Quote Originally Posted by BigIgg View Post
In my area its the city. My town, its once a week..with white goods or apliances you would have to call in ahead of time and give them your adress. They give you a date they can come and the homeowner leaves the item on the curb.. My town takes it for free. Oher towns makes a little bit bigger of a process and the resident has to go to the city hall pay for a "sticker" $10, and place it on the item when they put it out on the curb. There big complaint is when they go to the home to pick it up on the schedualed day its no longer there, and obviously there losing $$.
The 10 dollars sticker is referring to recycling things like refrigerators and HVAC items I'm guessing.

I think you are throwing around the word "obviously" a little too casually. I don't think they are losing money. They are making $10. That $10 sticker was going towards the "proper recycling" of the item. If there is no item to recycle properly, how can they be losing money?

Honestly, I think that argument is being made by recycling companies that are starting to become savvy to the money that can be made from scrap metal. They are trying to get little guys squashed so they can sell the scrap we have been collecting.



I saw a story claiming that waste management wanted to force the local government to make scrap salvage illegal in the paper a few weeks back. It made me livid.