[Kenton]

I personally take sort of a perverse pleasure in putting empty soda cans in with the general trash. Does this mean I'm bad?

[annyokie]

I think I'm bad for putting cat food cans and bottle caps in with the aluminum stuff. They just weigh the bags at the recycling place.

Thank God you can still burn your leaves here.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "I personally take sort of a perverse pleasure in putting empty soda cans in with the general trash. Does this mean I'm bad?"

I had an ongoing argument with some "Aunts" in the Navy who wanted to recycle soda cans. They insisted they go in the cardboard bins so they could get the money. I pointed out I paid full price for the cans and the cleaning crew picked the cans out of the trash each day (the cleaning crew were poor people trying to get off welfare, it was run by Goodwill industries) Yet the Government wanted the money. Geesss what pigs, I continued to throw them in the trash rather than the bins which were poorly maintained and attracted ants (aunts).

[rockrr]

you sir, are a lost soul!
(Just kidding;'}

I've told the story before, but, since I like it, I'm telling it again:
I used to work at Microsoft as a contractor doing IT support. Micro-softies tend to be the yuppie, Birkenstock types, full of the recyclers spirit (usually displacing common sense).
The cafeterias that they have on their campuses are splendid, with good food served at a modest price. At the end of the meal they provide an elaborate recycling center where you are presented with a myriad of receptacles for glass, plastic, food, paper, etc, all laid out in an illogical order. The Micro-softies are dutiful in cleaning their plates and it never ceases to amaze me how they will scurry from one can to another, back & forth, in order to dump their trash. Sometimes the brainier ones resist the obstacle course and simply hand-carry their food scraps to the appropriate can, having dispensed with their plate in an earlier operation.
Me? I just dump everything in the first can that is available.
"But, EEEWWWWWWW!" They would whine, "You're not RECYCLING!"
"No, but it all ends up in the same place." I would respond, "So why bother?"
Several times I get 'Softies to bet me (one for $25.00) that the garbage guys dumped it all into the same truck. Indignantly they would pony up the bucks, and we would walk out back where we could watch the disposal of the trash. Yep, sure enough, you could watch 'em dumping everything from the individual cans into a central hopper.

Easy money!