As concious recylcers, shoudn't your family be rewarded for your efforts to save
valuable resources, rather than being chraged the same as the household who
throws everything away?
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Pay-As-You-Throw
Let's Start Rewarding the Recyclers!
by Mark Ruzzin
Here's an idea: What if we were to charge for garbage collection in the same way we charge for water?
The water bill for your xeriscaped yard is much less than that of a neighbor who needs to water his large
Kentucky Bluegrass lawn daily during the summer-long struggle to keep it green.
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For every garbage can placed at the curb,
the equivalent of 71 garbage cans worth of waste is created in mining, logging, agriculture,
oil and gas exploration, and the indutrial processes used to convert raw materials into
finished produvcs and packaging.
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America Wasting More,
Even As Recycling Sets Records
What goes into garbage cans is just the tip of a mountain of resources we
waste every day, according to a new study released by the GrassRoots
Recycling Network (GRRN). Eco-Cycle, a founding member of GRRN,
joined the network in releasing Wasting and Recycling in the United States 2000
to demonstrate that, while Americans are setting new recycling records, product
and packaging waste is increasing at the same time.
By practicing the 3 R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Americans kept 28 percent of municipal r
efuse out of landfills and incinerators in 1997, nearly triple the recycling rate of 1980.
Benefits of diversion include: reduced pollution, conserved energy, reduced habitat
destruction and sustainable jobs.
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