Best. Day. Ever. ... Okay, maybe not ever, but a great day nonetheless. My recycling depot is now accepting plastic bags!!! I have been saving any/all of those things for just the occasion. About 6 years. Yes, literally. It's the small things really...
You might be thinking to yourself, wow, is this chick ever DRAMATIC! And, you would be right... remember, this is the same lady who uses CAPSlock for EVERYTHING and ellipses and exclamation points and... well, you get the point. Anyway, needless to say, I was pretty stoked about the recycling development in my community.
For some reason, call it a whim, or call it intuition that somethings really ARE too good to be true, I decided to call the town prior to dropping of my latest recycling bags. I think you know where I am going with this... THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!!!!! And actually, they were pretty indignant that I would suggest such a thing. Soooooo, I proceeded to take all of the newly added bags out of my recycling pile (*sigh), and headed down to the recycling station with my iPhone handy... you know, just in case I was ACTUALLY RIGHT. Which, ahem, I was:
Soooo, of course, I phoned the town again (they were a little less indignant this time), and believe it or not, I kept my cool. Here was the forwarded e-mail reply from their service provider...
Yes, this bin is just being used as a switch while the regular bin's door
is repaired... this bin is from another area that accepts these materials
(even though no markets exist for most non-stamped film plastic (most
plastic bags fall under this category) and therefore much of this material
ends up being land-filled anyways -- which is why we don't accept it in our
program).
The proper bin will be placed back into service by the week after next at
latest.
Soooo, I guess this means I am back to storing 6 years worth of plastic bags (about a garbage bag full)... anyone have any brilliant ideas what I could/should do with them?
Marebare
You could make these, sell them at a craft fair, and use the proceeds to fight City Hall. From Deanne
ReplyDeletehttp://www.craftbits.com/project/recycled-plastic-bag-purse
You drama queen you! :)
ReplyDeleteOur Whole Foods stores accept plastic bags. They're not re-cycled per se, but they give them to a local company called Trex (www.trex.com), which uses them to manufacture a composite decking material made from recycled sawdust and plastic bags. BTW - when my old deck rotted through a few years back I replaced it with Trex and I must say it's an AMAZING product! It's recycled, beautiful, and it NEVER has to be stained, painted or sealed. Now that's my kind of product! Maybe there's something like that in your area?
The chain grocery stores in this area (Kroger) used to have a bag recycling program, but I think they've stopped doing it. Not sure what that's all about!