Comments by "Lil Weasel ♡" (@lil_weasel219) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

@tapsulinka recycling is an energetically wasteful process
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its not quite a solution Glass is incredibly heavy to transport. We need a personal reusable containers and degradable bioplastics
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@rayanmazouz9542 they dont desinfect it lel, its melted down into new glass EDIT: except in undeveloped nations ys
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@rayanmazouz9542 lol we had cases in stores here (Croatia) where they put agressive toxic cleaning agents diluted in water into bottles, as "disinfectant" for Covid noiceee lol
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@rayanmazouz9542 what do theyuse to desinfect lmfao. I mean the pathogens will grow back really quickly during transport
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@Dathkami if you do reread my comment you will se I used biodegredable BIOplastics. Those are plastics made out of biomaterials, such as compostable bags made from bad potatoes. And even if I hadnt, there is in reality a difference between biodegradable plastics, and false advertising. Sure it may be more ideal to come w the back story about the fact that some biodegradables are bait biodegradables, but I could honestly do manya such backstories
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 did you even watch the video lol Recycling is first off an energetically wasteful process, and more importantly, creating a market for plastic waste leads to manufaftured demand. That is more plastic packaging is used on purpouse to make more waste. We are seeing this happen more and more. Out of the recyclables sent to SE asia, only a few percent is recycled, while the rest is variousy dumped on mass landfills, into natural waters and burned. you CANNOT rely on recycling, we dont even really know how to do it. it is a lie. You need to avoid plastic packaging and bottles, bags, microbeads in cosmetics, and what cannot be avoided should be used as fuel (RDF e.g.). "plastic recycling" w the currently used methodology is not really part of a sustainable future At the same time investment into new technologies should be done, especially to find an alternative to plastic.
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@bubsnicket rice packaging made out of recycled paper boxes is much better than plastic bags still. But yes, Im aaaalllll for legislative changes. Someone I know went to the netherlands, a country where the green party is pretty prominent; single cucumbers packed in plastic wrap and usual fake recycling. The only proper thing I remember this person saying about NL was the meat tax. I think the issue is not just with the fact that people dont vote green and font do any individual action, but also that those greens often just push for (fake) recycling, instead of reuse, repurpouse.. ,change the system, impose plastic tax. Im truly sick of it I voted for the green party in my country; during the elections (lol!) they were taking pics on facebook while drinking out of disposable plastic cups all the time. Like wtf are you even about then bihz The irrational, "GMO iS bAd, bAn thAt" tendency of green parties is overshadowed by these fundamental issues. So it becomes not a big deal. A trade off. If only there was a proper green party to vote for istg 😅
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@LardBucket_ canvas bags? No Its fiber, to produce it costs more water etc than a reusable plastic bag. now about recycling. its not a solution, its a mitigation for what cannot be solved in other better ways.
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@Dathkami metal mining is incredibly polluting
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@MACTEP_CHOB read my lastcomment
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@Dathkami Where do they have them and who they hah Never seen any
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@Dathkami dude i dont see how your comment has anything to fo w mine. Virtually all plastic is nondegradeable, even part of the ones declared as degradable (EDIT: instead some of those just turn out to take shorter to decompose than regular plastics) , stqting the obvious here much?
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@Dathkami Im a bio student,focuses on ecology and genomics, no need to tell the story of the plastic problem hah
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@MACTEP_CHOB Yes but I was to you, you wet sock. That comment I was referencing was my reply to you. Its really not rocket science
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Tomislav Vrban the minority of things. part of the mineral water and part of the alcohol
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@jaxonsevero1045 boi that question needs more context. I dont know what you are responding to lol
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@99Cafer99 the reason why plastic isnt cleaned in boiling water and detergent isnt just the cleanliness lel Its that the plastic literally melts and leeches toxic compounds when exposed to heat. As far as recycling of those bottles, nah, doubt they are actually recycled, rather they are sent to SE asia to be dumped into the ecosystem or burned there, as usual. Thats where "recyclables" that even get sent abroad from the processing facility go. Only 5%<x<10% of the recyclables shipped abroad for "recycling" are actually at least downcycled let alone recycled proper. I dont know the purpouse of telling me that plastic bottles leech toxic compounds lol, but I guess its because I didnt write it in another comment or you didnt see it. But given that Ive been vocal about not buying plastic bottles for very many reasons since I was 17, I know all of that kek
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@99Cafer99 where did I say that you stated that plastic bottles are easier to clean?
