[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by mulligan

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]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

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]

Originally Posted by Bonanza

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]

Originally Posted by bonanza

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]

Originally Posted by Bonanza

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.