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hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

In the US it’s nearly impossible since the pandemic. Most waste collection firms are dumping both cans in the same truck and not recycling anything. Plastic recycling in particular turned out to be much more expensive than waste management was prepared to keep doing so they stopped.

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Got a source on that “most”? The ones around here DEFINITELY don’t do that.

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- hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What proof do you have that your waste is being processed correctly? I have proof mine is not and plenty of news reporting from across the US in the last 5 years that says consumer curbside recycling is basically dead.
  
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Im calling you out for your claim that most places dump it all in the same truck. While it is true that a lot of plastic gets thrown away by the recycler, that is absolutely not true for metal, glass, and paper.
    
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    basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The point of the packaging shown in the original post is pretty much that it’s more paper and less plastic … where recycling tends to work better.
    
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then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Surely that can’t be legal?

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- Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Its not illegal, which is how things work in the states.
  
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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Recycling is voluntary in the US, not legally required.
  
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- hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s hard to blame them entirely when the facilities to separate and recycle the waste were never fully built in the US and we spent decades shipping bales of consumer recycling to Asia where it was often deemed too dirty to use for recycling and was burned instead. You can find tons of great articles about the collapses of consumer recycling and the unraveling of the plastic recycling lies sold to the American public, it came about 2021 and continued to be a hot topic through 2023. Today, my shitty neighborhood has collectively stepped down from a proper waste pickup with bins, to 4 guys and a truck who collect and take the waste to a nearby incinerator. We know it can’t be an “official” waste collection company by the “We Love Junk” signs on the truck enjoying our cans, but we’ve been told this is fancy hand collection that is quieter than standard trash trucks and we should be grateful. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
  
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
notice how you’re immediately moving the goalposts: you’re not talking about an individual separating packaging, you’re talking about the industrial process.

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- hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m just speaking as someone who does carefully separate everything, only to watch the truck put it all the same place. My individual actions mean fuck all if the rest of the process doesn’t work.
  
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