Blue Bag Program explained

[The Watcher]

This is exactly why my stuff goes to the recycle trailer behind the Watercolor Publix. I'm there twice a week anyway, so there's no extra effort involved.

Right there with ya...

 

[ShallowsNole]

Sounds like a plan to me - bet we could swing a salary/gas $ from the current recycling budget!

And I bet there are some folks who would be willing to donate their unemployed kids to the cause! ;-)

 

[meamea]

When the blue bag program was first started, I thought that those thin blue bags would not make it to the sorting center intact. I participated in the program until I ran out of the bags. Now I put my recycles in a separate regular garbage bag and figure that since the convicts open every bag at the sorting center my items are recycled. In other cities that I lived in, we had recycling and had to pay extra for the service and most people paid for the convience. It was a voluntary program. The fees were collected on the rental of the blue bins. Didn't I read somewhere that Ft Walton or Okaloosa county is going to scrap their blue bin collection because it costs too much. We need a recycling program but it is going to cost just like everything else. Another extra fee we had to pay was for removal of yard waste like grass clipping and leaves, etc. Here the service is part of our trash removal.