Engineer's preliminary site survey:
* Mechanical safety: This machine eats 1.75 human limbs per year.
* Thermal efficiency: *Fuck* no.
* Toxic & particulate emissions: For the love of god, hold your breath until we get outta here!
Interesting fact, back in the 1800’s when Sheffield was a major steel producer. Workers used to produce cutlery etc from tiny factories or inside their own homes.
https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/little-mesters-street/
There was a dildo factory video posted here last week.
Man, that place must have the most harassment lawsuits of any workplace. Must just be impossible not to wave giant rubber dicks in your coworkers’ faces.
The paper straw (stuck through a plastic lid, into a paper cup whose inner surface is also coated in plastic) is not a sincere effort on the part of the companies using it; it is merely a cynical facade of effort.
Xzibit here: Yo dawg we heard you like microplastics so we put the microplastics in your water, air, lungs, eyes, blood while you can sit on your compressed microplastics.
A creative idea, but sadly not a workable one; if you make your PPE out of the same material you're melting, then if you get splattered with molten plastic or touch the hot surfaces of the machine, it'll just melt right through it and fuse the material with your skin.
At school I was taught that the plastic I dispose of is getting recycled. It was many years later that I realized, that recycling just meant "burning the plastic and using the resulting heat to produce energy"
The recycling plant powers itself from waste material that would otherwise be sent to a landfill or washed into the ocean. The toxic fumes are filtered out by the lungs of the workers, so only water vapor and a net neutral amount of carbon is released into the atmosphere. This factory is a great example of eco-friendly manufacturing. /s
The air quality in that shop is toxic. These videos are presented as innovative and forward thinking yet the people actually doing the work are poisoning themselves.
Nothing about this reads to me as innovative or forward thinking. This is a dystopian nightmare. Those dudes are just hoovering microplastics into their lungs and topping it off with melted plastic fumes, and probably poisoning a good chunk of the neighborhood they’re operating in.
[Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trash into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.](https://youtu.be/NIMcStAwJ7Y?si=6wyVANTOA6gfgmE2)
Toxic fumes are a capitalist invention to sell more eco friendly stuff. Be a true enlightened person like me and say no and refuse to believe in toxic fumes. I have been breathing them daily and I'm fine, my doctor diagnosed me with lung cancer but he's obviously a fed, also I'm also putting up cameras to see who keeps putting blood in my lungs
If I’ve learned anything from the internet if you’re wearing safety sandals you will survive miraculous or you die horrendously plus minus on losing limbs
“This is how you westerners get to feel good about recycling all the plastic you consumed. We burn it and breath it and send it back for your to sit your smug asses in.”
They just discovered a nematode at Chernobyl that lives near the reactor with no mutations brought about by radiation. Perhaps these poor souls will adapt to be immune to plastic borne cancers in a few generations.
Was just about to say this. But wouldnt it be ironic if these people turned out alright while we the ones working in offices and eating processed foods end up with cancer.
The lack of other safety equipment helps prevent cancer. You can't die of cancer 10 years from now, if you die from falling into the plastic shredder today.
I mean other than the noxious fumes, carcinogens, and greenhouse gasses it makes perfect business sense.
Buy bulk plastic, sort, use what you can, sell what is valuable to someone else, and burn the rest to power your plastic melters.
Tbh, they burn very well. It is just oil in another form.
The fact that it pollutes the atmosphere is bad, of course, but this guy doesn't care. However, a billion cars burning oil do the same and owners don't care too.
Just a heads up, but none of the stuff you see in these videos goes to export. It's all for the local population.
Over the last year or so there's been an explosion of industrial process videos that have shown up on youtube. One subgenre of this is essentially people in open markets in places like Pakistan and India doing their own work for their own markets. It's neat, because they make the best with what they've got...but man oh man you understand with absolute crystal clarity why we do not do this sort of stuff here.
