On Aug 11, 6:56*pm, Gloria P > wrote:
> maxine wrote:
>
> >> In an earlier post in the thread about homeless people rummaging
> >> in recycling bins set out for collection,
>
> > The local reason for not allowing people to rummage in the recycling
> > bins is that the state makes money from the recyclables, so if it's in
> > an official state bin, (or city, or town or whatever) it is gumment
> > property and if you take it, you are a thief!
>
> > You're also a criminal if you take a deposit bottle from your recycle-
> > only state and return it for the nickel in the next state over.
>
> > I have never seen them enforcing that law for the trash part of the
> > trash. *People come by and take lawn mowers, tvs, couches, and whole
> > house furnishings in college neighborhoods in May....
>
> A local TV station did a story on college recycling in Boulder after
> summer school ended. *It showed kids in station wagons pulling up
> and retrieving things like expensive skis, TVs, computer monitors,
> loads of furniture, etc.
>
> One of the summer school kids said "I had no way to get the stuff home
> so I had to just pitch it."

Very normal here. At least one year the local university had its own
recycling station in a large parking lot. Still someone I know picked
up 18-20 vcrs that students had abandoned on the lawns of their
houses. Computer monitors were all over the place. One usually only
saw furniture every three or four houses.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada