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2. I walked to the grocery store last night
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 02:59 PM
Jun 2019

and had a plastic bottle with me from tea I'd been drinking. Right outside the grocery entry doors they have containers for recycling plastic grocery bags. So I assumed they had, and asked where they kept, recycling bins for plastic bottles. I was told, "Oh, no, we don't have those." "I can throw that away for you though."

Really? How difficult could that possibly be for local businesses to put a damned recycling bin outside their doors? Like right next to the trash cans they all have out. There's a redemption center (unfortunately, with very limited hours) right outside in the same parking lot. This is Huntington Beach in So Cal, FFS.

My daughter who lives in Republican red Utah is required, by law, to sort her own trash into four individual receptacles (which she has to pay to use) before they put it out on the street for pickup.

What is wrong with us?

K&R Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #1
I walked to the grocery store last night Control-Z Jun 2019 #2
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Americans have very little self-discipline. llmart Jun 2019 #4
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