I just want to talk about garbage today. Not that it is my favorite subject but just because it has taken up a lot of my time. Let me explain. Recycling has really come to Antwerpen, something my Rachel would be proud of. We have so many categories here however that it makes my head swim.
1. Blue bags are for cans, plastic bottles and milk cartons.
2. Green bags are for what I would put down the garbage disposer back home like peelings or left over food. (Boy do I miss my disposal)
3.Cardboard and paper go in a box and tied up or taped.
4.Glass goes into the dumpsters at the end of the block, one for colored and another for clear.
5.Green tall cans are for grass clippings and weeds. (we don't have a yard but work in the yard of a member who needs help so I still get to use them.)
6.White bags are for the rest of what ever does not go in the ones mentioned above.
7.Yellow bags are for anyone who exceeds the 2 white bag limit.
The bags can only be purchased at the corner grocery store because it has to have your community stamp on it. They cost 75 cents each for a tall kitchen can size. The yellow bags cost twice as much.
O.K. so I am boring you but I just had to vent. I think we should just go back to the old days when people burned their garbage in the can out back. Life was much more simple then.
1 comment:
I am with you! Going green is making me go crazy. Another thing, why can't my organic fruit be in the same bag as the other? Now I have wasted another bag that I have to recycle. I only bought the organic because I couldn't find the other ones. I feel more guilt now too because my daughter went to the landfill with school and found out that Draper recycles the least and produces the most garbage in SL county. Ooops!
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