Comments on: City of Atlanta’s New Incentive Based Recycling Program http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/08/city-of-atlantas-new-incentive-based-recycling-program/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rachael http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/08/city-of-atlantas-new-incentive-based-recycling-program/comment-page-1/#comment-43236 Rachael Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:03:27 +0000 http://ecolocalizer.com/?p=1727#comment-43236 Sure, consumer and citizen recycling is good, but this project rubs me the wrong way...maybe because it's SO typically Atlanta. Leave it to the corporations to provide public services, and make sure it's the ones making a major contribution to the problem they're purporting to solve while shirking from responsibility. As long as folks are getting presents from Coke, then why should they bother to ask where all of our trash comes from. Meanwhile, which neighborhoods did they pick? Hopefully they pick ones where folks can afford home computers and internet connections because that's the only way to participate. I learned a thing or two when I started a recycling program at at Title 1 Atlanta Public middle school near the West Lake MARTA Station a few years ago (for geographic context, you may remember Purple Ribbon All-Star's line in Kryptonite (I'm on it): Simpson Road Dixie Hills.. That neighborhood). That neighborhood got zero curbside pick up service while we did over there in Inman Park/Little Five/Candler Park yadda yadda. And once we got a recycling dumpster at the school, everyone was all about it. So this is to say...we could just provide people with appropriate services, invest in every neighborhood, and quit perpetuating the problem by waiting around for corporations to give us presents to buy us off and keep us from really making a change. /rant Sure, consumer and citizen recycling is good, but this project rubs me the wrong way…maybe because it’s SO typically Atlanta. Leave it to the corporations to provide public services, and make sure it’s the ones making a major contribution to the problem they’re purporting to solve while shirking from responsibility. As long as folks are getting presents from Coke, then why should they bother to ask where all of our trash comes from. Meanwhile, which neighborhoods did they pick? Hopefully they pick ones where folks can afford home computers and internet connections because that’s the only way to participate.

I learned a thing or two when I started a recycling program at at Title 1 Atlanta Public middle school near the West Lake MARTA Station a few years ago (for geographic context, you may remember Purple Ribbon All-Star’s line in Kryptonite (I’m on it): Simpson Road Dixie Hills.. That neighborhood). That neighborhood got zero curbside pick up service while we did over there in Inman Park/Little Five/Candler Park yadda yadda. And once we got a recycling dumpster at the school, everyone was all about it.

So this is to say…we could just provide people with appropriate services, invest in every neighborhood, and quit perpetuating the problem by waiting around for corporations to give us presents to buy us off and keep us from really making a change.

/rant

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