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[Discussion] Every region in BC should be able to recycle everything. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

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Currently this is not possible to do as I checked some recycling services that are way too far away to be worth it. Such as car parts plastics as it can only be done in Burnaby according to recyclopedia.

I propose that BC invests in the places Vancouver Island, Northern BC, Central Coast, Thompson Okanagan and The Kootenay Rockies into independent recycling centres as long as it is viable to do.

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True, but we also should be restricting what can be sold to ensure it can be recycled.

Soft plastics are “recycled” in the Lower Mainland but there’s no demand for it so they just take it to a facility in Delta and burn it for energy generation.

I’d much rather they forbid selling products that use materials that can’t be recycled or composted. It’s inescapable in a few instances but by and large our society is completely drunk on plastic and nobody gives a shit about its later life.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

~~our society is~~ manufacturers are completely drunk on plastic and ~~nobody~~ none of them gives a shit about its later life.

There, FTFY.

I would gladly choose products with low to no levels of plastic wrapping, but so many manufacturers insist on putting a 25g hardshell around so many damn products.

Even specialty bits for drills are vacuum-sealed onto a piece of cardboard. Like, FFS why not have a small bin hanging on the pegboard with the bits inside? Is there some need to hang every piece individually?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Technically no, and you used to see this at bulk trade resellers. but now everything has brand marketing attached to it and product has to be displayed pretty for the consumer, and expensive items may have an antitheft RFID tag stuck in that vacuum packed cardboard wrapper