Things appear outside the Keep Alliance Beautiful Recycling Center all the time. Members of our crew who work on weekends or the first person to arrive Monday morning are never surprised to find a few boxes and bags piled next to the overhead door. Likely someone unaware of our 8 a.
m.-3 p.m.
weekday hours or they found one or more trailers full. The same goes for the north side of the lot, which we try to police daily. Then there are deposits far from what we accept.
Giving the anonymous recyclers the benefit of the doubt, I think they assume it will be processed and are not just pawning off junk. Last week, the south end of one trailer supported a door. Someone had leaned a heavy metal and glass screen door next to the bin labeled glass.
Other than worn mesh, the door appeared serviceable. However, components of a home do not make our list. So, we moved the door inside the center to avoid attracting similar items and may have an employee that can use it.
A couple days later, I think, a white wooden door showed up at the same spot. We removed it again and it was taken home by a coworker. Oddball items that appear after hours make me wonder, at times, where did they come from? Was that toilet, to use an actual example, from a regular patron or a passerby with a wild hair? The case of door number 1 and door number 2 turned out to be perhaps the only instance where the mystery person reached out to me for further information about recycling.
I received a call asking if KAB would.
