You sound so fucking smug it's making me block you

Jesus you couldn't be more of an ass if we stapled a donkey to you lol

There are way more appropriate communities, such as !youshouldknow@lemmy.world

If you really care about your post being in the appropriate place, you should delete your post and submit there, or delete your opinion from the post body and add it as a comment here.

This community isn't for making grand stands.

Same here in switzerland. The amount of reare metals they extract from waste is impressive.

Locked as OP has made it clear that this post is not really an open-ended question.

Well this is interesting.

I worked for 7 years at a Swedish company who built granulators, Rapid Granulator AB. I worked stateside though as the only electrical technician.

From what I could glean about the machinery we built and sold, they would say that the only viable way to recycle plastic is as it was being manufactured. So say you're a facotry making hundreds of garbage cans a day. All the rejects (wrong chemical makeup, big bulge from the molding process, etc) would go into a granulator for "recycling". The granulator grinds it down into small pellets which are then used at the beginning of the line.

From what I remember, customers were very very picky about what could be used after granulation. A little bit of the wrong color of dye would ruin a whole batch for instance. I'm curious to see exactly how this site zero plans to recycle waste products coming from the general population, on an engineering / technical level..

This, of course, is also dancing around the fact that it's a bit of an open secret that most places in America do not recycle. And I'm talking systemically, not on an individual level. In my county I know that all recycling goes to the exact same landfill as all the trash. It's a bit hard to feel hopeful when the USA sends 242 million pounds of plastic straight to the ocean every year. I felt a little better about it when China would sort through and recycle our plastics.

The best way to recycle is to re-use. In a professional kitchen; we see meat like chicken come bagged inside bags inside double walled / waxed cardboard boxes. -They could come in re-useable containers and go back to the source on the truck they came from.

The solution for trash is to make it into a giant ball and launch it into space on a rocket. I've seen one prediction that we may avhieve this by 2052.

The key is to make it profitable. As soon as there is money to be made there will be a shift in action.

On a personal level. Compost your own food waste to reduce anaerobic decomposition in landfill. Reuse and recycle.

Everything else needs government intervention to be made profitable and necessary.

Oh, I’m sorry. Oh, I could put the trash into a landfill where it’s going to stay for millions of years or I could burn it up and get a nice smokey smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.

We in NL are so woefully behind, and nearly no one knows it. We all believe in our recycling programs, but they are mostly "trash."

The best way to handle trash is to throw it into garbage. Duh.

We have been doing all of this here in the US my entire life. I didn't realize it was special to recycle and burn trash for energy. Good to see other countries doing it too I guess.