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January 10, 2008
Let me educate you...
[Sorry for my umpteenth recycling rant - I just can't help myself]
This is for those of you who live in Brainerd and, like myself, have never seen the first cent of the city's $100,000 recycling education program.
Recycling pick up in our area is on Wednesday of the SECOND FULL week of the month.
I guess I'm just really slow, but my learning curve on this once a month pick-up has been pretty sad. (I educated myself by calling 311 yet again)
Because this month began on a Tuesday, my recycling won't be picked up until NEXT Wednesday. Too bad. Now I have to go and drag in five bags of wet stuff so I can drag eight bags out next Wednesday.
I'm almost to the point of just throwing it all in the trash can.
This mother of five just doesn't have time to schedule in recycling pickup. It is WAY TOO much of a frustration. I don't need piles and piles of recycling cluttering up my life.
If a small part of me didn't want to do what is "right" and if I thought there would be room for it all in my once a week garbage pickup I'd just can the whole thing.
(And I'm lucky if I can fit a shower into my day - there is no way I can drag it all to a pick up center unless I ask each of my kids to hold a bag on their lap while we take a special little outing on our way to the library or something.)
Brainerd News and Notes | By Sara | 08:42 AM
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You are so not alone. Although I won't compete with your schedule demands (but my sister has 5, so I can at least relate, once removed), I too find it difficult to a) find a place to stack all that stuff for a month and b) take it to Warner Park or wherever to drop it off.
And there are many more. I saw a lot of bags out this past Wednesday in Brainerd, so the confusion over which week is not limited to a few. If it were every Wednesday, like it used to be (every Monday), there would be no question. How many of these people gave up and simply threw the uncollected (or so they thought) recyclables into the garbage bin for the Thursday pickup?
Hacks me off, I tell ya.
Posted by: joe lance at January 11, 2008 12:34 PM
I was slow to get out and bring my stuff back in yesterday. After I sat the kids down for lunch I headed out the back door and there sat a city truck with "the claw" picking up my stuff and throwing it in the truck. I thought they might be there to pick up my Christmas tree (nope - it is still there). I guess after collecting my recycling for a month it ended up in the dump anyways.
Posted by: sara at January 11, 2008 12:38 PM