Posted on 06/11/2024 9:38:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
They have been doing that in my college town for years.
This is news?
I heard many years ago that recycling facilities don’t care about paper, plastic and glass. They are there to sort through and find precious metals and electronics or other items that may have rare earth metals. It’s a sorting facility fishing for goodies.
In some place where the law doesn’t require materials like plastic and glass to be recycled, the “recycling” facility just passes it along to the land fill.
My coworker talked to one of the men who picks up our trash.
He said that the waste company is required to put out bins for trash, greens, and recycling, but that they are not required to process them separately.
In other word, at least the trash and recycling go in the same truck.
Tony Soprano was in "waste management" also.
No kidding.
I must say, that’s a major relief to me.
I always thought we purchased contracts with the Communist Chinese, who put our recyclables on barges, tow it out to the middle of the ocean, and just dump it.
Recycling is not profitable
Our county ended it’s recycling program because of contamination. People weren’t washing their garbage..............
I have watched both my bins being put in a single refuse truck a number of times.
Recycling is actually only done when it is profitable,
They have even sent a letter out stating so before….yet we are still required to separate the trash from recycling and they still charge us for it either way.
Just further "training" for the serfs. 🥴
I have personally witnessed garbage trucks and recycling trucks dumping their loads into the same compacting pit at the local transfer station.
These stories of carefully sorted recycling all going to landfills - have been repeatedly in the news - for decades - coast to coast. The recycling hounds on major university campuses can’t even get all their sorted recycling to actual recycling facilities. Their focus in on indoctrination on the environment and not on actually doing anything about it.
No kidding? We knew this 40 years ago.
Less than 5% of plastic recyclables are actually recycled and the rest goes to landfills.. that’s known for years.
Not all plastics are recyclable................
The city gave us big wheeled recycle bins. The only thing I’ve ever used it for is for leaves in the fall.
Recycling is a scam perpetrated on the gullible. Yea, even gullible conservatives.
We’ve known for a real long time that it all went to the same place.
I would like to know how much treated drinking water is used because of rinsing everything before it goes to the landfills or even if it gets recycled.
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