Hillsborough County, or Tampa, has been pretty progressive about waste collection for some time. I know we also run an incinerator that produces electricity from waste products, too.
I was really surprised when we moved back to Indianapolis because they had no municipal recycling program in place. Everywhere I have lived since leaving there in 1988 had a recycling program. I would have thought they would have one by now, but no such luck. When we moved into our house I contacted our waste hauler about recycling bins. I had to pay a fee to get them, as recycling was not mandatory there, just voluntary. Go figure. Dan > On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Again? Apparently anything I write with numbers in it looks like spam to the > list filter... > > > ________________________________ > From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > To: Diesel List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 9:37 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Slow list - compost > > > > Single sort is pretty amazing. Years ago when I visited LT Wonko I got to see > the program there which used retarded folks. My dad is the landfill manager > for EcoMaine and a couple months ago we toured their facility which is almost > completely automated. The only manual sort they do is for different plastic > types. They aren't allowed to have retarded people, its "cruel". Instead they > use mostly jailbirds. > > I can't remember how much volume Wonko's outfit did, not a large amount > anyway. EcoMaine does something like 2,000,000 pounds a DAY. > > -Curt > > Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:35:44 -0500 > From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Slow list - compost > Message-ID: <d5a3f396-949b-4a07-a968-257497651...@penoff.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Probably not. You're most likely doing "single stream" recycling now. > > Everything goes, the waste collectors sort and recycle. We just started it a > few months ago along with automated collection. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Dec 3, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Curt wrote: >>> We've had an early freeze here, ground is hard frozen a good 4 inches down. >>> The center of the compost pile still steams when I open it to make an >>> addition though. >> >> Not so much here in ChiTown. >> Walks in the Forest Preserve is much mud and wet leaves to slip on. >> Beautiful warm day for a walk, and it was misting. >> Compost pile - it is amazing what nice black dirt develops from plant >> matter after compost. Plus, it decreases our garbage output to very >> little and then we try to recycle glass and plastic and paper and >> cardboard. Not anymore, though. The recycle bins have been >> eliminated, so I guess all our recycle stuff goes to landfill which is >> probably where it went anyway. >> mao > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
