Posted on 12/06/2018 1:37:26 PM PST by Red Badger
California’s Bay Area is facing a recycling crisis, as China ramps up requirements for recycled materials.
Recycling the wrong items can get you a fine of $26.60 in West Contra Costa County. In Marin County, Mill Valley Refuse Service will simply refuse to take your recyclable waste until it has been properly sorted. Eventually, residents can be charged with the cost of dumping the waste in a landfill.
“We’re hoping that people will see what they did wrong and clean it out, then pick up the cart the next week,” Mill Valley Refuse co-owner Jim Iavarone said.
But the problem lies not with the waste management companies, or even the centers to which they ship their recyclable materials. In fact, it starts on the other side of the world. “Before now, China was taking everything and now they’re saying, ‘Hey we’re not taking this stuff anymore so the processing plants got stuck with it,” Iavarone said. He elaborated:
[Then] the processors turned to the haulers and said ‘hey we’re not taking this stuff anymore’ so then the haulers got stuck. Now we have to turn to the consumer or resident at the street level and say, ‘OK we can’t take this stuff anymore either,’ so you have to do more sorting at home. It starts at home.
“Many people put questionable things in the cart hoping that somebody will deal with it down the line,” Iavarone continued. “In the past, it went unnoticed because China was buying it. So we became very lax. No longer. Now we have to deal with it.”
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Well, it has not come that down here. I just look at it as an extra trash can anything remotely recyclable goes in. It all get dumped in the western Pacific anyways.
We’ve going about this wrong so far. I see great wisdom in your idea.
So, yes they want you to continue to sort your trash, even though it all goes to the same landfill. It is control of behavior, not resources, that they are after.
Keep voting Democrat, Democrats!
Their set of values is not like that of the normal, sane person.
When I was last in Germany, I noticed immense plastic blocks—presumably melted from Recyclables—were being used to shield neighborhoods from Autobahn noise.
Recycled tires were shredded and used for gun-range backstops. :)
Off to the gulags for you! You are not supposed to question authority let alone have any common sense! lol
Saw a neighbor raking leaves the other day. He was stuffing them into the recycling trash can. They’re going to love that. Thought about giving him trash bag, but, didn’t want to exert my white privilege.
I have been recycling for years; compostable garbage goes into the compost heap for the gardens.
Everything (I mean EVERYTHING) else goes into the burn barrel and turned into smoke.
The non-burnables (metals) get raked out every 2 or 3 months and I take that to the dump.
We have 2 dumpsters at the apt. One for trash and one for recycle stuff. One trash truck picks up both at the same time.
The city gave monopoly to the trash haulers. They raised prices very high and cut back service.
Same here, except I use a large magnet to get the metal out and save the ashes in barrels to put on the ice in the winter.
I see from their website that they have two locations out there in Commiefornia land. Maybe Gov. Moonbeam and his successor should push for more of them to be built as a means to solve both CA's power problems and their waste disposal issue.
But of course since these are power plants and the very thought of a power plant is anathema to the Comiefornia Libs, I don't expect that they will consider that even when summer heat brings another round of rolling blackouts..
When I was very little in Long Beach, Cal, there was a garbage truck that picked up garbage (you could smell it a block away) and a trash truck. In the 60s Sam Yorty of LA wanted to institute a plan where people would have to sort their trash. It cost him his office it was so unpopular. Now it seems like they want people to sort their trash, under threat of fine/penalty even though it is now all going to the same dump. The common theme seems to be, “We are going to make you do things for your own good” (even if it is pointless).
This is no big deal——recyclables go in one barrel,non recyclables in another.
It’s like that where I live also.
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But if it all goes into the same landfill, what’s the point?
“This is why people just dump crap out in the country.”
The local dump used to recycle tube TVs but now they charge $15 to dump one. Ever since they started that TVs started showing up on the side of the road in various places.
” It all get dumped in the western Pacific anyways.”
A great cartoon. Starts of with an uber pious green family carefully sorting the recyclables and watching the truck pick them up. Follow the truck to the dump then the bottles to the ship then the ship to china where the plastic is remelted into new soft drink bottles that end up being drank on a river in India then the empty bottle is tossed in to the water and floats until it ends up in the middle of the trash pile in the Pacific.
On Long Island where I am, it used to be paper recyclables one week, glass/aluminum/plastic the next.
This year, we switched to paper/glass/aluminum/plastic all in one shot.
Next year, we’re back to paper one week, aluminum/plastic the next. Glass will only be accepted if you bring it to the town yourself.
Who says they DO go in the same landfill——I always understood that there were recycling centers?
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I always understood that there were recycling centers?
My mom’s place, in California, had two large bins. One for trash and one for recyclables. As you said, it was really no big deal.
From what I’ve read, it is no longer economically feasible to recycle much of what used to be recycled, so it goes into the landfill.
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