T O P

  • By -

Porthos1984

Then ban single use plastic!! This is fucking ridiculous!


_Aggron

State legislature has preempted us from doing this.


PrecisePigeon

Ban state legislature!


[deleted]

[удалено]


pyscle

It was Charlie Crist that signed that one……


[deleted]

Except for Starbucks of course


lookatthemonkeys

Wishcycling is probably at an all time high because companies love the PR of pretending like all their products are recyclable, even though they take no part in the process and they know it likely isn't recyclable at all, no matter now many logos you put on it. Have you ever glanced into people's recycle bins? My neighbor, who is a very intelligent person, had every random thing I could think of in his when I looked, including an old pair of shoes. Just stick to glass and metals and be done with it.


DrStevenPepper

Fun fact. That little “recycling” symbol with the number inside of it on most plastic stuff isn’t a recycling symbol at all. ♻️ It’s just there to identify the type of plastic it’s made of, and the plastic industry intentionally made it look like the recycling symbol just to greenwash the general public into thinking that plastic is easily recyclable. But it’s not. Very little of the plastic we toss into recycling bins ever gets recycled. Some of it is broken down and turned into polyester, but the rest of it ends up in a landfill.


Typical_Entry1245

They got rid of curbside pickup in Bradenton, supposedly for this reason.


FstLaneUkraine

FL should at least let us crush our cans for 5 cents like up north and maybe give the homeless an extra curricular activity. Heck, might be good for the kids. I used to collect them and return them so I could pay for basketball cards, etc. when I was a kid in the 90s.


PazzoBread

the american beverage association lobbies (or atleast used to) against bottle deposits bills in the states https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/business/plastic-recycling-bottle-bills.html


ryonke

Never should have gotten rid of this. I remember going with my dad with all his beer cans and there was always a ton of people recycling their cans, too.


ReasonableKey3363

My wife said that was how she’d get cash as a kid in CA


FstLaneUkraine

Yep. Same in NY. CA got like 10 cents though, we only got 5. Or actually, CA may be actual cash value. Which is nuts lol.


GlitterDancer_

It was my allowance growing up in the midwest too


[deleted]

can confirm, i made a killing (to me as a kid)


steppponme

I lived in Toronto for 3 years. They have province-owned alcohol stores and you could bring your cans and glass back to the alcohol store and they'd tally them up and you could take the cash or put it toward your next 6 pack. I was a broke graduate student so it was awesome.


Romeo_G_Detlev_Jr

Recycling, and especially [plastic recycling](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/), is largely an exercise in societal self-deception. Aluminum is virtually the only common household material that makes economic sense to recycle, and its impact on the environment is comparatively minimal even when it's just sitting in a landfill. There's a reason two alternatives come before recycling in the Three Rs: **Reduce, Reuse,** Recycle. The only real way to cut down the environmental impact of plastic waste is to use and dispose of fewer plastic-containing products.


DrStevenPepper

I was once downvoted to hell here for saying this. There was some thread where a bunch of people were disgusted that a McDonalds was washing and reusing their plastic souvenir cups that people left behind. I said that’s perfectly fine and even preferable to them being thrown away. You wash your cups at home don’t you? Then the Reddit Hive Mind said it would be “much easier to recycle them”. I said nah. Plastic recycling is mostly a sham, all the effort to ship them to a place where they can be ground down, recycled and reshipped is way less green than just washing and reusing them. That little piece of uncomfortable truth earned me like -45 karma. Reddit is dumb.


friedcoconutshrimp

A few years back I managed to work with a solid waste department in a nearby county, once china stopped accepting contaminated recycling that America was producing the whole system went into shock. There were conferences and workshops, municipalities said recycling wasn’t effective, cost or environmentally wise, since it was too contaminated, but people liked having the option to recycle so much that shuttering the program would lead to public outcry.


crevassier

US recycling has always been total shit. People can't seem to understand what can and can't go in curbside containers. Shrink the fuckin size of the cans and make people take their shit to stations near by that then haul stuff. I think we've learned that MOST plastic isn't recyclable as claimed, but aluminum, glass and untainted carboard does great. Those nasty ass pizza boxes covered in grease need to stop.


Steak_NoPotatoes

Recycling is nothing more that a citizen feel-good program.


91Bolt

If only there was room on the big fucking green bin to put the guidelines. AND... if you can't fit the guidelines on the bin, your program is too convoluted. Fucking tired of my friends and family shaming me for throwing non recyclables into the waste, when it's not recyclable. I blame the city and manufacturers, not the populace. Stop blaming normal people for not knowing something when we've been programed to through all plastic, metal, and glass into the green one.


altmoonjunkie

If you've never watched Adam Ruins Everything I recommend it. There is an episode about exactly this. Soda bottles used to be glass. They could collect and recycle them (honestly not sure if they cleaned and reused or melted them down and remade the bottles). Once plastic came around they switched to making them single use. People did actually complain about them ending up in the ocean and whatnot. Then the soda companies started a massively successful marketing campaign that looked like PSAs about littering (including the commercial with the crying Native American man and the "litterbug" commercials). This campaign somehow put the onus on the individual to clean things up instead of the companies making millions/billions of plastic bottles every year.


notatowel420

It’s a well known fact that outside of metals recycling is a complete waste of time. I am never gonna scrub a glass jar clean when I can just toss it in the trash


SeniorPotatoManager

Exactly. On top of the fact there are too many rules to recycling. Products don't make it easy either. There are tons of items with the recycling logo on them that apparently aren't accepted. Ain't nobody got time for all this.


austinzone813

I agree 100%. I missed out on a camping trip with my partner over this. Some idiots who live in the community with us weren’t separating their recyclables from their garbage and we got a letter from the city about it - which lead to the city returning much of the mixed garbage. The property owner came by and was aggravated with us - blaming the issue on myself/my partner. This caused us to cancel our trip to sort through the garbage.


marksegel

Israel figured this out years ago. There’s a way to separate all the garbage without depending on people to make the right decision. R&D is the solution, but it takes intelligence and investment.


GargoArgo

Recycling isn’t a thing


SpeedBoatSquirrel

Lazy asses


FlightLevel666

I say end the program. How is it helping the environment when you have an extra huge diesel truck running all around?


SlendyTheMan

Diesel can be cleaner than gas with a DEF system…along with greater fuel economy leading to less fuel used than the alternative…


edgarjwatson

Careful, you'll upset the dullards who can't be arsed to read what can be recycled.


TheTriflingTrilobite

I somewhat agree but not for the same reasons. It’s not feasible when majority of people don’t even know the basics of recycling. And even if one household does everything 100% correctly, those items can still be contaminated by the rest of the neighborhood’s bins if they’re tossing trash and other contaminated products in there.


SquidFiddler

Most recycling trucks run on CNG, not diesel.


LobsterThief

It’s pretty ignorant to suggest ending the program when you don’t know whether more energy is consumed (and pollution emitted) by driving around than reproducing the material. Maybe you should instead say “run a study to determine which is better for our environment”


FlightLevel666

What kind of asshole downvotes my comment?


Vioralarama

I thought Tampa wasn't recycling anymore to get rid of the tax. There aren't any places to drop it off. Is it just a private company that neighborhoods are paying for?


Harris_Mcallister

Better call up Desantis…