These days, most people find themselves separating items of garbage into various categories - tin, plastic, cloth, glass etc.
This is to go along with the concept that they will then be picked up by official collecting trucks which are destined for recycling centres.
Seems decent in theory but there is one obvious problem.
Much of the separated rubbish just sit on pavements in exposed bags & boxes.
Then on gusty days, the rubbish in these open containers get blown around the streets of the neighbourhood, making the place look an even worse sight than how it looks with the multitude of open rubbish containers on display.
The collecting trucks don't stop to pick up any of the rubbish that's been blown around the neighbourhood, they just stick to their job, and if the bags & boxes are empty, that's less work for them to do.
Has anyone ever double-checked that the separated rubbish does actually end up being recycled?
I've seen videos where people have followed such trucks, only to find out the contents just end up in landfill sites..!!
GG
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