MAKING MONEY: Recycling - Turning waste into valuable raw materials | WELT Documentary
Gold-rush atmosphere in the recycling industry, waste as an economic engine. Every year, 40 million metric tons of waste end up in the trash cans of German households. Thanks to strict regulations and precise specifications for waste separation, this waste is turned into new raw materials.
Paper fibers can be re-used up to seven times. In addition, the production of recovered paper uses considerably less water and energy than the production of virgin fiber paper. Thanks to state-of-the-art sorting machines equipped with infrared sensors and magnets, up to 150 million metric tons of scrap metal can now be recycled each year.
According to official statistics, the German recycling industry has generated sales of around 11.4 billion euros in recent years. The documentary provides insights into a booming industry and shows how raw materials are extracted from rich waste.
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This is by far the best recycling documentary I have ever watched. It really shows the potential of recycling once infrastructure is in place.
I'm proud of the effort Germany has spent in addressing the recycling & garbage needs. They've set a good example many other countries can follow!
I'm SO glad I found this channel, I haven't stopped watching in two whole days. I'm stuck in bed sick, to be clear, not unemployed. These documentaries are like discovery channel used to be decades ago : flat facts and process description without all the fake drama and reality TV nonsense you see now. I also deeply appreciate seeing the iconic German adherence to regulations; it makes my OCD purr like a kitten. Recycling is normally a lazily and sloppily executed redirection to dumping in asia, but Germany does recycling correctly. 70% reclamation is incredibly impressive! Thank you for posting this.
Isn't it amazing? I also love Welt documentaries, so informative and interesting. I hope you recover soon
Nice to hear well done
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I fuss over my recycled items: rinsing out bottles, cans, separating food waste, yes, removing foil from yogurt containers 😀 I like the OCD purring too🤜🤛
i am from vietnam country. i love this. i looking for signification in nowaday. Today is not for new manufacture, is for re-manufacture.
I was stationed in Germany for 2 years, their recycling is incredible. Those gelbesacks I remember sorting. Great country, nice people and history. I miss it.
Amazing. I am simply blown away. It makes me happy to see that all this waste is being Recycled. I wished we had something like this in America.
I love to see solutions and ideas instead of ongoing coverage of problems!
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Yup! Everyone talks about problems but few talk about solutions 💡
Exactly! Enough with the virtue singling and on with the solutions
Say it again bro most news is about problems and it's not good news all the time
I remember German politicians promising this back in the 1980's. Awesome too see their words in action 40 years on.
your polititians were and are really done job... we still have only words and slogans sky high from my 40 years so why its unfair international injustice uno.
Kudos to the germans. This is what I always thought, that we can find ways of making money by saving the planet. This is incredibly intelligent. It creates a lot of jobs and you almost recuperate 100% of garbage waste. You guys set an example to follow by many other countries. I mean, this documentary gives me hope in what humans can do to save this planet. Kudos again. I can't congratulate you guys enough. This is incredible engineering 👏👏 👌.
They are not the first, I have been making money from a Canadian Recycling initiative without having to touch a piece of metal. I encourage everyone of us to invest in recycling and support genuine recycling initiative. I have been investing in recycling for two years now. Although the profit are not what I expected but is it worth it, contributing to sustainability is worth it, you should be part of it too. I will be willing to guide you.
Yip the world would have been better if they had won the war
This is amazing- why is any refuse still going to landfill? I watched similar videos about complete recycling centres in Norway and Africa I believe, and was astonished by the quantities of recoverable materials and the incinerator’s ability to produce energy. Unfortunately they can’t use anything already dumped into landfills because it would release too much methane.
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Did anyone mention this to Captain Trudeau? Maybe some should of. G7 would have been a great time to save the planet .How about Thunderbird she lives close to Germany. She never said nothing about this to save on climate change. I wonder why. I just came across this while on a search for something else. Wonderful job Germany , why aren't you screaming this from the hill tops?
