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The Future of Recycling Is Sanitation Workers Rejecting Your Bin. In Atlanta and other cities, collectors refuse to pick up trash if residents have sorted it wrong.
Bloomberg
| January 29, 2020
| Leslie Kaufman
Posted on 01/29/2020 6:42:04 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov
The only things it makes sense to recycle is aluminum, and possibly glass. Glass is problematic, as you have to sort by type/color, which is why these 'recycling' companies are starting to insist on the separation. Plastics are really no recycle friendly because there are many types of plastic, and mixing types leads to effectively crap plastics. I say toss everything but Aluminum into landfills. Someday, those will be extraordinarily valuable mines.
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01/29/2020 9:57:40 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
To: SgtHooper
“Recycling Inspector” is what they “semi-retire” trash haulers to when/if they are UNABLE to continue picking-up the trash.
Inasmuch as the city would otherwise have to retire such “on civil service” employees on a disability pension, I’d guess that paying the “recycling inspectors” for doing something is a better alternative.
I posted my original comment because I found what was disposed of in my container was SOMEWHAT AMUSING.
Yours, TMN78247
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01/29/2020 10:10:40 AM PST
by
TMN78247
("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
To: karpov
We have two bins. Burnable ( for the burn barrell) and garbage, which is picked up weekly by a guy with three teeth.
We will soon have goats and chickens so that can will bring one other bin.
God, I love the country.
To: karpov
The solution for home owners is simple.
Since you put garbage in 'single-use' plastic bags which no one opens to check for compliance, just put all your recyclables in with the household trash that goes to the landfill.
To: Little Pig
We’ve watched the same happen in front of our house. Not all the time, but sometimes.
To: karpov
The only advantage to living in the state of MD is that the trash men here would not do that to their own...
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posted on
01/29/2020 11:03:10 AM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
01/29/2020 1:42:55 PM PST
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: Chode
Yeppers.
I’m temptedto send it to the Mayor/Town Council.
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01/29/2020 2:58:20 PM PST
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mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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