Category Archives: recycling

Recycling

Just saw my Western Disposal bill for the last 3 months (or the upcoming 3 months) while logged onto my checking account.  $63 of which $33 is for trash service and $30 is for recycling that I don’t use.  I have … Continue reading

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Color me stoopid

As many have noticed I’m no friend of Boulder County. I returned the recycling carts that were shoved down our throats, yet I still get to pay $10 a month for them. I don’t need them as I recycle every … Continue reading

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High-tech trash carts…

It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t. … Continue reading

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Boulder can’t be far behind

How a county in Georgia could beat Boulder county to the punch on mandatory recycling boggles my mind!

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Typical dose of Daily Camera common sense

Erika Stutzman of the Daily Camera pontificates on “common sense” trash and recycling. First she claims… It has long befuddled consumers why a little old lady living alone and throwing away 2 cubic feet of trash a week is charged … Continue reading

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One out of two

Well I guess I jinxed myself by posting that two of my three trash carts would be gone today. Western Disposal, in their infinite wisdom decided to only take my recycle cart and leave the composting cart. I didn’t get … Continue reading

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Tomorrow, 2 trash carts gone

Well tomorrow, Western Disposal will pick up the recycling and composting trash carts. Last week, they exchanged my 96 gallon trash cart for a 32 gallon trash cart. This county mandated recycling/composting simply doesn’t fit in with how I create … Continue reading

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Jeff Callahan must not get out much

According to this article on Boulder “pay as you go throw”, in the past you had to pay the trash hauler for recycling… “Currently, if you want to recycle in the unincorporated county, you actually have to ask the hauler … Continue reading

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Fines for unsorted trash

It’s a short hop from San Francisco to Boulder, so I predict this proposal to inspect trash and associated fines will be floated by the City or County authorities in the near future. Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents’ … Continue reading

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