Incredibly well done documentary !! The explanations, the narrations, the entire process is shown to us and explained in a clear, concise manner. The technology is incredible !!! The best documentary I've seen regarding garbage and recycling.
Excellent video. As a Materials Scientist I worked in the aluminium recycling industry. All scrap aluminium can be recycled. Adding silicon and copper gives diecastable alloys We made about 50 tons a day of recycled aluminium, increasing the value of the metal 3 fold. All materials can be either recycled or converted to heat/electricity. Even human excrement is used as fertiliser in China. Only affluent countries have huge tips wasting all these valuable materials. We need people with business acumen and a desire to do the right thing.Australia here, has some correct people doing the work correctly.
Can we have a discussion on working together?
I would be interested in the conversation with you two also, I already own a trash Recycling Company
Im wondering if any of U guys are doing plastic to fuel pyrolysis?
Remember: Repair and reuse is better for the environment than producing and shipping new devices! When it comes to basic devices like toasters, blenders, portable vacuum cleaners and other low tech things that never really go obsolete, repair is often easy. A toaster still works exactly like it did 50 years ago. So does a vacuum cleaner, and so does a microwave oven. They all still use the same kind of technology, and they all have reached their maximum level of efficiency decades ago. The first step should always be repair. That's why it is so important that we make sure that manufacturers don't make it impossible to repair things. A screwed together kitchen blender is trivial to repair, while a clipped or glued together model can barely be opened without damaging the plastic. Only when repair isn't realistically possible anymore (for instance, a cheap device with burnt out motor windings), the device should be scrapped and recycled. I wish the government would focus more on preventing devices from being scrapped and new ones from being produced. Even starting from recyled materials, producing a new device produces a lot of emissions.
It's indeed the case for almost all electronics. However, when we are talking about old refrigerators, fridges, washing machines and dryers its often better to replace them with new energy efficient ones, as the energy savings outway the negatives of buying a new product.
@@student8557 Aaaaaaaaaaa no. The difference between a fresh device compared to a old fridge i have from bosch made in the 90 is barely a few KW A YEAR! Keep in mind, a few kw extra a year. Now u tell me how much a new bosch fridge pollutes to manufacture and how much the old one will pollute as noone recycles styrofoam.
Hard to do when firms like Apple are allowed to create billions of products with a 5 year life span or they intentionally slow your device with updates to force you to keep spending money. Nokia phones from the 90,s still work today. And to top it of they intentionally design products that is as hard as possible to repair to again force more money from your pockets.
The manufacturers don't like this idea 😒
I am german, and I know very well our system: gelber Sack, Restmüll, Biotonne, ...Recyclinghof... but I never saw a documentation of the recycling process like this one! Great inside view! thanks!
Personally, I found this documentary absolutely fascinating. I am sure other countries do similar but this seems about the best I have seen on the internet, what a great job these people do and what a great job the machinery does too, I found the work looks really interesting and the processes fascinating. Thanks so very much for this, really brilliant.
Check out the waste management in Singapore as well. It's another new level there as well. They built a new island through waste and drinking water from sewage waste.
Its for half off europe!
And how much of Germany's rubbish is exported? Dad said that there were containers of rubbish being brought into Poland - mainly from the UK and Germany.
One of the most comprehensive and varied recycling documentaries I've seen! Great work. Very fascinating
One thing I love about this video is that I didn't see any housefly around ... Which means they are doing great job to keep the community clean. 👏 10K likes from me to you 😘
only if you knew, housefly are present in areas where temperature, humidity and other conditions are suitable for them, not cleanliness.
Ur efforts to recycle trashes into new valueble things is amazing, eventhough it costs a long processing.
It's profitable thou
Some huge ingenuity here. I worked in recycling for 30 years and always knew we were very innovative, for those who claim EV batteries will not be recovered, watch this space. Some electronic waste has a higher yield of valuable metals, than mined material, it is literally gold dust.
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This. We need much more of complete solutions like this!
