I put a lot of effort into recycling including composting (separating out the fruit and vegetable scraps for the compost bin) and separating out the trash from everything recyclable: yard waste, plastic, paper, metal, and glass. I even bought a special trash can that has two compartments: the big one we use for recyclables and the small one we use for trash. My friend made a magnet to label each side. Well, I went out the other day and saw the garbage man dumping all three cans (yard waste, recyclables and trash) into ONE compartment on ONE truck. That crushed me. Are they really dumping everything we've so carefully sorted into one icky gooey mess for trash company employees to dig through on a conveyor belt to sort out the recyclables? This is ludicrous! I guess I have to call to find out what is going on here.
...so I called and found out that because I live in a canyon only one small truck can come through. They do dump all of the trash my family has so carefully separated into one big pile. So now what? Any suggestions?
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