Slow and steady wins the race
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
United States
February 1, 2013 9:42am CST
I guess it would not have hurt for me to continue to put off calling the city, but I did anyway.
I called to ask if they could send out another recycling container, they couldn't. "No Ma'am we don't send out additional containers but you can take it to the drop off".
Well the drop off is clear across town, and way out of my comfort zone.
So it looks as if I will have to try to be ultra strategic and be on top of the person who is on top of getting the recycling done.
Why? That person doesn't know how to properly crush cans / bottles. Can't figure out how to cut up cardboard and the such to properly get it in the bin for ultimate space..
Ugh!
There are things here that have been here since 1974. No one uses them, it serves no purpose as they aren't even looked at anymore.
I'm trying to clean up the room I sleep in so that I can organize my things that have been strewn about the house for a few years.
When I first moved back in... well that's another discussion. Let us just say I am irritated about not getting another bin. I have three bags waiting to be recycled in my room that I have to figure out WHEN the best time to get these things out will be.
I tried to get family to drink from a glass out of two liters to save bottles but they won't do it.
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6 responses
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
1 Feb 13
I don't understand why we have the limited bin either. I asked them if I could use a trash can, if they'd accept it that way and they said no. That's when the mentioned the recycling center. I didn't ask if there was a fee to get in but I imagine there is. There's a fee at the dump a county over.
I think we can have two bins for trash here, so I don't understand the one bin for recycling policy.
I told my grandmother and she says "You should've said 'oh well guess i'll be dumping the stuff in the garbage then'".
I doubt they would care either way.
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@celticeagle (168542)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Feb 13
Maybe you could get with this recycling person and give them some pointers. And you can only do so much. Don't let it stress you out. If you don't like the way people are doing things there isn't much you can do about it.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Feb 13
I doubt it would work. All I can do is go behind them and make sure things are crushed, cut the cardboard up before they have a chance to, etc.
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@celticeagle (168542)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Feb 13
It does seem like this is a lost cause. So I would probably work on not letting it bother me quite so much cause you know there isn't much you can do about it.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
1 Feb 13
Surely they would be more encouraging when it come to recycling? Not making it easy are they? A lot of people wouldn't actually bother to recycle, but here you are making the added effort and what do you get in response? Sounds like they go out of their way to be unhelpful. We want you to recycle but you have to make the effort. Great attitude eh!
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Feb 13
I honestly don't understand it. This is a big county, surely it wouldn't hurt them to have two drop off locations? I am just going to have to be more strategic about it I suppose, but it's still annoying.
@GardenGerty (161006)
• United States
1 Feb 13
We have to take all of our recycling to a central location ourself. I do not like it, but that is how it is in our town. I can sympathize with you. It is hard to get people to change their habits about things, both the drinking and the crushing.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Feb 13
I would not be so against it if this was a smaller county and safer, but it's not. I live in a "Safe" area but the area where they expect us to go is clear across town. Way out of the way.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
2 Feb 13
The problem with living in someone else's home is that you have little say over how things are run. I had the misfortune of living with my parents for a little while a few years ago; my answer was to buy an old RV and live full-time (elsewhere, of course) in it for a bit until things in my life changed. That came after more than a year of dealing with their nonsense.
Ultimately, the answer for you likely is to find another living situation. The longer you stay, the more trapped you will feel.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Feb 13
Yes, but I can't just leave.
Without me here, they wouldn't have atleast one homecooked meal a week.
I also have been buying the cleaners to clean the bathrooms and kitchen.
They don't / won't do it.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
4 Feb 13
But if that is your rationale, you could be committing yourself to staying for another five years, decade or longer. Unless there is some inheritance contingent on you staying to care for them, that seems like a huge sacrifice--taking care of people and basically having little say over anything that goes on in the household.
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
3 Feb 13
You may not be able to get an additional bin, but maybe your neighbors have room in their bins and you can put the excess in there? You can't expect everyone to feel the same way you do or care about what you care about. If it's important, find a way to get to the drop off. One good trip ought to make a difference.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
3 Feb 13
I don't like the area and if I don't like the area I stay far away from the area. Neighbors we don't talk to anymore so that's out of the question. Will just have to do the best I can with what I have.
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
10 Feb 13
When the recycling gets picked up is it manually collected on both sides of the street at once? If it is collected by one person on one side of the street at a time you can do what my aunt had to do in Beaumont after Katrina.
There was excess trash because of so many people in one house and she was only allowed one can so the driver let her fill the can a second time and place it across the street and he would empty it on the second pass when he came back the other way.
