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This morning at 5:29 a.m. I heard the trash truck outside our house at 415 Orange Street. I went to the window overlooking where I put out our blue recycling tote and brown trash tote. A city employee was pushing our blue recycling bin (clearly marked with white recycycling symbols top and front) east on Trumbull Street to where the truck was stopped at the three large blue trash totes and one small blue recycling bin belonging to two of our neighbors. They emptied our recycling tote and two of the three trash totes and blue recycling bin into the truck. He pushed the toter back to where he picked it up. I went out to see what was up and found that my brown toter was untouched as one of the blue trash totes down the street which was left open as it was filled to the top with bagged trash. There was also still a bag of trash on the snow. Seconds later the truck came around to empty all the trash remaining.
Between 405 Orange Street and 415 Orange Street we are the only address that uses brown trash toters. East of us on Trumbull until about 28 Trumbull Street, no one has a brown toter. That means we are the only ones utilizing our blue toter as a recycling toter. Because I had previously seen it being emptied into a trash truck, I painted the recycling symbols on it. Because I have done that I think that is why they take it out of view to empty it into the trash truck.
Other times I have seen our leaf bags emptied into the trash and the paper bags neatly flattened as if to be reused. Other times I have seen our few leaf bags just tossed in with the trash.
Why should we bother to recycle? Why should should we buy paperbags if a plastic trash bag will work just as well for its final destination.
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terrible (Guest)
really ridiculous
are they trying to collect more trash to get paid by the city?
Don Holevoet wrote
Recycling hauled away as trash
This morning at 5:29 a.m. I heard the trash truck outside our house at 415 Orange Street. I went to the window overlooking where I put out our blue recycling tote and brown trash tote. A city employee was pushing our blue recycling bin (clearly marked with white recycycling symbols top and front) east on Trumbull Street to where the truck was stopped at the three large blue trash totes and one small blue recycling bin belonging to two of our neighbors. They emptied our recycling tote and two of the three trash totes and blue recycling bin into the truck. He pushed the toter back to where he picked it up. I went out to see what was up and found that my brown toter was untouched as one of the blue trash totes down the street which was left open as it was filled to the top with bagged trash. There was also still a bag of trash on the snow. Seconds later the truck came around to empty all the trash remaining.
Between 405 Orange Street and 415 Orange Street we are the only address that uses brown trash toters. East of us on Trumbull until about 28 Trumbull Street, no one has a brown toter. That means we are the only ones utilizing our blue toter as a recycling toter. Because I had previously seen it being emptied into a trash truck, I painted the recycling symbols on it. Because I have done that I think that is why they take it out of view to empty it into the trash truck.
Other times I have seen our leaf bags emptied into the trash and the paper bags neatly flattened as if to be reused. Other times I have seen our few leaf bags just tossed in with the trash.
Why should we bother to recycle? Why should should we buy paperbags if a plastic trash bag will work just as well for its final destination.
Southeast Corner Of Trumbull & Orange Sts New Haven, CT
terrible (Guest)
really ridiculous
are they trying to collect more trash to get paid by the city?
Don Holevoet wrote
Recycling hauled away as trash
This morning at 5:29 a.m. I heard the trash truck outside our house at 415 Orange Street. I went to the window overlooking where I put out our blue recycling tote and brown trash tote. A city employee was pushing our blue recycling bin (clearly marked with white recycycling symbols top and front) east on Trumbull Street to where the truck was stopped at the three large blue trash totes and one small blue recycling bin belonging to two of our neighbors. They emptied our recycling tote and two of the three trash totes and blue recycling bin into the truck. He pushed the toter back to where he picked it up. I went out to see what was up and found that my brown toter was untouched as one of the blue trash totes down the street which was left open as it was filled to the top with bagged trash. There was also still a bag of trash on the snow. Seconds later the truck came around to empty all the trash remaining.
Between 405 Orange Street and 415 Orange Street we are the only address that uses brown trash toters. East of us on Trumbull until about 28 Trumbull Street, no one has a brown toter. That means we are the only ones utilizing our blue toter as a recycling toter. Because I had previously seen it being emptied into a trash truck, I painted the recycling symbols on it. Because I have done that I think that is why they take it out of view to empty it into the trash truck.
Other times I have seen our leaf bags emptied into the trash and the paper bags neatly flattened as if to be reused. Other times I have seen our few leaf bags just tossed in with the trash.
Why should we bother to recycle? Why should should we buy paperbags if a plastic trash bag will work just as well for its final destination.
Southeast Corner Of Trumbull & Orange Sts New Haven, CT
terrible (Guest)
juli (Registered User)
i can't say that i have seen it with my own eyes, though.
L (Guest)
Don Holevoet (Guest)
Christopher Schaefer 4 Congress.Com (Registered User)
recycle (Guest)
if so, or not, trash company needs more trash so that they can be paid more, since the city pays the trash company by weight. once we recycled, trash company does not have enough trash to make more money - so they collect recyclables as trash.
if they are the same company, they do not want too many recyclables since they have to pay the city for recyclables.
right?
Christopher Schaefer 4 Congress.Com (Registered User)
don83 (Guest)
Christopher Schaefer 4 Congress.Com (Registered User)
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