#wishcycling

[errantscience]

Wishassessing: The new trend is lab H&S

Earlier this month, I was introduced to the term ‘wishcycling’. Wishcycling is the act of putting something into recycling without checking to see if it can actually be recycled. It was coined in the early 2020s as a way of describing how people recycle their consumer waste when faced with increasingly complex recycling requirements. When I learnt this term, I felt pleased to finally have a name…

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[ecogreenlove]

"According to research, the amount of waste produced by each household in Britain rose by a fifth last year. But are we dealing with it in the right way? And where should that pizza box go?"

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#waste #recycling #circulareconomy #wastemanagement #wishcycling #aspirationalrecycling #householdwaste #pizzabox

[dakotapuma]

Our uncertainty leads to climbing costs and waning productivity at recycling facilities; contamination costs Waste Management about $100 million annually, or 20 percent of its total budget.

… if you’ve checked your local guidelines to see if an item is recyclable and you still aren’t sure, it’s best to ignore your wishful instincts and throw it in the trash.

—Jackie Flynn Mogensen (September/ October 2019). Mother Jones.

[deviant-dreamer]

Wish-Cycling. So lately I found out via the Broken Netflix documentary series (which I 108399383% recommend watching), that not every plastic that there exists, can be recycled. as much as we wish for them to be something in the recycling, it cannot; and we in the process only make the sorting even tougher for the people in the department. The recycling logo can be a little misleading showcasing that just about anything can be recycled, but sometimes not without major effort. And because, not every country has the resources to make these conversions, number of south eastern countries suffer in the process of dealing with the west’s trash. It’s rather better that we, in our individual capacities, try reducing and reusing instead of jumping to the third step. It’s in those ways I think scrapbooking makes me feel a tad bit better about being able to use the minor scraps of paper in the house. Not that it makes a HUGE difference, but like I have said, time and again to almost everyone in my life, SOMETHING OVER NOTHING ALWAYS. i hope this lockdown gives us all a purpose to live for, so that each living creature can see us for the better being we have become. • • • #recycle #wishcycling #environmentallyfriendly #lessismore #plasticfree #reuse #reduce #3rs #scrapbooking #art #journal #artjournal #succulent #Sun #white #brokenseries #netflix #documentaryseries #broken #ep4 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-4E-xGBlEi/?igshid=gti6ad7o3c7

[ziawaste-blog]

Wishcycling ♻️ it’s a fun word. But it’s a bad thing. #wishcycling #recycleright #letsrecycleright #zerowaste #sustainability (at Los Alamos, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsLduOaHGcy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1op2tt5k1usp

[garbourgeoisie]

ISRI survey: Paper mills reject recovered paper from mixed-waste streams

The top reasons for rejection include odor, high risk, high moisture, and quality that would be unacceptable to customers.

Not surprising. Not surprising at all.