Darden students got dirty last Thursday, sorting through dumpster trash. I am not making this up. Of course, unlike real dumpster divers, who probably trespass and resell/eat what they find, the Darden kids got the white glove suit experience. If you missed the irony, you shouldn’t miss the point of this dumpster dive: to realize how much of our trash is actually recyclable.
Now, to actually solve this problem (HELLO CHARLOTTESVILLE GOVERNMENT), let’s fine people for having unsorted trash, just like San Francisco’s plan.
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Thor, is this a deliberate provocation?
Anyone else want to mention the quality and seriousness of the educational programs at UVA
and the justice in the rankings of this school to prevent my doing so? BUSINESS SCHOOL?
Since when is enviro-weenie-dom a component of corporate raiderhood?
What are we teaching our children?
Exploit, pillage, profit, dammit!!
Just in case Upstart is out there today!
/big Cheshire grin here.
I was talking to a friend last night whio teaches in Madison and she said they have no recycling whatsoever and blame it on a lack of funds. She has to buy recycling containers with her own money for the school because nobody else puts forth any effort.
@1: I dated a guy who went there and he always talked about green stuff they had to study. I think since they’re trying to compensate for the loss of their soul on their way to becoming money-grubbing CEOs and such so have to do the eco thing to balance out.
there’s certainly no service provided in the county that i’m aware of. does one have to order/pay for it? or are we expected to drag the stuff into the city recycling place on McIntyre Rd?
nobody recycles styrofoam, right?
@4
makes good sense. what they are doing to enlighten them, i mean.
does not make sense that you as a hot chick would allow yourself to be bored to tears
by some pending-MBA droning on about green-values rationalizing or forgiving corporate greed/rapine.
we have several service providers in my part of Greene County (at least three, including one “private contractor”) and none of them offer even the smallest recycling options. Being a GC resident, i don’t know if i’m allowed to bring things to McIntyre to be recycled (too bad, as i pass it every day to and from work) and might not even if i could, due to the huge pain in the butt of doing so. As a GC resident, i probably have to take it to the landfill in Stanardsville, which is the definition of inconvenient (and would probably have to pay to drop it off).
same as @7,
service providers don’t offer and have to pay 30 miles of gas to GET to the landfill,
but also by-weight to drop off.
i forget, is it bad to burn flammable stuff in lieu of recycling—like 55-gallon drums of lead-based paint, plastic bottles, dead animals, old tires and so on? does that return it to the Earth-Mother, like composting?
@8, you should burn things as much as possible. particularly petroleum based things, or anything that took a lot of chemical processes to synthesize. it smells good and it provides warmth for a rapidly cooling globe.
Nobody recycles styrofoam, no. Not in this state. Not in most states; the most recycle-friendly city I’ve ever been in is Cleveland, and they don’t have a city-wide styrofoam program (although there is a very cool coffeeshop that decided to justify using styrofoam cups by paying to export the styrofoam for recycling, even going so far as to accept any and all foam from customers, regardless of origin).
There was a lot of noise in February about a brand new amazing almost Seussian recycling plant that was due to open in Zion Crossroads in May. The machine could supposedly take every single bit of material and separate it into the appropriate containers. Haven’t heard a thing about it since.
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/02/14/ONARCH-0707.rtf.aspx
I can’t say I’d recommend burning any but the corpses. Tires make good raised planters, for the growing of vegetables in these harsh times.
@5 - any trash haulers in the county must take newspaper for recycling according to laws passed by the BoS. There are at least two private companies doing curbside recycling in the “urban ring” of the county. I’ve seen stuff on them cycle through cvilleblogs (Thanks, Waldo!), including one in the last handful of days. You pay them for the privilege of taking your recycling away, saving you the trip to McIntyre or any of the other sites.
ummm, if i leave all my spare corpses in a large metal container…say a 1969 Chevy Nova in my back yard… with a garden-hose sticking out the closed windows, couldn’t i siphon-off methane gas and burn that for heat this winter? Eventually rotting flesh turns to oil too, right, like the dinosaurs only faster (b/c of greenhouse warming with no pesky Ice-Age to retard the process)?
