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Poquito Loco

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:19:53 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:07:12 -0400, KC wrote:

On 7/23/2014 9:29 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:25:18 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:32:01 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:23:06 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:49:08 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

Hopefully this time Snottie won't build with materials scrounge at his local dump.

You got something against recycling? ;-)

My county gives us two bins for our recycling, one for paper and the
other for bottles, cans and jugs.

We do all in one here but I think they just pull out the metal and
burn the rest in the waste to energy.

My wife asked them about glass, plastic and metal seperation and they
said they didn't care. When she asked they had pallet after pallet of
seperated material awaiting someone to come and pick up what they
wanted. They couldn't sell it because nobody wanted it.

The one thing she did learn was that the recycling centers hate the lids
of cans because they can affect the machinery.

They gripe the most here about plastic bags. They are certainly
recyclable but they gum up the sorting machine. If you shoved them
down inside a plastic bottle it would not be a problem.

Here we are told to place in the recycle bin only plastic with the number 1 or 2 in the little
triangle. Plastic bags have no triangle , so don't go in the bin. Most grocery stores have recycle
bins for plastic bags.

The fact is sorting at curbside is a waste of time... it's all put
together before it's all sorted again

Personally I think we should separate the metal from the stuff that
burns and throw glass in the trash (here).
That is where it ends up anyway.

Giving the metal to a scrapper is probably more efficient and cheaper.
I do if it is anything but aluminum cans that the waste company has a
market for.
In a lot of places recycling is worse for the environment than simply
throwing it away.
How can it possibly make sense to truck paper and plastic 1000-1500
miles to recycle it with diesel going for $4 a gallon?
They just make a show of trucking some away to make the greenies feel
good. I am glad they burn most of it here to make electricity.

Here they ask us to clean out the food before throwing in the bin. Ever wonder how much water it
takes to clean out a peanut butter jar?