Thats how the real world works. You dont get something for nothing.

The love of money is the root of all........?

@@middleagedjabroni Unless you’re the producers of plastics who generate profits, all while the rest of us are forced to pay the price for their products. It’s called corporate socialism.

@@user-er3ri6sc3j The lack of regulation combined with a political party that basically bankrolls oil companies and produces of plastics.

@@middleagedjabroni Ok, now string together two more empty phrases. Neither of those mean anything, nor add to the conversation.

Our town won’t even take clear glass anymore.

@@ds7675 that's just wrong

NOt taking glass isn't new. In the last 10-15 years the majority of my trash services that do recycling as well refuse to take any glass because it is a "hazard" if it breaks. Glass is one of the most easily recycled materials. It's frustrating.

@@ds7675Ours stopped recycling glass years ago, and as a sop they suggested buying items that come in plastic jars or metal cans instead! Do you have any idea how many _foods_ only come in glass bottles or jars?! Salsa, nacho cheese, pickles, relish, olives, rice/wine/balsamic vinegars, maraschino cherries, gefilte fish, pasta sauce, jams, jellies, some beers, wine, liquor, wheat germ, soy sauce, and Asian condiments are all examples of food or beverages that _only_ come in glass jars or bottles, and that’s just what I could name right off the top of my head! We need to bring back glass recycling because it’s been done for generations with no troubles, and glass can be recycled almost indefinitely, whereas plastic cannot. The town slipped on a banana peel with that one!

Waxed paper has problems too.

But now that we know plastic is mostly NOT being recycled, we consumers have to make choices about what kind of packaging we buy...for the planet, and to send a message to the companies that lie.

@@tdelphia1 No, the average consumer need to not do a darn thing until the wealthiest people need to be FORCED to stop living in opulence. All that is going on now is poorer people are being forced through laws and taxes to not consume products so the wealthiest can have them.

Consumers need to make better choices, though. You can't pretend consumers aren't throwing this stuff on the road and in the water.

I think we are too. We knew....it was convenient. Even those pretty reusable plastic bags are still plastic. We need to use hemp, cotton, or some other natural fiber.

You bought the product. You are just as responsible.

Some of us weren't even "duped", but it isn't as though we had a say in the matter. 😂 If you ain't rich, then you ain't sheet. 90% of the humans on this planet have no influence on what the elite 10% do. Obviously. 💪😎✌️ Rich gotta rich, and the poor gotta serve, suffer, and submit. That's what schlaves are meant to do, after all.

If we shut down all plastic producing manufacturing facilities for a mandatory three years, how fast making plastic good from recycled plastic would become profitable would make our head spin.

And what about the environmentalists? The Democrats and Progressives? They are the ones to blame here. The plastics industry didn't pass the laws that legally require me to recycle. It took the left wingers this long to figure out all this is a sham and they don't have to provide any explanation why?

​@@MF-qf7bs Lol you're not wrong.

You can thank the tree huggers of yesterday. They're the ones who made such a big push to switch to plastic to "save the trees." Never mind that sustainable forestry is far and away better for the planet than using plastic - even if we were using nothing but recyclable plastic. No, no. What's important is the life of each, individual...tree.

Needs to be frontline news, but the govt won't allow such a thing.

It's not about Joe Biden, so it is approved news.

It never gets solved cause the elites are still in charge and still the ones making the $$$ off our backs

Told my recycling obsessed stepmom about this in the 2000s. She didn't believe me in the slightest, until Fox News did a piece on it not a few years ago.

Decades. I wrote a paper on it for an economics class in 2007.

The plastic trash even finds it's way into the forests and other wilderness areas. I've seen plenty of trash along hiking trails, and it is infuriating to me.

You had 2 soda companies and no water bottles. Now there are thousands of beverage companies, and you can't make a 2-liter glass soda bottle. It's complicated.

Sadly only 10 states had return deposit

A lot of stuff comes in plastic. They got billions and need to come up with something better.

@@mkhanman12345 Don’t rely on recycling. Focus on reducing.

@@JoeOvercoat A lot of stuff comes in plastic. They got billions and need to come up with something better.

Why not focus on _both?_

Exactly.

I agree that plastics are bad for the environment and we should be concerned, but did they have to use a quote from the World Economic Forum?

Selective sight.

Money. They would rather choke on plastic literally than have one fewer dollar.

And it will be microplastics. Right now, there is plastic in your brain, just like there is plastic in everyone else's brains.

