Yes.
I love how The Good Human canceled trash pick up. I too create almost no garbage. I have maybe one plastic grocery bag’s worth of true garbage each week. I’ve pondered and pondered if canceling trash pickup would work for me but it won’t. It won’t because while I’m being billed for trash pickup, that’s tied in with recycling pickup.
My city is great with recycling pickup. They pick up: cardboard, mixed paper, metal, plastic, glass, batteries, and lightbulbs at the curb every week. It would not be more energy efficient to take all my recyclables out to the recycling center myself when the truck has to go by my house each week anyway to get to my neighbors and it would take me more time than I think it’s worth to do it myself.
I’m definitely getting my money’s worth when I remind myself that I’m paying for the recycling service despite the fact that it’s billed as trash of which I have almost none.
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I have no option but to pay for trash pick up and have no recycling pick-up. Luckly I have school age children and the schools have recycling containers. Only paper and limited plastic. I still try and recycle all I can.
Since you have so little to be picked up, could you put it in your neighbors’ bin and offer to split the cost of pick-up with them?
May 7, 2009 at 5:54 AM
Then I wouldn’t have a recycling bin then which I do make good use of.