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Every day, we shop, get receipts, and throw away packaging without thinking much about its environmental impact. But what if a simple analysis of your purchases could help you sort waste and make more eco-friendly choices?

How Would It Work?

📸 Scan your receipt → 🤖 AI analyzes each item → ♻️ Get recycling recommendations

✅ Identifies packaging types (plastic, paper, glass, metal, mixed)
✅ Suggests the correct bin color for sorting
✅ Recommends eco-friendly alternatives for non-recyclable packaging
✅ Tracks the percentage of recyclable items in your purchases

Why Does This Matter?

- Many people want to recycle but don’t always know where to throw what
- Stores rarely provide clear recycling instructions on packaging
- Analyzing our shopping habits can help us become more eco-conscious

This is just an idea, but I’d love to hear your thoughts! https://receiptwise10.replit.app/
Would you use a system like this?

Someone had gifted a bottle of some fruit infused alcohol/liquor. The remains of the fruit that was infused is still in the bottle. No one around can get the lid/cap/top off to dispose of the fruit. Which bin should it be placed in? The blue, green, or grey bin? Tks.

I had to get a new battery for my tractor as the one I got was underpowered for cold starting but is still otherwise good. I ordered a new battery 800CCA my plan was to just use an old garden tractor battery that is no good as a core. The guy at advance auto said they could not take that as a core but could recycle it. I ended up taking the junk battery back home maybe revice it.
I had mixed feelings if they'd take a smaller battery as a core but home depot always did but those were more equivalent size units. Honestly though it seems pretty stupid to me advanced said they'd take it but won't get anything for it even like 1/2 of a core charge. I may as well take it to the metal recycling place then.

According to a research report from iResearch, the market size of second-hand mobile phones in China has exceeded hundreds of billions of yuan and is expected to maintain stable growth over the next few years. This trend has driven more companies to accelerate their layout in the second-hand recycling business.

AiHuiShou, a subsidiary of ATRenew (NYSE: RERE), is one of the leading players in this field. As a leading domestic C2B recycling platform for 3C products, AiHuiShou has deeply integrated various aspects of user experience through its recycling model combining “online valuation + offline delivery,” satisfying the diverse scenarios of users' needs for renewal.

At our school, everyone is forced to get a fruit, which they never end up eating and throwing away. I genuinely believe this is unethical, so I collect fruit and vegetable scraps so I can compost them, and I use the whole fruits to cook with. This time I'm going to be using these to make wine. Last time, I used the oranges to make canned Jalapeño marmalade.

Excuse me if i am completely uneducated on this but there's little to no education on this in my country, so here it goes, can plastic parts like in the picture from rc cars or any other rc vehicle be recycled?

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Hi all!

My mum's got some mobiles from the 90s and 2000s but none of the online recycling places will take them, I'm guessing because the material inside aren't what they're after/they can't resell. Anyone know where's best for her to take them? I suggested the electronics bit at the local tip.

This was my daughter’s toy. I was going to use it for her baby brother but the batteries died out. I attempted to replace the batteries but found there is none? Only the circuit boards were underneath the panels. Can we not change these batteries???? What a waste if so!

So I visited a friend in the UK recently and I couldn’t believe in 2025 how recycling was being sorted? I’m from Ireland and ALL recyclable items go in one bin. (card, paper, plastic, soft plastics, metal, crisp packets, bottles etc.) general waste in another bin ans food waste in food waste bin.

My friend in the UK had 4 bins for recycling, one for paper, one for plastics and so on.

Are any other countries like this? Made me realise the waste and recycling facilities in ireland are really fantastic and easy for the individual rather than all of this constant sorting.

I finally ate all the cookies from this container a gift from Christmas . What do you usually reuse this container for or you just throw it away 😁

Recently, the UK investment institution T. Rowe Price established a position in the Chinese concept stock ATRenew (RERE.US) in the fourth quarter of 2024, purchasing a total of 1.86 million ADSs.

