Do you recycle your recyclables?

[her209]

I would do it... except I don't know where any recycle centers are.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Get out of the basement, walk around town, go to your city hall and ask, look in the phone book, GOOGLE.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Get out of the basement, walk around town, go to your city hall and ask, look in the phone book, GOOGLE.

 

[oniq]

I remember the first time they began picking up recyclables in my neighborhood. I was young and so excited that first day! The truck came by my house and I was going out with the bin and he just kept driving. I ran up without the bin and he said he would come back and never did. So I will never recycle!! EVER!!

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: oniq
I remember the first time they began picking up recyclables in my neighborhood. I was young and so excited that first day! The truck came by my house and I was going out with the bin and he just kept driving. I ran up without the bin and he said he would come back and never did. So I will never recycle!! EVER!!

you were young and naive

 

[Feldenak]

Do you recycle your recyclables?

No.

 

[minendo]

Sure do. Actually I am planning on bringing them up to the center tomorrow.

 

[Anubis]

we have to or we get yelled at

 

[MikeMike]

thats prolly a lot of empty beer cans huh.

MIKE

 

[Squisher]

Yeah, mandatory curbside recycling

Most plastic bottles, glass, cans, newspapers, and yard waste.

 

[ISAslot]

yes, here we have an orange bin for paper/cardborard and a blue bin for plastic and metal we put them out weekly just Like the trash.

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Get out of the basement, walk around town, go to your city hall and ask, look in the phone book, GOOGLE.

 

[whoiswes]

google your city name and recycling. that's how i found Kansas City area recycling centers.

my fiancee and i recycle everything we can, but it pales in comparison to what got recycled in Ames, IA.

they had a waste processing plant that processed all garbage - it separated out all glass, plastic, and metal recyclables (sp?) and then all combustible materials, which were burned in the power plant. Not only did it provide ~ 15% of the town's power, but it reduced landfill usage by 70-80%, or some such number.

best of all, you threw everything away - no need to deal with recycling. they took care of it for you.

now i have to sort through all of the recycling once every few weeks and then drive down and drop everything off. i suppose i'm doing my part and whatnot, but it is a major PITA, especially when i'm the only one on our block who does it. i wish they would hurry up with the curbside rollout...

 

[crab]

No...we actually have no trash pickup here...everything from the week must be loaded into the truck, and taken to the dump. $15/load usually, depends on weight. I'm guessing everything is separated by them.

 

[Amused]

I voluntarily recycle bottles and cans. Nothing else.

Recycling plastic is more wasteful, expensive and polluting than simply making new plastic. And I don't get a newspaper.

Penn and Teller said it best: "Here's a good test: If you see bums picking it out of our trash, it's worth recycling."

Good reading: (originally appeared in the NYTimes)http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html

 

[Atomicus]

New York has a mandatory recycling program. Recyclables are picked up every week, no need to go to a recycling center

 

[brtspears2]

I recycle my cans and bottles, but I feel the recycling center at 89c/lb is giving me less than my refund back. 12 cans is 48 cents of deposit, but I usually turn in 200 cans and get roughly $4.

 

[psydancerqt]

i recycle cans and bottles for the deposit money back.