[Grovenet] Plastic recycling news

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

It begs the question; why doesn't WM just take all plastics since the
options are recycle or landfill, both of which WM handles? 

Here in the Newport area that's how our local waste handlers do it. The
general rule is that if it isn't something that will start to smell in two
days, put it in the recycle bin. 

And, interestingly, they provide us with that "extended" service for all
potential recyclables with the same weekly sort of curbside service you get,
but our service costs a total of $17.40 a month compared to WM's bill of
$62/month! 

To be fair, our local service (Thompson's Sanitary Service) does not offer
extra containers for yard debris at that price. One either fits whatever
they want hauled into the "garbage" bin headed for the landfill or has an
extra pickup arranged. Of course, around here most of that stuff is chipped,
mulched or composted and the remainder burned. But $44/month for a yard
waste bin? That's sounds a bit "over the top"!

Ron D'Eau Claire 

-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Geri
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:25 AM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Plastic recycling news


Katie, thanks much for passing on this info.  We've been
happy with the improvements and additional items WM
has been taking for recycling, but there is always the
rest of those things we don't want to go straight into a
land fill . . .

: )  Geri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katie Allnutt" <allnutt at verizon.net>
To: "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:15 AM
Subject: [Grovenet] Plastic recycling news


Interesting stuff about what when and where to recycle plastics....

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