Comments on: Column: Pedaling and the Price of Recycling http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/ it's like being there Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:26:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kelly Stark http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-38144 Kelly Stark Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:24:24 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-38144 I LOVE Samuel Rosewig's comment (#12) about paying a deposit at the time of purchase. What a great way to encourage recycling of hazardous and hard-to-recycle items! And if the original purchaser can't be bothered to recycle, there's an economic incentive for someone else to do it. LOVE IT LOVE IT! I LOVE Samuel Rosewig’s comment (#12) about paying a deposit at the time of purchase. What a great way to encourage recycling of hazardous and hard-to-recycle items! And if the original purchaser can’t be bothered to recycle, there’s an economic incentive for someone else to do it.

LOVE IT LOVE IT!

]]> By: suswhit http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36484 suswhit Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:29:06 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36484 lol. :-) lol. :-)

]]> By: Rod Johnson http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36479 Rod Johnson Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:56:46 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36479 Um, that's a sentence fragment there. *tsk* :-\ Um, that’s a sentence fragment there. *tsk* :-\

]]> By: suswhit http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36468 suswhit Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:35:47 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36468 Eh! Ann Arbor. Where everyone is an editor! ;-) Eh! Ann Arbor. Where everyone is an editor! ;-)

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36435 TeacherPatti Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:21:42 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36435 Vermicide! Absolutely :) Seriously, it was an awful shock to see my little pets all...gone. They had bred and had little families and everything. At least they are together in worm heaven. I clearly need to stop thinking about this :) Vermicide! Absolutely :) Seriously, it was an awful shock to see my little pets all…gone. They had bred and had little families and everything. At least they are together in worm heaven.
I clearly need to stop thinking about this :)

]]> By: Dan Ezekiel http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36418 Dan Ezekiel Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:07:47 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36418 In times of low market prices, recycling some materials costs more money than the proceeds from the sale of the materials collected. However, throwing the same materials in the landfill isn't free either, and it always costs less to recycle materials than to landfill them. Trash is always subsidized. The city wisely (in my opinion) subsidizes the cost of recycling materials at times of low market prices, because if it constantly changed the materials collected, people wouldn't remember what they could and couldn't recycle, and volumes would plunge. When a material's price subsequently spiked, citizens would have been 'trained' not to recycle it. In times of low market prices, recycling some materials costs more money than the proceeds from the sale of the materials collected. However, throwing the same materials in the landfill isn’t free either, and it always costs less to recycle materials than to landfill them. Trash is always subsidized.

The city wisely (in my opinion) subsidizes the cost of recycling materials at times of low market prices, because if it constantly changed the materials collected, people wouldn’t remember what they could and couldn’t recycle, and volumes would plunge. When a material’s price subsequently spiked, citizens would have been ‘trained’ not to recycle it.

]]> By: Rod Johnson http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36395 Rod Johnson Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:34:42 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36395 Shouldn't it be "vermicide," though? /pedant Shouldn’t it be “vermicide,” though?

/pedant

]]> By: suswhit http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36394 suswhit Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:48:06 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36394 "It works great until the f’in raccoons that winter in your garage knock the top off and commit wormacide. Then it’s tragic." I'm so sorry for your loss. ;-) But I love your use of the words "wormacide" and "tragic." “It works great until the f’in raccoons that winter in your garage knock the top off and commit wormacide. Then it’s tragic.”

I’m so sorry for your loss. ;-) But I love your use of the words “wormacide” and “tragic.”

]]> By: Edith http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36376 Edith Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:23:48 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36376 Goodwill has a program for free electronics recycling. Goodwill has a program for free electronics recycling.

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/30/column-pedaling-and-the-price-of-recycling/comment-page-1/?scrollTo=comment-36302 TeacherPatti Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:22:06 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=34799#comment-36302 Seconding Linda Diane's (and others) composting recommendation. I have to admit that I was at first afraid that it would smell, well, like stank. It doesn't though. Since I'm essentially lazy much of the time, I bought a nice ceramic temporary compost holder that I keep under my sink and it happily holds scraps until I haul my butt out to the pile. I'd also like to recommend vermicomposting (worm composting). It works great until the f'in raccoons that winter in your garage knock the top off and commit wormacide. Then it's tragic. Seconding Linda Diane’s (and others) composting recommendation. I have to admit that I was at first afraid that it would smell, well, like stank. It doesn’t though. Since I’m essentially lazy much of the time, I bought a nice ceramic temporary compost holder that I keep under my sink and it happily holds scraps until I haul my butt out to the pile.
I’d also like to recommend vermicomposting (worm composting). It works great until the f’in raccoons that winter in your garage knock the top off and commit wormacide. Then it’s tragic.

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