I live in Germany and this is a very favorable look at what is happening. There are talks to abolish the yellow bags because less than 10% is actually recycled to something new. The rest is burried or burnt because for decades the Chinese took it out of our hands and since 2018 they don't want it anymore. We are drowning in plastic. I was glad to see that something can be done with the burnt stuff. The best is what France did - make companies cut done on the use of plastic in their packaging in the first place.
Now I know why the most of my recycling is going from Denmark to Germany. I have often seen the Remondis trucks on the Danish roads. Fascinating.
It's a shame that the United States can not recycle the same way as in this video.
called the ameeeiccan dream buy it dont like it dump it
Too much effort for them. And they probably don't think it'll make them enough money. And America is meant to be the biggest and best at everything.
The facilities in this video don't recycle the way the video says they do.
We have a lot to learn
I am amazed by these facilities and I applaud the talented engineers and trades people who organized and built these..
Incredable and fantastic. A very good video showing what humans can do when they put their minds to it. Well done Germany.
I am a Pakistani and am always impressed with german people and their technology. German people are very intelligent, hard workers and take a lot of pride in whatever they manufacture ( Mercedez Benz and heavy-duty machinery) also very careful of the environment. The rest of the countries should learn from them who should be recycling their trash and making money out of trash. My two cents
Naim as a german poor guy i tell you that it doesnt work so lovely here as in your countries. Everything is forbidden - you need dozens of gov. papers and so on. Its theft to take some elektronic waste from this stations, even if you ask... i could tell so much more, but its hard. Cooking on the market to make an outcome? Forget it. EVERYTHING forbidden...Keep it the way you make it in Pk..... Its lovely as i see it in some videos on YT. Germany is cold and heartless......
That's because they are White people. Thinkers. Doers.
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They are not radicalism ..they will not kill with boms..they use technology for better living..not for particular religion
This is probably only their like 5% trash in Germany, the rest of unrecyclable trash was send to another country.. most of Europe country did this, they are hypocrite.. and they don't want people to know..
The most valuable people are the designers and developers of these systems and machinery. Absolutely brilliant automation!
Good morning for all of you in this channel. I’m so happy seeing for the first time this documentary. If every country in this planet Earth willing to do this the planet will be more clean and safe for all human beings. Congrats to Germany and their people. ❤❤
Back in the days when there was the first pilot project in Germany to collect plastics and metals in the yellow bags or bins it took place in my little village and the neighbouring town. Since then to sort out valuable materials is in my blood. I am not longer living in Germany... but this technology makes me still proud of the inventors and workers... and the people who are aware of the problem and taking care each day of their lives!!!😁👍
Excellent documentary. Watched it in one sitting which is rare for me especially given the length of the video
Very wise decision! Very respectful of the environment!
I loved everything about this, I'm surprised with the similarities between this and our systems here in the UK, our recycling centres even look the same, but my local authority and none that I have heard of re-sell the usable goods that have been taken to the recycling centre. This is absolutely fantastic and I wish everybody had to recycle and re-use this way!! Fantastic video, new subscriber here👍
Wow! this is an in depth look into Germany's recycling ! phenomenal! made me feel hopeful for the future of the planet!
This is very amazing ... Great job Germany Good bless all you workers your appreciated. 🎉
As an Italian, who recycle everything since the 80s (Italy is the country who recycles the most in Europe) I’m always shocked when I get in Berlin, where NOBODY RECYCLES anything... shocking.
I agree with oil prices so high, getting oil from trash is a great idea
It's a shame that this is an exception globally. Even in the EU such efficiency is extremely rare
If everyone recycled like they are supposed to, things would run a lot smoother and the world would be a little better off. It’s not the end all to be all, but it certainly helps. But like everything , some people are doing the heavy lifting for those who are too lazy, or just don’t care, to do the right thing. There’s way too many adult children out there these days!
Recycling is no less complicated than manufacturing a gadget. But Recycling is ultimate answer to save the environment. Recycling will be economical ultimately and supply the metals without further mining.
