The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by athenot on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:59PM (#18893504)

By weight, I estimate that my household produces about 1/3 recyclable trash vs. landfill trash. But by volume, it's almost at parity (before compaction, since I'm a household).

I wonder if an equal alternative would be to collect each type of recyclable once a month. Eg.

- 1st week: paper/cardboards

- 2nd week: plastics

- 3rd week: glass

- 4th week: metals

Yes it would mean more trash cans but in total volume I don't think it would be much different than my current single-stream bi-weekly collection.

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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by GordonS on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:01PM (#18893818)

Different parts of the UK have different collection policies, but for us, our food waste is collected every week, while recycling (paper/card, plastic, metal, but not glass in our area :/) and rubbish ("garbage" for merkins) are collected on alternating weeks.

There was uproar when we moved to this from weekly rubbish and recycling collection, but most of the time it really seems to work - we recycle far more than I thought we would.

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