17 Replies to “Way Of The Future”

    1. You can’t transform turds into anything useful. All you can do is flush them.

  2. Decades ago, the Ontario government heavily subsidized plastic bag (low density polyethylene) recycling. Some plants were set up.
    At the beginning, they were able to get the plastic bags and other scrap for free because the sources would not have to pay a tipping fee for garbage. However, soon the sources figured out that there was value in this for the recyclers and they started charging them for the garbage!

    The transportation, sorting, washing, shredding, drying, extruding and pelletizing processes were both labour and energy intensive. The end product was of poor quality.

    As soon as the subsidies ended, they all went broke.

    The colour of the chairs being produced in the film were not to my wife’s taste. Wonder if they met CSA standards for structural integrity and UV radiation resistance?

    1. Looks to me like they were melting down all sorts of plastics. What are the bags made of? Polyvinylacetate (PVA)? Don’t know. I saw clothing going in there, maybe polypropylene, or acrylic. Must be some PVC, too, and polyethylene. A real mess of mixes, so the chair quality would vary depending on the mixes. Looked like they were burning polyethylene to fire that auger. I wonder what the lifespans of those guys are?

  3. PJ
    When you don’t know what you are talking about, don’t talk about it. Pretty simple concept I would say.
    NO subsidies
    NO washing
    And only as energy intensive as the stupidity of those running the place.
    And NO quality issues, as you orient the end product to uses it’s suited for

      1. PJ
        The recycling plant I ran was very profitable, no incentives were paid by government.
        Again, whenyou don’t know what the eff you are talking about , just STFU.

  4. Very noticeable is that this is a small operation somewhere in Asia. They don’t have the expenses we have, like carbon (dioxide) pricing, safety equipment/clothing, government mandated wages and benefits, DEI etc.

    Could it be done here? Yes, but not competitively, as Pj said.

    Having said that, my grandson works for a plastics molding company. I’ll have to ask him where they get the raw material. I think I can be certain they don’t recycle plastic bags.

  5. I’m guessing there is no OHSA, plus many eyes, fingers, toes and feet lost in this factory. Not to mention all the toxins being inhaled. Also a process that looks very thirsty for energy.

  7. Fighting over plastic bags?.. Burn them in a modern incinerator with scrub stacks.. Get some energy while you are at it.. But, we are not into solutions.. We are all about the problems $$$..

  8. Ooo! Look another example those clean green environmental jobs that the watermelons rapture on about.

    I guess the MOL or OSHA or Worksafe inspectors don’t get around there much. Notice the high quality safety sandals and high efficiency exposure and emissions controls. Yes that probably is in Asia likely the subcontinent. Their raw materials are probably from bales of plastic single use bags Sustainably shipped from Canada. On a positive note at least the stuff isn’t getting flushed into the ocean to by swallowed by poor sea creatures. /s

    Suzuki did a similar Nature of Things show on CBC years ago about glass recycling into artisanal bottles in India. Scrawny children collected discarded bottles that were melted down by withered adults wearing loincloths and sandals repurposed from tire treads. The idiot waxed on about how wonderful it was. It was pretty pathetic.

  9. My plastic bags are used to hold the buried treasure I find digging in the kitty litter box.

    And why isn’t anyone raising a fuss about the millions of plastic doggie doo-doo bags used every day by owners cleaning up after Fido?

  10. ha ha ha!!

    l solved the ‘missing grocery bag’ dilemma rather directly.
    my canines go for their walks after dusk.
    now, when they stop and drop, at best l pile up some leaves behind it and
    ‘kick it to the curb’ thanking the *other* TURD for banning plastic
    and necessitating a refinement of my evg walk routine.

    at this address lve had 5 large dogs, currently still 3 of them and going thru avg 2 of 25 pound bags kibble per month, calculated in that time l have ‘scooped’ some 5 tons of it.

    woof woof woof!!!

  11. In California there is no water bottle return or recycling system.
    And the dogs there have their masters perfectly trained.
    Fido takes a dump, master maneuvers it into the plastic bag. And if no one is looking, master flings it into the bush or behind a rock.

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