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Ah! Interesting. I always imagined everything, well, plastics and glass, metals, going in to a big steam cleaner before being sorted by some machinery and then by hand anyway. I have no issue with separating recyclable stuff from garbage, I do have issue with separating the types of recycling and then being forced to post each individual item through a tiny slot. Anyway.
Manual sorting inhuman? Well...yeah, maybe, but... a job's a job.
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And in my view it doesn't need to be a shit job if you pay well and provide enough breaks and development opportunities.
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Belfast city council has a 3 bin system and the recycling lorries have 5 bins. They use a non profit company to do the recycling runs where I am.
So it does get hand sorted at the kerb. And I've had a stern note at some point for not doing it right... :)
Stonehedge
JWestland
According to somebody I know who used to work in waste management, various service companies would be fine operating a centralised waste separation service but the unions and other groups try to block this due to concerns for whether it is acceptable to pay somebody minimum wage and get them to sort trash all day every day. It's a popular view that this sort of work is "inhuman".
Meanwhile, in a waste processing plant (hidden in a mountain) that I know in Switzerland, workers manually separate waste in return for £20ph.