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by: squirtismyboy Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 27, '15 10:33pm  
Waste management distributed these small recycle bins and no notice of when they'd be collected. I've participated in recycling programs in other cities and know how they work but I'd like to know when to have it ready for them to collect.
 
Oh yeah, this is in hunters ridge 4951
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fcabanski Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Jan 27, '15 11:57pm  
Did you try calling WM? 4951
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squirtismyboy Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 4:40am  
Did you try calling WM?
 
@fcabanski:
 
No captain obvious. I got home at 8pm and found this thing. The website didn't say anything and it was past their office hours. 4951
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Mahm Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 6:51am  
They started this program in our neighborhood a few months ago. We received information in the mail prior to the day they dropped off the containers. Maybe you missed your letter or it got lost in the mail. Each neighborhood has one pickup day per week. They accept cardboard boxes (broken down), glass, plastic, paper, aluminum and tin cans, rinsed. We peel labels off of water bottles and separate the lids. No pizza boxes or other food-soiled items. They will sort everything for you. Just place it loosely in the container. A truck will pick it up and automatically dump it, so it needs to be on the curb easily accessible to the truck on your pickup day. Ours says by 7 am. If all else fails, watch to see when your neighbors set theirs out the night before. 4951
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Stealth83 Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 7:12am  
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tatertot58 Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 7:34am  
The energy spent to recycle is more than the cost to produce new.  I don't get it.

So you would rather have things sit in a landfill that takes years and years and years to degraded.  Example...a cigarette butt can take between 2 and 10 years,  Just think how long that tin can or plastic bottle takes.
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tatertot58 Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 7:35am  
Waste management distributed these small recycle bins and no notice of when they'd be collected. I've participated in recycling programs in other cities and know how they work but I'd like to know when to have it ready for them to collect.
 
@squirtismyboy:  I am in Hunter's Ridge and received a detailed letter on Monday.  Be happy to scan a get a copy to you...
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 7:40am  
The energy spent to recycle is more than the cost to produce new.  I don't get it.
 
@Stealth83: Not entirely true, 
Aluminum requires less than 5% of the energy to create the same thing from newPlastic requires only 10% of the energy needed to create from newPaper requires 60% of the energy as creating from new, but with the added benefit of reducing tree consumption and increased CO2 processing of the atmosphere Glass requires 70% of the energy that creating new requiresBut Glass, Aluminum and Plastic do not break down in a landfill, which recycling also helps, not filling our landfills as fast.That brings us to the cost of collecting, and processing recycled items.That depends on the efficiency of recycling program in place.Some programs use more energy to collect and recycle than creating from new.BUT the measure of the cost of recycling does not usually contain the benefits of loss of landfill space (mostly a future problem), trees not being cut down and their processing of CO2, or alternate things, as another example;A ton of soda cans made with recycled aluminum saves an amazing 21,000 kilowatt hours by reducing the virgin bauxite (bozite) ore that would have to be mined, shipped, and refined.So it's is hard to say the energy spent doesn't justify recycling, on that one fact alone. 4951
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Mahm Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 7:42am  
The energy spent to recycle is more than the cost to produce new.  I don't get it.
 
@Stealth83:
 
I read this article a while back and your comment made me remember...
 
Being Green
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future
generations."She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day.Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
So they really were recycled.But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
 
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
 
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
 
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
 
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
 
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart young person...
 
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to **** us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced know it all who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
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squirtismyboy Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 9:27am  

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>> Waste management distributed these small recycle bins and no notice of when they'd be collected. I've participated in recycling programs in other cities and know how they work but I'd like to know when to have it ready for them to collect.
 
@squirtismyboy:  I am in Hunter's Ridge and received a detailed letter on Monday.  Be happy to scan a get a copy to you...
 
@tatertot58:
 
I went to their website and found some good info on there. I'll just keep my eyes open for when I should put it out. Thanks anyway 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 28, '15 9:39am  
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