DONDE ESCONDE SU BASURA CANADA? El sucio secreto del mundo | TheMXFam
Summary
TLDREl guion del video expone la cultura del consumismo desmedido y el desperdicio en Canadá, destacando que el país es líder mundial en producción de residuos per cápita. Revela que el 3 de mayo de 2016, un descubrimiento macabro en una planta de reciclaje llevó a cuestionar el destino de los desechos, que frecuentemente son enviados a países con menos regulaciones ambientales, causando un impacto negativo en el medio ambiente global. Además, el guion resalta la lucha entre Canadá y Filipinas por más de 2,500 toneladas de basura enviadas accidentalmente, y cómo este problema representa una crisis de desperdicio que afecta a todo el mundo, con una predicción alarmante de más plástico que peces en el océano para el año 2050.
Takeaways
- 🌏 La cultura del consumismo desenfrenado y el desperdicio de bienes, incluidos televisores, tabletas, muebles, computadoras y vehículos casi nuevos, es un retrato de una realidad que nos está matando.
- 🚗 Según Estadísticas Canadá, el promedio de un ciudadano canadiense descarta su vehículo antes de alcanzar los 100,000 kilómetros, lo que contribuye significativamente a la generación de residuos.
- 🗑 Canadá, con 34 millones de toneladas de basura al año, es el país que produce más residuos por habitante a nivel mundial, según el censo de 2019.
- 🏙️ A pesar de la limpieza aparente, Canadá esconde una gran cantidad de su basura fuera de sus fronteras, lo que plantea un problema ambiental global.
- 🔍 El 3 de mayo de 2016, un descubrimiento macabro en una planta de reciclaje de Toronto puso de manifiesto los problemas subyacentes del reciclaje y la gestión de residuos.
- 🚮 La paralización temporal de una planta de reciclaje en Toronto reveló la cantidad abrumadora de residuos que la ciudad genera diariamente: más de 800 toneladas.
- 🌍 Tras la prohibición china de importar residuos sólidos en 2018, Canadá y otros países ricos tuvieron que reubicar su basura a otros países de Sudeste Asiático, a menudo con regulaciones ambientales más laxas.
- 🗑️ Los países receptores de la basura de Canadá y otros, como Malasia, Indonesia, Vietnam y Filipinas, enfrentan costos ambientales que a menudo superan los ingresos obtenidos.
- 🇵🇭 El presidente de Filipinas, Rodrigo Duterte, amenazó con declarar la guerra a Canadá por más de 2,500 toneladas de basura enviadas accidentalmente, lo que generó un conflicto diplomático.
- 🚫 A medida que más países asiáticos rechazan la importación de residuos, el problema del desperdicio se desplaza hacia el océano, con una estimación de 2.8 millones de toneladas adicionales.
- 🌊 Más del 89% del plástico encontrado en el fondo del océano son plásticos de un solo uso, lo que representa una amenaza creciente para el medio ambiente marino.
- 🛃 A pesar de los esfuerzos del primer ministro de Canadá, Justin Trudeau, por imponer un impuesto especial sobre las emisiones de dióxido de carbono, el problema del desperdicio persiste y se agudiza.
Q & A
¿Cuál es la principal causa del exceso de basura en Canadá?
-La cultura de consumo excesivo y desecho rápido, donde se compran y tiran objetos casi nuevos, es la principal causa del exceso de basura en Canadá.
¿Cuánta basura produce Canadá al año?
-Canadá produce un total de 34 millones de toneladas de basura al año, lo que la convierte en el país que más basura genera per cápita en el mundo.
¿Por qué Canadá parece tan limpio a pesar de generar tanta basura?
-Canadá parece limpio porque gran parte de su basura no se queda en el país, sino que se exporta a otros países, especialmente a aquellos con bajas regulaciones ambientales.
¿Qué ocurrió en la planta de reciclaje de Canadá Fiber en mayo de 2016?
-En mayo de 2016, la planta de reciclaje Canadá Fiber en Toronto detuvo sus operaciones tras el descubrimiento de una parte de un cuerpo humano en las máquinas de reciclaje.
