On Sep 4, 2006, at 22:20, Martha Krieg wrote:
Here they also collect waste every week and recycling only every other week. But I think the reason is that they used to collect both every week, but did not find enough recycling put out to make it worth the cost of the truck and people - many people don't recycle at all, and even those of us who do don't always have a large amount.
It's only worth while in sizeable towns, with apartment houses or high-density single dwellings. Here, we separate our recyclable trash (food waste goes into the compost, as do garden clippings) and take it to the recycling center, which serves all of the city and a part of the county. Only "trash trash" gets collected (twice a week, and we only put out a can about once every second week, because of scrupulous recycling). The rest -- paper, glass, tin, aluminium, two kinds of plastic -- we haul out, on our way to run other errands in that direction (saves on gas, to "link" errands").
My son's street gets recyclables collected twice a week, in colour-coded bins, no less. But he lives in San Francisco, not "Lextropolis" :)
If I could cut the charity mailings in half, it would help even more!
My personal peeve too :) I send a charity a wee bit and they promptly waste it on sending a mailing asking for more. At which point, I get so teed off, I don't send any more. But do they give up? Not until several years have gone by and my wee bit has been used up at least three times -- now they have a negative balance from me. So, to counteract it, they telephone...
At least, the government does not indulge in such nonsense, and the politicians only once every 2 yrs... :)
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