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One of the things I’ve seen at universities a lot are signs on the recycling and garbage bins saying what is allowed and not. Maybe recycling bins could have mo
by Choco31415 3y ago
One of the things I’ve seen at universities a lot are signs on the recycling and garbage bins saying what is allowed and not. Maybe recycling bins could have more of that to help people know what’s okay or not.
Do you think it’d help if the plastic type label was color coded too? Say yellow for PET, red for HDPE, etc, to help people recycle only the right plastics.
Generally I’ve seen that it’s not that people don’t understand recycling, it’s that it takes energy and effort to figure out what to do and it’s not always easy.
- ploxiln 3y agoI live in a nice condo building. Every floor has a recycling room, with a sign above the two bins that says "no bags, put recyclables directly in bins". I still see a lot of bags. I think there just needs to be someone supervising saying "For real, seriously, no bags." I think people just don't know if it's a real rule, or an over-simplified kinda fake rule, like wear a helmet. In fact, I don't know, I just have a weird engineer mind that wants things to work right, whatever they are. Actually I think we need people to be told, in school and at recycling points: "you don't have to pretend to be green, just throw it away if you don't care". It seems to me that recycling is one of the least controversial things, everyone knows it's good and wants to support it, just not many people evidently care that it's done in a way that actually works. Again, as an engineer, this bothers me.