A smarter way of dealing with this for example is in my area, when you call to sign up for garbage service the Official KANSAS CITY LVII CHAMPS Shirt Furthermore, I will do this company will tell the customer right from the start and reminders with future news letters how important it is to recycle and will provide free of charge a bin that can be kept in the house for recyclables and a second full sized garbage container (different color to signify which is which) for curbside pickup. In our house we are pretty careful about recycling as much as we can, our neighbor on the other hand does not want to take the time to separate nor do they want a second large container that takes up space. However that does not mean those plastic and paper products are just going straight to a landfill; some of them are still being recycled but in a different form. The collection companies in our area haul all of their loads to a facility where they are roughly separated into burnable and non-burnable refuse. The non-burnable loads go to the landfill whereas the burnables go to one of several incinerators around the cities that burn trash (even plastic) as fuel to run generators that create electricity that is used to power homes/businesses.
So although that plastic bottle my neighbor threw in the Official KANSAS CITY LVII CHAMPS Shirt Furthermore, I will do this regular trash may not be reused as another bottle, it is being used (recycled) to create electricity to make sure the lights stay on…which is far better than just tossing it in a landfill where it will just sit providing nothing for thousands of years. And it’s not just my area; this process is becoming fairly common as people (companies, governments) realize it is a smarter way, even profitable way of dealing with garbage. *We put our aluminum cans in a separate container and when it gets full we take it to a recycle place that will pay you by the pound for your aluminum “garbage.” It isn’t much, usually $7 or $8 for a big trash bag full of squished cans but it is a little money and thus a cash reward for doing things smarter.
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