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Or, at least, your garbage is.
The city is digging through your garbage to see if you are recycling. And you know what they found out? That you are not pulling your own weight to save the environment and that only half of all recyclable material is being recycled.
It cost City Hall $5 million to determine this. They also found out that every New Yorker contributes 16 pounds of trash a week.
The city is extremely interested in seeing you recycle because, according to City Councilaman Michael McMahon, it costs $85 a ton to dispose of residential garbage in contrast to $51 a ton for recycled items.
So they do not have altruistic intentions and wish to create a safe and happy world for future generations by making efforts to slow down the rate at which we deplete the earth’s natural resources? That’s surprising.
City stalkin’ trash [New York Daily News]
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1. copyranter
2. Exposed
3. ram gobi
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.We should strike a deal with the City Council: they agree to recycle themselves (term limits), and we’ll recycle better.
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 11:45 am | Permalink
You know, I get called a Northwest hippie everytime I complain about this, but how about recycle bins next to public trash cans? Or, we could hire every homeless guy who hits up my garbage for aluminum cans to actually do this on payroll? Did no one else see “An Inconvenient Truth”?!
Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 1:04 am | Permalink
YOU ARE ALL MACACAS.
Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
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