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Recycle

Site Name

Recycling

I opted for this name because everybody knows what it is and gets the idea. It is also easy to think of a logo for it :) However, you're supposed to try to first reduce, then reuse, and only after recycle. Hopefully site culture can reinforce that notion, to counteract the site name perpetuating a common misconception (namely that recycling is the first thing you should try).

Description

Discussion and practical advice about reducing, reusing and recycling of waste (R3).

Topics

Topics covered would include:

  • Practical advice on how to R3 specific items
  • General questions about waste management practices

Exclusions

These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

  • Questions that do not pertain to the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste

Special Features

None at the moment.

Overlaps

Potential overlaps:

  • Home improvement
  • Great Outdoors
  • Personal finance (if we create one)
  • Other hobby sites, since with each hobby there is inevitably a question of what to do with old hobby items
  • Any sites focused on environmentalism
  • Any sites focused on anti-consumerism

While there's an argument for staying broad and making this a tag on a more general environmentalism site, I think it's better to keep it specific. Most of the questions on this site would be "what do I do with XYZ waste". An environmentalism site (or other overlaps) might find these tedious and spammy.

Then again, we could also be a section on an environmentalism or anti-consumerism site. 🤷

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I'm not sure an international Q&A site will be able to provide a lot of useful information. Many of t... (2 comments)
I'm not sure an international Q&A site will be able to provide a lot of useful information. Many of t...
samcarter‭ wrote 8 months ago

I'm not sure an international Q&A site will be able to provide a lot of useful information. Many of the guidelines for recycling will depend on the country or state you live in. In Germany, such regulations can even vary from council to council and between different companies tasked with collecting the recycling. What your neighbour on the other site of the road may throw in their recycling bin can be very different from what you are allowed.

While that is true, I was thinking more in terms of "what's right" than "what's required". I think in many places, the actual requirements on waste are quite loose (especially for residential/individuals as opposed to commercial) and even when they're more elaborate they rarely seem to be enforced much. So it comes down to a matter of personal preference what you do with waste. I would say the way to make it work would be to focus on voluntary stuff that is not part of what the local authorities mandate.

Again, although I called the site "recycle", it's supposed to be about reduce and reuse. Those seem like they should be doable even on an international site.