We're Not Gonna Take It (No, We Ain't Gonna Take It)
I already want a refund of my property taxes. Tonight, I came home to find that the long cardboard box that I put out for recycling still hasn't been picked up. It's been out there for four weeks. That's two recycling pickups (red weeks, if you're a West Allis native) that have gone by.
This state has a MANDATORY recycling law (it should be called "Mandatory for YOU"). Apparently, the municipalities can decide that your garbage doesn't meet their high standards for trash. This box was long. It used to contain my six foot Christmas tree (more on that later). It was large, I'll admit. But, it was empty and light. It was rejected simply on the basis that it wasn't square.
Well, I won't stand around while a bunch of box bigots refuse to take perfectly good cardboard. I tore the blasted thing into tiny pieces and threw it in my trash can, which was sitting in the middle of the alley because the trash men won't walk through the snow that the city doesn't plow.
I know I'm not alone, either. Lisa has expressed her frustration with trash collectors. Lisa, at least they leave you post-it notes! I would like to know why my guys don't collect anything from my property that's not in the City of West Allis bin, but they do it all the time from my neighbors. I'd also like to know why the city sanitation site says that they will collect so many cubic yards of extra waste for no charge.
This state has a MANDATORY recycling law (it should be called "Mandatory for YOU"). Apparently, the municipalities can decide that your garbage doesn't meet their high standards for trash. This box was long. It used to contain my six foot Christmas tree (more on that later). It was large, I'll admit. But, it was empty and light. It was rejected simply on the basis that it wasn't square.
Well, I won't stand around while a bunch of box bigots refuse to take perfectly good cardboard. I tore the blasted thing into tiny pieces and threw it in my trash can, which was sitting in the middle of the alley because the trash men won't walk through the snow that the city doesn't plow.
I know I'm not alone, either. Lisa has expressed her frustration with trash collectors. Lisa, at least they leave you post-it notes! I would like to know why my guys don't collect anything from my property that's not in the City of West Allis bin, but they do it all the time from my neighbors. I'd also like to know why the city sanitation site says that they will collect so many cubic yards of extra waste for no charge.
6 Amendments:
In greenfield, paper, cardboard, and anything that resembles a box must be broken down and bound into small little bundles that would make paperboy's from the depression jump up and squeal.
AND we have to PAY a fee if you decide to say screw the garbage men and take your trash to the dump yourself.
I'm glad that four grand in taxes is hard at work...you complain about parade routes-I don't even have sidewalks!
That whole "recycling thing" was a scam from the get-go. Waukesha County is making a small fortune on their recycling program and their (contracted) private-garbage-haulers are VERY fussy about what they will or will not take.
Fortunately, out here we can just burn the "undesirable" cardboard--they require that we box-cut into squares, too.
Screw them.
What's funny is that when recycling started, they sold us on the fact that there would be all of this cash to pay for the program because of all the "new markets" for waste newsprint and plastic. Then they said they needed more money to pay some one to collect the stuff. Since the garbage trucks weren't built to collect separated recyclables, they had to hire a second company to do this. Now we have twice as many garbage trucks driving around polluting the air collection the recyclables. Now that is what I call "conserving our future".
I throw it all away. I want to give future generations incentive to dig up the garbage heaps we are building.
Actually the State dropped the requirement for mandated recycling as the Federal Government has changed the requirement from a funded mandate to an unfunded suggested good practice / fend for youself. The State used to provide funding to communities to pay for their recycling programs in the days of Federal money. Now that the money is gone, so is the mandate.
You are on you own. I suggest throwing it all away. This will give future generations reasons to dig up our garbage heaps to get all that valuable plastic and newsprint.
When the mandatory recycling program started, one of the towns near me actually had what we called a Garbage Gestapo: inspectors goosestepping along with the trucks INSPECTING each bag of trash to see if it was up to standards. If it wasn't, the bag was left on the curb.
Vee have vays of making you talk .... there is no limit to which liberal stupidity can be taken. This was like something out of bad SNL skit.
I can't beleive the color of Julia Roberts hair. I really wonder how she gets that wonderful effect. I have tried many times to duplicate it but just get frustrated after hours that I cant. Now I find out that my hair is stressed. So, I thought some of you might want to know a little more about hair coloring so this does not happen to you.
It may sound a bit odd but your hair is a mixture of 3 colors; red yellow, and blue. These are the primary colors. Secondary colors are orange, green, and violet. If you look at the "wheel" a color opposite (directly across) will "negate" that color. This means if your hair is a orange color - blue will make it a brown/black color. If you hair has a yellow tone, violet will cancel it out.
One of the most important elements of haircoloring is determining the hairs' "underlying pigmet" (the hairs' natural color.) When you chose a color in a swatch book, your hair may not come out that color because of the underlying pigment in your hair.
Take care everyone and Merry Christmas everyone.
Ruth
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