The result is less recycling from our waste stream. That bale then has to return to an MRF to re-recycle it. Seeing some plastic bottles in a paper bale, the Chinese inspectors typically say no. To make it even worse, she has become pickier. Then, compounding our recycling woes, China is demanding less. Easily shattered, one third of all glass winds up in a landfill. Using a clever sounding spinning device with magnets and conveyor belts, the machines at the MRF send the light stuff like cardboard upwards and the heavier glass and plastic and metal in the opposite direction.īut because the cans are thinner, the plastic lighter and we read fewer newspapers, the sorters make more mistakes. So, from the curb, the contents of those blue bins are trucked to a Material Recovery Facility (an MRF) where the contents are sorted. official said residue was up by a ton because of the supercan.Īnd that residue has to be removed before recycled materials are sold. And beyond that, our clothes hangers, shoes and garden hoses now fit too.
Everything gets tossed in–the Amazon box is okay but not necessarily all of the inside foam and plastic waste. The downside is what winds up in the supercans. Hoping to encourage recycling, municipalities like Washington D.C. Waste Management (a large recycler) tells us that 2000 municipalities are in the same predicament. Now it is paying $1.2 million to have them removed. Where are we going? To the cost of recycling. The supercan did not work out as they expected. The 96-gallon size is called the supercan.
Hoping to increase recycling volume, the new bins held 32, 48 and 64 gallons.
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