I do not know if this is true.
It's certainly possible. Depends on the level of contamination and the sophistication/tolerance of the sorting facility. If the store was sorting on site and selling directly to markets, then yeah, for sure.
This all is one reason that single-use plastic water bottles made of corn-based plastic (PLA)is a shitty, shitty idea. They claim it's biodegradeable (which is *not* the same as compostable) and that it's recyclable - right now the markets don't exist and there's no way to tell the PLA bottles from regular plastic and according to the recyclers we've talked to, just one PLA bottle could ruin a whole load.
This all is one reason that single-use plastic water bottles made of corn-based plastic (PLA)is a shitty, shitty idea.
If you were marooned on a desert island and had no food, could you eat PLA bottles to survive?
Google Video is gone? When did that happen? I swear when I was searching for a Simpsons clip just the other day Google kept dumping me in Google Video instead of directly into Youtube like was sensible.
Or maybe it was just a video results screen.
If you were marooned on a desert island and had no food, could you eat PLA bottles to survive?
::gags:: I wouldn't recommend it. It's plastic. Not sure if it has any nutrient value whatsoever. Hmm. It's apparently made from fermented sugars, wonder if it would get you drunk, assuming you could consume enough.
F Liv Taylor, C the rest.
I have to C Laurence, just because of Gina. She's too cool. F Pace, M Neeson.
Lauren Ambrose
Lauren Graham
Liv Taylor
Laurie Anderson should be in here. I'd M her (but would I have to kill Lou Reed first?)
Wow, those female L's are plus difficile. I might find myself C'ing Lauren Graham due to early love of Liv Tyler and Lauren Ambrose.
Steph, I'm not so sure they do. [link]
I'll be damned. I remember when they added the "all plastic bottles, regardless of number" thing, because it was pretty recent, but they didn't say they stopped taking other containers. It used to be all #1 and #2 plastics -- there's even a big sticker on the inside of our recycling bin that specifies what we can recycle. I guess it's outdated now. Which means we were trying to recycle improper plastics. (Yes, being home sick means I can go take pictures of the recycling bin. Envy me.)
Maybe we were supposed to assume that "we now accept all plastic bottles" meant "but no other plastic containers any more, even though we used to take #1 and #2 plastic."
I just don't think that this time it's me mis-reading it.
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I want to stick a sign on the bins telling people not to try and recycle their pizza boxes. Pizza boxes are nasty. But so often I see them in the bin.
We can recycle pizza boxes as long as they don't have food bits stuck to them; that was added when the "all plastic bottles" thing was added. But honestly, how often do pizza boxes not have food on them?
F Liv Taylor, C the rest.
Huh. I would chuck Ambrose, just because I don't know much about her, but it's close between the others. (or what Sophia said)
