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Article #8328Is curbside recycling doomed from the start ?
From: Greg Ebert
Date: Wed, 16 May 1990 20:02
Date: Wed, 16 May 1990 20:02
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Nevada City just started curbside recycling in the rural areas. The garbage company CHARGES $1.50/month extra for recycling. Is this typical among other communities ? Although I take my stuff to the local recycling center (they pay ME), I will still subscribe in order to support the program. I understand there are some costs involved in running the program, but shouldn't the revenues from recycling centers, plus the reduced garbage-handling costs at the landfill offset the expenses of the program ? Why not charge people who don't use the service ? IMHO, that would encourage, rather than discourage, recyling. Furthermore, as people start to recycle more, the increased revenues from recycling should offset the decrease in garbage-fee surcharges. What's the situation in LA ? When we bailed-out a few months ago :-) there was talk, but no action as far as I could tell. Along a similar vein, how many folks out there have been able to find a recycler which accepts glossy (ie magazine & junk-mail) paper ? What about plastics ? Locally, I can only recycle the 2-liter soft drink bottles. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Save an owl, eat a logger "Our children don't inherit the Earth from us, We're borrowing it from them." -- Quote from an ad
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a56c,de49ba0396de1510,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a56c,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,de49ba0396de1510,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-05-16 15:00:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!gvgpsa!gold!grege From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) Newsgroups: ca.environment,rec.gardens Subject: Is curbside recycling doomed from the start ? Message-ID: <995@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> Date: 16 May 90 20:02:00 GMT Followup-To: ca.environment Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA Lines: 25 Posted: Wed May 16 21:02:00 1990