  
| Author: | Adjour  | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 15:33 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, ghyde writes:
| | In Media, Adjour writes:
| | In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Crazy!!! I'm kinda surprised there isn't a law forcing them to donate
it instead or something but yah that's just crazy
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In the Usa you can't donate it because if it does have an issue. You can
be sued.
Some places are making efforts to change such rules however. It's slow but
its happening.
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If they can't donate it then at least they should put it in a bin with other
plastics and send it to a plastics recycling facility. I'm sure non-LEGO
elements wouldn't be a problem to recycle into new products made from recycled
plastics.
What needs to happen is that the charities need to be made aware that there are
options that would reduce their landfill contributions and therefore make their
waste streams somewhat more environmentally friendly. That might mean changes
in the way in which charities operate.
As for the plastics, it's just an extra bin that they throw plastics into
and have collections set up on a regular basis.
There's also a fairly new recycling method that shreds the incoming plastics
into small pieces and then steam under pressure is used to turn them back into
oil products. That means a recycling effort might be possible to implement because
that oil product can then be refined and reused.
It does, however, mean that a lot more effort has to be focused on recycling
products instead of sending them to waste streams. Companies are slow to implement
changes to how they handle waste streams because a lot of it involves expenses
associated with handling and shipping the waste. Individuals may do their part
for the recycling process but there still isn't a properly focused effort
on getting any recycling process to 100% or near that in terms of efficiency.
Our world is slowly becoming a plastic world, but we can make a difference. Even
the oceans are getting plastics and other floating debris removed from them.
If they can clean up the oceans surely diverting the plastics out of landfill
isn't entirely impossible. Someone just needs to come up with a properly
scaled solution that fits the current and future needs of plastics recycling.
Just my 2c worth.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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The USA wasn't actually recycling most of what goes into those sorted bins.
Most of it was being exported to China. China finally said they wouldn't
take it anymore. There's been large campaigns to explain to Americans that
we were lied to, and nearly nothing we "recycled" actually got recycled.
Just shipped overseas where its often burned
Last I checked the USA was scrambling to find another country to take the stuff.
We don't really have recycling infrastructure here aside from sorting facilities.
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” - ghyde (203)  | [...] If they can't donate it then at least they should put it in a bin with other plastics and send it to a plastics recycling facility. I'm sure non-LEGO elements [...]
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Message Has 2 Replies: Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” - Saitobricks.ca (37) | Canada was doing the same thing except we shipped our stuff to the Philippines, were it just sat to rot, or just go into their landfills. Typical north America, fix the problem [...]
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Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” - wildchicken13 (876) | [...] New York City's recycling program is abysmal. Most New Yorkers don't have plastic recycling bins, so they put cardboard boxes directly on the sidewalk. When it [...]
(5 months ago, Dec 29, 2023, to Media) |
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