@@XBret64 60 minutes is 100% of the World Economic Forum's mindset. Of course they will quote from it.

It's not pointless. It's not hard to cut out a lot of those materials if you make it important to you. The take away shouldn't be "oh well guess I don't have to recycle, it's pointless". Perhaps "I will make less waste, stop buying take out, fast food and it's packaging" is how we should look at it. If recycling is out let's conserve water(shorter showers/not letting it run as you gather your clothes), turn off lights and yes actually UNPLUG appliances no matter the slight inconvenience.

@@gb.510 I do all that and have done so all my life. Almost all of my possessions are used - clothing, furniture, household items. I buy detergent in cardboard boxes. No one uses a plastic bag over and over as many times as I do. But until the reasons there's so much waste is addressed, it is all pointless. I'm paying my trash company for a service I'm not receiving and I resent the scam. I am at an age where I'm never going to see the world I live in be cleaned up. I did not say oh well I guess I just don't have to recycle, so don't put words in my mouth.

@@user-qr7ee2cp4y I get my water free from a faucet because I'm not stupid. Empty plastic food bottles get used to make homemade salad dressings or spice blends or whatever. I save and re-use glass bottles. Soft drinks are a treat I don't do often ... when I do, they're in cans or glass. Anything thing else you need you know? The replies I'm getting have nothing to do with what I wrote, nor did I say I don't recycle. If people aren't angry when they view sea life being strangled by our trash ... fine. I'm justifiably angry, but that doesn't mean I'm sitting around picking my nose.

The same is true of green energy and solar power. Research it and you will find that the world’s biggest polluters are China and India. American consumers baring the financial burden.

I agree. Here in California they have to use compostable containers. No styrofoam at all. But occasionally some are still using plastics, including plastic bag’s which is supposed to be a no-no.

Reducing personal consumption of plastics is the primary key - but because the number of consumers continue to increase, reuse follows. Recycling is never going to have the same impact as these two.

Glass and aluminum are 100% recyclable and the plastic produces hate that.

Too expensive. Less profit for big business. Easy answer.

Taste better too

1--There are too many hundreds of companies now to send bottles back to. 2--companies won't switch back to glass because it's costly to ship. 3--We DO pay a deposit in NY, but we put our bottles into machines at the supermarket where they're crushed. The glass and aluminum is recycled, the plastic is probably trashed. 4--And it's not sanitary to re-use plastic bottles.

“Pay a deposit in addition” there is your problem. Keep that crap in NY those stupid places. Nothing like a bun of losers going around garbage picking for cans N bottles. Machines were always out and a huge pain in the behind.

That's a regressive tax that will hurt the poor the most. Are you okay with that?

@@brownro214 Yes. Packaging costs for single use items have never been a significant barrier to quality of life for the poor. The poor will also benefit from the improved environmental conditions associated with a significant reduction in plastic waste. People get too caught up in class based politics and prevent changes that would be of net benefit to all people

fine you pay Fantasy land I liked returnable bottles I like steel cans .. can be melted down used again I like aluminum cans .. get free money back

After reading that plastic is everywhere, including in our blood streams, I am in the process of going back to glass containers in my kitchen. I was going to take all my plastic ware to the recycle bin but after listening to this, what is the point. I will keep the plastic containers and use them in my craft room. My problem is, yogurt, milk, kefir, etc. all come in plastic containers so it’s an uphill battle to try and reduce plastic use!

B.S. Greed is not the problem. Yeah, the oil and plastics industries are partly to blame here, but the environmentalists, Democrats and Progressive are the ones who really pushed this on us. It took them decades to figure this out? What, they just believed everything they were told by big business and then passed laws requiring this nonsense? No, they wanted control and they got it. And now, as usual, they aren't being held accountable.

You're not recycling, just sorting. Recycling means making new products from old materials.

@@Gertyutz 🤡

Agreed!

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well because it is really hard - plastic is everywhere now - you can start small tho and go from there - like say with milk there are still some businesses using returnable / reusable glass bottles like Oberweis - they are only in the northern midwestern states tho around Chicago but I'm sure there are other dairy companies utilizing the same thing around the rest of the country.

Don’t buy products housed in plastic. For example: Tide powder laundry detergent housed in cardboard, instead of liquid detergents that come in plastic jugs.

Buy drinks that come in glass or aluminum instead of plastic bottles.

What's the alternative to profits 📈 ?

