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:

gthornock
Provo

Recycling is available in Salt Lake, but, at least when I lived there, it wasn’t publicly funded. There are cities in Utah that have tried publicly funded recycling programs, but I don’t think Salt Lake was one of those. Individuals and businesses that want to recycle (and there are many) make their own arrangements.

I don’t think this has anything to do with Mormonism. Rather, it’s probably due to the fact that Utah voters already view themselves as paying too much in taxes, and are reluctant to support any tax increase for any new public program.

Salmar
Salt Lake City

You’d think that, and yet many in my neighborhood, many of them strong conservatives, are putting huge piles of cardboard and other recyclable crap in their 2nd trash bin, when a blue bin is actually cheaper. I’d attribute it to individual stupidity.