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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re misunderstanding.

      I’m not stating how recycling SHOULD work. I’m stating how the city of Cleveland DID (or rather did NOT) operate it’s own recycling innitive.

      They sold you a blue bin for $10. And then for 12 years, unknown to the public, they picked up the recycleables, and didn’t recycle them.

      It was a cash grab to get millions of dollars from residents, to perform a service that was never properly performed.

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      • flubba86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My city started doing a similar thing. Their contracted recycling plants started rejecting the truck loads because they were seeing less than 40% recyclable content in the shipments. Lots of people overestimate how much of their trash is recyclable, and over-utilize the recycling bin.

        Apparently the recycling plants will accept as low as 50% recyclable content in the load, anything under that they for a prolonged period, they start rejecting the loads.

        So for a year our city was just taking the recycling bin loads to the landfill. Years ago most cities could just sell it directly to China, ship it over on enormous garbage boats, but even China has stopped accepting our nonsense.

        Our city had to do a big re-education campaign, and send out new stickers for the bin lids, to get residents to put only recyclable things in the recycle bins.

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      • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bro. Citation needed.

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s easier if you don’t hope. Less inevitable disappointment that way.

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• SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And do you do that?

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes? Because every time we bring back a bag of bottles, we get about 10€. Would you rather throw out the 10€?

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      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I also return mine but most people around me don’t seem to. You can often find them littering the streets or walkways or even out in the woods unfortunately.

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    • tuoret@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t know about other places with a deposit system, but in Finland 98% of aluminium cans are recycled. Seems to work pretty well

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m lazy enough and a frequent enough soft drink & beer consumer that by the time I take it in, it’s at least 10€, but can be 20€ or more. I have also gotten over 100€ but that was cheating, it was from previous year’s summer solstice celebrations. And like the commenter above you, it’s the same price for me, 10 cents a bottle or can. Mostly because we apparently live in the same country.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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