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Waste recycling, what is the fuzz all about
Happened to follow the news from and on a certain heavy populated city characterized by a recent profuse built up of highrises (no, I am not talking about Hong Kong, but might as well for). Waste recycling is deemed to be essential and could/should not be delayed any longer. Yet, time and again, residents say they don't know how while officials express reservations to render the whole exercise to no avail.
Do pardon my ignorance on your circumstances but what is the big fuzz all about!? You are building highrise residentials by leaps and bounces. Don't you have chutes with openings on each floor for dwellers to slide their refuses down, onto collecting garbage tanks/carriers? If not, can you not design and mandate to have such!? Space permitted, have one chute for plastics only, the next for papers only, the third for tins and metals only, the fourth for glasses and bottles only (you have to break them for re-use anyway); and a fifth for any other. Can not remember which is for what, just mark and picture every chute opening. Cannot have that many chutes? Okay, two should be suffice. How about using one designated chute for the first four types of refuses to be rotates as: Monday is for plastics, Tuesday is for. . . (you figure it out); it should not hurt to hoard plastics, papers, metals, and glasses refuses just for a few days until the right day comes to dispose the right type. The “any other” type could be disposed of daily using the other chute. Such a scheme would not solve a whole city's recycling problem but should do for a city populated with highrises.