The MBA Chick looks kinda hot in that Tyvek suit. Trendsetter?
Oh otterdung it’s so hot when you talk about your spare corpses.
@13
I is all about de flesh.
@ Post
Now that i think of it though, what is it exactly the MBAs hope to find in their dumpster…
i mean what do they have to throw-out at the Comm School?
Humility? Morals? Social conscience? [risk of infection by these the reason for rubber-gloves?]
Does Cville recycle these things?
“Being a GC resident, i don’t know if i’m allowed to bring things to McIntyre to be recycled (too bad, as i pass it every day to and from work)”
of course you are. no one checks ids there.
@5 - YES< YES< YES, otter, take styrofoam peanuts, anyway, to pack and ship places and they will reuse it - I’ve dropped off styro peanuts at that place across from the old pepsi plant on Grady before. NEVER drop them into trash - ALWAYS recycle dem ‘nuts.
dear otter, also there are toxic waste days, i know, that sounds weird, at the landfill, where they take certain items, you could prolly look them up on the net, to dispose of safely. Have just written that, I don’t have any confidence that I really know what that means, but it’s just got to be better than tossing it into the trash can… In any case, I make a trip about once a month to the recycling bins at McIntyre. The only pain in the butt is turning left on the way out, but “carbon-footprint” notwithstanding, it’s just not that big a deal.
@1 No, it’s not about their souls — I don’t think they stay up at night worrying about that. They’ve learned that being green (or at least talking about it) pays $$$. Sorry to be cynical, but it’s business. And each of you that pays extra for some enviro-concious thing is another reason for them to care about it at Darden.
Thank you, BP.
Could you drop by my pad sometime this week and gather up these decaying ruminant carcasses and slightly leaky milk-jugs of DDT and load them into your 250SL, whisk them off to the recyclathonerator for me? The styrofoam peanuts i can keep—i mix with gasoline and soap-flakes so the kids have something to play with on July 4th–cheaper than sparklers and can also be used for starting the BBQ-grill.
/seriously, though–thank you and i’ll see what i can figure out about the waste days for all these paint cans, etc.. Styrofoam thingee is a hot tip, too.
oh man i forgot about napalm! styro and gasoline, they melt together into a highly explosive goo. you can use a turkey baster to load it into balloons and make festive, birthday party hand grenades.
at this rate i’m going to use nuclear weapons to celebrate my 30th birthday.
@21
the soap flakes add zest, not to be omitted. can recycle a whole damn township with that stuff, Old Sock.
@20 and @21 - you have got to be related to someone in my spouse’s family, I swear.
Just caught a bit of financial news, good thing we voted in the bailout - how low can you go??? Anybody think that the bailout was a realllllly stupid plan, or in my naivete, did it slow it down???
@23
i formally, with regret and apologies, withdraw ‘drop by my pad’ and ‘not nearly so busy’ (on the other thread).
on the other hand—parlie, my man, i got’s shits here what needs explosin’ !!!
I think the recylcling plan in C’ville is way better than anything I’ve seen in other towns. I do wish that the McIntyre center had more plastic options.
To answer a previous question, I don’t think it matters who goes there. I’ve never been carded or have ever seen anyone being carded. I’d be really surprised and disappointed to find out that they turned someone away for doing their part.
And seriously, Thor, why you always picking on Darden kids?
@25
because Kyle isn’t a Darden guy and skyrocketed to success in the Horatio Alger manner… no visible means of support and now is the cigar-smokingest, suspender-wearingest corporate-raider of them all… a man who clambered his way to the top by wit, drive and sheer-will.
Also because Darden classes are generally taught and graded in little groups-n-teams, as though anything in business that succeeded was ever decided by committee (New Coke? VISTA platform?). Kyle stands alone, head and shoulders above the rest.
