When being green makes no sense

[IndyIan]

I received this coupon in the mail from my local waste company. I have had a used motorcycle tire in my shed for a while and thought I can dispose of it now. I drive over to the local transfer station and tell the woman in the booth that i have one used motorcycle tire and hand her the coupon. She tells me the coupon is for car tires only and I can just throw away the motorcycle tire. I can do here for $11.65 if I want. I said no thanks and drove home. I removed the tire from my trunk and tossed it in my garbage bin. I wasted gas and time trying to dispose of it properly. Before you tell me the coupon says passenger vehicle tires. One would think a motorcycle tire would fall into the same category?

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I'm guessing the person at the gate didn't really think about what a passenger vehicle is. It's a pain but I guess you could've nicely asked for her supervisor, and they probably would've agreed that any tire less heavy duty than a semi truck tire is fine.
Some constructive communication usually gets a reasonable result, and then the gate person would know what tires are acceptable, for the next guy with a motorcycle tire.

 

[opus1]

...And yes, I do know that trees are a renewable resource, but it doesn’t change the fact that printing “Save the trees” on paper is ironic.

When I was working in downtown Chicago, I'd always get a good laugh when the city would post huge plastic signs, zip-tied to a tree, telling you how many resources the tree was saving. Never mind the plastic involved in broadcasting that information...

I now return you to the original thread, already in progress.

 

[TimeFlies]

Education, would really benefit these people.

A lot of people, working at a lot of places, don't really understand their own job, and/or have common sense.

In Canada, where I live, is a law, that any place selling oil, must take back used oil. But some staff are clueless about this, and try to tell me, and others, we cannot drop off our used oil there, although they sell oil. Probably 10 years ago, I walked into a Walmart, and went to the customer service desk, and set down 4 jugs of used oil, told the three women, its used oil I'm returning, for them to recycle.
They told me I can't do that, they're a Walmart.
I said actually by law, you have to, and walked away into the store. I bought a few things, some groceries, and yes 4 jugs of new oil, and 2 oil filters. I'm now at the cash register, and a woman runs over telling me that I can't leave the store, until I pick up the jugs of used oil I left.
The woman running the register, told the other employee, I was completely within my rights to do so, and it is a law.
Still this other woman wanted to argue about it, and was actually blocking me from leaving. I asked the teller to call the manager, and she did. After me saying that the crazy employee is basically holding me hostage, and the items I bought, and backing up the line as well, the manager said to the crazy woman, 'let go of his cart, you are breaking the law by stopping him, and you are lucky he didn't just beat you up, since you got physical with him'. The manager walked me out the door, and apologized at least 8 times, and said she was going back, and educating them. Probably a month later, I was back at the same Walmart, with 4 jugs of used oil, set them on the customer service counter, stared straight into the eyes of the crazy women hanging onto my cart the time before, and I said loud and clear " used oil, returning it by law, and try to stop me from leaving the store today, I won't be nice this time, I weigh double what you do, and I'll ram you with the shopping cart, are we clear". She wouldn't even hold eye contact with me, but stared at her feet, and interestingly one of the other women, apologized to me, for the crazy ones actions, but she didn't apologize herself. Just because someone works somewhere, doesn't mean they know anything about their job.

 

[Allaned]

I will see your stupidity and raise you. Property tax here includes a line item for recycling - so we can drop off our trash and other things. There now sending police to check ID's on entrance to ensure your a county resident. I asked one - what are you going to do when the guy with the wrong papers just throws there trash in the ditch? No intelligent answer.

As a county taxpayer I suggest we let people throw there trash away rather than throw it in the ditch, or used oil down the storm drain, or now a motorcycle tire in a landfill that will over time float to the surface (why they don't want them in the landfill).

Government is the stupidest organization in existence.

I was at the Folly Road (James Island, SC) recycling center last week. For the first time the attendant (not police) asked to see my driver's license to assure I was a county resident. I dropped off some old paint and a dead lithium ion battery with separate bins for regular and lithium batteries. Nice orderly place and they take old tires, too with no cost. (I chalk it up to already paid through my Charleston county taxes).

The cardboard box bins are inside of the first gate but seem to get filled up a lot (I blame Amazon)

 

[Owen Lucas]

A lot of people, working at a lot of places, don't really understand their own job, and/or have common sense.

I deal with this every day. Supposed experts in their fields. I dismantle their methods and logic right in front of their face usually. It can be uncomfortable.

I also realize laziness and mental issues contribute a lot to this. Most of society is insane and I'm not saying stupid, but pretty challenged.

 

[alarmguy]

Makes no sense for us to recycle... our county weekly trash pick up does not include recycling anything. Everything goes in the same garbage can. That is fine with me. However, you do have the option to pay an annual fee for a recycle bin and to have a recycle garbage pick up in addition to your regular garage pick up/

 

[Owen Lucas]

However, you do have the option to pay an annual fee for a recycle bin and to have a recycle garbage pick up in addition to your regular garage pick up/

I love this, let's see if people put their money where their mouth is?

Are there a lot of residents that have opted to save the planet and virtue signal this with an extra garbage can in front of their home?

 

[PandaBear]

You could have tell her it was for a custom race car back in the 50s, this is the only modern tires that would fit that car. She wouldn't know the difference.

As to why car tires only, it may be who was paying for the program and those people might be just buying emission credits. Since motorcycles won't get much emission, they won't worth much.

Around here I would just dump it in front of the Walmart Tire Center with an envelope and a $2.50 "recycle fee" inside that government charges, and run away quick. I'll let the manager deal with the paperwork, not worth the stress dealing with arguing.

 

[PandaBear]

Makes no sense for us to recycle... our county weekly trash pick up does not include recycling anything. Everything goes in the same garbage can. That is fine with me. However, you do have the option to pay an annual fee for a recycle bin and to have a recycle garbage pick up in addition to your regular garage pick up/

If your garbage can has no size limit that's great. I only have 27 gallon per week unless I upgrade and pay more. Recycle really helps cut that down by about 1/3 to 1/2. A big powerful scissors to cut down clamshell containers do too. Around here they didn't charge for compost, food scrap, or recycling but if you put trash inside the would refuse to pick it up.

 

[alarmguy]

I love this, let's see if people put their money where their mouth is?

Are there a lot of residents that have opted to save the planet and virtue signal this with an extra garbage can in front of their home?

A few do, if I had to guess maybe 15% to as much as 20% recycle

Funny the first time I saw it was a couple from CA. I made a joke about it to them

 

[PF52]

Anyone else notice how grumpy and easily offended people are on this forum these days? It seems many threads turn into two people trying to be alpha over the other.

Let's be honest. It's mostly just one guy.

 

[PF52]

If your garbage can has no size limit that's great. I only have 27 gallon per week unless I upgrade and pay more. Recycle really helps cut that down by about 1/3 to 1/2.

+2

I have to pay a fee for garbage pickup and if I have too much of it (or need a second container) they raise the fee. However, recycling is no extra cost and if for some reason I generated huge amounts of it each week it would still be the same price and I could order one or two or fifteen more recycling containers and it won't bump the price. I think that's a pretty good system since it motivates people to be mindful of what they're throwing in the regular garbage - for example, maybe those boxes should be going into the recycle bin instead?

Unfortunately, I do sometimes see people trying the stretch the definition of "recyclables" by throwing lawn waste, pieces of drywall, rolls of old carpeting etc in the recycle bins. I guess paper-plastic-glass-cardboard is too hard for them to understand.

 

[Owen Lucas]

Let's be honest. It's mostly just one guy.

Leave me out of this!

 

[PF52]

Leave me out of this!

No worries; it's not you.