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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-05-23 12:36 PM, wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 2:31:28 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> You poor dumbass. I do live in a city that has recycling.
> The green can is for recyclables, thus the term "being
> green." Plastic, cardboard, paper, tin cans, but no
> Styrofoam. We do not recycle glass here.
>
> The OTHER can is for trash which includes apple
> cores (gasp), potato peelings, carrot scrapings, onion peels,
> egg shells, and other such g-a-r-b-a-g-e. There are many
> around here who put those kitchen scraps in a composting bin
> but I assure you the recycling police will not arrest them
> if they do deposit such items in the TRASH.
>
> Why don't you give your local waste management department
> their laugh for the year and call them and ask if you can
> put an apple core in the trash? After they pick themselves
> up off the floor they will tell of course you can.

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