​@@gooser__43 covering cost+labor😅

@princessmiaxo then the investor gets nothing; brilliant! No one will invest and all retirement, since retirees are investors will end.

@gooser__43 We don't need investors to arbitrarily drive up the price if we can pay for goods by covering the cost of materials and the wage of the people actually making them in the price...which would significantly reduce the price of goods. No CEO nor investor actually works 500x harder than the people making the product, yet that's how they're paid because we must always be making a profit and not just covering means. You're so poisoned by profit bs you can't think of a system outside of profit which iswhy youu even brought up investors. And inb4 you say "but what about [insert "failed noncapitalist country here]", bringing up countries who've tried other systems but fell to covert operations funded by the US doesn't count as a failed example of other systems. We really haven't seen what eradicating the need for profit can do without meddling.

@princessmiaxo where do you get the money 💰 to start the business? Brilliant! You shutdown the economy!

Guess the company is a bunch of liars

This program is widely watched, not buried. It's been on for many years. And similar stories have been aired on many other venues: newspapers, magazines, the internet, radio. TV is not the only medium.

Yeah I’m starting to see that?! Like WTH!

We knew that was never going to go over well. Not surprised at all. Even charging for them. People still throw them away.

@@semperfi6801 True and they charge like 5 cents!! They should charge at least $1 to make ppl bring their own bags😒

Thanks. You have the most realistic and educated approach of all the comments I've seen. Many people think that the problem has a simple solution, while it's incredibly complex.

Our town doesn’t recycle clear glass anymore.

And paper dipped in wax

Too late. The wealthy control it all. They may do as they wish.

Glass is much safer to consume from, too.

@@strawpiglet Yes, agree! That’s all I use for storage and my tea and coffee mugs, it gives a much cleaner taste.

while the media is lying to you and you yuck it up as the truth.

I agree. So many of our issues is because we don't hold corporations as accountable as we should. If a small business invented a product and lied about it being able to be recycled when it couldn't, they would get sued for false advertising or something.

They are storing plastic that is not recycled, in the landfill.

That's only slightly better than spreading it all over the place. Plastic is dense, they can condense the space it uses by 1000x. It needs to be stored by itself, and without leaching into the environment, because like oil it isn't degradable. Hazardous storage basically.

@@brownro214 or, just use bioplastics instead of greenwashing energy net zero biofuels, then you can burn it all up at end of life in some safe facilities without affecting co2 net. You could also start storing it for now and save the burning for later years when co2 emissions are in check.

There are hundreds of videos on the same subject, if you want to search KZfaq.

@@Gertyutz I’m sure there are, just saying that CBS This Morning covering it brings it to a wider audience

@@elizabethchase6528 cause it's true. I was out and about today and saw one of the " recycling " dumpsters and I just shook my head.

And I have to pay an extra $100 a year to fund this ballet before it's landfilled anyway.

Only the plastic is an issue. Everything else IS recycled.

@@Gertyutz You just keep on telling yourself that.

Still waiting for someone to explain why it took the environmentalist, Democrats and Progressives so long to figure out that this was all B.S. Maybe because they were too busy passing laws, including recycling laws, that do little to nothing more than control how people live their lives.

@@Gertyutz Not true. Most other items can be recycled but that does not mean they are. The most recycled material is metals since they start out expensive and so there is a big financial incentive to recycle them. Buy your beverages in aluminum cans not plastics.

What?? There is no such thing as clean coal. It is scams all the way down.

There are many other videos offering solutions. "CBS Sunday Morning" has a time limit on its stories.

Is it true that melting any plastic also release toxic fumes?

Our town won’t even take clear glass anymore.

We ought to. Before plastic, you went to the store with your own containers and filled them with salt, flour or sugar and paid the grocer by weight. We can go back to that.

Aluminum is a finite resource. It's extremely recyclable but we can't just scale up its use as much as this would require without major consequences.

@@stellangios In other words big oil has us all by the b@lls!

@@Ian-nl9yd Maybe in rural areas. Before plastic, everything in metro areas came in glass.

It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Last I checked, it was about the size of Texas.

Not exactly an island, but yes, there is a concentration of plastic particles that float at a range of depths as well as at the surface in the oceanic gyres.

And breaks down into microscopic particles ingested by marine life to make its way back up the food chain. Your bloodstream includes plastic nanoparticles...

Look up "The Ocean Cleanup."

