realjode on Nostr: Back home In Cheltenham, UK - Green waste was either a paid for service in the form ...

Back home In Cheltenham, UK - Green waste was either a paid for service in the form of a tiny green green bin, big enough for the food waste for a family that doesn't a lot of veggies and a Bigger brown bin for garden waste for a tiny garden. Both were collected by the local council every two weeks. then sold to a composting facility. Or you could transport it all yourself to the same site and drop it off for free. Plastic was collected and sold. Cardboards were sold by the council to a cardboard processing plant, right in the middle of town. Metals and Glass I don't know. All house hold waste was incinerated at a huge incinerator on the outskirts of town. I felt like an unpaid cleaner and sorter of recyclables, or even worse I was paying for and sorting the waste for a few businesses profiting from it.

Here in Paraguay, the bins on the street are sorted by people that make a living from collecting there chosen material in hand carts. I haven't seen where it goes but the streets are cleaned of all recyclables pretty quickly here.