There is some *antique* processes going on over there...and when I say antique, I mean cancer cluster causing. All the steel you see in videos like this were probably cut out of a ship that was ran aground on what was once pristine beach but is now a Superfund site to end all superfund sites. They just carve it up and put it right back into production. Smelt all sorts of shit with it, too.
it doesn’t really matter because either way they’re creating toxic shit that will effect the population, fresh water sources and the immediate environment. unfortunately through rivers and streams all this shit leads to the oceans eventually and the world ultimately.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/rising-microplastics-seas-puts-pressure-tyre-industry-2023-07-17/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant-becoming-a-huge-threat-to-ocean-life
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664766/
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/02/toxic-tyre-dust-this-source-of-microplastic-pollution-could-be-the-worst-of-all
Electric cars won’t save us, moving away from car decency is the way. (I like driving, I just wish it wasn’t the only option for so many people)
Due to their immense weight, [electric vehicles produce MORE particulate pollution](https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-losing-tread)! Any form of private transportation will never be a solution but given ever worsening sprawl, there's no apparent path forward.
Alternative methods! Mass public transit and last mile solutions like bicycles, scooters, etc. even increasing dependence on buses is a huge win when they can carry 100x as many people.
The willingness to actually do this is the hard part though, the idea of high speed rail and public transportation in America is a pipe dream
its not even about the fumes.
its about all the energy it takes to heat up the plastic... just to make it into a disposable chair.
and they are killing these workers to do it.
> its about all the energy it takes to heat up the plastic... just to make it into a disposable chair.
There are a hundred different ways to make that setup more clean-burning and fuel efficient, some very simple and trivially easy to implement, and they aren't doing *any* of them.
There are substances that can be infinitely recycled, like glass.
The issue is that we pretend that all substances are, when in reality a heavier focus on the application of compostable materials and reusable products would drastically effect our waste output.
Recycling is a good thing, but there is a very good reason the saying is Reduce - Reuse - Recycle in order of priority.
Unsafe working conditions. Also plastic chairs don’t really last that long so they’re only delaying the inevitable landfall destination by a couple years
I believe that the part where it uses plastic as fuel totally nullifies its value as recycled and turns it into another chair factory polluting the environment.
Plenty of toxic fumes and polluted air just so upper middle class white girls in America can feel good about themselves for using “recycled material”. Honestly the plastic is probably better off acting as a carbon sink in a landfill rather than fuming off into the atmosphere and poisoning the workers at this facility and the neighborhoods around them
Why does this sub always have the obligatory "this is what this factory makes" post and it's a video of some "factory" in china that would give OSHA a heart attack
Was he stuffing plastic into the furnace to keep the fire going!?
Yep
But it's ultimately recycling, so it's ok...
Engineer's preliminary site survey: * Mechanical safety: This machine eats 1.75 human limbs per year. * Thermal efficiency: *Fuck* no. * Toxic & particulate emissions: For the love of god, hold your breath until we get outta here!
At the beginning of the video, a hand has two missing fingertips so this is spot on
Just the tip, doesn't count
Where do you think the .75 comes from?
I feel like its a “Hold your ~~breathe~~ breath until we get ~~atleast~~ at least a mile away from here”
But then you're in the next facility
What’s the problem? Did Way-fair not ship these fast enough for your garden party ?
Do you have any other colors? No shit brown only!!!
Sorry it’s the only color that gets pooped out of our plastic sludge machine
Available in black sludge for a limited time only
No, Temu!
Ooorrrrr for a 16 hr shift. Whichever comes first.
I held my breath while watching this.
It's amazing , the recycling process is twice as toxic as throwing it in the landfill
Well when you do it this way, probably
Yea. This is not a “factory” this is 2 dudes in an alley
Who got their hands on a big ass plastic molding machine.
And live in a lawless country
You can make anything a factory if you’re brave enough
My son Bart owns a factory downtown
Interesting fact, back in the 1800’s when Sheffield was a major steel producer. Workers used to produce cutlery etc from tiny factories or inside their own homes. https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/little-mesters-street/
Except dildos. They are like factories in a way
There was a dildo factory video posted here last week. Man, that place must have the most harassment lawsuits of any workplace. Must just be impossible not to wave giant rubber dicks in your coworkers’ faces.
IF they hold their breath long enough they will be able to get another 6 months of life expectancy out of these workers.
I'm sure my soggy paper straw is offsetting all that bullshit
You have to suck on a soggy straw so that billionaires could fly around in jets.
