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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:03:57 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:.
>
> It would be nice if the USA weren't so wasteful.  I'm floored by what I
> see thrown away on a daily basis.  I guess it doesn't matter as much
> when you make a 6 figure salary, but I find people to be horridly
> wasteful.  I donate or resell whatever I can.
>
> At work, I separate paper, cardboard, aluminum, and plastics for
> recycling (no glass).  Where I live, nothing is recycled.  I'm told that
> Pittsburgh barges all of its trash and recycling to China.  The Chinese
> probably only recycle what makes them money, from what doesn't fall into
> the ocean, anyway.

The Chinese no longer takes trash from overseas anymore. They just got
tired of people sending them low quality/hazardous material. This was
quite a shock to the system. Beats me what they do with waste these
days.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste