To add to that; paper recycling is pretty damn good too. I try to buy products that use paper/cardboard packaging and products that use recycled paper.
I thought they don’t really recycle a lot of paper goods from residential waste streams due to contamination (grease and the like)…? That’s why direct-ship companies are worse for the environment than big box retailers (also the fact that they get them in big boxes rather than a tiny box just for you)
Personally I just save all my paper products (except highly inked or laminated) and grow mushrooms on them. Free food rather than landfill, the ultimate recycle.
Oysters love cardboard and paper, or basically any wood product. Most other fungus does not take to it as readily, so it’s a really easy culture to keep going :)
Glass and metal recycling do happen as far as I know but yeah plastics is mostly bs
To add to that; paper recycling is pretty damn good too. I try to buy products that use paper/cardboard packaging and products that use recycled paper.
I thought they don’t really recycle a lot of paper goods from residential waste streams due to contamination (grease and the like)…? That’s why direct-ship companies are worse for the environment than big box retailers (also the fact that they get them in big boxes rather than a tiny box just for you)
Personally I just save all my paper products (except highly inked or laminated) and grow mushrooms on them. Free food rather than landfill, the ultimate recycle.
Oysters love cardboard and paper, or basically any wood product. Most other fungus does not take to it as readily, so it’s a really easy culture to keep going :)
Despite doing recycling where I live, they explicitly do not recycle glass. Safety hazard, maybe?
The high melting point of glass makes it inefficient to recycle since we don’t get enough of our power from renewables yet.