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]]> By: Sloane Berrent http://www.thecausemopolitan.com/on-recycling/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Sloane Berrent Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:32:52 +0000 http://www.thecausemopolitan.com/?p=338#comment-708 Andy - Thank you for your comment. It's hard and mystifying to love a place that has faults and is "broken." Yes it's what people do in New Orleans. I agree completely about California and having beach cleanups and everyone is there. Is it really irreversible in New Orleans? It's interesting to hear you say you left New Orleans for Austin because I'm curious with people what it is that is the "final straw" of leaving one place and going to another. Yet, you've kept great perspective, I like that. Andy – Thank you for your comment. It’s hard and mystifying to love a place that has faults and is “broken.” Yes it’s what people do in New Orleans. I agree completely about California and having beach cleanups and everyone is there. Is it really irreversible in New Orleans?

It’s interesting to hear you say you left New Orleans for Austin because I’m curious with people what it is that is the “final straw” of leaving one place and going to another. Yet, you’ve kept great perspective, I like that.

]]> By: Andy http://www.thecausemopolitan.com/on-recycling/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Andy Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:00:46 +0000 http://www.thecausemopolitan.com/?p=338#comment-707 Sloane, I feel your pain. If any city should have recycling, it is Nola. Beyond that, the landfills themselves are third world quality - few have liners, most accept toxic stuff that they don't acknowledge (I worked on these legal issues while in Nola), and all those nasty toxins are linked directly to the city. Even Dallas makes money on recycling, and lots of it, but Nola isn't interested in anything but protecting the powerful garbage interests. And even at the recent Earth Day festival there were apparently few to no recycle bins for all the waste. The unfortunate truth is that, unlike in Pittsburgh where you have bridges and even the state environmental regulatory agency building named after Rachel Carson, in Nola there is a robust apathy that even Katrina couldn't change. We are the worst caretakers in the country, and we've been entrusted with the most precious city. I moved to Austin a few weeks ago after a four year stint in Nola, and the change is stunning. And it is cultural. You lived in california, and when the coastkeepers there host a community event to clean up the beaches, thousands of people pour out onto the beaches and fill garbage bags with litter. But in Louisiana, even after Katrina (the mother of all reasons to start getting our act in order), if you were to promote a day of clean-up, nobody would show up. I love this city, but it continuously disappoints. Sloane,
I feel your pain. If any city should have recycling, it is Nola. Beyond that, the landfills themselves are third world quality – few have liners, most accept toxic stuff that they don’t acknowledge (I worked on these legal issues while in Nola), and all those nasty toxins are linked directly to the city. Even Dallas makes money on recycling, and lots of it, but Nola isn’t interested in anything but protecting the powerful garbage interests. And even at the recent Earth Day festival there were apparently few to no recycle bins for all the waste. The unfortunate truth is that, unlike in Pittsburgh where you have bridges and even the state environmental regulatory agency building named after Rachel Carson, in Nola there is a robust apathy that even Katrina couldn’t change. We are the worst caretakers in the country, and we’ve been entrusted with the most precious city. I moved to Austin a few weeks ago after a four year stint in Nola, and the change is stunning. And it is cultural. You lived in california, and when the coastkeepers there host a community event to clean up the beaches, thousands of people pour out onto the beaches and fill garbage bags with litter. But in Louisiana, even after Katrina (the mother of all reasons to start getting our act in order), if you were to promote a day of clean-up, nobody would show up. I love this city, but it continuously disappoints.

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