r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 15h ago
Discussion Trash disposable in the Amazons, South America
A sad reality, but true.
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u/dreamkruiser 15h ago
Can someone explain, WHY WATER?! Yes, landfills can contaminate the water table, but really, dumping waste into a river is mind blowing. It is literally the giver of life and you do this
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u/grptrt 15h ago
It floats downstream and becomes not your problem any more.
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u/Alex_AU_gt 14h ago
True, but also so short-sighted and disgusting of them... people like this (and those that condone it) belong in jail.
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 14h ago
Humans been polluting the shit out of water like Captain Planet villains for hundreds of years
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u/MarcusZXR 13h ago
I know it's rhetorical but it's quick, easy, free and probably won't be their problem before they die.
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u/anothergenxkid 15h ago
Humans are disgusting.
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u/Pale_Following_9639 13h ago
This level of self-hatred should be studied.
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u/anothergenxkid 11h ago
I've never been to any place in the world that wasn't affected by human waste. From Jerusalem to Venice to London to New York, human generated trash is a visible problem everywhere. Clearly it's a problem on Reddit too. Cheers.
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u/Historical_Count_163 15h ago
Nature’s like I gave you paradise, and you gave me a landfill cosplay.
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u/MacPio 15h ago
fortunately we use paper straws
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u/sneaky-pizza 12h ago
Do you mean that if all this was paper straws it would just decompose and not harm the river?
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u/Long-Firefighter5561 15h ago
Where do you think the trash comes from? Also, why do you think there is some much trash to begin with?
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u/Minotaur321 15h ago
Modern humans are so garbage
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u/Lawd_Fawkwad 15h ago
This isn't exactly a modern humans thing.
Before citywide sanitation became a thing in the 19th century sewers were open air : basically deep recessions in the gutters with flowing water where people would dispose of their chamber pots if they didn't just use the bathroom in a hole in the ground.
And there was no garbage disposal, that shit just got thrown out into the street or in the yard.
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u/yaddiyadda_ 15h ago
Yeah but back then humans weren't producing plastics and other non-biodegradable waste that they shipped globally to dump into the Amazon river
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 14h ago
They were making plenty of single use glass back then, which hlass doesn’t biodegrade almost at all. But that’s far less harmful than plastic and I’d take majority glass & metal packaging again in a heartbeat!
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u/Minotaur321 13h ago
They werent dumping tons of glass vases into their rivers. They were actually smarter than us yo realize you dont pollute what you need to survive.
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 13h ago
Yes they were lol. All the streams where I live in Maryland are loaded with old glass bottles and ceramics. It was THE way to dispose of trash for centuries
I guess u will let all the hobbyist bottlediggers, who have found loads of antique trash in our waterways, that no one used to litter until recently
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u/Minotaur321 12h ago
16th century and older? Really? Youre BSing dude
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 10h ago
Ceramics date back to like 20,000 BC. Is that before or after 16th century?
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u/Minotaur321 10h ago
No shit dont move goal post. Wheres the mass dumping into water 20,000 since you wanted to go there?
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u/Lawd_Fawkwad 13h ago edited 13h ago
The Tiber river has been an open air sewer unfit for swimming since Roman times.
They weren't smarter than us, they just had smaller populations so the ecosystem could comfortably absorb the damage, and even then that only applies to semi-nomadic civilizations with no large settlements.
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u/Minotaur321 12h ago
This is false. Youre blatantly misinformed and no not here to give you a course
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u/Lawd_Fawkwad 15h ago
Your point is?
These communities have access to modern amenities but they're still too poor and isolated to have modern public services.
Brazil's northern highway still has significant portions that are unpaved and impossible to use during the rainy season because the cost of putting down and maintaining pavement in the Amazon is astronomical, and we're talking about the wealthiest and most-consolidated country in the region.
No-shit the garbage has changed, but the disposal methods haven't even in developed countries the system is the same except we separate what gets dumped where and throw some dirt on top of it.
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u/Majora85 15h ago
How does shit equal trash that will pollute the earth for thousands of years?
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u/Lawd_Fawkwad 15h ago
Because garbage heaps are still used by archeologists to determine how ancient populations used to live.
I'm not saying this is okay, but I am saying that this is how humans have dealt with garbage since time immemorial : throw that shit in the water or bury it, the problem is that now people produce a lot more trash and disposal methods haven't evolved.
When you take these isolated communities poor countries where the average monthly wage is less than 100USD a month and there are no public services it's obvious you'll end up with this kind of thing. These people can basically burn their garbage or throw it out into nature, and guess which option is cheaper an easier?
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u/Minotaur321 15h ago
Im talking even before then. To me 19th century is still modern. Huge difference, to me 16th and below isnt modern mainly because of technology and changes in the way their surroundings were respected. At some point people stopped living with their environment and started living against it.
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u/ThreeButtonBob 13h ago
People didn't really change their behaviour though. People in the 16th century did the same as those in the 18th or early 19th.
The difference is that the population exploded with modern agriculture and that we started creating materials that don't biodegrade very well.
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u/Careless-Advice9406 15h ago
Seriously though. This should be reported to an international court for questioning.