¿Cuál fue el impacto del cierre de la planta de reciclaje en Toronto por 24 horas?
-El cierre de la planta por 24 horas provocó que más de 800 toneladas de basura reciclable inundaran las calles de Toronto, revelando la magnitud del problema de desechos de la ciudad.
¿Qué sucedió después de que China dejó de importar basura sólida en 2018?
-Después de que China dejó de importar basura sólida en 2018, países como Canadá comenzaron a enviar sus desechos a otros países del sudeste asiático, lo que ha generado preocupación por los altos costos ambientales.
¿Por qué el presidente de Filipinas amenazó con declarar la guerra a Canadá en 2019?
-El presidente de Filipinas, Rodrigo Duterte, amenazó con declarar la guerra a Canadá en 2019 debido al envío de 2,500 toneladas de basura canadiense mal etiquetada como reciclable a su país.
¿Qué cantidad de plástico se estima que terminará en los océanos anualmente?
-Se estima que más de 8 millones de toneladas de plástico terminan en los océanos cada año, lo que equivale a un camión de basura lleno de plástico por minuto.
¿Cuál es la proporción de desechos plásticos de un solo uso en el fondo del océano?
-El 89% de los desechos plásticos encontrados en el fondo del océano son plásticos de un solo uso, como botellas de bebidas, empaques de alimentos y bolsas de plástico.
¿Qué medidas ha intentado implementar el Primer Ministro Justin Trudeau para combatir el problema de la basura?
-El Primer Ministro Justin Trudeau ha intentado implementar un nuevo impuesto especial sobre las emisiones de dióxido de carbono para abordar el problema de la basura, pero el problema persiste.
Outlines
🌍 La cultura del desperdicio y sus consecuencias
Este párrafo describe cómo la cultura de consumo excesivo y descarte rápido ha llevado a una crisis ambiental. Los canadienses descartan productos casi nuevos, lo que genera enormes cantidades de basura, alcanzando 34 millones de toneladas al año. Un incidente en una planta de reciclaje en Toronto, donde se encontró una parte de un cuerpo humano, expuso la cantidad de basura que la ciudad produce diariamente. El problema se agudizó cuando China dejó de aceptar residuos, lo que llevó a Canadá y otros países a enviar su basura a naciones del sudeste asiático, aumentando la carga ambiental en países con regulaciones más débiles.
🚨 La crisis de basura y las tensiones internacionales
Este párrafo aborda el conflicto entre Canadá y Filipinas debido a un envío accidental de 2,500 toneladas de basura canadiense a Filipinas entre 2013 y 2014. A pesar de que Canadá devolvió la basura en 2019, el problema de fondo es la enorme producción de desechos en Canadá y la práctica de exportar estos residuos a otros países, especialmente a naciones con menos recursos y regulaciones ambientales. Aunque este incidente específico se resolvió, la situación refleja una crisis mayor en la gestión de residuos a nivel global.
🌊 La huella global de los desechos canadienses
Este párrafo explica cómo Canadá sigue exportando desechos a otros países a través de triangulaciones con Estados Unidos, donde los residuos se mezclan y terminan en Asia y América Latina. A medida que más países asiáticos bloquean la importación de desechos, se espera que más basura sea arrojada al océano. Se estima que 8 millones de toneladas de plástico llegan a los océanos cada año, y para 2050, habrá más plástico que peces en el mar. A pesar de los esfuerzos del Primer Ministro Justin Trudeau para mitigar este problema con impuestos sobre las emisiones de dióxido de carbono, la situación sigue siendo crítica, destacando que la humanidad está destruyendo el único lugar que tiene para vivir.
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Keywords
💡Desechos
💡Cultura del desperdicio
💡Contaminación
💡Reciclaje
💡Desechos peligrosos
💡Garbage
💡Capital humano
💡Desarrollo sostenible
💡Exportación de desechos
💡Contaminación del océano
💡Plástico de un solo uso
Highlights
Hundreds of videos have become popular on the internet, showcasing a culture of excessive consumption and waste.
Items such as televisions, tablets, furniture, computers, and vehicles are often discarded while still almost new.
Tons of plastics and toxic materials contribute to the waste problem.
