For our biggest what if ever,
we're about to simulate things
that no one has ever done before,
like dropping
millions of tons of trash
into a volcano,
dropping foam cases
down into the Mariana Trench,
shooting all the world's
plastic out into space and more.
Where are we getting
these crazy ideas?
Well, a couple of weeks ago,
we asked you the what if community
where you wanted us
to dispose of the world's trash
and you guys delivered
some wild ideas.
Now we're going to show them to
you like never before.
But before we get to that,
we're going to drop this
into melted glass.
And over 1000 degrees Celsius.
This is about as hot as lava,
which should give us
a pretty good idea
of what might happen
if we were to throw our garbage
into a volcano.
So this is copper.
But if I.
Actually threw my garbage in here
or my phone case,
which is made of plastic,
it would just know the room
with all the fumes
from the chemicals that make it.
And we would probably die.
Okay, that was pretty cool.
But what if we were to do.
This in an.
Actual volcano with way more trash
using our super cool.
Video of steam?
Let's find out.
This is. You. You're trash.
Not you are trash.
You're trash.
The amount of trash
you create in one year
and we're about to
throw it into a volcano.
But wait,
I don't see a volcano VFX team.
That's better.
The lava inside this volcano is.
Over 1200 degrees Celsius
and this is 680
kilograms of trash.
Now, if you don't know
how big that
is, well, picture a polar bear,
but they're made of trash
thanks to a vaccine.
If you were to drop
this much waste into a volcano.
Well,
we're looking at a big explosion,
you see,
since the lava inside
the volcano was so hot and.
Our trash. Is relatively cool.
Well, that equals boom.
The trash would hit the lava
and trigger
a reaction of pressurized
and acidic steam.
That was pretty.
Intense.
But we're not going to stop there.
We've got a whole lot
more trash to get rid of.
Let me talk to Marina about this.
The animation you made of one.
Person's trash really good.
But I'm thinking of it
quite a bit more than one person.
Okay.
What do you have in mind?
Like 20.
Million people.
Seriously? Okay.
New York City's trash for a year.
Roll it all up into a ball
and throw that into a volcano.
How much trash is that?
14 million tons.
I'll need some time
to figure it out.
Can you give me some time?
I'll get back to you.
I can give you
a couple more minutes
because there's only a few minutes
left of the video.
Yeah, go ahead. Thanks.
Oh, okay.
Perfect.
While we wait for that,
let's jump
over to the other
side of the world.
But first, why are we doing this?
Well,
the world's got a bit
of a trash problem.
Plastic in the ocean. Food waste.
Hundreds of tons of it.
The garbage reality is bigger
than you might realize.
And our friends at Casetify
have been working
hard to solve it.
More on that later.
But for now,
we're going to take a crack at it.
That's why we challenged you
to help us figure out the best way
to get rid of garbage from food.
Waste to plastic
packaging to phone cases.
This one says, Hey.
Peter, the trash in our ocean.
How do we get rid of it?
Maybe dump it
into the Mariana Trench?
I like your thinking.
Over 14 million tons of trash
end up in the ocean every year.
That's over 8 trillion
pieces of plastic.
And a big part of this trash
problem is old phone cases.
Over one and a half
billion of them
are thrown away every year.
So we're going
to have to find a way to get rid
of all those old foam cases.
What if we.
Dumped them down
into the deepest
part of the ocean?
Marina, do your thing.
We're bringing you down
11,000 meters to the bottom
of the Mariana Trench.
Since the Mariana Trench
is the deepest point on Earth,
dumping one and a half
billion foam.
Cases should.
Be nothing for this ocean cavern.
In theory,
the Mariana Trench could hold over
1 trillion phone cases in it.
It's forcing our phone cases
to be compressed
smaller and smaller.
The pressure of the Mariana Trench
is comparable
to a tower of 2000 elephants
stacked up on top of each other
and sitting on your head.
And there's hundreds
of millions of phone cases
pile up.
We'd be shocked at how horrible
it is for the ocean.
Materials leak out into the sea,
killing ocean
wildlife and destroying
coral reefs,
not to mention leaking more
and more microplastics
into the water.
I wonder what would happen if we.
Set it up into space instead?
