Do you recycle?

[JOERM]

I do not but maybe I should. Even so I will still have just as much to haul to the dump. It always amazes me how much garbage my wife and I generate. It seems like if you buy four bags of groceries you would have less than two bags of garbage but it's never like that. At our house it's four bags in and six bags out. It boggles the mind. (What little there is that is.)

 

[max]

We have for several years and the amount of "trash" we now have has greatly decreased. Starting soon our town will pick up our stuff to be recycled. In the past, we have had to take it to a center.

 

[A10]

We recycle as much as we can. We have cut down on the amount of landfill stuff that goes out, but the recycle bin is always stuffed and overflowing so I guess our total garbage flow has probably increased. Probably 60% of the recycle is junk mail we get......goes straight in the bin.

 

[labworm]

Like to help mother nature out now and then, yes we do.

 

[novalty]

Started recycling a couple years ago. Currently with a family of 4, we have about 1 bag of trash per week--diapers really add to the bulk. We have a couple bags of recycling per week. Just got a compost bin to try and reduce even more. Our town doesn't currently charge to buy their bags for trash, but have been warning about it as a possibility due to tipping fees that the town pays. So I get pretty upset on trash day, when I see heaps of trash outside of peoples houses--especially those that are in-town and live a very short distance from the recycling center.

 

[Straightshooter2]

We recycle soft drink cans, tin cans (Forest Park separates the two), plastic and glass. Like others, we do have to take it to a collection point but the city is working on a contract with the waste company currently collecting garbage. If they agree on a contract, we will have garbage pickup once a week plus recyclables once a week with any profit from the recyclables going to the city. Along with pickup, there will be 3 or 4 drop off stations around town.

Did you know that Delta Air Lines recycles all those soft drink/beer cans and plastic water bottles from the flights. All money from recycling goes to charity.

CW

 

[mg357]

We recycle are aluminum cans here at home and have been doing it for many years.

 

[Alpo]

I reuse brass and lead. Does that count?

 

[DeadAye]

We have been recycling for several years now.
My wife also has a compost heap in a corner of the back yard - Just veg & paper goes into it.
Aluminum cans go to the Humane Society. Cardboard, plastic, motor oil, etc goes to the county recycle center at the landfill about 7 miles from here.

My old buddy The Bear enjoys the trip to the dump too

 

[DGT]

I've purchased a lot of used S&Ws, does that count?

 

[Nico Testosteros]

Of course I recycle. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

 

[brick]

I recycle as much as possible. It doesn't hurt that the recycle station is only .2 mile from me.

 

[Andy Griffith]

No, we don't.

We burn the paper or use it for something else. A burn barrel is a handy thing and cuts down on identity theft.
We don't drink soft drinks very often, and when we do- it's from glass and the lady down the road has a studio where she uses them in her art glass. Even if we commit the most heinous of sins such as break a Mason jar, it goes in the bucket for her.

Milk jugs and plastic bottles of any kind usable are kept for planters until they just disintegrate.

I keep just about every box and use them for something, or use them in the garden to put down in between rows so as to keep from packing the dirt too tight- they just turn right in in the fall and disintegrate.

I view it as my trash- they sure ain't gett'n in back for free- I'll use it or someone is going to pay for it to get it back.

Tires also make good planters if you cut them in half around the tread and open them up so they look like a flower bloom- we plant rhubarb in them that way.

I take that back, I have returned batteries- but you get a credit on them...so that doesn't count.

My wife finds a use for just about everything else. I don't think some people would like my place, because I've found so many secondary uses for items that most people throw away.

Did I mention that we even wash the tinfoil and plastic bags? One of those $2.00 battery operated resealers makes a good addition to the cupboard too.

 

[mike from st pete]

I reuse brass and lead. Does that count?

I reload does that count?

 

[m1gunner]

I used to do the separate and recycle thing till I was at the land fill one day. The county takes all that separated stuff, loads it in separate trucks, and dumps it all side by side at the land fill. All gets covered by dirt.

What a SCAM!

 

[forresth]

I used to do the separate and recycle thing till I was at the land fill one day. The county takes all that separated stuff, loads it in separate trucks, and dumps it all side by side at the land fill. All gets covered by dirt.

