We have separate trucks here, but I was behind the recycling truck one day and watched it pull into the landfill.
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Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 day agoThe latter half of your comment is why I dont even bother. The “recycling” here is picked up and dumped into the same truck, there is no separation facility, just a landfill/incinerator.
Im not paying extra to lie to myself.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember my home district had one spot that handled both trash and recycling, so maybe there’s a chance of it still getting somewhere useful.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Nope, I’ve been to the landfill plenty of times, and there’s no separate spot for recycling. The company that picks up the recycling is a private company not affiliated with the municipality.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i lost faith in recycling the more I read about it.
especially when most recycling is sent to poor countries to be burned, and if it is actually recycled it is then shipped back again as a single use spoon, then sent back… all the way to less quality materials, and some uses are for fleece that produces a shit ton of microplastics.
real solutions is to ban single use plastics (maybe exceptions for medical uses).