Hey kids, welcome to Planet Bonehead.
I'm Bobby, and today at HOPE Headquarters, we're talking about garbage.
And recycling.
And fuel.
And energy.
We have a lot to cover today.
Now you probably know that we humans make a lot of garbage.
We use stuff and we throw it away, everyday.
You may also know that we use a lot of fuel, especially fossil fuels like coal to create
electricity for our homes and buildings, and oil to make gasoline for our cars.
You're probably already learning about how we need to recycle our waste, and reduce the
amount of fossil fuels we use.
But what you may not know is that there are people who are working on a solution to all
these problems, using one simple machine.
In fact, the technology used in this machine is over 150 years old.
We could have been using this machine all along, solving these problems before they
even began, but no— Nobody thought of it until a few years ago.
These are my friends Dane and Sheila from Hughes Energy Group.
Their machine can take garbage right out of the landfill, and turn it into a clean material
called Wilson Fiber, which can be used to make fuels that will replace dirty coal and
oil with clean alternatives.
The machine is called an autoclave, and the process is called hyper-speed composting.
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Before we can understand what the autoclave does and why it's important, we first need
to explore what happens to garbage after we throw it away.
It all starts with each one of us.
We all use stuff, and then discard it.
Our garbage might have food waste, packaging, broken toys and machines, old batteries, and
styrofoam cups - just to name a few things.
Many of us may already separate our garbage so some of it, like plastic, glass, and paper,
can be recycled.
And that's great, we need to continue doing that!
The rest goes in the regular garbage, and once or twice a week, the garbage truck comes,
and hauls it away.
For most people, that's about as much as we know.
We know it ends up in a landfill eventually, but we have no idea how it gets there or how
long it takes.
After the garbage gets taken away from your home or school, the garbage collectors take
it to a special facility called a transfer station.
That's an industrial facility where garbage is sorted before heading out to a landfill.
In many transfer stations, they dump all the garbage out of the trucks onto the floor.
Do not try this at home kids.
Then the people here will sift through all the trash to find material that can be recycled
instead of thrown away, or hazardous material like batteries or chemicals that we really
don't want to put into our landfills.
Then, everything left over is compacted, or really squished down, and loaded onto different
bigger trucks.
These trucks then deliver the trash to the landfill.
And depending on where in the country this is, they may have to travel dozens or even
hundreds of miles to get there.
That uses a lot of fossil fuels just to carry garbage around our country.
Finally, they dump everything into the landfill where it sits.
Some of it will decompose but much of it, like the styrofoam cup, could take 500 years
or more.
That's even older than your teachers!
Now if all of this seems silly to you, well you're not alone.
This system was invented way back in the olden days when people didn't realize that these
landfills were going to be a problem one day.
My dearest Maude, today I invented the landfill.
We are collecting all the city's garbage and dumping it in that empty field across
town.
There's nothing there now but trees and wildlife and a pretty river.
We'll fill that with garbage too.
It's a very big field so I'm sure we'll never run out of room.
Your odiferous husband, Reginald.
Today we're kind of stuck with this system, but if my friends Dane and Sheila have anything
to say about it, we might be changing this system by the time you guys grow up.
See, here's the issue we have.
We produce a lot of garbage, and we're running out of places to put it.
At the same time, we consume a lot of energy, and are running out of fossil fuels.
Not to mention burning fossil fuels is really bad for the environment but we'll tackle
that in some other videos.
So, we have a lot of garbage, and we need a lot of fuel.
Hmmm.
What if there was a way to use the garbage to make fuel?
And that's exactly what we can do when we use the autoclave for hyper-speed composting.
So what do these words mean?
Well an autoclave is a pressure chamber.
It's a long metal tube.
We can fill it up with garbage, and close it tight.
Then, the autoclave pushes on all that garbage with hot hot hot steam, and lots of pressure.
Lots of pressure.
Really pushing it and condensing it…
That's the composting part.
And it only takes one hour - that's the hyper-speed part.
They put the garbage in the autoclave, and after only one hour, they open it up, and
all that garbage is converted into Wilson Fiber.
Some things like metal and glass don't convert, but they get super clean in this process,
and can easily be removed and separated to be recycled.
The Wilson Fiber is a renewable resource that can then be processed into a clean replacement
for coal or gasoline.
It's a win win win for everybody.
We can clean up all our landfills, and stop adding garbage to them.
We can convert all that garbage into a renewable fuel source that can replace our fossil fuels.
And we can keep making garbage guilt-free.
But here's the problem.
It may take some time before we start using hyper-speed composting to get rid of our garbage.
So in the meantime, we need to keep separating our garbage and recycle as much of it as possible.
And we need your help.
It's mission time!
Hey kids, Bonehead here, with your next mission.
Long before your great great grandparents were born, people began to realize that having
garbage piled up in the streets outside their houses and schools was pretty gross.
They needed to do something with it.
Unfortunately, the best idea they had was to pile it up in nature instead.
Looking back, that seems like a silly idea.
Why would anyone think having a dump full of garbage is better than a nature preserve,
or a forest, or a park.
Oooh, or a water park!
We could have built water slides and log flumes, water rapids, and wave machines—- Ow.
Your mission is to pretend we're starting all over again, and come up with new ideas
for what we can do with all our garbage.
Today we learned how we can begin converting it into a renewable resource to make fuel.
What else do you think we could do with it?
Could we collect it and put it somewhere that won't harm our environment?
Can we destroy it somehow without creating pollution?
Or, can we keep the garbage and make stuff out of it?
Some people can make furniture or even entire houses out of trash.
I wonder if those houses smell bad.
(pause while thinking) What would you do?
Bonehead out.
People like Dane and Sheila are working on hyper-speed composting because they used their
imaginations to come up with a solution to a big problem.
We need you to use your imagination now.
Even if your idea is something that isn't currently possible, that doesn't mean it's
a bad idea.
Remember, the autoclave technology was around for over 100 years but until recently, nobody
used their imaginations to think about how to use it to turn trash into fuel.
So come up with your ideas, write them down or draw a picture of them, and send them to
me via email to missiontime@planetbonehead.com.
Who knows, you might come up with the next amazing, world-saving invention.
After all, it's your planet too.
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