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Originally Posted by State

1. Not all recycling is equal. Newsprint, for example, still gets incinerated--approx. half of it--even when it supposedly goes for recycling. There simply aren't the buyers for it. Notice the price one can fetch for a tonne of it? Pennies.

2. The new aluminum cans are designed to be strong enough with much less of the aluminum.

3. The savings of recycling gallon plastic milk jugs are not even equal to the cost to the environment cleaning the d-mn things out.

By the way, who's paying me to clean these recyclables? Do I get a rebate having my furnace kick on removing the film of grease or food particles?

And that's my biggest bone to pick--Is that a joke?--some people who have their trash hauled away aren't subjected to this invasive treatment. You know there's this thing called the Fourteenth Amendment that applies to states and municipalities, too. I used to pay a guy $7 a month to haul away my trash. Some of you may know Ralph Carasco. I'm thinking of doing it again. He pulls up in M'boro and they aren't going to stop him from throwing his dozens and dozens of bags in the hoopster. That was a few years ago, so he may be a little more.

Of course, when I have received my demerits I plead there are four children and two other adults at my home. And I work two jobs, so I can't be responsible if a piece of cardboard gets thrown in.

I heard some communities are even requiring see-through trash bags to assist in the monitoring.

It all prompts the following thought in my head: Are we still citizens or subjects? Put some demand that we recycle and we are supposed to bleat without thinking. Yeees, sir!

And green glass? Not worth recycling unless we're running out of sand (silicon). The last time I check they have so much of it I let my children play on veritable mountains of it in the fall by Playground Road in Moultonboro.

I believe Ralph sold his business several years ago.