re: What ever happened to recycling?

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Agree for plastic. Is it also true for glass and aluminum?

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Does that mean that all glass and aluminum is recycled? I know what you are saying, but most of what we used to put pretty much everything that we used to put in recycle bins ended up in the same land field as the shite we put in garbage cans.

I am sure its different in every parish/county.. Maybe not? But at one point we had recycle bins, everything you threw away went into the recycle bin and every week there was the garbage truck and then the recycle truck, a service parish/counties had to pay for.

When I was in middle school, I remember they used to "teach us" how to recycle. All the paper we threw away went into its own bin and the teacher would point out every once in awhile how all of that paper used to go in land fields and now its being reused.

One day I pissed her off because I asked where did they take the paper and how did they take a piece of loose leaf paper with a bunch of writing on it and make it reusable. She told me there were paper plants where it was brought to and they had machines that do it and that eventually they will have to use less and less trees to make paper.

I asked her if all the schools in the country were recycling and all that paper went into making new paper why would it take less and less trees in the future, not right now. She told me that was enough questions. But at that point I used to think that if they wanted to encourage people to recycle they would advertise if they are having to cut down less and less trees so in my mind, because we never heard about how recycling is causing less trees to be cut down I thought it was all bullsht.

Then 20 or so years later.. I learned that my instinct wasn't all that wrong.

I live in New England and I bring my trash/recycling to the town dump once/twice a week.
They have seperate receptacles for probably 12-15 different categories: corrugated cardboard, cardboard not corrugated, newsprint, other paper, a few different categories of plastics, etc, etc.
It's insane how some of these granola crunchers have all these tubs in their subaru outbacks so they can spend 30 minutes walking to all these different depositories.
I drive my arse strait to the household garbage compactor and it all goes in there.
I will drop the corrugated cardboard in it's place if I've accumulated more than fits easy in a trash bag.
These people are crazy, frick all that.

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We have brown cans for garbage and blue for recycle. Usually, both cans are dumped into the same truck.

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we have bins for garbage, recycle, and compost that are all picked up by different trucks.

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gets sent to China

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China doesn't need our trash anymore.

People gonna be burning recyclables for warmth with heating oil prices being what they are.

It all goes in the same truck

Metals and glass are truly recyclable. Nothing else is. And paper recycling is the biggest fraud of all. It uses more energy and water than making new paper.

You're cute, you think recycling happens and makes a difference.

It may all be a scam. I try to do my part though. We have garbage pick up twice a week. Recycle (different company)once a week. Yard waste once a week.