Is they key to solving our rubbish issue is to treat it like used cooking oil, pop cans, road surface?
Used cooking oil used to be a produce that restaurant owners went to jail for illegally dumping it, today used cooking oil is kept under lock in bins because independent companies pay those restaurant owners to take it.
Road surfaces are ground up and the millings are given away to construction companies for free, the millings are then used by those construction companies in their own construction jobs such as driveway surfaces which eventually harden in a light duty surface that's good enough for cars or foot traffic.
There use to be a major pop & beer can pollution issue until programs were created where stores operate machines that collect & crush cans in bins. Aluminum is among the most recycled metals on the planet.
Used cooking oil used to be a produce that restaurant owners went to jail for illegally dumping it, today used cooking oil is kept under lock in bins because independent companies pay those restaurant owners to take it.
Road surfaces are ground up and the millings are given away to construction companies for free, the millings are then used by those construction companies in their own construction jobs such as driveway surfaces which eventually harden in a light duty surface that's good enough for cars or foot traffic.
There use to be a major pop & beer can pollution issue until programs were created where stores operate machines that collect & crush cans in bins. Aluminum is among the most recycled metals on the planet.
