Do you recycle?

Yes, I recycle cans, bottles and paper. Curbside recycling pwns all.

 

[Albis]

i used to in high school but at college i don't

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: logic1485
It's a law here.

wheres here?

 

[jammur21]

I used to.

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: logic1485
It's a law here.

It's not the law here (Lexington, KY), but the trash service was changed to 1 day service on Jan 31st. Any overage will force the homeowner to purchase a new trash herbie and an extra $4.00 per month. We just started recycling and we have found that we have more in the recycle bin than the trash bin. And, if our city would take everything that is marked as recyleable, I'm not sure we would need the trash bin. Might need another rosie (recycle bin)

Oh, and it's paper (any kind), cardboard, paperboard boxes, plastic bottles, plastic marked with recycle mark, cans (steel and aluminum) and glass.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: MrLuckyPants
All newspapers, aluminum cans, glass bottles, cardboard boxes, and #1 and #2 plastic containers.

In our town, we get free curbside recycling pickup, so all it costs us is a couple of minutes per week.

Same here.

 

[kindest]

its pretty much law here in california.
they give you a special trash can just for newspapers, plastic, alumnium.
so if you dont spend the extra 3 seconds to throw your recyclables in there
that should be an automatic 3 strikes.
😛

 

[FoBoT]

no way. i live in the country and can throw away anything i want. i need to get a burn barrel like all my neighbors so i can burn half my trash too.

 

[nageov3t]

it's a law here too (NJ).

we're required to recycle glass and cans.

 

[TwiceOver]

Recycling isn't a law here. It is an optional cost from the waste department. I don't pay for it, I take my own recycling. I recycle only what the place takes:

Plastic 1&2
Aluminum & Tin
Cardboard
Glass

 

[Ornery]

Screw that horseshlt. The last straw for me was getting an orange tag on a bag filled with newspaper. I called and asked WTF? They said the newspapers couldn't be put in a plastic bag, because it was mixed, or some such BS. That was it. I threw our stinkin' recycle bin in the 70 gallon trash cart, and said fvck the whole thing! :|

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Screw that horseshlt. The last straw for me was getting an orange tag on a bag filled with newspaper. I called and asked WTF? They said the newspapers couldn't be put in a plastic bag, because it was mixed, or some such BS. That was it. I threw our stinkin' recycle bin in the 70 gallon trash cart, and said fvck the whole thing! :|

and you know that many municipalities when all the sorted crap gets to the dump, they just dump it all back together anyway. many cities don't have any place to sell/get rid of the "Recycled" crap, so they just put it into a land fill anyway

 

[Ornery]

It doesn't even get to the dump, it's mixed right in the truck that picks it up! I'd feel like a total chump if I bothered with that BS anymore!

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
(anyone else have a "burn barrel" on the farm as a kid?)

We have a burn barrel now. There's two garbage cans in the kitchen closet. One is for unburnables, the other is for paper and plastic.
My wife does all the garbage burning. She's totally insistant on it.
We also keep a compost bucket on the kitchen counter that all the food scraps go into. That gets dumped in the compost roller thingy.
The chickens and dogs get some of the other food scraps.
We keep a huge compost pile way out back. It gets all the chicken poop, bedding, grass clippings and garden waste. Once it works down, we use that stuff in all the flower beds and in the garden.