Ontario omnibus legislation Bill 140 puts more control over recycling in the hands of the province and prevents municipalities from saying no to landfills
TFA talks about the rate of recycling at pickup but doesn’t talk much about where the collected material is sent. In Europe it just gets dumped in Turkey.
Maybe the key is to stop using so much damned plastics. Burning them seems like a bad alternative.
The problem, or one of them, is that plastic recycling doesn’t make economic sense (even if it makes environmental sense) as things now stand. If it made money, big companies would be tripping over each other to get into the field.
If we want to fix this, we need to either heavily subsidize plastic recycling, or heavily penalize new plastic production and use. Probably both.
I am now selling supersquirrel plastic credits where for each credit you buy I will commit to being an equivalent unit less lazy about reducing my plastic use.
Wow, not to brag but if I do say so myself this is actually a brilliant idea! We should hinge our futures as a planet on my genius business plan!
TFA talks about the rate of recycling at pickup but doesn’t talk much about where the collected material is sent. In Europe it just gets dumped in Turkey.
Maybe the key is to stop using so much damned plastics. Burning them seems like a bad alternative.
The problem, or one of them, is that plastic recycling doesn’t make economic sense (even if it makes environmental sense) as things now stand. If it made money, big companies would be tripping over each other to get into the field.
If we want to fix this, we need to either heavily subsidize plastic recycling, or heavily penalize new plastic production and use. Probably both.
It doesn’t make economic sense until we run out of oil, anyway.
Canada sends ours to the Philippines.
Didn’t we stop? I think I remember that being resolved sometime when Duterte was in power.
That was us shipping landfill waste to them labeled as recyclable plastic.
I am now selling supersquirrel plastic credits where for each credit you buy I will commit to being an equivalent unit less lazy about reducing my plastic use.
Wow, not to brag but if I do say so myself this is actually a brilliant idea! We should hinge our futures as a planet on my genius business plan!