From the title I thought people were literally throwing their garbage into the mouth of a volcano

My family is from Kalymnos. Every year since the 70's we have come for vacation to the Island. Some things have changed and others have not changed. The "volcano" is one of the things that hasn't changed, decade after decade. I am 41 years today and my earliest childhood memories include those of the burning trash, the "volcano", on the road to the Vathy valley.

I have never seen the Greek islands before.......that looks like absolute paradise. No wonder all the greatest minds in the old world came from that area. The scenery looks like it could stimulate the mind like no other.

Holy shit! A Vice video that hasn't been taken down!

Do a Documentary on how we here in Sweden handle garbage, we also burn trash but in a controlled way and for heating and energy, we even import from Norway. It is not a solution without some problems with it but this is just ridiculous. But its good to see that the younger generation learns the importance of recycling. Less then 1-2% ends up in landfills here now i believe.

Before I pressed play, I was going to say 'Smart!', I thought they were dumping garbage in an active volcano to burn it! Hahaha

>change your name to something in nature >shop at american apparel ????????????? >career at vice

"The press doesn't react. I mean you reacted, I don't know why you did" that's why I like Vice

Local officials seem to be trying to shift blame instead of doing anything. Something is horribly wrong in Greece.

Why don't the Greeks talk to Sweden about how they get rid of their rubbish and other countries in their area. The Swedes converts trash to electricity? Swedes could reach out as well. Communication is always key for action.

sounds like they're speaking spanish, but you know, it's all greek to me.

Of course you have a guy named river who couldn't be more than 100lbs

Just do what WALL-E does and put the waste into boxes ;)

3:25 How many different types of cancer did the cameraman breathe in while filming that?

QUICK GUYS blame refugees for everything.

I was in Crete this summer. Near Chania we were in the nature, like for a walk and all of the sudden: Landfill of trash. It's not just on the land either. After you get out of the sea in some places, you'll find small pieces of plastic stuck to your body. It's really gross. This is mainly near cities.

Why are so many of the uploaded videos unavailable recently?

There are 39 active illegal landfills across Greece, 21 of which are on the Greek islands. Some of them-like the dump on the island of Kalymnos-are on fire. Why can't anyone do anything about it? *WATCH NEXT*: _Cocaine: Narcos, Sicarios, and Peru (Part 1)_ - bit.ly/1LXBecY

I love seeing communities getting behind recycling. That guy putting in the hard yards to recycle and make some coin... And the schools, it's a great thing to teach the youth.

Fining an already financially strained country doesn't seem like the correct course of action in my opinion.

It seems like so few residents have done anything at all proactive in changing the situation

@8:28 When he says Roma does he mean gypsies? The 'what can we do' attitude of the mayor is disgusting.

This presenter is fantastic. Let's see more stories from this guy.

that's so cool, I've been on that island and I went there with the same boat. Goes fast AF lmao, me and my friends went to the front of the boat and the wind actually blew away one of my friend's glasses. Fun times

I feel swindled that the "volcano" is just hyperbole...

My heart goes out to the Greek people. I have much solidarity with them.

+VICE Hey Vice quick question, not on this video. Why is your Vice Daily's and DeJur aren't working. I get a notification for them and as soon as I go to check them out, there's an error saying they are unavailable.

Wow. Onward, stellar comments!

this shits crazy i wanna be able to travel around and journal all this that would be exciting

I just was in Kalymnos, we sailed there from Kos and I actually wondered what this smoke was whlile we drove out of the harbor. Funnily enough I even saw the guy on the 3 wheeled moped at 15:35 >:D Small world.

I could have watched that on mute and still thumbed up. Greece is beautiful.

Greek governance 101 @ 8:10 Step 1: Get a business haircut Step 2: Blame the Gypsies Step 3: Profit

That's a shame. We need to do better!

This is one example of how ridiculous government bodies can act and why so much money is wasted. Greece is a country with high unemployment and struggling economically which is used as an excuse these problems when in fact it is a perfect environment to act. The mayor here is talking about how recycling is difficult because of bureaucracy and building a legal landfill can cost hundreds of thousands of euros. The mayors job is to work WITH the community to overcome these problems not to decide he needs a huge facility and cash to build it and complain that its impossible. The solution is start small and employ people at a low wage to do as much of the work as possible this will allow you to have a working recycling center and help people find employment and therefore spend their wages. With a little earthworks and some bins or trucks that can move material onto boats the community could sell bulk materials and recoup some of the costs. I'm not blaming the mayor but the system we find ourselves in when life gets hard and we tend to blame it on something/someone else, I live in Australia and we have it good in comparison to Greece economically but the same attitudes exist. We build nice big recycling facilities surround it with bureaucracy, charge everyone to use it and then continue to increase rates and taxes because our government spends so much.

I went walking in Telendos and found a big dump between the harbour and the church. Tons of glass and cans. I had to go around the dump that was big and old. Yeah they have problems with their garbage.

that's stupid, all that plastic can be sorted and sold,,

aah such a tough life, living on an island in the mediterranean.

Maybe companies producing food/electronics can cut down a bit on the plastic waste? For example, A Razor gaming mouse do not need a big, transparent, display cube to show of the product. Just silly things like that adds to the mountain of garbage even more.

