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In the Bay Area, you're probably being served by Recology. They have trucks with multiple compartments for recycling, composting, and trash, but they also have
by nrp 7y ago
In the Bay Area, you're probably being served by Recology. They have trucks with multiple compartments for recycling, composting, and trash, but they also have pretty advanced sorting capabilities at their sites: https://www.recology.com/environment-innovation/#resource-recovery https://www.recology.com/environment-innovation/#resource-re...
I don't doubt that recycling needs to be improved in most places, but the San Francisco Bay Area system is among the better ones.
- zer00eyz 7y agoUmmm... In two counties, the same single compartment truck is picking up both cans (trash+recycling) at the same stop. No amount of sorting is going to help fix that mess.
- nrp 7y agoYou’d be surprised. In the last city I lived in in Orange County, the waste system was deliberately designed to have a single residential container and full sorting done at the waste facility by a combination of people and machines. The claim was that it was actually more effective than curbside sorting because the professionals and automation knew how to process recyclables better than the average resident. I don’t know if that is what Recology does in single-truck locations, but it seems likely.