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This Plastic Mr. Fantastic (mander.xyz)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

do companies/factories in your country not also recycle what they can? are they not paying money to garbage collectors who are incentivised by the state to sort their garbage?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ha! Hahaha haha!

    I have never once seen a garbage inspector at any of the places I've worked. I have been instructed by my employer to dump or otherwise dispose of things questionably, many, many times.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Boss once had me fill a dumpster with old halogen flourescent bulbs. Probably 90% of them shattered in the process. Then it turns out that was the wrong dumpster so we had to shovel all the broken bits into another. Didn't learn they had mercury in them for a decade. I was 15. So that's cool, wonder what that did.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    One small semi-relevant data point (not commercial though):

    In San Jose, California (1hr south of San Francisco), they might occasionally audit residential recycling containers to make sure folks aren’t dumping trash. Drive around early before pickup.

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