No one is saying you have to recycle.

Me, I am not opposed to an extra few bucks a month if it helps provide a cleaner, healthier world for my children and their children and their children, etc.

It’s a shame that so many people are only stuck in the here and now and can’t see how the changes we make today can make the world a better place tomorrow.

I blame the selfish boomers who still stand in the way of progress instead of handing the reigns over to the younger generation. We should take a page from the Eskimos and put our boomers out to die gracefully on broken pieces of ice

If the county newsletter had attributed the cost increase to increase in energy / gasoline costs, would that have made this more acceptable ?

ANother disgruntled St. Louis county resident upset by a pretty well thought out program that actually does some good.

#3 and others

“A well thought out program that actually does some good.”

Forcing citizens and residents to pay for something that used to be free. Whatever happened to recycling at churches and schools? Those places will miss out.

The county timed this “Feel-good-recycle-while-we-charge-you-for-it” with their socialistic trash service that WILL ousts small trash companies, and reduce your ability to complain to the trash company to complaining at some bureaucratic government office. Those complaints will never see the light of day. Just wait when you want to complain. You won’t be able to pull the plug. Send your helpless complaint to the county. The trash company does not care. They got a 3 year contract.

This program will cost more than a few bucks. What service cost me for 3 months, now costs me for 1 month. Thank you county council for making something free, costs so much.

The people who are for this program hide behind the “recycling-is-good” wall unable to understand that their ability to get good trash service is literally getting thrown away along with FREE recycling.

Recycling is good. It is not good when the government decides to choose the trash company for you, charge you for recycling, and ousts small business. In the name of recycling will this county muster its force and charge you.

People complain about the number of trucks in their subdivisions. Well, there will be at least two trucks still driving through as one needs to get trash and the other gets recycling. The same amount of waste still needs to be taken out of your subdivision. Since there is one trash truck he may get full and have to come back. The truck traffic that gets cut will be negligible, maybe a little, but not as much as the county touts.

This has not been a well thought out program. It has been a Vista of delays if you have paid any attention to it. There have been numerous comments in the paper, particularly the Suburban Journal and Concord Call about people who had no idea what was going on when recycle carts showed up at their house.

Oh, and we got the cart in the last few days of April. Guess what we got charged for in the month of April. Recycle service. My mom was one of many angry callers today. Yes. A wonderful thought out program indeed. But that is okay as long as its in the name of recycling.

#2. No.

Re: #1

“We should take a page from the Eskimos and put our boomers out to die gracefully on broken pieces of ice”

This sick comment is a new low, even for the P-D forums. However, if we continue to let the government chip away at our freedoms, it may come to pass in the not-so distant future. I can see the PD Editorial now, “Euthenasia–The solution to all our problems.”

Meanwhile, let’s all join the tree-huggers in a chorus of Kumbaya, while we thank our county government for letting us pay extra into a monopolistic program for something that we were already doing on our own. Maybe Connie Mack can offer a solution to the Scout troops who used to pay for their camping trips by collecting cans and newspapers. Or should we just kill them off along with the useless boomers?

Eagle_eye…Socialistic trash service? I didn’t realize waste hauling was socialistic by nature. If you don’t want to recycle then don’t. I really don’t care. If you want to take recyclables to your church or school, good for you. I don’t didn’t receive a letter from the county saying this was not allowed. Hell, be a real rebel and walk the walk by not having your property taxes collected in an escrow account by your bank and then deducting the recycling cost from your property tax at the end of the year if that makes you feel better. My whole point of in #3 was that with the huge amounts of money being wasted by the government it is pretty funny to hear all of you people hunkered down in your fortified basements complaining that a pretty efficient trash collection policy is somehow another way that you are being oppressed by the man.

The government officials who voted for this will hear from voters. They’ll get re-elected.