How do recycling factories deal with the problem of people putting things in the wrong bins?
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Many places send the whole load to the landfill. If you are lucky, there will be humans at a conveyor belt sorting every bit into “burnables”, “metals”, “green waste”, and “trash”.
That’s why many containers say “pre-consumer recyled” instead of post-consumer. Factories would rather buy a trainload of pure cardboard trimmings from a factory than the load of old cardboard cereal boxes, pizza boxes and used Amazon prime boxes from community recycling centers.
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