Well, more on that soon.
Anyway, that was a bad idea.
I think I found a better way
to get rid of our old phone cases.
But first, let's check in
with our giant ball
of trash going.
Into the volcano.
Looks like they're
still working on it.
Okay, well,
while it's being assembled,
let me take a minute
to tell you what
we're going to do
to fix our phone case
waste problem.
If I ever have to
throw out a phone case,
I'm going to mine
the case of find.
They've got the world's largest
phone case recycling program.
All you do is send them
your old phone case
and they'll upcycle it for you,
producing a completely new one.
Not only does
this create a new case,
but it also prevents a case
from joining the landfill.
This video wouldn't be possible
without Casetify,
so to thank them
and to help out this channel
so that we can do more videos
like this.
Check out Casetify website.
So you can learn more about
how to upcycle.
Your old phone case.
You can get a new cooler case
like this.
Yeah. I'm never throwing this out.
Oh, sweet.
Looks like our.
Massive pile of trash.
Is ready to be thrown
into the volcano.
Now let's drop it in
this time,
instead of
creating a massive explosion
inside the volcano.
This trash ball
is going to create an explosion
that goes.
Hundreds of meters up in the air.
Lava would spread
to every nearby town
and the pollution of the pollution
without a filter,
dropping this much trash.
Into a hot lava lake would spread.
Poisonous. Fumes.
For hundreds of meters.
This doesn't look good.
Oh,
okay.
That was.
A really.
Bad idea,
but I'm going to give you guys
another chance.
Oh. Oh, that's an idea.
That's out of this world.
Literally.
We're going to see
what would happen
if we bring our
garbage up into space
and launch it into the sun,
but instead of our garbage,
how about we switch it up a bit?
Let's just move our plastic waste.
We've got a ton of that.
Or should I say tons.
About 40 million
tons of plastic
is thrown out every year, and.
That's just in the United States.
Maybe we should strap it all
to a rocket
and send it into the sun.
That's
probably the best way
to get rid of it.
What do you think?
You can simulate this for us?
No, I think we can,
but I'm going to need some help.
Can you go collect
a bag of plastic garbage
and see how much that would weigh?
Seriously?
Yeah.
Yeah,
I think I can figure that out.
I'll be right back and
find them.
Let's do this
while I'm out here
picking up trash.
Let's see what other ideas
you guys have come up with.
Stomach acid?
No.
As strong as
stomach acid is,
it wouldn't
be able to dissolve all our trash.
And how would you even get
that much stomach.
Acid for it to do anything?
What about a black hole?
Yeah, but it's theoretically.
Impossible,
and it would kill
everyone involved.
So next,
could we send it back in time?
That would just mess up the world
even more today.
Okay, Marina, I think.
I think I've got enough.
Okay.
How much is it?
Well, it's pretty heavy.
Well,
I need an accurate measurement.
Oh, right, of course.
I'll send you the details on
how much it weighs.
Okay.
So how do we do? Let's see.
Sending our plastic into space
would require
1 million bags
full of any plastic trash.
And to get that up into
the sky would require
640,000 rockets.
And blowing up
a rocket in the sun
isn't as easy as it sounds.
The only way we'd be able
to get our rockets into the sun
would be
if we slowed
the rockets down by 30 kilometers
per second,
which is extremely hard to do.
That's because Earth
moves around the sun
at 30 kilometers per second.
So in order to line up the rocket
with our sun,
it would need to stop
all its sideways momentum.
And that would be
almost impossible
to properly time and line up.
Hmm. So doesn't look that.
Great, huh? Well, no.
It will look more like this.
Oh, yeah.
Not a great idea.
Looks like these
crazy ideas are going to work.
Maybe the best thing we could do
is just recycle.
I mean, it sounds too
good to be true,
but recycling really does work.
If we all did it, we've.
Noticed reduced pollution
and more vibrant
natural resources.
It can also create
some pretty awesome phone cases.
Shout out again to Casetify.
So instead of
wasting a bunch of money
or risking our lives
with these crazy ideas,
all you have to do is this.
So hopefully
we can all play
a small role
in fixing the world's
trash problem.
But what should we tackle next?
Well, that's a story for another.
What is.