Recycling in Walton County

[Smiling JOe]

What do you mean, "it makes you want to get a shredder?" You should already have at least one diamond shredder. The vertical cut shredder will be easy for someone to put together credit card offers and bills, for someone who has time on their hands.

 

[Miss Kitty]

It took forever to get curbside recycling here in Dallas. Now, we have two large plastic bins on wheels...one for regular trash and one for recycling. You must request the recycling bin. Regular trash is picked up twice a week. The recycling bin is picked up once every two weeks. What I have found for our house is that we only need regular pick up maybe once a week and recycling is always overflowing after two weeks.

 

[NotDeadYet]

Thanks, Miss Kitty. It is interesting to know how it is being done elsewhere. So I suppose the contents of the recycle bin are sorted someplace else after being picked up? Maybe our prisoners could still have work doing that?
It is not as if we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. I think it would be good if someone from the county, someone from Waste Management and a citizen or two looked at what is being done elsewhere. Informally, without another expensive "study." Seems like it would become clear enough how to proceed. And how to pay for it.

 

[JustaLocal]

I don't have a problem with the current system. I have my choice of two different recycling bin locations just on my way to the library.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Thanks, Miss Kitty. It is interesting to know how it is being done elsewhere. So I suppose the contents of the recycle bin are sorted someplace else after being picked up? Maybe our prisoners could still have work doing that?
It is not as if we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. I think it would be good if someone from the county, someone from Waste Management and a citizen or two looked at what is being done elsewhere. Informally, without another expensive "study." Seems like it would become clear enough how to proceed. And how to pay for it.

Yes, that is what makes it a no brainer! How easy to just throw all your recyclables in one bin! I have become quite the stickler about recycling and find myself digging through the regular trash after the rest of my family. It has become a sport for me.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Yes, that is what makes it a no brainer! How easy to just throw all your recyclables in one bin! I have become quite the stickler about recycling and find myself digging through the regular trash after the rest of my family. It has become a sport for me.

 

[Matt J]

What do you mean, "it makes you want to get a shredder?" You should already have at least one diamond shredder. The vertical cut shredder will be easy for someone to put together credit card offers and bills, for someone who has time on their hands.

We do, but we rarely use it since a friend of ours became a pyro and bought a fireplace. Now we just burn most of the junk. I was refrencing elgordoboy since he didn't mention having one.

 

[elgordoboy]

We do, but we rarely use it since a friend of ours became a pyro and bought a fireplace. Now we just burn most of the junk. I was refrencing elgordoboy since he didn't mention having one.

I have two garbage sacks full to be burnt or shredded at first opportunity. You are correct I do not have a shredder atm.

 

[scooterbug44]

I thought the whole issue w/ the blue bags was contamination (people putting stuff in the bags that isn't recyclable).

I fail to see how changing from a bag to a container solves this.

 

[John R]

i think the difference is that the blue bag system enables the recycling to be co-mingled with the regular garbage then needs to be segregated at the dump, then moved to the recycling area. If bins are utilized with a separate pickup, the sorting will already have been done by the homeowner, and the recycling can go straight to the station.