Sesame Street - Where the Garbage Goes video free download

Tiqerboy

Interesting observation : this was filmed at a time when most of the NYC apartments still incinerated their trash. All that dust coming from the cans is ashes.A friend of mine from NYC told me it was around 1970 when they stopped doing this.

MsPandaRosa

If memory serves me, when this was first shown, the garbage was sent off on the barges, but then it was unloaded and processed into what looked like some kind of landfill, with the explanation that in time it would decay and break down into soil where people could build homes, live and play, accompanied by some kids climbing a tree presumably planted on the recycled soil. Don't know why they cut that part off, except maybe to save time, but it sure would make sense today!

WitchidWitchid

Look at that garbage. Look at it go. Goodbye Garbage, Goodbye Garbage, Goodbye Garbage (right out into the ocean). :)

Touching Cloth Productions

My memory of this as a child is that at the very end of the video (perhaps cut-off in this version) all the garbage got pushed off the barge and into the ocean by a bulldozer.... Did that really happen....?

Steph6n

Hey... that's Al Gore-! 0:45

andrew plotnick

It really make you think about how the times have changed. Right?

djtrixen

Just dump it in the Hudson River. It would probably be an improvement! LOL

David Theisen

@NantoVision1 i am a janitor/housekeeper at a casino and i don't think i get low pay! i make $10.79 an hour too! but yeah not a lot of respect for us graveyard shift cleaners! when u go to lunc break, u have to suffer with lefft overs from the buffet restaurant, and a lot of the food is dry or looks sickly! we deserve fresh food!

Darth Voltage

@kll510 I concur, I hated this film as a kid watching Sesame Street because it made no sense. Sure the garbage workers put the trash on the trucks and then dumped it off on the barge and the tug boat takes it on and THAT'S IT??????!!!!!! At 5 years old, I knew there was more to it(I wish I could say bullshit at that age). Overall I liked the music but the film was wack and it ruined that.

051163able

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ready4sea

This is classic! No recycling.. just sending everything out on a barge to...????? I remember this and hoped I'd find it again one day. Thanks for posting this!

SesameSquirrel

One reason I liked this video as a kid was that while I watched the garbage pickup in real life a lot, I never got to see where the trash was dumped later, as is done at the transfer station shown here. The white garbage trucks with "sanitation" on the sides are/were standard in New York City. I think the garbage barge at the end was bound for the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island.

ScorpioBornIn69

I recycle everything that is recyclable; glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, steel and aluminum and makes a huge difference, cutting my trash up to 70-75%! Try it and you'll see the difference and what it'll do to both the environment and natural resources. I strongly recommend doing it now with soaring commodity prices; all the speculation of ever growing demand and consuming of natural resources. Look what has been happening to grain, energy and metal futures over the past recent years.

NantoVision1

@jenzeppelin I definitely agree. People in the janitorial/custodial jobs get even less respect (not to mention unfairly low pay) and that's just not right. Anyone who puts in a hard day's work to improve the cleanliness of our towns and cities deserves to be treated well.

jenzeppelin

I hate it when people make fun of 'garbagemen' a.k.a. sanitation workers. It's an honest, stable job and they do a lot of hard work. They also keep our towns and cities healthier and cleaner. That deserves a lot of respect.

idahotransfer

Great ! I know this song since the seventies. Now I'm 50 .

funnyfokker25

Thanks for posting this NantoVision1 Appreciate it

Eric Kurland

Thanks so much for reposting this! One of my favorites from my childhood.

NantoVision1

Yes, but please don't make requests in the comments section of other videos. Post them on my main page where I'll remember them.

MuppetsFan123

Do you have Sesame Street's Peanut Butter Song??

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