All the World's major oceans have circular currents called gyres and if there's a gyre then there's an accumulation of plastic stuck floating in that gyre in the ocean. It's terrible! Sea life eats it and then can't digest it and it causes deadly blockages. Countless animals are dying from this not to mention discarded fishing nets and microplastics that are now in everything including human sperm cells. The global plastics industry is destroying our planet.

And composting facilities easily available for the many that do not have home composting and for the compostable items that can’t go in a home compost

Those facilities are incredibly expensive to build, otherwise we would have more than just a few. It must be profitable to run one of those.

Boy, TOXIC ☢️ you say, see what the ( Entrepreneurs) are doing in 3rd world countries and to their own people with Paving Slabs/Roof tiles etc etc, 😳🤯☠️

I'd love to hear what to replace plastics with. Because there's SO much they're needed for. Ban unnecessary plastic, sure, but every time I see someone arguing to get rid of plastic they basically say that whatever THEY don't need should be banned, and damn anyone who needs they stuff they scorn. Like, people often cite prepackaged cut vegetables and fruit and ignore that many disabled people rely on those products to have healthy food to eat.

Glass, wood, paper, metal

@@stellangios i’m curious your age… were you not alive in the world before plastic? We got by just fine.Lol. they’re not needed for anything! toothpaste, sunscreen came in metal tubes, Instead of plastic carton of milk or juice, , they were paper or glass, etc. it’s really sad that your generation has been convinced that there’s no alternative.

What are your credentials that we should believe you?

We switched back to powder in cardboard boxes. That way we’re also not just paying for water, like the liquid detergents.

Laundry sheets like from Earth Breeze is a good alternative to liquid detergents.

@@HAL-9000xAre those boxed ones still He ones? Thanks for any response.

@@RD3D-2 I’ve seen ads for those so do they really work? And cost effective?

Honestly that’s one of the hardest ones! I’ve been trying for 15!😮 years to find a quality plastic free option The best solution I have so far is buying a getting a giant plastic (I know) bottle of blue dawn which is a great high quality product and refilling the small sink side bottle as needed. This doesn’t eliminate plastics but does greatly reduce it. (Blue dawn is also better at spot stain removal than tide sticks so save plastic and money and skip that. Just go to your kitchen get a drop of blue dawn and damp paper towel and let the magic work!) For dishwashers brands are making individual pods wrapped in dissolving soap. The famous brand ones all clean very good. And don’t use plastic Individual containers. There are companies like grove and blue land that sell plastic free household cleaners while blueland actually works the “lifetime” bottles are poorly designed and break. Grove products also work but the glass refill bottle have leaking issues I got tired of. Maybe they are better now but I decide to return to plastic for all propose cleaners.

You would have to stop eating, buying medications, shampoo, soap, ....

@@Gertyutz it's crazy making that most of the plastic we use could be replaced with biodegradable alternatives that aren't used.

I remember milk being delivered to the house in glass bottles that were reused. I still have the milk box from 1964.

Glass also seems to make the drink last longer. I noticed that when a local juicing business changed its bottles from plastic to glass. There were some juices one would have to drink within a couple days, but now they last several days longer.

yes but the "ecosystem" was largely a facade from the start

That's a lie. Where I live, 3 trucks roll through on trash day. One for trash, one for lawn/grass clippings, one for recycling

⁠@@Psyclonus7Which Hyatt do you live at?

@@Psyclonus7 Even if you have a truck which picks up your recycling bin, it doesn't mean that the recycling isn't predominantly dumped in with all the other trash - because it is. Companies don't care about you / us and they definitely don't care about your / our recycling. That's the ugly reality. If you don't believe it, it's time to wake up. They want you to think that your recycling is recycled so that you continue to consume without hesitation.

That blame the consumer logic is exactly what they want you to buy into. What are people supposed to do when their water infrastructure gets as bad as Flint, Michigan, and there’s no alternative with government dragging their feet on fixing it? Best way to reduce and eliminate any and all eco-destruction is to start at the source, where the problems of overproduction, waste, pollution, and irresponsibility truly lie

It may technically be possible to recycle, but it’s economically not feasible. You have to look up what specific numbers your local recycling plant will accept.

Because companies run this country.

Illusions MUST be maintained. If every marketing lie was exposed, global society would collapse.

@@fnregistration Right. Why didn’t they talk about that & possible solutions?

At least Penn and Teller’s show gave some hope in recycling glass, while denouncing recycling of pretty much every other material.

Extremely clean plastic that hasn't be contaminated.

