• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    They have something like “recycle me like a cardboard box” printed on them, and I’ve been putting the in my recycling :/ are they lying?

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It honestly depends on your local municipality. Where I live they don’t take anything but straight up hard plastic that is cleaned, and clean cardboard, cleaned tin cans. Anything else they don’t process. And even then they’re probably throwing out the whole truck of recyclables cause one dingus didn’t clean out a can and it got tomato soup on everything else. Recycling is honestly a scam in America, especially once China stopped buying our waste years ago.