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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Aluminum recycling is real. Plastic recycling is mostly to make you feel better about overbuying single use plastics. Yes, some plastic gets recycled. But only a small fraction, and it can only be recycled a few times before it still ends up in a landfill. Recycling has gotten better, but is still not enough to solve our trash/pollution problems. The words in “reduce, reuse, recycle” are in order of importance/impact. Reducing is by far the best thing you can do, then reuse what you can, and finally recycle as a last resort. Don’t rely on recycling to actually happen for most plastics.
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