How to get men to care about the environment

I do the same, we have a tub for pick up, but easier to drive to a recycler place once a month, and now that we have to buy are trash cans from the city as they are special and can be loaded in truck automatically, I definitely recycle to save space

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We don't have curb side recycling pick up but we do have those cans so they can just snag them with the grabber claw and dump them. I have 5 of the biggest ones the city allows. I used to have 6 but sold one of the spares for $20 to a family the city was all over for not using but they couldn't afford the $60 price tag. One of mine a week is actually me. The others are work trash I bring home to keep from having to pay for commercial pick up. I own a house that I use for storage between my house and work so I keep a couple there to make it look less obvious than if I had 5 cans lines up every week and it makes the house look lived in to the casual observer to have a light on all the time and trash out weekly.

 

I just have one, but if I had too could just run to dump with truck, only costs about $3.50 for a minimal load

 

I could afford commercial pick up. I just feel like the city is robbing me on my utilities so I rob them back on the free garbage pick up, especially since I pay $20/month on those utilities for trash pick up anyway. They are going to pick up my work trash whether they want to or not. I am spiteful like that.

 

free? we pay for our pick up...

$13 for collection fee and $7 a month to rent the trash can

edit : I guess that is the same as yours, they just break it down on ours

I remember when trash pick up was free.... you would think with the automated stuff it would be cheaper, not more


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No we had to buy the trash cans. There was no rental option. You could finance it for $5 a month/can through your utilities but I just paid the $60 a pop rather than go through the hassle of going there and signing a financing agreement for a freaking trash can.

No, they are picking up my business trash for free because they refuse to pick up business trash at all and I refuse to pay a commercial service when I can just throw bags into the boot and haul it home with me for free. Doesn't take any extra effort really since I stop at my hoarder storage house anyway to pick up the mail i.e. clean out 200 credit card offer mailings a month I am getting for some reason there.

 

are started at the finance method, then they decided it was gonna be a renatl fee forever

but really it's the same fee as yours, still adds up to $20 a month

 

I have chickens. The chickens eat all leftover food we would normally throw away. We sell aluminium cans and that usually leaves glass and plastic to throw away. They just dump everything in a landfill here. It is a waste.

 

It is because there is no market to make it economically feasible. Most of our recycle stuff goes in the trash too but the city still wants people to voluntarily do it so they can have hard data to try to sell the idea to processors to locate facilities closer. Aluminum and some of the cardboard is about all that makes it to recycling processing locally. There is a drop of site for electronics but some guy just harvests metals out of them and the rest becomes garbage too.

 

I don't think they are even thinking about developing a market here.