recycle, renew, reuse
Posted By: cat on 2007-09-19
In Reply to: Mandatory recycling - Citychat
Have you been to a landfill recently?
I've been recycling for quite a while. Washed the cans, glass jars and we had to separate the different colors of glass, plastics, newspaper went in one pile, corrugated cardboard in another, aluminum cans were 5 cents a piece. Moved from NY where it was mandatory and you got fines for putting the wrong things out on the wrong days or mixing up garbage....they wouldn't even take it!
When we moved here to a small town in KY my sons were 10 and 12 years old and were horrified....came in and said "Mommy, the people next door are putting the all the garbage in one can!...You're not supposed to do that!" They didn't know any different....they'd been doing it since they were little. Back then I actually crossed state lines into TN bkz they at least had a bins set up at a grocery store to accept recyclables.
Moved to a very rural setting where folks actually burned all types of garbage.....tires smell the worst....and we have to breathe that air. I've seen so much garbage thrown into sinkholes and creeks.....and we've gotta drink that water.
Now the little town/county in KY has a voluntary recycling program with a coupla bins set up. It's still about 25 years behind the times, but it's better than nothing.
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