• @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    43 months ago

    It’s called “single stream recycling”. We have it where I live. I wish I could have confidence in any recycling these days. Too many stories of separated trash all ending up in the dump anyway.

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      43 months ago

      The problem is that mixing everything means massive contamination, so only metal is going to really get pulled out.

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        23 months ago

        Only the metal should be pulled out. Plastic recycling is a scam invented by the bottling companies and there’s not a single plastic bottle that couldn’t be replaced by paper or aluminum. Even the plastic lines cardboard cartons use less plastic overall.

        • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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          13 months ago

          There’s plenty of paper that could get recycled as well that can’t in a single stream. I agree plastic going to a landfill is better though.

            • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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              13 months ago

              It doesn’t really degrade in a landfill though. Industrial composting is something I wish was more popular though, that would probably reduce my actual trash by about 50%.

              • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                13 months ago

                I actually separate my burnables and compost the ashes, but I understand that most people can’t diy that. I think Japan has separate receptacles for burnables.

                • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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                  13 months ago

                  Japan separates burnable stuff like paper and food waste from the non-burnable plastics and styrofoam type things. I believe they end up burning both though, but with different methods or temps or something like that. Metal and electronics etc doesn’t go in with the rest of the non-burnables. The only plastic bottles they separate for recycling are the PET kind.