Until the first night I worked late and saw the cleaning people emptying everything into one big container. sigh.

I had that at my first apartment in DC. I very tactfully tried to say something to the maintenance guy, like "oh, I didn't know we could mix recyclables here" He said "I'm gonna tell you a secret. We don't actually recycle. We just put the bins out so people will stop asking about it. It costs too much money to recycle, and nobody wants their rent to go up" I just sighed, said okay and stopped sorting my trash.

Until the first night I worked late and saw the cleaning people emptying everything into one big container. sigh.

NYU did that and they seem to do it here in my SF building as well. It really pissed me off in NY because residences could and did get fined if they didn't sort their trash properly, but I never heard of that happening with businesses.

So it looks like Isaac has a fever too, a low one, but still. And he just threw up his tylenol, so I'm not going to try medicating him for a good hour or so.

sigh.

We assign employees to empty our recycle containers into the special recycle can ourselves, to make sure it all goes where it's supposed to.

I've noticed the cleaning people at my university dumping all the garbage and recycling into one bin, too.

They do it here, too. And at the grocery store I worked at we used to throw all all the plastic grocery bags that people brought in to recycle, except for the few we could use to bag up people's outgoing drycleaning

We have no recycling bins at my current apartment building. But I noticed a site where you could submit your residence for pickup, and it turns out they were already on the list--which means October, due to current demand.

Which is cool. Paperdol's apartment has it, as did CFerg's house, so I was startled by neither of my two west side places having it.

Hope the kids settle down, Burrell. It's a horrible day/week to be sick. Even *I* think it's too hot. Sorry I didn't get to talk to you more on Saturday.

My boss took today off since it was supposed to be her kids' first day at preschool. Except they got sick, so she came in to work -- left the sick kids with the nanny! Must be nice!

My apartment building has big recycling bins in the basement, but again I have doubts that what's put there is actually being recycled - a lot of people dump trash in them, rather than in the bins in the trash room next door, so .... sigh.

If you're going to be that way you should have a herbivorous pet. Rabbits can make v. nice housepets and are also herbivorous.

Oh, I'm sure that at the time she wouldn't have owned anything requiring a meat diet. Or possibly a pet at all, since Keeping Animals Captive Is Evil. It was her boyfriend's roomates' pets being carnivorous that she objected to.