Do you know of anyone who sorts recyclable plastics by their numbers?
My husband insists that we sort our recyclable plastics by their numbers. He is concerned that sanitation engieers will not be willing to recycle the plastics if we do not do this. I believe that most people just throw their plastics into one bag and leave the sorting to the employees at the recycling plant. Whom do you think is right?
Answer:
Some will not take unsorted plastics! Ask the collection agency or the people where you drop them off. I'm frustrated that my local recycling centers only accept #2 with necks (grr. what difference does in make if it has a neck, they melt it down anyway!?) You can go to www.earth911.org for more information.
I don't know anyone who recycles.
If you watch the garbagemen (forget the 'santitation engineer' hooey) you will see they just take everything and toss it all together into the truck. Around here they want glass and plastics all together because the plastic items help to keep the glass from breaking. No garbageman standing at the curb is going to be the least bit concerned with plastic sorted by number: it's all going to get tossed in together.
If you want to prove to your husband that he is full of malarkey, just have him watch the next time the garbagemen pick up the plastic. Let him sort it all out they way he likes to, and then he can see how they will just toss it all in together without regard to anything..
Your husband is ditzed out with some form of OCD. Once he sees what they do with his careful sorting, he will probably go into some sort of spastic attack, so be prepared to call 911.
I think you are right. Most people look for the triangular shaped recycle logo. If it's there, they toss it in the recycle bin.
I sort out the 1's and 2's for recycling, and put the higher numbered stuff in the trash.
We do in our city. Actually we don't sort by numbers, we are asked to only include plastics that have a 1, 2, 3, or 5.
I'm not sure what happens if, say, a 4 comes through. I imagine it get sorted out somehow.
Than there are others that believe that as much as 90% of all the things we put in the recycling bin just end up in a landfill anyway. Reasons given for this are city and county budget cuts.
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Some will not take unsorted plastics! Ask the collection agency or the people where you drop them off. I'm frustrated that my local recycling centers only accept #2 with necks (grr. what difference does in make if it has a neck, they melt it down anyway!?) You can go to www.earth911.org for more information.
I don't know anyone who recycles.
If you watch the garbagemen (forget the 'santitation engineer' hooey) you will see they just take everything and toss it all together into the truck. Around here they want glass and plastics all together because the plastic items help to keep the glass from breaking. No garbageman standing at the curb is going to be the least bit concerned with plastic sorted by number: it's all going to get tossed in together.
If you want to prove to your husband that he is full of malarkey, just have him watch the next time the garbagemen pick up the plastic. Let him sort it all out they way he likes to, and then he can see how they will just toss it all in together without regard to anything..
Your husband is ditzed out with some form of OCD. Once he sees what they do with his careful sorting, he will probably go into some sort of spastic attack, so be prepared to call 911.
I think you are right. Most people look for the triangular shaped recycle logo. If it's there, they toss it in the recycle bin.
I sort out the 1's and 2's for recycling, and put the higher numbered stuff in the trash.
We do in our city. Actually we don't sort by numbers, we are asked to only include plastics that have a 1, 2, 3, or 5.
I'm not sure what happens if, say, a 4 comes through. I imagine it get sorted out somehow.
Than there are others that believe that as much as 90% of all the things we put in the recycling bin just end up in a landfill anyway. Reasons given for this are city and county budget cuts.
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