We are asked to do our share in recycling here. A lot of places now have some form of recycling available and it is required for towns over a certain size to do something.
We have collection stations for the special recycle stuff – paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and metal cans… I do my part to recycle and have my stuff split in containers here at home then take them to the collection center. I know at times that the collections are slow or run a bit behind but in my opinion it is not ok to just dump stuff there that is not recycle. Someone else will have to clean it up or separate it. Today I took some paper and cardboard to the collection and found that the usual 2 “roll-off” containers for cardboard were down to one and it was packed full. OK I figured that I would just hold my cardboard and when they get the “roll-off” back take my cardboard by – later today or tomorrow. When I went to dump my paper in the paper container this is what I found:
The sign is pretty specific… “paper only” and even gives a picture of what it should look like… but the lazy people that think they are doing their share in recycling are fooling only themselves… It appears we , as a society, are too damn lazy to really do the right thing. Wasted effort in this one. – WD0AJG