recycling? really?
Today is trash day. That means that tomorrow our local streets will be filthy. It also means that during our morning walk I got to see the exact level of stupid some folks are about what goes in the recycling bin.
First, we are lucky in that they give us two bins, one for paper/cardboard and one for metal/glass/plastic.
sigh.
As a follow-up to yesterday's rant, Karen posted a link to an article about the clean-up. The Trash was Historic Too: Workers pull an All-Nighter to Clear Spectators' Detritus. 100 volunteers and 300 Park service employees picked up trash. An average days trash is 3 tons, the 4th of July is 17 tons, this was 130 tons. Those people who left sleeping bags, hats, blankets and newspapers should be ashamed.
First, we are lucky in that they give us two bins, one for paper/cardboard and one for metal/glass/plastic.
- Putting a plastic oil jug in a cardboard box with a used tissue is not only not separating your recyclables, it's gross.
- No, your McDonald's soft-drink cup does not go in the recycle bin.
- I'm pretty sure they don't take plastic peanut butter jars, but if they do, they don't take them still half full of peanut butter (or whatever that oily substance is).
- The Entemann's donut box surely doesn't go in the metal/glass/plastic recycling bin.
sigh.
As a follow-up to yesterday's rant, Karen posted a link to an article about the clean-up. The Trash was Historic Too: Workers pull an All-Nighter to Clear Spectators' Detritus. 100 volunteers and 300 Park service employees picked up trash. An average days trash is 3 tons, the 4th of July is 17 tons, this was 130 tons. Those people who left sleeping bags, hats, blankets and newspapers should be ashamed.