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04-21-2023, 07:39 AM | #2 | |
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Location: Orlando
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This is very true. It definitely helps if you rinse off what you are recycling. It also helps a lot if you do something as simple as removing the foil lid off something like a yogurt container. It really takes minimal effort to make a pretty big difference in the landfills, but most people really won’t do it for whatever reason. |
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04-21-2023, 07:50 AM | #3 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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Location: Arizona
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04-21-2023, 07:55 AM | #4 | |
Politically Incorrect
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Please do provide a really nice of what I can and cannot recycle. I think most people are TRYING to do the right thing. **** the waste companies it TOO much recycles come back. |
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04-21-2023, 08:15 AM | #5 | |
Would an idiot do that?
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Arizona
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And yeah, they are terrible at education, when all they need to do is slap a QR code on the bins. Hell, I get shit from APS constantly via snail mail and email about how to best use electricity and so forth... a mailer on recycling would be far more useful. |
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04-21-2023, 08:53 AM | #6 | |
Consuming CP souls
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: U.S.A.
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Read KC Uniteds list and realize what a big ****ing joke this all is |
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04-21-2023, 09:14 AM | #7 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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Location: Arizona
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Here's a quick video that might be more your style. Feel free to lay down for a bit afterwards if it gets too overwhelming. |
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04-21-2023, 09:08 AM | #8 | |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
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So OK, decision point 1: if you want to get people to do it, you have to make it simple. Fine. But then the issue is that making it easy also makes it easy for people to **** it up, both in unintentional ways (not understanding what can be recycled) and malicious ways (intentionally throwing trash into the recycle bin). And in some cases, a handful of people ****ing it up can ruin entire loads of otherwise recyclable materials due to either contamination or just making it too laborious to go through the load and sort out all the stuff that can't be recycled. So waste management companies have to decide whether they try and tech people how to be good recyclers at the middle school (recycle cans), high school (recycle cans and plastic bottles), 101 (recycle cans, plastics with allowed types, clean paper and cardboard), or 201 level (recycle cans, aluminum foil if it's in a large enough ball and clean, plastics that are clean, paper products, but not those that have a wax coating...). The better informed people are, the better recycling works, but the less people will pay attention. So decision point 2: If you want to get people to do it right, you have to find a sweet spot between telling people every little detail they need to know and making it simple enough that everyone can understand it. The result is that we just kind of live with something in the middle, though it does indeed result in a lot of recyclable materials being dumped in the trash. There's just not a great way out of it unfortunately unless you go hard on public education, which is often a futile exercise. |
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04-21-2023, 07:43 AM | #9 | |
Fight, build, win!
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Location: KC
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We were a client fore LaFarge mining rock quarry and cement plant in Sugar Creek MO. A huge landfill was right next to it off 291 Highway. We would see the recycle trucks lined up with the garbage trucks dumping. None dares report unless you like sleeping with the fishes. They may find your body caught in a snag or up against a dike somewhere down stream on the Mighty Mo. Last edited by srvy; 04-21-2023 at 08:18 AM.. |
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04-21-2023, 08:18 AM | #10 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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This is the list of non-recyclable items here We apologize but please note that the following items are NO LONGER accepted in KCUnited's city recycling program due to low market demand and/or excessive contamination:
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04-21-2023, 08:31 AM | #11 | |
I'll be back.
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that's half the shit i put in my recycling bin! take it away! |
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04-21-2023, 06:09 AM | #12 |
Politically Incorrect
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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The rest of the country have been doing this for the last 10 years.
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04-21-2023, 07:57 AM | #13 | |
Fight, build, win!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: KC
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We have coyotes in the cities plus dogs but the biggest pest that tears into the bags are Crows. ****ers are smart they know the days the trash is put out in the neighborhood. They flock in those areas you will hear them calling wait for the right moment. Don't **** with crows they remember you and will have a life long grudge against you. If you're smart you keep a solution of water and Clorox in a spray bottle. Spray the bag and animals or crows will not disturb it. |
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04-21-2023, 10:18 AM | #14 |
C Chiefs once a year!
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04-21-2023, 06:34 AM | #15 |
Constable of Untruths
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Wichita
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What the ****? We've been putting trash in bins with lids for the entirety of my 50 years on this earth. Even when I lived in South Bend for 4 years we put trash in actual bins with lids. What kind of backwards ass, shitty metro area has people put trash on the curb just in bags.
It's no wonder Zach is a fat dumbass. He's been able to wander the streets for years getting free meals out of peoples garbage. |
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