Junk Mail

[cjsmith]

Sunnyvale has an "approved method" of recycling junk mail. It is this.

1. Put all the junk mail in a sturdy paper bag such as you might get at a grocery store.
2. Put the bag in your trash container and put the container out at curbside.
3. Their hand-sorters will go through all the trash at the dump and sort out your junk mail for recycling.

Some questions come immediately to mind. Do they WANT the junk mail flying like confetti all over the interior of the garbage truck as soon as the trash container is upended? Just how well-sealed is my kitchen garbage bag? How much do these sorters get paid??

[Poll #481647]

Comments

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

OK, I called the recycling center to get the real answer. Yes, it gets contaminated in the truck. They don't have a great solution right now, they're just trying to make it a little less contaminated. All bags are ripped open for sorting at the dump. Sealing the bag would help it not get contaminated in the truck, and is thus a fine thing to do. There's no advantage to writing anything on the bag because they rip it open anyway.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

OK, I called the recycling center to get the real answer.

That's cheeeeeeeeeating!

...but thanks. :)