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Is recycling a scam? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I've randomly heard various iterations of the claim recycling is a scam but never received a fleshed-out explanation or anything

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[–] a9249@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Absolutely accurate; My city has an everything "recycling" bin, and a compost bin. I worked at the sorting facility as a summer job for 2 months. The compost gets the most re-use with city landscaping services.... but the recycling itself goes into a "sorting facility". After the truck unloads it goes by on 12 belts, and we all had special chutes to pull out what we recognized and throw it down said shoot for sorting into the proper dumpsters below. Now, if a guy didnt show up for work, that entire conveyor went unsorted. Most workers hated their job, were treated poorly by management, or just didnt care... We pulled out pop cans, metal, and obvious cardboard. That's it. There were too many types of plastic to be bothered with. Everything else went to the other side of the facility where it got loaded up into semis for landfill. **I'd say about 90% of what arrived in the recycling trucks went to landfill. **