Teach me how to recycle

Parts of North Carolina haven't awakened to this recycling concept, Buck-Dub. Fully get where TBF is coming from.

 

Never said I didn't, too, Sam. Just didn't want to give the impression that the South is devoid of ... recycling centers. They're around, just not everywhere.

 

Sure, there are. I've just never lived around any of them.

And, now I live in a city of 120K that doesn't have a curbside program.

 

In summary, entirely too much of the South still thinks and treats its region like a giant dumpster.

(I knew you were aware of the difference, Buck-Dub, but it's stunning how slow the South has been to catch on to recycling. Shouldn't be a proud moment for natives, but I digress ... )

 

Window envelopes - those envelopes where you address shows through a window instead of being printed on the envelope itself - are generally not recyclable.

 

I've got curbside recycling every other week and the county provides me with two garbage can sized containers - one for paper and one for plastic/glass/aluminum.

Three or four times a year the county does a county-wide electronic waste recycling where you bring all of the electronics items you want to dispose of (TVs, CD players, computers, etc.) to a central location. They also do household hazard chemical recycling (paint, bleach, motor oil, etc.) three or four times a year as well.

 

I wish the whole thing was more standardized and consistent. I collect all my empty pop cans in the cardboard box they come in, and for some reason, this week they took the cans, but left the cardboard box.

 

""My first dollar! Thanks to you, Lisa. And our hemp-smoking friend: Shine on, you crazy diamond!"

 

NEMJ just busted the Tupelo "recycling" program that was dumping portions of material brought for recycling in the dump.

 

Really? Ouch. I'll have to look that up.

That's part of the recycling problem in the South (although this may be someone padding their pocket) ... it's just too expensive for these small towns.

The town in which I grew up and got my newspaper start had a recycling program that went tits up within a couple of years because it was too expensive.

 

We can now put banana peels, orange skins, vegtable peels, etc., in our yard waste recycle container. It's awesome. Yard waste, trash and regular recycling picked up curbside every Monday, rain or shine, every week of the year. It's one of the rare instances where privatization has worked outstandingly.

Our little family of 3 is down to about two grocery sacks of garbage every week and about half that once allergy season ends.

 

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