Garbage Pickup Cost (design, station, donation)

[notdancingqueen]

Originally Posted by jja100

global warming BS is just a fairytale

Erm....yeah. Feel free to ignore the preponderance of evidence. Careful, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster will bite you.

[notdancingqueen]

Originally Posted by Valerie C

One thing that I question is (and maybe Bryfry has some knowledge on this one) if recycling items are co-mingled (glass/cans/plastic) are they *really* getting recycled or are they all going to the same place, and they're just using 2 trucks to make us believe that we're really doing anything?

Depends on the equipment the town uses to separate/process. In Wilmot we must separate most stuff (paper, cans/plastic, aluminum/glass -- I think that's the division) but when I was in maryland my town had just recently switched to a system where you can combine it all in one container -- they had new/better equipment that didn't require you to separate. My ILs in PA can only recycle certain items -- only paper, glass and cans.

jackie

[jja100]

Originally Posted by notdancingqueen

Erm....yeah. Feel free to ignore the preponderance of evidence. Careful, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster will bite you.

Evidence is currently coming from 50% of the scientists... the other 50% do not agree. Therefore this leads me to believe that they both don't know what they are talking about.

PS. According to the global warming czar Al Gore... ice ages are products of global warming.

Our most recent ice age was 11000 years ago. And we did not have cars and automobiles back then so it must be the methane gas from the farts of mammoths that caused global warming? Give me a break... the day Al Gore and the rest of those Hollywood liberal elites stop flying around in their private jets and powering 12000 square foot homes, then I will take their statements more seriously.

[notdancingqueen]

Originally Posted by jja100

Evidence is currently coming from 50% of the scientists... the other 50% do not agree. Therefore this leads me to believe that they both don't know what they are talking about.

The majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is primarily caused by human activities. The idea that it will continue if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced has been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and others explicitly use the word "consensus" when referring to this conclusion.

Originally Posted by jja100

PS. According to the global warming czar Al Gore... ice ages are products of global warming. Our most recent ice age was 11000 years ago. And we did not have cars and automobiles back then so it must be the methane gas from the farts of mammoths that caused global warming? Give me a break

I have never heard him -- or anyone -- say that ice ages are a product *solely caused* by human-induced global warming. The fact that we had ice ages long before we had human induced global warming doesn't really tell us anything.

We've veered a ways off from the original thread topic, though. I am happy to continue our discussion if you wish to start a separate thread but this thread probably isn't the place to further discuss global warming.

Jackie

[Brave Stranger]

Global warming is a leftist scam. I'm old enough to remember the ice age scam from the 70s....same people.

[Suzet2262]

Stick to the topic at hand, Garbage Pick up Cost....That doesnt include Global Warming.

[BF66389]

I learned an interesting recylcing fact at the Hollis dump the other day:

Most towns recycle glass into uses other than new bottles (for example, in road materials). The reason? Certain paints (the blue on a Corona bottle for example) contains lead which would render the entire batch unusable for food storage bottles. Obviously there aren't a lot of such painted bottles- so when spread out through an entire batch of road materials its just like the trace lead that exists everywhere; but any lead is too much for new bottles.

[maestramommy]

I believe it was last week I read in the Bedford Journal that our current recycling process is new. What's new is that you bring all of your plastic, glass, and aluminum cans and bottles together, and dump it all in one bin. There is a machine that sorts it out and takes it to recycling facilities in Manchester I believe. I can't remember all the details, but the way they are doing it now is supposed to save the town money. Don't know how they were doing it before.

The Bedford transfer station is quite a sight. I went for the first time this weekend. There are different buildings for trash, recycling, clothes, and there is even a 2nd hand store. That day there were HS students who would offer to take your trash out of your car for you if you wanted, and there were political candidate posters everywhere. Small town life is definitely different

[WannaComeHome]

yep, lots of social life happening at the Dump (who'd have thought it?)!!! And just think, all this gets missed if you just have some anonymous truck pick it up for you. I like the idea of a second hand store.

[Valerie C]

I would LOVE it if our town dump had a 2nd hand store!! I just cringe to throw away perfectly good things because it's out of style, or outgrown, etc. I always have every intention of bringing things to the goodwill store (toys, books, clothes, etc) but really, getting there is a hassle. At least if I could bring things to the "dump store" I'd be going there anyway... ROTFL, I can hear it now "So Val, where'd you get that cool retro lamp?" "Oh, from the Dump Store!"

Originally Posted by WannaComeHome

yep, lots of social life happening at the Dump (who'd have thought it?)!!! And just think, all this gets missed if you just have some anonymous truck pick it up for you. I like the idea of a second hand store.