What usually happens is that people are uncultured pigs and don’t separate. So the trash ends up being mixed anyway. After a few years of that, they decide there’s no point in separating.
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qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
That is pure laziness of whoever is responsible for puting the bags there.
Either there is a support bracket for two separate bags on the underside if that lid or the trash bin originally had two separate buckets that were taken away.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Recycling is literally a scam plastic either can’t be recycled, can but are not recycled, are recycled while producing more waste than would be saved by not recycled or incinerated. Recycling plastic has never been possible they knew that from the beginning and nothing changed with modern technology. This is just shifting the blame back to himself.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s also way, way cheaper to make new plastic than to recycle it. As long as that’s the case, it’ll be a scam.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Or it’s well known most places don’t actually recycle.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They do, if it’s profitable. Most recycling, unfortunately, costs too much for a subpar product.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
nah its not whoever’s putting the bags in, it’s either management deciding it’s too inefficient to deal with two streams, or the people using the bins weren’t capable of separating so just threw it wherever and so it all ended up mixed anyway
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I can all but guarantee it’s the latter. I have even noticed this at most Starbucks. They got rid of separate bins for recycling and just do trash/landfill now.
Fwiw, recycling doesn’t work anyway, except for metal. But even then it’s highly dependent on people cleaning the metal before recycling.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
How about paper, glass and density plastics?
And if wasn’t for negative propaganda, pyrolotic incineration would deal with the gross majority of non recyclables.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Paper can be effectively down cycled, and corrugated cardboard is absolutely worth recycling. Glass is just borderline, it’s not significantly better energy wise to recycle, and colored glass makes it more difficult. Plastic is better off in a landfill.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
My understanding with glass is that it’s still cheaper to make new glass than recycle it whereas metal the costs have just about evened out.
Last I read about high density plastics is that they aren’t as strong after the first use. So they can’t be reused as high density plastic and have to be mixed in with other plastics.
shottymcb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Also a lot of municipal waste systems just don’t pick up general recycling from commercial buildings. Usually just one dumpster for trash and one for cardboard.