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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Just recently they allowed us to start putting rechargeable batteries that were used up into our recycle bins for normal collection. I have heard many people say how excellent this was.
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Where I live we at least have a couple free ewaste days a year where we can set stuff out. The battery thing would be even better. I doubt most people save them for the ewaste days. They might save that old monitor, but they probably toss the batteries without even thinking of it.
I used to live in Berkeley and they decided not to offer plastics recycling with the normal curbside recycling services. Their reasoning is they didn't want to encourage people to buy plastic. They figured if it was hard to recycle, then people wouldn't buy it. Nope. It just ended up in the trash. In my current town, they take all plastics with the symbol on them regardless of number and allow us unlimited recycling without even having to sort. That's the way to get people to comply.