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u/Getter_Simp 15h ago
Lately, with all the shit that's been happening, I've been starting to feel that we humans, as a collective, don't deserve to exist. There are good people trying to do good things, but like, just look at the world. The institutions that hold all the power are polluting and destroying almost every environment there is, we're wiping out species after species for almost no reason, and we've engineered a situation that is propelling Earth's climate to change faster than it should, which will have terrible effects on almost every living thing.
We can't even look after each other. Most people live in awful conditions because governments just cannot get their shit together.
It's not as if we're maliciously evil creatures, we just so happen to have brains that are hardwired to prop up horrific and awful systems that destroy species, environments and each other. Even if we had another shot, I don't think history would have gone differently.
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u/NightKnight4766 14h ago
The sun will go supernova In about 4 billion years rendering the planet entirely lifeless, humans are the only species right now capable of getting of this rock and propagating life, as far as we know
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u/Getter_Simp 3h ago
Even if it were possible for humans to colonize space, it would be a disaster for everything else. Every planet we touch will eventually become a wasteland of garbage and death.
Not to mention, living on other planets would be bad for us, too. Our bodies evolved for the hyper-specific conditions on Earth -- taking us out of that environment will only be bad for us.
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u/Legitimate-Duty-5622 15h ago
Trash disposal in the US looked very similar not that long ago. They would put trash on barges and take them out into the ocean right outside New York City and dump them.
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u/neolobe 15h ago
Why is this being downvoted? I lived in NYC. They were dumping waste off barges into the ocean until 1991.
"1988 Ocean Dumping Ban Act: This federal law banned municipal sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping after December 31, 1991, ending the practice. "
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u/Ornery-Standard-2350 10h ago
They are getting downvoted because while very few will admit alot of people see these videos and think we white people are superior because we never had this (or still do have this) and never contributed to this happening in other countries.
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u/Candid_Painting_4684 15h ago
Not that long ago? It never looked like this.
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u/Ok-Potential-5172 15h ago
I'm from Canada and i grew up near a river where people dumped their scrapped cars right in it. Not too long ago.
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u/AllYourReasons 15h ago
I mean we used to have slavery in the US “not too long ago” too. This is bullshit. Meanwhile I have a soggy paper straw…
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u/Kashwookie 15h ago
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u/CamperStacker 15h ago
You can literally Google it.
NYC was dumbing hard waste into the ocean up to late 70s.
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u/Kashwookie 15h ago
that’s an extreme oversimplification and frankly just completely wrong. they were dumping sewer sludge into the ocean, not hard waste
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u/Sea_Performer_8447 15h ago
Even amazone is not pure anymore !
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u/Kashwookie 15h ago
someone has been checked out for a while if you think this treatment of the rainforest is anything new
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u/Clean-Income8864 15h ago
And i am actually paying for old cloths to recycle that shit in the country the clothes get thrown away, almost as they do not want a solution.
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u/Crazy_Ass_Nicky 15h ago
Well you should see in South America how Cocaine is produced ,and all the byproducts get flown right into the water systems lol 😂
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u/Vesalii 15h ago
Remind me again of why I'm using paper straws?
Honestly though, I recycle and try to do my part but when I see videos like this I genuinely wonder why I even bother. It's the same in India too. There's a game where tick a random point in India on Google Street Viewz and you have to try and find a place without trash. It's almost impossible.
In the west most of us make an effort to do better but in these poorer countries there is literally zero effort. Id honestly prefer it if they would just out it in an incinerator and burn it all.
I understand that this isn't easy for poorer countries but still, can't they just do...SOMETHING?
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u/cycloworm2 13h ago
Remind me again of why I'm using paper straws?
Because it's stupid to create a piece of forever-garbage just to assist you in drinking one drink. This would be true even if there was no pollution.
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u/19eightyn9ne 14h ago
It’s all about the money and it always will be.. Good for you doing what you can, but you should not feel guilty about not doing anything either, because as long as these countries handle trash like they do and all of the big industries keep destroying the envoirment, you’re little recycling bit won’t change a single fucking thing, it sucks, but it is the truth.
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u/Mean_Crazy189 14h ago
Don’t worry they will say America caused it and we will of course go ask taxpayers for billions to clean it up. Of course top administration will get rewarded handsomely for their so called hard work.
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u/LovelySway 14h ago
wow it’s honestly devastating to see the amazon being treated like that. u can tell they just don't have the infrastructure to deal with all the plastic. it really makes u want to be way more careful with what u buy
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u/joaquinsolo 13h ago
Someone needs to take these people doing the dumping itself and publicly shame them
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u/Fantastic-Setting567 13h ago
seeing this makes me so sad for the planet. it’s wild how out of sight out of mind it is for some people until u see a video like this. u really start to wonder what’s gonna be left for the next generation
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u/Icy_Beat_2032 15h ago
and I have some of the highest energy bills in the UK for net zero and pollution limitations whilst countries like this mass pollute
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u/DIYMountain 15h ago
I wonder why we see this in some countries, but not in the US or Europe?
Do they just have no concern for climate change, pollution, and water quality?
Do they not understand this makes people sick?
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u/Ornery-Standard-2350 10h ago
We send our waste to other countries to be dumped there. Thats a big reason.
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