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Greenpeace International

16 жыл бұрын

Greenpeace's Cebit Video.
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@alberta4x4 14 жыл бұрын

Im surprised I made it through the whole video without muting

@rc0ll 13 жыл бұрын

I think this is more effective with the sound off

@whisperSSG8 Жыл бұрын

fr they did daft punk a disservice

@CZroe 14 жыл бұрын

Cadmium was used in older cellphone batteries but I haven't seen one in about 12 years... Except in 12yo cellphone. Yes, NiCds still have some popular applications but not in many "disposable" electronics (LiIon and NiMh is often more portable/dense).

@Zikau 16 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was really good. I came across this by accident but this video is really moving... Thank you GreenPeace. It's groups like yours that give me hope that the environment can be saved.

@simonscott7125 3 жыл бұрын

school brought me here

@Zikau 3 жыл бұрын

@@simonscott7125 Cool, that comment is over a decade old.

@simonscott7125 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zikau ya, that's cool.

@drmodestoesq 13 жыл бұрын

We all have to sacrifice to save the planet. I for example, had to listen to 5 minutes of this execrable electronic music.

@madjimms 13 жыл бұрын

Why doesn't this have more views?

@greenpeace 16 жыл бұрын

jrgcool35, of course we don't just do videos, but did also a lot of research about the e-waste problem. If you don't trust the information in the video just read other sources as well. Our toxics campaigner just told me the reports of the Basel Action Network (BAN) are good sources on e-waste recycling and dumping of e-waste in Asia and Africa. You'll find them on the BAN website (I can't link here but just google for Basel Action Network).

@DocAcher 14 жыл бұрын

I've been hearing more and more about this problem... I can't see anything being resolved anytime soon though. :(

@2wolvesgermany 11 жыл бұрын

nice clip !! go Greenpeace go!!

@Urkinorobitch 15 жыл бұрын

I never understood why we let corporates sell us such worthless stuff that never lasts long than 5 years so we can buy another one. My Mom gave me her Turning table with huge speakers about 20 years ago... she bought it in the sixties, still works a wonder. My roomie bought a pretty good stereo 3 years ago paid about 600$ CAN for it and it is fuzzing like crazy, we put my old can back instead.

@776281 16 жыл бұрын

Repairability would be nice. It so often is cheaper to replace than do even simple repairs. Cheaper to replace Remote than fix, even cheaper to replace whole DVD player than get new remote.

@DD-cj6px 10 жыл бұрын

This was made in 2008 guys. '08. It's now, oh, 2014! And don't you see loads of electronics being recycled and becoming more environmentally friendly?! So stop getting worried, everything's fine. Things have changed.

@dharker7595 8 жыл бұрын

+Diaz Marche you couldnt be more wrong

@DD-cj6px 8 жыл бұрын

Dom Harker how am I wrong? Electronics are being recycled and are more eco-friendly. A lot of things have improved over the past 7 years. At least explain your reason to say why I'm wrong.

@dharker7595 8 жыл бұрын

Diaz Marche I would suggest reading the UN report: "The Global E-Waste Monitor 2014" its one of the best up to date resources on the issue with ewaste. One of the major problems is that with higher wage levels in more developed countries means recycling isn't an economical process. Companies then ship their ewaste to other countries such as China, India, Ghana and Kenya for informal processing, which have significant health risks. There has been lots of talk about global legislation such as the Waste Electronics and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) a global legislation claiming to resolve the issues. However, due to businesses wanted to save money, they will ship the e-waste, generally illegally via the black market to place like the previously mentioned countries. I read one statistic somewhere recently that the life expectancy of somebody working on a Ghanaian Ewaste dump was 27. and there is a place in China you should read about called Guiyu, its a city of 160 000 people who work around 16 hours a day recycling ewaste manually, there have also been fairly recent studies on the health implications there. The term recycling is quite broad, and also limited, as it doesn't suggest how the thing is being recycled, it merely says it is. It is good that more things are being recycling, but we shouldn't forget the negative effects it is having on so many people worldwide.

@DD-cj6px 8 жыл бұрын

Dom Harker well, you are right about how recycling does have its negative effects and......pretty much everything. Thank you for the information, I will look into those subjects and research them.

