Originally Posted by
RandomTroll
This is irresponsible. Sorting through recyclables costs them money. In Scandinavian countries people have as many as 16 different recycling bins; there are fines for putting the wrong thing in a bin and for throwing recyclables in the trash. So find out whether Western Waste accepts tires. Recycling is very close to being unprofitable; a little work by us can save them a lot.
a lot of people are a bad combination of stupid and lazy.
residents here whined about having to sort items, so the city went to single-stream recycling. you can now throw paper, glass, alum, steel, any plastic with a triangle, and cardboard in a 90-gal bin that gets curbside pickup twice a month.
easy, right...?
but you routinely see dimwits just use them as garbage cans and put everything from car batteries to dirty diapers in them. the recycling center will reject an entire truckload of material if it exceeds a certain percentage of non-recyclables...thus defeating the purpose of trying minimize what goes to the landfill.