Trashing The Planet (or at least one little corner of it)

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
My brother went into WalMart to try on a pair of boots; opened the box and found a pair of dirty old sneakers inside. I once bought a set of TV "rabbit ears", got home and found that it apparently had been purchased before and returned; the antennae was broken and put back together with scotch tape. Upon returning it I had to argue with them that I wasn't the one who broke it.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Crickenberger
He discovered years ago the perceived value of an item is proportional to the difficulty in opening it.
So when my wife is opening a package using scissors, pliers, wire cutters and a hammer she says "definitely a 10 on the Crickenberger scale.

 

[JamesHW]

My moment on packaging came when I purchased an expensive Master padlock and discovered it took longer to get it out of the packaging than to pick the lock...

 

[Guidshir]

When my wife and I were looking for land to buy we did walk away from a few because of the junk accumulated. It's bad to have an immediate neighbor who trashes because it migrates to the clean neighbor. The land we eventually bought had about 1 pickup load of junk on it, which is great. I do some cleanup, but don't have to spend years on it. The biggest task will be the old barbed wire.

 

[ultrarunner]

It's a conspiracy against Senior citizens, I'll tell you! I can't even get the safety seal out of a bottle of aspirins or a container of coffee without a knife and/or a pair of pliers. Takes a pair of kitchen shears to open a package of crackers, and a pair of channel locks to open a bottle of salad dressing.

I worked in a grocery store back in the 50's and 60's, and I was always finding empty packages that once contained such things as make up; candy wrappers and empty bottles of "green lizard", otherwise known as after shave. Not so easy to open such things any more; although I went to Walmart to pick up some printer ink, and there was only one package of the kind I wanted on the shelf. I picked it up, and it had been opened, the inner package had been opened also, and the new cartridge removed and replaced with an empty....$28.00...but being one of the necessities of life, I can see why they were forced to steal it.

It is a real problem for a lot of seniors I know... these are the ones that would never let a gum wrapper hit the ground but are confounded by sorting requirements

You know... some plastic is recyclable and others not... some green waste cant go in the green waste like palm fronds because it clogs the shredders, pizza box green waste, newspaper recycle, glossy magazines trash... unpainted wood is green waste... painted or treated garbage... cooking grease green waste but only in cardboard/paper container... and so it goes.

To make matters worse if the recycle trucks are full... it all goes to trash anyway.

 

[ultrarunner]

Don't overlook midnight dumping which is on the increase due to high legal disposal fees...

Right now I'm looking at some semi tires someone dump on Mom's property and rolled them down the ravine to the creek... lots of poison oak down there.

It bothers her a lot knowing the 3 tires are down there but I am not going to get poison oak winching them out...

 

[4570Man]

What do you all do with used fence wire? Locally the “free” dump won’t take it, the paid dump won’t take it and the scrap yard won’t take it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I would think it would be regular trash as long as it fits in the trash tote and is not overweight... sure, it may take months of handling to get rid of.

I order the dumpsters and oversee disposal for the Hospital... much of the job is ensuring items are properly sorted and disposed of... with sorting being on going...

One of my elderly neighbors received a large screen TV from her kids... for weeks she tried to get rid of the packing... Waste Management said it had to be sorted and completely within the can for it to be taken...

Driving by I did not realize it was the same stuff week after week... saw her with a Kitchen Knife trying to cut it up with her arthritic hands and stopped and said I will take care of it for you... you would have thought I had just offered to pay a month utilities or something...

It was no big deal for me... as the charge for the Hospital is per dumpster... full or empty it is the same.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Crickenberger
He discovered years ago the perceived value of an item is proportional to the difficulty in opening it.
So when my wife is opening a package using scissors, pliers, wire cutters and a hammer she says "definitely a 10 on the Crickenberger scale.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Yes, but if I could only convince these �athematically challenged losers to throw their $20痴 out their window BEFORE they convert them into a worthless scratched off ticket.



Yes, our county started, then privatized, recycling centers throughout the county. For every couple bags of ç*¥nrecyclables garbage, I recycle a pickup load of newspapers, cardboard, boxboard, plastic containers, glass, cans, etc... The garbage gets burnt in an industrial burn plant that converts it to electricity. The recyclables gets sold. (Though Trumpç—´ trade war has yanked the carpet out of the plastic market)

Most of my compost gets converted into fresh eggs. Last summer I converted all the compost from my buddyç—´ seafood restaurant into about a 160 pounds of pork and bacon thatç—´ in our freezers. Yum, nothing like sea raised pork! Very rare.

Neat. I used to pasture hogs and finish them on junk milk, apples and garden overproduction. The flavor of the pork was divine!