Recycling

Ahhhh - recycling actually makes me feel giddy. I have been recycling my whole life and every time I throw a can or piece of paper in the designated bin, I actually feel good. Now that I live in NY, I have the complete opposite feeling because I'm forced to throw my recyclables in the garbage every single day.

Yes - NYC has the facilities set up for recycling and yes every apartment building at least has separate bins to do so. Unfortunately, businesses don't seem to care to join this little society that exists around them. I guarantee anyone who works in the city has gotten emails from corporate about becoming more "green" and not printing emails, and signs in the bathroom the shitty toilet paper is "green".(Exhibit A below). Its depressing that even if a random floor I worked on had a bin for cans, none used it, and the few that did, the maids combined the bin with the trash.



I was at my old company when they started doing budget cuts, and they removed all our cups and plastic silver wear in order to be more "green". It was irritating and a waste of time every time I brought my lunch and would go to grab a fork and instead had to decide if I would waste time going else where to find a fork, or try to use coffee stirrers as chop stix. The latter usually prevailed.

I decided to respond to the head hancho's "we're sooooo green" email one day and point out the fact that their NY office, which is their headquarters and employees around 5,500 employees didn't even recycle. Well, he responded about a month later and informed me how difficult it is to recycle in NY...that was it??? Seriously??

I've had to give up, no commercial space for whatever reason in the BIGGEST CITY IN THE USA recycles. So now every time I throw a can in the trash, I can actually hear an entire rain forest being destroyed. And it's all my fault.