http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/03/guest-editorial-recycle-we-must/ Serving all the communities of the North Beach since 1987 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/03/guest-editorial-recycle-we-must/comment-page-1/#comment-779 alwayswatching Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.northcoastnews.com/?p=3025#comment-779 Good article. Only problem is that the ordinance in Ocean Shores has no penalty for not having the mandatory service. It is just lip service. Our Mayor has stated so repeatedly. The only penalty is for dumping your residential trash into public garbage cans around the city. That will cost you $250. Oh, did I mention that no one enforces that law? So, all of this looks good on paper, but in reality is just a sham. The glass being collected at a central spot is silly too. We used to get it picked up at the curb. Why not another can for that and let LeMay separate the colors? Oh, that would cost us a few dollars more. A former council member and mayor made that decision for us. It was based upon a countywide survay only held at the county fair and only had two responses from Ocean shores our of the 600 responses the recieved. So each of us now has to haul the glass from our homes to the central site rather than have LeMay pick it up. Makes sense to me in a city with so many seniors and disabled individuals. Oh, by the way, you can get the trash bags at the Visitor's Information Center when it is open. That is more hours than the Permit Center and Police Station are open. Especially on weekends when we have all those camper permits pulled and visitors at those rentals, timeshares, and intermittent use homes. Good article. Only problem is that the ordinance in Ocean Shores has no penalty for not having the mandatory service. It is just lip service. Our Mayor has stated so repeatedly. The only penalty is for dumping your residential trash into public garbage cans around the city. That will cost you $250. Oh, did I mention that no one enforces that law? So, all of this looks good on paper, but in reality is just a sham.
The glass being collected at a central spot is silly too. We used to get it picked up at the curb. Why not another can for that and let LeMay separate the colors? Oh, that would cost us a few dollars more. A former council member and mayor made that decision for us. It was based upon a countywide survay only held at the county fair and only had two responses from Ocean shores our of the 600 responses the recieved. So each of us now has to haul the glass from our homes to the central site rather than have LeMay pick it up. Makes sense to me in a city with so many seniors and disabled individuals.
Oh, by the way, you can get the trash bags at the Visitor’s Information Center when it is open. That is more hours than the Permit Center and Police Station are open. Especially on weekends when we have all those camper permits pulled and visitors at those rentals, timeshares, and intermittent use homes.

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