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archaeologist comes and exca-
vates the man made hill (aka
landfill) to unearth clues about
past civilizations. Plastic takes
1000 years to degrade. Glass
takes a million. Yes, it seems
overwhelming, the fight
against litter and the pervasive-
ness of plastic in our world.
But we can recycle.
Hal Flanders Recycling
Center in Alpine was started in
2009 and will celebrate their
10-year anniversary this year.
Texas Disposal Systems runs
the center while the City of
Alpine contracts with them to
manage the personnel. All of
the recycling is moved by TDS
to a facility near Austin, with
the exception of the glass and
mulch, which is a city opera-
tion made possible through a
grant. The facility is available
to residents of Brewster
County, which is nice as that
includes residents “down
South.”
The recycle process is not
like in the city, where you put
everything in one container
and a little fairy comes by and
swoops it off your porch and –
poof! – it’s gone. You do have
to work at it. You have to drive
your recyclable goods to the
center and separate everything
yourself (gods forbid!), which
means you have to clean it and
store it at your abode until you
can get to it. This is inconven-
ient; it’s the dark side of the
convenience plastic serves us.
But if we all did something it
would help. Your water bottles
and beer cans, that go into the
trash (you better not throw
them out the window!), which
go to the landfill and don’t
degrade…. Well, unfortunately
those will outlast us by genera-
tions, but recycling helps alle-
viate our footprint on the
earth.
Here is a list of things the
recycling center in Alpine
takes. And, need I mention,
items must be clean? Glass,
plastic, paper, tin, etc. (This
leaves out milk carton card-
board recycling, for example.)
• Plastic #1 and #2 only
• Mixed Paper (no milk
cartons and the like)
• Glass Bottles & Jars (no
broken glass, no cham-
pagne bottles, no gallon
bottles)
• Scrap Metal
• Newspaper
• Corrugated cardboard
• Aluminum
• Tin
• Used Oil & Filters –
From DIY
• Brush (no thorny plants
or cactus)
We’re fortunate to have
recycling Out Here. Why not
use it?
So, I wonder… did
Benjamin go into plastics even
though he was disillusioned
and put off by the older gener-
ation’s bourgeois lifestyle? I’ll
bet he did. And maybe his chil-
dren were disillusioned by his
lifestyle when they grew up in
an easy, yet throw-away men-
tality symbolized by plastic, the
heavy legacy of a consumer
world. But now The
Graduate’s children and grand-
children are left with a differ-
ent outlook, perhaps saying to
their children: “I want to say
one word to you. Just one
word: Recycle.”
More on trash, recycling
and options in next issue as we
continue our series on Trash in
the Big Bend. I had a tremen-
dous amount of responses to
the first piece; apparently more
people than just myself have
noticed and are concerned
about the uptick in roadside
litter.
Thank you for writing in.
HAL FLANDERS RECYCLING CENTER
3300 Old Cemetery Rd • Alpine
https:/www.facebook.com/HalFlandersRecyclingCenter
432-837-3183
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