Do you 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?

 

[JOERM]

Do wives count?

Sorry but that was Funny! I know what ya mean man!

 

[old bear]

We have recycled for years. In our area they make it very easy everything goes in the same bin, no sorting on our part, and it's picked up every other week. As it's just the two of us I was surprised how full the recycling bin is by pick up day.

 

[jmhodder]

Where I live the garbage company charges you $3 more per month if you decline to have the recycle can as well as a garbage can. Plus they weigh the can and give a discount off future garbage bill based on how much weight I toss in the recycle can. Kind of a no-brainier.

 

[dave b]

To me, recycling is a big scam. How can they send a big diesel truck with a 3 man crew to pick up a few pennies worth of ****. I save aluminum cans and every couple of years sell them to a real recycler.

 

[McBear]

Been recycling since the early 1970s. Now, instead of one garbage bin and one recycling bin I have three recycling bins and only take the garbage bin to the curb every two or three weeks.

Electronics recycling is finally common here which is good. Today I spent an hour with a table saw trimming out all the scrap wood from the privacy fence project. Treated wood can't be burned which makes it hard to do much with except other projects later.

 

[RightArm]

When I live in a bad neighborhood, which is most of the time, I leave the garbage in front of the dumpster for the homeless and crack-heads to pick out the cans. Usually, they even throw what they don't take into the dumpster. I believe they call that symbiosis in the wild.

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

I grew up farming and ranching in N TX as the oldest son on my grandfather's farm. Everything we used was worn out and broken down. As a result, we never threw anything away. Even now I pretty much keep everything to recycle or re-use. Consequently, my garage makes Sanford and Son look like beginners. ummm... maybe I'm a hoarder and not a recycler!!! Where's American Pickers when I need 'em?

Blessings,
Hog

 

[DeathGrip]

I recycled some guns last weekend. They went to a 90 year old man who bought them for his sons. I didn't make much but it don't matter. The shop owner offered me 25 more.

It's for the children.

How the heck old are his kids?

I think everyone is gonna be happy regardless.