Recycling

VR3

My trash guy just threw my recycling in with the trash.... hmmm

Is this normal?

tonyb

Depends on where you live. Some places have a seperate truck to collect it. Others, who knows what they do. You know they aren't seperating it at the dump though.

Joe Humbert

Around here, that's what some of the trash contractors do... throw the recycling in with the trash, and it doesn't get sorted later on. We take ours to a local recycling center, at least it appears to be recycled, there.

Willow

I'd say not normal.

We have our blue bins for plastics and such, black for paper and green bins for our household composting waste. If I ever saw the garbage guy put my recycle in his truck I'd be calling the city for sure.

Ern Dog

Doesn't sound right to me. I'd find out for sure.

Since I live in the mountains, I need to drive into town to drop off all recycling.

nadams

Our town used to run the curb-side pickup recycling program through the garbage haulers. They'd pick up on different days (and with different trucks). However, it was found out that all the trucks were going to the dump, and they were collecting the recycling fees without doing any recycling. Now the town uses a recycling company to do the curbside pickup. It costs more, they pick up less frequently, and my garbage bill went up instead of down

But then, the garbage haulers had to pay 10's of 1000's of $$$ in fines for not appropriately disposing of the recycling, so I guess it stands to reason that cost would go on to me.

brettw22

there are communities that take the garbage and it's people's job to actually pick through the stuff to pull out the recyclables........tell me that job wouldn't suck.....lol.....

dkg999

I'd put one of those GPS trackers in your recycling stuff, then track it all the way to the dump while filming it all for uTube. Have the Dirty Jobs guy come dig up the GPS tracker and your recycling stuff out of the dump.

VR3

Recycling guys came a few hours later...

Now granted I had approx 35 70 gallon trash bags at the road - a 8 ft by 6ft by 4ft pile of wood - a 2x2x2 pile of sheetrock and a small pile of misc trash

Maybe it confused him that I had three bags of trash in a green box labeled recycling and another bag on the other side of it

Hmmm

ShinAce

Willow wrote: »

I'd say not normal.

We have our blue bins for plastics and such, black for paper and green bins for our household composting waste. If I ever saw the garbage guy put my recycle in his truck I'd be calling the city for sure.

You live in Canada. Of course recycling with trash isn't normal.

May I suggest you live in, say, Richmond Virginia for a few weeks to see how they roll. When I was staying there, everything went in the trash. Cans, bottles, paper, etc... I felt like Iron Eyes Cody.

p.s. Green bin for compost is rubish! Let's just compost our own crap! I don't need to pay for this garbage! I can't stress how 'stupid' we are at being 'progressive'. Let's try recessive. Hand down clothes, have a compost heap, and burn your furniture in a pit instead of leaving it for garbage pickup.

audiobliss

Holy crap batman, did you get a picture of that pile at the street???

madmax

I'd call the police and report it as stolen.

Conradicles

I live in Newton and we have a separate recycle truck...

Rivrrat

Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »

Recycling guys came a few hours later...

Now granted I had approx 35 70 gallon trash bags at the road - a 8 ft by 6ft by 4ft pile of wood - a 2x2x2 pile of sheetrock and a small pile of misc trash

Maybe it confused him that I had three bags of trash in a green box labeled recycling and another bag on the other side of it

Hmmm

If that were here, anything not in our rolling trash or recycling totes would've still been sitting there after he left.

Rev. Hayes

Often when a pile is that big it is reported to the DPW by the normal pickup guys and they send a separate truck. Could be they sent a special run to you with instructions to "pick up everything." I dunno....

But as far as trashing the recycling, it always blows my mind when at the end of a night at a bar you so often see the staff carry out a bag filled with only beer bottles and throw it directly into the dumpster. I've asked some of the tenders and they say it's normal practice. But If I pull up to the dump with a load in my pickup and they see a water bottle or soda can the attendants make me separate. ??????????

TECHNOKID

In Gatineau QC, the recycling has improved year after year.

We started with the single bin for recycling, then came the large blue bin, then in the summer we had trucks picking-up greens (grass, branches and so on). Now we have the brown bin for food waste. We also have locations to drop of the old electronics (some of it is even resold in store promoting youth employment).

Different trucks are doing the pick. My only concerns is that we throw everything in the blue bin (paper, cardboard, plastic and glass) and this is dumped in the truck and compressed. How in hell can they appropriately separate when you consider that after compressing there is broken glass? I often wonder if at the end of the day this stuff isn't simply trashed.

VR3

Where I live (NC) everything is fought tooth and nail - not many people I know recycle - but me and my roommate have made a great effort recycling any cardboard, plastic, glass - really anything with that symbol on it...

The amount of trash I have produced the last few months have been ridiculously -

Ive easily disposed of over 120 70 gallon trash bags of debris from the house, probably over a ton of wood and Sheetrock -- not to mention any other random trash found along the way....

They are usually very good about picking up - but they want all the nails bent down... separated and laid out neatly