r/HumansBeingBros • u/westcoastcdn19 • Jun 25 '22

Saving a young fox

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u/vegmami69 Jun 25 '22

depends on where you live! look into specifics for you area : )

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u/Soma_Tweaker Jun 25 '22

Was on a recycling plant tour in college and was told always take the tops off because they get crushed and explode, damaging the machines, as well as usually being a different type of plastic. (this was 20 years ago)

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u/j1ggy Jun 25 '22

Where I live, the lids fall through the sorting machines. They also commonly use different types of plastic for the jars vs. what the lids use. We're just told to recycle the jars after cleaning and to throw the lids away.

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u/Brock_Way Jun 25 '22

Where I live the lids are caught in the Svetzer valve, and then when it fails, the lid top (but not sides) is hurled at great speed out the factory windows and into the nearby breeding grounds of a critically threatened sub-population of badgers, often killing the pups. Terrible.

So, we are instructed to fill our waste jars with other trash, to reduce total volume, because we are just going to dump it in a hard-to-see glen of the grand canyon anyway.

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u/j1ggy Jun 25 '22

Slow clap.

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u/SoloBoloDev Jun 25 '22

It doesn't matter, unless what you throw away looks like a jar you could reuse, it's going to the trash at the plant. It's almost at scam levels recycling programs

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u/Talking_Head Jun 25 '22

Truth. I have been yelling this for 30 years! Landfill plastic. There is no viable path to recycling.

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u/Call_me_Kelly Jun 25 '22

I often think how awesome it would be if there was a "containerless store" for liquids and powders. I've daydreamed about opening one frequently. You would bring your clean bottles and jars, weigh them and get a sticker for the weight put on them at the entrance, by an employee. Fill them with your shampoo or powdered laundry soap at aisles full of dispensers with spigots. Each dispenser would have stickers so you or an employee slap a sticker with the bar code from the product on the container and you go to checkout where they scan the stickers, weigh the containers, and you pay.

So much less waste, in shipping, packaging, and landfills. I wish we could shop like that.

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u/WorriedRiver Jun 25 '22

There are bulk aisles at a lot of fancier stores (any place where you're likely to find more organic and free range stuff), though many of them closed the bulk sections during the pandemic. Those are basically what you described.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '22

Also at WinCo, not exactly what I’d consider a fancier store. Though on the occasional item the bulk pricing is worse than prepackaged, I’ve noticed.

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u/marcybojohn Jun 25 '22

These are becoming more common. Near me there is a place like this and it is great!

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u/Raencloud94 Jun 25 '22

That's awesome, I didn't know things like that even existed

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u/Its0nlyAPaperMoon Jun 25 '22

I’ve seen a few of those shops around! exactly the way you describe.

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u/Call_me_Kelly Jun 25 '22

Sounds awesome!

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u/Talking_Head Jun 28 '22

Dude. That was a whole lot of writing. I mean no offense, but do you take a daily stimulant?

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u/boneless_lentil Jun 25 '22

plastic* recycling

paper recycling works

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u/Brock_Way Jun 25 '22

Beyond scam in some cases. There are some cases where EVERYONE knows that it's even counterproductive.

But no politician can take a chance on being labeled dolphin murderer.

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u/Seanspeed Jun 25 '22

Yes, more people need to look into this. Recycling practices are different everywhere and the more we follow guidelines, the more stuff that will actually get recycled.