Green Lifestyle

The Recycling Program Isn’t Working

So I’ve been noticing that every morning the recycling boxes my coworker and I put out in the office have been empty. I wasn’t sure if this was a third coworker bring them home to recycle them (since she has a house and her own recycling bin) or what, but as it turns out, the cleaning crew is emptying the boxes every night.

I can’t even explain my frustration, as it’s just so incredibly mind-boggling why they would do that. We all have our own trash cans at our desks, why would we have a community trach box? We marked the boxes with the word “Recycling” as well as the symbol for it. We even put a sign above one that says “Recycling. Do not discard.”

I suppose there is a slight chance that the cleaning crew is actually recycling the contents of the box, but I am doubtful. So we had the accountant write the head guy an email, hoping to get them to stop, or to tell us that they are, in fact, recycling the boxes’ contents. That was about a week ago and we haven’t heard back yet.