We have become good little recyclers! Our Canadian training has paid off and the reason I know this is that our recycling bin is always overflowing! In Toronto we had trash and recycling pick up once a week. The recycling was always full, the trash....depended on who had been home that week and how busy we had been. At the shore we have trash pick up every other week and recycling every other week. Talk about some full bins and bags not to mention the smell! I learned to love to recycle, it does not stink like other trash and the less trash I have at the shore the less stuff I have to drag down the long lane.
Here we have trash pick up twice a week. Decadent! Recycling pick up once a week. I must say there are some weeks when we don't even have a full bag of trash to put out on Tuesdays so we usually just skip Tuesday pick up all together. On Friday we always have mountains of paper, plastic, aluminum and cardboard in the recycling bin. Note, I did not mention glass. They don't pick up glass here!!?? Are you kidding???? Being trained in the Canadian recycling school we dutifully pile all our glass, I'll be honest....wine bottles, in another area of the garage and tote it to the local recycle station when it starts to take over the corner of the garage. Unfortunately, the visual all those wine bottles presents is daunting. Multiply times $10 or $15 a bottle and that's a lot of allowance.
One more little observation...in the "green" category. In Toronto everyone uses their own grocery bags or else they get charged 5 cents a bag for those plastic bags. When I bring my grocery bags to the grocery store here the baggers have no clue how to pack them. They are so used to putting 2 or 3 things in those plastic bags that they pack the bags I bring the same way. What a waste! It totally defeats the purpose of bringing my own bags if you are going to put 2 or 3 things in them and then start using plastic bags.
I think instead of that extra trash pick up every week our area should spend that money on TREES! Instead of cutting them all down they should try planting more! There is an idea!
I am there with you on the baggers. I shop in my grocery sack, so that I know everything fits. I have to tell the bagger about 5 times that it all fits, you just have put the heavy things at the bottom. Seriously, don't give me a plastic bag when I went through the trouble to make sure that I didn't need one.
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