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Just goes to show fools do rush in where garbage men fear to tread. You keep your papers and plastic in trash bags or whatever. When you have a reasonable stack, you move them to your vehicle, you trek them by auto or truck to a local recycle bin for them. It’s a no brainer. I keep my newspapers in an old laundry basket and my plastic bags in a big garbage bag in the basement. I drive 1 1/2 miles to the elementary school for the drop boxes and then drive home. I use $.35 worth of gas and 5-10 minutes of elbow grease and iamberrydone! I help the economy, the greeners, the garbage companies, and myself (I need the exercise) in so doing. I also do my used clothes and other items I no longer use the same way. Good will hunting, or Salvation army pickup. No brainers, folks. I am still an all American with no commies looking through my back window or knocking on my doors.

The fact that ‘this whole recycling thing’ is even an issue in this town disgusts me.

I grew up in an industrial, blue-collar town the same size of Savannah. Our town has absolutely no reputation for being even an ounce ‘hippy-ish’, ‘green’, or ‘environmentally friendly’, but we’ve had recycling for years. It’s just called taking out the trash. Big whoop. We have two trash cans in our kitchen, one for trash, one for recyclables. We dump that in our little blue box and put it on the curb when we take the trash out. No one protested, there were no petitions, nothing.

Perhaps I was too young to understand if there was an issue, (because it was YEARS ago when they started recycling), but this is just ridiculous.

It’s embarrassing to live in a city that even has this much debate and publicity about it. What’s the big deal? Recycle! It’s not about being ‘green’, it’s just about separating the trash, that’s the bottom line. And people that can’t comprehend that and bring in the environment, tax dollars, ‘a pain to sort trash’ are just morons. I’m sorry, I never name call and try to remain ‘PC’ most of the time, but that’s totally how I feel about the whole thing. We’re not asking people to buy a hybrid, wear patchouli, and style their hair in dreadlocks; we’re asking them to merely separate their trash. This is ridiculous! (Can you tell I am fed up with the whole thing?)

For whatever reason the link blogsavannah managed to include for the offical petition goes nowhere, hmmm, just an error? Please go to www.savannahrecycling.org this is a consitutionally approved citizens initiative which will lead to curbside recycling as POLICY not rhetoric from elected officals.

Please send the correct website to as many people you can. Thanks.

I call it personal responsibility. Yes, I agree this is a silly issue. Where is the petition to end homelessness? Teen pregnancy? Raise the test scores in our schools?

What is most upsetting to me is that the same person who initiated this measure has no problem drinking bottled water and says nothing about the use of styrofoam cups. Monster water delivery trucks clog our roads, pollute our air, and cost the tax payers thousands of dollars a year for the deliveries to city hall and city offices.

All of these bottles of water are the same that San Francisco has banned the purchase of by the city or anyone working on a city contract excepting locales without an available water tap. To propose something like this without a plan while leaving it for someone else to figure out proves to me that this was little more than a stunt to get attention.

Now, let me ask why the petitioner didn’t encourage the community to concentrate on waste reduction at the same time? Would it not have been a good idea to call on all of the coffee shops and res truants in town to reduce the packaging waste that they produce? Why didn’t the petitioner, any of them, complain about the city council reducing the commercial waste fees by 9% late last year?

If the petitioner was thoughtful enough to have their pastor begin the petition press conference with prayer, shouldn’t the petitioner have put a little more thought into all of the issues surrounding this matter first?

I think that we should not get our cart before our horse. Yes, there are plenty of issues that should get the same attention as that of teen pregnancy, homelessness and raising school test scores. However, the petition was started by one person who obviously has a passion for recycling. Let them champion that ’cause. Instead of saying we should also petition this and this and this and seemingly point fingers, challenge another person who is perhaps passionate about public schools or test scores to step out of the crowd and start a petition or schedule a meeting with the mayor and/or school board. Stifling someone motivation won’t get anyone anywhere. It will, in fact, move us backward as no one will want to step out from the crowd for fear of backlash.

Well said by all, especially #5. I am proud of y’all. That and $5 will buy you a Starbucks, more litter! Dispose of it correctly, please!

Gotta say I was a bit shocked when I moved here and found there were no recycling bins automatically provided by the city. Okay, Sav is not the biggest city but if Tybee can do it, why can’t greater Savannah?

I’m ashamed to say I have not been more pro-active about this and I wish I had more time to be. I signed the petition but I’m not sure if that actually affects anything!!!