...the hell?

[sarahmichelef]

So I realized a couple of months ago that our recycling is not, in fact, commingle.  That is to say, they don't tell you that you have to sort it, but if you don't, the poor recycling guys have to do it as they load the truck.  Which just ain't right.  So we did the reasonable thing and started sorting.  We use a big 18-gallon tub with paper bags for glass, metal, and plastic, and a milk crate for paper.

Except today, somebody nicked our milk crate.  I'm irritated.

Comments

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

all of your milk crate are belong to us

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Smite them! Death from above!

[irihs.livejournal.com]

We live in a duplex. Our neighbor had never requested a recycling bin, and didn't have one. We requested one, got one, and they promptly started using it. NONONO! (Now we grab it the night before, even if it's just to put on the porch in prep for the morning.)

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Not cool! The previous owners of our house didn't have one - they said it took too much time to recycle. *baffles* I'd say that probably 1/3 to 1/2 of our household waste is recycled - and that proportion will improve once TRex is out of disposable butt-coverings. It'd be even more awesome if we were composting, which I may decide to do sometime in the not-too-distant future.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

One of the advantages of living in the country. We recycle plastics, metals, glass and newspaper. Organics go on the compost pile. Non-recyclable paper gets burned. We go to the dump maybe once a month for the rest. Smell? What smell, we compost organics, the rest doesn't smell.
-- Dagonell

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

The city of Buffalo recycles all non-dirty paper, which is fantastic, as that's a really high proportion of the stuff that goes out of our house on a weekly basis. Despite living in the city, we could put a compost heap in on the side of the garage pretty easily. At the moment, though, we don't do enough gardening to actually USE the goodness that we would generate.

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

Not long after we moved into Holyoke, someone nicked our recycling bin. I went to the DPW, which provides the bins, and asked for a replacement. The lady there gave me two. ;-)

We use one for containers, and one for paper.

We've had our trash bin nicked, although that may have been because it was windy that day and it may have ended up a couple of blocks over. We've also had our trash bin run over a couple of times (not in the road -- on the tree margin).