rontaki
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Before long, the waste haul tricks will have to be as long as a rail car.
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To do it right isn’t easy and requires training and space…
Plus, the good stuff gets scavenged.
I thought these disposal rules were coast to coast but it appears not?
As a property manager it is one of the responsibilities I will be glad to be free of… we have mandatory waste disposal and the property owner is responsible for the waste streams generated by tenants… lots of liability plus who is safeguarding the purity of the items once placed curbside on collection day…
I had a very large fine for a bulky collection day for a tenant… too much bulk and hazardous items and not properly sorted..,
In the night a ghost hauler dumped and added to what my tenant put out…
Thankfully I had filled a police report at 7 am that morning for illegal dumping when the tenant alerted me…
The police report saved me over a $1,000 in fees and fines…
Plus, the good stuff gets scavenged.
I thought these disposal rules were coast to coast but it appears not?
As a property manager it is one of the responsibilities I will be glad to be free of… we have mandatory waste disposal and the property owner is responsible for the waste streams generated by tenants… lots of liability plus who is safeguarding the purity of the items once placed curbside on collection day…
I had a very large fine for a bulky collection day for a tenant… too much bulk and hazardous items and not properly sorted..,
In the night a ghost hauler dumped and added to what my tenant put out…
Thankfully I had filled a police report at 7 am that morning for illegal dumping when the tenant alerted me…
The police report saved me over a $1,000 in fees and fines…
Suburban Plowboy
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The town I lived in before moving to the farm passed out recycling bins to the residents, in different colors. I think red was for paper, but I'm not sure, because I didn't use the bins. The guys on the truck couldn't have cared less.
The bins were decent quality, and they could be useful for carrying things. They were just plastic boxes without lids. It must have been fun for the recycling guys to carry big boxes of wet paper.
The best thing about the whole business was that the city bought special trucks and hired extra crews...to take the recyclables to the landfill. Because, hello, nobody wants that crap.
Maybe the funniest idea is recycling glass, which is made from sand. I read up on the economics of that genius idea, and they were not good. I haven't kept up with the news. Maybe someone has made glass recycling profitable so we don't exhaust our sand reserves.
At around the time I moved, the city banned plastic straws and grocery bags. If I had stayed, I would have brought my own disposable plastic bags to the grocery, and I would have brought my own plastic straws to restaurants and left them in my glasses when I was done. Tomorrow I'm going to put a few hundred straws in the car in case the wife and I end up in any more situations where they try to force soggy paper straws on us.
Here's a pro tip from someone who takes his own trash to county dumpsters: when you're concerned about what you're throwing out, just hold a legal bag in the hand closest to the nearest attendant, and hold your contraband in your other hand, behind the bag. Then drop them in the dumpster at the same time. Once they're in there, who's to say who dumped what?
The bins were decent quality, and they could be useful for carrying things. They were just plastic boxes without lids. It must have been fun for the recycling guys to carry big boxes of wet paper.
The best thing about the whole business was that the city bought special trucks and hired extra crews...to take the recyclables to the landfill. Because, hello, nobody wants that crap.
Maybe the funniest idea is recycling glass, which is made from sand. I read up on the economics of that genius idea, and they were not good. I haven't kept up with the news. Maybe someone has made glass recycling profitable so we don't exhaust our sand reserves.
At around the time I moved, the city banned plastic straws and grocery bags. If I had stayed, I would have brought my own disposable plastic bags to the grocery, and I would have brought my own plastic straws to restaurants and left them in my glasses when I was done. Tomorrow I'm going to put a few hundred straws in the car in case the wife and I end up in any more situations where they try to force soggy paper straws on us.
Here's a pro tip from someone who takes his own trash to county dumpsters: when you're concerned about what you're throwing out, just hold a legal bag in the hand closest to the nearest attendant, and hold your contraband in your other hand, behind the bag. Then drop them in the dumpster at the same time. Once they're in there, who's to say who dumped what?
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Scouts had glass bottle drives in the early 70’s and the glass factory paid a penny a pound…
As for collected recyclables locals have filmed being toss as trash by the truck driver…
The reason is the recyclable space filled so in the trash it goes…
Huge FBI investigation right now over recycle bribes…
abc7news.com
As for collected recyclables locals have filmed being toss as trash by the truck driver…
The reason is the recyclable space filled so in the trash it goes…
Huge FBI investigation right now over recycle bribes…
TIMELINE: FBI political corruption investigation involving Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, Duong family | abc7news.com
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abc7news.com
tulenutn2o
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All goes in the trash. Recycling here is a scam. Recycling ends up in the landfill with everything else.
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In many cases, yes. Some of things were are asked to recycle, plastics in particular, are just not worth the cost and energy of doing it.
But don't let one poor decision drive another. Corrugated cardboard and aluminum are both extremely recyclable, and well worth the cost of doing so. Glass is another, it's cheaper to recycle it than make new, and unlike paper products, there is no reduction in quality with most glass.
It'd be nice if we could get the stupidity and politics out of the system, and just do what makes sense. Glass, aluminum, and corrugated make sense to recycle. Plastics and some other items... not so much.
Suburban Plowboy
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Glass recycling isn't profitable.
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Ive had good luck with satco. Installed a few hundred
The name escapes me on high bay lights right now but they have been a headache to the tune of $1400 a pop.
