One of my good buddies, we'll call him Bo, is a manager at the local Buffalo's Restaurant/Bar. I've known Bo for a while and we both actually used to bartend together at a different restaurant so we often talk about the restaurant business. I was curious as to how well Buffalo's was doing and so Bo was kind enough to provide me with some facts and figures about how much beer they would sell in a given two-week period. This happened to be during the time when Yeungling arrived in Georgia, so I imagine bottle sales were a little higher, but still the numbers are astounding. Buffalo's sold over 3600 bottles of beer in just two weeks! That's not to mention the number of plastic cups from liquor as well. He assured me that Buffalo's was in the process of starting to recycle, but about 2.5 months has passed and I haven't heard anything else from him about that. No other bar in this town recycles either, however, so the amount of glass and plastic waste generated by bars in this town alone is incredible.
The good news is the solution to this problem is simple: our county needs to offer curbside recycling pick-up. Businesses would be happy to recycle if they didn't have to worry about getting materials to a recycling center. Unfortunately, our county isn't too concerned with this issue and in this economy, no program that many would deem useless is going to be discussed. Savannah just began this so hopefully we will follow suit shortly after this economy picks back up.
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That is a lot of bottles. Does statesboro have a recycling center. If it does I think collecting recycling from local bars and resturants should be a volunteer service provided to georgia southern students.
ReplyDeleteJames Anderson