What do you guys do with your plastics?

**sdakscrapper** · 02-07-2014, 06:56 PM

I do the same as Parrothead. I put all my plastics in with my household recycling that the city picks up once a week. My problem is that I always have more than will fit in the can and they won't get out of the truck to pick up anything that isn't in the can that they grab with an automatic arm and dump into the truck. I have actually taken pickup loads plastic and cardboard to the local college and dumped them into their big recycling dumpsters outside of the dorms a few times just to keep my pile manageable.

**daw_green_clean** · 02-08-2014, 05:04 AM

Originally Posted by sdakscrapper

I do the same as Parrothead. I put all my plastics in with my household recycling that the city picks up once a week. My problem is that I always have more than will fit in the can and they won't get out of the truck to pick up anything that isn't in the can that they grab with an automatic arm and dump into the truck. I have actually taken pickup loads plastic and cardboard to the local college and dumped them into their big recycling dumpsters outside of the dorms a few times just to keep my pile manageable.

Can you obtain another home recycling container at no extra cost?

**JerseyD** · 02-02-2016, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by sdakscrapper

I do the same as Parrothead. I put all my plastics in with my household recycling that the city picks up once a week. My problem is that I always have more than will fit in the can and they won't get out of the truck to pick up anything that isn't in the can that they grab with an automatic arm and dump into the truck. I have actually taken pickup loads plastic and cardboard to the local college and dumped them into their big recycling dumpsters outside of the dorms a few times just to keep my pile manageable.

In my town we are spoiled. we have the Town,who picks up the recyclables and a privately owned garbage company who picks up all the rest. The well known unspoken rule is basically. "if it fits in the can, they will take it" But I too would like to do something nice for our now ever-warming-environment. Will be watching this post closely.