Thursday, June 10, 2010

Recycling


I can't tell you how ridiculously thrilled I was when I found out that our new home was in a community that had mandatory recycling! Recycling has been my goal ever since I was about 11 or 12 years old, but in most of the communities that I lived in, I was a child before my time. In fact, I lived in the age when there wasn't even a deposit charged on a soda (pop) bottle. Now this is truly unique if you consider that when both my father and my children were kids, there was a deposit required on a bottle of soda(pop). I was the generation of children that grew up without this fundraising option!

In fact, when my family moved to a much more rural and farm-like area, I was looked at with scorn, and as if I was crazy when I asked them about recycling. "There's plenty of room at the dump." Bobby replied to my question with a look that said "what can you expect except dumb from a city slicker," and I hadn't lived any where near the city!

So, here I am, living in recycle USA and I'm still not happy! As Ricky Ricardo from "I Love Lucy" would say, "Wot hoppened?" When we first moved in, we always had more recycling than what the town gave us a container for. Before the town got their fancy shmanzy armed trucks for collecting the recycling, this wasn't a problem. Have more than what the container has room for? Not a problem, put the extra into cardboard boxes or into a plastic garbage can and put it at the curb with everything else. The men manually loaded it onto the collection truck. Home relatively clear to start the cycle all over again.

And then it happened, the Town decided to do single stream recycling, and humans would no longer load or recyclables onto the truck; a truck would do it.

They even gave each resident a nice, big, tan colored can that worked with the trucks lifting arm.

And what should be even more good news to me, the Town would be collecting even more recyclable categories, so there would be even less garbage! Though now, with the bigger recyclables can, the recyclables will only be picked up twice a month, instead of every week. Not good news for us.

Because now we are immersed in recyclables! We can no longer use cardboard boxes or trash cans for the overflow, because the truck arm can not pick those up.

So I called Town Hall, and they gave me a number to call, and eventually I will be able to get a recyclables pick up truck to come every time our recyclables can is filled.

It just hasn't happened yet. What has happened though, is the constantly staring at all this mess in my kitchen, in my hallway and on my back porch is making me change my mind on recycling.

But, that's another blog.




To be continued..........

8 comments:

Kelly Frances Dunn said...

GOOD-FOR-YOU! Continue to be passionate, it's what everyone needs to be inspired and how things get started :)

Lily said...

this is exactly why I've gotten less green over the years! Sad and shameful to admit but true, nonetheless.

Anonymous said...

Hi Marry ,
Thank you for visit my blog and thanks for comment , it surprise me we have same surname, I'm also Bennett. :-)

have a nice day.
Nan Bennett

razzamattela said...

Love that "ridiculously thrilled". It actually made me giggle to think there is someone else in the world taking photos of their recycling. I was tickled pink when our town got its recycling truck.

Love my recycling and compost bins!

Lily said...

Love your new look, Sweet Mary!!

Mary Bennett said...

Thank-you Lily! I won't even admit to you HOW LONG it took me to get such a simple set up. My computer just took forever. Might be time for a new one, though I don't even want to contemplate that....

Nan, (((HUGS!))) to you. Your blog is soo sweet!!

Style Attic - more recycling is on it's way!!


Everyone, thank you so much for stopping and posting. Could I ask you to please comment on my pictures on my blog? Are they clear? Are they pleasant to look at?
Thanks!!

Sunny said...

I would love to recycle, but have no idea what to do with it after I collect it. We live in a rural area and do have garbage pickup, but nothing else. I think the closest recycling place would be about 50 miles away. So for now, into the garbage it goes.

Mary Bennett said...

Sunny, Toward the top of my blog I saw an ad that said they were looking for plastic. It looks like they will come to your place to pick it up. The ad cycles, so you might have to check a few times to catch it. I hope that might work for you?

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