puts it in the trash: "please recycle it"
puts it in the recycling: "you can't put that there!"
No see you have to bring it to the only supermarket that recycles soft plastics 45 minutes away by car
When you have to put up a damned chart for what's acceptable in the recycling bin...
Also it all wins up in the same landfill anyway.
Also it all winds up in the same landfill anyway.
This may or may not be true for your area. Often people make this assumption when they’ve been told this factoid (including me for many years!), but visit your local recycling center to find out what they do. Sometimes yes, recycling gets landfilled. Or burned. But some places do the work and source stuff out. It’s worth finding out what happens to your waste.
(My wife is big into recycling, composting, etc, and has had a number of conversations with our local recycling people and has toured the plant a couple of times. She’s taught me a lot, and shown that at least in my area and for specific materials, a lot of what I cynically assumed about recycling just isn’t true.)
My mum is really into recycling, so she's obviously a big fan of Lemmy's meme communities, ha ha ha.
I'd have that same reaction. As my old favorite TV show used to say: "Get it right or pay the price"
When I was a garbage man (covid was a weird time) one stop was a business that made those benches, beach chairs, picnic tables etc. Every other week that dumpster was filled to the brim with leftover pieces and "sawdust". We don't have a recycling center in the area so guess where that all goes?
