Lookee what the mailman dropped — a thick 6×9 envelope full of four-color heavy stock cards, English and Spanish, telling me all about the city of Charlotte’s new and improved recycling program.
First observation, no mention of the RFID chip in the 96-gallon bins. Oh well. Second, continued stress on the point that city will pick up only one green bin or a maximum of two red bins every two weeks. Cue someone to call 311 and be told the opposite. As I pointed out before, those of us now doing three red bins (or more) each week — which is more than 100 gallons of material every two weeks — now face a hard 96-gallon cap. I say that because the city again makes no mention of households being issue a second 96-gallon bin upon request, which in truth would be some kind of overkill.
Finally, the war on pizza boxes continues. The latest literature makes no distinction between used, carry-out pizza boxes and uncontaminated pizza boxes which merely held shrink-wrapped, uncooked pizzas. This has long been a particular fascination of mine, as the recycling industry has obviously found it easier just to ban all pizza boxes rather than educate employees — and cities — on the not-too-subtle differences between the cardboard containers.
For yucks I might just go to Teeter, buy 10 pizzas and attempt to recycle the boxes just to see what happens. I’m pretty sure the RFID would call in a Predator drone strike on my house, though.
