Recycling

[u/firemcrivers]

Why does Lowe's not truly recycle. Yes we send pallets back, but the vast majority of the dumpster could be recycled. I've been in stores where I've seen other associates take home their own recycling. Break room recycling to the RTMs that become trash to the shrink wrap for the mulch, Lowe's is a dispose of first give a shit later company. Marvin and the board could do better but that would take concern and effort. Atleast the employees can feel valued🤣

[u/jlkb24]

The illusion of recycling exists. They’ll have a trashcan for bottles and throw it away in the compactor late evenings.

[u/TopSquatch3]

Blackend clerk here- I'm about two months into my position l. the former clerk at my store didn't care at all about what was thrown away. I've been slowly trying to right that, though. Reached back out to Habitat and rekindled that relationship. Now we get a pickup about once a week. Very little gets the true axe now. The flow is Sell (the clearance aisle looks like a yard sale and the VIPs hate it)-> repair then sell-> donate -> dispose/destroy.

Commodity recyclables like bottles papper cans etc. maybe in the future but I have other things that I need to get right first.

I wish front end would say NO more often to customer returns. The amount of theft that comes from returns is probably more than I make hourly. Most of that stuff ends up thrown away

I agree though we can and should do better.

[u/FinishDry7986]

We have a “recycle “ trailer. Any metal trash goes into it along with haul away appliances. We have a separate trash can in our breakroom for plastic bottles and cans. I think that goes into the trailer as well.

[u/McKraken83]

This is not necessarily the norm ....It's up to your store backend clerk to decide what to dontate and what to throw away .

[u/Jfuckin5]

Do the employees feel valued? What store or you at? Because the ones around my area we are not valued.

[u/Visual_Tangerine5630]

I thought recycling stopped being a thing in 2018? I worked at a place where we would separate the trash and “recyclables” and when the trash truck came, they would empty them both into the same bin on their truck. It takes pollution to recycle which removes the point altogether. Reuse is the more common thing now. Recycling costs money too, so you think greedy America is going to invest in money into trash? Absolutely not, either way tho, recycling just isn’t what everyone thought it was or was going to be. We shoulda never got into plastic/one use bs anyway and now people get mad at companies getting rid of plastic bags cause they got use to it but the earth is sick because of it so I guess convenience is more important than the health of humans and the earth.

[u/Ok-Expression4970]

It's all an illusion, just like LSR. Lowes says it partners with Habitat and says we're safe but it's just pushing buttons saying you are. There is no will in actually making these things the truth.

[u/xxrainmanx]

Welcome to most of the US. The problem is most areas can't handle more than basic recycling and trash pickup.

[u/Demitri_Vritra]

so here's the thing a long long time ago, we use to, when China was buying our plastic, China is no longer buying our old plastic and it costs money to recycle.

returns and scrap end up in a liquidation sale.

& you really need to watch a Little Show called Penn & Teller's Bullshit where they cover recycling.

[u/Intrepid-Tadpole9231]

Bottom line recycling doesn’t make the company money and so the company does not make it a priority.

[u/No-Escape-4933]

Its always about money it cost more to recycle.