@Br0nson_0 3 жыл бұрын

its 2021 lol

@AlexanderEdoh2013 10 жыл бұрын

Electronic waste: we must design gadgets that don't poison the planet. From an Observer article written on Saturday 14th December 2013

@ThaddeusHughes 12 жыл бұрын

@Alexf2105 From Wikipedia: A joke (or gag) is a phrase or a paragraph with a humorous twist. It can be in many different forms, such as a question or short story. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.

@insane250 16 жыл бұрын

I agree... most " old machines " works perfectly and lasts also forever

@thespartan85 14 жыл бұрын

if electronics were not manufactured in countries with cheap labor and cheap materials maybe it would not be as bad. in north america there is always certain measures being taken in the manufacturing industry to recycle and use recycled components. north americans replaced labor and self-sufficiancy with corporations and consumerism, where everyone outsources. if we manufactured everything we want and need, the environment would be alot cleaner, and everyone would have a job again.

@Mega1mpact 15 жыл бұрын

it say's that the avarage lifespan of a gameconsole is only 5 years but i have a 9 year old playstation 1 that works also a 6 year old ps2 etc. and they all function like the day i buoght them. so most of the lifespans mentiont are incorrect. but the music is great :). ps: yes i checked the info before posting it on the interwebzzz. pps: no i am not someone from the big factorybosses.

@sierrasom 13 жыл бұрын

I'm a die hard conservavtive in the good ol USA. I hunt, I fish and I will always eat lots of rich tasty animals. That said, since being immersed in caring for my reef tank and having taken an ENVIRO BIOL class cause it sounded interesting, I have become more aware as to the ill effects humans have on the environment and just watched a follow up to "The Cove" on the green channel. If we do not protect our oceans we will lose them forever. Hunting is sustainable, overfishing isnt! YAY DAFT PUNK!

@Alexf2105 12 жыл бұрын

@CountryKid1010 Also from Wikipedia: An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning.

@fcorm2001 13 жыл бұрын

This video is purely commercial, in the end always sell to exporters

@usespanner1 14 жыл бұрын

Thespartan: in that case the price of electronic tools would be much more higher (because of the higher wages of the Amercian recycling worker) and some family would die because of huger (losing their job) in India. lose-lose situation..

@divaballerini 16 жыл бұрын

Il messaggio immediato punta alla completezza delle informazioni.

@Urkinorobitch 15 жыл бұрын

there's an organism close to where I live that takes old Broken Monitors and computers...; they somehow put the pieces together and then sell the whole thing for something like 10$ There are people who pray for the environnement everywhere and that are gladly helpful.... I'm sure you'll find someone, you just have to search... or be creative!! We, Humans, are an enlightened race after all.

@oldpaladin1 15 жыл бұрын

PCGuit I wish I agreed with you fully. However we are animals and we do have animal instincts. Thus human nature. The enviroment you are in does affect the way you think, but does not replace basic human nature, which I feel is "hardwired" into us. You see it everyday , in the way men and women react to each other, the mother instinct, "the leader of the pack", "the lone wolf", survival instinct, "packrats", etc..

@usespanner1 14 жыл бұрын

Yeah of course. but I think the best solution is getting mercury, lead out of manufactoring gadgets, electronic tools and we could export these enviroment-freindly products.

@MultiMonster69 11 жыл бұрын

Hippies plus techno... Does not compute

@SpyroxCynder 16 жыл бұрын

my mom's pc is almost 10 years old! woot!

@angusyoung918 3 жыл бұрын

its 22 now

@studpuppy69 13 жыл бұрын

@trevgoodchild Why are you watching? This is something that effects all of us. If you disagree, go out there and hang out in the fields with e-waste, breathe the air, drink the water, eat the food. Then bitch about how you hate electronic hugging hippies. I'm not hippy, but I recycle, I care about animals, the environment, saving money and resources.

@ThaddeusHughes 12 жыл бұрын

I'm a kid who is one of the smartest in class. I live in a house that probably has lead paint. And I don't know of a single thing that isn't recycled. Name something! The green movement will be what kills us. Also the lyrics are wrong. Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail-upgrade it...

@agustine.5353 2 жыл бұрын

No entiendo nada

@bigcotie 14 жыл бұрын

WOW !! This is crazy I never thought that the work was done in that way . where were these videos taken ?

@maldit5103 5 жыл бұрын

Alguien de la E.E.S.T N°7 aquí? Xd

@alguien5580 5 жыл бұрын

presente owo

@TNMEBDlove 14 жыл бұрын

Why don't we give them the jobs that are taken up by exporting waste? Why can't they be employed for a better purpose?

