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100%. Collect all garbage (and recyclables) in one shot and sort at the destination!!! So many billions of hours and dollars lost to this nonsense.
by lefstathiou 2y ago
100%. Collect all garbage (and recyclables) in one shot and sort at the destination!!!
So many billions of hours and dollars lost to this nonsense.
- Over2Chars 2y agoWhat "destination" is that? It gets shipped to another country where it's dumped. (one article picked at random from a search for "recycling fraud") https://eia-international.org/news/exposed-the-plastics-waste-trade-scams-that-fuel-crime-and-injustice-around-the-world/ https://eia-international.org/news/exposed-the-plastics-wast...
- barbazoo 2y agoDepends. Lots of places recycle significant amounts locally.
- tempestn 2y agoIf you do it that way, the garbage contaminates everything else, making recycling much more difficult or impossible. Especially for paper and cardboard, which is very recyclable.
- whimsicalism 2y agoi’ve basically never seen single stream actually work somewhere… every time i’ve looked into the details it appears they just skim off the metal and landfill/burn the rest
- hooverd 2y agoWhy doesn't everyone already do that if it's so simple?