Our Land Fill and Recycling

                                                                                   Jim Blackburn                                           
 

I surprise myself when I'm taking out our garbage. As a retired couple here in the desert we take two bags of garbage, mostly from the kitchen leftovers, to the landfill every two weeks (we don't subscribe to a garbage collecting service) and more than that to the local Carefree and Cave Creek recycle program services - every two weeks.

I was amazed; our two bags of garbage were less than our collection of papers, cardboard, glass bottles, my beer cans, and some other cans.

What a difference from when we dumped these in the desert!

I've even noticed my neighbors on their hikes around the area carrying a bag and picking up windblown papers, plastic and cans. Our trails are amazingly clean!

Even our junk mail, including the envelopes, we now put in the stack of newspapers for recycling.

Amazingly, we have less landfill disposable than what we take to the recyclable efforts!

Can you do it too?