I continue to be surprised how much cardboard is produced as packaging waste at the job site. I may now be approaching a dozen truckloads of the stuff, flattened and ready to be dumped in the recycling bin. One of my many peeves is driving by a jobsite and seeing an abundance of overflowing empty boxes atop the garbage bin. Each time I see that I am comforted that some construction idiot is shipping a costly bin full of air to the dump, yet I am annoyed that the city free recycling service is not being used. The usual complaints are heard, ‘my time is too valuable to take 15 minutes to flatten a few boxes and drop them in a bin’. If this is true, then some underling should be capable of investing his less valuable time in cardboard recycling. Lacking any underlings, and not being particularly valuable beyond a scrap hauling cheque writer, the task is done by me most often. Plus I have an empty half ton which is the ideal tool for the job.
The remains of plumbing and lighting from one house. The trades cooperated by leaving the flattened empties in the garage, where they could pile up enough to justify a full load to the recycling bin.