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Aren't most of the things sold by fast food restaurants contaminated and thus un-recyclable?
by greedo 7y ago
Aren't most of the things sold by fast food restaurants contaminated and thus un-recyclable?
- mikepurvis 7y agoProbably, but in that case, they should be honest and just have a single receptacle. OTOH, fast food joints are possibly one of the handful of places you could actually do recycling right, since you have a pretty uniform stream of items, thus limiting the need to sort. So instead of having a "recycling" bin, they could have a bin for plastic cutlery, and a bin for straws, and a bin for drink lids, with everything else going in a common trash. Getting thousands of identical contaminated plastic forks that just need a wash before being melted down is probably a lot more appealing to a recycler than getting a bag that's a big jumble of contaminated junk.