Arkansas Blog

a great service that i am thankful for. we try to recycle everything we can and most weeks have quit a load to be picked up. with two small kids at Christmas, the amount of packaging they use for toys these days is absolutly amazing. Why so much plastic and cardboard for a doll or simple toy car? I just don't get it.

Earl,
I guess all the extra packaging is so it can ship from China.

Max, Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. On two occasions within the past months our bins have set out on the street for a week. For them to not be picked up for a day is fairly common. Calls to 311 were useless. This happens even though bins a half block away are emptied.

I hate to sully the recycle blog, but could it be that our own Mike Huckabee is as guilty as the Republican Governor of Alabama? After all the same bunch who sent his predecessor to prison were also involved in the Robbyn Tumey prosecution here in Arkansas. We also know Huckabee was taking corporate money to slam Hillary back in the 90s. Could our own Huck be more deeply involved in this cabal than we think?

Alabama's Republican Governor Bob Riley may have attempted to conceal illegal corporate donations to his 2002 and 2006 campaigns by representing them in campaign finance reports as having come from individuals, according to an an investigation carried out by the Montgomery Independent.

Out in San Francisco the homeless usually beat the organized recycling collectors to the bins looking for bottles and cans..Every night of thew week the Chinese would waddle by in bulging trucks looking for cardboard. Most folks would just put their bin out whenever it was full.. Sometimes folks would knock on your door just to see if you had recyclables they could carry away.. Of course that was many years before Little Rock looked up "recycle" in the dictionary.

I remember the days in Albuquerque, UNM, when the recyclers would only accept bottles if labels were removed (painstakingly scrubbed off).. Considering our college level consumption of beer and wine.. we had to dedicate one bathtub for a constant soaking apparatus.

So be glad they accept labeled bottles these days.

The reason you people can't get your recycle trash picked up is they have trouble finding drivers who will actually drive into the People's Republic of Hillcrest. Narrow streets...old junky Volvos parked on both sides ...weird looking people walking big mean dogs...the place looks like Moscow in the 40's...So get rid of your trash yourself or just leave it by the street and call it some sort of liberal art piece !!!

Barret, you just trashed out the entire blog. Do your recycling elsewhere.
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Barret, you just trashed out the entire blog. Do your recycling elsewhere.
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The flat taxer falls flat with their punditry. Maybe Barret writes Huckabee's jokes... in crayon.

Testy today about our Hillcrest neighbors, I live in west LR, no problem with recycling, in fact they came on Thursday before LR Trash guys arrived. I just wish more people would put those little bins by the curb!

Typical discussion of government services for the blog: complaints about service during the holidays with no mention of the cost or efficiencies.

ARK. BLOG: I believe it was a discussion about promised services that weren't delivered and not only during holiday periods.

I was under the impression it wasn't government services, but privately run services contracted by the government?

I know that up here in the woods we are thrilled to be able to recycle anything, and they come to our home to pick it up out front! If they miss a week now and then, no problem!