Comments on: why is recycling so hard? oh wait, it isn’t… http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/20/why-is-recycling-so-hard-oh-wait-it-isnt/ Why have 10 blogs on specific topics when you can have just 1 with all kinds of random topics? Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melissa http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/20/why-is-recycling-so-hard-oh-wait-it-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Melissa Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:28:11 +0000 http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=677#comment-675 Oh, to live in California. Here in Richmond VA they recycle plastics #1 and #2 only, and just bottles, no other types of plastic containers. I miss living in Charlottesville where you could drive your own recycling to the center and sort it into huge containers that were put straight onto trucks. You had to separate glass by color, and office paper from flat cardboard and egg boxes, and that always made me confident that it would actually be recycled. As for the separating, I guess they trusted that anyone who would drive to the recycling center would be conscientious enough to separate it properly. Oh, to live in California. Here in Richmond VA they recycle plastics #1 and #2 only, and just bottles, no other types of plastic containers. I miss living in Charlottesville where you could drive your own recycling to the center and sort it into huge containers that were put straight onto trucks. You had to separate glass by color, and office paper from flat cardboard and egg boxes, and that always made me confident that it would actually be recycled.

As for the separating, I guess they trusted that anyone who would drive to the recycling center would be conscientious enough to separate it properly.

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