Subnostr

I told my 80 year old mom to not bother sorting recycling and trash, because she wasn’t correctly determining what was recyclable. So she started putting everything in the recycling, including all the trash…. That wasn’t my intention. Oops.

Josh 🇺🇲 2y ago

Where I live you HAVE to recycle because the trash can is tiny.

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rabble 2y ago

Here the trash is paid for by buying special bags which are $5 each. So if you want to not recycle, that’s fine, it’s just more expensive.

Also recycling is actually kind of a scam: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

Cameri🐦‍🔥 2y ago

Does that make you prefer things that are recyclable when buying?

rabble 2y ago

I think that was the intention of the policy. But the reality is that most recycling just ends up in landfills too.