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You're misreading that quote. It's saying that Californians do put these things in recycling bins, but they aren't actually recyclable, so the recycling facilit
by burkaman 5y ago
You're misreading that quote. It's saying that Californians do put these things in recycling bins, but they aren't actually recyclable, so the recycling facilities have to send them to landfills. People are trying to recycle the wrong things because of the intentionally misleading resin identification codes, and California is trying to fix that.
- sokoloff 5y agoI don't think I am misreading it, but rather thinking about the holistic solution differently. The waste processing that the various CA communities have contracted for is not recycling those resins, even though they're capable to be recycled and being presented for recycling. That gives me the view that the most effective action is not an on-the-street "consumers, please put these into the landfill stream" but rather a "communities, please choose to upgrade waste management practices on the blue stream".
- burkaman 5y agoThe goal is not to get people to put them in the trash, the goal is to get companies to stop using them. Basically, ask companies to be more responsible vs. let them do whatever they want and ask communities to clean up after them. It is not ethical to label something as recyclable when that is theoretically possible, but not practically possible in 90-100% of the state.