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RANT:Public Space and Shopping Centre Recycling

I don’t understand why government on any level, or the shopping centre I walk through, visit or part take in do not allow me to recycle. I WANT to recycle, yet when it’s time to put my rubbish in a public garbage bin, I’m not presented with the option. Why am I able to recycle in my house, where I eat 2/3’s of my meals, yet the other 1/3 goes unnoticed?

The only thing I can come up with is short/medium term costings. It would cost to setup the systems, people, hardware and advertising to get the ball rolling on this. There should be levies and tax concessions for shopping centres doing this, as well as perhaps some level of electoral funding if established at a government level. I don’t understand why money isn’t addressing this problem upfront proactively, instead of the current reactive solutions, or sometimes nothing, where it ends up as landfill.

I’m somewhat sure that there’s a cost associated with having garbage collected, either by bin or frequency. Both of these would go down dramatically if recycling was introduced. The same total exists, it’s now broken down into categories being collected on a 1/4-1/5th as often arrangement. I’ve also heard from somewhere, that there’s actually money involved for commercial quantities of recyclable rubbish.

It upsets me to see our natural resources running out, with extensive unrepaireable damages occurring to the environment, when we already have solutions available. Yet these solutions remain undeployed, primary, I believe due to short term costings, not the health of the world and the people who live in it. This is a rant, and I don’t understand.

Theres plenty of reasons … essentially it comes down to the cost of resorting it because people inevitably put their rubbish in the wrong bins. Depends where you shop/hang out though, everywhere I go has two or three bins.

Where are you hang’n? Sounds like some switched on Areas I’ve seen it in 2 areas I’m about…Cronulla mall of all places (and it appears to work there), and a mall in Brisbane.

User re-education has a cost, granted, only in the short term. It’s a one time cost.

Aside from that leaving things currently unsorted isn’t a solution to the problem either, it’s requires more container production and land fill…..

Yeah but Wade, it’s the Shire !