People in New York Are Reading About Us!
In New York, a place where we once lived, recycling does not--despite being mandatory--actually happen.
Example--in our office building in the Flatiron District, we had, as mandated by law, little blue waste receptacles where you deposited only paper. But when the janitor came around, he emptied those blue receptacles into the same garbage bag where he dumped all the other trash.
So perhaps it was to inspire the locals The New York Times ran a piece yesterday about Seattle's recycling program. Evidently, our recycling program rocks cats:
Seattle now recycles 44 percent of its trash, compared with the national average of around 30 percent, which makes it a major player in big-city waste recovery. Its goal, city waste management officials said, is to reach 60 percent by 2012 and 72 percent by 2025.
The reporter headed up to Cedar Grove Composting in Everett, where they add scrap wood to your food scraps and yard waste, and turn it into compost that's sold in your Home Depots and Lowe'ses.
Woo-hoo!--just think, our half-eaten pizza slices are contributing to the beautification of the city. Word.
Those of you who just throw your food scraps away, or down the trash compactor, you are about to face a reckoning: Recycling of food scraps is gonna be mandatory by 2009.
