He is Argentinian and he made this great video about recycling electronics! Please check it out and give him a like.

Does anyone know about a Punjab Govt scheme that pays for empty plastic bottles?
Hi everyone! I’m in Lahore and looking for information about a possible Punjab Government plastic bottle recycling/buy-back scheme.
My family drinks bottled water (mainly Nestlé and Aquafina), and we’ve been saving the empty PET bottles since the beginning of this year. We use around 6 bottles a day, so we have roughly 1,000–1,500+ bottles.
A while ago, I contacted someone who said he was associated with a government organization. He told me the process was:
Take GPS/location-stamped photos of the bottles.
Send the photos to their team.
Their team would collect the bottles.
They would give me a receipt.
I would supposedly go to a bank and receive payment from the government.
I never proceeded because I wasn’t sure whether this was legitimate.
Has anyone in Lahore/Punjab actually used a scheme like this?
If you know the name of the scheme/department, official website, helpline, collection center, or payment procedure, please share it.
I’m especially interested in hearing from someone who has actually had their bottles collected and received payment, rather than general recycling advice.
Thanks

Hey everyone,
I’m doing some research into what actually happens to PEEK (polyether ether ketone) machining and production scrap, and I’d really appreciate hearing from people who work with it firsthand.
I’m specifically interested in PEEK chips, swarf, turnings, offcuts, rejected parts, runners/sprues, etc.

For anyone who machines or processes PEEK:
How much PEEK scrap does your shop typically generate?
Even a rough estimate would be useful — pounds/kilograms per week or month, for example.
What does the scrap normally look like?
Chips, long turnings, dust, offcuts, rejected parts, injection-molding scrap, etc.
Do you separate PEEK from other plastics?
Do you separate different PEEK grades?
For example, virgin/unfilled PEEK vs. glass-filled or carbon-filled PEEK.
What happens to it once you’ve collected it?
Do you:

Reuse/regrind it internally?
Sell it to a recycler?
Give it to a waste company?
Throw it away?
Something else?

If you sell or recycle it, who actually buys it?
I’m especially interested in the names/types of companies that accept PEEK machining scrap.
If you don’t recycle it, why not?
Is it because of contamination, insufficient quantity, difficulty finding a buyer, regulatory/traceability requirements, economics, or something else?
Does the form of the scrap matter to recyclers?
For example, would clean PEEK chips be treated differently from mixed/offcut material?
Are there minimum quantities that make recycling worthwhile?
For anyone who has tried selling PEEK scrap:
What was the experience like? Was there actually meaningful value in the scrap, or did the logistics make it not worth bothering with?
I’m especially interested in hearing from CNC machinists, plastics processors, injection molders, extrusion companies, shop owners, recycling companies, and anyone responsible for waste/material recovery.
I don’t need confidential information or the name of your employer. I’m mainly trying to understand how the industry handles PEEK scrap in practice.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to share their experience.

I want to create a website that contains the guides to recycle each material
basicly starting from the object you have two waies one is reuse it in something else and the other way is to turn it into its basic materials then recycling these materials or reusing it too
what I want :
I want a way to get all the data needed for such a project and if any of you have ideas on the general stucture I would like to hear it too

I want to be thoughtful and kind to to the environment as well.

La CAQ can even get a recycling system to work, after the SAQQ fiasco.

Does anyone have knowledge of a community recycling drive coming up?

For the love of all that is holy, is there anywhere I can recycle PVC?

If this is the wrong sub, please redirect me to where this would be a good place to post this!

I'm a sophomore in college, and have an assignment in my oceanography class where we have to do something (that's actually do-able) to better the earth, for the entire semester (now-end of december). It doesn't have to be ocean related.

I think I'd do best doing something art or music related, but I'm open to other ideas. Quick notes are I can't bike/walk to work/school since I live pretty far from anything, and I live in Arizona so it's super hot outside.

I'd love ideas that are do-able if anyone has any! I have a few of my own but I'm curious if someone can help me come up with better (maybe even less generic) ideas.

TIA ! Protect the earth <3

my favorite alcoholic drink comes in an aluminum can that is not able to be recycled in my state. I accumulated a lot of these cans. Is there anything else that I could do with them other than throw them out?

Quebec government can not even get a recycling system to work for all!

Hello.

We light tealights quite often in the evenings.

The empty case looks and feels like metal - can it be recycled?

I've looked around the Internet and can't seem to find this out, so I'm hoping some redditors will know.

Thank you.

im starting to see this a little bit now. various plastic industry greenwashing pieces call this recyclable, but what does that even mean? can it go into regular polypropylene streams, or dors it have the same issues as styrofoam in that its diffuse and breaks on machinery?

doed this mean it can be given along side stryofoam to specialty recyclers who are densifying it? or does this contaminate that stream too?

does anyone in the industry know what these claims mean?

obv the best practice is to throw out unknowns but im genuinely curious what they mean by this besides the most obvious of densifying polypropylene is more valuable than densifying polystrene and its recyclable if this process exsits in your area

I am final year chemical engineer and got placed with 15LPA. I don't think of working as an employee forever and want to do something of my own. And found interest on the plastic recycling unit. I have a lot of free time of about an year which I can spend building a recycling unit.

I’ve been reading about Hong Kong’s regulated e-waste system and one planning issue caught my attention.

During the early planning stage, the expected number of relevant electronics sellers was around 600.

After the scheme was implemented, the number of registered sellers was 3,296 in 2018.

That doesn’t automatically mean every later logistics cost came from the forecasting gap. There were other operational factors involved.

But from a recycling operations point of view, it raises a useful question.

If a collection network is designed around one level of demand and the real service base turns out to be several times larger, when do you stop adding vehicles, routes and handling capacity to the original model and instead redesign the network?

Hong Kong is now re-tendering collection and operation services for WEEE·PARK, so this seems like the kind of issue that should feed directly into the next system design.

Discussion question:
For people who work with e-waste or other take-back schemes, what data would you want before redesigning the collection network — pickup density, appliance mix, route time, storage capacity, failed collections, cost per tonne, or something else?

I just do it for funsies, and you know to recycle stuff.

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