Talk:Recycling

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The 'recycling bin' image?

The image on the right certainly doesn't look like a bin at park in northern California. Would anybody replace the image with the correct one, or remove it from the article?

Surcharges

In the supply section of the article 2nd paragraph

(Container deposit legislation involves offering a refund for the return of certain containers, typically glass, plastic, and metal. When a product in such a container is purchased, a small surcharge is added to the price. This surcharge can be reclaimed by the consumer if the container is returned to a collection point. These programs have been very successful, often resulting in an 80 percent recycling rate. Despite such good results, the shift in collection costs from local government to industry and consumers has created strong opposition to the creation of such programs in some areas.)

the last line states that

• 1. there is a shift in collection costs
• 2. the industry and consumers are now paying for the collection costs.

I believe this is just a misunderstanding of the concept that the money you receive when returning the packaging is actually additional money that you spent when purchasing the item. this forces the consumer to return the packaging if they do not want to be the one paying for the disposal of the item.

02:03, 16 January 2012‎ 206.248.172.126 (Talk)‎

Possible Deletion of the "Rinsing" subheading under "Recycling consumer waste"

I found this section confusing, don't think it added much to the article, and its sources don't back up what it does add. It's central claim seems to be that all food packaging in contact with organic matter must be rinsed, which may be typically true, but this section implies it is always true. Also, the two sources are a blog post about "Trench Composting Your Kitchen Waste" and a political cartoon with commentary discussing the question "Is it passe to care about the environment?" neither of which addresses the rinsing of food packaging. I am unsure what the second sentence is trying to say, and think it is worded in a confusing manner. Consequently, I think it would be appropriate to remove the "Rinsing" subheading Anomalistic (talk) 00:56, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

types of curbside sorting

The curbside collection section had detailed description of types of sorting but no definition of what curbside collection is. I move the description of different categories and as well as analysis to Kerbside collection (already identified as the main article for this section) and added a basic definition in its place. This was reverted by User:TL The Legend with the sole explanation that it was not discussed. This is so tiresome. -- 212.251.181.252 (talk) 17:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

If you're going to define a word, just put the definition in the paragraph. There's no reason to delete two perfectly fine paragraphs just to define curbside collection. And a section that has its own article should still contain information from the article, not just a paragraph basically stating "curbside collection is collecting recycling from the curb." TL | The Legend ^talk 00:40, 20 February 2022 (UTC)