This seems to never end.
I previously posted about how I finally got our maintenance to stop stuffing the recyclables from our blue cart into the trash cans so they could avoid putting out the blue cart in the first place.
It was a short-lived win.
Today, the garbage cans were out. There was no blue cart in sight even though it is recycling week (Chicago operates on a once every other week pick up schedule).
Out of curiosity, I went down to check out if there were any recyclables that had been confiscated from their rightful place in the blue cart.
Sure enough, there were.
And I know these weren’t in the trash can to begin with because those are our recyclables. That’s K’s beer can and our tomato sauce can. I would never have put them in there.
Reluctantly, I trudged to the side of our building to retrieve our blue cart, at the same time that my neighbors were just getting home. I asked if they used the blue cart.
They do, and that launched them into an enthusiastic response of how upset they were that it’s not being handled correctly. They have called and left notes, but alas nothing had changed.
That meant I got to call maintenance again. He is probably going to start screening his calls now. I had to explain yet again that all they needed to do was take out the cart on the same day as garbage. THAT. IS. IT. No extra effort on their part is involved.
Out of pure frustration and annoyance, I took all the recyclables and put them back in the blue cart.
waste not want not 
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