Struggling to Recycle

I'm in the middle of a household cleanup campaign. So now I have a working (but not wanted) Hoover vacuum cleaner, two saucers, a cup, and a sifter in the back of my car. I tried to drop them off at Salvation Army, but they don't have bins any more and the entrance was chained (at 2:30 p.m.). I wonder if they take things like that any more. Goodwill is apparently still in business, though not where I thought it was. So I drive around town with these things in the back.

Bottles? Cans?

Recycling is one of those liberal political ideas that's designed to limit the freedom of patriotic Americans, so I've never been surprised that it's nearly impossible in Mansfield. Yes, there are bins in small villages and yes, there's a trailer that makes brief stops at random locations, but the whole idea is to simply fulfill the letter of the law, not to make recycling easy. The general public hasn't got the idea, though. Every time I go to the trailer in Butler, it's stuffed to overflowing.

No riches in trash

Years ago, someone figured out that glass, even though it's easily recyclable, isn't a source of great numbers of dollars, so we can't recycle it here. Never mind that we do have to spend public money to bury the stuff somewhere. The terrible national government, though, got irritated at us for burying fluorescent tubes (which contain a lot of mercury), so just to shut the EPA up, we now collect those tubes. And charge people a buck each to drop them off. What an incentive to keep from throwing them in the dumpster!