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@99Cafer99 What you put into recyclables in Germany is sent first to a sorting and collection facility and then to SE asia, where it is chucked into ecosystems snd burned,nand only a very small fraction is recycled (even leds thsn when China and India were the landfill of the western countries) in any form, as I slready said. I dont know what your basis is for believing thT "probably its still recycled in SE asia" even tho you have never seen what happens to it beyond thesorting facility and our available data absolutely contradicts this. SE asia cannot even handle all the imported western trash, so recyclables even go back to the country of origin are are incinerated, in the UK for example Research some on this lol. Wishful thinking is not helping anyone.. I might post a few links I will inform you that for waste to be considered recycled in the West, it simply needs to be sorted, collected, and sent off to SE asia, to be burned or chucked on landfills. You are believing this lie and parroting of politicians without any research of your own This is a general trend. What h.appens in smalled countries is harder to find, but theres really no reason to believe its any diffeent , except when used for RDF fuel. Germany is documented to burn half of its waste, and export part of the rest as recyclables, specifically1/3, is exported as "recyclables", and what happens to those is an old story; Read some here: https://amp2.handelsblatt.com/the-plastic-trail-how-germanys-recycling-ends-up-in-malaysian-dumps-/24037020.html
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@YoutubeTookMyNickname.WhyNot sorry i really dont know what it is that you are referring to. Quote stuff if yiu want the other person thats lost far back in the section to know what you areon.about
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@neutrino78x thats a pretty global thing. And other than helping the poor a bit...
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@cdreid99999 bro more mass from the load means more fuel from the truck needed to move it around
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@cdreid99999 and no one is talking about the mass or volume of glass for recycling rather when being delivered to the store
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@drdewott9154 and after you sort it off to SE asia it goes?
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@therockas8190 "when you recycle the bottles in these machines" these machines dont "recycle" bottles.
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@therockas8190 Gotta say its questionable as to what happens to them after theyve been thrown in. Surely have a higher actual recycling rate than general pladtics (for which its generally an absolutely misetable rate, for both physical barriers and laziness lol) but hmm But what Im trying to point out is that people think that iust because their waste is not choking them up in their home country doesnt mean its not choking a poor country where its exported to. Something we dont see must be gone from the planet rite?
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@borjesvensson8661 what the heck is the point of your comment, and where did I write that germany is an "underdeveloped country". Developed vs nondeveloped vs country in transition is assessed mainly using the birth rate and age distribution pyramid, so I dont know how thats relevant to anything I wrote in this entire subsection
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@tomstdenis and a many many times more polluting to produce Also liquids acquire the taste of the can so they are lined w plastic the solution is not simple
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The title is incredibly misleading. Downright disgustingly so. Keep up the bs Murica clap clap
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recycling is a biiig business. Profiting off of artificial waste creation.
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@hicknopunk sure, but both should be the objective, reducing plastic first and foremost
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 why would you subsideze a wasteful process that after all if the effort only downcyes the material and prolongs its lifetime for a single cycle
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 and yes the govt is not doing any of that, but hey, the people are not voting for a government that remotely considers this an issue are they, nor are the people protesting for the environmentalist cause, placing direct demands. Activism, voting for reform, and personal action as a consumer Theres no legal quick fix, we can instead not consume, that is reduce consumption strategically and naturally shift the market. Youd be surprised what power consumer action holds Plastic itself is not really the bulk of the issue here, its DISPOSABLE plastic. For long term use, aluminum forexample isnt really better, as its production is incredibly polluting &(thats why modern aluminum phones are bigger killers than plastic ones) Its disposable plastic thats the issue
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 yeah lets gamble and hope for the best. Why would be make an ever so slightly effortful mive thats sure to change the game when we can gamble. We are lazy afterall
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 If you knewthe chemistry of different kinds of plastics and composite materials youd know just how ridiculous and impossible what you wrote is
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@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 they are not impossible really. So what is your alternative to plastic once you ban it? If you ban you need to have an alternative
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@LardBucket_ ^^ yes i use a reusable plastic one (t mobile advertisement i got for free LOL)
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