Editor: Over the past years, the 91Ô´´ municipality has been bringing in green projects.
I know they are trying their best but are not using their common sense. They are trying to save money and not really thinking down the road.
We have been asked to cut our garbage down by putting more into recycling and green containers.
Recycling plastics and papers is definitely a good thing. But now, with us putting grass and older foods into a completely different recycling container they are not going to go to the dump.
I’m not a specialist in this, but wouldn’t the grass and the food products that we do put in the garbage help with breaking down other materials at the dump?
I know everything needs time to rot, but with all the stuff that we are taking out of our garbage and recycling the grass and the food by-products everything in the dump will be there for thousands of years, I guess.
I wonder, with all the stuff that we are not sending to the dump that should go to the dump, are we going to be in trouble years down the road?
There is no easy solution, but saving money now and paying later really is an option — just look at some of the things that we have been doing in the past that we are paying for today
John Peterse
91Ô´´