Added: Nov 18, 2008

From: Trashdude220

Duration: 0:25

Everyone has problems with cardboard. Especially when it comes to recycling it and setting it out for collection.

Channel: Entertainment

Tags: cardboard  paper  recycle  recycling  reduce  reuse 

Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)    Views: 208    Comments: 15

amrepmike33 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - why do the shaefers have different color lids?

chillin626 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - blue=recycle

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - I dont know. The new Roto carts in Tustin are all one color. For example: trash carts are all black, recycling carts are all blue, and yard waste carts are all green.

chillin626 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - cardboard is really a problem. i just cut mine into bin-size pieces, it makes it easier for the truck to compact too. nice job

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Thanks. A huge carboard problem is corrugated cardboard, the thick type with the wiggly paper center.

GatorJake12 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Where i live cardboard has to be cut up to 2'x 2'. Otherwise it won't fit in the trucks bucket. A lot of people just put it with the trash so they don't have to deal with it.

amrepmike33 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - yea that because they dont have a different color option with rotos, EX: shaefer cart bodies and lids are made in a different machine so you can get any combo u wantbut rotos are all made together in one machine and they just cut the lid off it when its done being molded and put it into the hinges..theres a vid up here somewhere showing it i think its from jason6689just type roto industries u should be able to find it

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - I think that video is also one of my favorites.

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Talk about lazy. Why not cut it up to save the environment. Where I live recycling is required by state law.

GatorJake12 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - You're right, it's very lazy, but to recycle it you have to flatten it and cut it up but for garbage all you have to do is put it on the curb. I think that cardboard should not be accepted as trash, maybe then people could figure it out. What is the law about recycling there?

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - All California cities and towns are required to divert 25% of all waste produced by the year 1995, and divert 50% by the year 2000. There might be a legislature in a few years that may increase that mandated amount up to 75%. On October 1st, 2005, Chandler, AZ.'s 24 year-old landfill closed. My aunt and uncle live there.

GatorJake12 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Oh... I knew California had some law, just never knew what it was. All Florida cities with a population of 30,000 or more are required to divert 30% of waste from landfills, and yard waste was banned from landfills in 1992.

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Here yard waste placed in plastic trash bags is considered trash because the chemical given off by the plastic contaminates it and makes poor quality mulch and compost.

GatorJake12 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Plastic bags also jam the tub grinders used for yard waste. Even so, my city accepts yard waste in anything, bags, cans, boxes, bundles, piles etc. Then when it is dumped in the yard waste area at the landfill, workers open the plastic bags and throw them into a roll off dumpster. All the bags will end up in the landfill. I think it would be much easier and to not allow plastic bags for yard waste. I just use cans or piles, and if i run out of cans I use paper yard waste bags.

Trashdude220 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Paper yard bags are great. There is a city that neighbors my city that doesn't have a seperate yard waste program, it's all sorted from the trash.