OT: Environmentally correct?

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:18:37 -0500, Omelet
wrote:


I've been recycling since kindergarten... kids filled their pockets
with spending money by bringing metals and newspaper to the
neighborhood junk dealer (back then junk dealers did not deal drugs),
there were no plastics. Now I fill my recyclables cart (mostly
plastics) and the majority of my garbage is spent cat litter... more
than 99% of everything else gets composted or fed to the critters. I
used to use cardboard as weed block in my garden until I realized it
encouraged moles, voles, and gophers, now it's picked up with the
trash... back in the '40s corrugated would have gotten me 10?/100wt.
 
On 3/17/2011 7:36 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:





I'm curious, why don't you bury the spent cat litter in the woods?
That would add less to your local landfill and wouldn't impact
your property, would it?

gloria p
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:44:44 -0600, "gloria.p"
wrote:


Modern cat litter is not made of clay, so I consider burying it
literally crapping up my land, plus I can't dig in the ground during
winter, it's frozen solid, and there's always too much snow to trudge
through to get to the woods, and in spring it's too muddy. And it's
really not possible to dig in the woods by hand, besides the rocks
there's a solid wall of roots, I'd need a good sized back hoe. Some
people around here bury all their garbage (in their yard near their
house), but you should see how those slobs live, recyclables out in
their yard too. I don't mind paying the $24.50/mo for trash pick up,
I think less than $5 a week is a bargain. Some bring their trash to
the town dump, but you still have to pay $2 for each large plastic
trash bag full... and you have to drive there, have you seen the price
of gas lately, and you'd stink up your car. People used to use burn
barrels but they're no longer permitted... today they'd mostly be
burning plastics, everything comes in plastic, each week I fill a 45
gallon can with recyclables, some metal and glass but most is plastic.
 
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