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This is another problem: what goes in what bin is different in every city. I still don’t know if cardboard goes in trash, recycling or organically in my new city. Standardize the rules.



it isn't just different in every city, they change everywhere, all the time, unpredictably.

the university i worked at had different recycling rules than the city it was located in, because they operated their own little recycling facility. by the time i left the sorting rules they handed out to all 10,000 employees quarterly consumed an 8.5x14 sheet of colored paper.

a local fast food restaurant has something like four different disposal bins, and i'm pretty sure that at least 3 of them aren't mutually exclusive in their descriptions of what they accept. none of the bins match my understanding of what any of the local waste disposal companies accept in a given stream.




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