AMC theaters did this when I worked there. Have marked recycle bins everywhere but it all ends up in the same compactor in the back. However it’s not like it mattered in the first place because people ignored the signs and just put non recyclables in the recycling bin anyways. Hell I’ve even experienced people throwing away drinks in the 3d glasses recycle bin. Which is harder because it has a 3d glasses shaped cutout.
Spiritual_Carob_2828 on
Why not make this news, like that even they have to take the rules seriously, they can do what they want cus we let them 🤔🤷
Environmental_Ant268 on
It’s been always like that, recycling never starts from individuals, all this was for virtue signalling points.
The real recycling happens at the waste processing plant, they have machines for lots of different materials to be seperated and sorted. My friend works at a simi government company that does that in Sharjah, UAE and told me about how they recycle old tires and trash
Hunteractive on
yeah i dont think of myself having a recyle bin and a normal bin
I have 2 bins and just need to make sure one has a cardboard box on top
kkeinng on
Recycling has always been a scam, in the US.
Old article but plastic collection and segregation hasn’t changed since 2019, so safe to assume our recycling companies haven’t either.
If you have a bin and you put everything in it that you think is recyclable, it’s probably just going to a landfill with everything else. But at least you feel better for putting it in a blue container instead of a green one.
The truck literally says „refuse service“.
English isn’t my native language so I think that’s literally saying they won’t do their job…
TheGipper80 on
I pay extra every month for recycling service through my garbage collection and I often wonder if it’s all ending up in the same landfill anyway.
UpsetAdministration1 on
It’s not a scam we put all the containers in the one bin. I know they’re separated and it’s stupid, but we put it all in the one take it to a sorting facility and then they sort it and send it to the proper recycling facilities, a huge waste of time, but it really does get recycled at least in the city I work in
king_noobie on
The public cant be trusted with putting their trash in the correct bin.
Any bins that is recyclable and open to the public has to be treated as general waste.
time_observer on
Idk but France collects cardboard, plastic and aluminium cans in the same bins.
Lil_Shanties on
Yea my city requires all businesses to pay for a recycling dumpster because of a deal with the waste company. Every week the same truck dumps the garbage and the recycling together and drives away leaving us with a bill and for some reason spending time sorting it into the right bins while they don’t recycle a fucking thing.
NightIsMyName on
If you did the trash at literally anywhere you already knew this.
HairballTheory on
All of ours goes to an incinerator then what ever metal is at the bottom, that is what is recycled.
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AMC theaters did this when I worked there. Have marked recycle bins everywhere but it all ends up in the same compactor in the back. However it’s not like it mattered in the first place because people ignored the signs and just put non recyclables in the recycling bin anyways. Hell I’ve even experienced people throwing away drinks in the 3d glasses recycle bin. Which is harder because it has a 3d glasses shaped cutout.
Why not make this news, like that even they have to take the rules seriously, they can do what they want cus we let them 🤔🤷
It’s been always like that, recycling never starts from individuals, all this was for virtue signalling points.
The real recycling happens at the waste processing plant, they have machines for lots of different materials to be seperated and sorted. My friend works at a simi government company that does that in Sharjah, UAE and told me about how they recycle old tires and trash
yeah i dont think of myself having a recyle bin and a normal bin
I have 2 bins and just need to make sure one has a cardboard box on top
Recycling has always been a scam, in the US.
Old article but plastic collection and segregation hasn’t changed since 2019, so safe to assume our recycling companies haven’t either.
If you have a bin and you put everything in it that you think is recyclable, it’s probably just going to a landfill with everything else. But at least you feel better for putting it in a blue container instead of a green one.
https://www.repurpose.global/blog/us-waste-exporting-explained
The truck literally says „refuse service“.
English isn’t my native language so I think that’s literally saying they won’t do their job…
I pay extra every month for recycling service through my garbage collection and I often wonder if it’s all ending up in the same landfill anyway.
It’s not a scam we put all the containers in the one bin. I know they’re separated and it’s stupid, but we put it all in the one take it to a sorting facility and then they sort it and send it to the proper recycling facilities, a huge waste of time, but it really does get recycled at least in the city I work in
The public cant be trusted with putting their trash in the correct bin.
Any bins that is recyclable and open to the public has to be treated as general waste.
Idk but France collects cardboard, plastic and aluminium cans in the same bins.
Yea my city requires all businesses to pay for a recycling dumpster because of a deal with the waste company. Every week the same truck dumps the garbage and the recycling together and drives away leaving us with a bill and for some reason spending time sorting it into the right bins while they don’t recycle a fucking thing.
If you did the trash at literally anywhere you already knew this.
All of ours goes to an incinerator then what ever metal is at the bottom, that is what is recycled.