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cowghost OP t1_iudarl3 wrote

Reply to comment by Puzzleheaded_Ad_7204 in Massachusetts bans clothing, footwear, bedding, curtains and other textiles from trash disposal by cowghost

Its too difficult as it is. I stoped trying to recycle after discovering that the city i was living in was not recycling anything. Recycling is not real, its corporate fiction that places the burdon of waste managment on the public when it should be the responsibility of the corporation that created the watse to use it again or remove it.

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SouthShoreSerenade t1_iudbch9 wrote

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Plastic recycling is a crapshoot, but paper, metal, and especially glass recycling are all extremely worthwhile.

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SharpCookie232 t1_iudhlfi wrote

Recycling metals is big business. We save up our metal items and bring them to Allied in Walpole. Always leave with a good amount of $$.

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Garethx1 t1_iuduffm wrote

I dont get why people think that because some municipalities suck at recycling it doesnt really exist. Theres entire industries you can go see operations and profitargins here in the US.

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cowghost OP t1_iudf1nn wrote

No, the city i lived in in OH, every thing picked up for recycling went to the trash. Homeless would pick out aluminum cans for scrap before the trucks came.and their were alot of homeless people.....

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pfmiller0 t1_iuds536 wrote

So recycling in your old city in OH isn't real. That doesn't mean recycling in general isn't real. But despite it not being real, apparently the homeless people were still able to recycle cans in your old city.

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ReporterOther2179 t1_iue1vop wrote

For the hundredth time…. Recycling is a market. There is a market for, there are people who will buy and recycle, glass, metals and paper. Recycling of plastics is mostly a shuck. The fiction is pushed by plastics manufacturers for reasons of profit.

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