A few years ago, the contractor
who was finishing up a job
across the street from mine
stopped by and asked if he could
throw a couple of bags of trash into
our dumpster. I told him it depended
on what was in them because we were
doing full-line job site recycling. He
looked at me a little funny and then
asked, "You're doing what?"
I explained that we were separating
all the demolition debris and other
construction waste for recycling. Only
material that couldn't be recycled was
going into the dumpster. I showed
him how to separate out his bags of
trash — also known as "unseparated
recyclables" — into the appropriate
piles. Then he asked the