I’ll start… toilet paper, tampons, and QTips…

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Didn’t you usually have to grind the source material into dust completely destroying it to remake it into something better?

      • besbin@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s only half the story they told you. After you dice, grind and melt the original material. You have to use some virgin materials as binder to get all that stuff together. The amount of virgin materials can sometimes surpass even the amount of old stuff and render the whole recycling process moot for those nasty material. That’s why you should have better just burn them all in a furnace or just bury them back in the ground where they belong.

  • BlackAura@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    That’s right OP, the correct order is to reduce, reuse, and then recycle.

    If you feel you can reduce use, or reuse any of the things listed. Please try that first!

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 months ago

    My mother in law’s stories. She keeps repeating these stories over and over but we’ve all heard them a dozen times before and then when we say, “oh, we’ve heard this one” she takes it as encouragement to keep going

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I totally get you. I’ve been told many times that I should stop repeating the same old stories.

      Like WTF, those are my experiences in life, what am I supposed to do, make up another false one for shits and giggles?

      My response… “If I’m all out of stories I haven’t already said, then let’s go make a new one. What’s the adventure today?”

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Let’s state the obvious why don’t we?

      I mean hell, if we can refine dirt into raw chemicals, then theoretically we should be able to refine our trash into raw chemicals, and start the whole process over again.

      I mean fuck, when you break it all down, it’s all atoms and molecules right?

      What makes used toilet paper any different than the carbon based molecules it’s made of?

      Also, Poo Paper actually exists…

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=eLxi7uGfZ84

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    MDF pallets, according to our pallet recycling guy. Apparently normal pallets get fed into an enormous shredder and turned into garden mulch, but the glue holding the layers of MDF together gums up the works.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m not exactly a palette expert (I’m guessing many other readers aren’t either), but what’s the difference, and how can we average fools tell them apart?

      • spittingimage@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        The MDF ones are made of many layers of plywood, glued together. Lots of different wood shades. Looks like a sandwich. The others are actual wood, with one shade, grain and often rough edges because they’re not sanded down.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          Ah, I totally get you now.

          I’ve never seen any palettes made of plywood, but clearly they exist then. I guess that basically means that no plywood is good for compost or proper recycling, unless perhaps grinding up into particle board…?

  • pingveno@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    Lots of types of plastic. Sure you might be able to hand them off to someone else, but there’s no guarantee they are not just headed for a landfill.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      It saddens me that many types of plastic cannot be recycled in any economic or environmentally friendly manner. ☹️

      Like hell, they told us that plastic in general should last like 400 years. Well phuck, I’m only 42 years old and my fucking hairbrush is already obviously degrading.