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[threeplusfire]

Over the summer, our area switched over to a single stream recycling program. They use a giant bin and come every other week. We can now recycle paper, plastic, glass, & aluminum all in one pile. Apparently participation in the recycling program doubled when this started and now more than 70% of my neighbors are using it. The municipal district gets a $20 per ton rebate and last month they got a check for $1200. Crazy! (The money is going to park services.)

I cannot believe how great this for us. The amount of garbage we put out weekly has dropped dramatically and we fill up the recycling bin pretty quickly. (All that junk mail, sheesh.)

Comments

[orbie.livejournal.com]

The single stream program is awesome. I was so glad when we got it. I tried to use the little blue bins and all the sorting, but that did not work for me. Now it's so easy to just toss it out, and we're going to downgrade to the smallest trash can, because we hardly have any trash at all anymore.

[cjwriter.livejournal.com]

We got the same program at the beginning of the year and have noticed the same results. I love it and I love fewer trips to the recycling center (still use it for batteries and a few other things). And I agree 100% about junk mail.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It seems such a silly thing to get excited over, but this big blue bin has been such a thing! I had no idea how much stuff I could actually recycle from my week.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I will admit so much of previous non recycling was due to laziness. This has removed so much of that excuse for me!