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In Winnipeg some of the glass collected by the blue box program ends up getting crushed into sand that is used for road building and maintenance at the landfill.
Which servers the second "R" (re-use), and also reduces the need to quarry and transport fresh material for that roadbuilding.
Sure, it's not being remanufactured into new glass products, but it is still better than what used to happen.
Nice to see another refugee from r/Winnipeg over here. I'm hoping that community grows quickly to replace the one on the old platform.
I don't want to talk too poorly about recycling because it is good and we should do it. But a lot of the 'recycling' we do doesn't actually get recycled and acts like a pacifier that lets us believe we're doing more than we are.
This bothers me so much. I'm that guy who washes my containers and checks with the city to see what can and can't be recycled. But I live in an apartment building and when I take my recycling to the bin, it's invariably filled with half full takeout containers and a million other things that can't be recycled. They probably throw the whole bin in the landfill. It's infuriating.
Yeah same in my apartment. Bins are filled with incorrect items, and clearly dirty. I bring all my organized and clean recycling but know deep down its just going to a landfill or be burned.
On top of that, the bin categories are weird and it's really confusing. IE there is a bin that says "Bottles and Cans", and another that says "Paper and Cardboard". What about other plastics?
People will do whatever is easiest, even if they are decent people. We need better policies and systems to ~~force~~ incentivize people to follow the rules.
Edit: typos
Yeah honestly can they open up more "Beer Store"-style recycling drop offs? That way they could not process the useless/dirty stuff and keep the good stuff?
Maybe give out like 1 cent per X grams of plastic to incentivize people?
That or we can go full Taiwan and basically force people/companies to do things properly.
Considering so much “recycling” ends up in landfills… I sure hope they’re at least keeping it sorted in the landfill to make it easier for landfill mining in future generations.