Dropped my CW and GS membership

owenssailor wrote:

wny_pat wrote:

Duck wrote:

midnightsadie wrote:
remember if it wasn,t for junk mail all those mail men would be out of work, 95%of mail is junk.

That sure is true. I just throw the junk mail in the garbage can without opening it.
Don

But I'm paying the monthly bill to get rid of the garbage. Can't burn it because that is a village violation. Can't dump it on the side of the road cause we have a county sheriff's garbage deputy who goes through that road side garbage looking for names and address, and when he finds one, it is a very large fine to pay.

We recycle junk mail. In fact our recycle program accepts paper, glass,metal,flatboard,cardboard,styrofoam and most plastics. About the only garbage is kitchen waste. as we have traveled the last 3 winters we have been surprised at how many places have no recycling programs.

Perhaps it would be worth pressuring your local politicians to do something worthwhile and start a recycling program.

We have a state wide mandated re-cycling, operated locally by the county refuse dept. But we do not have county operated garbage pickup and have to pay for independant pickup. I have recycled, but gave up after watching the garbage man throw everything into the same place in his garbage truck for several months. And I am not going to make a 10 mile special trip to the recycle point just to recycle, and have it go into the garbage anyway. Besides, knowing several county employees, I know that much of the counties recycle program is a hoax, because they only recycle what pays enough to pay for the transporation of what is being recycled. The aluminum they recycle cause it pays big. If the price of newspaper is down, they just send it to the landfill, and are still paying to transport it somewhere!!! So much for the recycling effort!!! And I end up getting stiffed on both ends, having to pay a private contractor to pickup my garbage and recycle material, and having to pay the county who operated the refuse transfer points and the recycling operation that is a scam! And then the county hauls it to a neighboring county that charges us by the ton to put it into their landfill. Bet half of it could be recycled.