Kevin Gowen wrote:
> John W. wrote:
> 
>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>
>>> "John W." wrote ...
>>>
>>>> Some cities here in the US use either convicts or the mentally
>>>> handicapped to sort recycling, eliminating the need for folks to
>>>> separate things out. Probably someone realized that a convict or
>>>> mentally handicapped person is better capable of this task than the
>>>> average consumer....
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you're being a /little/ too hard on the average US citizen
>>
>>
>> there ...
>>
>> Well, I'm not sure what your recycling program is where you live, but
>> here in Nashville there are the great big dumpster-things that require
>> folks to separate their paper, plastics (colored and not colored),
>> glass (brown, green, and clear), cans, etc. There are plenty of signs
>> saying this, and signs that say no caps and no plastic bags. And there
>> are always caps and plastic bags in the bins -- a lot of both -- and
>> clear plastics in with the not clear or even in with the glass, which
>> seems to be impossible for folks to figure out.
>>
>> So the average citizen, at least in my experience, doesn't seem capable
>> of sorting their own recycling.
> 
> 
> Maybe they think recycling is bullshit.
> 
> I didn't know you were in Nashville there. If you see my sister, tell 
> her to stop being so cheap and to get basic cable already.
> 

<extremely inusulting reply typed and deleted>

That one would have had you punching the screen. Although of 
course you have me kill filed.