Kansas City prepares to roll out new recycling carts
 

Nice!

https://fox4kc.com/community/kansas-...ecycling-plan/

These will be put to good use for the bums to transport items

Yep. That or the Backpack People just found 160K easily accessible porta potties.

I have not figured out what the difference in trash or recycling is. I throw tons of shit I know are not recyclable into the bin. Nothing ever happens.

Recycling carts.

Movin' on up.

Have you tried?

Moving made me realize just how weird it looks to throw trash bags into your yard.


A new airport and trash bins in the same year! ;)

When I read this is as like WTF?

People in KC leave their trash out for pickup in bags only? LMAO

I’m pretty sure I’ve read the majority of recycling ends up in landfills anyway

If it has a recycle symbol on it. Recycle it.
Objects smaller than your fist do not recycle well


when in doubt, throw it out (trash)

Yeah, some neighborhoods started doing recycle tubs, basically... like a storage bin as opposed to a trash can, which also seems weird. I grew up putting trash bags at the curb though and it's still very much a thing all these years later.

Do that in AZ and you'll end up with coyotes, javelina, and all kinds of nature tearing up your trash.

The rest of the country have been doing this for the last 10 years.

What the ****? We've been putting trash in bins with lids for the entirety of my 50 years on this earth. Even when I lived in South Bend for 4 years we put trash in actual bins with lids. What kind of backwards ass, shitty metro area has people put trash on the curb just in bags.

It's no wonder Zach is a fat dumbass. He's been able to wander the streets for years getting free meals out of peoples garbage.

Trash in bags? That isn't civilized or efficient.
Every can, (Recycling or Trash), our city has contains a QR code that scans the can as it is dumped and photographs the event. No more getting calls about missed garbage because they have proof they had been there and did that.

Meh. Bring back trash burning then your onto something.

The problem for KC was not that the bins didn't have lids. It's that KC doesn't accept glass in recycling, so the bins are really light weight and get completely blown over by wind. Just making a taller bin with a lid doesn't solve that problem. Maybe the bins they are deploying are weighted and solve for this in other ways, but just looking at it in the video it seems like the same thing we had when I lived in San Diego 20 years ago. Of course, in San Diego they accepted glass and rarely have high enough winds to blow anything over.

It does

It depends on what your city takes. Some cities only take plastics with a 1 or 2 on it, and some take all 7. If done properly, almost everything is either recyclable or compostable. I only have to throw trash out every 6-8 weeks, but my recycle bin is full every week.

I think its a big racket, people think they are saving the earth and make them feel better about themselves. Meanwhile it all gets dumped in the same place.

I use AAA Trash. I have a red bin for trash and a yellow bin for recycling. I have watched them dump both bins in the same truck for several weeks now...lol. They ain't recycling anything!

Pretty much ROFL

I read an article that said people throw so much shit in the recycle bins, sometimes entire loads can be rejected, and a lot gets dumped because of grease on pizza boxes and what not.... things people think can be recycle, but cannot. So like everything else, people are idiots and we can't have nice things.


Also read an article the other day about how the mountain of plastic in the Pacific Ocean has created new ecosystems for crabs and things that otherwise couldn't survive in the middle of the ocean.

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This is very true. It definitely helps if you rinse off what you are recycling. It also helps a lot if you do something as simple as removing the foil lid off something like a yogurt container. It really takes minimal effort to make a pretty big difference in the landfills, but most people really won’t do it for whatever reason.

Truth.

We were a client fore LaFarge mining rock quarry and cement plant in Sugar Creek MO. A huge landfill was right next to it off 291 Highway. We would see the recycle trucks lined up with the garbage trucks dumping. None dares report unless you like sleeping with the fishes. They may find your body caught in a snag or up against a dike somewhere down stream on the Mighty Mo.

And these days to help bridge the gap, it's as easy as putting a QR code on the bins to educate people... but of course, people on both ends have to give a shit, too.

So, we are all supposed to be recycling experts? :doh!:

Please do provide a really nice of what I can and cannot recycle. I think most people are TRYING to do the right thing.

**** the waste companies it TOO much recycles come back. :harumph:

Waste management services generally do a poor job of educating consumers. I just recently learned that it is preferable to recycle plastic bottles with the cap on. The caps are made from polypropylene or HDPE which are among the more valuable plastics in the recycle stream. Attaching them to the bottle helps assure the small cap doesn’t get lost along the way. At the recycling plant, the bottles and caps are shredded and the two materials are separated by density differences. Also, don’t flatten plastic bottles, because it makes the sorting process less efficient.

Not true been all over this country many cities and towns still use trash bags or barrels, not bins.

We have coyotes in the cities plus dogs but the biggest pest that tears into the bags are Crows. ****ers are smart they know the days the trash is put out in the neighborhood. They flock in those areas you will hear them calling wait for the right moment. Don't **** with crows they remember you and will have a life long grudge against you.

If you're smart you keep a solution of water and Clorox in a spray bottle. Spray the bag and animals or crows will not disturb it.

Gladstone has the bins for recycling and Trash for a while. On windy days they blow over on the North-South streets all the time leaving a mess.

