The Coffee House

[vintagesnaps]

At a party... who cares? lol depends I guess on what's in the cups and bottles how much party guests would be inclined to aim their empties at a particular bin.

 

[jcdeboever]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too. [emoji38]

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

They pick them up? Shoot, you got it made. I have to take mine in on Saturdays between 10-1:00

 

[smoke665]

. Man, some people are so ignorant and vial.

Racism has no geographic nor skin color boundaries.

 

[terri36 7]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too.

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

When we lived in Texas, we were given a separate large garbage can, green-colored, for the recyclables. There was a separate regular pick-up for them; the trash pickup came later and was done by a different crew. Very organized.

 

[Gary A.]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too. [emoji38]

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

They pick them up? Shoot, you got it made. I have to take mine in on Saturdays between 10-1:00

Really ... ? You don't have separate containers for waste, recyclables and green waste?

 

[Gary A.]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too.

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

When we lived in Texas, we were given a separate large garbage can, green-colored, for the recyclables. There was a separate regular pick-up for them; the trash pickup came later and was done by a different crew. Very organized.

LOL ... don't get all defensive ... out here for households we use a three container system, waste, recyclables and green wastes. We have similar separations for street and parks (sans the green waste).

 

[jcdeboever]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too. [emoji38]

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

They pick them up? Shoot, you got it made. I have to take mine in on Saturdays between 10-1:00

Really ... ? You don't have separate containers for waste, recyclables and green waste?

No. I have to separate myself, load in truck, drive about a mile to dump. I separate plastic, glass, cardboard, metal. I separate them in plastic tubs the day before. This way, there is no cost, and I'm in and out. Bottles and cans of soda have a 10¢ deposit, those get taken back to grocery store and I save that money for vacation. I compost leaves and shrub clippings that turns to dirt eventually, along with dog waste. I do not bag my grass clippings, I just mulch back into grass. Very small amount of actual trash gets picked up, maybe half a trash can, tops. I typically save Branch's, twigs and small amount of leaves for bonfires.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Sharon thinks you need to save all your recycling til May for the Mother lode of holidays then borrow a mail truck...

 

[terri36 7]

LOL ... don't get all defensive ... out here for households we use a three container system, waste, recyclables and green wastes. We have similar separations for street and parks (sans the green waste).

Who's defensive? I merely gave my own experience where I lived in Texas - it was a better system than what I currently have. Them's just the facts.

I have to separate myself, load in truck, drive about a mile to dump. I separate plastic, glass, cardboard, metal. I separate them in plastic tubs the day before.

That sounds like a lot of work! I miss that pick-up crew in Texas, but I'm not having to do that, either. Yet.

 

[snowbear118 49]

We are in an apartment and everything goes into a dumpster; single family homes have the recycle bins.

 

[Frank F.]

Sounds like it was a fun time! Guess you've lost a golf buddy, though. Jerk.

Good on ya for digging out all those recyclables - that's something I would have done, too.

LOL ... in California if you don't put out a container for recyclables ... you would be banned and forced to move to Texas. Lol

When we lived in Texas, we were given a separate large garbage can, green-colored, for the recyclables. There was a separate regular pick-up for them; the trash pickup came later and was done by a different crew. Very organized.

In Germany they started the garbage religion in the late 1990ies making is a big Multi-Billion-a-year business.

In the beginning it was a good idea to collect every fraction seperately like they still do with glass (you cannot make white glass from brown, it really makes sense).

They started even with collecting newspapers seperated from other paper.

Then law created the "green dot" system in cooperation with the big Supermarkets. Basic idea is: you pay a little with every product you buy (geen-dot-labes on packaging) and the system puts a yellow bin in your front yard which is free of charge, ditto with paper, cardboard and the like into the blue bin and biologicals into the green. glass collection is every other corner on public ground, red for electronics, batteries etc not far away also. Bigger things like computers, printers, TV-Sets you have to drive to a recycling yard 10 minutes by car.

YOU HAVE TO PAY FO THE BLACK BIN, so in you own interest it is good to get rid of stuff into the others, because you are free to order a smaller black bin which costs significantly less. City council requires you to buy 10 liters per week and head. Our yard is for 8 flats with rougly 20 people in them, so we would have to order 2 x 240 liter bins collected every fourthnight. But neighbours do not like the thought so we still have 660 liters per week, so we roughly pay three times the bill that would be necessary and the neighbours get really aggressive if anyone mentions that fact.

In Money this is 2600€ per year instead of 900€ or 325€ instead of 112€ per flat.

Curiously we pay garbage per flat not per head or --- per bag, like they do in Suisse.

Irony is that with 2017 tech it would be more economically and ecologically to put everything into one big bin and let robots sort through it to collect worthy things and dangerous stuff from the burnables etcetera. But: it is such a big business with so many people earning a lot of money, that noone really wants to chance it...

 

[Gary A.]

Here, homes are taxed per household per month. The municipalities contract out to the lowest bidder for pick-up and processing. Multi-dwelling housing units individually contract with the waste hauler. We are provided three bins which are picked up weekly, One for waste, recyclables (mixed) and green wastes. The waste goes to the landfill, the recyclables go to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and the green waste recycling facility. The MRF uses mechanical means (size, magnetic, Eddy current, air, et cetera) to separate the various materials and finally a hand picking conveyor at the end. The green wastes has some size separation but eventually most everything ends up in chippers and grinders for mulch, compost and worm food. Some communities have Waste to Energy Facilities which will separate the total waste stream by caloric values. The higher caloric materials ... plastics, paper, et al being diverted and processed for fuel to generate electricity.

Gary composts in place (e.i. not bagging the grass clippings but cuts the grass with a mulch generating mower), composts in compost bins and diverts his vegetable food wastes to the vermiculture bin (worms). He also cuts up all his woody material (tree branches, grape vines, et cetera) and uses them as a mulch for the pathways in the rose garden and side yard. Typically, the only material tossed into the green waste bin are stuff with thorns.

 

[SquarePeg39]

Here we have a separate pick up for recycling. Everything can go in one bin and is allegedly sorted by the collectors. We pay a $75 quarterly charge for trash collection which was put into effect when the tax override failed.

 

[terri36 7]

A bed is where you find it. Says Miss Finn.

 

[tirediron]

Sounds like something that would be on the shelf of a British 'corner shop'; "Potted Kitty With Greens".