Recycling Weekend

My brother and I finished our recycling effort Saturday. Last Saturday we emptied out our storage shed and sorted through the contents. While we did transport a couple of car loads of recyclables and garbage to the recycling bin and dump (respectively), we were eagerly anticipating dropping off the electronics a week later.

Yesterday (the aforesaid week later), we loaded up the car with four defunct computers (sans hard drives and non-obsolete peripherals), a couple of scanners, about half a dozen dead VCRs, two or three late stereos, a monitor, and a few other bits of jetsam of our digital-age consumption. We joined the yearly caravan to Balloon Fiesta Park where workers dutifully emptied our detritus and added it to the very impressive stacks of waste.

Our mission, though, was not yet finished. We still had two TVs to drop off at a general-purpose electronics recycler (why they weren’t eligible for the city’s recycling, I don’t know…there is so little difference between them and monitors). This was comical. Driving to the general area was easy, but finding the place was not. The street we were looking for was offset depending on whether you were turning right or left, and the building’s number was not easily apparent. We drove around for a few minutes looking for it. I was starting to wonder if this was some sort of wizarding thing to confuse muggles (a recycling equivalent to J.K. Rowling’s Platform 9-3/4). We did eventually find the place and freed ourselves of the burden of these two former-televisions.

Now the storage shed is 2/3s empty, ready to be consumed in the near future with surplus items that are champing at the bit to be relocated from the garage. But not this weekend.