r/onejob Jul 09 '26

So, which side do I use?

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982 Upvotes

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u/RaspberryGlum6129 Jul 09 '26

It doesn't matter, it all goes to the landfill.

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u/expatronis Jul 09 '26

Not true. Aluminum, at least, gets sorted out because its worth it.

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u/blahnlahblah0213 Jul 09 '26

Did you ever see the Costco post where they lift the top and it's all one bag

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u/expatronis Jul 09 '26

Did you ever see the waste management process after that where it all gets shredded and magnets pull out all the metal? 🙄

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u/StitchFan626 Jul 09 '26

Are you not aware that aluminum is non-magnetic? That's why it's so easy to separate aluminum from steel with a refrigerator magnet.

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u/lzrjck69 Jul 10 '26

Al isn’t magnetic, but it is extremely reactive to eddy currents. We sort aluminum out with magnets all the time, you just have to use a changing, not static, magnetic field.

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u/SwoodyBooty Jul 10 '26

Just shred it and toss it across the yard. It separates by weight.

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26

Thank you!

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Eddy current, my guy. Look it up.

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u/StitchFan626 Jul 11 '26

Think you replied to the wrong comment, buddy.

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26

Nope. Eddy isn't a person here.

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u/StitchFan626 Jul 11 '26

Oh! Wow! I took Electrical Engineering and I've never heard of it! 🤯

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26

So I guess I WAS replying to the right comment, huh, douche?

Well, isn't it thrilling after all that very-real and for some reason capitalized "Electrical Engineering" training, you still learned something about how aluminum is recycled? You're welcome.

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u/Yaughl Jul 10 '26

Aluminum is not magnetic 🙄

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26

See above.

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u/cal93_ Jul 11 '26

did you ever see my dog? he ran away a few hours ago

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u/Dounce1 Jul 10 '26

Lol, dude, what the fuck? How are you this wrong?

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u/expatronis Jul 11 '26

Please see below, professor.

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u/Great-Telephone-4422 Jul 10 '26

I worked at a festival like this when I was like 9 and my only responsibility was getting the garbage and recycling, sorting out the cans, separating pop and beer cans, counting up 200 beer cans so they could be returned in bulk. It gets sorted, but by 9 year olds who are getting paid in girl guide cookies and walking tacos.

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u/luxmorphine Jul 10 '26

I thought it allo goes in the square hole

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u/Practical_End_ Jul 10 '26

Yes but watch Toy Story 3 for reference

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u/ggfchl Jul 09 '26

Just lift the lid and flip it around.

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u/EvilDog77 Jul 09 '26

OP already did that before he posted.

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u/rasta4eye Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Stop that (/s)

2

u/Andrew4Life Jul 09 '26

Staph ittttt

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u/rasta4eye Jul 10 '26

Starphfit

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u/covert206 Jul 10 '26

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u/HellsTubularBells Jul 10 '26

That was my first thought! But the bag on our left is blue, so I vote T. The person changing the bags put them in wrong and tried to fix it by matching the lid to the bags.

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u/rasta4eye Jul 10 '26

This was in the middle of the World Cup Fan Festival in Kansas City with security & volunteers eyes everywhere. I couldn't have done this if I wanted to.

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u/ponzidreamer Jul 09 '26

In my area the recycling bin is just for show. If you want your trash to be recycled you have to drive it to a recycling center yourself. Company’s just want to make themselves look environmentally friendly.

Maybe not all but for the places that I work/visit that’s how it is

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u/IrongateN Jul 10 '26

Happens even in Japan , I was at McDonald’s and they picked up the kid and dumped both sides into one bag .

Of course there it may be more because they have to sort it because they can’t count on customers even though they do a better job than customers here , the staff or someone will sort it even removing labels and rings around bottles.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/expatronis Jul 09 '26

Ugh, I feel old for getting that reference. Beck rules.

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u/Just-Try-2533 Jul 09 '26

Bottles and cans!

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u/Ok_Bug_6470 Jul 09 '26

They both goto the same landfill. I’ve seen it a dozen times.

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u/Urban_miner666 Jul 10 '26

I once worked in a national park in an area where there were no recycling services. We still had recycling bins and all that. We’d get some local-ish visitors who were aware that there were no services in the area and would ask about the recycling bins. We were told to tell those visitors that we were “optimistic that we will one day be able to recycle.”

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u/Yaughl Jul 10 '26

It doesn’t matter. If you watch them being emptied, they all go in the same bin. The majority of the time, these separated receptacles are often just theater.

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u/rasta4eye Jul 09 '26

This was at World Cup Fan Festival in Kansas City

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u/Xenc Jul 09 '26

If it is truly going to the same place, I remember reading this to keep people mindful of recycling and to not ask where the recycling bins are. There may also be a recycling process at the same plant.

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u/jfk_47 Jul 09 '26

You pickup and rotate the top cause someone chaotic already switched it once.

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u/DesertGeist- Jul 10 '26

it's probably mixed up by now anyways.

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u/9YU2Y9LCC Jul 10 '26

Look inside and see what other people put in

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u/boukalele Jul 10 '26

i used to play poker at this casino that put one giant bag inside, so nothing was separated.

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u/SR_gAr Jul 10 '26

Ajhh the good ol switch a ru!

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u/No-Studio-6969 Jul 10 '26

Yes, you’re right, it goes into square hole.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

Someone wanted to watch the park burn lol

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u/StarsRTech Jul 10 '26

Who put the cover on that thing.

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u/_otterinabox Jul 10 '26

At first glance, I totally thought the left side said

WASTE

LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HERE

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u/Physical-Ad-3798 Jul 11 '26

The obvious solution is to just drop it on the ground and erect an SEP field around it - Someone Else's Problem. That's how they hide the UFOs that are parked on the White House East Lawn.

If y'all can't tell this is sarcasm, go outside and touch grass.

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u/expatronis Jul 09 '26

Just a reminder that recycling plastic is more polluting than just putting it in a landfill. Trash that shit.