Ran into a fellow recycler at the bins. She's got an update on Albuquerque,s recycling program. She's heard that the city has finally found a company that will truly recycle. up until this pint most of all bin content ha sgone to the landfill. Good for the landfill, bad for the community of people that have been making money truly recycling. th eprices of metal are at all time highs so I see many regulars picking through the mixed content bin. there are few glass recyclers, i think I've met them, we're all using the bottles for building, one woman sells some bottles to brewers. Albuquerque is trying to pass an ordinace to prevent people from scavenging the recycling bins.
By evening on a Sunday, most of the mixed content bins are overflowing. one woman picked up a big box of children's clothes. I was able to get a partial roll of chicken wire, a wooden bed, a few bags of cans, and 3 bonbay sapphire bottles. I passed up a pile of cardboard swamp cooler filters. Sometimes I'm slow on the ideas, they would be perfect for "sponges" for trees. If you dig a good size hole near the newly planted tree and fill the holes with paper, cloth, leaves, straw, and any organic materals, the sponge will hold any water and the tree will send roots into the sponge. it eventually breaks down into compost and you hacve to refill but it's a great use of junk mail and old paper.
I purhcased 9 fence posts from an ad on craig's list. these will help to finish the pallet fence around the perimeter of the property. He also had a few t posts, they were more money than the yshould have been but he gave us a small discount. everything can't always be free and I see it as supporting fellow recyclers. we could all use cash sometimes and it encourages us to keep it up!
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