How much of the stuff we put in the blue bin in Austin is actually recycled? The city's residential recycling is more effective than you might think.
But, here in Austin, thousands of us stand daily in our kitchens, stupefied, considering whether to toss or recycle that coffee cup lid, that piece of used tin foil, that cardboard container with a littleWe want to believe our system still works, even if we harbor doubts.
Other numbers he has serious doubts about. A piece of plastic with a number 7 on it, for example, means it’s unclassified. Bestgen said the city maintains contracts with private recycling companies that stipulate that everything recyclablebe recycled. These companies are called materials recovery facilities or MRFs. They are the ones that take the recycling, sort it and sell it to other places.
I also asked how Austin audits the contractors to ensure they are really recycling all the recyclable stuff they get. The answer: the MRFs periodically show the city bills of sale to prove they have sold the recyclable material to other companies that will turn it into new stuff. If you’ve ever watched the city recycling trucks making their rounds and wondered where they all end up, the answer is the MRF.
But along the way there’s always also a human component. Workers sort white No. 2 plastics from colored No. 2 plastics, . At a lot of the stages, they pull out plastic bags and other things that crept through earlier in the process. There are garbage bins all around to store this stuff. How do you square that with reports, like the one from Greenpeace, that show as little as 5% of plastic is recycled nationally? Mariel points out, most of the stuff people put in the blue bins is not plastic. A lot of it is easier-to-recycle aluminum or paper.
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