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My office building has recyclables containers for a variety of things: glass, white paper, mixed paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and maybe more I'm forgetting. But we don't recycle all of it. Glass, in particular, we just throw away. The glass recyclables container gets emptied straight into the trash. The janitor explained that this was because unlike plastics or aluminum, glass for recycle brought very little money per pound, so it wasn't worth the effort.
The ironic thing is that we are five minutes' WALK from the recycling center at the dump. Here we are throwing away big bags of glass every day because we can't be bothered to bring it less than a block.
I am equally lazy, I suspect. I collect a lot of empty glass bottles in my cube because I drink Calistoga fizzy-water. I have set up a box in my office where I put these bottles so the janitor won't collect them from me. Do I bring them half a block to the dump? No, I bring them eight miles home for curbside pickup. That way I make no extra left turns.
The ironic thing is that we are five minutes' WALK from the recycling center at the dump. Here we are throwing away big bags of glass every day because we can't be bothered to bring it less than a block.
I am equally lazy, I suspect. I collect a lot of empty glass bottles in my cube because I drink Calistoga fizzy-water. I have set up a box in my office where I put these bottles so the janitor won't collect them from me. Do I bring them half a block to the dump? No, I bring them eight miles home for curbside pickup. That way I make no extra left turns.
