Recycling Frustrations
@BettyB (4117)
Summerville, South Carolina
September 13, 2016 3:06pm CST
I am a firm believer in reusing and recycling. For years we had curbside recycling. It was part of the community tax structure. When we moved, we could still get curbside recycling but we had to pay the trash company. As it was only eight dollars a quarter, no problem. As of September they upped it to fifteen dollars a month which is a drastic hike. Bottom line, they don’t want to bother with it.
As I am not willing to pay fifteen dollars a month, I cancelled the service. I used to haul stuff to the recycle centers before we had curbside, I could do it again.
Unfortunately all of the recycle drop offs that I used before have switched to accepting office paper, magazines, cardboard, and newspapers. None of them accept plastic.
I can take it to the dump. They have recycle bins there, but its fifteen miles away. I’ll figure out something eventually, but for now it’s going in my son’s recycle bin.
He still has curbside recycling.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
14 Sep 16
there's no curb-side recyclin' e'en fer folks'n town here. i can understand yer frustration. used to've a dumpster out here, fer 'bout $40 e'ery 3 months. they went 'p to that 'mount monthly within 'bout a years time. i refuse to pay that much when we don't generate that much trash-trash anyhow. 'nstead, we hold 'nto 't 'til there's 'nough to justify a land fill run - droppin' the plastics/cans/steel 'n whate'er else can be recycled 'long the way. sadly, nobody'll recycle glass. that's gettin' tough coz i've now 3 cabinets full!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
15 Sep 16
@BettyB do they've a place fer glass, hon? i figure they stopped such here coz folks were breakin' the glasses 'n leavin' a huge mess where the places t'were set out.
the wally world here's got bins fer cans/cardboard/plastic. 'f course, we donate the cans to a church who's a huge trailer'n their parkin' lot - goes to the young'uns'n the community, not jest those that go to that church.
the dump here ('long with the place that takes steel...) 'tis clear'n the other side 'f town, so i know what'cha mean :(
@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
13 Sep 16
That is crazy, They should be trying to encourage people to recycle instead of raising the price so high that they know people won't pay for it. Shame on them.
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@MarshaMusselman (38645)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Sep 16
That sounds like a plan if your son's bins have room. We went from bins like are in your picture to larger bins they can pick up with an arm of the truck. I usually have it filled by months end since now it's done monthly instead of bi-weekly. At least ours is still covered in our taxes.
I think the only thing they discontinued accepting recently is plastic grocery bags, but we can take those back to some grocery stores to recycle that way instead. We do have a recycling center before the dump, so that's an option too. My sister brings hers when she visits since Detroit doesn't pick it up like we have here.
