Recycling fail

[gnappi]

Recycling (in S. Florida) heads up.

I put a large garbage bag filled with shredded documents in the recycle bin last week, and the waste company driver took the time to write a note that bagged paper was not to be left in the bin and that it must be dumped in with the rest of the materials and walked it up to my doorway and taped it onto my front door. They not only did not take the bag of shredded paper they did not take any of the rest of the recycle material.

So this week I did as was I was instructed and dumped the shredded paper in the bin and when the hydraulic claw dumped the bin, a huge cloud of shredded material went everywhere BUT the truck!

Well, now it will go to the landfill with the rest of the garbage. Sheesh

 

[eveled]

I think you need to use a paper bag. Same with leaves.

Trash bags are no good for recycling.

 

[gnappi]

Nope, NO bagged paper.

 

[Kevin]

We have lived places before where they get upset about what's in the recycle container, but so far in Dallas nobody has ever said anything. But we just recycle normal stuff.

I did shred some papers. Few weeks ago and stuffed them in an empty Amazon cardboard box. Then into the great recycling beyond it went.

 

[Conman]

Recycle has always been a joke to make someone feel important!!

 

[hittman]

The great recycling scam ……

 

[eveled]

Nope, NO bagged paper.

The garbage bag was the issue. Paper bag is just more paper.

 

[GunnyGene]

I just burn it out back, or use it for package cushioning. Don't have any 'recycling bins' here.

 

[s4s4u]

Fire is your friend

 

[jimbo1096]

They used to have a recycling program here, but it failed so everything goes in the trashcan. Twice a year they have a big shredding festival where you can bring your stuff in. They'll throw it into the recycler, but you have to wait in line but that way It's guaranteed your personal information is secure. I actually burned up a good smoker getting rid of my saved personal documents. it melted part of the barrel and cover screen. Couldn't use it for cooking anymore.

 

[JohnL]

I burn waste paper and some cardboard in the wood stove.

 

[GasGuzzler]

What's a recycling bin? I put shredded documents in my compost. I use any organic waste from the kitchen too. Makes really good dirt for the garden.

 

[blume357]

The issue with recycling is it is not profitable and there lies the problem. we should not look at it that way but that it is practical in the very long run.
But speaking of the 'long run'... it is all really one more cosmic joke if you actually look at it from a perspective of time.... So, it takes a couple thousand years for plastic to deteriorate in a landfill.... this is just one blink of God's eye.... the real issue is at the rate we are going we are going to have to dig it all up before then anyway unless we just kill ourselves off first. Which at the rate we are going is actually more likely.

 

[pisgah]

When recycling was tried here, they made it so difficult to throw stuff away that the end result was much more dumping in every inappropriate place you can name. Took them about 6 months to cancel the whole deal, and another 6 months to clean up the mess that "recycling" had made...

 

[coach]

The local government that takes care of the trash and recycling here says the plastic bags and shedded paper jam up the equipment.

 

[Danjet500]

Our recycler says "No shredded paper". All paper must be in its original condition. My wife is a stickler for shredding documents that have our names, addresses or other personal information in it so into the landfill it goes.

 

[DGW1949]

So, would someone please explain what evil is going to happen because I don't shred, burn, or otherwise destroy every piece of paper that has my name and address on it, even though it all arrived at my residence after being passed around in public view for days?....Or what tragedy I can expect to befall me and mine should a stranger call on the phone after finding my phone number in the landfill?....And more importantly, let me know how much longer it may be before I'll be visited by these calamities?....I'm asking because in all of my 75 years of living, nothing bad has yet befallen me which originated from a landfill, or for that matter, my own trash can either. I'm afraid that after all that time, surely the end must be near. LOL.

DGW

 

[Lt92]

The great recycling scam ……

Yep...I recycle all the time...in the garbage with everything else...don't have time for this nonsense when upon review, a very small percentage of the waste is actually repurposed and usually costs more to repurpose than to incinerate.
But Prius owners may disagree

 

[Randyzzz]

Our local refuse company has more rules than I can imagine. For recycling, cardboard has to be broken down. No pizza boxes. They finally started accepting cardboard other than the common corrugated stuff. Only plastic containers that have screw on lids are accepted, but be sure to take the lids off first! And no glass!

Going to the "dump" is just as bad. You go into a building and dump your stuff on the floor and they "sort" it with a tractor. There's a list of stuff they won't accept that's as long as your arm.

I miss the good old days when you went to the landfill. Basically a big canyon that they filled with trash and buried. You'd push your stuff out, check out what everyone else chucked, and usually come home with some cool stuff. Recycling at its finest.

 

[Conman]

So, would someone please explain what evil is going to happen because I don't shred, burn, or otherwise destroy every piece of paper that has my name and address on it, even though it all arrived at my residence after being passed around in public view for days?....Or what tragedy I can expect to befall me and mine should a stranger call on the phone after finding my phone number in the landfill?....And more importantly, let me know how much longer it may be before I'll be visited by these calamities?....I'm asking because in all of my 75 years of living, nothing bad has yet befallen me which originated from a landfill, or for that matter, my own trash can either. I'm afraid that after all that time, surely the end must be near. LOL.

DGW

In the past your info was only local and was not on the WWW. Today it gets used world wide on the internet by crooks who know how to use your phone number to order products from any web site located anywhere. They can use your SSN to steal your tax refunds. They can use your credit card number to buy fur coats in Paris. At the least you are stuck getting new cards and resetting all on-line accounts! Just a pain and no one does anything about it!