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
