"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

We are all supposed to recycle to save the environment and reduce waste. Why do they make it so difficult? We were recycling long before it was mandatory. As time went on, it became more and more difficult.

Take for example if you want to trim some bushes or a tree in your yard. You end up with this magnificent pile of odd shaped branches. Before you can put them in the garbage, I'm sorry before you can put them out on recycle day, you have to cut them and tie them in these neat little bundles 4 x 4. That's great, but branches don't tie up well in neat little square bundles. And it keeps more than a dollars worth of dollar store string to keep them together. You drag - I mean carry them out to the curb and there is this trail of small stuff behind you. They go in the green box, but the green box is full.

Then there is the good old soft drink bottles. They go in a separate clear bag. And if you are a financial planner, you take them to the depot yourself and get your few cents back. Now before you put them in that clear bag, you have to rinse them out. Well I suppose you don't have to, but if you don't you will find out more about soft drinks than the fact 'coke' eats nails. By the way, if you do cash in the bottles yourself, you will need a lot before you get much cash. I remember a few years back we used to save them for the grandchildren. Saved up bottles all one winter, there were bags and bags of them. I had a small pickup truck at that time with a closed in back on it. There were so many bags of bottles *bags of bottles, I think there is a country tune in that*, anyway there were so many bags of bottles that you couldn't possibly get another pop can let alone a bottle in anywhere. At the depot I had to throw in a few bucks to make fifteen so it would be worthwhile to give the grandchildren. Good thing I had a fuel efficient small pickup truck or it would have cost me more than the dollar store string to get there and back.

Now you have to put your newspapers and other paper products in a plastic grocery bag because they go to a different place. You have to double bag those to protect the paper in case it rains. Now there is an exercise in calmness. Ever try to get one grocery bag over another when it is full of cardboard and paper that springs apart faster than lightening? I have a little problem with this one, we are recycling the paper I guess. But haven't I heard a lot of complaining about the plastic grocery bags being one of the worst things to recycle? Wonder where they go when they get to the depot, in the garbage? Kind of reminds me of the green bins that holds your recycables, but is made of plastic that can't be recycled.

If you just bought a new TV or emptied a box of cat litter, guess where the cardboard has to go. Get your dollar store string, cause you gotta bust that stuff up, cut it, fold it, jump on it, curse it, and tie it in those neat little bundles. Make sure you get the good quality dollar store string because the cheap stuff will spring apart about the time you are almost at the curb.

I think I know why they have recycable collection one week and ordinary regular garbage the next. It takes that long to get it ready.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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