[Glenn]

I found this to be rather interesting.

I received a stern warning from Waste Management recently that I was breaking the law by placing my recyclable trash in plastic bags (which are recyclable). Seems I could be subjected to a $300 fine if I don't knock it off.

They were kind enough to mail a pamphlet describing exactly what I should be doing with my soup cans and soda bottles (as if I have the time or inclination to scrape the damn wrappers off the soup cans, wash out the soda bottles, remove the plastic wrapper, lid and ring from the bottle...and on and on and on).

[stylin_geek]

My question being, if you are placing the stuff in plastic bags, who is opening up your bags of garbage and going through them? And why? Personally, I don't have time to recycle, so I don't. In the trash it all goes.

[E Rocc]

They were kind enough to mail a pamphlet describing exactly what I should be doing with my soup cans and soda bottles (as if I have the time or inclination to scrape the damn wrappers off the soup cans, wash out the soda bottles, remove the plastic wrapper, lid and ring from the bottle...and on and on and on).

In my municipality I pay $10 a month to have the trash picked up, so I'll be clintoned if I am going to pre-process the modell for them.

I also happen to know how they treated the at-one-time second largest aluminum recycling site in North America (my previous employer) when it was located there. Another reason not to cooperate.

Where paper is concerned, most paper comes from trees which are grown as a crop. Therefore, "saving trees" by using it sparingly or recycling it is like "saving corn plants" by not eating corn....or recycling it from.....never mind.

-Eric

[John Robertson]

I have fought recycling for 20 years--my neighbors, my wife, anyone who wanders into my firing zone. First of all, every three months or so, a news story breaks about how some trash hauler responsible for picking up and delivering recylcables...is just dumping them into the regular landfill. In other words, he gets a premium to treat special garbage just like regular garbage--till he's caught. Meantime, everyone who recycles gets to feel all special because they're saving the planet. Gimme a break: crushing my Pepsi cans saves the planet? People are simpletons, aren't they? This is the biggest greenie victory of our era, and it's a total lie.

The second argument is: If you want to be enviro-friendly, bury all of it. Because it takes more time, energy and resources to recycle a container than it does just bury the damn thing.

[Twinkie]

How in the world could they know what you have in
those closed plastic garbage bags? We carry our
trash to a collection center, but years ago the man
who worked there told my husband all the stuff just
got dumped in the same hole at the landfill - no one
wanted it. They were just doing it to get people used
to it. So, I quit washing tuna cans and soda cans and
told them (in my head) that I would really recycle
when they really recycled. So far, it looks like at
least here they still dump it all in one hole. We do
compost everything possible & have been for 17 yrs. &
we recycle our newspapers by taking them to an auction
house for people to wrap their auction treasures in.
We still seem to produce a lot of garbage for two
people.