Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve

Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by gomox on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:23PM (#17411520)

So much this. The one at my previous office wanted "clean plastic". What's "clean plastic"? Is an empty soda bottle clean? Is an empty salad container clean? Is cling wrap from a sandwich clean?

I'm an environmentally conscious nerd. If my demographic can't figure out how the system works, what do you expect from the general public?

Of course only the trash bin was full at all times.

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by watwut on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:33PM (#17411607)

From what I was told, the food remains on salad or sandwitch container will be destroyed in the process of dealing with separated trash. Theoretically, you dont have to care about it much.

However, it can smell pretty quickly and bugs like it, so if you plan to collect plastic for multiple days especially if it is hot, then you clean it up.

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by thecrazyone on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:20AM (#17415031)

Wow, Clean up trash before we throw it?

We're throwing away our time is all we're doing. Looks like no one here values time. Sorting into 13 bins, etc. We need govt to get out of the way so someone can figure this out and make money (their incentive to figure it out).

Govt's not going to figure this out for us. It has no incentive to.

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by watwut on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:38AM (#17415687)

I just wrote that you don't have to do it, provided you take it out often enough or don't mind smell.

Useless outrage.

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