And, of course, Darden kids are generally weenies, and clutter the bar at South Street so it’s virtually impossible to get a Satan’s Pony without having to elbow through the Calvin-Klein-Signature-Cologne-drenched mob of them.
@26 are you the designated brown noser or do you have the hots for Kyle?
Darden reunion next weekend. My Alum ex-bf will be back in town, trying to get me to move to Detroit with him where he works for Ford in a cushy office in fancy suits and cruises around in his latest Ford SUV blasting Journey and drinking Green Tea Frappacinos w/ whipped cream. He’ll drag me to the Corner where I’ll be forced to watch him do Jager bombs like they’re going out of style and hang with all of UVa’s dumbest football players. It’s gonna be magical.
@27
I am the designated provacateur in-house critic of UVA programs, here to fuel irate comments from self-serious UVA attendees and grads. I merely use Kyle as an exemplar of non-UVA success, as he is the only person on this website with a known identity, known lavish success and a front-page/cover article in Cville about him.
I could have said: UVA Business school is a joke, because instead of being in a classroom studying the friggin’ Laffer Curve, these kids are out dressed in Halloween costumes scrambling through dumpsters of acidopholous-yogurt containers, perrier-bottles, and passed-in-gym-quality mash notes from professors to their hot students.
/reserve ACTUAL brown-nosing for Darren Hoyt, from whom all blessings flow.
/This I refer to as secular praise/prayer, begging him not to squash us all like the bugs we are to him.
@ 25 - Dardenites is the correct term I believe.
Was this picking on them? They did have white suits and they didn’t get their hands dirty. I thought it was pretty interesting actually.
@30
it was certainly a prime posting to encourage snark and mockery… which is in greater part the purpose of many of the posts here, and a provocation for slews of comments. Tweaking the noses of local self-satisfied and global smug.
I thought the MBA program at Virginia is one of the best and that’s only because the students there remind me of it in every other conversation we seem to have. With all the turmoil in the markets they look like they might be practicing other jobs skills. They are way nicer than law students who seem to have been pre-selected for their natural douchbaggery
Paging orchid to the thread…law student douchebaggery…
@32
There you are!! Snark and snide criticism! Join the party Engelbert Splatyback!!! Solid Waste Removal is a growing field, and getting comfy in work-gloves is a great resume-builder for these kids. I can’t even begin top touch the eloquent exactitude of your law-student assessment—and i’m good at pissing people off.
Here, just to help out Englebert Humptydonk, let’s play a fun game, the UVA-MBA Game.
Which of the following local bazillionaires went to UVA-Business:
………………Kuettner (pere, fils, or femme), Gabe Silverman, Kyle, Halsey Minor,
………………Danielson, Charlie Hurt, Dr Hurt, Grisham, Kluge, Duane The Rock Johnson?
Yeah, i knew the answer, i just wanted someone to say it.
I appreciate the praise about my business acumen, but I am far from the success stories of those people. Also, I did go to UVA’s undergraduate business school, the McIntire School of Commerce, which, in addition to an Anthropology major, was a really important part of my education. For the record, Darden is a great program with a lot of smart and capable people. There are lots of interesting, locally based, companies founded by Darden alums. VibeAgent, Happy Rickshaw and Open Source Connections come to mind.
@37: Or they’re like @28. None of that was an exaggeration.
@7 - Several of the garbage collection companies in Greene offer recycling. One of the companies is actually owned by the head of the Greene’s recycling department and in the past have called customers who don’t recycle to encourage them to do so. If you choose to take your recycling to the landfill yourself, it is free. You only pay for taking trash to the landfill, but you can take all the recyclables you want at no charge. They accept #1-7 but no styrofoam or plastic bags even if they have a number on them.
@37
We admire your humility. And deny you aren’t a player dwelling in lavish and destined for lavish-er greatness.