@thelist0 13 жыл бұрын

If we didn't send waste 2 them they wouldn't have any money

@Omar595 13 жыл бұрын

what do we want.... well the situations says that we love living in garbage it appears that we

@Alexf2105 12 жыл бұрын

@CountryKid1010 What do you mean the lyrics are wrong? The lyrics are adjusted to make it focus on e-waste. You should have realized that since you are "soooo smart" (btw the music and voice is also different to the technologic song) Oh and all that stuff you see on the dumps in the video. That is not (properly) recycled

@RainusKarn 14 жыл бұрын

can i get this song from somewhere??

@ajolotefeliz6313 2 жыл бұрын

Anashei

@NowhereBeats 10 жыл бұрын

I would like to see the references for the average life span data. I have never had a PC last 7 years. But from experience phones last ~5 years and video game consoles seem to last forever.

@ilgesto 14 жыл бұрын

HI, do you have this video subtitled in spanish? thanks

@Superfish201 13 жыл бұрын

what is the original song

@joserodriguez-ph3sd 10 жыл бұрын

great informational video and the theme its catchy

@usespanner1 15 жыл бұрын

Other option would be not using mercury and other heavy metals to produce these gadgets.

@RapidRiver22 13 жыл бұрын

Why HELL would 17 people vote down? There is litterally no reason rather than if you own a business related to electronics.

@tavriadriver 13 жыл бұрын

OK, so I drive a 23 year old car, with many more years of useful service left in it. But Greenpeace would see it off the road as a polluting old clunker. May I refer them to their own video?

@christo930 15 жыл бұрын

It's easy, tell them we won't send any more if they don't respect their environment. Why do you think we loose so many jobs to the Chinese? A big part of it is that they don't care about the environment or their workers safety and we do and therefor it costs us so much more to do it. This is the price they pay for cheap labor and to steal our jobs. They made the stuff in the first place, why don't they make it in a way that is easy to recycle? Because it's cheaper not to. It's their fault!

@grettagrids 15 жыл бұрын

so how can I NOT contribute to ILLEGAL recycling????? I have five broken monitors in my basement but want legitamate recycling of them and not just pollute another country.

@2bmarco 15 жыл бұрын

Homeless man makes lamp that makes itz own power, great for third world countries, power outages, children gifts, mothers day

@usespanner1 15 жыл бұрын

People are not compelled to do this job in india. It's their only chance surviving in impoverished area. If you stop exporting e-waste to the developing countries a lot of people will be unemployed or probably die because of the famine..

@christo930 15 жыл бұрын

Why pick on Apple, who has at best a 4% share of the pc market? They are already the most expensive brand of pc (or one of the most) on the market. A better strategy would be to have Intel and M$ to enforce standards on the rest of the market which is many, many times bigger. IE.. To get the Windows logo, your product has to be environmentally friendly. But bigger than that is forcing China to enforce environmental standards in it's country. Let's talk about all the NEW coal fired plants there!

@biglosersowhat 14 жыл бұрын

@jrgcool35 You have got to be kidding, and your post was 2 yrs ago? The city recycling place where I lived said they were shipping all the E-waste to Africa. Google all the 3rd world countries all our crap goes to, not to mention the rest of the so called civilized world. The poor countries are the real victims of our lust for technology and waste. I myself have disposed of 14 cell phones, 6 computers, etc. I've lost count of the broken TV's in my lifetime. Shame on all of us. Excellent video.

@ferdigue1998. 11 жыл бұрын

STOP DETOX

@insane250 16 жыл бұрын

lol! i can also say that electronic trash is arround 1-1000 tons... omg its not even precise

@UltraNEO 16 жыл бұрын

Reliable? Er... NOT IF IT'S MADE IN CHINA!!

@babs471 16 жыл бұрын

So why doesnt the world just stop making all that bad stuff then. We dont need tv's, computers, or cell phones. Lets just go back to the cave man days!!

@Naglfar6666 15 жыл бұрын

hahaha daft punk style

@chsknight421 16 жыл бұрын

hmmm... so lets stop and think how much time these kids take into making these videos... lets stop again and see how much money they put into all there efforts lets take these two concepts and then think...what if....i knew all this info that i could build these things, save the environment and make a huge profit!!! instead of whining and being the B****es of this world