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Britain's largest export, by volume, is waste paper / cardboard. It was going to China and coming back as cardboard.

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Manglano 9y ago
At least, properly separated, it degrades and can be reprocessed into more paper and cardboard. The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal. In some regions, pirated materials derived from metals, petrochemicals, and advanced dyes are immediately destroyed and shoveled into landfills: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/steam-rollers-crush-nearly-two-million-pieces-of-pirated-news-photo/51341789?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/steam-rollers-c... The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way...
- ctrl-j 9y ago
  > The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way... As well they should. Back when I was growing up we weren't taught to recycle, we were taught the three R's. 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Recycle And those R's were supposed to be in order of priority.
- Aloha 9y ago
  I'd love to buy more of my stuff in glass.
  - Manglano 9y ago
    Even something as simple as being able to have a clerk fill my jar with a weight of instant coffee would cut down my recycling mass by an average of about 50g per week and eliminate some plastic. Glass doesn't have a limit on recycle phases if handled correctly but all plastic other than PLA has a pretty short recycle lifetime.
- cat199 9y ago
  > The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal. and is far from unique in doing so..
pishpash 9y ago
An improvement over opium.
- mlvljr 9y ago
  ^ Downvoted by the decriminalization crowd :)
igouy 9y ago
It used to be pulped and used to make cardboard in Britain, for example at Carrongrove Mill. http://www.baph.org.uk/forum/topic/carrongrove-mill-denny/ http://www.baph.org.uk/forum/topic/carrongrove-mill-denny/
foxhop 9y ago
Waste cardboard composts down in a short season. I wish we didn't waste precious high energy fossil fuels on moving paper back and forth.

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At least, properly separated, it degrades and can be reprocessed into more paper and cardboard. The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal. In some regions, pirated materials derived from metals, petrochemicals, and advanced dyes are immediately destroyed and shoveled into landfills: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/steam-rollers-crush-nearly-two-million-pieces-of-pirated-news-photo/51341789?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/steam-rollers-c... The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way...

ctrl-j 9y ago
> The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way... As well they should. Back when I was growing up we weren't taught to recycle, we were taught the three R's. 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Recycle And those R's were supposed to be in order of priority.
Aloha 9y ago
I'd love to buy more of my stuff in glass.
- Manglano 9y ago
  Even something as simple as being able to have a clerk fill my jar with a weight of instant coffee would cut down my recycling mass by an average of about 50g per week and eliminate some plastic. Glass doesn't have a limit on recycle phases if handled correctly but all plastic other than PLA has a pretty short recycle lifetime.
cat199 9y ago
> The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal. and is far from unique in doing so..

pishpash 9y ago

An improvement over opium.

mlvljr 9y ago
^ Downvoted by the decriminalization crowd :)

igouy 9y ago

It used to be pulped and used to make cardboard in Britain, for example at Carrongrove Mill. http://www.baph.org.uk/forum/topic/carrongrove-mill-denny/ http://www.baph.org.uk/forum/topic/carrongrove-mill-denny/

foxhop 9y ago

Waste cardboard composts down in a short season. I wish we didn't waste precious high energy fossil fuels on moving paper back and forth.