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I just heard there are nearly 6 TRILLION pieces of plastic in our oceans...Shame on ya. Bet yer still tossin water bottles out the car window huh!
 

Just as Poirot concluded on the Orient Express..it was nobody ...again...

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Very much against littering, my trash goes goes into the proper recycle bins. Not that I've always been this perfect of a human specimen. I had my moments in younger years where I might have tossed a cigarette bud out the window.:devilish:
 
Montgomery Al has a new recycling center, the first in the country. You put your household garbage all together and it has a dispersing plant which separates it. It is costly right now, but they are trying to get other nearby towns to join them and it will disperse the cost.
 
I think I saw that report last week. They also said what washes up or float is not all of it. They're afraid of a lot of it sinking to the bottom in several areas of the ocean.

Not all is recent trash. Some plastics take forever to disintegrate. Yes there are ignorant litter bugs who spoil it for everyone including those in California that must pay for a bag now. But some could be from illegal ocean dumpers, illegal dumpers from another country where their trash gets in a current and floats to US beaches. What was it about a year for Fukushima debris to make it to the west coast of North America? It also could be from over filled trash or recycling containers, overfilled trucks transporting debris, knocked over trash or recycle containers, storms, floods etc.

But I am dismayed in this day and age at the number of people that make little or no effort to recycle. It's unbelievable the amount of cardboard and plastic containers I see in a trash container on trash day which is different than recycle day. God forbid one have to hold on to a recyclable object for maybe a week. But when most residents can't make their little birdie body fold n smash cardboard boxes or plastic drinking bottles I guess that stuff takes up room in their little birdie house world or interferes with their Better Homes And Garden status.
 
I actually heard a person say; I don't recycle.....i don't want to conform........I am an individual..........what?!
 
Not me! I think a prison sentence for people who litter is a good idea!

We are in Thailand and the tap water is not drinkable so we have lots of plastic. I bundle them separately from the rubbish as there is a man who comes by every evening to dig in the bins for plastic bottles. I suppose he must get cash for them.
 
It never ceases to amaze where and what people throw out. During a recent walk the day before trash collection I saw full containers of paint, oil, lawn chemicals, gas and numerous other plastics and cardboard products in the trash. I also big stone pavers that many places would consider commercial trash(even city says no stones, rocks, bricks etc). I'm also amazed that most sanitation workers don't challenge the resident on what they throw out. I walked by the morning of trash day and it was gone meaning they collected it. So now the county has hazardous waste in their dump and has paid more for dumping because of the weight of things like stone pavers.

Everyone has to pay attention to recycling as a whole It's more than just throwing plastic and paper into a container.
 
I'm dismayed by the lack of a recycling ethos in the rural Ohio county I live in. There are some recycling bins available, but they're usually overflowing not because everyone recycles but because the agency responsible for emptying them is very remiss. Few people recycle and litter is everywhere its very depressing.
 
We have serious recycling dumpsters in my building that get so full that by the end of the week there is no more room in them. I have to make sure I take my recycling down just after they are emptied. I'm happy to see recycling bins all over the city - no reason to even put a pop can into garbage bin when there's a recycling bin right beside it - but it happens here too. I've even seen garbage in the office recycling bin. Are some people completely stupid?
 
Cookie said:
We have serious recycling dumpsters in my building that get so full that by the end of the week there is no more room in them. I have to make sure I take my recycling down just after they are emptied. I'm happy to see recycling bins all over the city - no reason to even put a pop can into garbage bin when there's a recycling bin right beside it - but it happens here too. I've even seen garbage in the office recycling bin. Are some people completely stupid?
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Yes, some people really are.
 
The ONLY way to stop some of this garbage from becoming Litter....especially these plastic water bottles...is to put a hefty "deposit" on these things...a deposit of at least 25 cents per bottle. If these people who have to carry a bottle of water around with them realized that they were throwing a quarter out the window every time they tossed a bottle, it might go a long way towards reducing this waste.
 
We don't have any kind of recycling at our apt. complex. Come to think about it, there wasn't in any apt complex we lived in. Have to throw all small/empty plastic water bottles in the trash which goes into a dumpster across from our apt. While living in our old house, we did have 55 gal plastic recycling trash cans to use.

We don't have any kind of "recycling" place around us.
 
Don M. said:
The ONLY way to stop some of this garbage from becoming Litter....especially these plastic water bottles...is to put a hefty "deposit" on these things...a deposit of at least 25 cents per bottle. If these people who have to carry a bottle of water around with them realized that they were throwing a quarter out the window every time they tossed a bottle, it might go a long way towards reducing this waste.
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I'll go along with the bottle deposit proposal, but what about the plastic shopping bags? They're also a curse on the environment. Some stores offer a reward system for people who bring their own reusable shopping bags, but so few people really care.
 
Recycling has to be made "profitable" before it will really work on a worthwhile level. If it costs money to throw plastic away, and someone can Make money by collecting and recycling plastic, we might then see far less litter along our streets, and filling our landfills, etc. Most of the major grocery stores, and places like Walmart have a bin where people can drop off their excess collection of plastic bags.

We live way out in the boondocks, so there isn't any place close to drop stuff off, but we collect our stuff, and when we go to the city, monthly, to visit the kids, I always have a couple of sacks of magazines, crushed cans, and plastic bottles, etc., to drop off at a recycling center in one of the towns we travel through. It doesn't take that much time and effort to collect this stuff, and the drop off point is only a 1 minute detour from the direct route.
 

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