Our former trash company not only gave us the bins, they also let you put flattened out cardboard under the them. Hoo boy, those were a real treat on windy days.

I simply googled it when I moved to Arizona... why just throw random shit in a bin when 5 minutes of reading can clear it up? :shrug:

And yeah, they are terrible at education, when all they need to do is slap a QR code on the bins. Hell, I get shit from APS constantly via snail mail and email about how to best use electricity and so forth... a mailer on recycling would be far more useful.

Yeah its a joke here

This is the list of non-recyclable items here

We apologize but please note that the following items are NO LONGER accepted in KCUnited's city recycling program due to low market demand and/or excessive contamination:

• Laundry bottles, dish washing liquid bottles, shampoo bottles, mouthwash bottles, etc.
• Glass food jars
• Cereal boxes, frozen food packaging, tissue boxes, cracker boxes, detergent boxes, soda case boxes, and other paperboard items (these items are processed differently than cardboard and regular paper)
• Milk and juice paper cartons
• Plastic food jars & food bottles (peanut butter, jelly, mustard, ketchup, etc.)
• Plastic berry clamshell containers
• Yogurt containers & margarine tubs
• Plastic and paper cups
• Paper fast food bags (fast food bags tend to be greasy)
• Aluminum pie plates and aluminum foil (due to food contamination)

hahahahaha!

that's half the shit i put in my recycling bin!

take it away! LMAO

New York City still set out bags.

Here in Charlotte our recycle bins are black and the trash bins are green.
It's dumbest ****ing thing I've ever seen. Seriously, who comes up with this shit?

One of the better entrepreneurial ideas I've seen is this guy around here fabricated a hydraulic lift system with a power washer setup in the back of his truck. Its fitted specifically for the city trash/recycle bins.

Dude sells monthly and quarterly subscriptions and just drives around the east valley power washing bins with the push of a couple buttons.

Its probably more successful out here where its hot most the year and bins get super gnarly smelling quick but he's rolling pretty hard with just a truck, a power washer and some ingenuity.

Look at that little boy scout


Read KC Uniteds list and realize what a big ****ing joke this all is

KCMO isn't nearly as restrictive as Arizona yet. It's all going to the same place anyway;)


Items you can recycle curbside:

Office paper, junk mail, newspapers (without plastic rain bag), phone books, catalogs and magazines
Manila folders
Advertising inserts
Brochures
Corrugated cardboard
Carrier stock (i.e. cardboard soft drink and beer cartons)
Chipboard (i.e. cereal and shoe boxes)
Paper/hardback books
Plastic bottles with a neck #1 and #2 (look for the number inside the chasing arrow symbol), such as water and soda bottles, milk jugs and detergent bottles. Lids may now be recycled, too.
Plastic containers #3 thru #7 (look for the number inside the chasing arrow symbol), such as yogurt and margarine/butter tub containers
Cardboard egg cartons
Pizza boxes (No food)
Shredded paper (in paper bags)
Drink cartons
Aluminum cans and other metal cans
Clamshells (Deli or salad bar containers)
Aseptic containers (milk, juice and vegetable cartons)
Clean aluminum foil and foil pans
Items you cannot recycle curbside:

Glass
Plastic bags
Styrofoam, including Styrofoam egg cartons
Motor oil bottles and other automotive product bottles
Containers for household hazardous material
Paper towels, tissues or napkins, plates or cups
Gift wrap
Photographs, blueprints and hanging file folders
Bags that contained pet food, fertilizer, charcoal or kitty litter
Metal pots

You all are complaining about recycling lol?


Eagerly awaiting the next thread complaining about not being able to smoke on airplanes like the good ol days. *plays Kenny Rogers on 8 track*

It's complicated. For recycling to work, you pretty much have to have everything 1) clean and 2) separated into materials that can be recycled together. That's necessarily labor intensive, so waste management companies have to make a choice between asking a LOT of consumers (my dad has 8 different bins in his garage for all the different materials, and he manually drops it all off at a recycling center) but having very low participation vs. making it EASY for consumers (single-stream recycling) and putting a ton of effort into sorting at the facility.

So OK, decision point 1: if you want to get people to do it, you have to make it simple. Fine.

But then the issue is that making it easy also makes it easy for people to **** it up, both in unintentional ways (not understanding what can be recycled) and malicious ways (intentionally throwing trash into the recycle bin). And in some cases, a handful of people ****ing it up can ruin entire loads of otherwise recyclable materials due to either contamination or just making it too laborious to go through the load and sort out all the stuff that can't be recycled.

So waste management companies have to decide whether they try and tech people how to be good recyclers at the middle school (recycle cans), high school (recycle cans and plastic bottles), 101 (recycle cans, plastics with allowed types, clean paper and cardboard), or 201 level (recycle cans, aluminum foil if it's in a large enough ball and clean, plastics that are clean, paper products, but not those that have a wax coating...). The better informed people are, the better recycling works, but the less people will pay attention.

So decision point 2: If you want to get people to do it right, you have to find a sweet spot between telling people every little detail they need to know and making it simple enough that everyone can understand it.

