doqublog is instead interested in the people and performances appearing on the telecast. We love rock concerts here, and it always fun to spark memories of past live shows upon spotting familiar musicians in the crowd: "Look, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler! The first time I saw Aerosmith was 1978 at the Syracuse War Memorial!" Since moving to Hollywood, personal experiences with famous personalities have been plentiful, primarily while working as a sound recordist for E! Entertainment. The major Awards shows are big events for the little basic cable network that made its name with live coverage of red carpet arrivals, so I always try and catch some of their broadcast to see how they pull it off. Props to the extremely talented Guiliana DePandi. I worked with her on her first shoot at E! covering a benefit for some environmental cause and was instantly impressed with her journalistic professionalism, energetic interview technique, and all around spunk.
I often tell the story of how she asked every celebrity arrival what they personally did to help the environment, aside from pay for tickets to Hollywood parties. Aside from Ed Begley Jr. who drove his own electric car there, the single answer given by all other was "I recycle." Not a mention of the other two 'R's, 'reduce' and 'reuse': no, the most these self-rightous media personalities could claim was following a weekly municipality mandated program household waste separation protocol. In LA, the city provides all addresses on their pick-up route with a plastic yellow bin to collect any garbage you feel guilty throwing in the same can as the take-out leftovers. The list of 'recycleables' including glass, plastic, cardboard, and paper is printed on inside lid of a special 'blue' trash can where the maid dumps the contents of the yellow feel-good bin, leaving other environmentally unfriendly waste products for the tabloid investigators in the 'brown' can' for pre-ranking refuse. No one is going to catch this celebrity mixing Crystal bottles with the poodle poo! Incidently, poo products go in the 'green' can with other organic debris from the mansion yard. The property owner and domestic servants never open the 'green' can, as it is only used by the gardeners to gather the flotsam of the mower and leaf blowers. The grass cutters are good hombres and can be counted on to roll all the green, brown, and ego-boosting blue cans to the curb to be emptied into one of those noisy trucks that wake me up in the morning. I mean, we already put or garbage in seperate bins, do they have to use so many garbage trucks? Why not dump all the cans in the same truck - just convince me I'm still 'recycling.'
The city answers the question what is recycylable and what isn't and why with a list that would challenge the waste management skills of an Earth First! tree house. And don't think lax compliance to the standards have no downside, the city offers us this:
Question: | | Why doesn’t the City collect some items that are recyclable, and even have the recycling emblem stamped on the bottom? |
| Answer: | Although many materials are indeed recyclable, City recycling centers cannot accept some of these materials because they have no current market value. So, if recycling centers can’t find a place to sell the materials, they will end up taking the materials to the landfill at an additional cost, which is passed on to the City |
