Posted on 10/19/2015 6:40:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Well stated. Thank you.
i used to defy the recycle police by using black construction bags for my trash. now i put everything in the white kitchen bags. i let the trash guys figure it out. it all gets collected either during the recycle phase of collection or the next.
The “Pig in the sink!”
Thanks for the excellent essay about recycling. Sad. I’ve always recycled.
Two years ago a friend who works at Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, CA told me that he transports the trash every night at Magic Mountain. I asked him what he does with the bottles in the blue containers. He said that all the recyclables go into the trash. No recycling.
Plasma recyclers are the size of a semi truck’s trailor and can recycle anything (glass, paper, metal) and produce electricity. One plasma recycler in every poor city will get rid of the brown cloud hovering over India and Asia.
Plasma recyclers. The future. http://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/
Good points.
We have a K- machine but use an aftermarket, reusable cup. It makes a better brew than the one that comes with the machine. Fill with Kirkland/Yuban mix of ground coffee and its about 7 cents a cup. There is a Finn in the household so we go through a lot of coffee.
We have weekly newspaper/metal&plastic can/ cardboard curbside pickup.
There are dumpsters around town for those things, too. I generate a number of heavy glass bottles and cardboard so use the dumpsters.
We also lost the burn option, although we can have a ‘small warming fire’
so lots of prunings go away in the fall. I heat my shed with a wood stove
(certified and approved) and that gets rid of some burnables. A few squirts of used motor oil gets things going.
I throw bottles and cans in the recycling bin. I’m not trying to save the planet, nor is it mandatory in my city, but it gives me a hell of a lot more room in the garbage bins every week. Plus, the trucks would routinely drop the glass bottles in the alley and make a mess.
Since this began, I’ve held to the policy: the government is not allowed in my kitchen. It’s nothing but Junk Science designed to make us work for the Collective Good of the People or now the mindless concept of the Earth. What hubris on the part of man to think he can change Nature!
Nice to see this in print. Thank you.
Where I live, western Wisconsin, there is a vast variety of objects that are listed as recyclable. Just exactly what do they do with a used plastic mustard or catsup container? It’s insanity.
The bottle deposits of your youth were a different kind of recycling, in that they were reused. Sent back to Pepsi, Coke or whoever, washed, refilled and sent back out.
The bottle and can deposits of today, in some states, is a way for them to curb the trash build up in streets and alleys, from thoughtless people who couldn’t be bothered to find a trash can.
You know it, Pete! :)
I’ll have to find that one on You Tube. Love their stuff!
“All in all, the juice is not worth the squeeze.”
Great line! :)
LOL! :)
FWIW, here is the PDF file of the TWENTY PAGE recycling guide for the next town over. Recycling Capitol of the World, they are!
http://www.fitchburgwi.gov/documentcenter/view/6483
It even has rules for recycling your ammo, LOL! (A 20-page PDF file would make a great target!)
Leftism is an amalgamation of religious cults that is the “Bi-Polar” opposite of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian morals that America was founded upon.
I have two choices. I can pay for garbage service and get three trash cans and sort my garbage, or I can take my garbage to the dump myself and not worry about sorting it. My dog loves our weekly trips to the dump.
Their episode on reparations included Mr. Hervey, the black man who proudly supported the Confederate Flag. He was killed a couple months ago in a car accident triggered by “tolerance” advocates heckling and attempting to damage their car.
I burn a tire every Earth Day.
I think recycling is a waste of time. However, I AM in favor of deposits on bottles and cans and would like to see the same on plastic water bottles too........
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