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The 'recycling bin' image?

The image on the right certainly doesn't look like a bin at park in northern California. Would anybody replace the image with the correct one, or remove it from the article?

Surcharges

In the supply section of the article 2nd paragraph

(Container deposit legislation involves offering a refund for the return of certain containers, typically glass, plastic, and metal. When a product in such a container is purchased, a small surcharge is added to the price. This surcharge can be reclaimed by the consumer if the container is returned to a collection point. These programs have been very successful, often resulting in an 80 percent recycling rate. Despite such good results, the shift in collection costs from local government to industry and consumers has created strong opposition to the creation of such programs in some areas.)

the last line states that

• 1. there is a shift in collection costs
• 2. the industry and consumers are now paying for the collection costs.

I believe this is just a misunderstanding of the concept that the money you receive when returning the packaging is actually additional money that you spent when purchasing the item. this forces the consumer to return the packaging if they do not want to be the one paying for the disposal of the item.

02:03, 16 January 2012‎ 206.248.172.126 (Talk)‎

Art section had non-art related material

I moved it into the "Public participation rates" section because they were paragraphs about how to get people to recycle more. But I'm not quite sure I put 'em in the right place. And now the art section is pretty small. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Absurdmike (talk • contribs) 22:56, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Platonic recycling :)

I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a citation for this: "Recycling has been a common practice for most of human history with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in the fourth century BC." I think it's problematic for various reasons. First, obviously, is the term "recycling" (which is basically a 20th century concept). So this is an anachronism. Second, there's a suggestion that Plato (or the ancient Greeks) did something radically different that allows us to date "recycling" back to them, rather than wisely reuse materials as people (and probably other species--aren't earthworms recyclers?) probably always have. I find it hard to justify this statement. At best, I think it should say something like "Reusing materials has been a common practice for most/all of human history..." - but I'd be keen to hear other views. 45154james (talk) 09:07, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Outside the Midwest

In the sentence "though much of this glass is sent to be recycled, outside the American Midwest there is not enough wine production to use all of the reprocessed material," "outside the American Midwest" doesn't seem to make any sense. California produces more wine than the rest of the US combined. The entire Midwest produces less than a tenth of what California produces. The quoted sentence implies that Midwestern wine production is greater than that of California. This is clearly false. Citizen127 (talk) 21:00, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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