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I worked at a company that introduced recycling program and we had three bins: trash, recyclables and food We were all trying to abide by the program and go “g

by ap3 7y ago

I worked at a company that introduced recycling program and we had three bins: trash, recyclables and food We were all trying to abide by the program and go “green”. One day we stuck around late and noticed the cleaning guy come in take the three bins and empty the onto the same trash container We asked him and he said they only had one type of trash containers we downstairs so everything went into the same one

rasz 7y ago
This is how Warsaw, capital of Poland, EU member works. Recycling bins are mandatory per EU policy, garbage trucks load all three bins into the same bed and dump it into the same landfill, city pays EU fine. Everyone is happy because - people get to pretend they care - collecting is cheaper than using 3x the number of vehicles - its cheaper than actually doing something sensible with segregated garbage.