Glad to live in California

August 18th, 2009 Alex

My girlfriend moved to Tempe, Arizona to attend ASU for her MBA and has realized that her apartment complex, Grigio Tempe Town Lake does not have recycling! Growing up in the bay area, we are very used to having recycling everywhere. It was shocking to us that apartment complexes did not have any form of recycling. The reason, we found out, was that apartment complexes had to pay to have recycling picked up in Arizona. The complex has about 500 units and it sounded horrible to us that there is so much wasted trash that could have been easily recycled. She will try to talk to management about getting recycling there but I would not be too optimistic since they will most likely not want to pay for it. The complex is about 2 years old and it is just sad that we would have to bring recycling somewhere instead of having it easily accessible.

On a recent trip to New Orleans, we also noticed that there isnt really any recycling there either. Walking in the streets, we can see that the bars and restaurants basically tossed all the empty bottles in with the trash. I am glad I live in California where recycling is pretty abundant.

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