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				| ![]() Posted:     Post subject: The "facilities" lag behind the materials |  |  
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				| The trouble with recycling is that only a small fraction of recyclable materials are actually accepted by recycling centers.  Case in point: my local center.  Under "cardboard," their website specifies corrugated only, no milk cartons or cereal boxes.  Under "plastic," they specify no tubs. 
 Okay, but I go through a lot of cold cereal and soymilk.  I go through a lot of hummus, and so far, I have only ever seen hummus sold in plastic tubs.
 
 In the last town I lived in, I did a little "protest" of sorts: since my apartment complex did not have recyclables pickup, I had to take my recyclables to the recycling center myself.  So I would save up hummus tubs until I had a lot of them, then go on the weekend, when the collection bins were unattended.  Into the bins would go the tubs -- if they refuse to take perfectly good recyclables, let them take the responsibility for sending them to the landfill.  I did my part.
 
 Live was I ere I saw evil.
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