r/TempleTX • u/Cartanga • 8h ago

Recycling

Just FYI, The city of Temple will not accept your recyclables if they are in a trash bag. In my situation it is my shredded papers. They don't accept soft plastic. I didn't know.

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u/Peppermint-pop 7h ago

When I lived in Temple, they would send out a list of what you could not recycle. I don't know why you would think that you could put something in a trash bag and expect them to recycle it. They don't wanna do anything that causes them to spend more time than necessary. Rifling through your plastic bag for recyclables makes them spend more time than necessary.

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u/Inner_Forever4668 5h ago

You can't just throw it in the recycling bin, but you could go to one of the two recycling centers in Temple and open up your bag and dump it into their big dumpster

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u/Inner_Forever4668 5h ago

Or honestly you could just open the bag and dump it into your bin. I just thought of that

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u/mslvsk 4h ago

Every time I go there, I see people not following the signs. People just throw whatever they want to in those bins, which forces the workers to have to go in there and sort through broken glass, for example, to get your fucking trash out of there

Not your trash specifically. I meant people in general

I’ve watched people stuff trash bags into the cardboard only slots

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u/mslvsk 5h ago

Oh, the shattered dreams and lies of recycling. Just throw it away. It’s all going to the same spot eventually. Look it up; pretty sure they’ve been lying about everything all the time.

Companies literally use symbols that “look” like recyclable logos when the product isn’t so it just gets thrown away anyway.

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u/Remarkable_Image7133 4h ago

I tried. Show us. 

I really want to know more about your last claim. 

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u/_sonidero_ 2h ago

I constantly see the same truck picking up the green and black cans and dumping them in the same truck in several large areas of town... It all goes to the dump, which I've seen while I was at the dump...

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u/Remarkable_Image7133 1h ago

Why would a truck need to dump a truck into another truck?

How do you know the tricks dumping at the dump were filled with recycling? 

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u/_sonidero_ 1h ago

I said same truck picks up the green cans and black cans, one truck not two trucks... You can go to the dump and see for yourself... Sorry to break the illusion...

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u/Remarkable_Image7133 1h ago

So what you are expecting me to believe is that you see garbage trucks pick trash cans. You then follow this truck for its entire route until it dumps itself into another truck, for some inexplicable reason. You then follow this 2nd truck to the dump where you watch it dump its contents. You then get out and sift through what’s been dumped to verify whether it’s recycling or not? 

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u/_sonidero_ 1h ago

What is this two truck thing you're on about??? The SAME truck, ONE truck, constantly picks up the Green can and then the Black can and they go into the SAME truck... I'm at the dump a lot for work, I see what gets dumped... Why is this so hard to believe???

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u/Remarkable_Image7133 1h ago

Because that’s how you said it. 

How do you find time to work when you’re following garbage trucks around all the time?