Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
by ryandrake on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:10PM
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This is another problem: what goes in what bin is different in every city. I still don’t know if cardboard goes in trash, recycling or organically in my new city. Standardize the rules.
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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
by sigstoat on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:32PM
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it isn't just different in every city, they change everywhere, all the time, unpredictably.
the university i worked at had different recycling rules than the city it was located in, because they operated their own little recycling facility. by the time i left the sorting rules they handed out to all 10,000 employees quarterly consumed an 8.5x14 sheet of colored paper.
a local fast food restaurant has something like four different disposal bins, and i'm pretty sure that at least 3 of them aren't mutually exclusive in their descriptions of what they accept. none of the bins match my understanding of what any of the local waste disposal companies accept in a given stream.