I'm not sure about the closest, but I know for certain that there is one behind the SoWal Courthouse Annex, on the south side.
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Thanks to both replies. I will try to recycle during our vacation week. Now to find a "beach chair dude" who removes the chairs each night! 
If the issue is contamination, how would that be solved by changing to bins? If people can't figure out what goes in a bag, they won't magically be able to figure it out when they're putting it in a bin!
IMO more info on what should & should not go in there would be much more effective.
I'm probably part of the problem because if I'm unsure if it's a recyclable I put in there and figure the prisoners going through the trash can put it in the appropriate location.
From the SUN:
County to revaluate recycling program
November 01, 2007 Sean Boone
Walton County will soon be reevaluating its current recycling program to see if changes should be made to incorporate home recycle pickups.
Currently there are recycle bins for drop offs around the county and a blue bag program that allows recyclables to be placed in blue bags that can be disposed in the same bin as normal trash.
?Right now the recycle bins are the best way to go,? said District 5 Commissioner Cindy Meadows. ?We?re going to evaluate the way things are going in the middle of the month and go from there.?
Meadows said the problem with having a curbside recycle program is that the county would have to renegotiate its contract with Waste Management, which would cost more money for taxpayers.
?We?re just not sure yet if the public would support the extra tax that would ensue,? said Meadows.
The six month old blue bag program was created to see if recycling could gain support and save the county money.
?The problem we?ve been having with the blue bags is contamination,? said Meadows. ?People are putting a lot of normal trash in the recyclable bags.?
According to the National Recycling Coalition, the U.S. currently recycles 33 percent of its waste, up from just 8 percent in 1990.
IMO more info on what should & should not go in there would be much more effective.
I'm probably part of the problem because if I'm unsure if it's a recyclable I put in there and figure the prisoners going through the trash can put it in the appropriate location.
From the SUN:
County to revaluate recycling program
November 01, 2007 Sean Boone
Walton County will soon be reevaluating its current recycling program to see if changes should be made to incorporate home recycle pickups.
Currently there are recycle bins for drop offs around the county and a blue bag program that allows recyclables to be placed in blue bags that can be disposed in the same bin as normal trash.
?Right now the recycle bins are the best way to go,? said District 5 Commissioner Cindy Meadows. ?We?re going to evaluate the way things are going in the middle of the month and go from there.?
Meadows said the problem with having a curbside recycle program is that the county would have to renegotiate its contract with Waste Management, which would cost more money for taxpayers.
?We?re just not sure yet if the public would support the extra tax that would ensue,? said Meadows.
The six month old blue bag program was created to see if recycling could gain support and save the county money.
?The problem we?ve been having with the blue bags is contamination,? said Meadows. ?People are putting a lot of normal trash in the recyclable bags.?
According to the National Recycling Coalition, the U.S. currently recycles 33 percent of its waste, up from just 8 percent in 1990.
I dunno, I'm probably just cynical. But I have had my doubts about the whole recycling program for a long time. I've been to the landfill numerous times in the last few years, and I have yet to see any actual prisoners sorting stuff. The last time I was there I did see a few blue bags in among the big pile of trash in the sorting area, but nobody there that time either. It all looks pretty sketchy and inefficient to me. 
I'd like to see the numbers. Why is it a given that it will cost more?
I will be INCREDIBLY pissed if I am going to all the trouble to sort my trash and put it in a separate bag and they aren't even recycling it!!! :angry:
i never embraced the blue bag program, they are still sitting under my sink. i have bins that i use instead.
who wants my bags?
who wants my bags?
Here are my thoughts about the blue bags...
1-I don't trust a convict to be conscientious about recycling.
2-I don't trust the blue bags not to split open and disgorge the recycled stuff when they compress the trash in the garbage truck.
If you're going to go the effort to recycle, you should at least have some reason to believe your effort was not wasted.
It's easy to drop it off in the trailer behind Publix on 395. I'm there 2 or 3 times a week anyway. It only takes an extra 5 minutes. And you get some hope that it doesn't just wind up in the dump.
1-I don't trust a convict to be conscientious about recycling.
2-I don't trust the blue bags not to split open and disgorge the recycled stuff when they compress the trash in the garbage truck.
If you're going to go the effort to recycle, you should at least have some reason to believe your effort was not wasted.
It's easy to drop it off in the trailer behind Publix on 395. I'm there 2 or 3 times a week anyway. It only takes an extra 5 minutes. And you get some hope that it doesn't just wind up in the dump.
QFT
I'm using the blue bags for my recyclables, and I've always questioned prisoners going through any garbage -- not so much for the recycling thing, but more so for their ability and time to go through people's bills and credit card application, etc, with the high potential for them to commit, or be an accomplice to, identity theft.
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