Clementine Kornder’s Post

What an excellent article on recycling! Extremely thorough on the industry and what should be recycled versus what needs to be trash (or incinerated here in Pinellas). Maybe it's time for Pinellas County to reconsider recycling for the entire county and work with the municipalities to come up with a better plan. "For example, it takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to create an aluminum product from raw materials. In 2018, recycling saved more than 193 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by almost 42 million cars. And it creates six times the amount of jobs that landfilling does, according to the National Institutes of Health."

Recycling Is Easier Than Ever…Why Aren’t More Doing It? https://hubs.li/Q02kHTqc0 This was an article from https://hubs.li/Q02kHHCn0 on the 21st of January. While I don’t know Leslie Kouba, I get the impression she believes recycling is simple. Finding big blue recycling containers might be easy, but to me, recycling is far from easy (in the US, in particular). From the Federal Government to State, City, and local municipalities, all the rules differ. My community has different recycling rules than the next town over (what can be recycled, what cannot, what must be separated, what must not, etc.). The next town over has different regulations, and so on. Additionally, there are different recycling companies who not only have varying equipment and machinery to decipher what is recyclable or not but also employ people of different calibers, trained (or not) to separate materials. As a result, what gets collected (or not) is a mixed bag, and we are all to blame. BLAME? Correct—we are all to blame. Why can’t we demand our State and Cities enact consistent and easy-to-understand recycling laws we all can follow? Why can’t we incentivize recycling like other countries to at least make it worthwhile for people to think differently about trash, collecting it, separating it, and recycling it? Why can’t we demonize littering, LITTERING, like we do lighting forest fires, vandalizing public property, or even polluting our natural resources? Right now, recycling is anything but easy. Oh, and by the way, littering is 85% intentional! That’s pathetic and needs to change.

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Don’t Fall for the BS…Recycling Works if Cities Try It…Really Try It https://hubs.li/Q02s74sM0 The anti-recycling crowd just spews out babble that recycling “never” worked or has always been overly optimistic in their results, while in reality, recycling has never been given a fair chance. It seems like we’ve skipped over recycling right to fancy new materials and structures that biodegrade (supposedly) or magically disappear (nonsense). Sure, towns across America recycle some miscellaneous materials, but have we really embraced recycling? I’m not talking about recycling newspapers and some Amazon boxes…that’s fine, but really embraced it…to the point where investment money has been put to work to find/develop/create ways to properly collect and separate different types of materials to make a difference? I’m fairly certain the answer is “no,” and that needs to change. How can anyone believe that recycling doesn’t work when it’s never been tried? How can anyone say recycling cannot make a difference when every single city and community throughout the US has different rules and regulations for what is or isn’t recyclable? Oh…and by the way…recycling this way won’t ever work. We need consistent instructions we all can follow, then viable and legitimate facilities that can process recycled materials, and finally, companies that can do something legitimate with these items. I’m not talking about TerraCycle making women's purses either but real products from recycled components. It's my hope that those multi-million and billion-dollar companies that work with and process glass, plastic, and aluminum—companies like Ball, Amcor, Alcoa, etc.—spend their money to fight back against the corrupt environmental groups that are funded and fueled by political action committees spreading misinformation to gullible John Q. Public. Ball, Amcor, and others like them have done a poor job of supporting their own industries and recycling in general.

Reduce...reuse...Ridwell? Recycling has huge and complicated problems, but it is fascinating to see what can really be recycled if you're willing to pay an additional fee. I visited Seattle's Ridwell warehouse with Meryl Schenker for the latest Sound Consumer PCC Community Markets. Bigger questions to address some day: Why is the extra cost of recycling on the consumer rather than the producer? Should plastics be taxed like cigarettes? Should services like Ridwell be part of municipal waste collections? Can you pencil out, say, the net environmental cost of using a plastic clamshell vs. having your loose salad greens rot? (I know Jill Lightner would say, just don't ever eat mixed greens, the cost is too high either way!) What is the net environmental value of reusing this material vs. the cost of having vehicles transport it (actually, Ridwell does pencil that one out.) All fascinating, and a topic of huge interest to our readers: https://lnkd.in/gyVH47WQ

Let's talk about recycling at home! Here are a few simple yet impactful tips ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eu3teHvg #AAAambassador #LifeatAAA

Did you know it's national Recycle Week this week (14-20 October)? Recycling is a real team effort at the Cambria office, and we all do our part to minimise how much waste we're producing. Here are our top tips: https://lnkd.in/e8fiDBgC #RecycleWeek #recycle

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Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Recycling Behavior: A New York City Study funded by EREF: The practice of recycling – the day-to-day decisions and actions consumers take, like correctly sorting waste and cleaning recyclables – can be tedious or just downright confusing. While the recycling infrastructure, which encompasses collection, transportation, Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), secondary processing, and re-manufacturing by product manufacturers plays a pivotal role, it's the consumer that plays the most critical role in the quality and efficiency of the recycling stream. #ecoxpress #wastefree #ecoliving