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I hate to throw out things like old sneakers, thereby sending them off to a Michigan dump. Other people have overcome that reluctance by tossing old shoes optimistically into blue bins.
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"If someone puts out 100 pounds a year, and 20 pounds is junk, there's still 80 pounds that we can recycle. What is residue today, we work out how we would handle it if we could use it."
Besides, having "unsolicited materials" representing only 15 per cent or 20 per cent of the total isn't bad. If you came away with that many errors on an exam, you'd have a pretty good grade.
The plant at the Dufferin Transfer Station processes 40 per cent of our blue bin trash. It's amazing that two shifts of 40 people, 35 of whom do the actual sorting, manage with the help of machines, to process so much garbage. The balance is handled by another privately contracted plant.
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The plant is constantly battling marketing ingenuity and changing consumer habits. For example, large water jugs are now often discarded instead of reused. They can be recycled, but must be removed by hand before entering the sorting system, where they mix with cardboard or clog conveyors.
Or how about labels completely covering PET bottles that may catch the purchaser's eye but foil optical sorters?
"We put in automated equipment to maximize the capture rate and improve efficiency, and they put labels on that defeat the machine," Baldry laments.
Composite packaging, mixing different plastic resins or paper and plastics, may keep foods fresh, but contaminates recycling streams.
The future looks even scarier. Toronto's solid waste management team is planning a new sorting facility and invited packaging industry representatives to speculate what lies ahead.
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