You Need Deli Cups

Re:You Need Deli Cups by ottonomy on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:18PM (#17140492)

My local recycling program no longer accepts almost all plastic recycling due to China blocking shipments because what they were getting from plastic container loads were too contaminated. No thanks!

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Re:You Need Deli Cups by paleotrope on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:29PM (#17140546)

Just put it in the regular trash then.

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Re:You Need Deli Cups by dingaling on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:21AM (#17141305)

I'm not exaggerating when I say that your comment shocked me.

If your municipal authority offers 'tours' of landfill facilities I'd urge you to sign-up for one. The scale is staggering.

In Northern Ireland, with fewer than 2 million inhabitants, we have one of the highest recycling rates in Europe ( about 40% ) yet still 400,000 tonnes of waste goes to landfill very year. 200kg per capita

The USA generates roughly twice as much waste per capita...

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Re:You Need Deli Cups by jogjayr on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:35PM (#17140573)

So that it disintegrates to microscopic fragments and contaminates the water over decades?

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