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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As a facility manager, I was given a tour of a huge trash/ recycling facility, who took our building tash. I saw huge structures with massive belt systems moving tons of material, magnets were pulling ferrous metals, water troughs were separating floating items, glass and aluminum were being separated and raking systems were grabbing and baling plastic bags. I saw huge rooms full of bins with aluminum, copper, etc. So this single stream system seemed to be in full gear doing what they claimed, at least in 2012, when I did the tour.
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