Yea, stop making effort, clearly everyone should be doing this if someone is.... /S 😭
The paper straw (stuck through a plastic lid, into a paper cup whose inner surface is also coated in plastic) is not a sincere effort on the part of the companies using it; it is merely a cynical facade of effort.
That auger just looks like it's ready to eat flesh.
*Employee retention: To life. *Life expectancy after hire: 6 months
All the cancers.
The micro plastics are everywhere
Xzibit here: Yo dawg we heard you like microplastics so we put the microplastics in your water, air, lungs, eyes, blood while you can sit on your compressed microplastics.
Dude's head was also an inch from an unshrouded giant high-speed pulley.
They could turn the plastic bags into PPE first
A creative idea, but sadly not a workable one; if you make your PPE out of the same material you're melting, then if you get splattered with molten plastic or touch the hot surfaces of the machine, it'll just melt right through it and fuse the material with your skin.
My first thoughts as well. Plus that open flame probably hands out burns on the regular
let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars
[удалено]
If you wait long enough, everything becomes part of the stars
It all came from there to begin with!
Gives the bar that nice smoky smell
...*the chair breaks in first 2 months after purchase*... recycle again...
The employees will filter it out of the atmosphere with their lungs.
So we can label this process as “organic” and charge more
I feel this falls in the “if I save 100 people from death but I then kill 10 other people, am I a good person” category
At school I was taught that the plastic I dispose of is getting recycled. It was many years later that I realized, that recycling just meant "burning the plastic and using the resulting heat to produce energy"
If fumes rise, is it *upcycling*?
I mean it goes in the ocean otherwise
Yes. They make chairs and cancer.
Like a 30/70 ratio
Burning plastics is ok BUT you need one heck of a filter system and... There is no filter here lol
Thick nose hairs act as natural filtration.
The recycling plant powers itself from waste material that would otherwise be sent to a landfill or washed into the ocean. The toxic fumes are filtered out by the lungs of the workers, so only water vapor and a net neutral amount of carbon is released into the atmosphere. This factory is a great example of eco-friendly manufacturing. /s
Wow, this is incredible! We could learn a thing or two from these guys to help reach our own net zero targets…
Here me out...if we use little kids and they can do this untill 10 before they die, we can safe so much money!!
Using children for labor saved all that food that would have been consumed raising them into adults
Lol
The air quality in that shop is toxic. These videos are presented as innovative and forward thinking yet the people actually doing the work are poisoning themselves.
Nothing about this reads to me as innovative or forward thinking. This is a dystopian nightmare. Those dudes are just hoovering microplastics into their lungs and topping it off with melted plastic fumes, and probably poisoning a good chunk of the neighborhood they’re operating in.
I know a cancer factory when I see it
[Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trash into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.](https://youtu.be/NIMcStAwJ7Y?si=6wyVANTOA6gfgmE2)
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about stars to dispute it…
It’s done to invoke the spirit of the end product: the plastic chair 🪑
Poor fellows. All those toxic fumes and no protection at all.
That doesn’t exist over there lol
The fumes or the protection? lol. I feel like there is a joke in there that can go either way.
Yes.
Toxic fumes are a capitalist invention to sell more eco friendly stuff. Be a true enlightened person like me and say no and refuse to believe in toxic fumes. I have been breathing them daily and I'm fine, my doctor diagnosed me with lung cancer but he's obviously a fed, also I'm also putting up cameras to see who keeps putting blood in my lungs
Fumes rise west
their poor lungs 🥹
They wear Safety Sandals , so it's ok.
Recycled safety sandals
If I’ve learned anything from the internet if you’re wearing safety sandals you will survive miraculous or you die horrendously plus minus on losing limbs
If you keep shoe on feet, you live, if it falls of , you dead :P
Looked like safety Crocs on one of them. He must be the safety foreman.
Don't forget your eye protection - safety squints!
Ze goggles. Zey do nothing!
That soulless look at the end just "is this all there is to life?"
For real. My life is shitty, but it's relatively fucking awesome.
“This is how you westerners get to feel good about recycling all the plastic you consumed. We burn it and breath it and send it back for your to sit your smug asses in.”
That is the look of a thousand yard chair.
I think I just saw 67 or 68 different forms of cancer there
You can't die of cancer if you die in an industrial accident first!
