Posted on 08/31/2024 12:53:20 PM PDT by grundle
An environmentalist put a GPS tracker in with her recycling to see where it ended up — and the results were not confidence-inspiring.
As Inside Climate News reports in an investigative collaboration with CBS, Houston activist and avid recycler Brandy Deason tossed an Apple Tag in with her bagged plastic waste to take to one of the city's new recycling drop-off sites to see what really happens to recyclables.
Deason dropped her secretly-tagged plastic bag off with the Houston Recycling Collaboration, a public-private partnership that launched with the help of Exxon nearly two years ago to address the city's low recycling rates. Though the program was partially billed as being capable of melting any plastic down for reuse chemically, ICN and CBS found with the help of Deason that no such process has occurred in the 20 months since the project first began.
In fact, the sorting plant that's supposed to enact the so-called "advanced recycling" process still hasn't opened — and won't do so until the middle of next year.
"We want to know what was happening with this stuff," Deason, a member of the Houston Air Alliance, told the website. "Is it really going to go to get recycled?" Plastic Scenery
As the activist, her organization, and the news outlets soon found, the tagged bags instead ended up at Wright Waste Management, a remote facility 20 miles outside of the city's downtown. Though its reporters were not allowed a look inside, drone footage from above the plant shows that it's home to a giant open-air pile of trash.
Despite not having opened the promised sorting facility, the Houston Recycling Collaboration also expanded its drop-off locations from one to eight, which seems per this new investigation to be steering exponentially more plastics to the glorified landfill
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She’s a moron. Recycling is a scam.
Anyone who thinks their “recycling trash” is actually recycled only needs to ask the trash company where the recycling center is located and go visit it.
so we have separate bins for trash and recycling
i sat and watched the trash truck
pick up and empty both into the same truck
they are not even pretending anymore
She should be fined for putting e waste in recycled materials.
I have told this story before.
Many years ago one of my fellow employees at our high rise urban office decided to stay late and spy on the janitorial service to see what they did with the blue recycle bins in the building.
The janitorial service transported them down the service elevator and dumped them in the regular trash bin outside the building after making sure nobody was looking—we all had a good laugh about it.
We did not rat out the janitorial service—since it was clear they had nowhere else to put the trash.
In my wild days I had to do community service once many years ago. I did “recycling” and the stuff ended up with all the rest of the trash back in 2000 as well.
I don’t want to be a price of garbage and if you recycle me I won’t be
:)
This should be done in every city.
In the old days newspapers would lead the way - but today newspapers only investigate things democrats want them to investigate.
Price = piece
Stupid phone
She should be fined for putting e waste in recycled materials
The “recycling” company will probably do just that.
Recycling is for metal and glass.
Paper and plastic can be burned for energy (Nashville has, or used to have, such a plant).
Just to note that an Apple Air Tag returns its location based on bluetooth signals to other devices and while it does give a rough GPS location, it does not use GPS signals.
Why mention it? because while GPS signals do not penetrate indoors well, anyone walking past an Apple Air Tag with the Apple App can update the location.
“An environmentalist put a GPS tracker ... “
The Apple Tag is not a GPS device.
The LORD gave us perfect natural receptacles to dispose of trash, all over the world.
They are called VOLCANOS.
Most of your sorted trash and recycling ends up at the same location. I’ve seen video of a garbage truck pulling up and emptying all three trash containers (color coded for contents) into the back of the same garbage truck. Home owners are required to purchase several different trash cans, take the time to sort their garbage, place the cans at the curb on a designated day, only to have someone pull up and undo all their effort by dumping all the container’s contents into the same truck.
The liberal homeowner never questions what they see but instead pat themselves on the back for doing their part to “save the planet”.
If recycling made economic sense, people would be bidding for my garbage.
The open border has fentanyl, human trafficking, and terrorists pouring in.
Our Global Democrat “leadership” has laid the groundwork for WW3 and nuclear war.
Our cities continue to crumble led by Democrats.
Deficits and debt are rising exponentially.
And this lady is losing her s#it over recyclables.
Same thing happens in my neck of the woods. I stopped taking my plastic to recycling. If my daughter knew, she’d throw a fit!
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