Well if the collection bins are like UK ones then there is no surprise.
Glass bottle "banks" as they are known here (UK), for recycling glass
have small port holes to put the bottles through to save people getting
hit by flying splinters of glass.
So what do they do - use the same type banks for plastic - but it is
hardly economic to drive plastic bottles to a bottle bank unless you
have a load - but this takes ages to poke into the bank - you need a
hopper feed so you can just pour them in. If it is a managed collection
site then they should shred them on site or compact them - but again no
- they haul enormous skip fulls of empty bottles by road to processing
plants - mostly what they haul is air.
Someone also needs to come up with domestic shredders or compactors
which would make a lot of the recycling easier.
Making it easier to recycle is the key to the issue which no-one really
seems to be tackling.
Regards,
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robin Ingenthron
Sent: 19 July 2005 13:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] PET Bottles - there is a shortage of them not a glut
Brian --- Egads, is someone throwing away PET bottles? Really?
http://www.plasticstechnology.com/pricing/recyc.html
http://www.container-recycling.org/assets/docs/PN-RecycledPETshortage-4-
27-05.doc
Last I checked, at well over $500 per ton, there has continued to be a
shortage of PET bottles in the industry, which includes mainly carpet
manufacturing and textiles. There is a problem in the USA and elsewhere
having to do with effective collection infrastructures for single-serve
containers, which are primarily consumed on the road away from home and
curbside/kerbside recycling infrastructure... bottle deposit law states
are
doing much better than non-deposit states.
Massachusetts did an opinion research study in the 1990s (while I was at
DEP) which showed one of the strongest reasons / excuses given by
non-participants, higher than "inconvenience", was the stated belief
that
after they were collected, recyclables are just thrown away anyway. If
other people are saying what you've said, Brian, the shortage may be a
self-inflicted wound.
Reduce reuse recycle hierarchy still wins...
Robin
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