Recycling Questionnaire

[squirmelia]

This questionnaire is for my "design experience" which is happening for the next few weeks in a sub-basement. No cardboard convenience stores are involved this time though, apparently.

[Poll #1149982]

I forgot to add these questions, so answer them in Comments:
1. What do you think of Dusty Bin?
2. Submit photos or descriptions of your bins and where you keep them.

Thanks!

Comments

[messy-hair-girl.livejournal.com]

My number one favorite method of recycling in Baltimore City is the magic of the alley. You can put almost anything in your alley and some guy will come along with a shopping cart and take it. He might sell the furniture for a few bucks, leave the books at the book drop, and then take any metal to the metal recycling place for a few dollars.

The downside is that the guys grabbing up the stuff are ususally addicts or homeless who need more help than picking up my old toaster, but the upside is that they get a few dollars for my old things and nothing goes to waste.

The regular recycling in the city is tough. I'm in a poor-ish neighborhood and these folks are having a hard time keeping on the lights and keeping the kids fed. They don't really think of recycling because that's something "rich white people" worry about. As a result, the city trucks that are supposed to pick everything up will skip whole blocks since only one or two people my put their recycling out.

Now we have "single stream" recycling so you can put paper, cans, bottles, and anything that might possibly be recycled into one bin. The recycler makes enough money that they'd rather get more of your stuff and have to sort it out themselves. I think this will help make things a lot easier.

Stupidly, the city handed out special bins but only at certain locations and certain times. Who's gonna get on a bus to go pick up a recycle bin? Stupid. They should have just dropped one at every house in the darn city.

[messy-hair-girl.livejournal.com]

Also, my favorite recycled object is my lawn mower. My dad made it from a broken gas powered mower and a broken electric. We call it Frankenmower. Parts of it are probably forty years old but it works great and currently lives at my house.