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Vicki White-Lawrence
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2006 05:45 pm |
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| I never knew the other company would take them -- Missed an opportunity to get rid of them! We just always took them back to grocery stores or whatever...
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Posted: Sep 13th, 2006 12:50 pm |
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DToney wrote: the regular "wal-mart" grocery bags... they said in their hand out they did not want them! (the other company took them!)
The local grocery stores (major chains) Lowes, Harris-Teeter & Food Lion have bag recycle bins. They do it as a public service. The material collected can't begin to pay for the labor to handle it.
Environmentally, the plastic bag is a better choice, if you recycle the bag
I work in the Plastic's Industry . .. Paper and other contamination really gums up the recycling process. So keep the receipts out of the shopping bag and recycle it
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macca
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Posted: Sep 13th, 2006 02:43 pm |
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| onthefence, I'll ask you this since you work in the industry.... I have been told by someone who wouldn't want to be identified that one of the local grocery stores doesn't end up recycling those bags b/c it is so much trouble -- that they just put them in the trash, even though they have the bin so people can put them in to be recycled. Can this be so???♥♥♥
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Posted: Sep 13th, 2006 03:36 pm |
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Macca I had heard that to!
Couple of years ago at the county dump, that alot of our recycling just went into the landfill because they don't have room for all the recycling. in the center.
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ff12
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Posted: Sep 14th, 2006 04:12 am |
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If we all used cloth bags instead we wouldn't have to worry about it as much.(I am including myself here.)
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Posted: Sep 14th, 2006 02:09 pm |
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I was thinking the same thing ff12
I was thinking cloth or boxes in the trunk-less trips into house 
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Posted: Sep 16th, 2006 04:05 am |
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Have you ever noticed the baggers expression when you ask for paper at Lowes Foods. Its like they think you are some kind of freak.
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onthefence
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Posted: Sep 16th, 2006 04:22 am |
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macca wrote: onthefence, I'll ask you this since you work in the industry.... I have been told by someone who wouldn't want to be identified that one of the local grocery stores doesn't end up recycling those bags b/c it is so much trouble -- that they just put them in the trash, even though they have the bin so people can put them in to be recycled. Can this be so???♥♥♥
I don't work at any of the local grocery stores so... I can't say it doesn't happen. As my original post stated, I don't believe the stores make any profit on the recycling. If someone dumps any trash into the bin, I suppose the whole load would go to the trash since cost wise there is no value to the material. Recycle operations don't want contaminated plastic.
I know as a fact, that Greensboro's recycle operation generates a lot of trash from their recycle stream because of mixed plastics and other "stuff". As a general principle, mixed materials are worthless.
Pure plastic is valued, pure paper is valued, pure metal is valued, Mix it together and it's pure trash.
Recycling only works if everybody keeps the materials separated. One "lazy dodoo" can ruin a lot of people's good intentioned efforts.
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zippitydoodah
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Posted: Sep 17th, 2006 03:36 pm |
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| That makes sence, onthefence. But that makes me wonder about my recycling. I just throw it all in a bin and it gets picked up by Waste Industries. Does that mean it just gets sent to the dump? or do they have somebody sort it?
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Posted: Sep 17th, 2006 03:39 pm |
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ff12 wrote: Have you ever noticed the baggers expression when you ask for paper at Lowes Foods. Its like they think you are some kind of freak.
I think that might be because those of us who ask for paper are a rarity. Actually, if you do it all the time, the baggers kind of get used to you. Some of them have actually said to me, "You want paper, right?"
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Posted: Oct 11th, 2006 04:35 am |
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Can we recycle pizza boxes?
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DToney
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Posted: Oct 11th, 2006 09:54 am |
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ff12 wrote: Can we recycle pizza boxes?
I do. As long as for the most part they are free of food.... 
There is usually none of that left after they leave my house!
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Posted: Nov 4th, 2006 08:42 pm |
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Does any one know if the town has done any enviromentally sound practices at town hall?
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macca
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Posted: Nov 4th, 2006 09:01 pm |
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| At the current town hall?
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Posted: Nov 4th, 2006 10:57 pm |
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macca wrote: At the current town hall?
Macca, I have heard several folks complaining that they was itching to take a broom and sweep that town hall clean out. Maybe open a few windows to shed a little light in there on them public proceedings and let a breath of fresh air in to clean out all the smoke-n-mirrors from outta that back room where all them back room deals and political shenanigans goes on.
I haven't been down there but the place sure must be a real mess?
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