Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 21, 2011

we put all our glass/paper/cans/plastic in the same recycle bin … they sort it automatically at the other end

Says the guy who knows how to pile it deep.

My development has separate bins for newspaper and then glass/plastic/cans.

Nicely done Adam “The Grapes of Trash” Newman

Ooh, low blow…trying to entice him with free coffee. Stand strong, Adam!

LOL, dante.deangelo!

we just have 2 bins per house, plastic and glass in one, all paper products in the other.

Recycling isn’t green. Reusing is the true green. Containers are delivered, so empties can go back in the same truck to be cleaned and refilled. Not a new idea. In the 1950s and 60s milk, soda and beer was handled this way. There is much less energy consumed and environmental impact doing this than there is in recycling. We have become too used to disposal and it has caught up with us. Also, how about making fuel out of tobacco and save those tax paying jobs?

Whether trash should be recycled, or land-filled, or incinerated (with or without energy generation), or shipped to Third-World-Land, or shot into space, or (fill in your own favorite) should be determined by its cost in a competitive environment that balances one side’s willingness to pay to get rid of it with someone else’s willingness to take it for whatever purpose.

But that can’t be done when the do-gooders turn trash from an economic issue into a political one, using the power of government to enforce their decision about what people should do. (After all, they’re only doing for our own good, aren’t they? So separate your cans and bottles or we’ll fine the daylights out of you!)

Of course, all the anti-capitalist, anti-business, anti-profit, anti-free-market types out there will probably disagree.

Same here. All in one recycling for our community.

The garbage company where I live lets you put all the recyclables in 1 container, but they don’t take some things, like plastic bags, so I use reusable bags mostly and when I do have plastic bags, I reuse them.

Follow the truck ans see how much of that stuff is actually ‘recycled’.