Hardest Wastes to Recycle
Aside from world peace and gender equality, recycling is one of the advocacies firmly being supported by millions of people worldwide.
The good thing is, most government agencies and businesses from different nations support recycling as well.
Materials such as paper, plastic, electronics, and metal undergo recycling in Vancouver. As a matter of fact, metal is one of the most recycled materials in the world.
The downside is, not all kinds of garbage recycling is as easy as metal recycling in Vancouver.
There are many recyclable items that still end up in landfills simply because taking them apart and recycling them is a lot of work and would be expensive.
Here are some of the wastes that are hardest to recycle:
- Thermal packaging – Although effective in retaining your lunch’s warmth or keeping your dessert cold thermal packaging is among the things that are most difficult to recycle. It takes a lot of work to separate its parts that it would be more convenient for some to just throw it away in land fills.
- Mattress – Just like thermal packaging, old mattress is hard to recycle because of the amount of work required just to disassemble it. However, the majority of the parts of a mattress can be recycled – the foam and the cotton, for example. Its metal springs can be sent for metal recycling in Vancouver, too.
- Cling wrap or plastic wrap – Most plastic wraps have undergone special manufacturing and contain complex elements that are hard to take apart during the recycling process. Sadly, this leads to cling wraps or plastic wraps ending up in landfills. Some people and groups even burn these plastic types, arguing that it is better for these to be burned than be thrown in landfills.
- Tires – Old tires are perfectly recyclable and may be turned into hot asphalt or synthetic rubber. However the process is quite expensive that not all are willing to recycle them.
- Batteries – Batteries contain many elements that can be recycled, but recycling of batteries calls for a specialized process that not everyone can afford it.
- Pringles’ tube packaging – This may come as a surprise, but the signature tube packaging of Pringles’ are actually “a nightmare to recycle” according to some recycling associations.
