Stealin' People's RecyclingFollow

I don't know who the hell the other guy is, but this is what Kao would say.

Maybe it's because it's getting late and I've been transcribing for the last two hours, but I keep reading the subject as:

Stalin: People's recycling

I'm pretty sure I'm overreacting, but I can't be the only person on here who would be angry about something like this.

Be less of an entitled douche bag. Now, we don't actually have "poors" here in our quiet suburban enclave, but I can imagine that if one showed up and was sorting through the recycling looking for 5 cent returnables that I'd lure it in with a bowl of milk or whatever it is they eat (Thunderbird?) so Hannah could see one, and then set it free in it's natural environment, a Tea Party rally.

pretend she asked.

Sounds anti-competitive to me. Why do you hate capitalism?

Fucking pinko mutants.

Then it's not really yours to worry about either.

My limited understanding, not being fluent in all laws regarding trash collection, is that it technically belongs to the garbage company. I would assume this only comes up if you decide the chair you threw away was a priceless antique and try to sue the garbage service for taking it or something.

A year or two ago, I bought a new refrigerator and Sears wanted to charge me a $20 "disposal/recycling fee" to take my old one. I told them to just leave it and just humped it on down to the curb. Within an hour, some guy drove by in an old pick-up with built-up sides and just loaded full of scrap. He stops, looks at the fridge, looks at his full truck and I could just see the wheels turning. There was no way in hell he was going to leave a refrigerator behind for someone else to grab. He had a dolly on the back of the truck with the lip hanging out and, by himself, sort of "walk flipped" the fridge up onto the lip and used bungee cords and rubber cables to lash it to the back of the truck. Then drove off with that thing hanging about 80% off the dolly. I can only hope he made it back to Scrapman HQ without it falling off onto the hood of someone else's car but all I really knew was that it wasn't my problem any more.

Ya the only reason I know about it myself is because some local deadbeat stabbed some old dude then tossed the knife out in his trash. He tried to get charges dropped because the cops searched through his trash without a warrant, but they were upheld because once it goes to the curb its technically not protected under search and seizure regulations, as it entered public domain.

I guess this is probably the best way to think about it.

While true, in my case I set it out knowing it'll get picked up. I could waste my time haggling over five bucks for a box of baby toys on Craigslist or dealing with the idiots on Freecycle or I could just set it on the curb and watch some dude take it within the hour. I'm happy to know it's either going into someone else's home or some guy will get a few bucks off it via salvage or flea market.

I just took a long lunch to go shop at the Goodwill - it's kind of like dumpster diving. I bought a souvenir of the World Trade Center.

Just like oil, then.

They are exactly the same, and there is not a single difference.

Some communities leave everything on the curb for others to scavenge before WM comes and picks it up. I've furnished half my apartments with curbside shopping.

*cough*. The recycling centers are typically subsidized as well. At some point in the chain, we are collectively paying more to recycle than we get in return for recycling. We trade off cost for a small amount of environmental benefit. I suppose if we focused on the 5% of things we recycle which are actually cost effective to recycle, we could do both, but as long as the blue bins take anything that's plastic, aluminum, or paper, there's no way to make that profitable as an entire industry.

Nope. Just completely wrong, sorry. Maybe stop making wild guesses and do some research.