So I'm taking a break from cleaning (OMG) to watch Castle.

[conuly]

It's cheesy and corny, sure, but I like it.

Mostly.

This time they have a dead body in a garbage chute. How do they find it? Some girl tried to put a pizza box in it. The cops come, they talk about the event, we even see a picture of the sign on the chute - NO RECYCLABLES.

In NYC, you have to recycle your glass, metal, plastic, and paper. It's the law, and it has been since I moved to Staten Island, some 16, 17 years ago. I just went online and checked - yup, on the little fliers they hand out every school year, it says pizza boxes are recyclables. You can get a ticket for this!

And here's these cops, and last episode they just had a budget cut, and they don't say anything? Don't they have a quota? (Of course they have a quota, everybody knows they have a quota!) Oh, I know - they're homicide. Listen, dead bodies aren't recyclable. You don't get a ticket for that. You get a ticket for not recycling your pizza boxes.

*sighs*

Ignorance.

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

Here in California (my area, at least) we do not recycle pizza boxes. Pizza boxes like many other food-containing paper products are green waste. They go in the green bin to be composted. I love composting so long as it happens far away from me and I am barely involved.

[conuly]

Pizza boxes are carefully listed on the informational stickers with the note "NO FOOD SCRAPS", so you're supposed to just put them with the other paper stuff after taking the pizza out.