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xavier67
Citizen
Username: Xavier67
Post Number: 118
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 11:23 am: |     |
All this talk about the recycling has me deeply disturbed. Does the TC have any definitive info whether all our recycle items are actually being recycled? If not, for any item that are not being recycled, can we turn to a vendor who will recycle them for sure?
Had I known my recycles were not being recycled, I would have brought them to a place I know would recycle them.
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vicdeluca
Citizen
Username: Vicdeluca
Post Number: 177
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 12:29 pm: | |
xavier67
Be careful about mistaking opinion for fact on MOL.
The materials collected are recycled. We source separate to get a better price at the market.
Plastics too are brought to a recycling facility.
Maplewood's recycling operation is one of the most comprehensive in the region and the collection rate has consistently been high. The material is being recycled.
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Cindi
Citizen
Username: Cindi
Post Number: 5
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 12:42 pm: | |
The question Bobk brought up had to do with source separating paper, cardboard and newsprint. Why separte at the source if they're all collected in one truck in one bin? These were his observations, not opinions, I believe. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2312
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 1:01 pm: | |
Cindi, don't blame me, I am in enough trouble with The Mayor as it is. ;-)
Blame Us2innj. |
xavier67
Citizen
Username: Xavier67
Post Number: 121
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 1:07 pm: | |
Vic: You wrote (under "Plastics Recycling" thread):
"Currently, when any of the recycled materials is more than the market can absorb it is generally put into the general waste stream. This is true of newspaper and mixed paper as well as plastics. We do not have chain of command once the plastics hit the recycling facility so we do not know the ultimate fate of what we bring them."
So I'm still confused about the ultimate fate of our recycled materials. Is the answer to my original questions then, "Maybe. We don't know exactly."?
Or is it (as you stated so emphathically above) "The material is being recycled."?
I'm not trying to nitpick here. |
eb1154
Citizen
Username: Eb1154
Post Number: 249
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 9:05 am: | |
The town has no control over the products after they bring it to a recycling plant. The mayor was right in that sometimes there is no market for a certain product therefore a plant may choose to throw it away. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2321
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 5:07 pm: | |
Let's see. We have a state of the art recycling program, but the recyclables aren't neccesarily being reused.
Reminds me a little of Orwell, "All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1229
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 8:56 pm: | |
According to the San Jose Mercury News, many recycled computers are actually dumped in China, India, Pakistan and the Philippines and salvaged in unsafe conditions by the locals. |
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