This is a video made in Germany. I felt we all can learn lessons from our allies. I hope you learn a few new things. And have a deeper understanding. Please display your expertise on this topic. I welcome that.
I recently found out that all the glass being recycled in my city does not actually get melted down to be made into new glass battles. Rather it just gets crushed and put through a machine to buff out the sharp edges, and then it gets added with gravel for making asphalt for paving street surfaces. Apparently that's just much cheaper than actually recycling it back into glass. I felt very let down by this revelation, since I had put so much effort into carefully recycling all my glass bottles. Another thing I found out is that they will not recycle plastic bags. Although there is a recycling bin for plastics, the fine print on the city's website says not to include plastic bags in there. I read somewhere else that very often plastic bags in the recycling will be separated out and just thrown away rather than be recycled. Apparently the plastic bags can get stuck in the conveyor belts and cause problems. Most people do not realise this. People have overly optimistic ideas about how things get recycled. On the other hand, there are things that are recyclable that most people do not realise. 100% polyester clothing and the synthetic stuffing inside pillows is made out of the exact same plastic that plastic bottles are. Many of the recycling workers may not even realise this and just toss the pillows into the garbage not realising it is indeed recyclable just like everything else. So tossing it into the recycling bin is no guarantee it will actually get recylced.
I plan to check to see research on the top rated State doing recycling. In Ca I would turn in cans and bottles and get paid a token amount. Here in Idaho I do not do that. They have us separate it into categories but no cash comes our way.
