If there is one thing you can count on from DPW on Thursdays in these parts, it's that a crew of 3 fellas will be out removing the recycling material put out by residents no matter what is put out for them -- even if it isn't recyclable! -- or how it is offered to them. Styrofoam? Sure, they'll take it away for you! Plastic bags? Sure, them too! Big ones, little ones, whatever! Don't worry that plastic bags are a serious recycling contaminant -- DPW doesn't give a hoot about any of that! Plastic straws and plastic lids from disposable beverage containers? No problemo, DPW will take it! Food, including pizza inside soiled pizzas boxes? Sure, why not, DPW won't mind one bit! You can even place whatever you like in small paper bags from fast food "restaurants" and leave them in the alley overnight! Sure, why the hell not! Don't worry if the squirrels or skunks get to your waste and make a mess, because DPW deals with that kind of thing all the time by ignoring the mess and litter you have allowed the vermin to make!
Keep recycling Hudson, you're saving the planet!!!
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| Black plastic bag among other contaminants |
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| Blown across the alley overnight |
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| Fast food, fast delivery, fast death. |
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| Recycle and feed vermin at the same time! |
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| Recycling truck passing through Rope Alley this morning. |
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| Somehow, the pizza was rejected by the DPW recycling crew! |
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| Recycle AND create litter at the same time! Think Rob Perry gives a crap? |
Rob Perry allows his recycling crew to not issue violation notices to residents who don't follow the recycling rules. He allows his crew to not put stickers on recycling containers full of contaminants (known as "oops" stickers), a practice that ended a few years ago. He allows his crew to remove everything that residents put out for them, and so residents continue to put out recycling full of garbage. Our $123,000 DPW Superintendent perpetuates the problem that he doesn't see as a problem. He encourages the people who don't give a crap about proper recycling to continue to put out whatever they like for DPW week after week on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Even pizza, some of it partially eaten.
Recently on State Street, I watched a food delivery service (by car!) leave a bag of food and a large drink on the landing of a stoop. The deliverer then stood on the sidewalk to take a picture of the food before getting back in his car and leaving. The meal had come from Burger King on Fairview Avenue. I think it's time to update the term "fast food" to more accurately describe what it really is and has been all along. LAZY FOOD? STUPID FOOD? PLANET-KILLING FOOD? GARBAGE FOOD?
Here's a fact you may not be aware of. The City of Hudson DPW pays the same tipping fee whether it is our garbage or our recycling that DPW drops off at the Columbia County Solid Waste transfer station in Greenport. Until 4 or 5 years ago, recycling was FREE -- there was literally no tipping fee at all. It now costs us $150 a ton for garbage and for recycling. This is a huge, relatively new cost that no one on the council nor Rob Perry ever mention or seem concerned about. Maybe that's why Rob Perry has completely given up on getting residents to recycle properly by keeping contaminants and other trash out of their recycling. Garbage in a blue bag, garbage in a Burger King bag for recycling left in an alley -- what's the difference? It's all the same to him; it all goes into the same truck and delivered to the same place that never rejects any of it. And, let me tell you, the squirrels, skunks and woodchucks sure appreciate Mr. Perry's approach to recycling! He's a nature lover!
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