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The latter half of your comment is why I dont even bother. The “recycling” here is picked up and dumped into the same truck, there is no separation facility, just a landfill/incinerator.

Im not paying extra to lie to myself.

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onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We have separate trucks here, but I was behind the recycling truck one day and watched it pull into the landfill.

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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I remember my home district had one spot that handled both trash and recycling, so maybe there’s a chance of it still getting somewhere useful.
  
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  - onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope, I’ve been to the landfill plenty of times, and there’s no separate spot for recycling. The company that picks up the recycling is a private company not affiliated with the municipality.
    
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
i lost faith in recycling the more I read about it.

especially when most recycling is sent to poor countries to be burned, and if it is actually recycled it is then shipped back again as a single use spoon, then sent back… all the way to less quality materials, and some uses are for fleece that produces a shit ton of microplastics.

real solutions is to ban single use plastics (maybe exceptions for medical uses).

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