• diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Why don’t they put all the waste facilities right next to each other instead of making you move just to get rid of your wastes?

    • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Have you heard of the concept of a recycle station? There’s a recepticle for paper, glass, metal, plastic, food waste, electronics and food waste etc next to eachother. You don’t need to drive around.

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        I have not.

        Here they just drive up to our house and take it away.

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          We essentially have three levels of recycling stations in Sweden.

          There is the at home one. Some areas have their “private” trash bins being multicompartment so you can easily divide up glass, metals etc. If you don’t have one of these you just divide it up and take it to your local station. Apartment buildings tend to have a recycling area with various bins.

          The local one tend to be able to handle larger items and bigger quantities. Here is often also for textiles. This is the classic recycling station.

          And then we have the big ones where you can fill up a vehicle and trailers and get rid of it. It is not a dump as you still have to have things separated. Used furniture, electronics, garden waste etc are taken to these places.

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          In Sweden theres a central trash collection point for every few dozen homes. For apartments it’s usually in the same building, but for rural homes, it might be at the end of the street or down the road a bit. This way trucks don’t have to drive down every street, residents don’t have to worry about putting their bins out on the right day, and there’s facilities for sorting recycling so that things are recycled properly. Putting everything in the same bin like the US/Canada doesn’t work very well.

          Recently, the EU also mandated food waste sorting, so now food waste is also collected and used for biofuel. All of the busses here in Stockholm run on food waste with 0 carbon impact.

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            In Canada we’re not supposed to put everything in the same bin but some people are shitheads. At least not in Ontario or bc. We got curb side pickup for garbage, paper/metal recycling and compost. Then there’s drop off stations for drink bottles/jugs and glass. Plus the local dump will take e-waste and collect oil, paint, chemicals, etc. They even do a free used goods drop off/pick up spot