07-08-2006, 07:02 AM
Just a couple of thoughts on recycling.
In our county in CA there is no curbside recycling, although there are paper drives, cardboard container collection points, container collections for aluminum cans in shopping centers. All the garbage picked up from residents is sent to a central location where it is run on a conveyor with 4 operators all dressed up who sort the garbage for glass, paper, metal and such. The refuse is then sent to a land fill to digest. Also green garden clippings and shrubs less than 2 inch in diameter go to an electric generating plant to us in the production of electricity. So people are working on it here. Also the county offices, the Sewage company, museums, police have PV solar collectors. The most solar per capita in the entire state.
My husband is a Portland OR native, when we lived in Portland for two years I was very impressed with their curbside recycling. General garbage, glass, and cans were separated into bins by each resident, cardboard was flattened and folded and set between the small plastic bins, green garden clipping had their own bin. The refuse was collected twice a week, bottles, cans and garbage on one day, and cardboard, paper and garden recyclables on another. It was really a slick set up and everyone was involved and participating!
mella l
In our county in CA there is no curbside recycling, although there are paper drives, cardboard container collection points, container collections for aluminum cans in shopping centers. All the garbage picked up from residents is sent to a central location where it is run on a conveyor with 4 operators all dressed up who sort the garbage for glass, paper, metal and such. The refuse is then sent to a land fill to digest. Also green garden clippings and shrubs less than 2 inch in diameter go to an electric generating plant to us in the production of electricity. So people are working on it here. Also the county offices, the Sewage company, museums, police have PV solar collectors. The most solar per capita in the entire state.
My husband is a Portland OR native, when we lived in Portland for two years I was very impressed with their curbside recycling. General garbage, glass, and cans were separated into bins by each resident, cardboard was flattened and folded and set between the small plastic bins, green garden clipping had their own bin. The refuse was collected twice a week, bottles, cans and garbage on one day, and cardboard, paper and garden recyclables on another. It was really a slick set up and everyone was involved and participating!
mella l
mella l
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