Recycling

Let’s talk recycling. I really like recycling; I think it is something we should all try to do as part of our duty to save the planet. Where I lived in Utah we had recycling at out houses, one bin for garbage one for recycling. These bins would be picked up by the city and taken to their respective facilities.

Here in Cali we don’t have the same recycling service. What I did find was a small recycling station in the parking lot of a nearby grocery store. Here is what I noticed on my recycling trip.

• Hours 8am-5pm, closed Mondays.

• Must recycle one piece at a time into a little conveyer…long lines and old men
• Apparently we can only recycle small glass bottles, aluminum cans (with the exception of slim fast cans), and small plastic containers, which doesn’t include yogurt containers. What happened to cardboard and paper?
• A big locked garbage can, had to carry all of what we couldn’t recycle back home to throw away.
• You get paid for each thing they accept, we made a total of $.35
  
  

Here is the bag full of what we had to take home and throw away, all of it being paper or cardboard.

Here is what we attempted to recycle, only a small portion of which ended up being acceptable.

Here is me…“What?”

Now the hunt continues to find a recycling place that will actually accept a broader range of items.