transition said:
had a weird experience recently, watching the various commentary on TV regarding some country not taking our garbage anymore.
suddenly everyone talking about it sounded like the queen, like english aristocracy.
doubtful they sounded different really. Surely not.
the comic in me just now conjured images (an analogy) of people waking up one morning and finding their sewage pipe had been dug up, and redirected onto their front door step. People like to flush and forget.
anyway, on a more serious note, there’s going to have to be some manufacturing of sorts to absorb the recycled end products, a demand, and it has to make a profit somehow.
some prices will go up, and it’ll employ (more) people.
so how’s it going to happen, the pressure’s on.
Ipswich.
The only class on recycling that I’ve seen was a children’s program (Scope or something like that) where they visited a recycling plant and interviewed them on what sort of materials would and would not be recycled.
The main take-away message from that for me is – never put styrofoam in the recycle bin, it flies about in the air making a mess of the plant, they hate it.
That was a long time ago now. We need a new recycling class to teach people exactly what can and should, what can and shouldn’t, and what mustn’t be recycled. Having a recycling number is not necessarily a reliable guide to what can be recycled. So many people put the wrong stuff in a recycling bin. Even me, I wasn’t sure whether an empty printer ink cartridge should go in the recycle bin or not.
The class would include putting a recycling value in cents per kg on every item that that is recycled. Explaining in detail about items that contain more than one material, such as milk cartons and electronics. Explaining contamination, how much pizza cheese left in a pizza box is too much. And covering everything that a household is likely to throw away in a typical year.
Perhaps a guide should be – if in doubt, leave it out.