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Problem:
Recycling centers with automated or open policy intake can be hard to find. but they should opening more spaced together for easier access to moitvated sustainable living practitioners. Walking distance with heavy bags of glass or large volume plastic containers is best done by kids using supervisied driving of an adult like mass transit.
In a town like Burbank, for example, the available recycling center destinations are polar opposites and well out of town. One is on an industrial type street in nearby Glendale, the other one well out of walking diatnce on triple digit summer days. And the streets whirr and resound with trash days trucks laboring to nab their landfill loads.
How does this make sense for kids to go gathering bottles and cans, then ask Mom or Dad to start the car and take them to the recycling center? And why can’t kids just sweep along the path of recycling bins curbside, snapping up cans and bottles and making the trip on foot. Entire dumptruck loads to the county landfill might be absorbed by this process,
Mission:
The goal of recycling is to motivate and implement recapture of industrialized resources by returning materials like aluminum, rubber, glass and plastic to recycling centers. In California, consumers pay a $.05 charge at the cash register for a return value container, such as a bottled water or a two liter soda.
Solution:
Use public transit to solve short term two way trasnprotation issues for all age would-be recyclers. Allow kids and adults of all ages to use specially marked recycling bags with a stripe or get a two way recycling route pass from certain central locations like a library or mall. Kids could head out with their bags and head to the recycling center with their haul.
Furthermore, Burbank recyclers at large have reported that the recycling center nearest residential Burbankans on Magnolia in a Ralph’s parking lot is selective from day to day which materials they will accept.
This makes the farther recycling center the better one for all trips. The Glendale facility accepts newspaper, random paper, cardboard, cans, glass bottles, plastics and metal scrap.
There is a Burbank recycling center but the website’s last calendar event is in 2006. It’s unclear whether there is a current buyback program in effect.
The city of Burbank should be working to solidify safe transportation to recycling centers for locals. If the current recycling center schedule does not suppport general recycling, then another destination for residents needs to fit the bill. An MTA bus line runs from central and lower Burbank to this Glendale station. Bus passes might be handed out to qualified junior recyclers!
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