I finally went to Comet Ping Pong. was actually pleasantly surprised. mount pleasant or petworth would be blessed to have such a place. nice atmosphere and good beer on tap. and ping pong to boot. but really who wants to trek all the way over to the other side of the park for it.

our pizzas at comet ping pong were runny and doughy–but we thought maybe that is what they mean by ‘new haven’ style?

as for re-cycling: good for moronis

Toby: I’m constantly surprised what you can put in the blue bin. It’s one of the things I’d put on the “Great Things About DC” list. My experience in Houston was that they basically wouldn’t recycle anything, they came out once every 3rd Tuesday, when the moon was full, and only picked up at odd numbered houses (or something similar), and worst of all I found out the hard way that they don’t take any glass — they dumped the glass on my driveway. The Houston trashdudes also excelled at knocking your trashcan into the street so that passing cars could destroy it or shoot it into your neighbor’s bushes.

PoP, you should do a feature on the trashdudes, but you’d probably have to get up reeeeeeally early to catch them. Every Friday morning it’s like magical trash pixies have come to make my life sweeter.

I [heart] DC solid waste services.

Here here to highlighting trashdudes! They do an amzing job for us, only once missing a pickup over an odd holiday weekend. When I lived in San Francisco, we could only recycle glass and bottles in our building. No plastic, paper, or cardboard. And that’s in San Francisco! Go DC!

Sorry to rain on the parade, people, but as a PNW enviro from the righteous state that invented bottle and can deposits, I need to correct y’all about this pizza box hoo-ha.

Here it is: You can’t recycle pizza boxes. The grease makes the cardboard unusable. And if a pizza box somehow contaminates a load of cardboard, some recyclers just send the entire load to the dump.

Alberto’s is only “recycling” these boxes to cut down on complaints from neighbors. As of a month ago, Alberto’s in Dupont wasn’t recycling soda cans. Cans, people! But they get so many complaints about piles of pizza boxes every morning that they’re now “recycling” boxes straight into the garbage.

btw, if you need to know more about what you can and can’t put in the sacrebleu bin, here you go:

http://recycle.dpw.dc.gov/recycle/cwp/view,a,1374,q,617354.asp

I’m willing to bet somebody will deposit something other than a pizza box in that thing sometime this weekend!

ParkPeep: Saint William O. Howland, czar of all he surveys at DCPW. The “O” stands for “Overlord-of-Efficiency”. Even as a small child Saint William separated the plastic and the paper, walked his dog Spiffy while simultaneously picking up trash with a litter stick, and he spent his nights in quiet contemplation thinking “one day, ONE DAY, I’m gonna clean up this town!”

The trashdudes in Petworth are great! They saw me coming back from a walk, during which this recycling freak had picked up about ~ eight bottles and cans, and they walked over, collected them all from me, and put them in the truck. And smiled.