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Old 10-12-2010, 11:39 PM
 
Location: North Phoenix
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At some places I have worked (and even at home) there have been the blue recycling containers for recyclable waste. yet many many times I have found trash thrown into the regular garbage can.
I remember going to one of my 3rd shift jobs and taking recyclable garbage out of the trash that thoughtless people had just thrown in there. It drives me crazy!
Why do people do this when there is clearly a container for recyclable waste? I would always find newspapers, those huge soda cups from Circle K, gallon milk jugs,etc... I would even make a sign @ wk asking people to please recycle and people would still do it! Are people truly that lazy to walk a few more yards to the blue container to dispose of their trash?
Do people just not care about the planet?
At least at home it doesn't happen often, my kids are on board with recycling, it's usually people that come over...but then I let them know
Well, that's my rant for today.
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Old 10-13-2010, 06:04 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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My room mate is on a recycling kick.

She even wants me to recycle those things I can. But they don't come pick them up, she has to drive to bring them in.

Meanwhile, they're piling up, taking up every flat surface in the house. Eventually, she'll throw them in the back of her pickup and take them in, but the fact is? I'm really sick of looking at all that crud, and would just as soon throw it away in the dumpster we have here.
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:59 PM
 
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Why do people do this when there is clearly a container for recyclable waste?
Unless employer makes it a requirment of the work, people are going to do what they want.

Our company has a recycling policy written into the employee handbook. Not recycling according to workplace standards is an offense just like not doing anyother thing your required to do. You can be written up for putting a plastic bottle in the trash. If the employer does not make it a requirment of the job, not recycling is left up to the individual.
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Old 10-13-2010, 08:37 PM
 
Location: North Phoenix
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Okay...but why not do it if it is there? Especially if it is going to help the planet ....
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Old 10-13-2010, 08:57 PM
 
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Because people are creatures of habit, i.e., lazy.
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Old 10-13-2010, 09:38 PM
 
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We implemented the first phase of a recycling program on the complex of my job site. We had recycle trailers clearly marked and people would through trash, food waste, and anything you can think of in those trailers.

We had large recycle trash cans, clearly marked, and people will through trash in them.

People are idiots. They're lazy, and some do it out of defiance.

It's as if they say to themselves, "I'll show those peace-lovin', God hatin', planet lovin', climate change believin' little twerps. I'm throwing a hamburger in your paper bin!! Yes, I am! Make my day, you little hippie! I gots my guns, my God, and me brains! Okay, maybe not much brains, but my 4X4 dually makes up for my lack of brain power!
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Old 10-13-2010, 10:19 PM
 
Location: North Phoenix
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We implemented the first phase of a recycling program on the complex of my job site. We had recycle trailers clearly marked and people would through trash, food waste, and anything you can think of in those trailers.

We had large recycle trash cans, clearly marked, and people will through trash in them.

People are idiots. They're lazy, and some do it out of defiance.

It's as if they say to themselves, "I'll show those peace-lovin', God hatin', planet lovin', climate change believin' little twerps. I'm throwing a hamburger in your paper bin!! Yes, I am! Make my day, you little hippie! I gots my guns, my God, and me brains! Okay, maybe not much brains, but my 4X4 dually makes up for my lack of brain power!
Nice to see you on here!
Yeah it amazes me how lazy and inconsiderate some people are....
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:42 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn New York
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Because it is a pain in the neck to seperate garbage. It is just easier to throw everything out in one trash can.
The office doesn't recycle anything.

In my home, I do not want more garbage cans all over to sort garbage, all goes in 1 bag.

as far as caring about the planet...... Our Planet gives us floods, earthquakes, fires, freezing temperatures, blazing hot temperatures, blizzards, tsunamis, and a great many other things......and yet we are supposed to take care of it?????????
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn New York
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Okay...but why not do it if it is there? Especially if it is going to help the planet ....


read my loast post about the Planet, and the amazing destructive things it can and has done.....

yet by us recycling, it will make it better.....???????
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:59 AM
 
Location: North Phoenix
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Because it is a pain in the neck to seperate garbage. It is just easier to throw everything out in one trash can.
The office doesn't recycle anything.

In my home, I do not want more garbage cans all over to sort garbage, all goes in 1 bag.

as far as caring about the planet...... Our Planet gives us floods, earthquakes, fires, freezing temperatures, blazing hot temperatures, blizzards, tsunamis, and a great many other things......and yet we are supposed to take care of it?????????
A pain in the neck? Are you serious? It's that hard for you to have 2 (not "a bunch of garbage cans") separate containers one for regular garbage and one for plastics, paper,etc??
And your really justifying your actions by comparing the deeds of feeling, intelligent human beings to the actions the volatile and unpredictable forces of nature that occur on our planet??
Our lives depend on how this planet does. Right, we cannot control everything. But throwing toxic waste into rivers or buried out in the desert gives us poisoning, cutting down trees makes landslides and floods much easier to occur-just to name a few consequences of what has occurred when the planet is treated irresponsibly.
I guess you do not realize what a fragile balance we really do have between us and the planet, or I suppose you are just soooo busy it is way too difficult to have 2 containers instead of one.

Now people that live in apt complexes I understand b/c they do not have recycling bins but if you have your own home or your at a business and just don't give a da*% well, shame on you.
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