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In my humble community in Virginia, we have a private trash collection service. Recycling is collected once a week. We conveniently place all recyclables in one bin: newspapers, glass, aluminum, and plastic. It's the plastic that confuses me the most.
There are these neat little triangles (with arrows) on the bottom of plastics with numbers inside. The numbers indicate how recyclable the containers are. In our case, numbers 1 and 2 only qualify for recycling. I understand in more advanced (forgive the slur) communities distinguish between other numbers and accept higher numbers.
At any rate, my beef is more with the fact that these numbers are so small and illegible, I can't, in a rinsing moment's notice, figure out what it says. I want to be conscientious and recycle, but darn it, the plastic container manufacturers make it too freaking difficult.
Is there anyone else who feels this pain?
There are these neat little triangles (with arrows) on the bottom of plastics with numbers inside. The numbers indicate how recyclable the containers are. In our case, numbers 1 and 2 only qualify for recycling. I understand in more advanced (forgive the slur) communities distinguish between other numbers and accept higher numbers.
At any rate, my beef is more with the fact that these numbers are so small and illegible, I can't, in a rinsing moment's notice, figure out what it says. I want to be conscientious and recycle, but darn it, the plastic container manufacturers make it too freaking difficult.
Is there anyone else who feels this pain?