![]() For every pound you recycle you earn points and then can in turn earn gift cards which I in turn use for gas or groceries or gifts. We can opt in for recycling and while their is an added fee, it cancels itself out in money back dollars which I take advantage of. Our HOA is able to get a deal so we pay 33.00 every THREE months or 11.00 a month for curbside trash pickup using one of their trash cans. So to answer your question, it’s free around my house. One thing I did notice which you didn’t mention is that when they started the program, I saved on trash bags because I didn’t have to use as many so that was a bonus. It’s easy and it’s free except for the gas and time to do it. It takes us three weeks to fill it all up and then I drive my truck to the recycling and toss it where it’s supposed to go. I have a compost bin for anything the chickens won’t eat and two trash cans. It seems kind of complex but I have two bins in the back of my truck for the recycled. Part of the money is funneled back into the school system they keep the rest. A huge multinational corporation supports our recycling centers as a tax write off and they sort and resell our commingles. Almost everything else is tossed in the bins marked “commingled which is paper plastic cardboard and cans.” There are also bins for aluminum cans, magazines metal and yard waste. In our county, if it fits in a garbage bag you can just throw it in the trash compactor machine for free. I recycle as part of my faith as a Christian (I believe it’s a commandment to be as green as possible but this is just between me and God so no flaming me later). We can either pay for a service which is $14.99/month or we can load everything in our cars and take everything to one of five recycling centers located in our county. I live in outside the city limits of Podunk South Carolina and we have two choices. In practice, maybe your one bag doesn’t do much damage to whatever company pays for that dumpster, but in principle it’s stealing (unless you have permission from the company, of course, in which case give em a hearty THANK YOU)! I’m not trying to put you down or make you feel bad or anything…just something most people don’t think about except the guy in charge of paying for the dumpster pickup… □ Add up enough people putting in ‘just a small bag’ and child could lose their scholarship, or have less supplies in the classroom or anything else (field trips, more books in the library, guest speakers) that could help the kids succeed. ![]() I know this because I was vice principal at a small private school where we always tried to keep tuition low so not just the rich kids could afford to go there we were very cognizant of where each penny went. If people are filling these dumpsters with their garbage from home, they fill up faster so the company has to pay more often. The one thing…your work is paying for that dumpster pickup, and many places with dumpsters don’t have a set pickup once a week or whatever, they just call when it’s full and pay a fee per pickup. You are not a weirdo for thinking about this stuff. Just yesterday I threw the paper wrapper from the tea bag in the trash rather than walk to the recycle box. I also try to throw away anything I need to from the car when I’m at the gas station rather than bring it home. Cooking from scratch really reduces our waste from packaging. ![]() We compost and feed food scraps to the chickens as well as recycle and cloth diaper to keep our trash production down. We share eggs and garden goodies with the neighbor to say thanks. Our family of six fills about one kitchen bag per week. He puts the bin by the road on trash day, and we add what we have. We asked our bachelor neighbor if we could share his bin and split the cost, and he said we can just use it for free. But one winter the township decided to close the dump for January and February. We also have to take our recycling there, which is free, so it wasn’t extra work. We took our trash to the township dump every two weeks or so for a small fee. We just weren’t filling the container that cost $20-25 per month. We cancelled trash service several years ago. I’ll be taking photographs of our trash this week and will post an update next Monday. ![]()
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