barbie gee <
boo...@nosespam.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Cydrome Leader wrote:
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>> barbie gee <
boo...@nosespam.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Mark Anderson wrote:
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>>>> I found this Washington Post article rather interesting. The article is
>>>> "premium" content on Trib's site even though they didn't write it.
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/american-recycling-is-
>>>> stalling-and-the-big-blue-bin-is-one-reason-why/2015/06/20/914735e4-
>>>> 1610-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm about to put a sign up on my place with proper instructions as to
>>>> how to recycle after receiving an orange sticker of shame from some do-
>>>> gooders throwing trash in my recycling bins because they are just too
>>>> lazy in the mind to learn what is and what isn't recycling. Like stop
>>>> signs where everyone chooses which ones are worthy of stopping for,
>>>> people think they can form their own opinions as to what is recyclable.
>>>>
>>>> Hangers can be reused, thus they must be recyclable. Bzzzt. Kitchen
>>>> waste is good for compost, good for the environment, recycling is good
>>>> for the environment, therefore kitchen waste is recyclable. Ditto for
>>>> clothes, wood, stryofoam, aluminum foil, and on and on and on. The
>>>> amount of crap I'm pulling from the blue bins makes me wonder what is
>>>> going into blue bins behind buildings where no one gives a shit --
>>>> perhaps 90% of buildings around here.
>>>>
>>>> Someone needs to downsize recyclables and get big simple campaign like
>>>> posters we can set next to the bins. Break down your cardboard. No
>>>> more glass. Aluminum cans and plastic with the numbers, paper, and
>>>> that's it. Keep It Simple Stupid.
>>>>
>>>> The green trucks picking up these recyclable probably don't give a shit
>>>> either. They get paid and without this program the city blue trucks
>>>> would be picking up everything like in the old days. Perhaps they
>>>> should.
>>>>
>>>> end of rant ....
>>>
>>> oh, be my guest and rant away.
>>>
>>> My rant regards those feckless hipsters in the 6 flat next door, who,
>>> instead of petitioning their landlord for a recycling program in their
>>> building (as city mandated but not enforced), they were filling up my blue
>>> bin, the neighbors across the alley, and up and down the alley as well.
>>> We left notes, asking them to please stop, but they are lazy, so a whole
>>> bunch of us neighbors now have our blue bins tucked away behind our gate,
>>> or in our garage. Someone must have called the city (maybe one of those
>>> lazy kids?) and they now have two city bins next to their always
>>> overflowing Groot dumpster. Total misuse of the program, but at least
>>> their not filling up our Blue Bins leaving us compliant property owners
>>> and small building tenants with nowhere to put our own recyclables.
>>>
>>> The whole system is crap.
>>
>> So you're angry people used the recycle bins provided by the city, then
>> somebody ordered more and you're happy?
>>
>> What's the problem here?
>
> NO, I"M NOT HAPPY.
>
> Those freeloaders in the apartment building are using a service that they
> are NOT entitled to. Their lazy asses and their lazy landlord should have
> a recycling dumpster provided by Groot, just like their trash dumpster.
just tell them to stop recycling and throw everything away in their
commercial dumpsters.
problem solved.