My gosh. I don't have to go shopping to get paper bags. I always double
bag to be sure I have enough for recycling This is cool, but I think just
putting them in my brand new blue Recycling containers would be fine.
Bringing them to the door is probably more than, as a Minnesotan, I feel I
dese
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> Subject: RE: [Mpls] Trash: Paper or Plastic?
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:28:20 -0600
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> Joy A TRASH Issue!!!
>
> Yes, one is still able to buy furnaces for one's house that burn coal, wood
> and g
Joy A TRASH Issue!!!
Good Memory, David! Frank, Tim, Pam, Mark and other posters remind how
lucky I am to be a Trash Lady in a community that is so knowledgeable and
caring about "my" issue! Trust me, I am the envy of most of my peers across
the nation--in addition to being VERY CLEAN, Mi
>By the way, back when I had a morning radio show I suggested someone
>make a "home smelter" so we could mold our excess plastic sort of like
>those toys where you squirt goo into a mold and bake a toy creature.
>
>David Brauer
>King Field - Ward 10
Actually, David, I think these plastic bags ar
eases all sorts of
nasty PVC fumes for the poor kids to breathe. Yuck!!!
Mark Snyder
Ward 1/Windom Park
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Pam:
They have the described bin at Riverside Market at Riverside and
Franklin. I'm not sure what happens to the bags, but I feel like I'm
being earth-friendly when I drop mine off!
Cara Letofsky
Seward
Constance Nompelis wrote:
>I lived for two years in Dakota County, and recall
>that the
I lived for two years in Dakota County, and recall
that the Cub foods in Apple Valley and South St. Paul
both had bins for "returning" plastic bags. The bags
could be from anywhere.
I have looked for those bins at Minneapolis Cubs and
couldn't locate any. I don't know if it's a suburban
thing
Pam, I only have ancient history, back in my Twin Cities Reader
reporting days.
Then - and I believe, now - plastic was uneconomical to recycle. The
city couldn't sell it for what it cost to collect, unlike other
materials. Plastic has all kind of gnarly factors that prevent it from
being a good
