Don’ yu agre tha nin hundre is clos enoug to thre thousan? The TFC Recycling business lowered it’s sights to 900 to accommodate lack of interest and shortage of money in order to get a new business on line salvaging valuable materials formally gifts to SPSA. That was a long sentence, perhaps longer than the list of clients who can write four checks a year for 36 bucks to feel good about not tossing the baby out with the garbage. Of course they pray the list will lengthen and the amount collected will cover costs and provide at least a small profit. A lot depends upon what TFC can get for the materials collected and the cooperation of the customers who are responsible for materials selected. It is a good idea even if it fails and there is money in it somewhere.
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Didn't the City Council, Senior City Administration and the Suffolk Clean Community Commission herald this as the great green fix to our recyclable waste collection problem? Remember that cold morning with they lined up behind garbage containers for a SNH photo-op. At least 3,500 subscribers throughout the city was required to make the program economicaly feasible. Now for some inexplicable reason only about 900 have joined in yet TFC is going forward. If so much as one council representative, senior city official and SCCC member fails to participate or the city is funding this program with our taxes then we will have to rely upon the SNH's crack investigative reporters to break this story.
Im sorry I dont want to have 6 or 7cans sitting in my front yard or in my neighbors yard. There are many ways there can be diversity but please not with trash so one can recycle various types of trash to make a profit.
Having yet to obtain 1000 subscribers TFC is going ahead by distributing recycling bins for curbside pickup throughout the community and hoping more will join in. Heralding their effort is the SNH staff who appear to be confused between the savings in recycling trash and the collection expense that is the highest in the region. Either way the homeowner pays. Rather than endorse the most economical method using large metal collection containers, the reasoning is clouded by trying to be a do gooder that every residence have an expensive petrochemical based PLASTIC collection bin. In the spirit of open and transparent government lets have a look at the contract TFC was hired by the city or is that information considered to be working papers?
Hey what about the carbon footprint Suffolk News Herald. All those trucks making rounds in our city burning, gasp, fossil fuels. What will become of us now that you endorse those responsible for acid rain, ozone layer depletion, global warming/cooling, climate change and whatever else you substituted for religion.
How many on council are paying for recycling? I have been told by a company rep that the Council people get it for free? Anyone have more information? I also hear that the Manager has the city paying her bin cost like her car allowance to set a good example.
This City is getting sicker everyday!
These Greenies are nothing more than elitests that want to show off they are who they think they are by having a big recycling bin. They can't show off if they have to go to a recycling station like everyone else at no charge to them. No these elitiests are willing to pay their but more likely our dollars to satisfy their insecurity. These people tend to "feel" more about issues than they "think" about them, thus you now have a neighborhood locator for Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives on the other hand, will continue to quietly go and do their part at the recycling station.
I love my blue bin. Not only does the city pick up my recycles it makes me feel good. I can afford the dollar a day and sorting is fun and good exercise. I do wish the bin would hold more empty wine bottles.
When I lived in the Northeast I had to dispose of our household garbage at the town receiving station. Nextdoor were several large metal open top containers marked for the color of glass to be recycled. I would enjoy the opportunity to smash a bottle or two or three and it relieved a lot of stress. If the city wants to increase public participation, just apply a photograph of a federal, state or local politician to the back of the container and watch those bottles fly.
I can see Councilman Milteer riding into town wearing a helmet in his TFC blue bin chariot pulled by a pack of hounds before the next council meeting. Earth friendly with no noticable carbon footprint. He will be asking about automated garbage pick up for his borough.
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