Letter of the Day: Garbage/recycling, what a mess

We were given a blue bin for Lorass to pick up and charged on our water bill for that privilege. This was supposed to lessen the amount of garbage going to the landfill. We were told that the cost would save us from a new landfill and was a good idea.
I was already composting. I already took cans, paper, cardboard, metals, paint, chemicals to the various places to be recycled. But I am getting older and I use oxygen, so a bin in the backyard seemed to be okay.
I found that much of what was put i