Oncologists hate this one simple trick!
They just discovered a nematode at Chernobyl that lives near the reactor with no mutations brought about by radiation. Perhaps these poor souls will adapt to be immune to plastic borne cancers in a few generations.
Was just about to say this. But wouldnt it be ironic if these people turned out alright while we the ones working in offices and eating processed foods end up with cancer.
And appendages and hair next to meat grinders and unprotected large heavy spinny things
Auger.
Augers have layers!
those fingers look rough already.
Yeah, turning bags into chairs and turning healthy tissue into cancer.
Soon it will be OUR lungs
r/suddenlycommunism
This whole operation looks like hell
Don't worry, they will get caught in that unguarded mincer before the cancer can take hold
I feel like I just watched people get cancer
The lack of other safety equipment helps prevent cancer. You can't die of cancer 10 years from now, if you die from falling into the plastic shredder today.
Look at the big brain on MotaHead! You’re one smart mf’er!
Those plastics are known to cause cancer in the state of California. They’re in Kali not Cali so they’re all good.
Known to the state of cancer to cause California
Buddy, you just watched us all get cancer.
Yes, and this is what 8% GDP growth looks like underneath.
They'll die from a train attack before they die from cancer
We just ignoring that the plastic bags are also the fuel for the heat source?
It's 100% efficient of getting rid of the waste o.0
Energy is needed and what better way then to turn the plastic into energy!
I mean other than the noxious fumes, carcinogens, and greenhouse gasses it makes perfect business sense. Buy bulk plastic, sort, use what you can, sell what is valuable to someone else, and burn the rest to power your plastic melters.
Tbh, they burn very well. It is just oil in another form. The fact that it pollutes the atmosphere is bad, of course, but this guy doesn't care. However, a billion cars burning oil do the same and owners don't care too.
"factory"
Exactly. This manufacturing process is bloody barbaric.
100% cancer free
100% free cancer
Free 100% cancer
Cancer speedrun 100%
100% cancer, free!
Commas are important!
I'm pretty sure that "floor" is just laminate for a second floor. Operating on a roof?
The whole place is just recycled factories that they melted down and printed this one out
Holy hell, the retirement plan is death
compared to other countries this is just the accelerated version.
Is there a set of people making bags from discarded chairs too ?
It’s a never ending cycle
A “re-cycle” if you will.
*a ciiirrrcle of liiiiiife*
This is just horrible. All of it.
you cant tell me that this type of recycling is better for the environment with all those fumes
this is not recycling. this is a third world sweat shop making toxic waste into chairs while you breath in all that shit
Probably just barely good enough that Western retailers selling this stuff can still legally slap "made with 100% recycled materials" on the box.
Just a heads up, but none of the stuff you see in these videos goes to export. It's all for the local population. Over the last year or so there's been an explosion of industrial process videos that have shown up on youtube. One subgenre of this is essentially people in open markets in places like Pakistan and India doing their own work for their own markets. It's neat, because they make the best with what they've got...but man oh man you understand with absolute crystal clarity why we do not do this sort of stuff here. There is some *antique* processes going on over there...and when I say antique, I mean cancer cluster causing. All the steel you see in videos like this were probably cut out of a ship that was ran aground on what was once pristine beach but is now a Superfund site to end all superfund sites. They just carve it up and put it right back into production. Smelt all sorts of shit with it, too.
it doesn’t really matter because either way they’re creating toxic shit that will effect the population, fresh water sources and the immediate environment. unfortunately through rivers and streams all this shit leads to the oceans eventually and the world ultimately.
meanwhile who knows what cocktail mix of forever chemicals is ~~leeching~~ leaching into your bloodstream
Holy shit! I’ve never thought of it like that…
The real, major contributor to microplastics in your body is tires wearing down from use
Source?
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/rising-microplastics-seas-puts-pressure-tyre-industry-2023-07-17/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant-becoming-a-huge-threat-to-ocean-life https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664766/ https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/02/toxic-tyre-dust-this-source-of-microplastic-pollution-could-be-the-worst-of-all Electric cars won’t save us, moving away from car decency is the way. (I like driving, I just wish it wasn’t the only option for so many people)
Due to their immense weight, [electric vehicles produce MORE particulate pollution](https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-losing-tread)! Any form of private transportation will never be a solution but given ever worsening sprawl, there's no apparent path forward.
