Recycling

I've heard from many sources that, "Don't bother recycling. I saw my garbage guy take the recycling stuff and throw it in the same truck as my garbage." One person cites Michael Moore's, "Stupid White Men," as a source of this.

I know for a fact my garbage crews don't do this, because the garbage company has harnessed the power of laziness! I have one of those large garbage pails that everyone has these days, I think it's a 60 gallon bucket. I also have to "bring it to the curb". Right. No problem. I also have to to bring it right up to the curb, because that way the robot arm can pick it up and dump it in the truck. The garbage crew never gets out of the truck unless someone brings it juuuust to the curb but is just out of reach of the arm and they have to shimmy it close enough.

Because of this, putting the recycling in with the garbage would be extra work. Which they don't do, because they are human and therefore lazy. Problem solved!

The down side to using a robot arm is that putting an extra bag of garbage next to my pail will still be there when I get home from work. Before, if it was a reasonable bag they'd just chuck it in the truck no questions asked. All of my garbage has to fit in the pail, period.

Laziness + automation = eco-friendly. Who knew?