I'm in the US and tried donating our child's potty chair. The donation spots I tried refused it because they weren't allowed to take anything which a child has to sit in or on for safety reasons. I even tried Value Village, which is a private second-hand store, and got the same response.
A lot of plastics that we "recycle" end up in landfills anyway. They are not recyclable because they are contaminated with food (need to wash food containers out before recycling) or they are labeled as "recyclable" but really are not, or are not at every recycling center in the nation. The same is true for cardboard like used greasy pizza boxes with cheese stuck to the bottom are not recyclable yet a heck of a lot of people toss them in the cardboard recycle bin.
> The findings confirm the results of a Guardian investigation last year, which revealed that numerous types of plastics are being sent straight to landfill in the wake of China’s crackdown on US recycling exports. Greenpeace’s findings also suggest that numerous products labeled as recyclable in fact have virtually no market as new products.
> She emphasized that bottles and jugs are indeed worth recycling, but said “our findings show that many items commonly found in beach cleanups – cups, bags, trays, plates and cutlery – are not recyclable. In America’s municipal recycling system, they are contaminants.”
> The US recycling economy was upended in 2018 when China enacted bans on imports of most US recycling, leaving recycling companies at a loose end. The report chronicled how dozens of cities – stretching from Erie, Pennsylvania, to San Carlos, California, – have either stopped taking mixed plastics or are sending them to landfill.
> need to wash food containers out before recycling (...) used greasy pizza boxes with cheese stuck to the bottom are not recyclable yet a heck of a lot of people toss them in the cardboard recycle bin.
People are not being informed about it clearly enough. Not that it would change much, except discouraging most people from sorting trash.
Beyond being a significant burden, having individuals washing their trash is just ridiculously inefficient and wasteful in terms of water and energy use, plus it would more than double the amount of detergent unloaded into the return leg of water supply loop. It kind of already defeats the point of recycling.
And that's without even getting to the whole "recycling things other than metal and maybe glass is a scam" thing.
I’m less in the “people need to be informed” camp and more in the “products need to be designed for easy recycling” camp.
If we want to recycle pizza boxes as a society, there needs to be a grease absorbing layer that’s clearly marked for the trash, and a recyclable layer with clear instructions. A great example of this is Siggi’s single serving yogurt cups. The paper label is easily separated from the plastic body, with clear instructions that they’re meant to be separated for recycling into separate streams. In my case my municipality doesn’t recycle the plastic they use (#5 IIRC), but at least the paper and metal foil get recycled.
Expecting end consumers to stay up to date on this stuff is just a way for companies to avoid the responsibility of making better packaging.
To clarify: I'm in your camp too. I just mentioned it because a lot of people don't know that washing recyclable containers before disposing of them is a thing.
> If we want to recycle pizza boxes as a society, there needs to be a grease absorbing layer that’s clearly marked for the trash, and a recyclable layer with clear instructions.
Agreed. And this needs to be built into the packaging, and not be a flimsy piece of paper the restaurant inserts so that the pizza itself doesn't stick to the box.
> A great example of this is Siggi’s single serving yogurt cups. The paper label is easily separated from the plastic body, with clear instructions that they’re meant to be separated for recycling into separate streams.
I've seen this trend and I like it. Paper label being separable also makes it easier to clean and reuse the cup itself. Containers from the yogurt brand we buy can survive a trip through a dishwasher, which helps. Unfortunately, most recyclable plastic containers are not like that.
> Expecting end consumers to stay up to date on this stuff is just a way for companies to avoid the responsibility of making better packaging.
Exactly. Plus, in this case, it's extremely wasteful.
I also blame the packaging problem on advertising/marketing being the cancer of modern society. Notice how professional equipment tends to come in simple cardboard boxes. None of the triple-layered plastic/paper/plastic + paint non-recyclable bullshit. Just straight cardboard and some anti-shock padding.
Companies need to start paying up front for end-of-life management of their products and packaging. It's the most market-friendly way to align incentives on the topic.
