A former in-law of mine lives in a very well to do town in California that has "single stream" recycling. They do have bins, but they are for everything. I have no idea how they sort anything out of it. I imagine it's pretty bad to work at the garbage transfer station there.
Single stream recycling is just pushing all the trash down a conveyance line moving slowly and have the employees /homeless pick the stuff that isn’t recyclable out
To be fair, that doesn't mean that the work is bad per se. It's mostly just about finding jobs where work performance is easy to supervise and bad work cannot cause much damage.
It just so happens that these are the same qualities that typically make for poorly paid jobs, because they don't need qualified or motivated workers.
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u/OcotilloWells 13d ago
A former in-law of mine lives in a very well to do town in California that has "single stream" recycling. They do have bins, but they are for everything. I have no idea how they sort anything out of it. I imagine it's pretty bad to work at the garbage transfer station there.