Mostly uncolored #1 (PETE) and #2 (HDPE) containers, with a small amount of #5 (PP). Labels or shrink sleeves that cover more than 25% of a container confuse automatic sorting equipment and cause otherwise desirable containers to be junked instead of recycled. You’re supposed to removed these before putting them in the recycling bin, but most people don’t and most brands don’t even bother with the ruse of placing this advice on their shrink sleeves or labels. I hate how brands choose these methods to decorate their bottles, fully knowing they’ve doomed them to the landfill, because they love being able to cheaply place branding over 100% of the container.

Plus when I eat food, it stays fresh longer.

That and a lot of union jobs picking out 1-5. It's all about money. It's always about money. Everything bad that is human-made on this planet boils down to greed.

@@davebauer3756The fact that they might be union jobs has nothing to do with it, but grind that ax queen.

That only means that people are diligently putting their plastics in the recycling bins. Most of that plastic will never be recycled. Much of it is contaminated with other solids, liquids, and plastics. After sorting, the contaminated bottles are sent to some impoverished Asian country, where it is burned, causing toxic black tarry smoke and soot.

My husband’s train line in Tokyo advertises that their uniforms are made from recycled drink bottles. I’ve heard grumblings that their recycling isn’t quite up to expectations it is still far better than in the US.

@@OhJodi69 No, Japan turns them into fuel using pyrolysis.

​@@hojichaisfarsuperiortochai9309The only downside I know of this is that once you recycle it, it cannot be recycled. Those plastic clothes become microplastics at the end of their life.k

@@thewheeliain that’s a bummer.

I put only #1 and #2 in the recycle bin, trash the other numbers, and re-use plastic bags for garbage.

One of them is running to be elected as the president again. Same party that bankrolls socialism for corporations and capitalism for the rest of us. Hint: they want to make the country they deliberately destroyed for a quick buck great again apparently.

The rich do what they wish. The poor can merely complain about it and do little else.

​@@Novastar.SaberCombat until we revolt

It’s better in a landfill

It’ll still make it to the oceans, at least some of it. You’re better off switching to plastic free products and reducing your waste.

You so desperately want to use your plastics that you think we should be making them from food? Weird take.

Only the plastic is an issue. Everything else IS recycled.

They will simply pass the cost on to the consumer.

@@michaelmorrissey1052 capitalism will take care of it. some other producers will make it cheaper by actual recycling. It may not completely solve the problem but at least shift the issue towards a greener equilibrium

It is fraud when the companies mislead the public to keep people ignorant. YOU think it's "common knowledge" but just b/c you and those around you know something doesn't mean everyone else does. This is a common mental bias called "the curse of knowledge." Also your statement is contradictory: how can so many people be ignorant of "common" knowledge? People like you like to show off how smart you are in a way that lets lying companies off the hook. They must love it. Someday they'll blame the public for believing their lies.

Yeah, it's not common knowledge if it's not commonly known, which it's not, so it's not common knowledge. And it's not so much ignorance of the system as it is systemic and widespread industrial-scale propaganda and misinformation, IE lies, which is basically fraud. To quote GPT "Absolutely, corporate misinformation can indeed be considered a form of fraud, especially when it comes to significant public impact like the misinformation propagated by the plastic industry. When corporations like those in the plastic industry create the illusion that their products are recyclable, despite knowing that most of the plastic doesn’t actually get recycled, it can be viewed as a deliberate act of deception. Legally speaking, fraud involves intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain. If a company knowingly spreads false information to make their products appear more environmentally friendly, they could be liable for fraud. This misinformation can lead consumers to make purchasing decisions based on incorrect assumptions, which directly benefits the corporation financially while misleading the public about the environmental impact. The case of the plastic industry is a prime example. Many companies have promoted the idea that plastic is easily recyclable, even though the infrastructure for recycling plastic is insufficient and the recycling rates are dismally low. This misrepresentation shifts the responsibility onto consumers, making them feel responsible for the waste, while the companies continue to produce massive amounts of plastic without significant consequences. Various lawsuits and investigations have targeted companies for greenwashing, a form of misinformation where a company falsely advertises their products as environmentally friendly. These legal actions aim to hold corporations accountable for their deceptive practices and can be seen as steps towards addressing such fraud."

They're working at making plastic from seaweed, but it's not on the market yet.

@@Gertyutz hemp too !

@@user-jc1hm3pv6i yes it does. Fortunately the Bible Belt can’t stay in ignorance forever.