Recycling

[msamatt]

Humans are indeed funny.  One man's trash is another's treasure.   I live in South St. Louis City and several years ago the city decided add a large large recycling dumpster to the collection of garbage and yard waste dumpsters in our alleys.  Prior to that my wife and I would gather all of our recycleables in different bins and haul them to a local park where we would chuck them in the appropriate dumpsters.  The new recycling dumpsters are certainly more convenient for the most part.  All I have to do is walk out my back door, past my garage, turn left, walk 20 feet and can recycle at whim.  Some of my neighbors still throw away everything.   I don't know what, other than sheer laziness keeps them from recycling.  I also will routinely leave out materials which I know some "junk guy" or another will pickup.  Nothing with any scrap value lasts very long in the alley.  

[Haris122]

I used to collect and eventually take it to get recycled. Mainly stuff like Aluminum/tin cans and paper items before we had a recycling trash can that the county started giving out to everyone (at least they have in south county it seems), and I managed to recycle a bit that way, but nowadays quite a bit of stuff ends up in the recycling bin. My parents and some visitors still don't get what all is allowable in the recycling bin and what's not, but for the most part I think it works, and I think it's good to do overall. I think the link shared a few pages back seemed a bit off. A lot of the time it seemed more focused on the cost of recycling compared to just dumping it. Of course it's going to be cheaper for a municipality in the short term to just toss everything, but by that token it's also cheaper to just dump a barrel of oil or who knows what somewhere as opposed to dispose of it properly. Doesn't mean in the long term it won't bite someone in the rear doing so. If you can actually recover enough of the material at a reasonable cost and quality to be relatively comparable to virgin material, why not. It may take us a while but the bottom line still is that the resource will run out. There's a finite amount of it. I'd even be for multistream recycling if the garbage collectors were on board. Single stream helps still but is also not anywhere near as efficient it sounded like.

[joeD]

Let's give every one of us a round of applause and a hearty back pat. Especially those who were at the "forefront" of eco responsibility. I realize that the rest of us are dilletantes and poseurs in the recycling arena, but, you have to admit, we absolutely ROCK, recycling wise.

Great job Ozark Anglers! 

(I feel misty eyed right now. I think I'll go rinse out a Yoplait cup. Which I will urinate in, and dispose of in a cat litter box. With cedar shavings. Which will be repurposed by dumping it onto a soybean field at the apex of the Harvest Moon. Barefoot).