{"id":8648,"date":"2019-05-15T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.capcana.com\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:21:01","slug":"cap-cana-foundation-world-recycling-day-is-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capcana.com\/es\/cap-cana-foundation-world-recycling-day-is-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"CAP CANA FOUNDATION: WORLD RECYCLING DAY IS TOMORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/how-to-recycle#page-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Popsci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, officials in India announced that the country would no longer accept post-consumer\u00a0plastic\u00a0imports, in an effort to fight the pollution emitted in processing the often highly-contaminated loads the U.S. and other countries have been sending over.<\/p>\n<p>The ban won\u2019t fully go into effect\u00a0until August, but will only compound the problems America has been facing with its recyclables.<\/p>\n<p>A little over a year ago, China also stopped accepting\u00a0most recycling imports, including post-consumer paper and plastic. In some places in the states, especially on the West Coast, waste companies have had to\u00a0dump recyclables at the landfill, since they are no longer able to cheaply export the scraps on ships to China .<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Americans continue to enthusiastically fill their curbside bins. Recycling rates have consistently increased since the 1960s, according to\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency data. As of 2015, 34 percent of waste was recycled, though since the start of single-stream recycling\u2014the use of catch-all bins for paper, plastic, and aluminum\u2014we\u2019ve gotten worse at recycling, says Kate Bailey, policy and research director at Ecocycle, a nonprofit recycling organization in Colorado. Perhaps it\u2019s aspirational: we want things to be recyclable, and so we place them in the blue bin hoping they\u2019ll be reborn as a park bench or insulation in a jacket. Or perhaps we\u2019re just confused.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the problem: One of the reasons countries are refusing U.S. recyclables is because they&#8217;re so contaminated. Much of what we put in our green and blue bins is non-recyclable waste, including hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"st-block markdown text-left \">\n<p>\u201cWhen we collect the material, it has as much as 25 percent contamination, but by the time we sell it it needs to have less than one percent,\u201d says Susan Robinson, senior director of sustainability and policy for Waste Management, which operates 100 recycling sorting facilities in North America. The company sells its materials to domestic recycling plants, so its operations have remained mostly unchanged. But, says Robinson, \u201c[contamination] increases our costs, it causes safety problems, and it increases the environmental burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st-block markdown text-left \">\n<div id=\"page-3\" class=\"st-page-break\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people want so badly for things to be recycled,\u201d she adds. \u201cWe call that wish cycling\u2014it\u2019s one of the biggest problems we have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the reality of recycling, and how\u00a0you can do better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree times a day, we stop the plant and somebody climbs up onto the equipment with a box knife and cuts the plastic bags off of the pipes,\u201d says Kate Bailey, \u201cWe have several people pulling them out before they even get to the equipment, and then we still have this many bags getting caught.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"st-block markdown text-left \">\n<p>Robinson describes a similar scene at Waste Management plants. \u201cWe spend about 140,000 hours a year just cleaning out plastic films out of all the gears and equipment in our recycling facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of clogging up these facilities, Robinson says you should take your bags back to the grocery store\u2014many have bins to collect plastic bags, which can be recycled with proper equipment. It\u2019s just that the sorting facilities for curbside recycling are not built for thin films that get stuck and tangled.<\/p>\n<p>Scrap metals, like old pipes, are also common contaminants, says Bailey. These materials are recyclable, but need to be hauled to a facility that can handle them.<\/p>\n<p>Crushed cans and cartons can contaminate recycling too, because they\u2019re harder to sort out when flattened.<\/p>\n<p>Diapers and syringes also wind up at Ecocycle\u2019s facilities, says Bailey. They\u2019re not only not recyclable, but hazardous to workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st-block markdown text-left \">\n<h2 class=\"in-content-skip\">Do this instead<\/h2>\n<p>Paper products and containers made of glass and aluminum are usually accepted. Plastic is more confusing, but if you stick to bottles, tubs, jars, and jugs, it\u2019s hard to go wrong, says Bailey. Containers need to be empty. \u201cWith things like peanut butter, you don&#8217;t really need to scrub it all out, it doesn&#8217;t need to be pristine,\u201d says Bailey. \u201c[But] we appreciate if you can give it quick rinse.\u201d Food residue attracts pests like rats, racoons, and wasps to facilities. In paper products, food can actually ruin the material, making it unrecyclable. \u201cIf you have a really greasy, cheesy pizza box, for example, we ask people to compost it instead of recycling it,\u201d says Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>For plastic containers, put the lid back on. \u201cThe end markets now actually want the lids,\u201d says Robinson. But, she adds, they need be on the bottle or they\u2019ll get thrown away. Bailey confirms that many facilities are now accepting lids, but adds that this is only true of \u201cplastic on plastic.\u201d Remove lids on mixed materials, like metal lids on glass jars.<\/p>\n<p>For other types of plastic, check in with your local waste hauler to see what they accept. Many have guides on their websites.<\/p>\n<p>Drop these materials straight into your curbside bin\u2014don\u2019t bag them up. This is another hassle for facilities, some of which simply throw away bagged recyclables. \u201cWhen those bags come to a recycling facility, they get pulled out and put into the trash,\u201d says Robinson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st-block markdown text-left \">\n<h2 class=\"in-content-skip\">Reduce and Reuse<\/h2>\n<p>While your plastic jars, jugs, tubs, and bottles are usually recyclable, there\u2019s a lot of plastic out there that isn\u2019t. Styrofoam, bubble wrap, and many types of food packaging (including chip bags and candy wrappers) are a few examples. Plastic-lined paper products, including disposable coffee cups, are also destined for the landfill. \u201cLess than 10 percent of plastic ever made has been recycled,\u201d says Bailey. \u201cRecycling is not the answer for plastics \u2026 There\u2019s a lot of plastics we\u2019re simply never going to be able to recycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bailey recommends using reusable shopping bags, coffee mugs, and to-go boxes instead of their disposable counterparts. Even with these efforts, though, you\u2019ll still encounter non recyclable packaging. In that case, Bailey says, \u201cplease use your voice and tell the company that you\u2019d love to see something that\u2019s more recyclable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Popsci Last week, officials in India announced that the country would no longer accept post-consumer\u00a0plastic\u00a0imports, in an effort to fight the pollution emitted in processing the often highly-contaminated loads the U.S. and other countries have been sending over. The ban won\u2019t fully go into effect\u00a0until August, but will only compound the problems America has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238,107,16,77],"tags":[74,391],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology","category-education-charities","category-sustainability","category-tips-ideas","tag-cap-cana","tag-food"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CAP CANA FOUNDATION: WORLD RECYCLING DAY IS TOMORROW - Cap Cana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World Recycling Day is tomorrow: the Cap Cana Foundation reflects on the global fight against plastic pollution and the importance of recycling.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/capcana.com\/es\/cap-cana-foundation-world-recycling-day-is-tomorrow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CAP CANA FOUNDATION: WORLD RECYCLING DAY IS TOMORROW - 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