Recycling/trash

[witeshark]

DO you think enough is being done to keep the trash accumulation under control? Is there recycling in your neighborhood?

[RedSkunk]

I was just in Maine, and you can recycle everything up there. Everything has a deposit. Here, in NY, it's only carbonated beverages. But we do recycle everything we can. But more can be done - the entire country could be recycling alot more if there were more programs set up. I'm just talking places to put recyclables next to trash cans in major cities (I hate visiting NYC because they don't have anything like this). And this effort would definitely be beneficial in the end.

[Disgruntled-Postman]

Where I live (San Diego) they supplied special cans for trash, yard waste and recycleables (sp?). It makes it really easy to recycle and most people do pretty well. I still take my extra cans to the recycling center, I make about 20 extra bucks a month from them.

I think if the government makes it easy to recycle, then people will do it. But if they have to go out of their way to a recycling center, it won't happen.

[Camarohusky]

Strange how middle America has yet to respond?

Yep. They're the culprits. Not a shred of recycling in many states there, they don't even have DEQ. In Oklahoma, recycling is as much an urban myth as parallel parking is to suburbia. Only 'Californians' recycle in the eyes of thems, and I bet Texas is worse, they probably have "uncycling" where they take fresh natural resources and throw them away just because they're Texas.

[witeshark]

At 8/10/04 12:32 AM, Camarohusky wrote: Strange how middle America has yet to respond?

Really! Coffee all?

[specimen56]

Not too sure about the rest of the UK, but here in Leicester we used to have green bags (like blaack bin bags, but green.. and for recycling stuff) which would get picked up with the other rubbish. You could recycle everything under the sun in those bags. But for some strange reason (its cheaper) our counsil has decided to only allow us to recycle very little- cardboard, so long as it doesn't have plastic attached to it... Or something stupid like that. We still use green bin bags in protest, and hthe people who pick up the nex boxes love us for it...

[fli]

At 8/10/04 12:32 AM, Camarohusky wrote: Strange how middle America has yet to respond?

Yep. They're the culprits. Not a shred of recycling in many states there, they don't even have DEQ. In Oklahoma, recycling is as much an urban myth as parallel parking is to suburbia. Only 'Californians' recycle in the eyes of thems, and I bet Texas is worse, they probably have "uncycling" where they take fresh natural resources and throw them away just because they're Texas.

You're right. I believe California has the unique program of recycling. We have special bens. One for trash (kitchen rubish... wet stuff, etc.) , the other for dry recyclable materials such paper, plastics, cans and glass, and if there is a lot of organic garden material, it is put on the street as a pile to be carried for the compost heap. Car oil is put into used milk jugs or containers, labled, and put on the street to be picked up.

I really love it. One doesn't have to heave and cram everything in one bin like before. The streets looks cleaner on trash day. I'm glad we have this program... how long has it been in place? 4 or 6 years?

[Spookshow]

Ree ci kling? lol. There is a massive program here, but NOONE except the old people (about one-in-ten at that) bother too. We have programs for almost everything but noone uses them.

[ShadowsFall]

At 8/10/04 06:00 AM, specimen56 wrote: Not too sure about the rest of the UK, but here in Leicester we used to have green bags (like blaack bin bags, but green.. and for recycling stuff) which would get picked up with the other rubbish. You could recycle everything under the sun in those bags. But for some strange reason (its cheaper) our counsil has decided to only allow us to recycle very little- cardboard, so long as it doesn't have plastic attached to it... Or something stupid like that. We still use green bin bags in protest, and hthe people who pick up the nex boxes love us for it...

Up my way in Scotland theyve got your normal bin, a paper bin, and a green bin for all garden stuff like branches and grasses. The way I see it is you may as well use the green and paper bin- it take no extra time to fill them.

[RandomNGUser]

No not enough is being done to keep it under control. Yes There is a Trash can and recycling bin in my neighbourhood.

[Camarohusky]

At 8/10/04 06:26 AM, spanishfli wrote: You're right. I believe California has the unique program of recycling. We have special bens. One for trash (kitchen rubish... wet stuff, etc.) , the other for dry recyclable materials such paper, plastics, cans and glass, and if there is a lot of organic garden material, it is put on the street as a pile to be carried for the compost heap. Car oil is put into used milk jugs or containers, labled, and put on the street to be picked up.

It's just the same in Oregon and Washington. At home in OR is was trash bin 2 red bins for recycling (we had too much shit for just one, they also dobuled as great roller hockey goals) and a green can for compost. And up here theres trash, everythnig but glass, glass and i don't know if we have yard stuff cause I lvie in a apartment. But there is not deposit on bottles, which really sucks. It's so hard to fundraise without the big $1500 boost a good weekend of can collecting can get you.

I really love it. One doesn't have to heave and cram everything in one bin like before. The streets looks cleaner on trash day. I'm glad we have this program... how long has it been in place? 4 or 6 years?

Yeah, our streets look clean except when the wind hits the empty bins. Then you just bins and trash cnas and linds littered all over the street and you have to go sort out which shit is yours.

[fli]

At 8/10/04 12:56 PM, Camarohusky wrote:
Yeah, our streets look clean except when the wind hits the empty bins. Then you just bins and trash cnas and linds littered all over the street and you have to go sort out which shit is yours.

Wow... windy. I think this is the best program. San Jose has really improved since the 1980s... It's becoming less ghetto. Schools, although not the best, its certainly better. Less teen pregnancies, etc...

Aside the recycling program, all the programs has helped San Jose improv its image on the East Side. South Side... it's trying its best, and that's all what it counts.

[Camarohusky]

At 8/10/04 04:14 PM, spanishfli wrote: Wow... windy. I think this is the best program. San Jose has really improved since the 1980s... It's becoming less ghetto. Schools, although not the best, its certainly better. Less teen pregnancies, etc...

Aside the recycling program, all the programs has helped San Jose improv its image on the East Side. South Side... it's trying its best, and that's all what it counts.

Well, since the 80's San Jose has had an enormous influx of income and upper middle class influence. But personally I place San Jose's getting better solely upon the Sharks, hehe.

[lapslf]

I read in, if I recall correctly, stupid white men, from michael moore, that there isn't any recycling at all in the US. Once they've picked up all the nicely seperated trash they throw it all together in one pile. Can't give you any proof or an article or anything, but i find it an interesting thought. I mean, has any of you in the us ever followed a garbage truck?

Over here, recycling isn't all what people think of it too. I happen to have a part time job as a garbageman this summer (low status, but it pays real good) and I see the paper and cans the willing but ignorant masses seperate from the rest of the trash being thrown in the same truck as everything else. Except for the biological trash, nothing is seperated by the local garbage service. If you want your trash recycled, you have to deliver your paper/cans/plastic/iron/etc. to a recycling center yourself.

[Camarohusky]

Well, I've been to two Oregon recycling plants, and from what I've seen, they seem to be recycling to me. Maybe hte dutch garbage men are just too stoned to tell what is garbage and waht isn't so they just throw it in the same truck. That's the sole reason pot isn't legal here. We don't like high trashmen.

[lapslf]

At 8/10/04 05:27 PM, Camarohusky wrote: Well, I've been to two Oregon recycling plants, and from what I've seen, they seem to be recycling to me. Maybe hte dutch garbage men are just too stoned to tell what is garbage and waht isn't so they just throw it in the same truck. That's the sole reason pot isn't legal here. We don't like high trashmen.

Those guys do, indeed, smoke like shit, but only tobacco. No, the real reason for the incompetent garbagemen is the fact they all wear wooden shoes, live in windmills and grow tulips.