Any recycling you can’t get money back for is either a scam or just not being done. Most city recycling programs just ship the trash to some other country, for instance.
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIIRC plastic recycling is basically bullshit (except maybe PET bottles?) but aluminum is actually effective. Makes you wonder why we don’t use more aluminum packaging in general.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Even the aluminum containers are coated with plastic (soda cans, for example)
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah, I’m going to update my comment. Metal recycling is genuinely good, and recycling makes an enormous impact on the production of new metal