[AF] really understanding words

[Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD]

The program started and after several months, residents started
questioning why the carefully sorted recyclables went into the same
truck as the real trash.  The original excuse was that the recycle truck
was down for extensive repairs.

My tale was circa 1994 when I lived inside the city limits.  The
recycling campaign resumed using a "special" recycle truck.  Looking for
orange recycle bags, it duplicated all of the same city routes
(combined) that the regular trucks ran weekly.

Makes you wonder how much it really saves considering the duplication of
effort, resources and energy.

Later,



Charles Ring wrote:
> So what was the result? Did they cancel the sham recycling? I bet not. 
> The purpose of mandatory this, mandatory that, when it is something we 
> did fine without for ages, usually isn't the claimed "good", but to 
> waste our time, money, and freedom with junk that impresses us with the 
> power of govt.
> 
> Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD wrote:
>> The same thing happened here.  People were sorting their garbage
>> according to recycleability (is that a word?) and were using specially
>> colored bags for recycle pickup.  Later it was discovered that the nice
>> orange bags of carefully sorted trash were going into the landfill
>> alongside the plain old black bags of plain old trash.
>>
>> Lots of red faces, excuses, etc
> 
> 

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Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
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