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Where I live (a US city) we're strongly encouraged to recycle plastic, by a policy that limits trash bags and makes putting out extra fairly expensive, but allo
by intergalplan 5y ago
Where I live (a US city) we're strongly encouraged to recycle plastic, by a policy that limits trash bags and makes putting out extra fairly expensive, but allows unlimited recycling, including plastic.
The recycling program also uses plastic open-top bins as the standard collection container. You can imagine what this "green" policy causes on windy days. That's right: litter-tornadoes. Been that way for years, all I can figure is whoever's got the contract has important political connections. It's very, very dumb.
- lostlogin 5y agoWe had this, then moved to (plastic) wheelie bins that are 120 or 240 litres, but emptied every fortnight.
- admiral33 5y agoSorry to hear that, policies like that are often in good faith but lack important details like you described. It reminds me of when I went to an earth day fair and one of the tents was selling athleisure made from recycled bottles. It had a sizeable crowd - I was thinking about how many of those who bought something went home feeling like they had done the right thing and had some quality fitness apparel to show for it - only to throw them in a washing machine without a microplastic filter on it.