Editor,
I recently read a Yahoo news article about recycling and how it isn’t really working in many places. From the many comments posted, one is left with the distinct feeling that most folks don’t seem to care. Especially when they are asked to rinse out the soup cans and wash the peanut butter jars. One teaspoon of peanut butter can contaminate one tonne of paper, so they say.
Does Hope have anybody overseeing our garbage and recycling contractor? What goes in the recycling? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
When this all originally began, the credo was clean and dry (how does stuff stay dry in those bins some people are using?) and should not include Styrofoam, black plastic, used disposable diapers or used tissue. Probably some other stuff too? Plastic, glass, paper, newspaper, cardboard and tin cans seemed to be the list.
(For what its worth, the blue bags seem to be tossed in the same direction in the garbage trucks as the black ones).
Some encouragement and advice from either the district or the contractor would be just great. A little help here, please?
Judy Green