2. ERF day?
3. NatGeo?
Well at the very least, they're making me ask for a friggin' straw most place now.
Scam where I live. Blue Barrel coast me 100 bucks a year and you only put the promo stuff in it which they harvest and re-sell.
So I dont do it any longer
Scam where I live. Blue Barrel coast me 100 bucks a year and you only put the promo stuff in it which they harvest and re-sell.
So I dont do it any longer
Some of my neighbors still sort out all the different kinds of glass, cans, paper, etc. I watched the truck years ago and saw they dump it all into one bin. Most of the recyclables aren’t worth the labor to pick up and sort them.
Nothing happens to it. I refuse to play their silly game. The city just issued us a large trash bin and large blue bin.
The blue one is stored behind the house. I might use it for leaves this fall
Since plastic is the new environmental evil can we get paper bags back at the grocery store now?
My brother, who lives 1/4 mile away on same street has 3 bins (paper, cans, and plastics) and is expected to be a slave of the state forced to separate garbage. I refuse to go down that path.
“Formal recycling programs take jobs away from poor trash sorters, so it’s better to just let waste lie where it falls; those in need will pick it up for reuse.” Wow. Just... wow. THIS is what some people worry about with recycling?! Not cost or energy consumption but that? If there was any doubt, now you know: a flamin’ liberal wrote this garbage which, apparently, was recycled from their feelings of eco-guilt.
we visited our local ‘dump’ (a very high tech place with many kinds of equipment ... how times have changed in the dump business, ha!)
and they do separate and apparently recycle tons of stuff
including metals (mostly sent to Communist China or Japan for re-manufacturing into consumer products that those countries then sell back to USA), plastics, paper products, and much more.
it appears that just about the only thing left over after they recycle is the cat’s meow
My brothers construction company spent six months on a job at the City of Tucson landfill. My brother told me that the “recycling “ trucks dumped their loads in with the rest of the trash and it was buried.
In the Coeur d’Alene, ID area, the garbage company was PAID $40 per ton for recycled material up until two or three years ago. Now they are having to PAY $10 per ton to get the stuff hauled away. The Asian markets for recycled materials have collapsed.
If recycling made economic sense, there would be companies bidding for my garbage.
I think recycling could be profitable. I think if the people separate their recycles and they dump it all in the same spot is wrong. In days past, China took all our plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, but when they stopped all our dumping the recycle market collapsed. I think if they used grounded up plastic and glass, they could be used with asphalt or maybe concrete. Or paper or rags or clothing could be grounded up and used as insulation. I wish where I lived in rural East Texas we recycled but we don’t. Garbage, paper and plastic go into the fire pit and glass and cans are dropped off in the local small town dumpster.
I’m in SoCal and every fast food joint I go to still gives you plastic straws without asking if you want one. It’s Berkeley that fines for straws I think. I would say Berkeley has lost their minds but they did that long long ago.
I’ve always used the blue can as a 2nd garbage can. I have no doubt it goes to the same place. If not, they can frickin’ sort it.
Aim for 1500 ppm CO2. (Always think big!) Do your part to green up the Earth.
Forty years ago people were sorting paper from plastic, colored glass from clear glass for recycling.
Then someone followed the recycling truck and found them dumping everything in the landfill.
But every one felt S-O-O Good about recycling.
I work for a county government in the DC suburbs. Most of the trash is picked up by contractors and dumped at several landfills. One of my smoking buddies is the woman who oversees the contractors. Monday is trash pickup and Thursday is recycling day. She told me that all the pickups from both days go into the same piles at the landfills. My wife won’t believe it so I humor her and put out the dry stuff on Thursday mornings. It does save on trash bags, though and I guess it makes the children feel more secure about their futures.