New York state is looking for a new solution to plastic waste : NPR
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That’s how I increasingly feel about having to wash out plastic bottles for the recycling trash, which is an increasingly dubious thing. It’s just so much easier to toss them in a fire and burn them, especially nowadays with recycling to be mostly a feel-good scam. Maybe it’s a good thing with the amount of waste a suburbanite household generates, but I sure much rather just burn that crap that be participating in the solid waste racket.
New York City fails zero waste pledge. Why it’s going backward. – POLITICO
NEW YORK — Mountains of trash are getting steeper as the country’s largest city inches away from its ambitious goal of nearly zeroing out residential waste by 2030, emblematic of the nation’s struggles with more garbage and limited recycling options.
City Hall cut street sweeping in half during the Covid-19 pandemic. Residents are recycling at their lowest level since 2015. Composting food scraps — which comprise one-third of household waste — is becoming harder as the program has been a target of budget cuts. And reforms to the private-sector industry that collects commercial waste have been delayed once again.