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I lived in a tower block in the UK few decades back (was built in the 60's) and it had a shoot system comparable to this. Was bad as you would get people putti
by Zenst 6y ago
I lived in a tower block in the UK few decades back (was built in the 60's) and it had a shoot system comparable to this. Was bad as you would get people putting oversized rubbish down it so would get stuck in the shaft. Would also collect `matter` so would have a smell in the summer that permeated up the tube and whilst good in principle, in practice - not suited or accommodating towards a recycle culture.
Making general waste easier to dispose of IMHO only distracts/dissuaded people from recycling based upon my observations. More so in building types I described, to recycle you have to walk down to the ground floor to access a locked bin area to place your recycling into separate bins. Or as many did - just dump it down the one shoot for all the rubbish.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoAdd separate recycling chutes and it may look very different. You don't need separate chutes for e.g. PET and metals; they're easily sorted afterwards. If beer residue doesn't make paper non-recyclable, you can chuck paper and cardboard into the same chute too, and now you have one chute for the major recyclables and one for trash that gets burned.
- brianwawok 6y agoThe article mentions 3 chutes for different materials.
- rrdharan 6y agoRecycling is dead anyway. https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2019/april/recycling-is-dead-now-what/ https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2019/april/re...
- crazygringo 6y agoHuh? Recycling appears to be alive and well in New York City at least. It's even all processed locally, next door in New Jersey.
- brianwawok 6y agoWhat percentage of plastic actually gets recycled since China stopped accepted our trash?
- crazygringo 6y agoAs far as I know, all of it. NYC never sent anything to China in the first place. It's all recycled locally by Sims, as it has been long before anything China did in the past few years: https://www.simsmunicipal.com/ https://www.simsmunicipal.com/ They have a long-term (and exclusive, I believe) contract with the city.
- rrdharan 6y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.ht... You’re right though, NYC is less affected by the change in Chinese policy..
- koliber 6y agoAges ago in Poland we had those chutes as well in big apartment buildings. On top of the smell, there were also impossible-to-eradicate ants and cockroaches living in those chutes. They were eventually locked. I wonder how the pneumatic tunes deal with the pest problem.