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The 'recycling bin' image?
The image on the right certainly doesn't look like a bin at park in northern California. Would anybody replace the image with the correct one, or remove it from the article?
Surcharges
In the supply section of the article 2nd paragraph
- (Container deposit legislation involves offering a refund for the return of certain containers, typically glass, plastic, and metal. When a product in such a container is purchased, a small surcharge is added to the price. This surcharge can be reclaimed by the consumer if the container is returned to a collection point. These programs have been very successful, often resulting in an 80 percent recycling rate. Despite such good results, the shift in collection costs from local government to industry and consumers has created strong opposition to the creation of such programs in some areas.)
the last line states that
- 1. there is a shift in collection costs
- 2. the industry and consumers are now paying for the collection costs.
I believe this is just a misunderstanding of the concept that the money you receive when returning the packaging is actually additional money that you spent when purchasing the item. this forces the consumer to return the packaging if they do not want to be the one paying for the disposal of the item.
02:03, 16 January 2012 206.248.172.126 (Talk)
types of curbside sorting
The curbside collection section had detailed description of types of sorting but no definition of what curbside collection is. I move the description of different categories and as well as analysis to Kerbside collection (already identified as the main article for this section) and added a basic definition in its place. This was reverted by User:TL The Legend with the sole explanation that it was not discussed. This is so tiresome. -- 212.251.181.252 (talk) 17:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- If you're going to define a word, just put the definition in the paragraph. There's no reason to delete two perfectly fine paragraphs just to define curbside collection. And a section that has its own article should still contain information from the article, not just a paragraph basically stating "curbside collection is collecting recycling from the curb." TL | The Legend 00:40, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Art section had non-art related material
I moved it into the "Public participation rates" section because they were paragraphs about how to get people to recycle more. But I'm not quite sure I put 'em in the right place. And now the art section is pretty small. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Absurdmike (talk • contribs) 22:56, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Platonic recycling :)
I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a citation for this: "Recycling has been a common practice for most of human history with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in the fourth century BC." I think it's problematic for various reasons. First, obviously, is the term "recycling" (which is basically a 20th century concept). So this is an anachronism. Second, there's a suggestion that Plato (or the ancient Greeks) did something radically different that allows us to date "recycling" back to them, rather than wisely reuse materials as people (and probably other species--aren't earthworms recyclers?) probably always have. I find it hard to justify this statement. At best, I think it should say something like "Recycling has been a common practice for most/all of human history..." - but I'd be keen to hear other views. 45154james (talk) 09:07, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
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