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[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I recycle when convenient. I have two cans the same company empties, one for trash one for recycling. I'll fill the recycling, and overflow goes in the trash.

My wife hates it, but the amount of plastic trash that factories produce just blows consumer household recycling out of the water. There are people whose jobs include fillling a whole dumpster each shift. No comparison. Im not bending over backward to be little Dutch boy with my finger in the dam while it's got a backhoe digging out the foundation.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

do companies/factories in your country not also recycle what they can? are they not paying money to garbage collectors who are incentivised by the state to sort their garbage?

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha! Hahaha haha!

I have never once seen a garbage inspector at any of the places I've worked. I have been instructed by my employer to dump or otherwise dispose of things questionably, many, many times.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Boss once had me fill a dumpster with old ~~halogen~~ flourescent bulbs. Probably 90% of them shattered in the process. Then it turns out that was the wrong dumpster so we had to shovel all the broken bits into another. Didn't learn they had mercury in them for a decade. I was 15. So that's cool, wonder what that did.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Halogen bulbs to do contain mercury.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Sorry I meant "flourescent" apparently. It was this kind. My uncle's business was moving into an office that was some 1970s government office and somehow I got roped into the re-fit.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

One small semi-relevant data point (not commercial though):

In San Jose, California (1hr south of San Francisco), they might occasionally audit residential recycling containers to make sure folks aren’t dumping trash. Drive around early before pickup.