Kate’s Cornucopia: Town Clean-up

This year our town will not run its town-wide spring clean-up. A few years ago it stopped doing the annual curb side pick-up and now it has dropped the tab for taking one vehicle per family load of stuff to the dump.

Basically, I applaud this move as it indicates less dependency on government, no new tax, and encourages individual initiative. So the stuff is in our court, so to speak. What are we going to do about it?

Every Ssaturday, years ago, my husband would load the trash into the trunk of our little Nova, the boys in the back seat, and off to the dump they would go.

A little family outing that the older boys still talk about. We might do that again. Perhaps a neighbor with a truck could pool his neighbors stuff and split the dump fee. Perhaps we’ll think twice about buying the product that is “over packaged” and/or not in a re-cycleable container; locate or start up an outfit to re-cycle pieces and parts of old computers, refridgerators; use re-chargeable batteries; and donate some items to places like Open Door Mission or VOA.

What suggestions do you have?