A few years ago I watched a tv show, Undercover Boss, where they were giving inside details into Waste Management, the trash collector, garbage removal, recycling program company; in this segment they showed how the employees working the incoming recycling items sorting the plastics not numbered 1 or 2 from those numbered 1 & 2. So what do they do with those plastics not numbered 1 or 2? They take these plastics off the conveyor belt and add them to a rather large collection behind them. Alright now, what happens to that large pile of the plastics not numbered 1 and 2? They are sent to another facility which can recycle all plastics, numbers on the plastics do not matter!
What a concept, one facility that can take and recycle all numbers of plastics, even those plastics without a number on their body. So why are we all paying our cities to take only those plastics with two special numbers? Why not work with the recycling companies who are set up to receive all plastics?
How can this be changed?
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