Recycling, Good. Recycling Rules...Not So Much? »
Posted By lenseview 4 months, 1 week ago in NewsEntertaining, smart piece by novelist, Valerie Block, on local recycling rules maybe gone a "little" too far?It's satire, an "imagined" public notice from local gov't. But anybody whose town sometimes gets a bit demanding & specific on how we must prepare our recycled goods will probably enjoy or "get" this one...
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lenseview4 months, 1 week ago
This is satire, pretty amusing, I think. But it gets to something real. In my town, I know tons of people now who have given up recycling because the town rules change so often and are sometimes ridiculously complicated. There's a different day for boxes than for newspapers. One month you can just fold up the boxes, the next you have to cut them up. Sometimes, it seems, you can leave newspapers out without string tied around them; other times, who knows. There are limits per week on how much you can leave out, regs on the types of containers you can or must leave them in. I'm sympathetic up to a point -- the town has limited resources, I think the officials are trying. On the other hand, it can't be a full-time job to stay up to date and meet too often convoluted, even silly, rules. Anyway, thought this piece was entertaining...
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Charlson4 months ago
I, too, was a devoted recycler because of concern for our environment and saving a few dollars on our garbage collection. The rules, at first, were reasonable and made sense to me. Later the rules started to change and some were quite unreasonable and arbitrary. I then started recycling less and only put a few things I was sure they'd pick up and the rest got thrown with the regular trash.
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