By accident I got one of the Moose Jaw new Loraas recycle instructions in my mailbox.
Yes, I have a recycle bin, but I had one long before Moose Jaw council approved having them in the city and made their agreement with Loraas and because of where I live, I still have a private agreement with Loraas for a recycle bin. When I got this sheet in my mailbox I, of course, phoned to see if that applied to me or just the city bins and of course it does.
Why would I pay to have recycling now when most of what I want gone is no longer allowed in the bin?
I phoned Loraas, didn’t understand what some of what was no longer allowed really was and how to determine it, only to be told it had come from the people they have the pick-up agreement with, and not their decision alone. When you take out all the plastic, my understanding of why recycling was thought of being done in the first place, we are back to most that will decompose over time like paper and tin and this isn’t what is causing a problem at our dump or in the world. Glass, well that can, in most cases, be reused in some way. Who hasn’t used a little bottle/jar to put buttons, paper clips, etc. in one time or another?
I think back when I lived in another province and plastic bags were just the new things and a novelty almost when an older lady cut and used them in some way to make mats for her kids and grandkids. Surely there is some enterprising person, company, etc. who can come up with something that can be made of all this plastic, especially the containers we are selling stuff in and can only be reused a few times if at all, and all will be going once again into the recycle bins.
I am the only person in this city who is unhappy, to be polite, about the new recycling regulations? Come on people, lets remember who wanted to have recycling in the first place many years ago in this country. Moose Jaw was late in getting it, I can assure you.
Yours sincerely,
Hope Beedle
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