I agree with one of the commentators. I dislike Trump but you have to take it out. It's not like Biden is much better. This video should be for everyone. Also, do you have a version of this video for incinerators?

Very good video! Reducing waste is a hard challenge, it should be a law about packagings, and more zero waste product/more affordable!

I make shopping bags out of big bird seed bags and dog food bags (the strong woven plastic kind). They are so much stronger than the free ones at the grocery store, they hold a lot more, and some companies will even pay you a small amount to use them. They never break. And they look fabulous and fun! I have a hook by my door where I put the bags, so I remember to put them back in my car. Once you get used to it, the flimsy store bags just seem like junk! Now that I have enough for me, I give away bags whenever I make them.

This vid is great. I was particularly moved by: "A moment for the fallen." Thank you Amir and The Story Of Stuff!

Good video that is thought provoking. But please try and be less USA centric. The story could be presented as a problem for the whole of the western world with some USA and European examples. Or even as a problem for the whole world to include some Chinese, Japanese and Indian examples. More expensive to produce but I think the extra cost would be worthwhile.

So much shade from 1:19 to 1:24 🤣

As much as I despise Trump, including that footage is not productive or helpful, and will steer people away. We need to be inclusive since waste and unsustainable habits are problems we ALL face and should do so together. I loved the "leak-ate" leachate correction...cute.

Thanks for putting this together, SOS. I work for Texas Campaign for the Environment and we work with lots of neighbors of trash facilities all over Texas and this is a good explainer. However, I question why any footage of President Trump was included. Especially in Texas, we work with people across the political spectrum and the decision to include him makes it less likely that folks who are with Trump are going to listen to the message. Secondly in Texas, the laws and standards for landfills are so loose we have an abundance of landfill space, so it would have been better to say "in some places landfill space is in short supply." The work of SOS is great and I'm a monthly donor. I'm willing to preview videos so they are more relevant to folks in Texas.

A video that is eye opening. I am not American yet very aware of waste and how it can be disposed of where I live. There are plenty of ways an individual can reduce there waste, two of the easiest ways is to look after the items you already have and only purchase what you need, even better purchase second hand or borrow from someone you know. I could keep going...

That's a good explanation for me who thought that my trash are end up for the real end before....

1:56 When he said "You know, the wholesome stuff" I just had to pause and like the video lmao☺

Five-part curbside recycling could be done by local trash and recycle pickup companies. The divisions would include (1) kitchen and paper wastes, (2) wood and yard wastes, (3) plastic, glass and metal wastes, (4) electronic components and other mixed composite materials, and (5) chemicals including contained household toxins and other hazardous wastes. At home, personally, all paper products except cardboard can go thru an inexpensive paper shredder (I use an Aurora 1210MA) . That then goes into my compost pile with all kitchen scraps plus some horse manure from a local farm. In about 90 days, this is food for my garden--which garden I eat from daily. Even with a small yard you can grow veggies and even have fruit tree or two. A small greenhouse extends your growing season. The optimum is a 5 to 10 acre off-the-grid cooperative community of 16-25 persons who are close to you in beliefs and feelings.

This was shareable up and after the slam to Trump. There are 1,000's of politicians who have been in office for decades and have done NOTHING about our trash. Trump has been in office for three years and our decades of poor waste management are now his fault? I have followed, promoted, and donated to Story of Stuff. I expect better of your organization. We are all in this together.

I wish you would have talked about how leachate is handled by landfills and how it depends on their geographic location. For people unfamiliar with landfills, this gives the impression that leachate is accumulating forever, when it is not the case. However, I've always been wanting to know the effects of leachate on the environment with how landfills handle it--i.e landfills in warmer climates pump out the leachate and place them in evaporation ponds within the landfill. How does that affect the environment around us?

I literally have lived in CA most of my life & have no clue where West Covina is! Should show a quick & general map please 🙏🏾

I can't believe why this is not viral🙃

Trash in Westchester County NY gets burned. Where "Away" becomes our lungs!

This guy throws the best bottomless parties.

OMG ITS ALATOR FROM HAZBIN HOTEL 😧😁 0:01

1:34 a.k.a. garbage juice, lol.

charge every single house that doesn’t recycle properly-how has no government not thought about that?

why does this video have only 110,000 views omg

Such an informative video!

so good ❤❤❤

Municipal water authorities have absolutely got to gear up a massive public relations campaign to prove to Americans that we can trust tap water for drinking, and a lot of that marketing needs to go to the immigrant community, recent arrivals who come from countries that unfortunately have not spent the billions of dollars for water treatment facilities we have, so these folks bring their antipathy towards tap water with them and automatically buy bottled water. Single-use throw-away plastic water bottles are beyond insidious but they are an absolute criminal assault on the environment and everything must be done to convince the public to stop nonchalantly buying them. Local jurisdictions are finally beginning to legislate against single-use plastic bags so, unless you live in Flint Mich, why not bottles !

Im just thinking about the Movie Wall E and Buy N Large

Reduce I love it.

