[Robotgroup] Austin Recycling (was: Residential Geothermal)

[Andre Lamothe]

Hmmm, I will look at that. But, definitely the trucks that come here won't 
take it no matter what. There is another service that will come and get 
stuff for a free. So "pay as you throw" sounds like it, but that's 
ridiculous, I am not going to pay to recycle to make them money! I think I 
am definitely going to pound on the austin councilman again and see if I can 
get him to do something about this. Recycling should be free, or they should 
pay US. But, at very least they can make a huge profit from our stuff, they 
don't get to double dip and get paid twice, that's just greedy and the 
planet is the one that looses.

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vern Graner" <vern at txis.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Austin Recycling (was: Residential Geothermal)


Andre Lamothe wrote:
> Which city do you live in austin? I was told by 3 sources starting with 
> the
> company on the side of the truck, the city, and the garbage company that
> ONLY plastics, paper containers where recycleable, they won't take 
> cardboard
> boxes or anything large like that, even if you break them down.

from this link:

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/disposal_p.htm

comes the following text:

--------------------- CLIP -----------------------
Paper

Pay-As-You-Throw customers can recycle newspapers, magazines, catalogs,
home office paper and junk mail by putting them in a brown paper grocery
bag or in a separate recycling bin from their recyclable containers.

Solid Waste Services cannot recycle boxboard, tissue or wrapping paper,
facial or toilet tissue, paper towels or napkins, any wet or
food-stained paper, dark-colored paper and envelopes and greeting cards.

If you are not a Pay-As-You-Throw customer, consult your waste company
or building manager about whether to put paper products in your trash or
in your recycling.

Ecology Action accepts similar paper to Solid Waste Services at its
downtown Austin recycling drop off center.
---------------------/CLIP -----------------------

Is it that maybe you're not in the "pay as you throw" group?

Found another link about paper recycling for city of Austin:

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/recyclingpaper.htm

Hope that helps... :)

Vern

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