Arghhhhhhh

Well my morning started off well...already ticked off. July is Household Battery Recycling month here in Onondage County - City of Syracuse and we are instructed to place our used batteries in an orange bag on top of a close trash can or bag. Then when the Sanitation Engineers pick up our trash, the batteries are supposed to be separated from the non-recyclable trash. Supposed - is the key word here as for the second time in three years they have thrown my bag of batteries into the back of the truck and compressed them with the rest of the trash. Last year I didn't recycle my batteries, instead I held on to them until now...though now it appears as if my efforts were fruitless.

So why bother?

I called the City's hotline - yeah right - no one there bothered to answer and thus I have sent emails off to two of my Councilers at Large (two of them don't have email - which is ridiculous state of affairs for an elected official to be in) and my own District Counciler as well as City Hall registering my displeasure and my belief that an Eductional Program needs to be put in place for the City's Sanitation Engineers. Especially when Household Battery recycling occurs once a year during the month of July.