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Strider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh, another US issue.
(Not being condescending, but oftentimes there are solutions but not in the us. In this case in Germany you have the “wertstoffhof” where you can just bring stuff like that. Cost - if any - depends on location)
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We have that in the US too, but condescend away.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It varies from state to state. It isnt across the board. Same here in Canada. My province makes it easy and free. Not all do.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So why the question then?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The Crux of the standard US problem is that nothing is standard.
So you’ll have one person in a county that has its shit together swearing that we’re set and another person from a county that doesn’t have potable water asking for advice.
The capitalist answer is some store have decided there’s money in getting people in to recycle so voluntarily corporate chain stores are the closest we have to a country wide state of handled it.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nothing against OP, but there’s a lot of people who are completely unaware of their surroundings. Perhaps OP is young, not a homeowner, whatever. The older I get, the more I certainly become aware of these things. The question I asked myself was why come here and not a search engine? But it’s not important, and I think OP got some valid answers here, and hopefully they learned about their community.
As others have said, it’s not across the board. I’m sure there are places in the US where it’s hard to recycle this kind of stuff. Just like I’m sure there are places in Europe where people bury these things in holes in the ground. It’s just the whole “Hurr durr America stupid” thing is old af, and so when I read these jabs I like to talk about how I live in good America, where we have education and social safety nets and electronic recycling.
And the majority of comments I make in this fashion apply fairly broadly to the entirety of the Northeast Corridor, DC to Boston, which is kind of where America started. Just wish there were more northeast corridors, because I do understand and appreciate that some of the criticisms I read are true of portions of the country, and it’s unfortunate.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have a hazmat disposal center, as well as a recycling center ran by my county a couple miles from me.
Most people here don’t even know it exists, or that it takes most thins at no cost.