Holiday Garbage
It's insane. My street looks like a scene from Sanford & Son. I know that jokers have a lot of trash from Christmas, but those boxes can be cut down and recycled. We've been given a separate box for recycling but boxes and bows still end up on the curb while the recycle box stays snug against its house. I'm not sure how the post-lady will deliver mail today. She'll have to drive like Twisted Metal to make it through the neighborhood. It's 2008 (nearly 09), who doesn't recycle? I'm guessing most people don't.
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My recycling drive will take metal, paper and plastic but will not do glass. So I can recycle my bottlecaps, but the beer bottles just keep stacking up. \r
Sad thing is, since being sucked into Fallout 3, I've been hording my bottlecaps too. :-)
there's still a lot of places without curb side recycling... we don't have it. I have to drive out of my way (albiet 5 minutes) to get to the one drop of location in my small town. \r
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I've never managed to find cardboard recycling but then again there's almost always someone in the family that's gearing up for a move so boxes get reused instead :)
I think we have a pretty awesome recycling program in my city. They pretty much recycle everything, and we don't even have to sort, just throw it all into the \"blue bin\". I think the only restriction is items cannot be longer than 1 meter (about 3.3 feet).\r
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I have 3 blue bins, they were all full up before christmas day was over.... Then filled up 3 clear blue recycling bags (holds as much as the bins). The wife took half that to a local drop-off recycling area (that's all that would fit in our trunk, lol). The rest will be picked up from our house on Friday.\r
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I find it odd that there are still cities in Canada/USA that don't have free recycling programs.
We don't recycle, we used to but we've moved to a new district and the recycling program here is a fucking joke. They don't provide you recycling bins here, you hae to go buy one for $80 at Lowes or Home depot or whatever. If you put the recycling out on the curb in a cardboard box, they still won't even take it. Bastards. And even at that, the maximum size of the recycling bin can only be like 60 gallons i think it is, so it's significantly smaller than the garbage bin.\r
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So we just don't bother any more. It all goes in the trash. Compared to where we used to live, we recycled probably 70%.\r
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My town has a big dumpster for recycling paper stuff. I've been there 3 times since Santa's delivery, and I'm not done yet. We also have curb pick up for weekly recycleables. In PA, that's a service we pay for, either thru tax revenue, or by being billed directly by the hauler, depending on location. Since my wife thinks I empty too many beer cans, I'm happy to pay someone to take them away before she has a chance to count them.