Kids can have kids; that\u2019s a biological fact. When we become adults we are supposed to train, teach, and mentor kids to be good citizens, and hopefully do a better job with their kids as we did with them. The environment is on everyone\u2019s mind, of course, and recycling is something that is taught in kindergarten but apparently everyone that works for MVA, all the trash haulers and all the managers at the Marpi Landfill were absent that week. <\/p>\n
I was at the Taste of the Marianas last Saturday\u2014a great event in case you missed it\u2014and MVA still didn\u2019t take cards for tokens but I\u2019ve been through that before. After my first beer, which was in a bottle, I noticed that there were no recycle bins. I counted 20 big green trash bins from AYD so we all put everything inside these. Bottles, cans, plastic, cardboard, food scraps, everything. So, on Monday, like a good citizen, I went to their office in San Antonio to watch them separate (recycle) all the different items. \u201cNo way, Jose,\u201d said they. \u201cWe don\u2019t do that, it goes straight from our truck to the Marpi Landfill.\u201d Well, said I, \u201cIt\u2019s against the law.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t know nuttin\u2019 about that,\u201d said they. I want to point out here not only AYD but all the trash haulers dump directly without recycling. So, I went to the people in Lower Base that run the Marpi Landfill and they said, \u201cYes, it\u2019s against the law to dump glass, cans, metal, plastic, cardboard, hazardous materials and about 20 other things into our beautiful dump,\u201d which by the way, tourists can get a really great view and pictures of from Suicide Cliff. They even have the law on their office computers if you want to see it. What they don\u2019t seem to have is someone that can implement those laws. <\/p>\n
If you, the citizens of Saipan, can\u2019t recycle by choice and the trash haulers can\u2019t recycle for profit, then the landfill should be closed and you can just dump your garbage in your neighbor\u2019s empty lot like you\u2019ve been doing forever. <\/p>\n
One sure way to get people to recycle bottles, cans and plastic containers, which is up to 80 percent of all our trash, is to get your Legislature to pass a container charge of $2 per container, refundable at the Lower Base transfer station. I can almost guarantee you that every bottle, can, or plastic bottle arriving on Saipan will be accounted for. Please recycle\u2014even kindergarten kids know it\u2019s good for the environment of Saipan. <\/p>\n
Gary Dubrall<\/strong> Kids can have kids; that\u2019s a biological fact. When we become adults we are supposed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[163,212,67,135],"class_list":["post-37713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-kids","tag-mva","tag-people","tag-san-antonio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChalan Piao, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"