Exactly. I’m not likely to see spending hot water, soap, and time cleaning my trash as a sensible use of resources. If plastics need to be clean for recycling, they’re not realistically recycled.
A better solution for pizza boxes is an industrial composting collection that can take all food scraps and food soiled paper products. instead of adding something that may end up plastic or wax coated trash, we can reduce materials used and "recycle" in a different way.
Even if that would be effective, it is not practical to ask people to "chop up" their heavy plastic items just to throw them away. That requires tools, light skill, and time, that not everyone is able or willing to commit to the cause.
Think!. To recycle plastic it must be as clean as new plastic and of the same type of plastic. It then needs to be processed into granular pills of the same.This may mean mixing and melting and adding color to a standard color - usually tending towards brownish = used for hidden or structural parts where color does not matter. You can not have any fiber or fiberglass reinforced plastic in the mix - a little ruins the batch. All this costs $$, usually more cost than new material.
The only way to drive this is to add an input cost(refundable deposit or tax) to plastic when made or imported - to pay for the sorting and recycling. It makes sense - works with glass beer bottles, but plastics beer soda bottles etc usually have too much grunge to economically clean to the needs of recyclers.
We may have to throw away the false economy of plastic by adding a realistic tax/deposit...
This has eliminated much recycling.
We (reddit) were blocked by AWS on this until 2017 or so. Since then it's mostly been an issue of reworking internal tooling and storage. There are a huge number of places we'd need to futz with to support IPv6, and to be honest we've had basically zero pressure to do so.
When pressure is zero and effort is high, things will go unchanged. I'm sure once pressure exists then some movement will occur. It seems most of the industry is doing everything they can to put off incurring pressure, though.
Thanks to CGNAT we have shifted from a 32-bit to a 48-bit address space (since the port is now part of the address).
Ipv6 really only serves to shed load off CGNAT since we rely on the continued use of v4 addresses since v6 is not interoperable with v4.
But why should Reddit support v6? For the greater good of v4 by reducing pressure of CGNAT for dual homed users. But wait, who are the dual homed users you may ask? Mobile users. And it will only be mobile users since autoconfiguring residental networks to dual home is not going to happen. But Mobile carriers have full control of addressing and TCP/IP configuration of handsets, and so they can easily deploy usable v6.
So the smaller sites shouldn't bother with v6 because they're not an essential part of the Internet with large traffic. But a site like Reddit can reduce enormous pressure for mobile carriers to deliver use of the Internet.
Not any immediate plans. Decent amount of development is necessary there. There are so many places in our various systems that work with IP addresses, and many of them don't support v6 addresses.
Thankfully, if someone is MITM'ing you, or has acquired the IP of your host, then the SSH fingerprint check against your known_hosts will prevent them from snagging your password in this manner. (provided the host's private key hasn't also been stolen)
That is, as long as you don't ignore the "IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!" message.
It's the code names of the exploits which are being released by Shadow Brokers. Likely the names which the original authors utilized. Equation Group is known to utilize code names like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group#Codewords_and_t...
To each their own. I've lived in cities and suburbs, and I personally greatly prefer the latter. I'm not alone - I promise.
It's fine if some, or even most, think that suburbia is hell on earth. Criticize suburbia all you like. Don't live there. Go someplace you enjoy. Also, try not to assume that your feeling on this matter is objectively correct.
My biggest problem is that I like neither very dense urban living, nor low-density, car-dependent suburbia. Thanks to poorly-designed zoning, the US doesn't have much "in-between" housing or density, and that's a shame. See: http://missingmiddlehousing.com/
The traffic surge from the Boston incident is extremely marginal compared to the DDoS which we're facing right now. It is far and above any form of possibly being compounded, unfortunately.
But I wish it was :) Compounding I can deal with, astronomical is harder.
Journalists were the first to reach out to us, not the other way around. While I do agree that there is a trend in online journalism to hunt down page views rather than legitimate news, I personally feel that the story presented here is newsworthy. The information provided by integ3r on the shooting was the most succinct early coverage that I saw. Of course I'm a bit biased on that point.
Into the garbage it went, sadly.