Recycling and trash

I really do not have a policy, I just want to know if what we’re recycling is actually being recycled. I feel like this is completely overlooked. We pay for it, we spend the time to sort it, and i don’t trust that it’s actually getting done. From what I’ve been told is that it all goes to the dump anyway, and it’s mainly to make us feel like we’re all doing something. I also don’t know why we don’t build more with recycled materials.

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For some reason we pay to use the products of an ineffective system that we wholly contribute to.

[are you suggesting an audit?]

I’m a little concerned about the trash can with Jews written on it in your diagram. I simply want to understand if we are being lied to about the majority that we recycle. How much actually gets recycled in a percentage. 100%, 50%, is it bullshit and more like 10%. That would be incredibly sad to me.

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[Nevermind that one word. What matters is the infographic as a whole. Is the system efficient? Wasteful? Do Americans ever see return from their recycling donations?]

I’m talk mainly about recycling? Looking at that diagram I am hoping that’s not what is actually being done. If that diagram is for waste and trash I think there has to be better ways. Using combustion to create energy from trash sounds dumb, a net negative with pollution as part of the by product.

Might as well just grind everything up, mix in an additive and make non load bearing material for simple stuff like sea walls or road barriers for construction. Seems like this is us taking the easy way out and just burning it.

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I would like to suggest an easy way out. Incinerating trash and food waste separately. They both create a useful end product of ash that can be combined to produce useable compost. It is being done already in this country and others. I can get more details about this if that’ll help. This is a solvable issue We just need to start it. Thank you, Jeanne