Trash Talking
Recently, I had a conversation with a friend who lamented that every week she always seemed to put out more bags of trash than her neighbors did. She wondered if her three/four bags of garbage a week was odd. or if her neighbors' two-three bags was the anomaly.
I was afraid to tell her that our four-person home puts out only two bags of trash... every other week. But our recycling bin is always filled to the brim.
I am very sure we are far below normal, but I couldn't think of anything my friend might be throwing out that we wouldn't throw out. Our families are the same size. I have no idea why our trash outputs vary so much.
Maybe our trash can is bigger, hence, fewer bags. It's a 30 gallon can.
How many bags of garbage do you take out every week? How does it compare with your neighbors' output? Without getting too personal, what do you suppose is the bulk of your trash? Do you recycle religiously or just when you can?
What would you do differently if there were a per-bag charge for trash collection?
Just curious...
May 7, 2008 at 4:05 p.m.
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Our family usually has between 1-3 bins of recyclables and less than 1 bag of trash per week. We compost our food scraps, and we diligently recycle/reuse everything we can. We save our aluminium and cash it in every few months. We live in Harmony Township, and they accept more types of plastic than the City of Janesville. They also don't require separation of recyclables; much easier than in the city. When we lived within the city limits, our amount of recyclables still far outweiged the regular trash. Our neighbors, no matter where we live, always have more regular trash and less recyclables than us. This, I feel, is a reflection of what people buy in the first place; the item desired comes in plastic, inside a box, wrapped in more plastic, and sent home in a plastic bag.
For me, recycling has always been a way of life and is not optional, but mandatory. I have taught this, and other eco-friendly habits, to my children with hopes of them passing on the 'green-gene' to their children.
May 7, 2008 at 1:12 p.m.
Suggest removal
I know some people who live in Janesville that do no recycling what so ever. in fact when the garbage people refused to take there trash because they could see that there was recycling in the bags, they went out and bought black trash bags.
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