Talk to the Goat
I too am an obedient recycler. But I don't believe the private company contracted by the town actually recycles anything. I think it all goes in the same landfill. I once paid to have a car battery disposed of safely so it wouldn't leach its nastiness into the groundwater. But I saw those bastards toss it in with the rest of the garbage. I don't know what's worse, paying for your own recycled slop back or paying to have it not recycled. But I do love your turn of phrase. Your last paragraph is a classic! Thanks for the Birthday wishes. Who besides Golf Widow and me?
Absolutely they should have to pay you for your garbage! I mean if you're not getting full use out of these items that you throw away..some of them even still perfectly serviceable i imagine, if only encrusted in a smidge of filth from the other garbage why should they get it free? Thanks for stopping by my site by the way!
"Reusing" your ass is, I would think, a given. It's built to last after all.
"Reducing" it is a common desire, particularly among women. Half the time I don't know why.
"Recycling" is a difficult one. Can you have you ass donated after you die? Are there ass-deficient people out there needing a transplant?
Yes I know, I'm wilfully ignoring the hyphen in that last sentence...
SOme garbage talk...my neighbor steals the garbage from our hallway!! What a wacko...oh and here they don't recycle!
what I don't uderstand is why are recycling rules different depending on which town you live in?
At school they won't take shampoo bottles, juice cartons, or egg cartons.
When I go home, all those things are picked up by the recycling truck.
I don't get it!
Also, I'm suspicious of this whole "recycling" thing. Do they actually do what they say? Hmm...
I just saw a picture from the family photo album of an endless alley piled 2 stories high in NYC where China Town meets Little Italy.
You and your pitiful band of recyclers (not me - I eat garbage and poop it into a sinkhole near my house) have no hope of stemming the garbage tide of the planet.
Upwelling studies are showing new forms of bacteria and viral life coming up from the depths of the oceans due to garbage dumped thousands of miles away decades ago around the world.
Wait, what was my point! Oh yeah - screw the recyclers or something. No that wasn't it. Ummmm . . .. keep recycling everybody to clean up a little patch of your world to make it better for the next generation . . . No . . . . that wasn't it . . .
Have a nice day! Yeah that's what I was trying to say.
Cal the (really I didn't get into my neighbor's mood enhancing prescription) Wonder Dog, yeah, definitely dog.
what are you doing with dirty diapers?
our garbage police leave us a sticker on whatever they won't take explaining what the probem is, you know, like you forgot to put a pink bow on your pizza box. we are allowed three bags, after that, we have to pay, but we rarely go over one bag, considering we have five in our family, i think we're doing pretty good.
HELLO! Bud sent me. What I don;t get about recycling is that it creates and keeps jobs while helping prevent Global Warming (even Time Magazine put GW on their cover). Why is it we are the most abundant and blessed nation on earth, yet we waste and don't recycle like morons? Now Congress has increased the speed limit! It's all nuts but you did well by reminding us! Great site!!
Good grief. Well at least here we can put all our recyclables in blue bags and they just magically get picked up AND sorted somewhere else. I recycle religiously but if I had to go through what you do, I think I'd friggin' CHEAT.
yeah us Michiganders were tired of dealing with your stinky sh**!
ok ok, I kid. But I understand the frustration you feel with people stealing totes and stuff, happens here all the time. But we actually get free ones if we ask for them 
i love this town for that reason.
How timely, I just seconds ago posted about this exact same thing! I have a ton of electronics I want to recycle and can't for the life of me figure out what to do with it!
My Ass indeed!
I caught my trashmen throwing my carefully sorted recyclables right in with the "general population" of trash...
I pass this knowedge onto you because I'm a domestic god: you can wash your coffee grounds down the sink. It actually breaks up the congealed fat and other weird gunk that stogs up your pipes. How's that work? Something to do with the PH of the grounds. Dunno the how. Ask someone smart like my wife.
Nothing I like better than Jay talkin trash, lol I promised myself that I wouldn't comment on the last line since Jason already has problems of his own.
Furthermore, just think how we are depriving some hardworking future Anthropologist? They will stumble across a 21st century dump 1,000 years from now and swear it was once a thriving city... the diapers should be about ripe by then.
I would buy a gun and use it on the next person to player hates on your garbage!
I try to recycle right but I think I suck at it. I don't have the guidelines for our neighborhood recyclables so I just stuff everything in the recycling bin. Hey, better safe than sorry!
I'm sure the recycling guy hates me.
Giggle.
Good Post.
It's the same old crap here - sort, separate and pay high fees. Only difference is that here, they only collect garbage. Paper, plastic, compost, etc., must be TAKEN to the collection point.
My least favorite chore, that is.
" I am paying money for the pleasure of re-receiving my own garbage"
Let's hope they don't acquire the sewage system as well.
Ha ha!
Make your garbage work for you!
Ha ha ha! Ha!
I love it!
In fact, I've just been inspired to start picketing the bottle recycling depot down the street. Cause they don't -- wait. They actually do pay us.
