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February 12, 2007
Neighborhood Recycling Report
BRAINERD—The first full month of now-monthly curbside recycling in Area 2 is nearing its close, and residents are mixed in their participation. Some, like this reporter, have piles of bags and stacks of cardboard in the basement. Others have given up.
Still others haven't heard, or don't yet understand, the new plan. One dear lady has put her blue bags out every Monday, just like we all (or about 60% of us) used to; and another family waited until this week, which is also brush pickup week for this area—but while that service runs all week, the recycling truck only comes on Wednesday. Maybe they want to be sure it doesn't get missed, so they set it out a couple of days early.
As the "Dilbert" characters so aptly put it, "GAAA!" All this, for the same exact price to taxpayers that the old plan cost.
Herman Wang, ever on the follow-up to this Littlefield brainchild, had a good story* in the daily paper yesterday about how residents are simply stopping recycling. I mean, it's not like we had any excess numbers to shed.
(*I'm not paying $1.95 for it. If I could just give Herman a coupla bucks, that'd be different.)
To be sure, part of me rightly chides those who use any excuse to keep from doing something good; but there are folks whose schedules and circumstances legitimately push them over the line when the choice is between hauling everything to a "convenience center" and finding a way to store a solid month's worth of recyclables in their homes.
And how does this drop in participation help Orange Grove, exactly? Maybe that goofy raccoon mascot knows.
Community | By joe lance | 08:08 PM