[Magdalen] Recycling

[Jay Weigel]

It pretty much depends on where you live. We are in a rural area and take
our trash to the local "refuse sorting station" which is a collection of
dumpsters and truck beds for various items. S/O is pretty religious about
cardboard and plastic bags, but we're not so good about cans and such. I
haven't been able to convince him to compost, either, but the late ex was
really good at that.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> As you can see from everything so far, it varies a lot.  Ask whatever
> local person is handy.  Or just give up and throw it in the trash can.
> Those are available everywhere.
>
> Personally, for my household trash and garbage, I have a compost heap, a
> recycling center 16 miles away which burns extra gasoline unless I have
> something else to do on the same trip, a business that buys aluminum and
> other scrap metal 9 miles in the opposite direction (I could take the
> aluminum to the center, of course, but I feel it necessary for the money to
> compensate for the gasoline (who compensates the atmosphere for the
> gasoline?) since the center doesn't pay for anything, and a weekly pickup
> for "pure" trash of the types that nobody takes, that goes to a landfill.
> Black & white paper, of which there's less every year, goes to the compost
> or garden mulch, while colored pages (which contain heavy metal, which I
> don't want on my garden) must go to the recycling center.  And on and on in
> detail.  At some point, with the tangles all of this go into, I throw up my
> hands and give up, and then feel guilty for giving up.
>
> All of the above, of course, is of little or no use to someone traveling.
>
> Margaret, I admire your commitment.
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>