Comments by "Sergey Bebenin" (@sergeybebenin) on "China's Waste Ban Is Causing A Trash Crisis In The U.S. (HBO)" video.

@TokenBlackman7 Are you telling me it's cheaper to grow, harvest, process and manufacture paper? Just an example. How about exploring, drilling, processing oil to then manufacture a plastic bottle. Is it really cheaper than simply sorting and processing a bottle? It makes no sense. Show proof that it's not profitable. Even if it's break when it still makes more sense because it'll be less harmful to the environment.
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@rurutuM You telling me it's cheaper to grow, harvest, process and manufacture paper? Just an example. How about exploring, drilling, extracting, processing oil to then manufacture a plastic bottle. Is it really cheaper than simply sorting and processing a bottle? It makes no sense
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@tielohnoms Yea that's the problem. And why exactly is that the case? Need to build facilities to compensate
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Stretched lip - That's compete bullshit.
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Josh Boucher I never said there's a "magic box" to recycle paper. I'm looking at the overall picture and I have yet to find someone who can explain how chopping down trees for paper makes more sense than solving the recycling process. I've seen a bunch of videos on how paper is recycled and it's not a complicated process, especially relative to everything else we produce. The end result is less trash on dump sites and less tress to chop. In the process new jobs are created. I don't know how many relative to lumberjacks but it's not like jobs are only lost. If more focus is paid to recycling processing then the technology will get better (cheaper, etc.) And with plastics.... I want to see proof that exploring, drilling, extracting, transporting, processing oil is cheaper than picking up local plastics, sorting, shredding it. Yes, I'm generally speaking but the point still stands.
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@LiLi-vk9us I don't understand why you think the sites you've seen are a perfect representative of the "ideal" recycling factory. Electronics are also recycled in USA (it's not a secret that there are tons, literally, of precious metals) and it's done in a responsible way, i.e. no environmental pollution or at minimal levels. It's just there aren't enough centres to keep up. Lastly, it's not like metal mining is somehow "environmentaly friendly". Chemicals are used to extract copper ore, rare metals, etc. Not to mention environmental devastation that takes place around the mines. And oil extraction? Same story. But here you already have highly concentrated amounts of all this good stuff in a form of electronics, plastics, paper, etc.
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Sy Sharp Um, most of the waste is "packaging" material. It doesn't need to last more than a second after it's been used. What needs to be done is processing factories built here
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Care to connect the dots to explain your logic?
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Build your own recycling factories! Are you telling me it's cheaper to grow, harvest, process and manufacture paper? Just an example. How about exploring, drilling, processing oil to then manufacture a plastic bottle. Is it really cheaper than simply sorting and processing a bottle? It makes no sense
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@spectatetodebate8408 Proof please. There ARE recycling/processing facilities in USA. So it is happening and clearly they aren't working for free
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There's nothing wrong with recyclable waste if it's actually recycled. The problem is that USA doesn't have the factories to do this for some reason
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