Opinion | Closure of Cedar Falls recycling is decision some will regret
When I moved to the Valley a couple of years ago, the ease of the blue bin was one of the things I bade farewell. Without curbside service at my new place, recycling now required the drive up to Rattlesnake Lake and the county Cedar Falls Transfer Station.
Many’s the time I procrastinated on that trip, hardly relishing a half-hour trek just to dump my bulging container of tin and paper. During all the cold, wet winter and spring of 2011, one bin turned into two, then three. I was sorely tempted to chuck the lot into the trash, but my wife—a die-hard recycler—and her fierce, no-nonsense reaction prevented this lazy step.
Instead, like that woman in the Pemco Insurance commercial, I duly sorted and stacked, bagging the soda bottles separately from the cardboard, then made the windy trip out through the verges of North Bend to the row of big blue bins, where I carted and tossed. I’d pop on the iPod, and crisscross that rainswept stretch of asphalt at Cedar Falls, dumping my sacks of cardboard, all the while taking in the sights. Over here was a row of glass art sculptures placed there by some aesthetically-minded attendant. I wondered about the lives behind the recyclables—the wine enthusiasts and magazine subscribers whose leavings filled the bins.
When I was 18 years old, I worked in a campus recycling station, and talk about a Sisyphean task—I still remember the smell of stale beer cans and wet paper. Sorting those bulging bins of paper or stacks of cans was a tough, dirty job. Yet, technology keeps improving the process. Home recycling options keep getting cheaper, and more and more stuff can be recycled these days. Overall, it’s a steadily improving picture for most of us.
At the same time, though, we are losing our last free public bins. Today, Cedar Falls is the Valley’s last and only public recycling facility—there are no other public bins in Snoqualmie, North Bend or Carnation. The county plans to eliminate five of its eight recycling sites on February 1, on the grounds that closures save $400,000 a year.
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Instead, like that woman in the Pemco Insurance commercial, I duly sorted and stacked, bagging the soda bottles separately from the cardboard, then made the windy trip out through the verges of North Bend to the row of big blue bins, where I carted and
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