I thought I was going to have to call the city

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well they do, but they don't want to do more to cut down on having to recycle as much. I mean using two liter bottles instead of 16.9 fl oz.

Yes they do go flat but I guess I've been used to it for years so it doesn't bother me so much. One of my friends bought a soda stream I want one of those! I think though that perhaps if I can get them to buy cans instead of bottles.. atleast cans can be crushed easier... Even recycled in other ways.

I don't have the soda stream my friend has so I don't know. I suppose it would taste alright, perhaps not quite the same as the brands we love though. I will still try to press it. I was tempted to buy soda's in a can today but just bought myself two liter pepsi, pepsi is my treat to myself.

That is good that it doesn't bother you. It drives me crazy to have flat soda. Not that I need to be drinking Soda everyday but it taste so good and I view it as a treat for myself. Do you really like that Soda stream? I have thought about but didn't know how people viewed them. Because I don't know anyone who has tried it. Does it really taste like soda? Keep trying to get them to use cans. Cans stay fresh longer as well so they might not mind it unless they feel cans are too small.

We had the plastic BPA free cups that look like fast food cups on clearance at work the other day I thought of getting one of those, but didn't. I think I might check amazon.com for it though. If I had one of those I'd have enough drink for awhile for myself anyway. I think atleast one other person would use it as well if I did it that way.

The garbage was picked up just not the recycles, until like two days later. I suppose they have a lot more they have to do then just throw it in a landfill. I'm not sure. I am trying to get them to drink more out of glasses but it's not working so well. I want to maybe price a can crusher and maybe I can switch them from bottles to cans...

Honestly it is just my grandmother and my uncle that drink out of bottles besides myself. My grandfather doesn't seem to. I tried to get my grandmother to drink out of big two liter bottles by putting some into her smaller bottle but she says it doesn't taste right. I plan to get her a special cup and see if she'll do that. We do need to be sure to crush everything as much as possible as well. A family meeting wouldn't really work for us here.

I guess folks as they age do get alittle finicky. I know I am. No family meeting? That is a shame.

Garbage had been, recycling comes a day after Garbage does. Same city picks it up, just different division. I use re-useable shopping bags when I go out to the store. I recycle what I can. I'd do more if I could, but there's not much more that I can do, atleast not here.

It is back on track luckily. I am not even sure when they picked it up but I am glad they did. It was more the recycles then the refuse as the refuse was picked up, recycling wasn't. It is only every other week but that week was a week for Recycles, they delayed it.

They didn't come last week and I didn't expect them to but they were late this week so I just wasn't sure that they were going to come at all. We haven't had any snow, just rain and wind for us. When we do have snow the city sends out the snow plow / salt trucks.

I do intend to get BPA free plastic cups, the newer ones that look like fast food cups. They are both tall and cute, and hopefully that will encourage the one that really does drink a lot of sodas, to stop drinking so much, to drink it out of a two liter. We can't put the two liters in the fridge no room. We also buy two different types of milk. My family buys flavored water (0% milk) whereas I buy DHA & Omega 3 milk. I know that recycling is just scraping the surface, and not really doing so much of a big impact but I still do it because atleast it does something. However, I don't know about my own county, but a county I used to live in, they pick up recycles but don't recycle them, they just end up throwing them in the dump.

Well I never said I was going to make someone, they were late the week after Christmas as well which is what I was going to call and inquire about but they did in fact finally pick it up.