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(Some Guy) Interesting In Thailand they have to bribe citizens with free eggs and rice to get them to recycle. Keep that in mind the next Sunday night you're up late sorting apart your glass, aluminum, and cardboard trash   (soshiok.com) divider line 71
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Nuclear Pancake
2011-11-14 06:11:45 AM
Meanwhile in tampa fl....

You pay money to a company that takes your recyclables and makes money off them.

Or in my personal case I'd have to drive a few miles for the privilege of recycling.
 
Sarah Palin's Conscience
2011-11-14 07:34:14 AM
"Recycling is good!"

upload.wikimedia.org
 
sephjnr
2011-11-14 07:36:40 AM
You mean you don't do it every time you throw waste away during the week, subs?

paper tissue is recyclable, especially as reproductive fluid only survives three days.

/recyclers also use gloves... don't they?
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 07:39:25 AM
In Omaha, we went from a sorting truck to a regular dump truck for recycle. That meant we couldn't recycle glass without going to one of a the few glass recycling centers during business hours. Now no one recycles their glass; it's way too much of a hassle.

Way to go Omaha.

/CSB, no?
//At least all of the currently accepted recycle goes into the same bin, and you don't have to sort it.
///And you get a free green brick-bin that also doubles as a mold for snow bricks for a kick-ass igloo in winter.
 
ripple123
2011-11-14 07:39:35 AM
no one cares. what we care about is when thailand goes and builds a harddrive manufacturing facility on a farking floodplain, and gets flooded, which doubles the price of a 2tb hdd.
 
blackmtnmantheonly
2011-11-14 07:40:59 AM
Why does subbie think I recycle? I'm not PAYING for that...and around here you do.
 
Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 07:42:21 AM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]


Someone really needs to follow those assholes around with a [citation needed] sign.

Recycling By the Numbers (new window)
 
huntercr
2011-11-14 07:42:26 AM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

you know that show was just entertainment, right?

They aren't exactly known for fact checking. They even acknowledge in the episode IIRC that aluminum is worth recycling.
Yes there'e diminishing returns on things like plastic and paper, but as costs of raw materials go up then all sorts of things become viable

/ethanol from grains/grasses, wind power, and oil sands used to be cost prohibitive too when gasoline was $1/gallon. They aren't anymore
 
MightyPez
2011-11-14 07:44:33 AM
In our neighborhood we were given a free single sort recycling program to use. They drop off a large green container that you can dump your mixed recycling into. They give you a list of common items that can't be recycled (grocery store plastic bags, egg cartons, wax containers, food tainted items, etc) and do pickups every 2 weeks.

There is also a rewards program associated with it. So every 2 week I get 70-90 points at Recyclebank (new window) I can use towards coupons. In fact I just burned up 100 points for a 20% off shoes.com coupon.

Not too shabby for a free recycling program.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 07:45:02 AM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

That's an awfully broad statement on recycling. I don't suppose you have a better solution to recovering rare earth metals like lithium? We only have a finite amount of metals, and landfill mining isn't cost-effective compared to recycling.
 
Sarah Palin's Conscience
2011-11-14 07:47:57 AM
video man: Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

That's an awfully broad statement on recycling. I don't suppose you have a better solution to recovering rare earth metals like lithium? We only have a finite amount of metals, and landfill mining isn't cost-effective compared to recycling.

Unicorn farts.
 
blackartemis
2011-11-14 07:49:20 AM
There is little initiative in Thailand for recycling programs. How it usually works is the country's poor goes around at night to trash pick the materials to make $ at the recycling plant. They continue to burn their trash despite huge anti burn campaigns. They are a few decades behind on these issues. I actually plan on finishing this education degree and going further onward into conservation biology and return to Thailand to do environmental education work. Most are just ignorant about these subjects and do care about what they can do.

/cool story bro
//นิทานเจ๋งน้องชาย
 
pinchpoint
2011-11-14 07:51:05 AM
I just pile it all in the bucket and they sort it for me.
And for the anti-recycling folks, I currently work in a plastic bottle plant and my last job cranked out tons of printer paper. If you saw as much post-consumer waste produced daily as I have you'd reconsider.

/worked for a plant that averaged 4.4 million soda bottles every 24 hours
 
AverageAmericanGuy
2011-11-14 07:53:14 AM
How much for a ladyboy for the evening? I can procure eggs, if that's what it takes.
 
nekom [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 07:55:16 AM
video man: We only have a finite amount of metals, and landfill mining isn't cost-effective compared to recycling.

Landfills will be mined some day.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:00:24 AM
nekom: video man: We only have a finite amount of metals, and landfill mining isn't cost-effective compared to recycling.

