E-Notification Changes to Recycle CLEAR BAGS ONLY

[Bogie Shooter]

e-Notification
Subject: What's Happening - Special Edition
Date: 8/5/2014

Changes to Recycle: CLEAR BAGS ONLY! NO TINT

The light blue clear bags are no longer being accepted at the recycle transfer station. They require all recycle material be in CLEAR BAGS without any tinting.

We understand that residents may have purchased the light blue clear bags so in order to help deplete your stock; light blue clear bags will be accepted temporarily for household trash. Please go back to the white or black bags for your household waste once you have used up the light blue clear bags

Residents may have read the “Our Place” article regarding yard waste a few months ago or viewed the article on the District web site. District staff would like take this opportunity to remind residents to please bundle (tie) yard waste and cut tree limbs so they are no longer than 4 feet.

For more detailed information, please visit the District website at Sanitation Information (http://www.districtgov.org/community/sanitation.aspx)

or call (352) 748-0109 for additional information.

[gerryann]

Thanks for the info. Was wondering why they wouldn't take the blue one this week.

[njbchbum]

This does not appear to impact residents of Town of Lady Lake & Lake County

The FAQ of the site you provided states "The following Frequently Asked Questions relating to sanitation information pertain only to those residents residing in Sumter and Marion counties. For those residents residing in the Town of Lady Lake or Lake County, please contact Waste Management at (352) 787-4416 for information on your sanitation pick-up and fees."

[LittleDog]

I was never notified of this. I wondered why my recycling was not picked up last week but was picked up by the garbage collection. Usually they pick up recycling in our neighborhood around 7 am. I thought that was strange that the recycling was not picked up.

John

[rdhdleo]

I'm in Marion County and in all our years here we never used anything but clear bags, we were always told those wee the ones we had to use. Interesting!

[Trayderjoe]

We have a house in Mallory and have always used clear bags for recycling. It was our understanding that was the requirement since we've owned the house.

[blueeagle65]

We have always used the clear bags for recycling and I appear to be one of the few in our neighborhood who cuts the yard recycling to the required length. Maybe if the guys would leave the huge piles of branches, etc. people would get the message.

[villages07]

Winn-Dixie sells the blue bags...they say in large print they are recycling bags but it's not "clear" that they have a blue tint. I bought some about a month ago and didn't realize til I got home and opened them that they were tinted. I called the recycling office and they said no go. Fortunately, I was able to return them to WD for a refund.

Now that WD is in LSL and Pinellas, they are getting a broader audience...they really shouldn't even sell these blue bags in an area where they are not allowed.

[Hancle704]

Is it permissible to ask why the color of the plastic bag matters? I ask because the recycled material in the bag includes a variety of different colors of plastic and one might assume that the plastic bags are also included in the recyclable mix.

[jalopy54]

Winn-Dixie sells the blue bags...they say in large print they are recycling bags but it's not "clear" that they have a blue tint. I bought some about a month ago and didn't realize til I got home and opened them that they were tinted. I called the recycling office and they said no go. Fortunately, I was able to return them to WD for a refund.

Now that WD is in LSL and Pinellas, they are getting a broader audience...they really shouldn't even sell these blue bags in an area where they are not allowed.
Winn-Dixie sells the blue bags...they say in large print they are recycling bags but it's not "clear" that they have a blue tint. I bought some about a month ago and didn't realize til I got home and opened them that they were tinted. I called the recycling office and they said no go. Fortunately, I was able to return them to WD for a refund.

Now that WD is in LSL they are getting a broader audience...they really shouldn't even sell these blue bags in an area where they are not allowed.
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[MikeV]

Require here in the Village of Charlotte.

[Bonanza]

Is it permissible to ask why the color of the plastic bag matters? I ask because the recycled material in the bag includes a variety of different colors of plastic and one might assume that the plastic bags are also included in the recyclable mix.

Yes, Hancle; I'm with you. What is the big deal with the color or type of bag for recycling?

Here's where I'm coming from: We, the residents, are doing our sanitation company a favor, by recycling. I am a huge proponent of recycling. BUT . . . we have to buy a specific type of bag for recycling??? Within the Villages, if 50,000 homes must use these plastic bags, do you know what it is doing to our landfills and the environment? Our sanitation company makes money with the recycled materials we give them. We are doing them the favor.

Waste Management gives their customers recycling bins and we have to purchase special bags!!?! There's something wrong with this picture???

[mulligan]

Yes, Hancle; I'm with you. What is the big deal with the color or type of bag for recycling?

Here's where I'm coming from: We, the residents, are doing our sanitation company a favor, by recycling. I am a huge proponent of recycling. BUT . . . we have to buy a specific type of bag for recycling??? Within the Villages, if 50,000 homes must use these plastic bags, do you know what it is doing to our landfills and the environment? Our sanitation company makes money with the recycled materials we give them. We are doing them the favor.

Waste Management gives their customers recycling bins and we have to purchase special bags!!?! There's something wrong with this picture???

The bags are recycled along with the contents, not put in a landfill.

[Madelaine Amee]

The bags are recycled along with the contents, not put in a landfill.

