I’ve always wondered how legit recycling is and if it’s worth the effort to personally do it. (I live in a high-rise and I can toss my garbage down a chute on my floor, but have to bring my recycling down to the ground floor.) In college I literally saw them dump the recycling bin and trash bin into the same truck, but I know I see dedicated recycling trunks around.
I was told “soiled” recycling can’t be used i.e. greasy used pizza boxes, is that true? Recycling dumpsters are gross, isn’t everything soiled?
When companies sell a product that’s “made from recycled products” how truthful is that? Is it their own recycled products or do they source it?
Whats the deal with the recycling triangles and numbers on a product? If I recycle a number that I shouldn’t, does it ruin everything else in that dumpster?
How does any one/machine feasibly sort recycling? It seems like a herculean task.
Recycling, fact or fiction?
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>I was told “soiled” recycling can’t be used i.e. greasy used pizza boxes, is that true?
Contamination is a huge issue with recycling, because it’s usually cheaper to just throw away an entire load rather than pick out the part that’s contaminated. Around here they stopped collecting glass for a while because people would put glass in their blue bin and it would break, and the broken glass would contaminate the paper and cardboard. Now we have a grey bin for glass, separate from the blue bin.
>Whats the deal with the recycling triangles and numbers on a product?
The triangle on plastics is *not* the recycling symbol, but the fact that it looks like one isn’t an accident. The number is a resin identification code (basically what kind of plastic it is) This is a good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/PJnJ8mK3Q3g
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