They are the source
Wow, lets address the problem instead of looking for someone else to blame .... anyone but the individual eh?
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They are the source
Obviously the solution to this problem is garbage sorting robots.
There’s a market for anything if the price is right.How does that ensure there is a market for the claimed recyclable, no market = landfill?
I beg to differ, split bins were every bit as bad as the comingled bin common today, just less room. Its the person loading it & the lack of education as to what is acceptable, not what is recyclable. Acceptable not recyclable, the difference between the two goes to landfill.
Fwiw this feedback wasn't just from Australia, but the USA (where they are facing a massive issue on it thanks to scale)
Npr did a number of good hour long shows on it when the China ban first came in
There’s a market for anything if the price is right.
No doubt but I'd suggest it did not come from the MRF, it came from the policy types responsible for the claims about increased participation.
They spoke to multiple sources, exporters who used to sell it to China, and local firms who bought it for initial processing.
As I posted earlier, processors main complaints were cheap oil prices, and the high contamination rates (which is the Chinese argument - although went too far claiming it was a safety risk)
Non segregated waste has resulted in bug increases in food contamination, and that makes the recycled product useless at current prices (it's not worth the cost of separating and cleaning on site)
Which is why if you want to recycle you have to be serious about it, not go to the lowest bidder and cream off the top of rates to feather your own nest, like I imagine every single council did.Yep & sometimes that price is the cost of disposal.
Which is why if you want to recycle you have to be serious about it, not go to the lowest bidder and cream off the top of rates to feather your own nest, like I imagine every single council did.
Beggars belief that imported s**t is in excessive packaging, which then is shipped back
Excessive packaging designed to provide shelf appeal, but more and more is bought online?
Beggars belief that imported s**t is in excessive packaging, which then is shipped back
Excessive packaging designed to provide shelf appeal, but more and more is bought online?
https://waste-management-world.com/a/video-documentary-exposing-australias-recycling-lie
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what are the charlatans with the levers doing, Bayside Council (in Melbourne) want to reduce garbage collection to fortnightly, looking to claim a reduction in garbage when its stuffed into (their) litter bins or illegally disposed of in the commercial & indistrial sector.
Actually it has been shown people do legitimately reduce waste when they have to work with smaller bins. There is a limit of course, but apparently when we know we have limited waste space available, we adjust our spending choices accordingly.
Well where does it go, they produce less because it goes somewhere else, ie litter bins & the C&I sector not to mention the recycling stream, the Chinese called it rubbish, it is rubbish.
People need to spend more time at the coalface, not pushing numbers around the desk, theyve got away with that nonsense for far to long.
You repair and reuse more
You eliminate purchasing prepacked fruit, veg, and meat
You buy on high street rather than online
And so on....
Edit - forgot to include food. Buying for what you need for the next few days, rather than a fortnight (and throwing half of it out because it went off)
It'd be great if widely adopted, its easily measured, tonnes into the landfill, but needs interpretation where its abused by those pushing their own barrow. Our recycling stream, household recycling bins are used for rubbish, the Chinese said it, Indonesia now
The Oz recycling problem is now in Indonesia:
Indonesian environmentalists accuse Australia of 'smuggling' plastic waste following China ban
Our recycling : Ecoton claims it found plastic waste, including food wrappers, plastic bottles, nappies and other non-recyclable plastics, among the waste paper, some of which was labelled "Made in Australia".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04...smuggling-plastic-waste-to-indonesia/11054592
This is wha
This is I said weeks ago that you yelled at me about. Shared recycled bins have most of the matter landfills because of contamination. When you have one for paper, one for plastic, etc, people actually sorted properly and the cross contamination was significantly less
Single bins encourage laziness (like leaving half a pizza in a pizza box