[Vision2020] Recycling

[Ted Moffett]

rhayes at frontier.com <rhayes at frontier.com> wrote:

Too much *containments* in the stream. Are people uneducated about what and
what quality is recyclable, or just too lazy to care?
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Of course the word meant was *contaminants?  *If only the correct type of
recycling material was truly only that *contained* in the correct bin!

I guess AI has not taken over our email systems yet...  Soon the computers
will reads our minds and compose verbal masterpieces based on
what we mean to say without us poor error prone humans worrying about
proper word choice!
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:41 PM rhayes at frontier.com <rhayes at frontier.com>
wrote:

> I tend to take my recycling to the bins at the center rather than drag the
> green curbside out to the street with my meager offerings. I am careful to
> separate the various materials into the proper categories and deposit them
> accordingly. When I look into the bins at the recycling center, I am
> appalled at the garbage I see in them/  A few weeks ago I saw an inflatable
> swimming pool taking up a good portion of the mixed plastic bin. On
> Wednesday this week I took my recyclables and saw tin in the aluminum bin,
> aluminum in the plastic bin, and a whole lot of just plain trash in a lot
> of the bins.  No wonder the market for recyclables is going downhill. Too
> much containments in the stream. Are people uneducated about what and what
> quality is recyclable, or just too lazy to care?
> Roger
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