Recycling
You don't know how good you have it. Returning bottles is easy. Recycling non-returnables is effortless.
Here, it's nearly impossible to recycle and is totally not worth the effort.
Almost everything has a deposit, which means that there is no means to recycle anything but cardboard at an apartment complex. So you have to cart all your containers back to a store. Well, not a store exactly, the corner of the store parking lot where one skeevy guy is taking returns from you and 10 homeless people. It takes roughly an hour and a half to get through the line. All that for $11.00, two months of returnables.
Kelly and I decided that it's just not worth the effort. If California cared about recycling, they'd do something to make it less of a pain. I'm helping the Earth by driving as little as possible, so it balances out.
I've managed to cut my gas use in half over the past two weeks.
Here, it's nearly impossible to recycle and is totally not worth the effort.
Almost everything has a deposit, which means that there is no means to recycle anything but cardboard at an apartment complex. So you have to cart all your containers back to a store. Well, not a store exactly, the corner of the store parking lot where one skeevy guy is taking returns from you and 10 homeless people. It takes roughly an hour and a half to get through the line. All that for $11.00, two months of returnables.
Kelly and I decided that it's just not worth the effort. If California cared about recycling, they'd do something to make it less of a pain. I'm helping the Earth by driving as little as possible, so it balances out.
I've managed to cut my gas use in half over the past two weeks.
How'd you cut your gas use in half? Does the Metrolink to Burbank count? : )
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Make friends with the homeless people & GIVE them your recycling. They'd be happy to do the work.
OR, continue doing it yourself and after approximately 54 weeks, you could have an Ikea Sorority Couch!! : )
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OR, save your containers and make your OWN furniture. Recycling, saving money, and better quality than IKEA. Win, win, win!
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I've been fighting the temptation to blog about this myself. I'm amazed at how poorly people recycle in my building. It's not that hard, yet they still do it wrong.
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I'm embarassed to say that we were those people in our L'Pool apartment for a few months before Kelly's brother shamed us into it. But it turned out to be as easy to recycle as it wsa not to. There was garbage, containers, and paper. We never had to know what number was on the bottom or what weeks they were recycling aluminum, plastic, or glass.
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