Op/Ed
Letter to the editor: Be respectful when recycling, please
I work at the bottle redemption center in Middlebury, a job both thankless and oddly wonderful, interacting with so many members of this community I grew up in. I recently received the purported recycling from the recent town hall expansion opening event. While there was recycling it was plastered in food, and dispersed amongst much paper plates, plastic cups, disposable cutlery, napkins, hors d’oeuvres, and on and on. Tuna salad has no five-cent deposit
I worked many event services in New York City and adjoining areas. What we would do as per orders is throw everything into the trash, and it felt awful. This is a simple statement to please pay mind to how we dispose of our discarded vessels, things that we have used and find no use for anymore and wish to be out of our sight. Those things do not cease to exist when tossed away.
Those that pick up discarded bottles and cans off the roadside are more considerate than what I picked through from the Town Hall Theater event, which shouldn’t even have the moniker “Town Hall,” as many citizens are unable to afford the services. A town hall is meant for all, like church, as the original town hall was on that very spot, thus the name
A wing is built on an exclusive town hall, a library is needlessly destroyed to be rebuilt eventually, for however millions of dollars, and yet so many from child to elderly have no place to rest their heads safely. I admit I am angered, yet if in the least, please take a little more consideration to what you discard, be it cans, bottles, hors d’oeuvres, or struggling people you’d rather didn’t exist in your community
Every nation has a caste system, whether spoken of or not. I just hope at work I don’t have to find another pricking used syringe, a loaded condom, tuna salad, used diapers. While I may be lower than some or most on this ladder, we all climb, I do have a semblance of basic human dignity, and all I can pray is others have this as well.
Will Benson, Weybridge
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