Yes, I'm a Tree Hugger

You would think that Colorado is big on recycling, right?  After all we're a community of people who love the outdoors and value the environment, right?  We are more of  a blue state rather than a red state (thank God) so you would think recycling is just second nature.

Here in our county recycling is not very easy.  We've gone through multiple trash companies who started off picking up recycling every week only to abruptly quit.  We've hauled it to various collection sites only to have them stop operations or start charging a fee.  For a while we hauled it to our county collection site, but they decided to only accept paper.

Recently though we discovered that a little town to the south of us accepts recyclable items for free.

It's staffed by the nicest group of volunteers and they've made it very easy to drop off your items in the designated bins.

Of course, we're still hauling it there, but I feel like we're doing a little good for the environment.  It shouldn't be this difficult to recycle.  Cities and towns should make the investment in this critical function.

Most of all--we need to stop manufacturing plastic bottles!

I'll get off my high horse now.