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Those recyclables you're throwing away in the designated recycling bins at city parks... well, they're probably just going straight to the landfills. The NY Post reports that during their investigation they found that "not only are routine recyclables like bottles, cans and paper being sent to landfills, but so is other waste that is supposed to be trashed separately, such as animal carcasses, medical waste and bins of used kitchen oil." Who goes to the park to throw away their animal carcasses? Those are for the East River!
A Parks employee told the paper that supervisors give orders to "dump everything on garbage trucks, because it's the fastest solution for cleaning parks." Oh dear, someone alert the Shame Shame Shame crew about this!
On top of all that, not even all parks are set up for recycling. Geoffrey Croft, of the watchdog group New York City Park Advocates, said of the 1,875 parks citywide only a small amount have recycling bins, to which a Parks Department spokeswoman declared the department is "committed to recycling."
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Of course you have to factor in how much of the trash that's been dumped into the recycling cans is actually recyclable. If they're going by what's actually in the cans it may be a fair cop that they're landfilling it all.
Who really believes the city even recyles anything. Does anyone even know where they take recycled trash besides the landfills?
I've seen my trash men dumping the separated recyclables into the truck with the rest of the trash.
I believe the trash is separated after collection. Using separate receptacles gets the public thinking about recycling and increases the support for recycling.
And your belief is based on what? Wishful thinking?
I read it either here on Gothamist or in the Times several years ago. Sorry my memory isn't sufficient to meet your high standards of internet commentary.
That's what MTA claims to be doing with their trash. It's not the procedure for normal residential trash pickup.
I always rinse out, take the label off of, and throw out the caps on my recyclables. I work very hard to make them perfect. I hope they are used correctly.
At a State Park in Long Island, I witnessed NY State Parks employess dumping all the garbage and recyclables in the same truck. So the State does it too.