Landfills will be mined some day.

Oh, I don't doubt that at all. I'm just saying recycling now is cheaper than having to mine landfills later.
 
slackist
2011-11-14 08:01:00 AM
I live in Thailand and every month or so I load up the pickup with the glass, paper and plastics and sell it to the local recycling plant.
 
Gish21
2011-11-14 08:01:52 AM
It's nothing to do with 'having' to bribe people, but that there is still meter deep standing water in northern Bangkok and normal garbage collection is impossible. If people are going to walk through water with a bag of cans and bottles they want something in return.

Normally the Thai garbage men go through the garbage and sort it all themselves when they pick up your trash, so many people don't normally bother to do it themselves.
 
Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian
2011-11-14 08:02:17 AM
"sorting apart" subby?

gfishoutofwater.files.wordpress.com
 
swahnhennessy
2011-11-14 08:06:18 AM
It's easy to be lazy about recycling when you need to drive to a recycling center to do it. It's nice here in Sweden - all apartment complexes have multiple bins for assorted recyclables, and every grocery store has an area in the parking lot for homeowners to do the same, as well as the usual bottle/can recycling stations. You're left without an excuse not to do it.
 
LockeOak
2011-11-14 08:06:54 AM
Recycling here is free, you don't have to sort anything and the proceeds from material sales (~$20/ton) goes to the city. It also saves us from paying for another landfill as quickly.
 
Honest Bender
2011-11-14 08:07:12 AM
Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.
 
CapnBlues [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:07:46 AM
www.buddytv.com

I haven't showered today. Maybe I clean myself before I worry about washing the garbage.

(loosely paraphrased)
 
InmanRoshi
2011-11-14 08:07:51 AM
Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

That show was entertaining for debunking nickel and dime new age mystics and spiritualists. When they actually got into scientific community debates, they were in way over their heads and quite slanted.
 
MightyPez
2011-11-14 08:12:43 AM
InmanRoshi: Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

That show was entertaining for debunking nickel and dime new age mystics and spiritualists. When they actually got into scientific community debates, they were in way over their heads and quite slanted.

This.

I enjoyed the show quite a bit, but you had to watch it with your skeptic eyes on. I personally love the anti-vaccine episode, but ones like the recycling episode were chock full of misinformation and half truths.
 
nekom [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:18:04 AM
video man: Oh, I don't doubt that at all. I'm just saying recycling now is cheaper than having to mine landfills later.

Sure, but you know it's going to come to that. If nothing else, when we run out of oil we'll be mining the plastics to get it back. In a way all we're doing by throwing stuff away is postponing it's recycling.
 
Shakespeare's Monkey [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:18:23 AM
Nuclear Pancake: Meanwhile in tampa fl....

You pay money to a company that takes your recyclables and makes money off them.

Or in my personal case I'd have to drive a few miles for the privilege of recycling.

Same thing in Central Ohio, We do get our yard waste picked up for free, but not recycling.


lh6.googleusercontent.com
 
BolloxReader
2011-11-14 08:18:55 AM
pinchpoint: I just pile it all in the bucket and they sort it for me.
And for the anti-recycling folks, I currently work in a plastic bottle plant and my last job cranked out tons of printer paper. If you saw as much post-consumer waste produced daily as I have you'd reconsider.

/worked for a plant that averaged 4.4 million soda bottles every 24 hours

FDA rules prohibit using post-consumer waste for food and beverage containers because there is no way to guarantee only a certain type of plastic is used, and only specific types of plastic can be used for food packaging.

/father handled compliance in a plant that made plastic containers for drug manufacturers
//he figures that we grind up empties and ship them overseas for other countries to use domestically
 
Lsherm
2011-11-14 08:26:51 AM
I don't sort shiat. I live in a very rural area, so I don't even have trash pickup. Instead, I just dump all my trash at a transfer station and the prisoners sort it out from there.

Bonus? I can dump anything there. Old Stove? Sure. Leaves? Why not? 55 gallon drum full of bacon grease? YOUUUUUU Betcha.
 
Greek
2011-11-14 08:29:15 AM
In Columbus, you don't have to sort, but you do have to pay to have recyclables picked up separately. The city wants to change that. The other option is to take recyclables to one of the area's drop- off points yourself. The pick- up option is pretty cheap, so that's what we use. Recyclables go in one container, trash in the other. Not exactly hard to do this. Metals, aside from food containers, I save up, then take to a scrap place and get money for them.

