{"id":42955,"date":"2018-04-07T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42955"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T19:15:41","slug":"kevin-milligan-on-the-catch-22-that-is-the-modern-recycling-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/07\/kevin-milligan-on-the-catch-22-that-is-the-modern-recycling-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Milligan on the Catch-22 that is the modern recycling situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are aware that we &#8220;should&#8221; recycle (even though the economics of recycling are, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/recycling-its-not-economical-its-religious\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for most items<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/much-of-the-recycling-you-do-is-sheer-wasted-effort\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mixed at best<\/a>), but as Kevin Milligan points out, there are no universal standards for what can and can&#8217;t be recycled among municipalities:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The headline and tone of this story on recycling &quot;Canadians are doing it wrong&quot; shows everything that is wrong with recycling. Confusing, complex, and conflicting rules relying on voluntary compliance leads to a large waste.  It&#39;s not citizens&#39; fault. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VcvSpJIypR\">https:\/\/t.co\/VcvSpJIypR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982276972620361730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out this part. It&#39;s Plastic, labelled as recyclable, but somehow the citizen is supposed to know it&#39;s not recyclable. At least in Toronto. Cross a municipal border and there will be different rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QpVUoH8uWk\">pic.twitter.com\/QpVUoH8uWk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982277451316281344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok you finish your takeout coffee. Quick: which bin does soiled waxed paper go in?  I have no clue. Depends where you are. UBC seems to have different rules than Vancouver. And that&#39;s different from home\/condo rules. And their enforcement strategy is to try to shame us.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982282999214424064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To me, the solution seems to be centralized standards; clear and uniform for manufacturers and consumers. I&#39;ve always found the German Gr\u00fcne Punkt system easy to follow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MzLCRmC6fr\">https:\/\/t.co\/MzLCRmC6fr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1lXlNpmawC\">pic.twitter.com\/1lXlNpmawC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982284051452055552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anyway. I don&#39;t do research in this area so I&#39;m just a citizen with no expertise. As a citizen though I would like a system designed like the designers have ever met an actual human. Also, get off my lawn.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982284611752312832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what generates my rantiness.  In Vancouver there are pro-recycling bus ads that explicitly try to shame people for not recycling everything; depict you literally as a monster for not complying. I reject this shaming! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VDDdrjNKBC\">https:\/\/t.co\/VDDdrjNKBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan\/status\/982285876389556224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are aware that we &#8220;should&#8221; recycle (even though the economics of recycling are, for most items, mixed at best), but as Kevin Milligan points out, there are no universal standards for what can and can&#8217;t be recycled among municipalities: The headline and tone of this story on recycling &quot;Canadians are doing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,65,84],"tags":[649],"class_list":["post-42955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-environment","category-government","tag-recycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-baP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42961,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42955\/revisions\/42961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}