@Frickis. Yes, I would have thought so. Some r/c plants (eg Palo Alto, CA) has multiple bins separating things as far as different types of cardboard, clear glass as opposed to colored glass (it may even differentiate bet. green and brown bottles), pop corn as opposed to sheet polystyrene, etc etc. And God help you if you mix up a bin as I did once, they hauled that bin off to garbage as "no good" and I suffered a public showing of disgust and outrage which remains with me to this day!
@Frickis It is technically better, but the risk is that people won't bother to do so when it's much easier to chuck everything into the garbage bin. LosAHills' example is valid, but it's at much less of a cost than if none of that material had been collected because of lower recycling participation.
It seems like it wastes even more energy to build the recycling plants/trucks pay the employees and burn all the fuel to go through this process than it does just to take it out of the earth to begin with.
@MMZen that is a common myth about recycling because it is actually cheaper to recycle than to landfill. simply put if there wasnt any financial or not gain to recycling we sure as shit would be recycling, nor would we have the word recycling.
@MMZen (yes, 1 year later) Don't you have to build plants and trucks, pay employees, and burn all the fuel to take it out of the earth too? Not like aluminum cans and newspapers grow on trees.
@Frickis. Yes, I would have thought so. Some r/c plants (eg Palo Alto, CA) has multiple bins separating things as far as different types of cardboard, clear glass as opposed to colored glass (it may even differentiate bet. green and brown bottles), pop corn as opposed to sheet polystyrene, etc etc. And God help you if you mix up a bin as I did once, they hauled that bin off to garbage as "no good" and I suffered a public showing of disgust and outrage which remains with me to this day!
LosAHills 6 months ago
would it not be better if everything was sorted from the start
Frickis 1 year ago
Isnt it better to sort them from the beginning
Frickis 1 year ago
@Frickis It is technically better, but the risk is that people won't bother to do so when it's much easier to chuck everything into the garbage bin. LosAHills' example is valid, but it's at much less of a cost than if none of that material had been collected because of lower recycling participation.
tecsbrain 2 months ago
It seems like it wastes even more energy to build the recycling plants/trucks pay the employees and burn all the fuel to go through this process than it does just to take it out of the earth to begin with.
MMZen 2 years ago
@MMZen that is a common myth about recycling because it is actually cheaper to recycle than to landfill. simply put if there wasnt any financial or not gain to recycling we sure as shit would be recycling, nor would we have the word recycling.
MegaDirtyHands 1 year ago
@MMZen (yes, 1 year later) Don't you have to build plants and trucks, pay employees, and burn all the fuel to take it out of the earth too? Not like aluminum cans and newspapers grow on trees.
tecsbrain 2 months ago
Where can I get a video to promote this in Mexico and Latin America?
Tamesi1 3 years ago