For years, I have seen people going through recycling containers in my Vancouver neighborhood to get out the aluminum cans (“Can collectors’ rummaging rankles Clark County residents,” The Columbian, Feb. 21). I admire them for working that hard to get 10 cents per can, and I doubt they would do so if they had a better source of income.
Several months ago, I started putting my cans into a separate container and setting it out along with the recycling bins the night before the truck comes. Someone picks up the cans and doesn’t have to go through the Waste Connections recycling container with the cardboard and metal to look for them. The cans are mine, and I can choose to recycle them myself or give them to someone else to do so.
This is one simple way to cope with the problem of people going through official recycling containers and irritating homeowners.
