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Update: My town's 'green' recycling bins were actually making things worse
I found out our local program was mixing all the recycling together, which meant a lot of it got thrown out at the sorting plant. I started taking my own glass and paper to the separate drop-off center across town. After two months of doing this, I checked with the facility and they confirmed my stuff was actually getting processed. Has anyone else had to find a workaround for a broken local system?
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knight.dylan8d agoMost Upvoted
Did the facility mention what percentage of single-stream recycling actually gets processed?
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vera_lewis28d ago
Our town spent over a million dollars on that single-stream system. I mean, to find out it's just getting trashed at the plant is kind of a gut punch. I guess I need to look up where the real drop-off is.
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michaeld488d ago
It's a real bummer, @vera_lewis2. My cousin works at a sorting plant and says the contamination rates can get pretty wild.
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