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HalfBee's Blog
Topic: Landfill Lamentations
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fiogf49gjkf0d With global warming becoming a major concern
Recycling education is something we need to learn
Only they gave me fourteen bins
Nothing in them but spaghettio tins
Guess the rest of them I'll use for bad CD burns
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fiogf49gjkf0d Not all recycle facilities are created equal. Almost all communities that have recycling programs accept paper and glass. Plastics are another concern. With so many types of plastics out there, it's difficult and costly to maintain facilities for all of them. Many types can't be melted down together in the same batch.... and sorting must be done by hand, which is costly and time consuming. I think it comes down to cost. Basics such as bottles are easy to sort, but if it gets any more complicated, it may not be cost effective to run the program.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Ann Arbor does not want the plastic trays from frozen dinners in the recycle bin. Not sure why, they are marked as recyleable plastic. I would be adding a bunch to cause for all the frzoen dinners I buy. Neighboring communities do take them in their recycle bins. It seen though, that the stores should take them back, so they can get a ride on the empty truck back to the distributor and back-up the chain to the manufacturer.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Mmmm... They don't make it easy 'being green', do they? Here on this coast, in this bluest of blue states that makes Cali look like Berlin in the late '30s, they don't bother with colored bins. At least not in super-rural areas like mine. They make you pay $30 per year for a 'transfer station' (read: 'dump') sticker for your car and they make you buy specially marked 'town' trash bags for $1.50 each. It's just a 'green tax'. Nothing really gets recycled. Perhaps some of you have to deal with similar foolishness.
In our case, it's actually to pay for the so-called 'Big Dig' in Boston- i.e., to buy 'Tony Soprano' a new beach house. Seems a lot more of these sorts of things were free before that started.
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