The end of recycling

[gordo]

You dutifully separate and put your recyclables in their respective bins and the city picks them up in purpose built trucks and off they go to the incinerator, or dump, along with the rest of your garbage. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...na-ban-imports

 

[davarino]

Until the West understands that most "recycling" is simply a Band-Aid over an oozing wound of mindless and irresponsible packaging and consumption, this will remain a problem.

Admittedly, bulk wholesale packaging and human involvement in re-using unaltered consumer-sized packaging are "uneconomic" (read: "we would rather pull an attractive box of cereal off the shelf than use a scoop to lift out of a large bin into a re-used paper bag"). But that is what the choices seem to whittle down to.

"Of making many packages there is no end," as King Solomon might have put it.