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Nice try HRM. You know those garbage cans that have three different sections, marked “recyclables”, “garbage” and “organics”? Just the other day I watched as one of HRM’s garbagepeople dumped them all into the same ‘ol truck. Lookin’ good, but thanks for not even trying.
This article appears in May 8-14, 2008.
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Reminds my of an apt building I used to live in… They were just introducing the seperate bins for compost/ recycles/ garbage, so I asked the super how you know which bin to put stuff in…He said.. “If you blow your nose on a tissue, you put it in this compost bin… But if you have a piece of aluminim foil, it goes in this garbage bin… See? Its easy…”I said “ok, but what about if you blew your nose on the piece of aluminum foil… Which bin would you put in in then????He thought about that long and hard, then looked and me right serious and said: “Doesn’t really matter, the truck that picks it up, puts it all in the same compartment anyway…”