What is the point of sorting your rubbish into different categories, like metal stuff

The garbage collectors will just throw them all higgeldy piggeldy, into the same vihicle anyway.

 

If it is thrown together again later by the person who collects the garbage then there is no point. I suppose it depends on the area you live in and the facilities there on how useful it is to sorting your trash. If you have a lot of a certain kind of gerbage, metal for example, you should ideally sort and transport it yourself.

 

Well YOU could take it to a recycler and get a few bucks, that's one reason.
Cities that want/require you to separate trash usually provide the cans for it.
We get three trash cans from the city, one for garbage, one for recyclable items; paper,glass, plastic and one for lawn trash.
They are picked up by different trucks and go to different dumps.

 

We have one can for actual garbage, one for glass/metal/plastic and another for paper cardboard. I'm not sure why its this way, at least it doesn't have to be "completely" separated, that would make a lot of people not want to recycle. Plus I have doubts that some people are even capable of something so complicated as separating paper from the other stuff.

 

paper and glass go in the same. basically only need to pull out the plastic here. but city dont give a shit either way it all goes in the same truck and sorted by minimum wage workers..

 

Here we have garbage cans and recyclable cans. Although you have to pay an extra fee for recycling, and they only really do anything with cans and glass. Most of the paper and plastic goes to the same landfill as the garbage.

 

Sorting rubbish; the easiest way for people in the first world to feel proud about themselves for helping save the environment.

 

Even though in many cases recycling is actually worse for the environment.

It's all about that warm fuzzy feeling inside

 

i keep the metals separate because i sell it


as for landfill most of them are heavily sorted ..well mine is anyway...even on their website they warn us to destroy documents and hard drives manually because ALL refuse is subject to reclaim/re-use/re-sale ...salvage rights are included in the city contract and the winning bidder gets to do whatever they want with your garbage...they can even get you for theft if you grab something from the curb that someone else has put there for pick-up...when i see something i can use I always knock on the door and ask homeowners for permission..thats the only way to legally take it.

 

Hi Rat! You mean the point of sorting rubbish out is to make people feel content about themselves? Oh wait, it's Bird...

 

I sometimes get this paranoia that after I sort this shit, they're just gonna throw all that shit together in the end.

 

Damn, reading about 15 years of Rat's posts brainwashed me to post his opinion.
Hang on while I go eat a raw egg.

 

i've never heard of sorting garbage. recycling, sure, where it's offered. there is no recycling here, and i've never lived anywhere that the garbagemen took your recyclables anyway, so sorting them would have been a waste of time if you are just leaving them at the curb instead of taking them to the recycling center.

i guess i do sort my garbage a little bit. i have a large trashcan in my room that i generally don't empty until it fills up. so i make sure to throw any food away in my smaller trashcan.

 

We have trash cans and recycling cans. Then if you need something big hauled like a fridge you call the county to let them know. But most everyone just puts it on the curb and rednecks appear almost immediately it seems like to take it and scrap or let sit strewn about a trailer park somewhere.

 

I don't separate things. I don't empty out my milk from a bottle either. Someone gets paid to do that. Society is trying to make us into crafty mechanised machines but we are growing every day. If we start to automatically start doing little things some poor guy will lose his job.
Like at supermarkets now it's all auto serve yourself, dumbarses, I'm a crafty bitch scanning my own fruit through as a boring apple =p
But I do this cause now some poor girl out of school can't find a job, because they want us to be social robots.

 

You should hit up Rat