Scotland commits to separate recycling collections
Posted on May 27, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalThis is a good move by Scotland. We are concerned about the effectiveness of making households and business presort their waste into the different categories first. Our observations and readings of other areas that have tried this show the people don’t do this too well. It becomes too hard (even though it is very easy to do) and so a lot still gets dumped into the rubbish bin. The scheme that achieves the most efficient recycling collection is single stream recycling where consumers put all their recycling into one bin and it is then sorted at the recycle center, either manually or with technology. It costs more to do it this way, but it does create jobs and it is more successful at getting recycling performed.
Plus we all ought to be enforcing no waste is exported off shore but that if we make it, we use it. That will drive the efficiencies and costings to make the use of recyclate more financially feasible. Plus then too, if we find by following this rule that there is waste we cannot reuse, then perhaps we should think about not using that material in the first place.
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