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Nancy Young[_8_]

On 3/2/2015 6:39 AM, wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:07:08 -0500, Nancy Young
> > wrote:

>> I try to do my part, for what it's worth.

> Someone said we fool ourselves about recycling - I don't think so.

Well, I've reduced, I try to reuse, but still there's cardboard
(true even if you shop in a store), and I'm not giving up my
newspapers and magazines. So unless someone who's whining
about us fooling ourselves has some workable solution, my town
makes money selling the stuff I recycle. Or they don't spend so
much to dispose of it.

> More of us here do it and that meant the city had to smarten up and
> cope and find places to send it all. If the city wasn't really
> serious, it sure came back to bite them

It must be working as they have been expanding the scope of the
project every year. Perhaps the story is different in places that
have an abundance of landfill space.

> We have sorters of blue bags too, quite an industry employing some
> otherwise rather unemployable people, so that's a good thing too.

I watched a show that went behind the scenes at one of those places.
San Francisco, I think. It really was astonishing.

nancy