Bottles
Everytime you go to the grocery store, you take with you your empty bottles and cans to recycle. You’re recycling and you feel good about yourself (or you just really need your deposit back). Then you go, merrily on your way, completely absolved of any responsibility for your waste. What you fail to realize is that those bottles and cans aren’t magically transported to some sort of Fairy Recycling Center. The glass bottles have to be sorted into clear and colored ([Insert dated apartheid joke here]) by hand. The rest have to be dragged out of the machine and taken back to the large bins. So, as a favor to the dragging hands like us, here are some do’s and don’t’s regarding your recyclables.
1. Rinse the fucking things out. There’s nothing worse than having to crawl on the floor, getting the cans and bottles that overflowed from the recepticle, in a puddle of four or five different sodas/beers.
2. If it came with a cap, return it with a cap. (Yes, even if you washed it out.) Helps prevent the above. I’ve noticed that the only glass bottles that come in with caps on them are the big 40s and the non-alcoholic beverages. (The latter being a pretty small percentage of the total. The former not so much.)
3. Bottles are not mini-garbage cans. Nobody should have to deal with any cigarettes, used fireworks, or mutant space aliens you decide to shove in there.
That’s all I got. Mostly a set up for another post.