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where does Somerville recycling go?
Aug. 26th, 2019 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusiveatIn contrast with lots of places in the U.S., Somerville still has a pretty comprehensive list of items that can be put out for curbside recycling:
https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/environmental-service-guide.pdf
Does anybody know where this stuff actually ends up?
There's been a lot of media coverage of how U.S. recycling has been disrupted by China turning away recycling, but it's not clear to me how this plays out for Somerville. The stuff I've found online about Massachusetts recycling indicates 1) that recycling is getting *more expensive* for municipalities, and 2) that contamination of recycling with non-recyclables is a bigger problem than it used to be. I haven't found anything either confirming that uncontaminated recycling will actually get recycled *or* stating that it won't.
Does anybody have good information on whether our "recyclables" are actually being recycled, where this recycling is happening geographically, or what they get recycled into?
https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/environmental-service-guide.pdf
Does anybody know where this stuff actually ends up?
There's been a lot of media coverage of how U.S. recycling has been disrupted by China turning away recycling, but it's not clear to me how this plays out for Somerville. The stuff I've found online about Massachusetts recycling indicates 1) that recycling is getting *more expensive* for municipalities, and 2) that contamination of recycling with non-recyclables is a bigger problem than it used to be. I haven't found anything either confirming that uncontaminated recycling will actually get recycled *or* stating that it won't.
Does anybody have good information on whether our "recyclables" are actually being recycled, where this recycling is happening geographically, or what they get recycled into?
