Our local sanitation bill doubled last year and will have a significant increase this year. Included in the doubled price for sanitation was a reduction of recycling to every other week. A neighbor suggested that many places simply aren't really recycling the materials any longer but simply disposing of it at the same place as trash. He claimed prices for used paper and metal bottomed out and made it unprofitable. Do you folks recycle? Do any of you know if they still really recycle items?
I recommended to a couple of the city commissioners that they might consider putting the sanitation contact up for competitive bid instead of simply offering staggering increases and reductions in prices. The concept seemed novel to them.