Recycling cuts an awful idea
One of the first things I did when I moved to Macon was find out where I could recycle, since my apartment complex does not participate in a recycling program. At that time in 2015, Macon had a fire station recycling program, where recycling bins were available to the public at each fire station. The past several weeks, those bins have been gone, and my recyclable waste is starting to fill my apartment because I have no place to put it. I finally called Macon-Bibb County Solid Waste Department, and I was told the fire station recycling program was cut due to budget cuts.
I wondered why I was just hearing about it. I wondered why nobody has seemed to notice. There is no information regarding this change on the Macon-Bibb County Solid Waste Department website. I was told the commissioner and the director might have more information as to how the decision to cut the recycling program was made. I was given the phone number of each of them. I called each, but neither answered. I left two voicemails.
This is an important issue, and it doesn't make sense to scale back progress. Those recycling bins were often full when I dropped my recycling off. In a time where Macon is growing and improving, we need more recycling, not less. Nobody wants to contribute to the growing ecological problem that is the Macon-Bibb landfill.
Just how stupid is the U.N.?
In the dystopian world of the United Nations, Syria will now chair the U.N. conference on global chemical and nuclear disarmament.
Syria has used chemical weapons on its own people in the past. Possibly including
