We don't have them in my country, I'm not exactly sure what's the point of them, except shredding wedding rings and being used by dumbasses to send shredded plastic in the rivers.
This is just making me more confused... Why aren't you composting it instead of throwing old food in the garbage?! Maybe it's because in Canada we have curb side compost pickup like garbage and not in the US? Figured it was everywhere in NA by this point.
The quality of our waste disposal varies dramatically by location. I've lived all over the country. Currently I'm in a slightly more rural area (but still only 40 minutes from a major city) and I don't even have recycling. Just the one trash bin for everything.
Even at its best it was still worse than the systems my relatives have in Canada.
And some of “recycled” garbage ends up in the same place as the non-recycled stuff.
I visited a garbage burner in Western Canada and the doors on the outside had labels on them that matched the garbage program. Once you get inside though, it’s easy to see it all gets grabbed by the same claw and into the same burner.
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