My grandma used to burn the trash in mexico on a weekly basis. I now see this far better way than letting government deal with the problem

Did not like the Trump reference comparing him to something sitting around decaying. I showed this to my students and I will never show it again because of that comparison.

"I'm a mirror" :-)

It's not hard to solve, just copy Scandinavian best practice. Oh hang on: what's Scandiwhatever?

How to reduce waste: Instead of making food containers increasingly cheap, flimsy and disposable, pay for the good materials to make them robust and reusable. You pay a deposit for the container when you buy the food, then get your deposit back when you return the empty container.

Couldn't we just build robots to clean it all up for us? Maybe if it gets bad we could go into space and wait for the robots to fix everything.

Burn it, air turns into energy, ashes you just bury somewhere and u can still use the ground above it.

if only there was a product we could use that was biodegradable that can make plastic???? hmmm. um hemp

Why not dig super deep hole..put all trash in there,cover with dirt and plant trees?

plastic is like money. you can print/make money/plastics but they dont go away. just remember when people tell you not to invest in stocks.

More biodegradable packaging and less plastic or van it all together eventually and enforce new eco friendly affordable solution initiatives and committees

Okay... 🤔🤔🤔

multi filtered incineration

As someone who works in the waste industry at a landfill you are really misinformed. We have to follow strict guidelines regulations and are inspected fined and even shutdown if we break any laws or there’s a threat of contamination. Landfills are lined sealed and covered every day. Also when they are closed it’s monitored for 30 years then turned into a park golf course ect. Yes people don’t like them but we all produce waste and it all had to go somewhere.

Isn't buried plastic sequestered fossil fuel?

Do not buy, so not to throw away…

I thought the trash in the landfields is burnt (the trash that could not be recycled)

was gonna use this video to explain landfills to my class but ... had to make it unusable by saying "crap"? If this is geared toward kids as the audience... why?

Probably the best idea is try to recycle what we can and burn the rest and use the heat to create electricity etc. I rather see the plastic, fabric and other stuff go upp in flames then possible contaminate the water supply. An other idea would to create better landfields that is easier to construct and that you later on could digg up and recycle when the societies have the ability to do so.

One of the reasons I have liked and shared your videos in the past is because you don't get political. You just say it like it is. Until this one. There was absolutely NO reason to put Trump in there. Yeah, I get your joke, but was it worth that bit of your integrity to make it. Not cool at all.

Did he say ship trash to other country? Americans..

Way to make something educational into political. Poor choice.

ship them to the moon or the sun

governement are there just for nothing or for the worst... POWER TO THE WOLFS!

I showed this to my 4 yr old - I wish you guys had videos more targeted towards a young audience. He has become obsessed with toys and every time we go to a toy store and get one of those magazines advertising toys then he just wants to sit there looking at all the ones he could buy and circling them. I want to help him understand marketing and how the system is setup to make him desire more and more and more. And how poorly the toys are built and how much damage they do to Mother Earth. He cares deeply for animals and Mother Earth. It’s just hard for him to understand how some of his toys could hurt her so badly and some not. Toys usually purchased by friends or grandparents. I would like him to understand the system from his perspective. And also to share toys, like wooden toys, that are less damaging. Oh Playmobil’s Wiltopia line. Or also the idea of sharing toys with friends (less realistic in our post COVID world).

Quit producing the stuff in the first place. Wouldn't it be nice to have a television built with a wood cabinet that was made in America?

We need to write/call/email not only our government representatives but also major companies about packaging practices. Also, making the use of paper bags and paper straws mandatory (not plastic bags or plastic straws). Perhaps you should delete the blip with Trump. The idea is to reach out to all people and this might cause a loss of your credibility with Trump supporters. Maybe show a picture of the Congressional building and White House instead.

Great point! not so sure about the section squirrels & gophers, not funny nor tasteful in my view...

No wonder California air stink and polluted. Not too mention the carbon dioxide from cars. In Europe they’re very strict when it comes to garbage. We make more stuff, we throw more stuff.

What does Donald Trump (clip 1:21) have to do with trash wasting away in a landfill that has been there for over 30 years?

Why did you guys put trump in the video?

The Solution: HEMP PLASTIC!!!!!!

Trump and the squirrel footage w/ violin do not belong here.

OMG too good having trump as the "it sits there decaying itself and things around it for a while"

Minimalism.

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Was the political jab really necessary

Was a good video. Dislike for TDS

Really? Why Trump? So much for inclusivity - this video is a 'waste' for me now. Will not 'waste' my time with it any longer. Keep politics out of it in the future, disgusting.

And the problem keeps getting worse, with our "growth" obsession. Consider this: the world can only sustain a long-term population of about 1 billion. But the current level is about 8 billion, and is predicted to reach 10 billion. So we need to plan for a sort of "inverse decimation" whereby, instead of killing every tenth soldier, we cull nine out of ten people. Okay, yes, that was deliberately provocative, but the point is: we need to start addressing this issue, perhaps by heavily restricting the right to reproduce, or by embracing death and natural selection. If we reduce the population, there will be a lot less pollution.

I was going to show this to my class until i came upon the Trump footage. Shame on you.

@1:23 Seriously, you have to bring politics into this?