We imagine Anthro training was sufficient immunization against the neo-socialist pathology of Darden profs.
We note that while a cool and cooly-exploitative business, Happy Rickshaw earns about 42 dollars a year.
@28
then again, you could tell him you have to wash your hair instead.
@39 - May anyone bring recyclables to the Greene County landfill location? (I’d love to be able to recycle plastics higher than #s 1 and 2).
@42… yes… you just have to have a mullett and admit to screwing a close family member if challenged. Also make up a fake name using the following letters- S-H-I-F-L-E-T in a variety of combinations for example, Shifflet, Shifllett, Shiffllet,Shiffllett,Shifflett,Shifllet…. I hope you get my drift. Empty beer cans rolling around in the footwell also add to the authenticity and for fucks sake don’t go up there in a Toyota Prius.
@43 - or you could claim to be a Morris… but you better have your glove/running shoes/shotgun in case you pull up next to a Shiflett, Shifflet, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
then again, we could avoid reverse racism and stereotyping
poor whites as we’d avoid doing same for poor blacks?
/naw, just kidding. but you forgot to make fun of them for owning guns and liking God or whatever.
@44
or you could make fun of a Morris…
but you better have your glove/running shoes/shotgun if you do it on Cvillain.
/the code, sorry.
what? WTF, “the code”. Dear friend, I grew up amongst these peoples… I’m not making fun, I’m telling it for real…
/so knowing “right” from “left” and who the heck you might be ranting to might just be related to one of them “morrises or shiffletts”, so don’t show your butt, or it might just get beat…
um, but didn’t expect it to be one of you-all…
/ok, second guessing myself, DO you have wifi in your doublewide?
and just to say, I mean that in the best possible way…
/cause I get the impression that ya’ll are not doublewide type folks…
//just sayin’
@47 — 49
Noooooo! BP—i was jooooo-king!
Dropped my porkrind in mid-crunch and spilled Coors down the front of my Carharrt coveralls @43, 44.
/The Morris thing was an, ummm, inside joke.
Otter you should probably know for your own safety that PP emailed Shen last night and told her about comment #46 and she is really mad as hell about it. Just thought you should know.
@42 - Anyone can bring recyclables to Greene (and I called this morning before I posted to verify).
@51
hell, i figured it was @46 that would have our regulars hopping mad given our collective affection for that clan—was trying to warn BP to tread lightly across such thin ice. Good to know though, as PP is cute as the dickens when she’s angry.
I’m not angry. But I bet Shen wants the two of you to go to hell. She’s emailing me your last names right now so that I can post them on here and break the Code too.
hey now. no code broken in 46.
but we should be careful of Morris and Shifflet (french, ain’t it? Sheeeeflaaaaayyy?) references.
potentially libelous times 350 entries in albemarle phonebook.
Walmart sells laptops now, and Hardees (NASCAR cups, iwoot!) has WiFi.
Don’t get all feral dude. I gotta go find me a real estate agent. Hopefully a Britsh one. Laytah!
Shit? No more caps? Dammit.
I MISS THE ALL-CAPS TOO.
AND THE TOPICALITY.
@52 Thanks, Renee, that’s excellent news. One last question, what’s the address of the facility? I seem to be lacking in effective search skills today.
Also, the UVA recycling center will take basically anything for recycling, including..styrofoam. If they turn people away, I’d be very surprised.
If they turn people away, I’d be very surprised.
Wow. They even recycle people? Trippy.
All the ATP and NADPH up in our junk is especially good compost.
@ 60, I don’t think UVA takes styrofoam, at least according to their recycling website at recycle.virginia.edu
they do take just about everything else, though. Thanks for the great tip!
they recycle people? what about puppies…mmmm?
@59 - It’s 358 Mays Road, Stanardsville, 22973. Phone number 985-5215.
@61 Stanley…. only just saw this.. very fucking funny indeed. Chortle of the Week.