RE: Recycling

["Tim Hillebrand" <thillebr@moscow.com>]

I agree that it's a pretty well conceived business that gets its product for
free and keeps all the profit. In cities I'm familiar with where there is
recycling, people are paid for their contributions to the recycling
business. But it seems in Moscow that the citizens are expected to pay the
same company to pick up their trash and then if we conscientiously take
cleaned and segregated items to the recycling center we are not paid for
that, nor is the rate for trash pick up lowered. Soon everyone will
apparently be required to donate even more free product to this company
taking all the profit and there will be unsightly recycling bins in front of
houses all over the city causing unspeakable visual pollution. How ill
conceived.

Timothy S. Hillebrand, Ph.D.
President
Synergetics International
http://www.synergetics.org/

-----Original Message-----
From: Mayme Trumble [mailto:maymet@moscow.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 11:47 AM
To: CADJACKS@aol.com; vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: Recycling

At 2:20 PM -0500 3/22/99, CADJACKS@aol.com wrote:
>       I sure wish I was in the recycling business here in Moscow.  I get
free
>warehousing and labor from every household.  They separate, store, clean
and
>crush MY commodity.  And then - they pay me to pick it up.  I also get
>government subsidies.  I charge the city $2.11 per household to pick up the
>recycled commodity.  I sell the commodity and put it in my pocket.  Even if
>the commodity is cheap....every penny is profit.  Seems like a fleecing of
the
>citizens of Moscow to me.  Heeelllllllooooooooooo.
>
>In other states the process is similar to this here.....except for when the
>commodity is sold for that penny.......it goes back in our tax coucher.
So,
>let's face facts.  That is where the government subsidies came from.  "US"
>And ---the $2.11 that is charged the city, "US" again.  At least that way
when
>the commodity prices do rise there may be a time in the future that
everything
>will be green for "all."  Instead of the recycling owner only.
>
>I would love to hear anyone's thoughts.

I would be happy to give you my thoughts, if I knew who you were.


Mayme Trumble
maymet@moscow.com

      Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level,
then beat you with experience..