Another thing that the movement brought forth is using fuel to compost off site and then fraudulently resale the compost as organic, while creating huge waste pits that no longer turn over biologically.
When someone half-heartedly asks if everything is run by Organized Crime, I usually suggest they watch Back to School. The truth is; the government didn’t eliminate Organized Crime, they merged with it.
I also got sucked into the job of separating recyclables into three baskets to leave at the curb, only to find them retrieved by one truck. I eventually gave them their baskets back. I did continue to compost for my garden. A few years ago, when we were sick and tired of the spraying of "biosolids" on land too close to our primary river and ocean; we mobilized our community to find a solution. We found Dr. Richard Honour who had come up with an ingenious method for a way to address the core issue. The wheels of change grind exceedingly slowly, but eventually we will arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (These systems are expensive to build).
I sorted glass soda bottles behind a large grocery store in the 70’s, by size and origin. The difference then; glass was a good reusable material, like steel or aluminum. It could be washed, melted, skimmed, etc. Contaminated plastic doesn’t hold the same appeal to manufacturers; nor does leaking batteries, or broken light bulbs (did that too). The soda bottlers, even milk bottlers used to rinse out glass bottles; that’s why occasionally you’d get one with a chip missing or scratched label. The bottle deposit was really more for reuse; recycling is a term well understood in the industry, it just doesn’t work for everything.
In the 1990s I read an article in NRC about the (I believe) Swedish king who visited a waste plant and saw with his own royal eyes how all the refuse, so carefully separated at the palace, was reunited there. Garbage-wise it was my first red flag. At the time NRC was the Dutch flagship on the high seas of Dutch journalism. Now it is MSM. I unsubscribed from the paper and from de garbage scam as well.
Another thing that the movement brought forth is using fuel to compost off site and then fraudulently resale the compost as organic, while creating huge waste pits that no longer turn over biologically.
We are wasting precious water cleaning garbage.
If you do not buy plastic things you do not have to dispose of them. Focus on foods first and primarily. This solves half the problem, or more.
When someone half-heartedly asks if everything is run by Organized Crime, I usually suggest they watch Back to School. The truth is; the government didn’t eliminate Organized Crime, they merged with it.
I also got sucked into the job of separating recyclables into three baskets to leave at the curb, only to find them retrieved by one truck. I eventually gave them their baskets back. I did continue to compost for my garden. A few years ago, when we were sick and tired of the spraying of "biosolids" on land too close to our primary river and ocean; we mobilized our community to find a solution. We found Dr. Richard Honour who had come up with an ingenious method for a way to address the core issue. The wheels of change grind exceedingly slowly, but eventually we will arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (These systems are expensive to build).
I sorted glass soda bottles behind a large grocery store in the 70’s, by size and origin. The difference then; glass was a good reusable material, like steel or aluminum. It could be washed, melted, skimmed, etc. Contaminated plastic doesn’t hold the same appeal to manufacturers; nor does leaking batteries, or broken light bulbs (did that too). The soda bottlers, even milk bottlers used to rinse out glass bottles; that’s why occasionally you’d get one with a chip missing or scratched label. The bottle deposit was really more for reuse; recycling is a term well understood in the industry, it just doesn’t work for everything.
Frauds everywhere - especially in the 15-minute "smart" cities. The entire "good" citizen, proper cool hippie thang.
Awful when we do our best - and a few people profit - and nothing is done that we believe we are paying for. A tiny example of what we face.
In the 1990s I read an article in NRC about the (I believe) Swedish king who visited a waste plant and saw with his own royal eyes how all the refuse, so carefully separated at the palace, was reunited there. Garbage-wise it was my first red flag. At the time NRC was the Dutch flagship on the high seas of Dutch journalism. Now it is MSM. I unsubscribed from the paper and from de garbage scam as well.
Which is why I have always refused to gift wrap the garbage.
People so stupid...(Tom MacDonald).