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There's a chicken-egg problem here, which is that if nobody sorts their waste then there's no incentive to find better usages for it. I don't mind sorting my wa
by shawnz 2y ago
There's a chicken-egg problem here, which is that if nobody sorts their waste then there's no incentive to find better usages for it. I don't mind sorting my waste even if it still ends up in a landfill, just in case maybe the sorted waste supply will make it easier to find non-landfill usages for it.
Not that landfills are inherently bad - like the article implies, it's really the creation of the waste in the first place which is the problem.
It benefits me to have sorted waste anyway, since the non-recyclable garbage is more prone to attracting pests and a separate recycling stream helps to make the quantity of garbage more manageable. But what's even better for that is municipal organics/food waste collection.
- TheGRS 2y agoYea for most of us (I hope), sorting is like a non-thought at this point. When I have an aluminum can and I can't find a recycle bin I have a mini panic about it. There's not much of a time waste on the consumer side, its not like I'm sorting through a bag of trash every week. I *do* hope we get managing plastic waste under control though, and soon. Feels like the main problem is now on the government level figuring out what to do about this. The behavior change is largely done. If it just needs to go back into the ground great, I just don't want it near the ocean.