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S.L.K. 2.0
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1698
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:32 am: | 
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Ok, I am just venting here...
In short, sometimes the town picks up my recycled paper and sometimes they dont. When the latter occurs I feel like they are punishing me.
Why? I have no clue since I adhere to their recycling rules every two weeks. Because of no pickups Memorial Day weekend and this past weekend I am up to my wazoo with paper.
What says you Town of Maplewood?!
-SLK |
Nohero
Supporter
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5502
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:38 am: |
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I suggest that you undertake one of the greatest adventures that a man and his young son can experience here in Maplewood - a visit to the recycling center.
They have it all - trucks, backhoes, a big cardboard crusher, huge dumpsters that you can toss bottles and cans into, and another one in which to fling (as far as you can) your wrapped newspapers.
Sure, it would be more convenient if the recycling was properly picked up from the front of your house. But, a lot less fun.  |
Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 641
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:43 am: |
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Stupid question, do they take newspapers?
When I go there to recycle plastic bottles
I see a place for the color sections but
not newspapers.
Guess I could look harder or ask someone there too. |
S.L.K. 2.0
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1699
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:52 am: |
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Nohero-
I go to the center about every 2 weeks to the center with my son to drop off plastics. You are right, it can be fun (especially for him). I just have a small car and too much paper to lug.....
Scully-I noticed a newspaper dumpster everytime I go there, usually in the far lefthand corner from where you park....
-SLK |
eb1154
Citizen
Username: Eb1154
Post Number: 511
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 10:28 am: |
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If you are meeting all of the recycling requirements and they still don't pick up your recycling then you should call DPW that day. We will notify WM and make them pick it up.
Eric Burbank |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 754
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:53 am: |
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Can you dump big items at the Maplewood Recylcing center? |
eb1154
Citizen
Username: Eb1154
Post Number: 512
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 1:10 pm: |
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What do you mean by "big items"? If they are recyclables then the answer is yes. If you mean garbage, then the answer is no.
Eric Burbank |
Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 642
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 1:26 pm: |
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S.L.K. 2.0 - Thanks! I'm bringing my backlog on my next plastic run. |
C Bataille
Citizen
Username: Nakaille
Post Number: 2661
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 2:35 pm: |
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It's not really every two weeks, SLK. In my area, for example, it's the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. Sometimes that works out to two weeks and sometimes 3 because 28 days is not actually the norm for # of days per month. Do you put anything besides paper out? If you're putting glass and cardboard out you might notice that NONE of them get taken if your timing is off. Some of my neighbors make this mistake a lot and I'm the only one in our household who seems to know which Wednesday is the right one. |
S.L.K. 2.0
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1705
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 2:58 pm: |
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C Bataille-
Yes, you are correct in the timing. Ours the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month and I put EVERYTHING out. They take everything except the paper.
It is potluck these days...
-SLK |
S.L.K. 2.0
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1706
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 2:58 pm: |
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sorry...need to clarify...
they take everything except the paper SOMETIMES... |
C Bataille
Citizen
Username: Nakaille
Post Number: 2664
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 8:55 am: |
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That IS odd. Do you mix newspapers and others? We don't. Scrap paper, magazines, junk mail, cereal boxes, etc goes into a container we think of as "slicks" while newspaper gets put into paper garbage bags and set out separately. Corrugated cardboard is yet another separate thing. I'd also find your situation aggravating, esp if it were drizzled on or got "visited" by a local pooch! |
S.L.K. 2.0
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1716
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 12:11 pm: |
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C. Bataille-
You know what is even more odd. Yesterday was garbage day and they picked up the paper too!
It makes me wonder, did they trash it?
-SLK |
C Bataille
Citizen
Username: Nakaille
Post Number: 2668
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 2:08 pm: |
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Oy!
I've wondered the same thing from time to time but other posters have assured me that, no, it doesn't get trashed, it really gets recycled. I hope so! |
eb1154
Citizen
Username: Eb1154
Post Number: 513
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 4:43 pm: |
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The newspaper must be tied up, not put into brown bags. This could be the cause of the confusion. If you see WM putting any of the recyclables in the garbage please call the DPW immediately.
Eric Burbank |
John
Citizen
Username: Jdm
Post Number: 71
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 17, 2006 - 9:08 am: |
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We put out our paper in paper bags from the grocery store and it gets taken every time. (And why shouldn't it? Paper in paper seems the most logical thing to me.)
Oh, and we don't sort any of it either.
And don't get me started on the "separate glass by color" instructions the town gives us...
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