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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:23:10 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/4/2006 10:00:12 AM EDT
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Around here, iirc, there's a surcharge on your water bill for recycling, since they figure you're rinsing out the can and bottles. I can't swear that this is fact, but it's something that's sticking in my head. Either way, I have a bunch of stuff in the garage piled on top of my recycle bin.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:03:29 AM EDT
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I got all kinds of crap on mine. It's probably broken and I'll have to pay for it.  When they pay me to recycle, I'll recycle. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:01:12 PM EDT
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Truth is, I don't mind recycling, but when something is legislated by the city, I get a bit pissy about it. Especially since sorting garbage seems easier to at the dump/processing plant ranther than by the end user. The reason, of course, is that the end user can be forced to do it for free under penalty of fine... 
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:03:11 PM EDT
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You're my hero.
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Posted: 4/4/2006 4:49:30 PM EDT
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We just put all our trash in grocery bags and throw it out the window on the highway; cuts down on the headaches.
Exactly, when they make it so difficult, or so expensive, this is exactly what people will do. There was a news story about an elementary school kid who followed the garbage... they were making them separate food from paper from plastic in the school cafeteria. Turns out it was all dumped in one truck, all together. So why recycle? And a lot of places are on the "recycle" bandwagon, but don't actually do it. They have found they don't have the market for a lot of the trash. |
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Posted: 4/4/2006 11:53:33 PM EDT
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If recycling actually made sense, either in terms of saved resources or saved landill space, then private companies would pay you to do it.
The fact that they don't means you are wasting time and effort, while your taxes are increased because the city loses money on recycling, just to make idiotic hippes happy. |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 3:34:54 AM EDT
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Since you expressed your reservations about the program, I'll try to get some figured for you. |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 3:51:34 AM EDT
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I distinctly remember reading that Michigan's Bottle Deposit program ($0.10/per) routinely operates with an annual LOSS of $6 Million Dollars, mostly from fraud.  |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 6:10:33 AM EDT
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What money earned from recycling? In my city the recycling is highly "successful" in that a huge amount of garbage is diverted into recycling. Guess what. There is a $10 or so surcharge to pay for it all. The more sucessful the program is, the higher is the surcharge. If recyling was really saving natural resources, there would be a recycling discount on my bill, not a surcharge. If recycling actually made economic sense, you wouldn't need laws mandating it. |
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