Very good video, and interesting, usually I do not watch a video this long. I myself recycle my paper, cardboard boxes and of course everything else that can be recycled. Wish to see another one of your great videos, and of course the country of Germany keep up the magnificent work you are doing.
30 years ago the Recycling starts in Germany in the households, at home we sort out and separate the stuff. Now its for us total normal.
very intresting business and Valuable also.Every country should follow this methods.
Thanks to the manufacturers of the machinery used at the recycling centers. It would’ve been great if the video had the names of those manufacturers.
Wow the Germans have so much o teach us, in the west about recycling. So called land fills are just so archaic. I've noted in years past that one day we would come back to mine these land fills. I think the time is now!!
Running a thrift store, its interestign to see a municipality running what I do as a private business. Second hand stores is a good option if something isn't junk but its being replaced, allowing for a second life, shame people treat it like a dump sometimes or even like everything should be free.
This documentary deserves 100M views
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absolutely great film!
Very informative and educational indeed......! Danke.....!
Well done to Germany for doing a good job for the future. I just hope other countries do the same recycle everything one day . As our land around people are filled up with rubbish…
Incredible technology 👍💪😊🐝
The sad part is that most of these electronics are still operational and useable, people just want new stuff.
Recycling is complex but the amount effort and technology these companies invest in is outstanding..
Robotics will change the game for the recycling industry.
Superb recycling processes.😊
We need this where I live!
Thank you for everything you do to recycle. I recycle cans get on the road every day.
Este es uno de los mejores documentales de reciclaje, hay futuro con el reciclaje
We Owe the workers and these plants alot of respect and Thanks or we might just be living in a world of Garbage if it was not for them Thank you very much.
Super informative video!!! I learned so much, thank you 4 sharing :-):-):-)
Such a interesting video , i havent thought of this process
i live in minneapolis minnesota.all our trash is picked up by the city.big metal items are sometimes removed by the "scrappers" who drive around in pick up trucks and take junk they take to the scrap yards.the city takes everything in the bins without question and we have recycle bins for glass,plastic bottles and such.on the edge of downtown there is a garbage burner thats makes steam for electric power. i think this "we take everything" system results in a clean city where you don't see stuff dumped by the road or tossed in the river.
We even recicle brown, green and white glass seperate in different bins 😉
a documentary like this but for cars/trucks would be something i watch not seen many of them around sadly
The good part is 10 percent of people are trying their best to recycle and clean the world up the sad part is 90 percent of people are just don't give a toss sort of additude to recycle and clean up the world
This was a amazing documentary!
This can only be far better than just using for landfill. Pity UK seems to be ignorant of such practises. We separate our waste for recycling, but then only 5% is actually recycled, the rest is shipped out to elsewhere? Plus providing employment at the same time. All of our wheelie bins are made in Germany, presumably from previous garbage.
Customers MUST pay to dispose of their materials that are brought to the centers; it is not a free-dump-all option. However, Germany does ROCK on this rule and process. It MUST become National Policy for Nations.
Smart decision to integrate waste management into industry and materials engineering
Every country should have these garbage plant machines!!! MANDATORY!!!
The recycling processes shown in this video are interesting!
At 37.40 he says 700,000 tons per day. AMAZING. This would have to be approximately 10 football fields say 10 metres red s high of waste. He does say it is for Munich so that is plausible. The German people certainly are at the forefront of technology. I am impressed. Technically everything is revocable even human urine or hospital waste. Humans owe it to nature to do the right thing and not pollute the environment. 40
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It is remarkable how recycling works in Germany. In Portugal, people throw furniture anywhere and there are no places to discard large appliances.
I am really happy seeing that people is now looking into recycling business deeper, I have been investing in recycling business company since 2 years now and it is a great and profitable business company this option is open for every one.
Wow what a niche piece of technology, wish Germany exports such tech to everyone in world
Very Valuable Information , Thank You
All of the companies that manufacture these products should be made to pay for recycling plants like this in every country around the world.
germany i think you need to share ung technology all around the world
Best documentary ever
Extraordinary marvelious
Recycling Science is a good thing to pursue. It's innovation and can create new industries or manufacturing...
