Current Events > Is recycling really a scam of sorts?

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Aressar posted...

As a Dutchman, I'm kind of curious about this. Do you have a source?

I do know that several cities have done away with the plastic trash deposits and have it automatically seperated from the general waste afterwards by waste processing companies such as this one:
https://www.avr.nl/en/waste-and-materials/

It was a Zembla episode about recycling from some time ago:
https://www.bnnvara.nl/zembla/artikelen/waarom-bedrijven-onnodig-veel-plastic-blijven-gebruiken

That company you mention has the right idea. Meanwhile RD4 now not only has the yellow bag for electronics/toys/hard plastics but also a pink bag for soft plastics to make stuff even more confusing. The issue was also a lot of stuff gets trashed because of incorrect recycling, like people putting the plastics for sandwich meat in the plastic recycling bags. They then have to burn the entire bag since its contaminated and unusable. If they sort stuff themselves that issue doesnt exist.

Sonic_Cannon posted...

Depends where you are in the world.

Here in NZ we've got in most cities:
* Paper, glass and aluminium - generally it's agreed that these are a good idea. It does all get recycled
* Plastics with grade 1, 2 or 5 (PET, HDPE or PP) - because these are the ones we can actually make sure get recycled
Most other plastic grades are being slowly banned from use in food or consumer goods:

Count on modern day U.S.A to allow all this crap.

USA used to be innovative, and we used to have numerous places to recycle. Now you can hardly find anyplace to recycle aluminum. Which is weird, since those in power want all these metals so badly.

For example, brass knuckles were banned, and no dimes/quarters/ other coins after 1964 were made in all silver. Know why? They want all the precious metals and $$$

Aluminum is being used to make vehicles now. So why isn't there a program to collect aluminum cans?