God forbid it should be shredded and mixed into paving projects
Posted on 06/23/2019 3:32:55 PM PDT by rktman
A sign on an upside-down dumpster spelled the end of Pearl Pai’s long romance with plastics recycling.
For years, Pai and her family generated almost no trash. She carefully washed, sorted and bagged hard-to-recycle items and drove them two towns over from her home in Berkeley, California, to the area’s best recycling center.
But on a gray morning in late May, when she pulled up with a bag of flimsy plastic clamshell-style containers, yogurt tubs and meat trays, the sign informed her that, “due to poor market conditions”, these items would no longer be accepted for recycling.
This is a reality that millions more Americans will have to adjust to.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
recycling is a sham.
This is why I think plastic needs to be burned to produce the much needed CO2 for plants.
Been happening right here in NY since the whole recycling craze began. What burns my biscuits is that the town keeps heaping new recycling rules to make things easier for them, while just dumping much of what they collect on recycling day along with the rest of the trash.
It’s a sham I’ve never played along with.
They recently put separate trash cans in my office expecting people to separate their trash. Very few realize there’s only one dumpster.
Not to worry...It should turn back into base molecules in 100,000 years or so.
At least nuclear power waste is down to uninteresting levels after only about 1,000 years
God forbid it should be shredded and mixed into paving projects
The only items we ever recycled were paper and cardboard.
I am not sure how this is going to go but I hope it works out well.
I’m planning to get my trash bill reduced tomorrow or find another company. A while back they added a single stream recycling dumpster & the bill has gone up & up, and I found out I’m paying triple of some people with the same company. What a scam.
Where do they deposit the plastic they are harvesting from the ocean? They’re raising money on TV for cleaning the oceans.
Recycling is to make baby-boomers who were brainwashed in public schools in the 1960’s & 1970’s feel better about themselves.
I’ve got primarily baby-boomers in my neighborhood and they DEMAND to pay $40/month to separate their trash into recycle bins. The trash guys are known to dump both regular trash and recycled trash into the same truck.
Of course, these are the same boomers that live in large houses and drive large SUVs.
Here’s another story on recycling in Alabama:
Alabama is great at recycling other people’s trash - just not its own
depends on the material..
Copper, iron, stainless... all great for recycling..
plastics, paper, glass, not so much.
My thinking is along your lines.
It’s a jobs ploy by future archeologists. Without garbage they won’t have a job.
In NY CITY, the garbage inspectors have metal detectors to make sure all metal is placed in the appropriate bin. If they get one beep, landlord gets a fine.
How does one trow out a light bulb?
Paint brush?
Plastic hanger with metal parts?
It’s such a chore throwing out garbage in NYC. They’re so OCD about recycling, oh wait... it’s the fines that are an incentive to keep this sham going.
honestly, they are making shoes and other items out of them.
The problem is, most items are not able to be recycled.
That is, if it were worth doing, people would pick up your stuff for free. There has to be a demand. It makes people feel good to “recycle”, however outside a few items like Aluminum, Steel, maybe rags, etc, it is a huge money pit. Municipalities can’t afford it. The (expensive) trucks drive around picking up ... garbage ... that nobody wants and have to pay to get rid of.
My area uses a garbage can, and has a leaf/lawn waste pickup for extra cost. The lawn waste container does double duty as recycling every other month or whatever.
The latest, is that, (supposedly) due to “cross comtamination” of recyclables with yard waste, they can’t do this anymore. SO, they are looking at making it “mandatory” to recycle.
Sounds like BS to me. What else is new.
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