Recycling Angst in Seattle
What’s the deal with recycling? For the longest time, Seattle prided itself in being on the forefront of reducing the massive volumes of trash going into landfills by encouraging/mandating recycling. The footnote to that statement is that it HAD to…city-owned landfills had closed in the 1980s and been declared Superfund sites, and local waste disposal options were dwindling. Depending on how long you’ve been a Seattle resident, you may remember when we had color-coded milk crate-type bins into which we sorted glass, paper, and cans. It almost felt sacrilegious when we were told to toss all of our recycling into…
