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Tucson Helps Immigrants in Need, May Ask Obama to Curb Deportations

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sagehen7/05/2014 7:53:23 pm PDT

re: #95 calochortus

I’m a little late to this topic, but how does it take 45 minutes a week to recycle unless you have to drive all the stuff to a recycling center? I can’ t imagine there are many places that require recycling but don’t provide a mechanism to do so-like having your garbage company do it.

The 45 min/week average probably includes everybody’s efforts.

At least twice a week, I have to carry my recyclables 40 feet down the hall and place them in the recycling bin (cans and bottles) or on the recycling shelf (newspapers and magazines). That’s at least 5 minutes a week for me personally. And every day, a building staffer collects the recycleables from all the floors, bundles them in large lots… that’s probably 5 hours a week for him. Then the city picks them up every week and takes them to the recycling place, the guy driving that truck does that full-time and so do the people running the machines that crush and melt the aluminum and pulp the paper…

Some households actually carry their bin outside to set it at the curb next to their trash… and then carry the bin back inside after the trash truck has been by…