. It's like they are addicted to sugar or something

  • To be honest, North Americans are not the only culprits here. Sure, we have a lot of trash that we throw out, but so does wherever you live. Humans do not differ like that in personality by continent, so don't make fun of us or blame it on us...

  • Overpopulation people.

  • well, some grocery stores offer a recyclable shopping bags now

  • Really interesting, especially the plastic thing. Never thought of how much we shop with everything wrapped in plastic, then plastic bag, then another plastic garbage bag, and another!

  • Send it in space.

    People don't listen, you see assholes throwing trash every day.

  • Yeah, throw it all in space so it comes back at us in 30 years as a flaming ball of soda cans...

  • Er. No.

    Garbage won't orbit Earth.

    Why would something you chuck out space be returned to you?

    The rovers we sent out past Jupiter never returned.

    Stupid people. Learn some Science.

  • -_- Jupitar has it's own gravity. So that orbits around it or eventually crash into it. If we throw trash into space near earth . It would eaither orbit around it or disingrate when gets into the earth's atmospere. Depends what the trash is. "Stupid . Learn some Science."

  • Er. No.

    Garbage won't orbit Earth.

    Why would something you chuck out space be returned to you?

    The rovers we sent out past Jupiter never returned.

    Stupid people. Learn some Science.

  • Earth Erosion into Space....

    what a concept :(

  • not like we can fill up space.

  • Well, sending trash (material, matter, molecules) into space is like selling your own body parts (spare kidney, eye, ear....other ear, other eye, pinky, etc) so you can buy food. Hope that analogy hits home!

  • 25 empire state builings? 5x5? huh. huh.

  • its 5 x 6 moron!

  • FIRST

  • Recycle, reduce, reuse! D:

    It won't get rid of it all, but it will help!

  • wow

  • wow!

  • wow!

  • i recycle my cans but this video sure makes you think

  • very interesting!

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