Why RECYCLE your trash if others PROFIT? (Pittsburgh, dollars, separation)

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

What he's saying is that recycling that you pay extra for is done with garbage that isn't separated into those various cans.

It's happening even for people like me that don't have recycling (I'm rural).
You're paying for the same thing I get for free
And I don't need 7 different colored cans either !

I dont pay extra for recycling. I own several houses, I'm unaware of one of them which receives a seperate bill for recycling.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by pghquest

I dont pay extra for recycling. I own several houses, I'm unaware of one of them which receives a seperate bill for recycling.

If you are in the city you pay the city for your garbage..right ?
It's one bill.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

If you are in the city you pay the city for your garbage..right ?
It's one bill.

Actually no, we privately contract out for trash here, the city picks up the recycle stuff seperate.

We also have the choice, which I routinely do, of driving the recycled material to a local center and dropping it off.

[Roaddog]

You don't have to, you can recycle yourself or not at all but it is a good thing to do.

[Kreutz]

I know for a fact my municipality does not sort regular trash.

They sell the recyclables which keeps the tax drain burden down.

So I indirectly save my $ still.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Roaddog

You don't have to, you can recycle yourself or not at all but it is a good thing to do.

Actually in many areas of the country, you are required to, by law to recycle..

I'm still not sure why the OP cares if someone is making money off of recycled trash..

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Kreutz

I know for a fact my municipality does not sort regular trash.

They sell the recyclables which keeps the tax drain burden down.

So I indirectly save my $ still.

I dont know very many places that do sort regular trash, but you would think they would just pick it all up and pay someone to sort it because I'm assuming that would be cheaper than the cost of gas, trucks, and labor of driving around seperate trucks..

[pch1013]

Here in SF, the private waste-management companies that are contracted to collect recyclables are supposed to apply the money they earn from reselling curbside recyclables toward lowering garbage rates.

Unfortunately, a large part of that waste stream gets diverted by thieves -- some homeless, some who drive vans in from the suburbs -- who grab the cans and bottles and take them to recycling centers before the big trucks arrive.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by pghquest

Actually no, we privately contract out for trash here, the city picks up the recycle stuff seperate.

We also have the choice, which I routinely do, of driving the recycled material to a local center and dropping it off.

And the city doesn't charge you ?
If not they you truly are getting "free" recycling.

Doesn't work that way in all cities though.

I found that out when I moved from the city to out in the county and contracted privately for the same garbage company the city used. Pretty big difference in price. I would have thought that I would be paying more because I'm one household and that the city got a good deal due to quantity of households.
But it was just the opposite.

[Spaten_Drinker]

Recycling is for hippies. I dump it all in the same container. Let someone else sort it out.