[modo_]

I toured the Recology recycling facility a few months ago. The sorting technology is impressive, but the amount of material that they remove and send to the landfill had me questioning the efficacy of the program.

It sucks to push the packaging crimes of businesses onto consumers, but I think improving the public's understanding of what can and cannot be recycled can still have a massive impact on the effectiveness of recycling programs.

San Francisco has a great website to help you figure out what goes in which bin: https://sfrecycles.org/

(Note that you can recycle fabrics -- this isn't possible through most recycling programs!)

[lyjackal]

Public awareness at the unrecyle-ability of the majority of products should hopefully upstream business packaging change.

[baroffoos]

Hopefully. Recycling almost feels like it has been a trick by corporations

"Don't worry, you can consume as much as you want and as long as you put it in the recycling bin its all good"

[lotsofpulp]

It was a trick, and by politicians and people themselves, who wanted to be seen as being environmentally conscious.

The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment.

[5040]

>The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment.

Maybe I'm only thinking of this because I've been reading Tocqueville, but might not religion be the thing to encourage restraint here?

[lotsofpulp]

Maybe Buddhism, other than that I see lots of consumption in other religions.