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Do you recycle? Why don't you, if you don't? Remember, it's not about being left or right. One of the most devastating things INDUSTRIALISM has created for our country and the rest of the world is the lack of good soil to produce food.
I live in an apartment complex. While the town with town pick-up requires recycling, the apartment complex has one dumpster, a private garbage collector and does not. The same was true when I lived in MD. I haven't recycled at home in 15 years.
The problem with recycling is that, even after all these years, local governments many times don't have it right. The County where I live encourages recycling but one has to take the recycling, and other trash, to a regional compactor site. Private collection is available but those contractors typically don't do recyclables. My County also screwed up from the get go 20 years ago and pays the recycling company to haul it away rather than the other way around. The recyclables are also co-mingled which then becomes a sorting issue.
The biggest arguments for recycling are reduced costs and landfill longevity. The average household produces between 1.5 and 2.5 tons of household trash a year. Recyclables add another ton to that total, more if the recyclables have a lot of cardboard and newspapers included.
I used to not recycle before my city adopted curbside pickup for recyclables. I only recycle because of this convenience, not because I feel any altruistic duty.
But I think the OP describes a problem that goes far deeper than whether or not one should recycle. One problem is the degradation of common courtesy. No matter what you feel about recycling, the community asks you to separate your garbage from your aluminum can. Why do people have to disrespect the wishes of a community, especially over trash? Save your fights for something of consequence, and stop being childish.
I agree with this. For those that do, stop disrespecting the good wishes of a community over a issuse such as trash
There are a ton of rural communities throughout the US that don't have it.
Recycling centers are an investment for the communities they serve and though they can be profitable, in smaller communities the risk of losing money increases.
Many private companies are finding ways to make it work and so those smaller communities will eventually be served. It's just creeping along... chug -a -chug -a -chug
Makes sense. I've never lived in a small town or rural area.
Well I have curbside recycling so it really isn't a issue for me. What I found amazing is how the rest of my family has fallen in behind me to recycle.
When you start to analyze your garbage as recycling forces you to do, we are a very wastefull society!
I've found that when I really recycle everything that can be, my bin doesn't hold it all! I end up tossing recyclables the day before they come to empty my recycle bin.
I thought California required curb side recycling now (is that what La la land means? If not, sorry).
When we lived in California were required to separate our green waste, recycling, and garbage. We had 3 big cans. Here in Colorado we pay a few extra dollars/month for curb-side recycling, and always have more in that can than the garbage can.
No your absoutely right, in the I.E. that is what we have, green waste, recycling, and garbage. Does make it so very conveient. We just took our cans and bottles over the weekend, made a nice little $100.00 which came in handy. We have tons of bottles, and cans being in the Vending business. It does makes sense to do so. But if not conveient for you, i also understand.
It is, after all, all about me. I don't worry about what you do, unless it affects me personally. Live and let live.
You've heard of the Love Canal? The condition of Lake Michigan? But it's okay, it doesn't affect me personally.
So they should let serial killers run loose as long as they are not near you?
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