Statistics Canada reports that the average Canadian disposes of their vehicle before reaching 100,000 kilometers.
Canada produces the most garbage per capita in the world, according to the 2019 census.
The country generates 34 million tons of garbage annually, with each Canadian producing about 2.7 kg of waste daily.
Despite high waste generation, Canada appears clean due to its waste being exported.
A macabre discovery at the Canada Fiber recycling plant in Toronto brought attention to the waste issue.
The discovery of a human hand in the recycling process led to a temporary shutdown of the plant.
In just 24 hours without the recycling facility, 800 tons of garbage flooded Toronto's streets.
Canada used to ship half of its recycled waste to China, which imported 45% of the world's waste.
China's ban on solid waste imports in 2018 led to waste being redirected to Southeast Asia.
Countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are increasingly concerned about the environmental costs of waste import.
The Philippines threatened to declare war on Canada over improperly labeled and disposed of waste.
Canada's waste crisis was acknowledged by the country's own Communications Deputy Director of Environment and Climate Change.
More than half of Canada's waste is produced by industries such as mining and fishing.
Canada sends much of its garbage to the U.S., which then sends it to Mexico for recycling.
Many Asian countries are now blocking the import of waste from Canada and the U.S., leading to increased ocean dumping.
It is estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is attempting to address the waste issue with new measures, including a carbon tax.
The transcript emphasizes the human-made nature of waste and the urgent need for change to protect our environment.
Transcripts
Hundreds of videos have become popular on the internet
showing the excesses of a culture that buys and throws away
and then buys and throws away more.
That is the perfect portrait of a reality that is killing us.
Televisions, tablets, furniture, computers and even vehicles, most of them almost new.
Here everything is used and discarded.
Tons of plastics and toxic materials. According to Statistics Canada
the average Canadian disposes of his or her vehicle before 100,000 kilometers,
after that, for most of them, it is junk. The waste is
so great that you could perfectly well furnish a
whole house in one day with what people throw
away in Canada. According to the last census of
2019, Canada produces the most garbage per
capita in the world. The country generates in
total 34 million tons of garbage per year.
Each Canadian generates approximately 2.7 kilograms
of garbage per day. But if we generate so much garbage,
why is Canada so spotlessly clean?
Because Canada's garbage doesn't stay in Canada.
So where does it go?
The magnitude of this problem may not have been so well known
to all Canadians until the morning of the 3rd of
May 2016 when the Canada Fiber recycling plant
in Toronto stopped its recycling machines
by a macabre and regrettable discovery, the machines
specialized in detecting and separating cardboard, glass,
and recyclable materials, detected the presence of
something else, a part of the human body.
According to the police, a hand.
It was related to the body of a 30 year old woman found days before
and for which Toronto police arrested the suspect
Alberth Ian Yojav, 38 years old, for the murder.
After the city's dismay at this horrific finding at the recycling plant
the Toronto police closed the site for 24 hours
to carry out their investigations,
only 24 hours without this garbage facility were enough
for the city of Toronto to realize the reality that every day it generates to the world.
More than 800 tons of garbage flooded the streets of the city,
Where did so much garbage in a single day come from?
800 tons of recyclable garbage alone is the amount that Toronto produces every day,
and so the impeccably clean city knew only a miniscule part of its reality,
nothing compared with the 34 million tons of garbage
that are produced in the country each year.
But this problem that was generated in just 24 hours
was the prelude of what is ahead in the next few years
for the rest of the country and the consequences
would be paid in other corners of the world.
Before January 2018 Canada was shipping about half of its exports of recycled waste
to China, which imported around 45 percent of the world's global waste.
Most of this imported plastic was simply burned
but in early 2018 China banned the imports of solid waste.
As a result of the policy change in China;
Canada, United States, and other rich countries of the world
moved their waste to other countries in Southeast Asia.
These countries, often underdeveloped, have low environmental regulations
and the garbage ends up buried in mountains of waste or by burning it.