Okay, I've got it -- only generate waste that comes from bottles! That's what we must do!
So I guess it's just beer and booze for me from now on then...
So, your garbage pickup is included in your taxes? We have to pay extra for ours. :P And I could SO not deal with the one bag every two weeks, we send at least three bags in two cans every week AND ours is combined with my in-laws' - I dunno how much they put out.
That is rediculous though, last time I checked, recycled paper was more expensive than the "new" stuff.
We recycle things like soda cans, glass, and copper and whatever else might come up. The newspaper and other paper products gets turned into kindling for the wood stove here. Thank goodness the husband gets paid for his copper and the cans when he takes them to the same place, but I dunno of anywhere that pays for glass or newspaper, etc. Sadly, we have to haul off this stuff ourselves...
Here, here! Glad you're into it, I try to do it at work and at home...the recycling that is, arf, arf!!
do you mean you dont compost your own stuff. egad
(extream sarcasm)
Hey Miss Jay, I wnated to let you know i blogmarked ya.
You know. You make a very good point. I had never thought about the fact that I am buying back my own garbage. What a scam.
That's it from now on NO BUYING RECYCLED products. OR products containing recycled matter.
We rural people don't recycle except for making our own compost. I don't think any of the local towns do, and I can't imagine anyone stealing someone else's garbage unless it's to try to steal a credit card number.
When you figure out how to reduce and recycle ass, let me know.
It think that you should spearhead a littering campaign. Unite your neighbourhood and create your own shanty town. Have them scatter their trash and recyclables in the streets, on the sidewalks, hanging from telephone wires and crammed in phonebooths. That way, when the city has to pay for clean-up, at best, they'll break even when they sell it to 3M to make into Post-it Notes.
Paper goes to the big ass bin in the church parking let, at least that is what my parents do. In the city where I live you put large crap out in the alley. Once a month they pick it up OR someone w/ a pick up takes it. The rest of the carp is separated into trash and yard waste. They pick those dumpsters up once a week. This service is free. My tampons, foil, plastic and coffee grounds all go to the same place. So am I to understand that is a landfill in Michigan?
I'm a few miles down the 401. I gave up recycling when my neighbor stole my recycling box for the third time (asshole). He has also stolen a few other items. And yelled at for having a compost bin. We handle our own trash here. If we were limited to one garbage bag every two weeks (regardless of family size?????) The bins at the grocery store would get a couple bags extra I'm sorry to say.
This is crazy. In America, if you recycle (unless you're in San Francisco) your neighbors call you a hippie moon-walker.
Just be glad you guys are civilized enough to care about garbage. We throw away everything, even babies for god's sake.
What if the authority doesn't take any heed...refuse to budge, refuse to give you fair prices for your refuse ?
We are trapped, jay ! We have no choice and they know it too well.
This is exactly how I've been feeling about my council all the way over here in the London Borough of Hounslow. When they can be arsed coming over to my side of the pathway to pick up my recycling box that is. Every week for 6 weeks has been the same routine of me ringing up to complain, again, with the same conversation, what time are you putting it out? They try to catch me out on that one you see, but I either tell them it's been there since they forgot last week or that the OH is a postie and leaves the house at 4am.
Oh God, don't get me started on Hounslow Council, for fuck's sake...
Monopolistic organizations are always the richest ... its unfair, truely
Since I live in a rural are of the US now I know that recycle is just finally starting to come into Vogue. Most of the WASP'y types will have nothing of it though. However, back when I lived in the NYC area I could well imagine why people had to pay for it, apparently you don't watch the Soprano's up there, huh? Last weeks episode could splain the whole thing to you Lucy. There is a lot of money in sanitation.
Christine
Er...
You have fun fighting this one on your own, hon.
I don't mind paying for my own garbage back.
You know why?
Because I throw out perfectly NEW THINGS!
Before I moved, the county I lived in (in Ohio) was known to have the 'cleanest' recyclables (we had to wash them out first). Seriously. It was in the newspaper. Can you imagine how much better I slept knowing that little tidbit?
Great minds Miss Jay!
And good for you for your efforts even if the uber garbage nazi's don't appreciate it. Quite a scam the city has going with selling it back to you at full price.
Sometimes being a good citizen blows goats 
Use worms. Worms rule.
Garbage collecting has to be the biggest racket in the world. They don't really recycle, unless there's money to be made. I think recycled stuff should cost less too.
Just follow Jason. He dont know what he's doing, and aint no one getting on his case. True, he may be the leading factor in the pollution of our earth, but were all gonna die anyways...
I never thought of it that way. They're making me pay for their recycling policies and they're selling my back my garbage??!!!
How dare they! I say we start sending them bills!
Hey Miss Jay,
Thanks for the comment.
Do you really not like music, as your profile says?
Susanne
Nah. It's a Johnny Rotten quote.
Our recycles usually end up in the landfill. They go to the recycle plant where they sit for 90 days and when no one buys them, they go to the landfill. All that work, that extra fuel, blah blah blah, for nothing. :-/ Unless somehting has changed.
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