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Recycling's importance has been clearer of late

Monday, January 22 at 2:07 PM

In response to the Jan. 11 Rocky article, “Piles of garbage have many down in dumps,” my family, too, has been waiting for four weeks now for our garbage service to pick up our trash. Our neighbors (who are wonderful people, incidentally) haven’t had theirs picked up in that time, either. I have been observing the difference in quantities of garbage perched hopefully in front of our respective homes these last weeks.
The number of people in our families is the same. We have one garbage can plus one medium bag and one small bag of trash. Our neighbors have three garbage cans, seven bags and three large boxes of trash.
The difference is that we have recycled all of our glass, plastic, cans, paper (including wrapping paper!), boxes, junk mail, etc. I can see that our neighbors don’t recycle.
Recycling is so easy to do, and these last weeks of interrupted trash service and overflowing dumpsters illustrate how much of a difference recycling can make. Three-quarters or more of the trash people throw away can be recycled and given new life, and it is very easy to do — either curbside or putting it in a bin for streamlined recycling that is probably within a few blocks of your home.
Check out www.wmcolorado.com for bin locations, or search for other Denver Recycling options on your computer.
Once you start recycling, you will wonder how you could have thrown away all that good trash.
Annette Sapp
Lakewood

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