Sustainable aviation Roadside recycling is pure marketing wank of the highest order.
Fixed that for you. Once you get past metal, glass and certain large plastics, anyone who thinks an entire dust cart full of other mixed materials(let alone mixed types of materials) is actually separated, sorted, cleaned and sent somewhere to be turned into new material is deluded. What they're actually doing is spending your money to make you feel better about being a consumer that throws shit away. I'd suggest this ought to be called
The Trump Effect, but I'd hear the cries of
but he's so wonderful without needing the internet
Why are those three thing worth actually sorting?
Metal - recycling is the same process a making it in the first place, but using less energy and without the need to dig up the base materials.
Plastic - large items(like car bumpers) that are large, well labelled and unlikely to be covered in organic contaminants, can be ground up, dissolved in original solvents and used as filler for lower grade products.
Glass - it's basically everlasting and there's no shortage of sand to make it. But melting it down and making new bottles is better than dumping it in landfill for eternity. What they don't tell you is recycling after one use instead of the possible several hundred is yet more marketing wank to make you feel better.
Paper - it's made from cheap softwood grown as a crop. Doing that is a dirty process that uses a lot of water. Recycling it is a
really dirty process that uses even more water and chemicals to make bottom grade products like newsprint and packaging cardboard. Any paper contaminated with organic waste goes straight in their bin after being in yours. That includes all the expensive stuff like magazines or fancy outer packaging as they can't viably remove the clay that makes it shiny
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