cleehaskell
WHY I STOPPED RECYCLING 2012
I recently noticed an increase in my trash pick-up bill and an extra charge of $6.00 showing up as "Residential Recyclin."!
So all this time I thought I was doing the right thing by taking the extra time to washout my cans & glass bottles & #1 and #2 plastics and stacking my magazines & creating two separate bins to store them until it was time to put them out for curbside pick-up.
But what is my reward for doing all that?! A PENALTY charge of SIX DOLLARS!
Why am I being penalized for doing the right thing?! I guess it's true what they say, "No good deed goes unpunished."
This company with three names (Republic services, Allied waste, and Suburban disposal service) have been slowing increasing my quarterly trash bill this way for years yet no changes were ever made to my bill except to increase the charges:
2009 = $63.61
2010 = $64.20
2011 = $68.20
2012 = $73.62
NOW = $76.32
2013: Since I dropped the yardwaste & recycling pick-up, my qtrly bill has gone from $76.32 to $62.47
Therefore, the incentive to me is to stop recycling. It kills me now to just throw away my water bottles whereas before, I ALWAYS recycled my Dasani water bottles.
In Sept 2012, I called up the recycling dept at my DORCHESTER COUNTY here in SC.
The lady I spoke to gave me several recycling drop-off sites. I've lived in Dorchester County for more than a decade and had never heard of these small town that had these drop-off sites. I only recognized one place and it was over 10 miles out of my way with weird hours.
WHY I STOPPED RECYCLING 2012
I recently noticed an increase in my trash pick-up bill and an extra charge of $6.00 showing up as "Residential Recyclin."!
So all this time I thought I was doing the right thing by taking the extra time to washout my cans & glass bottles & #1 and #2 plastics and stacking my magazines & creating two separate bins to store them until it was time to put them out for curbside pick-up.
But what is my reward for doing all that?! A PENALTY charge of SIX DOLLARS!
Why am I being penalized for doing the right thing?! I guess it's true what they say, "No good deed goes unpunished."
This company with three names (Republic services, Allied waste, and Suburban disposal service) have been slowing increasing my quarterly trash bill this way for years yet no changes were ever made to my bill except to increase the charges:
2009 = $63.61
2010 = $64.20
2011 = $68.20
2012 = $73.62
NOW = $76.32
2013: Since I dropped the yardwaste & recycling pick-up, my qtrly bill has gone from $76.32 to $62.47
Therefore, the incentive to me is to stop recycling. It kills me now to just throw away my water bottles whereas before, I ALWAYS recycled my Dasani water bottles.
In Sept 2012, I called up the recycling dept at my DORCHESTER COUNTY here in SC.
The lady I spoke to gave me several recycling drop-off sites. I've lived in Dorchester County for more than a decade and had never heard of these small town that had these drop-off sites. I only recognized one place and it was over 10 miles out of my way with weird hours.