RECYCLE OR PAY THE PRICE BUDDY! Government FORCING citizens to do something they don't want to.
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To: Josh in PA
And if you don't subscribe to a newspaper or buy things in recyclable containers, you'd better start.
To: Josh in PA
Costa said failing to recycle costs the city money. It's paid $11 a ton for glass, cans and plastics and $30 a ton for newspaper, Costa said. Statewide, the average cost to take municipal trash to a landfill is about $57 per ton, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. Conveniently leaving out the costs of collecting and processing the recyclables, which is on the order of $60 a ton. An astute reporter would have either asked about that or found it through research.
To: Josh in PA
""I run a very tight program. I'm an ex-Marine and I run this like it was Parris Island," Hejmanowski said."
Here's one little wannabe Hitler that we should get rid of REAL quick....
4 posted on
08/07/2004 10:46:29 AM PDT by
RS
(Just because they're out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
To: Josh in PA
Remind me never to move to Pennsylvania.
5 posted on
08/07/2004 10:46:33 AM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: Josh in PA
If I bought it, it belongs to me.
You want it? You pay me for it.
Case closed.
7 posted on
08/07/2004 10:47:43 AM PDT by
G.Mason
(A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
To: Josh in PA
Government forces people to do things all the time. It's one reason we have such a bloated, corrupt system, and so many Democrats.
8 posted on
08/07/2004 10:49:42 AM PDT by
The Libertarian Dude
(Why, if we can just pass a few more laws, we can ALL be criminals! - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)
To: Josh in PA
Mandatory recycling is slavery (and government make-work).
You know when recycling makes economic sense when private entities are willing to pay you enough for your recyclables to make it worth your trouble.
9 posted on
08/07/2004 10:51:46 AM PDT by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: Josh in PA
Trust me, it's not that bad once you get used to it. I lived in Germany for three years (Army) and was forced to recycle. Now it feels wierd when I have to use a regular garbage can at a place where there isn't a special place to put recyclables.
It's easy and it actually does help. It saves money too.
12 posted on
08/07/2004 10:55:52 AM PDT by
rivercat
(Welcome to California. Now go home.)
To: Josh in PA
Wow! I thought I was the only one who believed that forced recycling was a scam forcing me to do the work of the sanitation department.
13 posted on
08/07/2004 10:59:50 AM PDT by
raybbr
(My 1.4 cents - It used to be 2 cents, but after taxes - you get the idea.)
To: Josh in PA
Move to the country and burn your trash. Do your part to contribute to global warming as I do.
15 posted on
08/07/2004 11:05:24 AM PDT by
Piquaboy
To: Willie Green
Another "Pittsburgh is Hell" Ping!
16 posted on
08/07/2004 11:05:58 AM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: Josh in PA
First it was sold as everybody doing their part to "save the environment." Now the volunteer days are over. Isn't that the way all do-gooder government programs work? Comply because you're a good person. Oh, you don't want to be a good person? Then we will make you comply!
To: Josh in PA
How comical! In most municipalities with curbside recycling they keep the aluminum cans, but other than that it just all goes in the landfill. It's just not economically practical other than the grant or matching monies to run the operation. The result is what we have now.
I asked my garbage pickup driver and also followed several of their "recyclables" trucks. I followed them right to the county landfill. They had county prison inmates taking the aluminum and all the rest went right into the landfill. It gives the soccer moms something to do though.
19 posted on
08/07/2004 11:11:23 AM PDT by
blackdog
(Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
To: Josh in PA
Government FORCING citizens to do something they don't want to.Costa said failing to recycle costs the city money. It's paid $11 a ton for glass, cans and plastics and $30 a ton for newspaper, Costa said. Statewide, the average cost to take municipal trash to a landfill is about $57 per ton, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
And for the money to boot!
22 posted on
08/07/2004 11:15:57 AM PDT by
EGPWS
To: Josh in PA
"If I find a recyclable item in your bag, I leave you with a warning subject to a $600 (maximum) fine," he said. Likewise, if he finds trash in recycling. "I run a very tight program. I'm an ex-Marine and I run this like it was Parris Island," Hejmanowski said.
Oh, it would be soooooooo fun to mess with this guy. I'd be calling their office 10, 15 times a day asking how my trash should be "categorized":
"Hello? Yeah, I got this ad in the mail and it's on cardstock and I don't know if it's recyclable...should I throw it away or put it in with the newsprint?"
"Yeah, is a Wendy's hamburger wrapper recyclable, and is it metal or paper?"
"Yo, me again--do you guys want used paper towels in with newspapers?"
23 posted on
08/07/2004 11:16:37 AM PDT by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Josh in PA
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
25 posted on
08/07/2004 11:24:23 AM PDT by
Professional Engineer
(The glass is neither half full, nor half empty. It's twice as large as it needs to be.)
To: Josh in PA
If recycling paid, there would be private companies going door to door asking for your cans, bottles and newspapers.
The only items I recycle are copper and sterling. There's a recycler who actually pays me money for it.
26 posted on
08/07/2004 11:40:14 AM PDT by
sergeantdave
(Gen. Custer wore an Arrowsmith shirt to his last property owner convention.)
To: Josh in PA
I lived in Pgh for a year or so.
When I was there it was fine. Now it has reverted to the sad little place where little guys in caps and buicks cut in front of you on left turns and stop when they get on the freeway onramp.
29 posted on
08/07/2004 11:45:06 AM PDT by
freedumb2003
(I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
To: Josh in PA
I'm an ex-Marine and I run this like it was Parris Island," Hejmanowski said. Isn't there some kind of unwritten law that forbids former marines from referring to themselves as EX-marines?
32 posted on
08/07/2004 11:58:45 AM PDT by
Willie Green
(Go Alan Go!!!)
To: Josh in PA; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ..
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.
37 posted on
08/07/2004 12:05:06 PM PDT by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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