As another poster said the bags contain recycle material of all COLORS which makes it rather ridiculous that the bag holding the material has to be clear!, but that's just my opinion!:sigh:

[mulligan]

The requirement is only so that the people that pick up the bags can see what's in them.

[Bogie Shooter]

Is it permissible to ask why the color of the plastic bag matters? I ask because the recycled material in the bag includes a variety of different colors of plastic and one might assume that the plastic bags are also included in the recyclable mix.

There was a number to call in the announcemnt.........................

[Bogie Shooter]

We don't need recycling bins sitting along the curb for days at a time. The bags work just fine.

[Indydealmaker]

For 30 years I have been buying and selling and value-adding spent and recycled products from steel mills in North America. I have never gotten one pound free. Yet I still managed to make a couple of bucks.

However, in the residential recycling industry consumers jump through hoops to make money for the recycling company.

Consumers buy the products that end up being recycled.

Consumers buy special packaging to isolate recyclables.

Waste Management (or whoever) gets a product to sell with no cost of raw materials other than material handling.

Consumers are supposed to be content with a "warm fuzzy" for being "green".
Where's the consumers' cut?

[NoMoSno]

For 30 years I have been buying and selling and value-adding spent and recycled products from steel mills in North America. I have never gotten one pound free. Yet I still managed to make a couple of bucks.

However, in the residential recycling industry consumers jump through hoops to make money for the recycling company.

Consumers buy the products that end up being recycled.

Consumers buy special packaging to isolate recyclables.

Waste Management (or whoever) gets a product to sell with no cost of raw materials other than material handling.

Consumers are supposed to be content with a "warm fuzzy" for being "green".
Where's the consumers' cut?

Very true.
They could at least provide the proper bags...

[VillagesFlorida]

The Town in Maine, where I lived most of my life, requires that recyclables be put curbside in bins. Regular trash goes in special green trash bags which must be purchased at a cost of $2.50 per bag. It is painful to spend $25 on a package of 10 bags, but I can attest to the fact that on trash day far more is recycled than is put in trash bags. While I would not like to see bins along our streets, this system works. I am not going to complain about buying a big box of clear recycle bags at Walmart. And, yes, they must be clear so that the contents are visible. It is the only way the trash company employees can see which bags hold recyclables.

[rubicon]

When we lived in Minneapolis, the waste company gave us a discount on our monthly charge if we recycled. Here in Sumter they add insult to injury by charging you more for recycling and then telling you specifically how and in what container it must be stored.

:rant-rave::rant-rave::rant-rave::rant-rave::rant-rave::rant-rave:

[Bonanza]

The bags are recycled along with the contents, not put in a landfill.

Practically all the plastic trash bags are dirty or wet (from contents) or both, and in that state, are not recycled.

They must be clean and dry.

[Bonanza]

We don't need recycling bins sitting along the curb for days at a time. The bags work just fine.

Days at a time, Bogie?
I don't think so.

[Bonanza]

[QUOTE=rubicon;919773]When we lived in Minneapolis, the waste company gave us a discount on our monthly charge if we recycled. Here in Sumter they add insult to injury by charging you more for recycling and then telling you specifically how and in what container it must be stored.QUOTE]

Do you think it's because the developer has his hand in the Villages trash company, too???

[Bogie Shooter]

Its that mean old developer again!

[Vladimir]

Days at a time, Bogie?
I don't think so.

Take a drive along the Rolling Acres route and you will see the light brown county trash bins that now look like permanent lawn ornaments and have been sitting there for days

[Indydealmaker]

It is reasonable to assume that if residents currently put their trash curbside two or three days in advance of the pickup day solely because they are going out of town, then it is logical to assume that they would do so with trash cans.

Of course, in that example, the negative aesthetics would be even worse because the trash cans remain behind until the residents return home.

[Warren Kiefer]

yes, hancle; i'm with you. What is the big deal with the color or type of bag for recycling?

Here's where i'm coming from: We, the residents, are doing our sanitation company a favor, by recycling. I am a huge proponent of recycling. But . . . We have to buy a specific type of bag for recycling??? Within the villages, if 50,000 homes must use these plastic bags, do you know what it is doing to our landfills and the environment? Our sanitation company makes money with the recycled materials we give them. We are doing them the favor.

Waste management gives their customers recycling bins and we have to purchase special bags!!?! There's something wrong with this picture???

exactly my point for years. We pay them to pick up the recycle materials, we buy the bags and they make a lot of money using the recyle material in our bags and which we paid them to pick up. Before i moved to the villages, i was provided recycle bags to use.

[dillywho]

Days at a time, Bogie?
I don't think so.

Bogie is absolutely right. There is one house in Polo Ridge and one in Summerhill (that I know about, could be more) that have had their trash/recycle bags out since early Friday for pickup Monday morning. Those could have even possibly been put out on Thursday evening.

Not only is it unsightly, but an open invitation to a break-in. "Come on in....nobody home, and not gonna be for a while." Might as well just put a big sign in the yard! We, in our immediate neighborhood, put each other's trash/recycle out at the appropriate time if we/they are leaving town. Sometimes, if we have multiple bags to put out, we will put bags in front of houses we know are not occupied right then to give the appearance that they are occupied.