Well, have you? I’m doing mine right now and I’m not sure what is supposed to be dumped today. I saw a foreigner being lambasted the other day for doing it the wrong way. What is the right way?
If you can find a little recycle symbol on it, then it can be recycled…wash it and tosh them all together in one bag…tie paper products together with string…those can be recycled…if there is not enough paper products to be worth “tied” together, then just toss it in the recycle bag with everything else…I guess you are suppose to put your leftover/biodegradable waste in that food basket they give you…but I always think it is kinda gross to wash…so I just put all my food waste in a plastic bag and place it outside…
I’ve never been yelled out for not separating papers, plastics, etc…I always assumed the garbage man does it for you…
I’ve always assumed it’s done by type.
Aluminum together
Paper/cardboard together
Clear glass together
Colored glass together
Plastics together
Food to the stray animals.
But I’ve got a set of nicely labelled recycling bins at my apartment complex that makes it easy enough.
Complete waste of time of course, as the shit all goes into the same landfill anyway, whilst PCB and plastics companies merrily pour thousands of tons of tons of highly toxic chemicals into the rivers, pay no tax at all, and get away with it. But if it diverts attention from this and makes people feel better, then recycling is a great thing for the government. My solution? Stick everything in a big black binliner and throw it in the back of the bin lorry. If they want to open the thing up and hoke around inside, that’s fine by me. I’ll be long gone.
Well, the right way… they want to sort you out diffrent kitchen garbage (chicken bones etc) before it gets burned in the same incinerator (they even burn most of the paper cause otherwise they wouldn’t get it to burn).
Just be happy that the foreigner wasn’t you. If you live in a managed building with its own garbage system its easy not to be catched 
Garbage sorting was invented so polititians show they can handle the garbage problem.
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Just be happy that the foreigner wasn’t you. If you live in a managed building with its own garbage system its easy not to be catched.[/quote]
The guy does live in one of those. The strange thing is that he did sort his garbage.
Is that true? I was quite surprised to find recycling bins in this country. But why would you go through all the truble putting them up if you don’t actually use them?
The garbage I can eat goes into the pantry or fridge, the garbage I can’t eat goes in the bin.
Master Chou
I give almost all of my recyclables to an oldish neighbor who is in the recycling trade. I reckon if people are willing to drive a truck to her house, weigh the stuff, and pay money for it… it’s probably not ending up in a landfill.
Good man.
Is that true? I was quite surprised to find recycling bins in this country. But why would you go through all the truble putting them up if you don’t actually use them?[/quote]
It reminds me of when I worked for the Bank of Montreal some years ago. Everything that was thrown out had to go in its appropriate bin. Then one night I worked late, the cleaning lady came by with a HUGE plastic garbage bag and emptied all the containers into it.
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At least it made everyone who worked there feel they were doing something to help, like the campaign for pots and pans during WW2.
Yeah, why would the government spend such a lot of money on recycling plants if they weren’t serious. By now people would have been fed up with the whole thing if it were all for nothing.
Have you ever seen recycled paper on sale? I just throw stuff off the balcony. I’m so high up it vapourises before it hits the ground.
Is that true? I was quite surprised to find recycling bins in this country. But why would you go through all the truble putting them up if you don’t actually use them?[/quote]
It reminds me of when I worked for the Bank of Montreal some years ago. Everything that was thrown out had to go in its appropriate bin. [color=darkred]Then one night I worked late, the cleaning lady came by with a HUGE plastic garbage bag and emptied all the containers into it.[/color]
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At least it made everyone who worked there feel they were doing something to help, like the campaign for pots and pans during WW2.[/quote]
I saw the same thing one night in NYC.
Although I don’t do it the right way yet, I think one should, not because of what other people do or say, but because you are leaving a legacy to your children. What kind of legacy are you leaving?
Are you talking about Taiwanese children?! Oh my god, I think you don’t have to start with garbage handling! 
Are you talking about Taiwanese children?! Oh my god, I think you don’t have to start with garbage handling! [/quote]
There’s a greater issue here videlicet, the preservation of the ecosystem and respect for the world in which and from which we live.
Yes, I have. They are sold in the form of something called “a newspaper.” Also, the paper you buy in a stationery store may well be recycled or part-recycled. You can bleach pulp, you know…
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The neighbor is closer than the garbage truck, and I can take stuff there anytime that suits me.
Yep, my recycleables (is that an actual word?) all go to a neighbour, quite efficient really. She doesn’t take the glass though for some reason.
I think it’s commendable. Taiwan’s density puts it at the very limits of environmental sustainability and I’m all for recycling but I’m not going to get too bent out of shape if something gets into the wrong bag.
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