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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not only that, but unless you can guarantee that a significant portion users will recycle those aluminum cans, they are significantly more energy intensive to manufacture compared to single use plastic bottles.

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do most people not recycle cans?

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Here in Cleveland, we used to just put all trash, no recycling, on the lawn. Then in 2008 or so, they put out a recycling innitive. Each resident had to pay $10 per family (so duplexs would buy 2 per house), and they’d get a blue bin. You put the recycling in the blue bin, and a seperate truck picks that up.

      Sounds great right?

      Welll…in 2020 or so they found out the 1st truck would take your black bin regular trash, and the 2nd truck would take your blue bin recyclables, and then BOTH trucks would drop off in the same pile, in the same landfill with zero recycling done.

      Since that was discovered I see a massive 90%+ dropoff in blue bins. Not only have people lost faith in buying blue bins at all, but most people now use their blue bins as 2nd regular non-recycling trash can.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        and then BOTH trucks would drop off in the same pile, in the same landfill with zero recycling done.

        That’s not true, especially for cans. It’s more effective to sort trash at a central location than to have consumers do it beforehand. Aluminum recycling alone turns a significant profit. Glass is also profitable by itself.

        Waste management companies should be paying you for your cans; if they are charging you for recycling, you should consider taking your cans to a scrap yard rather than leaving them in your trash.

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      • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s true, I have no idea what actually happens to my recycling after it’s picked up, but I guess I can hope…

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Where I live, every time you buy a plastic bottle, aluminum can or glass bottle, you pay extra 10 cents that you get back when you take them to the recycling (that every store is mandated to have, IIRC).

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      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And do you do that?

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      According to the actual Aluminum Association, only 43% of aluminum cans shipped within the United States are recycled.

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