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Ok, well, it's probably too late for that anyway, but I bet if we tried we could extend the time we get it. So.....


How many of you recycle? Is it mandatory where you live? What do you recycle, just cans, or plastic, paper, cans, bottles, etc, the whole works. Do you get money for your recycling, or is it just another stop on the way to the trash?

In Owensville, we don't have curbside recycling yet, so nothing is required. We do have a can recycling center a couple miles outside of town that we can actually sell our aluminum to, but you only get about .25 a pound for it. Not bad if you crush all your cans and save them up for awhile. Plastic, paper and glass can be dumped in three dumpsters they have set up out by Walmart, but that's about it. I'd have to say by the volume of people there, not many around there do it.
 
we have curbside recycling around here. paper, cans, glass and certain types of plastics. i am probably the heaviest recycler in the neighborhood. my bin is usually overflowing. the rest of the neighborhood is starting to recycle more. i think the main obstacle was the every-other-week pickup but they are getting better.
here in MA, we have to pay a $0.05 deposit on any carbonated beverage. those bottles/cans get stored until there is enough to be bothered to bring to the recycling center.
none of this is mandatory. i just think it is something that really needs to be done. more extensively and by more people.
 
At home, we recycle everything. The Lean Cuisine boxes alone fill up our recycling bin really quick so I think I'm going to steal the bin from the upstairs tenants. They're not there all the time and they don't use it. We don't get money for any of it but we typically don't have bottles or cans that you would get a deposit on anyway.

There's also a lady who walks around the neighborhood with a shopping cart on recycling day, taking the deposits out of people's bins.
 
Not required, but we have several collection centers around the county. I do aluminum, paper, plastic (bottles and bags), and glass (real beer comes from bottles). Not religious about it (but then, I wouldn''t be) but I do it more often than not.
 
That's good. I'd like to see alot more people doing it. It seems that a few years back it was becoming very popular, and then the "newness" of it all wore off and alot of people are back to just throwing stuff away again. If people were forced to drive by a landfill and see just how much they grow on a daily basis, maybe they'd do better.
 
I am a strong supporter of recycling. Naturally, the boys aren't so thats another of the ongoing wars. The only thing they recycle is yesterfood. They leave it on the utensils and disheswhen they wash them to make sure it gets used up....I guess.
One of my biggest peeves is over-packaging. Pretty stupid that we buy 20¢ worth of product for $2.99 because of the packaging. And then have to deal with the recycling of that package afterwards....
I am optimistic about the earth's future, though. If you drew a circle representing earth, the fine line of how deep our pollution has affected the planet would be so thin it would be invisible. When Mother Nature gets tired of our shit, she'll sluff us off like dead skin and move on without us.....
 
we recylce our paper and light card, glass, plastic bottles and bags and compost our old food. all that is council provided from the curb [or in the composters case, in my garden].
we take long-wearing plastic bags to the shops to save collecting more stupid light-weight ones.

we also try as much as possible to cut back on the packaged/processed foodcrap we buy. its unhealthy as anyhting to start with without all the polystyrene and plastic packages.
 
Spot said:
we have curbside recycling around here. paper, cans, glass and certain types of plastics.
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We also have curbside recycling collections every fortnight. The council also sell composters for a nominal fee to householders. Plus they are now taking garden waste for composting from those who don't want to do their own composting... the results are sold back to gardeners. We are actually one of the best places in the UK for the percentage of waste that is recycled.
 
ris said:
we take long-wearing plastic bags to the shops to save collecting more stupid light-weight ones.

we also try as much as possible to cut back on the packaged/processed foodcrap we buy. its unhealthy as anyhting to start with without all the polystyrene and plastic packages.
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i have a couple of collasible plastic boxes that I use for shopping. I also recycle old clothes in the rag bank and books in the book bank. We're recycling mad around here! :lol:
 
when we moved we took tons of books and old clothes to the relevant charity banks. persuading the missus that shifting some more of her personal library and wardrobe into 'storage' just isn't working though and the hoarding instinct is in full flow :D
 
I had an environmental organization come to my door last night (just as I was sitting down to dinner) to talk about renewable energy and the danger of using pesticides in your garden and on your lawn.

They have this plan underway to put 'windmills' out off the east end of Long Island to generate energy. There are already a bunch of them on farms and other eastern states are talking about putting them in the water off their coasts also.
 
offshore windmill farms are good, denmark has a whole bunch of them. the uk is currently working on tidal windmills that sit under the water [they look like a massive pair of blades sat under water]. apparently they will generate bags of energy and cause little damage to sealife because they turn relatively slowly.
 
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