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Recycling With Neighbour John

November 20, 2007 @ 09:35

Neighbour John checked in with an excellent point regarding yesterdays posting about recycling.

A good measure of the garbage we get in a week we don't ask for.

Forget about all the merchandise that is needlessly over-packaged, what about all the crap that Canada post delivers?

What about all the flyers and pamphlets and advertisements that most of us routinely take from the mail box and drop into our grey box. It's a great revenue generator for Canada Post, but it's nothing more than a pain in the ass for the rest of us.

That's where the recycling issue becomes questionable. On one hand you have your regional government insisting on recycling and putting the onus on home owners, yet on the other hand you have the federal government cramming your "superbox" with junk mail.

No wonder "some people" get so pissed off they take the mail right out of their box and shove it right back into the mail slot.

Here's Neighbour John's comment from yesterday.

When people stop putting dog crap in a baggie, then a shopping bag, then a garbage bag, I may think about recycling,
90% of my gargbage I do not ask for (Sears, Bay, Victoria Secrets catalogue, special women's hygiene product initiatives.
What's with that?
I used to love the Eaton's catalogue, but I digress.
I just take all my crap to a dumpster at work; it only costs $180.00 a month.
Do you really think we produce less garbage? Maybe we should start with the source.
If you want to save the planet stop, packaging, reading, shopping, washing, fertilizing, phonebooks, newspapers, watering, showering, cleaning, and watching Formula One.
I've been recycling since I was ten, started at two cents a bottle then went to five cents, now it is ten cents, baby c'mon 98% recycled and nobody asked us to do it!!!

Neighbour John

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36 Responses to "Recycling With Neighbour John"


james edgar
November 20, 2007 / 09:41

I agree with John except the F1 thing. Keep watching They use less fuel yhan you think.


Jason Barr
November 20, 2007 / 10:07

I think John means that F1 is a waste of time.


LEW
November 20, 2007 / 10:26

John - can I have your Victoria Secrets catalogues.


Pete McPhedran
November 20, 2007 / 11:06

Neighbour John:

I don't think I follow, *you* pay $180/month for a dumpster at work that you fill with garbage and recyclables from home?

If that is correct, what a waste. Just sort the stuff at home and get on with life. So what if everyone and their cousin sends you junk mail, if it is addressed just write return to sender and drop it in the mail, make them pay 2x. If it is unaddressed put a sign on your mailbox that says "No unaddressed ad mail". I don't know if it is a law or anything, but it works at my house.

The rest of it, just recycle it.

Of course, if I misunderstood you, nevermind.

You should recycle though. Just because *most* people are idiots and there are people that bag and rebag and rebag dog cr@p, doesn't mean you shouldn't do the best that you can do.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you 100% that we are not the problem, but the producers of the plastic wrappings, and over packaging. I have read reports that "they" have researched it and "we" want all this over packaging and I just don't agree. Costco is good and bad for example. They do multiple packages and sometimes they simply tape two boxes of something together, which is good, but I have bought things there that were 2 boxes, boxed together and wrapped in plastic. What a waste. Don't even get me started on tiny items in massive "display" packaging.

Thanks,


--Pete


Jason | GetYourOJ.com
November 20, 2007 / 14:34

Is soemthing that hard about puttig junk mail and pizza boxes and milk cartons in a blue or grey bin and then putting out on your curb? It's never been hard for me to do that. It's a bit of a pin putting chicken carcasses and cat litter into my green bin but hey, I'm just a guy without any kids that thinks a lot about the next generation of chidren and the problems they will inherit. So, do it for your kids if you can't do it for yourself.

For crying out loud, you can go and spend thirty dollars on a paper shredder if you're paranoid about ID theft. Stick that stuff in a recycling bin.

I am waiting for the day big buissnesses, who are even a bigger probelm when it comes to this isssue, start getting fined for things like throwing out all their paper. Plus the fact that most of them have contracts with Grand & Toy.. who believe me do not worry about where there parer comes from as long as they can SELL it.

Do you know Kleenex and many other brands make the paper we blow or noses into and wipe our asses with.. did you know this paper was made from virgin fibers from Canadian rainforest.

Now.. if we could all just step up a little bit and start to recycle more, maybe we could -god forbid- save a few trees. Maybe we could wipe our asses with something other than VIRGIN FIBRES FROM THE RAINFOREST.

Come on people, wake up. My uncle is in Africa right now teaching English and Soccer in places that do not have their own drinking water and to hear people here say that it's too much of a bother to recylce... to stop using platic bags at the crocery store... that it's a such a bother to make small changes.. give me a break.

We are lucky to live where we do and it's about time these things were not looked at as chores. Look at them as a bloody privilage. I am bloody privliaged to have this imperfect crappy system of recycling. It's totally mismanaged, and it needs a lot of work, but it's a HELL of a lot more than others have and I, for one, am more than willing to participate.

All our garbage goes to MICHIGAN so we can cut down on what goes to the landfill, it saves a lot in gas pollution as well. And wear and tear on our roads from big garbage trucks.

It's worth it for our future. Kindly help out.


Dave
November 21, 2007 / 16:02

re:Jason | GetYourOJ.com
Canadian Rainforests...
and where might these be located?


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