Little Rock needs more recycling.
I just don't get it. When I moved into the dorms at UAMS, I asked if there was recycling, and I was told, no, will there ever be. Okay. I guess I was spoiled at undergrad where people were chastised to no end if they didn't recycle. It was deserved considering there was a recycling bin for every square meter of the campus. I guess I was just expecting too much when I assumed that since the new College of Public Health building was built as a "green" building, that the trend would continue to the newly built dorms at UAMS.
So, yes, I regularly sort my rubbish, and then keep it until Saturday mornings where I take it to transitory recycling center by the Little Rock zoo. It's only there on Saturday mornings. Now, I'm a student, a twenty-something with no kids, no significant other. Like most people in my circumstances, I can sleep in on Saturday mornings: no classes to get up for, no kids to chase after. In fact, I need to sleep in. It's a renewing ritual of sorts. So today, I slept in until 10:00, and felt like a brand new human being, emerging from a cocoon of flannel pajamas and down comforter. I lazed around, eating brunch while reading some gross anatomy on the lower limb, drawing and naming the arterial supply to the brain, and putting in some more laundry. When I finally left at noon to do my errands--buy a new, smaller nalgene bottle, take clothes to the dry cleaners, drop off my recycling, and drop off a wedding present at a friend's house--I found that the recycling bins were already gone.
So I'm stuck with a trunk full of garbage until next Saturday morning, when I hope I can drag my sorry existence out of bed and to the recycling center.
What's sad is that is the limit of recycling opportunities here. I know of no other way to recycle all my white paper, cans of diet soda, plastic bottles, etc. When I called the LR Department of Sanitation, they just told me to use the spot by the zoo. Little Rock needs more places to recycle, it needs them at more convenient times, and UAMS needs to have more recycling.
I think I shall write a letter to the editor of the state newspaper.
So, yes, I regularly sort my rubbish, and then keep it until Saturday mornings where I take it to transitory recycling center by the Little Rock zoo. It's only there on Saturday mornings. Now, I'm a student, a twenty-something with no kids, no significant other. Like most people in my circumstances, I can sleep in on Saturday mornings: no classes to get up for, no kids to chase after. In fact, I need to sleep in. It's a renewing ritual of sorts. So today, I slept in until 10:00, and felt like a brand new human being, emerging from a cocoon of flannel pajamas and down comforter. I lazed around, eating brunch while reading some gross anatomy on the lower limb, drawing and naming the arterial supply to the brain, and putting in some more laundry. When I finally left at noon to do my errands--buy a new, smaller nalgene bottle, take clothes to the dry cleaners, drop off my recycling, and drop off a wedding present at a friend's house--I found that the recycling bins were already gone.
So I'm stuck with a trunk full of garbage until next Saturday morning, when I hope I can drag my sorry existence out of bed and to the recycling center.
What's sad is that is the limit of recycling opportunities here. I know of no other way to recycle all my white paper, cans of diet soda, plastic bottles, etc. When I called the LR Department of Sanitation, they just told me to use the spot by the zoo. Little Rock needs more places to recycle, it needs them at more convenient times, and UAMS needs to have more recycling.
I think I shall write a letter to the editor of the state newspaper.