Eco-guilt

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

However, we don't have a normal recycling program at my condo complex. People in apts/condos are not recycling, at least in CA. All of our stuff goes into the trash bin. Or rather, all of our stuff goes into the landfills.

It's bugging me. We have one of those coin dispensing recycling things at the local market but I know I'm not going to make an effort if it's just select items. It's not about refund value. I don't think there's anywhere to drop off mixed recyclables.

My impulse is to find out about what I can do to get recycling into complexes. It's ridiculous that so many homes don't have this service. I've called our HOA before and they said it would cost more money, so we don't have it. I suppose I could go make a case with the HOA.

My complex used to have it, but it wasn't self-supporting. Not, I think, because people weren't putting stuff in the bin, but rather, because other people were taking stuff out of the bin and recycling it themselves for profit, when those profits should've been used to pay for the pick-up of the recyclables.

We don't even know where our local recycling center is, so unfortunately, we stopped separating our trash. If Stater Bros had a recycle center in their parking lot, I could probably continue recycling, but they don't and anything further is too far out of the way for a few cans and bottles. I think more Americans would recycle voluntarily if recycling were simply made more convenient. If every grocery store had a recycle center, for example.

We have switched to CFLs. Now I have the problem of figuring out how to dispose of a dead cfl bulb. But overall we're very happy with CFL bulbs.

EH: did you try CFLs or LEDs? And if not both, try the other and see if that's better for you.