Internet users remembered an old myth: is sorted waste really put in the same place?

There were questions about the containers

One Facebook user recently shared by videowhich, according to him, shows how sorted waste is dumped in the same place.

“Maybe someone can explain why it is necessary to sort garbage, if everything is thrown into one garbage truck?” he asked rhetorically.

Screenshot from Facebook

The post has received approximately 225 reactions in almost two weeks and has been viewed more than 200,000 times. times.

While some commenters were outraged that their sorted rubbish was being thrown back together, others were quick to explain that what was captured was just an optical illusion.

Explanations of what is actually visible have already appeared in the comments.

“… because I work in this company, I had to get to know everything,” one woman explained. – These machines are two or three seater.

Because each type of garbage goes to its proper place. Paper for yourself, glass for yourself, and other waste for yourself. Each machine has a scale that shows how much of a certain type of trash they have collected. When they arrive at the base, they are weighed and documents are filled out.”

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Doesn’t sort because “doesn’t make sense”

Commissioned by the Association of Manufacturers and Importers “Gamtos Ateitis”, the research company “Baltijos tyrimi” conducted a representative survey of the Lithuanian population this year. survey about their sorting habits.

The study revealed that 36% always sort, 40% often. adults. But it also turns out that some people still believe the myths surrounding sorting.

Only 9 percent answered that they do not sort waste. population. The main reason for doing so was the belief that there was no point in sorting, since the waste from the containers was still dumped into the same garbage truck. Almost half of those who did not sort stated this reason.

Do not mix during assembly

According to Ekonovus, one of the largest waste management companies in Lithuania, the myth that all garbage is put together is still very popular. It is easy to do on the company’s website find an explanationhow this process works.

“This kind of false information is circulating because most recycling and packaging waste collection trucks have separate sections for different types of waste where they don’t mix, even though it may look like everything is being dumped into one vehicle,” the website says.

Later, the mixed municipal waste is processed, and the sorted waste is delivered to the sorting center. Here they are sorted into many fractions and given to processors.

Also on the website of the Vilnius Waste System Administrator (VASA). a detailed explanation is providedhow waste is collected.

“Waste transport vehicles are adapted to transport both mixed municipal waste and sorted waste.

There are several types of cars: those that collect only mixed municipal waste; just sorted; or both communal and sorted,” says VASA’s website.

Garbage trucks for the collection of mixed waste and secondary raw materials have three different containers into which the waste is poured separately. Glass packaging is poured into one container, plastic, paper and metal packaging into another, and mixed municipal waste into the third.

15min verdict: missing context. Waste is sorted for a reason. They are collected separately – garbage trucks have separate containers.

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