(***warning: this post is rated M for mundane, proceed at your own risk***)
Our city started a recycling program last summer, they provided us with blue trash cans and told us to fill 'er up. So we did. I was so excited for it that I actually saved up some recycling before we got our can and we filled 'er up. The hard part, we are finding is figuring out when it gets emptied.
For starters, it's not the same day as our regular trash. For the first 2-3 months our recycling bin sat full because for some reason, we were unable to figure out just when the truck came to empty it. I tried leaving it out on the street for a week straight - nothing. I tried taking it out when the neighbors were out - but the trick was, theirs were already empty - I was a day late.
Ok, so Tuesdays the truck comes. But you can't take it out on Tuesday, because the truck comes at like 7:30 (and we are NOT awake yet). So you take it out Monday night. But not every Monday night. It seems the recycling truck only comes every other Tuesday. I'm not even sure which weeks it is each month. And don't even get me started on what to do when Monday is a holiday. Because I. Don't. Know.
So we get to this week. The recycling is full, maybe we missed it last time or something. I knew that this was the week, and I even thought of it on Monday night. But in the end, I did nothing. Wanna know why? Because no one else on the street had their recycling out by dinner time on Monday, so I didn't know what to think. Maybe I had miscalculated or something. In the end, I didn't want to be the crazy neighbor who never knows when it's recycling day and just takes her full can out randomly then shamfacedly pulls it back in the next morning in her slippers and pajama bottoms. Now we have to wait another two weeks before we can recycle anything else.
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It was probably close to a year before I learned that the recycling is picked up bi-weekly in Logan. I mainly rely on my neighbors' cans to tell me which week it is.
Here are a couple of links I found for American Fork's recycling information:
2010 Schedule
AF Map
Thaddeus is so helpful. I was just going to say that I like recycling and force my roommates to do it. But we don't have a can so I have to cart it in my car to where I can find a recycling dumpster. I take the recycling to work and the rest across the street (always full), to my friend's house, or to my parents'. Maybe I'll just start "borrowing" Thad's.
YOu should've put your can out even though none of your neighbors had yet just to see who put theirs out after you did. Then you'd know who else in your neighborhood has no idea, but is following your lead!
And, if that post was mundane, then 93% of mine are.
At least they pick it up for you. We have to haul ours in and I think that is the cause of my smelly house.
Guess who doesn't recycle?
Guess who thinks recycling is secretly retarded?
Also: the login word was "sholesto." That's a peaceful siesta for Spanish Jews.
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