Why did they not pickup our Recyclables? (recycling, paper, garbage) - Green Living -Sustainable living, ecology, conservation, local agriculture - City-Data Forum

Jackyfrost01 · 03-23-2009, 11:36 AM

The truck drive right past. They saw the stuff and didn't pick it up.

We spent all weekend picking stuff up around our neighborhood. They took it last week. This week they just looked and drive by.

Its all bottles and cans in the blue bin and grocery bags. Its real obvious they are recycles.

I even sorted them. Why didn't they take em?

What do I do with it now? Do I drive down and drop em off personally? Was it too much stuff at once?

Do I just throw it in the trash as regular garbage now?

My motivation for this really fell today after I saw that. I mean wtf?

PNW-type-gal · 03-23-2009, 11:54 AM

Call the trash company up and ask. Since we don't know where you live, what company you have or what the rules are, we can't answer.

Jackyfrost01 · 03-23-2009, 11:59 AM

We've only been doing this about 2 weeks. I didn't know there were different rules everywhere. All I knew was to put the recylables in a blue bag or container on the curb on the pick up days.

PNW-type-gal · 03-23-2009, 12:31 PM

Well, some municipalities don't even collect recyclables, just trash. Some require you to use their specific bins for each type (a separate bin for glass, for plastic, for paper), some want everything but glass put in one bin, some want everything that's recyclable in a single recycling bin. Some places pick up trash weekly (or twice a week or biweekly) but pick up recyclables only once or twice a month.

joe moving · 03-24-2009, 06:02 PM

amazing, this is how most of the country lives. we have been recycling for probably 20 years here.

wonder how much $ you could make picking up recycling at $.05 per glass bottle...

BrokenTap · 03-26-2009, 02:46 AM

Where I live (a very remote,small town) we have recycling door-to door pickup, but it is only happens on the first Wednesday of the month. Most towns that I know of typically have 1 per month recyclable day. I'd call your town up and ask.

Barking Spider · 03-26-2009, 05:31 AM

OH course a call to the trash company will answer your questions. I know when we had curbside pick, they only picked up the blue bin every other week. I could not for the life of me remember which week it was.
When they raised the rate, we decided to do it ourself. We now just save it all up and take it to the recycle center when the bins are full (it's on the way to just about every errand we run).