Which allows poor countries to charge much less
to receive garbage from rich countries. Canada and other countries are now sending
waste to Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines,
but these countries are increasingly concerned
about environmental costs that are greater than the revenues they earn,
especially the Philippines, which in 2019 threatened to declare
war on Canada if they did not take their garbage
to another place. Rodrigo Duterte, president
of the Philippines became world news
when he threatened to formally declare war on Canada for over 2,500 tons of garbage
that Canada accidentally sent to the country in
the years 2013 and 2014.
The 103 full containers of garbage arrived in the Philippines courtesy
of a a private Canadian company, these containers
were allegedly mistakenly labeled as "Recyclable mixed plastic garbage",
but in reality it was a messy mix of electronic and household waste,
even including adult diapers.
Authorities in the Philippines buried 26 garbage containers
in a nearby landfill,
but the rest of the garbage remained there for almost 6 years.
While both countries fought over who should take out the garbage,
in the beggining, the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that the
Canadian government, by selling that garbage
to a private company, the company's mismanagement was a matter of private property
that they had to resolve among themselves,
but president of the Philippines and his country did not think so.
Although in the year 2019, almost six years later, Canada returned back 2,500 tons
of garbage to British Columbia, the real problem was
not this garbage itself but what the problem
of the enormous production of garbage represented,
that has to be hidden somewhere in the world everyday.
The truth is that the whole world is living a countdown, but Canada is
absolutely in a waste crisis, said by
Canada's own Communications Deputy Director of
Environment and Climate Change. The reality of things is that the Philippines does not
matter on Canada's environmental agenda.
Why?
Because 2500 tons of garbage sound like
an outrageous number, but in reality this is less waste than what is produced by
Vancouver and its suburbs in a single day and that
garbage that the Philippines claimed was just a
small fraction of what Canada produces per day
in terms of solid waste. But, who generates
those more than 34 million tons of garbage that Canada
produces each year? According to the Conference Board of Canada
more than half of that is produced by
industries such as mining and fishing, the other
half is what is known as urban solid waste, in fact Canada still ranks behind
the U.S. and many other developed nations in municipal solid waste generation
but the laundry doesn't get washed at home
the garbage stays here, is a vicious cycle that
also impacts Latin America. Canada sends much
of its garbage to the U.S., which sends it to
Mexico, which is in charge of recycling the
garbage from both countries, but through the USA.
Lots of plastics and potentially recyclable
materials end up in Mexico, China, Malaysia, India,
and other parts of the world where garbage
should be recycled, but the reality is different.
Much of that garbage is deposited in clandestine
landfills or incinerated, generating gases and
highly poisonous fumes, or is thrown into
rivers from where it finds its way to the ocean.
In fact, China and India have recently stopped
accepting most of the recycling due to its
volume and high levels of contamination.
Many other nations in Asia are now following the
same example as China and are saying no to the
legal import of waste from Canada and the USA,
but illegal trade is still a major problem mainly for the underdeveloped countries
where corruption and the lack of environmental regulations are rampant
proof of this is that despite the fact that the
Canadian government has not issued new permits for
companies to ship garbage overseas,
Canadian garbage continues to arrive in other countries.
How?
In a triangulation scheme in which Canada exported
one hundred thousand tons of plastic waste in 2018,
much of that plastic waste was taken to the U.S.,
and were resold to foreign companies.
Once the Canadian waste enters the U.S. they are not tracked,
so it is a mystery where those wastes often end up.
According to reports, that garbage is mixed with U.S. waste
and is shipped to Asia and Latin America.
As this situation progresses and more Asian countries
block the import of waste from the U.S. and Canada,
more waste will be dumped into the oceans, up to 2.8 million tons.
This is equivalent to 24 times the weight of the CN tower of Toronto.
More than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year,
that is the equivalent of a garbage truck like this one
full of plastic, per minute, dumped in the ocean.
The vast majority, 89 percent, of plastic waste found at the bottom of the ocean
are single-use plastic. Beverage bottles, food packaging, plastic bags...
And by the year 2050 it is estimated that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fishes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been trying to toughen measures to reverse
this problem by imposing a new special tax on carbon dioxide emissions
but the problem is still there and we are counting down. Our world was perfect until
humans ruined it, garbage does not exist in nature, we made it.
Nature recycles everything.
We are the ones who are killing the only place we have to live.
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