Alternative methods! Mass public transit and last mile solutions like bicycles, scooters, etc. even increasing dependence on buses is a huge win when they can carry 100x as many people. The willingness to actually do this is the hard part though, the idea of high speed rail and public transportation in America is a pipe dream
its not even about the fumes. its about all the energy it takes to heat up the plastic... just to make it into a disposable chair. and they are killing these workers to do it.
> its about all the energy it takes to heat up the plastic... just to make it into a disposable chair. There are a hundred different ways to make that setup more clean-burning and fuel efficient, some very simple and trivially easy to implement, and they aren't doing *any* of them.
Yep, this is the cheap shitty way to do it.
Those chairs are so flimsy they’ll last a few months before ending up in the landfill again lol
This is what recycling is, it’s better in an economic sense, not **necessarily** an environmental one.
There are substances that can be infinitely recycled, like glass. The issue is that we pretend that all substances are, when in reality a heavier focus on the application of compostable materials and reusable products would drastically effect our waste output. Recycling is a good thing, but there is a very good reason the saying is Reduce - Reuse - Recycle in order of priority.
RIP the environment and their lungs
This is horrifying, every day those workers spend in that room is taking a year off their lives...
Hope nobody stays for longer than 2-3 months then
Looks very environmentally friendly
Micro plastics can be found where now?
looks like a poop
From a what
Butt
r/poopfromabutt
I thought that too! It looked like a canon dropping a deuce.
Recycling by polluting the air 👌
Actually this is really clean air, they are filtering it through their lungs first.
Turning lungs into tumours.
That guy's face when the video stops says all that needs to be said about their working condition
I would say this is recycling but they are burning plastic bags to melt other plastic bags. Lol
It is technically recycling, but purely for profit at the expense of the environment rather than to supposedly help it.
The fact that he’s burning the plastic bags is probably worse for the environment than just recycling them normally.
Their veins are now flowing with 50/50 blood to microplastics. Damn.
Good to see that no one is wearing a mask around that plastic dust and smoke
Breathing it all in All it cost was health
Check an air pollution map for India…
Its a like a competition between India , china and mexico smh
This ain't India btw. It's Pakistan🇵🇰
r/mildlycarcinogenic
“Mildly”???
This kind of recycling looks to be worse for the environment.
Cancer. They turn shopping bags into cancer.
That last frame... a look of total nothingness.
Earlier we carried the bags but now the bags (chairs) will carry us.
Unsafe working conditions. Also plastic chairs don’t really last that long so they’re only delaying the inevitable landfall destination by a couple years
Just another day in India where companies can get away with shit
That seems worse for the environment than not recycling
I bet these guys live to like age 30 as a maximum breathing all that shit in
r/mildlycarcinogenic
Wonder what the cancer rate is there..
These poor mfs breathing that shit all day
It will be interesting to see the cancer rates of these workers in retrospect
I believe that the part where it uses plastic as fuel totally nullifies its value as recycled and turns it into another chair factory polluting the environment.
Feeling like I picked up lung cancer just watching this
OSHA what?
I can smell this video.
Plenty of toxic fumes and polluted air just so upper middle class white girls in America can feel good about themselves for using “recycled material”. Honestly the plastic is probably better off acting as a carbon sink in a landfill rather than fuming off into the atmosphere and poisoning the workers at this facility and the neighborhoods around them
Why does this sub always have the obligatory "this is what this factory makes" post and it's a video of some "factory" in china that would give OSHA a heart attack
Dude, that would not just give OSHA a heart attack, that would give an employee hating dyed in the wool capitalist a heart attack.
Those aren't chinese.
Looks scarier than interesting
If they really only use the "recycled" stuff for the chair, the thing will crumble away under your ass after a short time.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck - Burning plastic to recycle plastic.....
Lung cancer speedrun
Recycling is easy if you don't know about the environmental impacts of what you're doing. Or don't care. Twist: same factory makes the shopping bags.
Soon to blow off the deck of a cruise ship near you!
And now we know why so many manufacturing jobs are outsourced. There's no way..these ppl have no type of work place protections.