New Transformers Recycling Guide on Amazon for preorder

Should totally be Wreck-gar that's promoting upcycling.

Does it explain how to avoid the common problem of recycling programs in the U.S. sending stuff to landfills anyway for economic reasons?

Sad but true. Solving that wicked problem might indeed require us to create actual Junkions in real life.

Bumblevivisector wrote:Does it explain how to avoid the common problem of recycling programs in the U.S. sending stuff to landfills anyway for economic reasons?

Sad but true. Solving that wicked problem might indeed require us to create actual Junkions in real life.

Are they actually sending recyclables to landfills? Because one of the major challenges recycling programs face is people throwing nonrecyclables (or outright garbage) into their recycling bins.

At our last apartment complex, they abandoned the recycling program after a few months because people were using the recycling bin for trash - it was all of twenty feet further to the actual garbage dumpster, but people were so disdainful of environmental concern - or so lazy - that they'd fill the recycling bin with garbage until it overflowed, and then pile more garbage on top. My apartment complex before that gave everyone individual recycling bins to keep in their kitchens - our neighbors set it outside next to our backdoor and filled it with organic waste.

I can't imagine how much fuel good recycling programs waste transporting trash, or how much money they burn sorting it out from the stuff that's actually recyclable, simply because so many Americans want to play at being a Captain Planet villain.