Posted by ( SMB ) on April 22, 2009 at 1:36 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

My son is the recycling nazi, but I expect when he gets older everything will go back in the trash.

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Posted by ( DarthRandall ) on April 22, 2009 at 2:19 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

It IS a fad, just like Live Aid, We Are The World, Farm Aid, and Captain Planet, etc. It's cool now, it'll be a drag for society in a while...... If it wasn't a fad we wouldn't have one day to commemorate it, we'd do it everyday.

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Posted by ( QuagnLTR ) on April 22, 2009 at 2:26 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Recycling is useless. They want us to sort between different types of plastic? And not include the tops. And remove the paper etc. etc. How about you just sort through my trash and pick out the treasures you like.

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Posted by ( mr_hanky ) on April 22, 2009 at 2:40 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Huh? Recycling what?

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Posted by ( DarthRandall ) on April 22, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

hanky - Used alcohol bottles.

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Posted by ( kellieB ) on April 22, 2009 at 3:19 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Gave up on that recently after seeing the WM truck throwing the recycled items in with the regular items. They wont refund me the extra $8 a month they force on everyone to "recycle"
Things are much beter now we arent recycling, we just throw everything in one container.

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Posted by ( hogomeiko ) on April 22, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

It's the new religion of secular-progressives. God has to be replaced with something; why not earth-worship?

Now they even have their own holy day.

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Posted by ( greenmanthriving ) on April 22, 2009 at 4:24 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

It's not a fad. The threats to our environment are real, are being felt everyday (e.x., our drought here in Tampa with lowest fresh water levels in recorded history, in CA, GA, mid-west, Africa, China, etc.; desertification; the collapsing world fish stocks; rising CO2 and climate disruption; peak oil. They are not just "natural."), and have already started to unravel the stability of our way of life. These are mammouth problems and we face big forces to overcome. So it does make re-cycling cans and newspaper look a tad pathetic. Re-cycling could be made easier if we had the will collectively. But even these token efforts help us build awareness of the problems and the right mind set, if not much of a solution.

It certainly beats the small-minded cynics who think they are clever by putting their head in the soon to be tar-balled Florida sands.

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Posted by ( EBOHLING57 ) on April 22, 2009 at 9:14 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Folks would you like the real scoop on earthday. Would you believe the truth if told you? Earthday was celebrated in Balboa Park , San Diego California in 1992. Now these folks had gathered to complain about everyone elses contribution to the trash problem. It took workers four days to clean up all the mess left by this one day of celebration the San Francisco Bay Area fared no better. Less of an impact is made by Daytona Week than the impact of this one day championed by so called environmentalists. By the way folks if you think that CO2 is a pollutant try living on the planet with out it. Plants need CO2 to produce the oxygen that you need to breathe. One fellow suggests that Florida has never had droughts before. This in fact has not been the driest it has been nor will it be the last. Nor was Katrina the worst hurricaine that ever hit the Gulf Coast. Recyclying has been going on before most of you were born. Truth is many green ideas are not so called green at all. Hybrid Cars only transfer one demand on the environment to another. There is no truly environmental nutral activity that occurs on the earth or in the universe to believe so ignores the very scientific fact that many proponents of environmetalism espouse.

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Posted by ( honest_truth ) on April 23, 2009 at 12:32 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Think of all the energy it takes to recycle something...what's the point? By saving trash, we are creating a bigger hole in the ozone!! Geeze, let it go!!

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Posted by ( 1974TAMPA ) on May 29, 2009 at 8:05 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I pick my granddaughter up from school two days a week. I am apalled to see all the parents who arrive 30 to 45 minutes early, and sit in front of the school in their Prius's and Hybrids, with the motor running so they have a/c. I may have an old truck that only gets 23 miles to the gallon, but my husband and I limit our driving to about 50 miles a week. We combine trips, we walk where we can, and NEVER sit with the truck running for a/c.

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Posted by ( blazeman ) on July 24, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Recycling in Dade City is stupid. First you have to wash out cans so you don't attaract bugs and have a smelly house. Then you end up paying more for water and sewer by doing so. In reality you get ripped off on sewer because they charge you for sewer service for a lot of water that never even goes into the sewers. After you wash out all your recyclables you will be paying a lot more for water and sewer bills and saving nothing by recycling. Now how does one conserve water in a droughted area when you have to wash all those recyclables. Don't tell me what you save is the planet, thats a bunch of hooey. The planet will live no matter what, its the people that will perish. Lower the water and sewer rates and I will recycle.

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Posted by ( savantcreative ) on October 2, 2009 at 12:53 p.m.

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