Posted on 03/06/2019 12:36:35 PM PST by grundle
Here, household waste must be separated into no fewer than 34 categories before being taken to a recycling centre
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Some law was passed somewhere where the Chinese aren’t buying our trash anymore, so they are burning and burying it instead, not “recycling” it.
I don’t think it was a law as much as the Chinese wages have risen to a point that manual sorting became uneconomical.
Just like it was uneconomical all along in the US.
and then your city just dumps it anyway because no one wants Garbage
People who believe in man-made climate change due to CO2 should indeed be required to sort through garbage all day. They rest of us, not so much.
We get two bins, one for garbage and one for recyclables. The recyclables are picked up every other week.
Because of the fact that the Chinese market has collapsed and the garbage companies are sending most recyclables to the dump anyway, I pretty much stopped sorting and recycling. It now all goes into the garbage container.
The only time I use the recycling container is if we have a HUGE amount of material after a party, after Christmas or when we are cleaning out old boxes and materials during a cleanup.
Are there no mountain ranges that need converting to plateaus? Are there no flat prairies that need a ski hill?*
Just dump it all; so that future generations can mine it, using nanobots, or whatever.
* look up “garbage dump ski hills”
This article is over ten years old.
That reminds me/ I need to go out and bring my single trash bin back from the street. The city owned recycling bin is stashed somewhere behind the house...unused
When our garage pickup stops mixing the garbage with the recycleables, I may pay attention. This has become a joke.
Nobody is buying much of the recycled trash so it just goes to the dump in 34 different bins.
17 degrees tonight in Philly. Normally in the 50s this time of year.
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