[eremite06]

Originally Posted by mickey100

Wow, sorry to hear your street isn't into recycling. What Village are you in, if I may ask?

I take the 5th.

[mickey100]

I hear you, lol!....maybe they'll come to their senses sometime. You get a gold star for setting a good example.

[MSNPA]

We recycle as much as possible. We take our newspapers and magazines to St Timothy's, aluminum cans to All Creatures Animal Sanctuary, plastic bags to Publix and all other items that can be recycled are set out for weekly curbside pickup.

[gmcneill]

We recycle as much as we can. That said, we are disappointed that the list of permitted recyclable items is rather limited compared to what the list of items could easily be expanded.

Wouldn't it be really nice if recycle receptacles could be placed at the respective neighborhood mailboxes? Same for receptacles at the softball fields for those discarded plastic bottles of water, Gatorade, etc.

Our neighbors in our area of St James appear to be decent recyclers also

[lovesports]

Originally Posted by gmcneill

Wouldn't it be really nice if recycle receptacles could be placed at the respective neighborhood mailboxes? Same for receptacles at the softball fields for those discarded plastic bottles of water, Gatorade, etc.

Really like the idea of putting recycle recetacles at the mailboxes and softball fields.

[uujudy]

Originally Posted by lovesports

Really like the idea of putting recycle recetacles at the mailboxes and softball fields.

Ewww. Really? Stinky big old dirty metal bins junking up the place? Really?

[CFrance]

They don't have to be big-ole stinky bins. They could be the same type of trash cans that are already at the mailboxes, only a different color, or labeled for recyclables.

The problem is, whoever empties the trash bins would also have to empty the recyclables and set them out for the truck. Maybe there wouldn't be enough staff to do that; I don't know.

Question: we're new to TV (Feb of '12). We're in Sumter. Does the recycle truck not accept newspapers? If not, I've been messing up big time. But they have been taking our recycle bags and not rejecting anything.

[swrinfla]

CFrance:

I believe the recycle truck does pick up newspapers, but I take mine to Hope Lutheran's recycle bin, located between their church and Fairway Christian on CR-466 east of Morse Blvd.

That way, I know that someone other than the recycle company is benefiting from my efforts!

SWR

[CFrance]

Thanks; good to know.

[bluedog103]

Originally Posted by CFrance

They don't have to be big-ole stinky bins. They could be the same type of trash cans that are already at the mailboxes, only a different color, or labeled for recyclables.

The problem is, whoever empties the trash bins would also have to empty the recyclables and set them out for the truck. Maybe there wouldn't be enough staff to do that; I don't know.

Question: we're new to TV (Feb of '12). We're in Sumter. Does the recycle truck not accept newspapers? If not, I've been messing up big time. But they have been taking our recycle bags and not rejecting anything.

The recycling truck takes newspapers. We tie up a bundle each week. Funny but a couple of times that I know of, the same truck took everything, all in the same hopper. I don't know the reason. Could have been a shortage of equipment or an error by the personnel but there it went, all together. Oh well, it usually works.

[jojo]

I wish people would not put their unwanted mail in the trash can at the mailbox. It should be recycled. I wonder how costly it would be to do paper recycling at the postal stations.

[gmcneill]

Oh, no big old stinky metal bins, Judy! No way!
CFrance is on-target for the paper-based items at the mailboxes.

There are nice-looking functional containers specially designed for recyclable bottles and cans (we've all seen them, even if we didn't notice them) that could be placed next to the trash cans at the fields.

Staff already routinely empties the trash cans at the mailboxes and the fields. The recycling trash cans would require just a little more effort to properly dispose of their contents.

But isn't that what recycling is all about, a little extra effort from all of us?

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by jojo

I wish people would not put their unwanted mail in the trash can at the mailbox. It should be recycled. I wonder how costly it would be to do paper recycling at the postal stations.

The junk mail advertisers ought to come and get their trash at the mail station trash cans and THEY can recycle it by re-mailing it to a more smartly-targeted mailing list.

The amount of junk mail we receive is ridiculous. We have to throw away 98% of what comes to our box. It's mostly color mailers from investment companies wooing seniors to a "free lunch" (dinner) to lure them into listening to their b.s. presentations, or real estate agent mailers from agents/agencies who seem to think we don't know MLS and TV realtors are online and we know how to use a computer.

[judylou]

Please bring all aluminum cans to your postal stations north of 466. Put them in the large cans that say Lions Club. They are picked up everyday and the money goes to the blind and to provide eye care for those who can't afford it.

[mickey100]

Originally Posted by gmcneill

We recycle as much as we can. That said, we are disappointed that the list of permitted recyclable items is rather limited compared to what the list of items could easily be expanded.

Wouldn't it be really nice if recycle receptacles could be placed at the respective neighborhood mailboxes? Same for receptacles at the softball fields for those discarded plastic bottles of water, Gatorade, etc.

Our neighbors in our area of St James appear to be decent recyclers also

I agree, as others have mentioned as well, it would be nice to have recycling bins at the post offices. And if I recall, there is a recycling committee that brought up that idea with The villages. I think the problem they ran into was, they're afraid the bins would end up with dog poop in them. There was a previous thread about dog poop in the regular trash receptacles. I was thinking that if they took away the trash receptacles, there would be no place for people to dispose of the dog poop, and people would have to take their junk mail home with them too. Maybe we'd kill 2 birds with one stone. We'd get rid of the smelly trash bins, and people might be encouraged, in a round about way, to recycle their junk mail. Just a thought.