r/mildlyinfuriating • u/biiigwang69 • 1d ago

Make sure you recycle!!

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Everything goes into one giant unsorted bin. Found at Costco

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u/VeterinarianIcy9562 1d ago

I guarantee they throw it all in the garbage anyway.

I worked a couple places where they did. It's not worth to them to have a recycling program. It's performative.

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u/AmishDoinkzz 1d ago

Depends, where I live every company I worked for that produced high waste had to have a recycling program and everything had to be separated. Failure to do so would result in fines.

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u/McStickyLungs 1d ago

Which is probably the case this appears to be Costco. We had fines north of 20 k for not recycling

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u/Bulky_Load3068 1d ago

Lmao it isn’t separated at all???

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u/Coldsmoke888 1d ago

Many big businesses are like this. More often than not they go in a big container at the back of the building where it all gets compacted.

At least this is an example with a single container. I’ve seen plenty of others with multiple contained and bags and they all get tossed in the same place.

Or often, the cleaning staff takes all the aluminum cans and bottles and makes money on the recycling.

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u/LegDayLass 1d ago

Making money off the cans is perfectly fine. The cans got recycled.

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u/BA5ED 1d ago

Our "recycling" largely ends up in trash or its sent to china where they trash it.

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u/aegismuzuz 1d ago

What’s even the point of all this...

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u/Teleporting_Face 1d ago

There is a point until people who don't give a darn throw their stuff in the wrong slot anyways.

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u/nono3722 1d ago

To make you feel like your actions do something. Instead of actually making your actions do something. Also to make the purchase of plastics not feel destructive since it will be "recyled" which it wont be.

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u/tarheel_204 1d ago

It’s performative

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u/LegDayLass 1d ago

Me thinking “what’s so bad about recycling?!?” Took way to long to see the problem🤦‍♂️

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u/Teleporting_Face 1d ago

It's not Costco's fault. The public is generally apathetic when it comes to recycling; they see a bin to put their waste in and just throw it in paying no attention to separating their waste. When recyclables are contaminated with too much garbage, it's basically considered all garbage.

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u/T1mischief 1d ago

Yeah im trying to make me family understand that spending time cleaning all the cans, and sorting paper from glass etc when throwing stuff out, is insane because its all just ends up the same place anyways

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u/duh_duh_goose 1d ago

U know they’ve done shows where they tracked recycling hordes right to the dump, right? But make sure u snap a pic so you can show the internet how angry u r at stupid ppl.

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u/nh_gamer1972 1d ago

Good. Recycling is an absolute joke and a waste of time.

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u/barbiegirl_69 1d ago

hilarious take

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u/zyoff772 1d ago

It cost more to recycle. And now there are tariffs. The planet is doomed