I very much appreciated Mick Dumke’s article “The Awful Truth About Recycling in Chicago” [July 21], but I’m afraid it barely scratches the surface of our city’s neglect of its own recycling standards (or any other reasonable standards).
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I find it particularly amusing that an environmental engineer who oversees green initiatives for the Department of Procurement Services describes the recycling program in city offices as “aggressive” because “you can hardly walk down the hallway here without running into a blue bin.” Just because folks who hold titles and supervisory positions feel confident that recycling is happening, just because they can see the bins, doesn’t at all mean the materials that get placed in those bins ever arrive at the intended destination, much less are ever actually recycled.
Thank you for trying to make something happen.