What a SCAM!

yup. I've heard of that before. Its cheaper to toss it in the landfill than to process it.

MI has a 10 cent pop deposit and I am starting a scrap metal pile, but that's about it for recycling for me.

With 2 young kids, and plenty of home remodeling going on. I have plenty to go curbside every week.

 

[snowman]

I save close to $200 a year by recycling. The cheapest trash hauler is $16 a month and picks it up weekly. I was only generating about a bag every 6 weeks, so I found out about a a facility that will take trash for a dollar a bag(I take it there) and cancelled my contract with the trash hauler. At the same time I learned what the recycler was taking and reduced my trash volume still further, so that I have a bag only once every 2-3 months. A good deal for me, and I hope it's helpful in reducing landfill volume.

Andy

 

[David LaPell]

We recycle some plastics, but my biggest thing is to recycle lead wheel weights into useable bullets.

 

[Maddog 521]

The only thing I recycle is brass. Oh I also have a compost pile.

 

[blackdeuce]

We recycle plastics and newspapers. We generate a pile of the stuff, so it's a good thing that we do recycle.

 

[fiasconva]

Well, I did. However, we just received notice that if we want to keep recycling we will be charged a $6 fee each month for pickup. If we don't pay the fee we will have to just throw it in the trash can for weekly pickup. I'm still debating on whether or not I'm gonna pay or just toss.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

Recycling is mandatory here. We have the largest recycle bin you can get from Waste Management - 96 gallons. It's full to the brim every time. Conversely, we have so little non-recyclable trash that we don't even bother getting one of their bins - we just have a little Rubbermaid can and it's less than half full sometimes on trash day.

Junk mail gets shredded and then mixed with the grass clippings in the yard waste bin.

 

[ikor]

No...and now I have to add characters to get this to 'take'

 

[therevjay]

Yes we recycle glass, paper, tin cans, aluminum cans, etc. I guess it is good for the enviroment. But mainly it's good for my wallet. Everything I take to the recycleing drop off is less in my garbage cans, and therfore less cost when I take them to the dump.

 

[A10]

No, we don't.

We burn the paper or use it for something else. A burn barrel is a handy thing and cuts down on identity theft.
We don't drink soft drinks very often, and when we do- it's from glass and the lady down the road has a studio where she uses them in her art glass. Even if we commit the most heinous of sins such as break a Mason jar, it goes in the bucket for her.

Milk jugs and plastic bottles of any kind usable are kept for planters until they just disintegrate.

I keep just about every box and use them for something, or use them in the garden to put down in between rows so as to keep from packing the dirt too tight- they just turn right in in the fall and disintegrate.

I view it as my trash- they sure ain't gett'n in back for free- I'll use it or someone is going to pay for it to get it back.

Tires also make good planters if you cut them in half around the tread and open them up so they look like a flower bloom- we plant rhubarb in them that way.

I take that back, I have returned batteries- but you get a credit on them...so that doesn't count.

My wife finds a use for just about everything else. I don't think some people would like my place, because I've found so many secondary uses for items that most people throw away.

Did I mention that we even wash the tinfoil and plastic bags? One of those $2.00 battery operated resealers makes a good addition to the cupboard too.

Sounds like recycling to me! The best kind is when you can reuse it yourself.....

 

[forresth]

I think to get people to recycle, you need to do 3 things.

1. assure people that their hard work isn't going in a landfill.

2. make it reasonably easy to do.

3. make it economically favorable to do so.
the easiest way to do that is to charge per bag of garbage, and not charge for properly sorted recyclables.

 

[wheelgun28]

We started a new type program here. Its commingled recycling, means most anything goes in, paper, most every plastic, wood, metal, glass, and so on. Trash is food waste and things like that.

What they do with it I dont know. Its very easy to do so I dont really care either. I still pay for two pick ups a week, now its one trash and one recycling.

 

[W.E.G.]

Some of you guys sound like you are postig from 1977.

Google "single stream recycling."

 

[rimfired]

Do wives count?

 

[forresth]

Some of you guys sound like you are postig from 1977.

Google "single stream recycling."

do you think many municipalities will fork out the cash for that when it is so much cheaper to just pitch it?