What an education we had today!  My sisters and I drove to Billings for the day, hauling all of our accumulated plastic for recycling along with us.  We had the huge trunk of Anne's Buick full of bags of plastic. I had assured them it would be no problem just dropping it off. When we arrived in town, I expected that there would be a plastic's recycling container in the Wal-mart parking lot so we could get rid of it before we began our day of shopping for all that we needed for the Big Bash coming up.

We drove all around the parking lot with no success. I had been sure that since there is a drop off in Gt. Falls there would be one in Billings. So we next tried the Target parking lot, as I was sure I knew of one in some Target lot somewhere. No better success. Since we knew we had to get rid of it soon, I called the recycling center in Billings to find out where they were. 

Since they told me there are located in some remote spot on the edge of town, so I asked if they knew of any other drop off place around. The nice lady assured us there was one at the other Wal-mart,  and we head over to the other side of town droving around that parking lot to no avail, too.

We were getting pretty desperate since by now we had a truck full of plastic and stuff for the bash and no room for us just about. This prompted us to get the directions to the recycling place on the edge of town. When at last we found it and drug all our plastic out of the car, all we discovered was two containers, one for #1's and one for #2's.

Since all of our plastic was unsorted in our bags and we were at the "I don't care any more" stage, we just threw it all into the containers as is and high tailed it out of there. After all we had devoted an hour and a half into this endeavor up to this point! And think of all the gas wasted, too!

Now I know why no one around here recycles plastic and just gets rid of it anyway they can. I was pretty naive to think this recycling project was going to be something little old me could do. No wonder no one ever wanted to tackle this job.  They are all a lot smarter than I am.  I'm wising up pretty fast now, though.