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"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> 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.

We have to pay for those plastic bags that supermarkets used to give free.
10p each I think. I rarely go without my own shopping bags anyway so it
hasn't affected me yet.

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