Moultonborough Transfer Station

[VitaBene]

Originally Posted by thinkxingu

So what--don't go through my garbage, that's just creepy.

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They don't go through anyone's garbage but if they hear a pile of cans and bottles clanking around when you take your trash out of your car, they may give it a tap and tell you to separate.

[thinkxingu]

Originally Posted by VitaBene

They don't go through anyone's garbage but if they hear a pile of cans and bottles clanking around when you take your trash out of your car, they may give it a tap and tell you to separate.

That's different, I suppose, but at my town's transfer station the workers took a video of going through some people's trash to show how much recycling "could have been done" to push the "need to recycle." I, and many of my neighbors, were extremely upset about it. Weird, maybe, but there's something personal about one's garbage.

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[LIforrelaxin]

When they first closed the landfill and started the transfer Station you used to see them get after people about recycling...... Mainly I believe it was to get people in the habit of doing so. In recent years I have not seen any of that activity, Unless as Vita Bene, mentioned they here some clanking going on....

The demeanor at the dump is completly changed from what it was 20-25 years ago, the grump old buggers are gone, and everyone is very friendly and helpful... Hell sometimes I don't even make it to the dumpster, because they take the trash for me so I can head to the recycling.....

[DickR]

Originally Posted by VitaBene

They don't go through anyone's garbage but if they hear a pile of cans and bottles clanking around when you take your trash out of your car, they may give it a tap and tell you to separate.

I imagine, too, that if I were on the staff there, I'd find myself noting which people were making trips from the vehicle both to the recycle building and to the general trash shutes. These folks likely are doing a fine job of separating out the recyclables. Those who come without any recycles but only bagged "general trash and garbage" might be suspected of not separating, and then I'd at least be listening for clanking sounds. The staff may be treading that fine line between what's perceived as harrassment and simply enforcing the rules.

[Greene's Basin Girl]

Ken is employed at the transfer station in Moultonborough. He is so kind, friendly and helpful. He is also excellent at restoring furniture. The transfer station does not run as smoothly when Ken is on vacation. He is a Moultonborough treasure!!

[Greene's Basin Girl]

I just spoke to Ken at the Moultonborough transfer station. Sometime after the first of the year the station will have single streaming. You will dump your regular garbage as usual. All other materials ( cans, glass, plastic, paper, and cardboard) will all be dumped together in one bin. It be shipped and separated elsewhere. The process will make my life and the life of the transfer employees much easier.