How green are you? Do you RECYCLE?

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: crab
No recycling here.

Hell, we dont even have trash pick up. We have to load up the pickup and haul it all to the dump bi-weekly. Costs $10-$15/load depending on weight.

Where is this? When we used to live in California we had to pay to have our garbage picked up.

Now living in NY we get our trashed pick up three times a week and it's free, well included in taxes.

 

[VictorLazlo]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
Penn and teller that bull$hit show said that like more that 50% of what you recycle still ends up in the trash, so why bother

Not only that, but in all cases (except soda cans), it wastes more energy to recycle something, then it does to make a new one.

 

[eplebnista]

Do you RECYCLE?

No

 

[FreshFish]

My stupid apt. doesn't have a recycling service (I tried to convince them, but the landlady is kind of an assface) so I save all my cans/bottles/paper and take a monthly trip to the transfer station.

 

[SSP]

Hmm, lets see... We have 3 different kind of trash pick up here. One for normal garbage. One for green bin, which is all food leftover and garbage from preparing food. Third is recycling bin for bottles and paper.

So yah, we do recycle.

 

[loup garou]

I'm forced to.

 

[Armitage]

Cans & newspaper is easy to recycle around here (and I do), but bottles, plastic, etc. isn't. I think there is a place in town where you can take that stuff if you're motivated.

Any references from those folks that say recycling doesn't pay? I've heard that anecdotally for glass, and can believe it for plastics. But I think cans & paper comes out ahead.

oh yea - food & yard waste goes to the 4 legged recyclers out back.

 

[radioouman]

I Am Recycle.

 

[Patt]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
I am 100% against recycling.

every sunday, I get a stack of sunday newspaper(10 copies), I always throw it out like all other garbages.

How can you be against recycling? I'll admit that sometimes it is a bit inconvenient, but seriously ... what sort of world do you want your children to grow up in?

Oh, right, I forgot, ATOT. Probably children won't happen until you can get yourself knocked up.

 

[nageov3t]

recycling is mandatory in my area.

I've never really known anything else, so I couldn't imagine not recycling.

 

[Baked]

We have an awesome recycling program in SF, so yes, I recycle like a hippie.

Ps. Fvck Penn and Teller.

 

[erikistired]

i don't bother recycling anything. i really don't care and by the time it catches up to the planet i'll be dead anyway.

 

[broon]

Glass, newspaper, fiberboard, cardboard, plastic #1 or #2, tin cans, aluminum, egg cartons.

My family of 4 usually only has two bags of trash/week.

 

[djheater]

Everything is accepted here and it's mixed recycling which is REALLY nice.

Every thing in the world gets rinsed and stuffed in a brown paper shopping back, when that gets full it gets put in the garage waiting for garbage day.

We're a family of 5 and have 1 32 gallon container of 'garbage' a week and probably double to triple that in recycling.

Our actual waste will go down once we start composting...

 

[StrangeRanger]

All you folks that mention that recycled products cost more don't get it. Recycling isn't about neccesarily saving money or producing cheaper products. It's about not being so wasteful and polluting the planet with your crap. It's about tyring to leave a "smaller foot print" after you leave this world.
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[NiKeFiDO]

recyclings a scam
it takes more energy to recycle than it does to just make more.


(spread, fire, SPREAD!!!!!!)

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
recyclings a scam
it takes more energy to recycle than it does to just make more.


(spread, fire, SPREAD!!!!!!)

References?? Not that I don't believe it for some types of material, but I'd really be interested in some linkage backing it up.

 

[crab]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: crab
No recycling here.

Hell, we dont even have trash pick up. We have to load up the pickup and haul it all to the dump bi-weekly. Costs $10-$15/load depending on weight.

Where is this? When we used to live in California we had to pay to have our garbage picked up.

Now living in NY we get our trashed pick up three times a week and it's free, well included in taxes.

Just outside of Woodstown, NJ.