Question by curious donor: Has anyone used the Waste Management Recycling kits?
I no longer have curbside recycling available to me and am looking at the Waste Management home recycling kit that you order and then mail back to them for recycling. I was wondering if anyone has used this program and how do you like it?
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Answer by James E
Waste management is one of 3 companies nationwide that doing their best to end recycling in order to enhance their landfill operation profits. Complain to your city council about these companies that are pushing land fills over recycling. When I was a kid 60 years ago almost everything that went in the trash was recycled in some way, now because of environmentalist owned companies like Waste management and others almost all trash goes into highly profitable land fills.
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My husband and I run our city’s dropoff Recycling Center and are in the process of starting Curbside Recycling in our town, so this question interested me.
I visited the Waste Management website to acquaint myself with their mailable Recycling Kits. Apparently you can recycle, by mail or Fedex, items such as CFL bulbs, batteries, and single-stream (plastic/aluminum/tin/cardboard/etc)https://www.thinkgreenfromhome.com/BottlesCansAndPaper.cfm.
My main objection to this practice would be the expense; for example, $49.95 for the Single Stream Recycling Kit. A box of this dimension would probably not hold more than 2 weeks worth of recyclables for an average family of 3-4 people.
Visit http://earth911.com/ to look for recycling options near you. There may be a center that will accept your recyclables free of charge. Since the centers themselves post the information, always call the centers to make sure their information is current.
You don’t mention why curbside recycling is no longer available, and whether you live in an urban, suburban, or rural area. Sometimes if enough residents contact their elected city officials to express displeasure about discontinuing a service (such as recycling), the elected city officials may consider reinstating the service.