Friday, June 27, 2008

Where have all the recycling bins gone?

Ok, this is ridiculous. We live on a world of limited resources, and environmental issues are becoming more talked about. We are called to live green, to reduce our global footprint, limit use of fossil fuels, etc. So why is it so HARD to find a damn recycling bin out there. I can think of a least a half a dozen places that I used to be able to recycle things that I can't any more. The gas station for example. Or the gym. How many people use water bottles at the gym and not always the reusable ones? But I can't recycle at the gym any more. Or at the mall, the airport, and many other places.

I realize that have resusable bottles is best, but that doesn't always work when you are out an about. And what about the diet coke! Doesn't anyone think about the diet coke?!

Seriously, where did they all go. I kept them in a big pile in my car, and in the ultimate sense of injustice I went to recycle them at the apartment today and that recycler was gone too!

1 comment:

Marketing Mama said...

Okay, this is a problem for me, too. My new office building does not recycle. WTF? I've started taking all my cans home, but it's a huge PITA.

I know more and more companies are doing co-mingled trash/recycling. Where "supposedly" someone goes through all the trash and pulls out everything that can be recycled. My old company did that, and therefore did not have separate recycling bins. You could always call the mall, etc., to ask if they do that. WTH about your apartment? Weird.