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why can't this be solved at the recycling center? why do individuals need to deal with this at all? several municipalities handle separation at the waste center
by greggman 9y ago
why can't this be solved at the recycling center? why do individuals need to deal with this at all? several municipalities handle separation at the waste center. seems on all accounts a win.
one place to monitor for doing it correctly.
one place to easily apply advancements in solutions.
no need to try to herd cats (no need to try to get millions of people to follow exactly the correct proceedures). I watched teams of supposedly smart colleagues be unable to correctly separate their trash. if the average HN reader can't do it why would anyone expect to general population to ever be any better at it?
- dmm 9y agoWhy not just package everything in literal money? People would dutifully rinse everything.
- madengr 9y agoFunny, but good idea. I remember when glass used to have a deposit value on it. We still get local milk in refundable glass containers.
- dalbasal 9y agoThat works pretty well. The only catch is that you have to mandate the deposit on all bottles, not just glass ones. Otherwise it's cheaper to just sell everything in plastics. Some countries do it. It might work for phones/laptops too. Small deposit, most of the used stuff ends up delivered to the place of your choice. Like the shopping trolley system. ^If you already have big publicly accessible bottle recycle places, these will the raided.
- djsumdog 9y agoIt still does in Germany, The Netherlands and many other countries in the EU. The glass scanners are automated. You put everything in, it scans the barcodes and gives you a ticket you can use to pay for groceries.
- vinay427 9y agoIt works this way in the US as well, at least in my state though many have not implemented such a program.
- greggman 9y agothey might rinse. they still wouldn't separate correctly.