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I always suspected this, because given what I know of the average American, there's no chance that the recycling bins aren't full of all kinds of nonrecyclable
by squokko 4y ago
I always suspected this, because given what I know of the average American, there's no chance that the recycling bins aren't full of all kinds of nonrecyclable items. The only things that I expect are reliably recycled are those which are profitable enough to pick out of the mess.
- ROTMetro 4y agoDude, it is disgusting what people put in recycling. I think people may be trying to sabotage it the stuff they put in there. Lots of used kitty litter. Lots of soiled clothes. Worst thing we had come through was a human body.
- swagasaurus-rex 4y agowow tell us more about this recycled human body
- ROTMetro 4y agoNothing much interesting. They shut down the plant and called the cops. Some of the people in pre-sort (where things first enter the line) were kind of shook up by it. We'd get guns come through a couple of times a month. Those were supposed to get called in to the police too, but since the job is only worked by felons that didn't happen (no snitching rule in effect).
- mateo411 4y ago> Worst thing we had come through was a human body. This should really go in the compost bin.
- otikik 4y agoPerhaps it was all plastic surgery offshoots.
- ROTMetro 4y agoWe did have special gloves to protect us for the 'sharps' and medical waste.
- c22 4y agoI was working at a fast food restaurant, emptying the trash cans several times a day, when my city decided to mandate separate recycle and compost bins in dining areas. It tripled the number of cans I had to empty and clean out, but they all ended up in the same garbage dumpster. Some of my coworkers didn't give a fuck but I couldn't in good conscience dump a bin full of half-empty milkshakes and chewing gum into the recycling dumpster, or a bunch of foil wrappers and plastic bottles into the compost.