And I call bullshiat on "Bullshiat" :)
 
editorial_distractions
2011-11-14 08:29:56 AM
MightyPez: In our neighborhood we were given a free single sort recycling program to use. They drop off a large green container that you can dump your mixed recycling into. They give you a list of common items that can't be recycled (grocery store plastic bags, egg cartons, wax containers, food tainted items, etc) and do pickups every 2 weeks.


We have single-source, too (except we take ours to the transfer station and don't have pickup). It's awesome. We can even recycle plastic bags and some certain plastic numbers (I think #5 is a sketchy one?) that I guess other places can't. Usually, our trash is about 50% recycling and 50% trash.
 
Slaves2Darkness
2011-11-14 08:30:03 AM
Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

No, no I don't. You can't make me. Mine all go into one can, the trash can, after it hits the curve if you want it go get it. Fark recycling, I don't have kids, I'm never having kids, I hate you and your kids what the fark do I care if the human race chokes on it's own trash.
 
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:30:20 AM
relevant (new window)
 
probesport
2011-11-14 08:33:33 AM
We have a big trash bin and a big recycling bin. No sorting, just put all recyclable stuff in the recycle bin and trash in the other. We also get points for our recycling that can be redeemed for gift cards, coupons, etc on their website.

I recycle because its easy and free, before this program we opted out of all recycling due to the hassle. I care about the environment, just not enough to put forth any effort.
 
KrispyKritter
2011-11-14 08:34:46 AM
huntercr: Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

you know that show was just entertainment, right?

They aren't exactly known for fact checking. They even acknowledge in the episode IIRC that aluminum is worth recycling.
Yes there'e diminishing returns on things like plastic and paper, but as costs of raw materials go up then all sorts of things become viable

/ethanol from grains/grasses, wind power, and oil sands used to be cost prohibitive too when gasoline was $1/gallon. They aren't anymore

the fat bastard on that show still spews it out like a righteous know it all. we both know there are many who believe whatever they hear. Zippy should go back to tossing cards or at least STFU like Teller does.
the long train of stand-up comedians that become pseudo talking heads has grown tiresome. similar to Hollywood politicians.
it's early, and Mr.Coffee is on the fritz.
 
probesport
2011-11-14 08:35:22 AM
Slaves2Darkness: Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

No, no I don't. You can't make me. Mine all go into one can, the trash can, after it hits the curve if you want it go get it. Fark recycling, I don't have kids, I'm never having kids, I hate you and your kids what the fark do I care if the human race chokes on it's own trash.

The curve?
 
Pvt Joker
2011-11-14 08:37:58 AM
Approves:

1.bp.blogspot.com
 
Marcintosh
2011-11-14 08:41:31 AM
KrispyKritter: huntercr: Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

you know that show was just entertainment, right?

They aren't exactly known for fact checking. They even acknowledge in the episode IIRC that aluminum is worth recycling.
Yes there'e diminishing returns on things like plastic and paper, but as costs of raw materials go up then all sorts of things become viable

/ethanol from grains/grasses, wind power, and oil sands used to be cost prohibitive too when gasoline was $1/gallon. They aren't anymore

the fat bastard on that show still spews it out like a righteous know it all. we both know there are many who believe whatever they hear. Zippy should go back to tossing cards or at least STFU like Teller does.
the long train of stand-up comedians that become pseudo talking heads has grown tiresome. similar to Hollywood politicians.
it's early, and Mr.Coffee is on the fritz.

don't apologize - It's great when someone comes out swinging - a personal favorite actually

I'm pretty obnoxious myself so I'm really getting a kick -
//slashed
 
fireclown
2011-11-14 08:42:44 AM
I suppose that spending the sizable amount of energy to create the very reusable and useful material of aluminum and then burying it when finished makes a certain kind of sense. I'm sure that the almighty will create more as we require it.
 
Slaves2Darkness
2011-11-14 08:46:16 AM
probesport: Slaves2Darkness: Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

No, no I don't. You can't make me. Mine all go into one can, the trash can, after it hits the curve if you want it go get it. Fark recycling, I don't have kids, I'm never having kids, I hate you and your kids what the fark do I care if the human race chokes on it's own trash.

The curve?

The rounded part of my could-de-sac where the trash cans go.
 
Slaves2Darkness
2011-11-14 08:47:43 AM
fireclown: I suppose that spending the sizable amount of energy to create the very reusable and useful material of aluminum and then burying it when finished makes a certain kind of sense. I'm sure that the almighty will create more as we require it.

