People from around the world gathered their usual trash during 1 week and then analyzed what sort of garbage they throw away and what they can do about it, how they can reduce the amount of it. Let’s see what trash people have in different countries. Sometimes, it can be a fun to look through someone’s trash bin.
By the way, this video has over 111,000 views. And it appeared on YouTube only a day ago.
– Hi, I'm Aria and I'm in Los Angeles.
– Hi, I'm Aishwarya and I live in Mumbai.
– My name's Luisa and I live in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
– My name is Red, I live in Tokyo.
– Hi, I'm Saba and I live in Berlin.
– I'm Giovanni and I'm from Mexico City.
What does trash look like around the world?
– I wanted to see what trash looked like around the world. So I contacted six BuzzFeeders at offices around the globe to go about their week and throw away things as they normally would, and at the end of the week to empty out their trash and just to sort it and see what sort of trash they're producing and how they could potentially reduce their waste.
Time to sort!
– Whoa.
Aishwarya: Let's put all the plastic on one side.
Luisa: Plastic. Plastic. Plastic.
Red: So many plastic bottles.
Aria: So that's more plastic here.
Aishwarya: Plastic, it just really stinks a lot right now.
Saba: Make it stop, make it stop. Why is there so much trash?
One week’s worth of trash.
Red: So, here’s the trash I made this week. We got plastic bottles. There’s a lot of paper trash. I don’t do any sorting stuff.
Giovanni: Here in Mexico, we don't separate trash that often. Finally, I take my trash out, and it was weird for me because it was, like, a weird week because I invited some friends and we had beers. I eat a lot of chips, and I realized I make a lot of trash.
Aria: I guess we don't really realize how much trash we do. It tends to gather and build over the course of a week. And this was a week that I would consider a light week, in terms of me being at home. I didn't do very much at home. For a light week, I'd say that's a fairly sizeable chunk.
Aishwarya: Now, honestly, I'm very surprised at all the plastic that I've collected, because I’m totally not into packaged. Like, I'm into a healthy lifestyle, so at home I wouldn't collect a lot of packaged foods and stuff like that, but I guess, I'm not as sustainable as I though I was.
Saba: There is lots of cat food wrappers and ice cream wrappers, too, because it was very hot these past days. Juice cartons. Also, this packaging for vegetables and salads and grapes. I don't know if it's a lot. Some of it is probably not necessary.
Luisa: This is the waste that I've produced during the week. In total, I think it is a lot. And I think it wouldn't be such a big problem if we knew that all the recyclable parts would be actually recycled.
Just 9% of the plastic produced in the world actually gets recycled. – Science Advances, 2017.
Saba: I guess I could definitely work on myself. Less takeout, more cooking, but if I cook, then I should also pay attention to how the vegetables and the salad and everything else, all the ingredients are wrapped. You can do better, Saba – it’s my conclusion to this.
Red: So, if I threw this out like this, it’s really bad for the environment. So I guess, what I can do is to sort my trash. And maybe use water bottles instead of buying bottled water.
Luisa: Even if you don't produce a lot of trash, you can always reduce it.
Aishwarya: When I buy a product, I never think about the material it's made of. I mostly just think about my convenience. And I feel like now, I'm gonna be more aware and mindful about the kind of trash I'm making. I think everyone should just life one step at a time, and if everyone does it, then it's definitely gonna be a great, great future ahead.
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