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The building my wife was living in in Chicago when we first met had this sort of garbage chute (it was a 1920s-era building). Sorting recycling is not an issue:
by dhosek 6y ago
The building my wife was living in in Chicago when we first met had this sort of garbage chute (it was a 1920s-era building). Sorting recycling is not an issue: Chicago found a low-tech way to deal with the sorting: blue plastic bags are reserved for recycling only.
- pxx 6y agoThat didn't work so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bag#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bag#United_States
- dhosek 6y agoI’ve not lived in the city for 18 years. I didn’t know they gave it up.
- shard 6y agoI suspect that if incentives were more aligned, the program could have succeeded. People in general don't want to pay more, but you can guide people to certain behaviors if they benefit from the behaviors. In South Korea, people have to pay for bags for general trash, and for food waste. Recycling requires no extra fees. This incentivizes people to reduce general trash by increasing recycling sorting, and to reduce food waste.