This realization happened nearly 2 weeks ago and this mental post has been on my mind ever since, so I suppose it’s time to end my two month hibernation.
I now work for a small office.
My office does not have recycling bins and therefore we do not recycle, so after lunch one day I decided to go hunt for a recycle bin.
I looked up the information online, made my way to an office building on the other side of town, only to find out that I was at the County’s recycling office, but my office is dependent of the City’s recycling office.
Big mistake, of course. It’s not OK to get a circular yellow bin, I must have a square blue bin.
You can’t mess with that kind of stuff.
Not ready to give up, I not-so-kindly accept the piece of paper with two addresses on it, to claim a recycling bin from the city…
Turns out one location is a few blocks from my house, but there is no way I am retreating and postponing the task; here I am, driving around town again.
I park near the warehouse of public works, look for people that can help me in different parts of the building, cannot find anyone, and decide to try the next location, which happens to be right downtown.
At that time, I hit a traffic jam due to police activity and need to take the back roads; when I arrive in town, school just got let out and it’s the beginning of the madness hour on the main road, not to mention the construction trucks blocking the right lane.
Seriously?
At that point, I’ve been circling around for over an hour in my car, frantically looking for a plastic bin to dispose of paper to be recycled. Wasting time and energy.
Frustration won and I hurried back to the office to get my work done.
Recycling that day was not on the agenda, and to this day, I have not yet picked up the blue bin… Maybe next week?
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If my office didn’t recycle I would go crazy! Alas, we recycle EVERYTHING we can. However, the city doesn’t provide my neighborhood with recycling services so I can’t recycle at home. That makes me absolutely nuts. Of course, we save everything we possibly can to use for whatever project possible so I guess that works… in a way.
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And think of all the exhaust fumes you spewed in the air circling around in the car… Sometimes you can’t win for losing.
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It really shouldn’t be that hard, should it!!
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when I worked at an office that didn’t have recycling, I put my own bin up and took it to recycle center myself. because I’m a recycle nazi.
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I didn’t know there were still places with no recycling. And no, it should NOT be that hard to get a darn recycle bin!
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