United States: Utah: Salt Lake County: Salt Lake City

Joy
Grand Rapids

A question about this place:
Is there _any_ recycling facilities in Salt Lake City? The two times I've been there, I've not seen one place to put a soda can. Was it just where I was, or is there some sort of link between Mormon theology and the lack of value upon conservation?

Answers:

craniac
Utah

Yeah, I’m sure there are. I live 35 miles south in the reddest county
in the country, and we have recycling. Salt Lake has a definite
environmental movement and is “only” 40 percent mormon.

I would attribute the relative weakness of recycling to rural
conservativism, although mormons have a definite distrust of most
liberals and academics, for a variety of reasons. SLC mormons are
less this way.

http://dooce.com lives in SLC.

http://saltlakecity.about.com/od/recyclingresources/

Not so many containers in public, but they are out there.

Joy
Grand Rapids

Thanks for this answer. It must have been just where I was. I was quite disturbed, though. Best wishes trying to make SLC and your own community green (if that’s what you’re trying to do.)