Why the Trash You Sort Isn't Getting Recycled

http://www.americanoutlook.org ^ | December 29, 2003 | Dennis T. Avery

[stylin_geek]

I found this to be rather interesting.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Triple Word Score]

Please add Triple Word Score. Thanks.

This is a great article.

And good news.

[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).

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

[farmfriend]

Great post Blake.

[farmfriend]

Consider yourself added. If you ever change your mind, this can be a high volume list, just let me know.

[Grampa Dave]

Once again, one of the drug induced pipe dreams of the Nattering Watermelon Nannies has been exposed as an expensive and wasteful failure.

[visagoth]

A couple of years ago, a business that I was acquainted with started the big office paper recycling program (which continues to this day). It made everyone feel good that they were, in some way, 'helping the environment'.

One day while taking an air-break near the loading dock (While some people take smoke break, I take air breaks to help stay awake at work), the recycling truck pulls up and started to load the discarded and sorted office paper.

I asked him what they do with it, and he replied that he takes it to the same place the other trucks do - the landfill, where it is mixed with 'normal' trash with large spike-wheeled front end loaders.

Curious, I asked, then why does your company provide recycling services if you are not recycling stuff? His answer: "We make more money on 'recycling' service that regular trash service."

[Ff--150]

AND these phony recycling programs has us paying $2.00+ a month for our planet! Sheech!!

[Great_Dame]

What do you mean? My trash isn't worth cash?

[xsrdx]

Lots of people probably misunderstood the costs and benefits.

Proudly refusing to recycle since 1966.

Recyling is a monumental waste of energy - reducing total garbage volume is the key to success.

[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.

[PJ-Comix]

People today are actually throwing away less trash (in both volume and tonnage) than in previous, less-affluent generations.

Why toss away trash when much of it can be recycled profitably on eBay?

[RightWhale]

Too often, recycling proponents focused on the aluminum or newspaper being recycled, and forgot about the fuel, manpower and other resources

All the proponents have gone. Turned out they assumed somebody else would do the work and the proponents could take a well-deserved vacation in Costa Rica for the rest of their lives.

[TroutStalker]

I quit recycling after noticing on several separate occasions that they just sent a separate trash truck around later into which the bins were dumped. Everything from here goes directly in the trash bin now.

[PJ-Comix]

When chickens, for example, are commercially processed, the beaks, claws, and innards are turned into pet food instead of going into the kitchen garbage can.

I can picture Homer Simpson drooling already.

[Great_Dame]

geeze, next thing you know, they might even consider trees to be a crop. You know, something that grows, gets harvested and then replanted? You know, the original renewable resource for almost all your needs.

[PJ-Comix]

New York City wasn’t able to dump its garbage at sea any more, and it got piled up on Staten Island. What happened?

Staten Island doubled in size???