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The article states that the reason given was that the city now offers curb-side recycling. They haven't stopped recycling. Edited to add rant: You want to help

The article states that the reason given was that the city now offers curb-side recycling. They haven't stopped recycling. Edited to add rant: You want to help the poor? Get out of that fucking chair and go help them. No one gives a shit about your self-righteous rants about rich people that reek of naivety. And don't even pretend to preach to me about being poor, I grew up dirt fucking poor. Now down vote that.

smtddr 13y ago
FTA: >> But curbside recycling is sufficient only for those rich enough not to care about the redemption value of cans. As Joe Rice of the Market Street center put it, “Curbside doesn’t put money in grandmothers’ pockets.” And as many beverages are consumed outside the home, recycling centers are still crucial to San Francisco’s stated goal of zero waste by 2020.
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- jws 13y ago
  In my above average suburban community with no deposit fees on aluminum cans, curbside recycling is a cash cow for the city. The revenue from the recyclables pays for the garbage collection resulting in a more or less zero cost to gather both. They hope to turn a profit once they start collecting commercial recycling. I can only imagine how profitable it is in places with a can deposit.
dylangs1030 13y ago
I grew up poor as well. Thankfully, my mother's work paid off by the time I was a teenager and we moved up to middle-class. I'm sure you're harboring legitimate resentment, but your rant against armchair philanthropists seems equally self-righteous, as though poverty is a badge of honor. I don't say that to be mean or white-knight you, it's just how it comes across. It makes it worse that you challenge people to down vote you.
- ianstallings 13y ago
  I don't give a shit anymore. This place is a goddam joke most of the time. Bunch of white-bread kids thinking they know shit from shinola.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    White-bread? Please, that's not nearly organic, biological and ecological enough. I only eat $16 bread made in some unspecified third world country and distributed by a local multinational.
    - smtddr 13y ago
      White-bread? No way man, whole grain wheat. Each grain was produced on its own exclusive acre field.

smtddr 13y ago

FTA: >> But curbside recycling is sufficient only for those rich enough not to care about the redemption value of cans. As Joe Rice of the Market Street center put it, “Curbside doesn’t put money in grandmothers’ pockets.” And as many beverages are consumed outside the home, recycling centers are still crucial to San Francisco’s stated goal of zero waste by 2020.

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jws 13y ago
In my above average suburban community with no deposit fees on aluminum cans, curbside recycling is a cash cow for the city. The revenue from the recyclables pays for the garbage collection resulting in a more or less zero cost to gather both. They hope to turn a profit once they start collecting commercial recycling. I can only imagine how profitable it is in places with a can deposit.

dylangs1030 13y ago

I grew up poor as well. Thankfully, my mother's work paid off by the time I was a teenager and we moved up to middle-class. I'm sure you're harboring legitimate resentment, but your rant against armchair philanthropists seems equally self-righteous, as though poverty is a badge of honor. I don't say that to be mean or white-knight you, it's just how it comes across. It makes it worse that you challenge people to down vote you.

ianstallings 13y ago
I don't give a shit anymore. This place is a goddam joke most of the time. Bunch of white-bread kids thinking they know shit from shinola.
- icebraining 13y ago
  White-bread? Please, that's not nearly organic, biological and ecological enough. I only eat $16 bread made in some unspecified third world country and distributed by a local multinational.
  - smtddr 13y ago
    White-bread? No way man, whole grain wheat. Each grain was produced on its own exclusive acre field.