Who cares? I mean wasting energy only hurts the poor and Jesus loves it when the poor starve, die, and come to him quickly. Particularly when they are children. Jesus loves the little children, and so do his priests.
 
probesport
2011-11-14 08:49:43 AM
Slaves2Darkness: probesport: Slaves2Darkness: Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

No, no I don't. You can't make me. Mine all go into one can, the trash can, after it hits the curve if you want it go get it. Fark recycling, I don't have kids, I'm never having kids, I hate you and your kids what the fark do I care if the human race chokes on it's own trash.

The curve?

The rounded part of my could-de-sac where the trash cans go.

Makes sense, never heard it called that before.
 
smedrick
2011-11-14 08:53:55 AM
video man: Sarah Palin's Conscience: "Recycling is good!"

[upload.wikimedia.org image 297x305]

That's an awfully broad statement on recycling. I don't suppose you have a better solution to recovering rare earth metals like lithium? We only have a finite amount of metals, and landfill mining isn't cost-effective compared to recycling.

The whole point of that episode was to show how recycling isn't necessarily all good. They never made any indication that recycling is broadly wrong. The purpose of P&T's BS was to challenge accepted beliefs and show people that nothing is either black or white.
 
hailin [TotalFark]
2011-11-14 08:54:24 AM
We don't have a recycling program in our city. The recycling at the grocery store requires you to separate your recyclables. I don't have room in our house to have four different bins for recycling. I don't commercially recycle because it is a pain in the ass.

I do however reuse whatever I can. Plastic pop bottles are saved for making rootbeer. Aluminum cans are saved as space fillers for my container plants (I buy deep containers, but if a plant only needs 6" to grow well I fill the extra space with pop cans so I'm not using tons of soil), Styrofoam peanuts are saved for container plant filler too or to reuse as packing material, newspaper/paper/cardboard products are saved for either mulching around plants or to making bedding for my vermicompost systems, food scraps go in the vermicompost bin or as chicken feed for my neighbors, egg cartons are saved for crafts or to get more eggs from my friends with chickens, plastic bags are saved for the small trash cans and for extra packing material, beer bottles and wine bottles are saved/washed/sanitized for homebrew beer and wine, and bleach/vinegar bottles are washed out and saved for various fertilizers or pesticides for the garden. We throw out about two-three 10-gallon garbage bags a week and two of those are from catboxes. The other one is mostly kitchen scraps of what I can't compost or turn into chicken feed and stuff I can't reuse, but I am not going to waste my time sorting or gas driving to the nearest recycle center (which is a couple miles out of my way).
 
Dave and the Mission
2011-11-14 08:54:27 AM
Another thumbs up for single stream recycling. Our recycling bin is bigger than our trash bin, although it get's picked up every other week instead. They both hit the curb full, so my trash can would need to be 50% bigger if we didn't do recycling. We get free yard waste on opposite weeks, Twice annual Large brush collection (they'll take a whole tree if you cut it up right, and twice annual bulk collection (they'll take bulky crap that would otherwise fill your trashcan in one bite; as well as sofas, tires, refrigerators, and other big stuff.

/Austin
//Never thought I could live in Texas
///Much better than anywhere I lived in Louisiana.
 
blindy the pirate
2011-11-14 08:56:47 AM
We have a can that is split in half. It is free to have. One side for paper, the other for the cans, bottles, etc. But it is paper, cardboard, paperboard, anything pulpy. It is weird to go to my parents house and see the piles of cardboard on the curb meant for the landfill.

I keep steal, copper, appliances I get from working and hit the scrapyard for cash every month or two.
 
Edsel
2011-11-14 08:58:31 AM
Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

Likewise here in the People's Republic of Cambridge, MA. At some point in the future I think there's a plan to go to total single-stream recycling, meaning that you don't even have to separate recyclables from your trash anymore.

And then at some point when the replicator is invented, all trash will just be broken down into raw matter for subatomic-level recycling anyway.
 
TheGreatGazoo
2011-11-14 09:04:44 AM
My trash pickup is about $16/month, and it has the trash side and the recycling side, and they sort the recycling out for me.
 
sandbar67
2011-11-14 09:06:44 AM
Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

LOL you rubes recycle? My recyclables all go right in the trash. I could give a fark.
 
Mose
2011-11-14 09:09:00 AM
Edsel: Honest Bender: Lol, you rubes have to sort your recyclables? Mine all go in the big blue recyclables bin.

Likewise here in the People's Republic of Cambridge, MA. At some point in the future I think there's a plan to go to total single-stream recycling, meaning that you don't even have to separate recyclables from your trash anymore.

And then at some point when the replicator is invented, all trash will just be broken down into raw matter for subatomic-level recycling anyway.

Hell, even out here in the sticks (Dudley) we have single stream recycling.
 
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