The result is that we just kind of live with something in the middle, though it does indeed result in a lot of recyclable materials being dumped in the trash. There's just not a great way out of it unfortunately unless you go hard on public education, which is often a futile exercise.

We get our bin cleaned every month. Same type of set-up. It costs us $12/month which is worth it to keep the trash bin from smelling like BEP's asshole the entire year.

Who could imagine the people picking up and sorting trash might be as intelligent as the idiots who get flustered figuring out which color bin to put stuff in.

Here's a quick video that might be more your style. Feel free to lay down for a bit afterwards if it gets too overwhelming.

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Here's a really good breakdown


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That's cool, I've used a power washer on mine a few times, but I'm lazy about it and it can get pretty nasty.

I burn my trash.

When I bought this house I don't think the bins had ever been washed. It was over my gag threshold so I found a pro.

It's a pretty sweet setup. Figured it would be all nasty but the guy never even gets his hands wet. Just pulls a couple levers.

He also has a window cleaning subscription which is mostly a necessity after monsoon season out here. Its a pretty solid hustle he's got going as I see him all over the east valley.

what I wonder is how much of it really gets recycled.

paper/cardboard. There is a point where it cant be recycled anymore.

The other thing thats a bit annoying is our recycling program is one guy in a truck. Truck pulls up then it lifts and dumps.

So if you have one thing causing the lid on the bin to be open even just a little bit it throws off the lift system and stuff spills everywhere.

So they won't pick it up and will leave a warning sticker on your bin shaming your ass LMAO

Since my wife buys nearly everything off Amazon I'm driving to the recycle center drop off every other weekend with an abundance of Amazon boxes since they won't all fit in my bin with the lid closed.

In Chicago, they'd take anything. You could have someone sideswipe the front bumper off your car, just throw it in your recycle bin and they'd take it. Probably because they're just dumping it all in some low income neighborhood anyway. So I racked up a few warning stickers for the first couple weeks I was out here.

LMAO

Yeah, mine has a fill line that is often ignored, but I try cramming bottles and shit towards the bottom so they aren't laying on top of everything and roll off. I've heard that a time or two, plus paper and stuff that blows back into the yard.

I don't think we have shaming stickers though.

Welcome to KC (fly over country).....

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I totally get it. I think someone mentioned above its about communication or lack there of.

They changed the non-recyclable items list and no one knew about it.

The fill line, that's just being new to the area and probably my responsibility to look into.

LOL not one of my neighbors said a thing when I took out all our moving boxes and set them to the side of the recycle bin on the curb LMAO Bet they were all peering out their windows just waiting for the truck to come by and shame my bin.

Now that I know the rules I stay in compliance.

I always put glass & trash in my recycle ans they take it

I honestly never understood why they didn't do the carts.

Seems like a lot of effort to print off your posts

We've had specific cans with lids out here in the sticks for years. It's about time the greater shithole started cleaning their trash up.

It's the only way we can all finally come together and pretend we're not shipping half that shit to China where they dump it in a river.

Gotta keep those big rats well fed! ROFL

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LOL WTF. It's 2023 and KC is just now getting this?

I've had carts forever but I live in a suburb where you pay for trash service, if you live in the actual KC city limits you didn't have carts just bags on the curb which never made sense to me ever...looks great when animals have trash all over the street etc.

Next door neighbor got one, along with the rest of the block. **** me I guess.

Im picturing a King of the Hill scenario where you and your neighbors stand around in the alley drinking beer going over your sweet new trash cans.

Pretty big deal round these parts. Keep it next to the outhouse for easy access.

Got mine today

Well shit.

The more you know I guess...

You also shouldn’t put pizza boxes in the recycling as the grease makes them unable to be recycled.

St Joseph recycling gets poured into a landfill where birds eat poopy diapers

Why the hell doesn’t KC provide residents with three rolling trash cans with lids, one for refuse, recycle and the 3rd for yard waste?

Don’t they hire trash companies with trucks that are operated by a single person with hydrolic claw that grasps, lifts and dumps into the trash truck?

Trash bags can open up in just moderate inclement weather, and stink like shit if not properly secured…yeah…WTF???

Did you request one?

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So do they just drop these things off at everybody's house? Also, I am going to lose my shit if these things blow over every time there is a storm. They look like they would.

Gee, Bob. I thought it worked telepathically.

Everyone who currently has trash service gets one automatically. You don't need to request one.

Should only be an issue on the rare instances there is a storm on the day you put out the cart for pickup.

Mine are in my garage, it's best to not just leave them by the curb all the time.

Exciting times.

Yeah but it isn't that rare. When I lived in San Diego there was never a problem. But we already have recycling carts in our neighborhood, and even though they are low profile it happens like 6 times a year that a storm rolls through and garbage gets blown all up and down the street.

Against the law in San Diego. Can't put them out for more than 24hrs or some shit. So basically you just put them out the night before pick up and bring them in the next day. Which is what any civilized person would do anyway.

Yeah but in San Diego it's not storms you have to worry about knocking your trash all over the street, it's homeless people.

What is your suggestion? I've had ours out in a steady 30 MPH wind with zero issues. You get much higher than that and it could be a problem.