Recycle local

To the editor:

Are you wondering how long Deffenbaugh can keep up their $4.95 a month recycling fee?

I can tell you right now: just long enough to drive our local curbside recyclers out of business. Then watch the price shoot up!

You don’t believe me? Just wait and see! Of course there will be much backing and filling and dubious excuses on their part, but by then, we’ll have nobody to fall back on. And they will have destroyed eight or 10 local businesses in one fell swoop. I’m 82 years old, and even though I tell everyone that 80 is the new 60, I’ll have to admit that my recycling bin (supplied free) is too heavy to lug to the alley. Chris picks it up at my back porch. I’ve tried to pay him extra but he won’t let me. Can Deffenbaugh beat that? Let’s not let interlopers destroy our small businesses. Please stay with your local curbside recycler. We can do it! Remember Wild Oats?