Recycling

I bet your neighbor will remind you of your civic duty.

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A neighbor on nextdoor is always reminding people of what can and can't go in the recycling bins, and how the cans should be positioned waiting for pick up. It's so annoying it makes me not want to recycle.

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God, I wish this was what people posted on NextDoor for me. Its a bunch of old people bitching about stupid shite and being openly racist.

If you have Prime, there is a series called "bullshite" that has a recycling episode, I wanna say season 3.

It's worth watching.

yea i have had two consecutive weeks of rejected recycling. they put a "contaminant" sticker on the bin if it's not correct.

reading the list of what is still recyclable, and watching this video, i find that the biggest changes are no more glass and no more plastic bags of any kind.

not even trash bags. they are encouraging people to just dump recyclables loosely in the bin. bummer about glass and bags. but at least the plastics that are still recyclable, are the major types (#1 and #2). that still includes beverage bottles, cleaners, detergents, condiments, milk jugs, cooking oils, etc.

the plastics they don't take anymore includes mostly bags, lids to other containers, to-go containers, tupperware, solo cups, and some other random items.

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They put a sticker on the can that says “rejected”. I had enough of that nonsense. 

My neighbor told me that they changed recycling companies. He also told me that the old company was just dumping most stuff in landfill. 

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I've had mine rejected in BR in the past a few times but not with a sticker. Granted it had a lot of unapproved items in it. They'd just leave it full with the top open.

All I'll put in there now is broken down boxes. The rest will just go in the trash.

My work requires a lot of boxes etc. I fill the damn recycling garbage up every week. Exhausting

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This app is worst than Facebook. I signed up for it and within a week I deleted it. I couldn’t take the non stop drama 24/7

As for recycling, I just throw all my junk mail in the can. Probably put it out to collect once every 4 months or so

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I downloaded the app after seeing your comment and it looks to me like a big marketplace

Recycling non metallic material has never been profitable with subsidies. As stated above, before China was buying all of shite but they aren’t anymore and the subsidies are starting to dry up.

Just because they actually took them away doesn’t mean they are actually being recycled. At the recycling center the recycled items have to be sorted. And items that can’t be recycled (food debris etc) are pitched.