Yankee trash?


Chris Hayes wonders why he can't recycle at the beach.

In a post on conservative group blog Red Clay Citizen, he notes that vacationers at the Outer Banks don't have a place to put their bottles and cans. 

Here I was in the home county of Mr. Clean Environment himself, Senate President Pro-Tempore Marc Basnight (D-Dare), the same legislator who pushed through the ban on construction of new landfills, and there wasn't a recycle bin in site. Not on the beaches, not at curbside pickup of all those rental houses and condos.  Nowhere.

Hayes said this gives a bad impression to out-of-state visitors, who think they can send their "Yankee trash" to North Carolina's landfills.

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