Two things:
Where i live, there is only trash pickup. No recycle cans, and we burn our green waste.
Also, where my father grew up in the 40’s-50’s, they sorted garbage on conveyor belts for the recyclables.
The whole recycling thing is a farce. They have groomed us to sort and separate for them for maximum profit. Recycling is a major money maker. How do you think they can afford those $250k trucks to pick all this shit up? It’s a business, and nothing more.
I worked at a major corporation that started a complicated and confusing recyling program with different color cans at every desk for office paper, regular trash and wet trash. I think they may have won some award for the effort. However if you were in your cubicle after hours when the janitors came through, you saw that they had one big bin where they dumped all three cans.
They came around my office a year or two ago making sure everyone has a trash and recycling bin at their desk, but there is only one dumpster outside the building.
They did at my work too until the recycling police came and caught them. California...
I’m not surprised. At my work, businesses are required, by city ordinance, and they run the garbage collection, to have a paper recycle and compost recycle can on the property for regular pick up. The compost can is literally for your food scraps. Fucking bullshit. We really don’t have the room for all these cans so I called them and had them pick them up and never bring them back. Turns out it’s not so much a law after all. It’s a lib shot town btw. Of course.
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