We live a sheltered life where our lights and water always work and our trash and recyclables always go "away" once a week, except holidays.

A different video, but I liked it a lot.

This video will not play, been trying to watch since it was posted. Have no problems with other videos.

haha the island i live on is at the point where the dump is refered to as the mall....... these guys got the next level tho with volcano

bigger question is, who is censoring VICE and why?

OH YA JUST GO BLAME THE ROMAS I'm so sick of this being an excuse for everything

I like the drop shadow on the subtitles....

can someone tell me the name of the green hatchback in the background at 1:32 ?

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At least I understood the title this time

Insane!!!!

it's been exactly a year and half since posting these

More like these, please!

Mayor of the island : I need more money so i can buy my new car and say it went going to recycle trash.

Vice what's wrong with your videos being unavailable?

The "Under Reported" intro looks really outdated Vice. This isn't MSNBC Dateline. Your video was great though.

What font did they use for this video, does anyone know? HELP

Dayum you could use volcanic heat to soften plastic into brick molds

Why is like 70% of Vices uploads blocked now?

Maybe the EU should help reach a solution instead of sending fines to a country that isn't doing too good.

Everyone is concerned about the smoke. Little do they know that that is the temporary problem. Metals such as lead, arsenic and the rest of the CAM-17 are not carried away by burning them. They stay behind and become concentrated to levels that are extremely harmful. On an island surrounded by salt water you are not concerned with your groundwater supplies but what about the fish that is locally caught? What about the dust that is picked up by the wind. Dioxins are bad but even after the site gets shut down you still have the metals. And the cleanup is always more expensive than proper waste disposal.

5:30 Grandma is bumping some 50 cent

This is hilarious. It's like something out of the Simpsons. The town that cant agree that living around burning plastic is undesirable.

yikes

-.-' an incinerator with a few HEPA filters on the stacks would work much more effectively to burn the garbage.... just saying seems like the burning ain't stopping any time soon soo might as well just toss a method of burning it better and with less pollution out there...

Yudotub not censor today?

What if we remove the volcano?

Greece should start a recycling program that pays people per bottle and can they return. That would at least eliminate some of the toxic materials burning.

So here in 2020 is their anything being done about it is it being cleaned up or has it been cleaned up and where is it gonna go when it is cleaned up just another landfill cause that shit ain't gonna solve anything

It's very misleading of you to title this documentary as involving a volcano

far out I never seen or heard about this

I love how VICE treats this as a big thing but it's 100% normal in the third world. People don't think twice about any of this stuff lol

typo 5:04

how accurate is the translation at 2:10?? doesn't look 35 degrees...

recycle?

This is so bad for the atmosphere and the locals

This is just an early indicator of a soon to be world wide problem.

LOL River from Vice's Brooklyn office.

Errrr, where is the volcano that they burn trash in?

River Phoenix?

what a shame

this isn't just in greece I've seen this all over Europe

They are all like, 'oh no, we have this huge problem with trash' - and try to find ways to reduce the trash without looking at the cause of the problem itself, the way in which we consume and throw away.

These islands were designed 500 years ago when there was no "trash". The people dont produce enough To pay for municipal services and rely almost entirely on tourism for income which makes the trash situation worse. Why doesn't the tourism industry raise prices enough to pay into a fund for recycling/relocating the trash.

why some videos are not available in india ?

cmon greece...get your shit together!

These under reported videos are greatr

I see comments of people here talking shit about Greece as if they have even an idea of what is going on there beyond of what they see on the media.....

5:26 old lady loves her 50 cent in the morning..

"There are 39 active illegal landfills across Greece, 21 of which are on the Greek islands." Have you the list of these 39 illegal landfills, please ?

... did that dude just say his name was river?

The government should have invested an efficient/ effective infrastructure to get rid of this garbage long before. Not to mention Greece's financial crisis, its even more difficult for changes on these beautiful islands. Hope they use the amount of money paid for fines for something more useful.

But, couldn't we just throw it in a volcano? Is that viable- or would that cause it to erupt?

Poor sad volcano, it dose not want your trash. :'(

vice always putting down videos with alot dislikes with the quickness.

It's crazy to think that all these islands together can't afford $800,000 even with the help of a central government to build a transfer station. That's rapper money these days lol like seriously if 1 person gifted a million USD to Kalymnos it could go so far

Who are the "Roma" the deputy mayor is referring to when asked about who starts the fires? Are those Italians or is that an ethnic slur? Honest question.

River???

an available video!

Reggie Bush said fuck it cant get back with Kim, I'll get a look alike.

I take it these people don't recycle. Plastic and glass bottles mixed in. I guess it would be hard to collect bottles from every island. Maybe have a spot on the island to sort it and then collect it once a year. Man Greece is going down the shitter fast.

When you burn rubbish like this, you don't just produce carbon dioxide and small particle pollution(ash). Rubbish contains tons of N, P and S containing compounds that produce oxides that react with water to produce acids. So, please, build a furnace to filter the smoke. It can be done cheap too. Hell, build the furnace out of trash itself. Find someone local who can weld.