According to the introduction, ATRenew is a second-hand consumer electronics trading and service platform. The establishment of positions by T. Rowe Price International and T. Rowe Price Hong Kong this time is also an endorsement of ATRenew's future development prospects.

Every recycling place I’ve called says they only recycle objects with the CRV label (water bottles, soda cans, etc.). Then anywhere I try looking online always says to “just look up local recycling centers” or sends me to a link with a place to put my ZIP code and see general recycling centers.

I’m starting to think it’s not even possible to recycle such cans. I don’t even care about gettting any money, I just don’t want to put all these cans I’ve accumulated to be thrown into the garbage. Would a scrap metal place or junkyard care about them? I’ve cleaned them and everything.

Me gustaría saber qué proceso de reciclado presentan o se podría aplicar a este tipo de tuberías: multicapas formadas por capas de PEX (polimero reticulado) y aluminio. Y, cómo se podrían separar las capas (algún proceso industrial) para poder gestionarlas por separado.

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I've got some boxes of old floppy disks to go through, and am expecting practically all the stuff on them to be unuseable, irrelevant, or both. I was wondering what to do with them once I've saved/wiped what I need to, and there do seem to be some places that'll take them, but... how much useable stuff is a recycling centre going to be able to extract from them, given that they seem to be mostly solid plastic? Is it really going to be worth my effort in bagging them up and posting them off to wherever?

UPDATE: Thanks, all! What I decided to do in the end is to pull each one apart once I've finished transferring the stuff on it and wiping anything that needs wiping, then saving the metal shutter and hub and binning the rest. Quick and easy and means I can save the stuff that's straightforward to recycle without putting in masses of effort for little return on the rest. Meanwhile, I foresee many happy hours rediscovering my (extremely) old letters and emails!

Three people in my household use daily wear contacts. Throwing all of this stuff away bothers me, but collecting and driving it all somewhere is certainly less convenient than tossing things in our recycling bin.

I feel like having to drive them somewhere is a barrier for the masses, but over the course of a year's worth of daily lenses, it's quite a bit of aluminum foil and plastic just being thrown in the trash/landfill or down the toilet for some (apparently there are people who do this with the lenses?!).

For those of you who wear them yourself or have members in your household who do, what, if anything, is the MAXIMUM you would pay per month to be able to throw your used blister packs and lenses into a prepaid shipping container for recycling?

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I have a pair of glasses (with case) that no longer fit my prescription. Anything that can be done besides throwing them out?

To encourage more consistent recycling, businesses should have at least five disposal categories:

Cans and Bottles

Mixed Paper

Mixed Recycling

Compost

Garbage

"Mixed Paper" needs to be separate from both "Compost" and "Mixed Recycling" of glass, tin, and plastic.

I am currently a minor and when I get my first apartment, I want to limit my plastic waste. Are there any biodegradable toothbrushes that have lasted for a while and clean great?

Just going two old iPads and a Mac book from around 2009. I am unable to turn them on to reset them/wipe data. Would it be safe to bring to an apple store for recycling?

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I've had this thought for some time if recycling is actually the answer to plastic, we know now that not only does plastic take forever to break down but it also releases harmful chemicals and stuff that are horrible for us. If plastic is recycled that still means we're exposed to it and sure that stops IT from being thrown into the environment but that also means that it's still being exposed to us and eventually it's breaking down and wearing out and still getting into the environment anyhow. Answer to the issue of plastic I was just curious what you guys wanted to think about it sorry if this was a rant it was just on my mind.

Metal recycling is a fundamental cycle that benefits both the climate and the economy. Scrap metal, frequently disposed of as waste, is an important asset handled by metal recyclers. These metal recyclers in Melbourne take seemingly useless, corroded materials and change them into top-notch metals that can be reused in assembling and development. The sky is the limit from there. How about we investigate how this change happens and why it is important? Read more here.