One of my coworkers has a bunch of recycling bins at her desk, in which people dump their paperboard, plastic, and aluminum. Aluminum cans have to have the pull tabs removed, because she saves those for Ronald McDonald House[1]. Plastic bottles must be a 1 or 2 and must have the lids removed. Paper board must have any plastic bits removed.
People, of course, being people, are bound to make recycling mistakes. Instead of just fixing them, this coworker hunts down the offender and explains to them, in excruciating detail–like they’re two year olds–just how they screwed up.
The result? I, for one, prefer not to get a lecture from her, so I don’t use her recycling bins. This is, I assume, not the result she’s aiming for.
Recycling: Ur doin it rong.
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1. Ronald McDonald House, bless their hearts, decided to make it easy for people who saved up pull tabs for mythical kidney dialysis credits to recycle their tabs. So, RMH will take tabs, but they don’t get anything extra for them. Aluminum tabs get recycled just like cans, at the same rate. Why the hell can’t we just save cans for RMH, then, instead of pull tabs? RMH would get a lot more money out of the deal, then, and we wouldn’t have to screw around with removing tabs. Better yet, we wouldn’t get a visit from The Tab Police when we inevitably forget to remove the tabs.
red paper boat 