Posted on 02/21/2019 4:09:04 PM PST by Lurch Addams
The conscientious citizens of Philadelphia continue to put their pizza boxes, plastic bottles, yoghurt containers and other items into recycling bins.
But in the past three months, half of these recyclables have been loaded on to trucks, taken to a hulking incineration facility and burned, according to the citys government.
Its a situation being replicated across the US as cities struggle to adapt to a recent ban by China on the import of items intended for reuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I was involved with solid waste and recycling from 2012-2015 when China first stopped taking plastics. We still put out our recycling bins so the community would feel good about itself.
You know recycling is not cost effective if the Chinese can’t even afford to do it any longer.
If the ecofreaks could figure out away to make us eat garbage they would make Governments pass all the Laws they need
My spouse is a true believer in recycling.
Apart from metal, no point.
Progress! Next step: burn in back yard.
My cousin’s husband is as liberal as the day is long. I was shocked to watch him throw obvious recycle items, into the regular trash. He told me he was talking to a childhood friend, whose job is to drive a truck five days a week, picking up from the recycle bins, and dropping the collection at . . . the county landfill ;)
China was mostly dumping it anyway...
I don’t think they will be burning it in Seattle.
All that old trash is, like a fossil, like right?
No fossil fuel.
And the recycling companies feel REALLY GOOD about the big money they're making for performing an unnecessary "service."
Those under the rule of the NYC Sanitation Dept. Garbage Police might differ.
I think the ultimate solution is to REDUCE packaging...
..and we need to go back to the old ways..
...you kept your tv for 30 yrs, at least we did..
..you had hand me downs for all your kids.
..you kept your canning jars and your tools and your cars for a long time....
but that would go against the god of consumerism so the cabal will never go for it.....too much $$$$$ involved...
Reducing packaging. Yes!
I do a lot of online shopping, now that I’m comfortable with it, and I’m amazed at the amount of packaging that goes with every Amazon purchase. I get why they do it, for protection, and confidentiality. I’m not sure there are any better methods that don’t imply taking a gamble with far less wrapping.
I don’t want to receive a cardboard box full of crushed glass when I was expecting a table lamp. Maybe there is some middle ground we don’t yet know about.
If Drones become more common, the packaging might even increase, to protect it from nosy or angry birds.
So what we do is this...
We grind the stuff up and mix it with a little dirt.
Then we compress it into bricks and dump the bricks off the coast.
We expand our borders naturally that way. All the way across the oceans.
We can put a tax on people that don’t produce enough garbage to make sure they do their share.
I was thinking they were burning our trash for energy. But, regardless, WHO CARES !!!!
What’s important is that feeling of well-being one gets when putting their sorted trash into recycling bins!!!! It’s just like owning a Tesla - you just plug it into the wall and watch - see NO POLLUTION!!!! Nothing yucky comes out of the wall, or the tail pipe!!!! What could be more ‘wonderful’.
I pay for private pickup, so into the bag and off to the dump/incinerator. The town wanted me to clean all the cans and bottles and always had the trash Nazi.
Solent Geen might be made of people, but at least its made of Americians right here in the Good Old US of A!!!
Oops. Soylent. Guess im getting old and need to be recycled.
[To answer your question: Yes. Garbage separation was never intended for recycling, at least regarding paper and plastic (since they sent it all to China to burn),]
[We had a converse with somebody who works in recycling. He said China is refusing to take it because theres too much non-recycle material mixed in.]
Bring back return deposit bottles
Develop other return deposit packaging.
Glass
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