Like the German recycling centre, most of us have a nearby recycling centre is the uk. After we separate plastic, wood, metal, appliances etc. I really hope we are doing this in the uk. I also take soft plastic wrapping to the supermarket who very reluctantly empty the bins. I don't see many other people doing this. Even though a strong plastic bag is now 20 pence, a significant minority don't reuse their shopping bags. When I look at products that I buy, many claim to use a percentage of plastic. It's slow progress.
I'm from Brazil and unfortunately people carry family selling recycling stuff. I try do my best, even melting same Collor and taking papers of plastic for them. I hope it makes some difference.
In Europe we like recycling stuff.
Great job. These companies should make contracts with other countries to build such factories for waste revival.
Another excellent video... If us Canadian's would pull our heads out of the sand...:):):)
if people pre-sorted the stuff into different bins or bags on the front side of the input stream it would make it mush less inefficient at the waste sorting stage // making the combustion cleaner burning too // enabling gold & copper & silver recovery rates to increase & to reduce other water & air pollution emissions! Basically if you educate the public & give them the tools & means to do a better job sorting their trash & recycling, that could improve the downstream processes at the waste incineration & e-waste recycling etc //
Why does that tank only have one bolt on the manway cover?
Japan and Germany , two former axis nation that have better concern on waste disposal compare to their old enemies
So glad to see this 😊
There are plenty of reusable items even in this video i can see. Why Germany can’t initiate a reusable products mall rather recycling all? Even in 3R, we have Refuse, Reuse, Recycle Before recycling we should see what items we can reuse. Please consider.
This is such a good news and great trend. Let’s hope it grows in quantity and quality faster than trash itself soonest everywhere around the World, especially Bangkok where I made this wish.
Thanks For upload, love to see you shows about garbage
The whole world needs more factory recycling plants so old waste becomes new alternatives helping the whole planet, economy sales and others works this way.
Fascinating documentary, but it is worth noting that even Germany's trash is mostly going to third world countries where it fills landfills with low safety standards and where it can easily go into the ground water. There are documentaries and articles about that as well. This modern technology is great, but not present everywhere.
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I have been repairing my goods myself and older appliances are much better! Also, I save on huge costs to hire someone that doesn’t have the proper tools and uses mine! People don’t know how to think and figure things out!
All good till someone that doesn’t know what they are doing gets electrocuted or burns a house down
Smart Documentary. Hello from Brunei.
the only legit recycling methods i found so far 👌
The really sad thing about so many of these electrical items is that they are perfectly good but just need repairing - often just simple repairs at that - yet modern society has such a wasteful throwaway attitude towards the things we own in not just the developed world, but in the developing world also. About 2½ decades ago I had a portable CD player stop working on me. The money to buy it had been a present from my grandmother & hadn't been a cheap item, despite having been bought duty free. I'd grown up being accustomed to being able to have things repaired rather than wastefully throw things away & so I took it in to have this done. Despite being quite prepared to pay what was necessary to have it fixed (wasn't an exorbitant amount) the repair place did their very best to talk me out of having it done on the basis of I could get a new one for similar price. I remained adamant that it be repaired and had many happy years more use out of it before it eventually fell off of its perch. The repair shop's attitude was 100% indicative of the very skewed attitude humanity has to our planet's precious resources and its ability to continue to support life on it. It has been many decades since repair shops were a completely normal part of our high streets.
This isn't happening in the US because in Germany, the government runs the recycling companies. Here they're privately owned and the regulations vary for each community. Only cans, cardboard, aluminum and glass are recycled here. Our plastic is sent to Malaysia and the rest goes into landfills. Our electronic waste has been traced to dumps in Asia.
fascinating
Amazing! I encourage everyone of us to invest in recycling and support genuine recycling initiative. I have been investing in recycling for two years now. Although the profit are not what I expected but is it worth it, contributing to sustainability is worth it, you should be part of it too. I will be willing to guide you.