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Posted by George on October 2, 2006, 12:41 pm
Sharon wrote:
>> If your city requires such specific bags, perhaps they can also suggest a
>> source for them? What do other people do?
>
> One would think. Our area's trash companies have a similar
> requirement: clear bags for yard debris. My husband and I searched Lowes and
> Home Depot and even local grocery stores and couldn't find them anywhere.
> Everybody only stocks the black plastic bags.
>
> Related peeve: overly specific recycling/trash rules. DH is a Good
> Citizen who tries to follow the rules. He was annoyed when I told him that
the
> trash man just tossed the yard debris into the truck with the trash (I could
> see out the window during breakfast). I also think it's ridiculous that they
> recycle plastic-A but not plastic-B and cat food tins are acceptable but the
> lids we peel off them aren't. Plastic bags are acceptable except for plastic
> grocery bags, which they apparently expect you to take back to the store for
> recycling.
Thats a requirement of the recyclers. Often mixed recyclables are simply
taken to the landfill at a cost because it is too tedious/expensive to
separate them. The next county over has a good plan though. The
recycling center is manned with prisoners who get to separate the stuff.
> Oh, and last year this angered BOTH of us: during the fall season when
> they were actively picking up leaves (only bagged, mind you, no fancy vacuum
> trucks here), we discovered that they will only pick up a maximum of 3 bags of
> leaves per house per week. In lovely deciduous-forested northern Virginia,
> this was NOT acceptable. (Our yards full of ankle-deep leaves came to a total
> of around 20 bags. We bought a chipper-shredder after that. Oh, and fired and
> hired 4 different trash companies in the space of 3 months.)
Have you considered mulching? That way you have some great organic
material for the garden or shrubs.
>
> - Sharon
> "Gravity... is a harsh mistress!"
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