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Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Here we have door-to-door pick up now, which replaced dumpsters as a way to encourage recycling: you have limited pick-ups for unsorted trash, the bin has a transponder and a barcode, if you go over the limit you pay extra (albeit very little), while recyclables have unlimited pick-ups, if they catch you putting normal trash in the recyclables they can fine you.

For door to door we sort as follows:

Then we have dumpsters for glass and dumpsters for gardening refuse, such as wood, leaves, cut grass. Now we have one for cooking oil as well.

For batteries there are usually bins near some stores or at workplaces.

Everything else you have to take to the recycling center, say metal, building materials, furniture… For furniture in some places you can arrange a curbside pick-up. Usually each community has one, when I lived in the country side, my 3000-people village had its own.

All of this is the same for urban and rural areas, though there are small differences between regions as the recycling facilities can be different. For example in some places milk cartons go in the paper bin instead of the plastic one. Of course rural in my area is probably way less rural than most of Utah.

As for caps, yeah, those are now attached to the bottle.. I guess the recycling facility has a way to separate and sort them.

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