or even reward for recycling amounts. We have a voluntary recycling center (no pay outs) & it's always busy. I've never been the only person there for more than 1 or 2 minutes and I live in a fairly small community. That's always encouraging. :)
I imagine keeping up with who had how much trash is a book keeping nightmare not to mention time consuming, but it sure would cut down on waste (hopefully) as long as ppl continued to properly dispose of it. --Maria
On Jan 30, 2008 11:05 AM, Christopher Hickman <
tophu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 10:59AM, "Maria P" <
mudpuppy1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>That's outrageous! We only take our trash to the curb every 2 or 3 weeks
>as we compost, recycle & freecycle. Granted, we still pay for it, so I
>imagine there's no grounds for complaints from the waste company on that
>one. I had thought about canceling the pick up service & just taking the 1
>bag or so a week or so to the recycling center & paying the nominal house
>waste disposal fee. Some places are definitely sending the wrong message!
>--Maria
That is the RIGHT way to do it. If every trash service was charged by volume, it would encourage people to reduce their garbage production.
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