Recycling — where does it go…
We recycle. We separate out the cans, plastic and glass to one bucket, newspapers in a stack, then cardboard and other paper in a third container. Since we live in the country we don’t have town/city trash pick up. So, we pay a local man to come and pick up the trash once a week. However, he doesn’t do recycling so that we take to the recycle center ourselves. It’s only a little out of our way, so it’s a very minor inconvenience.
Now, I don’t have a problem with recycling — although I threw my back out last night helping to load the car so my husband could stop after work and drop everything off at the center. What bothers me is the people who take their stuff to the recycle center but then can’t be bothered to put the newspaper in the newspaper bin, the cardboard/mixed paper in that bin, etc. I mean why bother to do it and truck it all the way there and then just throw it in the first bin you get to? They’ve already committed 99% of the effort just being there, but can’t be bothered to take that one final step.
The other thing is there’s an actual household trash area so those people who don’t have pick up of household trash can drop off their bagged garbage. You know this is coming don’t you…why do people dump their garbage either in with the recycle stuff or into the proper bin, but not bagged. Again, what’s the thinking on this.
We recycle because of our belief that we’re using up our resources too quickly and it’s bad for the environment. We feel that helping to recycle is a very minor thing that we can do that might just actually help. We follow up the recycling by buying products that use recycled materials as part of their product whether that be the container, packaging, or actually the recycled material itself (some yarn is made of recycled plastic bottles). So, I’m totally at a loss to understand the people who go through all the effort to bring their trash there, and then just dump their garbage at the recycle center for others to clean up.