Posted on 04/11/2020 12:59:30 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Recyclable items are going straight to landfills during the coronavirus pandemic as area haulers move to protect workers at facilities where they say maintaining 6-foot social distancing is impossible.
Some of the waste processing and recycling work we do is labor-intensive, involving hundreds of employees working in sort lines handling materials, Alex Oseguera, a director of government affairs for Waste Managements California operations, wrote in a March 18 letter to the city of Newport Beach. While we have already instituted measures designed to protect our employees at these facilities both office staff as well as those involved with operations we have determined that due to current California restrictive or shelter in place orders, as well as quarantine requirements, we must cease operations temporarily at those facilities where we cannot implement appropriate safeguards.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Recycling (green rollout) continues in Charlotte, along with regular collection (grey rollout). But lawn waste and bulky item pickup have ceased (two additional, separate trucks are needed).
Visiting the solid waste website, citizens/subjects are told they can carry yard waste to the local dump but “charges will apply”. Also, “putting yard waste in regular garbage is illegal”.
My yard waste goes in the grey rollout...maybe even the green rollout if there’s a lot.
All the lefties crying about plastic straws, plastic bags, plastic this and that are now wearing plastic gloves
“I guess it is safe to assume that there is no recycling going on at this time... “
It was never going on anyway, other than for aluminum. They put the plastic on to ships to send to China, and then it all got dumped in the Pacific halfway there, or it got burnt for fuel once it made it there.
Nice to see them finally telling the truth.
Spanish flu Timeline... April 1918 First mention of influenza appears in an April 5 weekly public health report. The report informs officials of 18 severe cases and three deaths in Haskell, Kansas.
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