Cans, cardboard, bottles, newspapers and mixed paper, motor oil, styrofoam, plastic bottles (only those with the neck smaller than the body...???), yard trimmings, Christmas trees, assorted small metal appliances and small scrap, all at the curbside. (For which we pay a big required bill for trash collection.)
I'm a cheapskate and crush cans and plastic beverage containers and others that have recycle value and take them when I have a hundred or so to the recycling places near the markets where you get a chit redeemable at the market for dollars or credit on a purchase.
In California my recollection is that there is a mandate to cut garbage and items going to the landfill by 50% within some time frame. There are state dollar penalties for cities that don't meet that target.
I have the feeling that those who don't recycle are rebeling against being asked to do something and look for excuses to make it too difficult to do so. At least with the curbside program we have it's easy to do.
MIKE, I'll ship you our aluminum pop cans. We only get 2.5 cents each for them! Stay away from Shelby, NC, cruez is creating a toxic waste site! (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Around here anything that goes onto the ground eventually finds its way into San Francisco Bay. If you dumped oil like that around your property you'd have to declare it when you sell or risk being sued and fined and you'd have to pay to have the soil removed and carted to a toxic waste site.
I had it in 2, old 5 quart bottles already to go.....I guess I COULD do that instead of the ground eh?
). Just dump everything recyclable in a bin and set it out.
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