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Empty any final contents into white sack, wash glass and remove label, put the glass in the blue bag, remember to place the lid in the white sack, and the label in the yellow one! Great timewaster for a rainy Sunday afternoon! Fuck that. My time is worth money, and there’s no fucking way I’m emptying and washing and then disposing of contents/wrapper seperately. Aside from the chronic waste of water, (there’s more than one way to be green) if I just dump the LOT in a bottle bank, there’s no way it can be traced back to me. Simon, how would you rather spend the hour… emptying, washing, sorting and filing, only to feed the 3 color bin bags you have? Or take a nice leisurely walk to the nearest bottle bank, and dump the whole lot inside? Let’s see them try to recycle jam jars which are still covered in jam… For me, the procedure is simply this (and I don’t think I’m changing it):
I’m perhaps very lazy, but I’ve also visited a recycling plant in the past. Everything in the blue bag will be washed by a machine, so the same principle as a dish-washer applies: no chunks of food, but residual stuff is OK. Labels will get removed in this process. It’s then sorted by a machine which essentially blows the cans and plastic bits one way while glass (being too heavy) goes in another direction. Cans are then separated by magnets. Labels from bottles and cans are too contaminated with ink and glue to yield anything worth recycling that it’s better off biodegrading anyway. Everything in the yellow bag is pulped and filtered very carefully to separate usable paper fibres from dead fibres and contaminants in many bizarre processes involving screening, spinning, floating, etc. If they didn’t, I guess we’d have to clean the ink off the paper before putting it in the bin too! Recycling like this doesn’t take long at all, and it’s become second nature for me now anyway. You guys should watch a documentary called ‘Waste Equals Food’, basically the concept is, that all waste should either be food for nature or technology. Thus you don’t actually have any waste at ALL ! I want to live in a waste = food city ! Current recycling is ‘downcycling’ eg product that is made is of ‘lesser’ quality. Waste = food is true recycling ( product of equal quality ) or ‘upcycling’ ( a more refined product ). If you prefer the book: get Cradle to Cradle. |
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