Ahhhhhhhh Garbage!

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According to Salon.com, Consumers are growing lax about recycling. In 2005, 23% of plastic bottles sold in the USA were recycled---down from the 40% in 1995.

So Spoofee members......do you recycle your garbage? Are there mandates/laws in your community area for the same? I know that my brother lives in a sub. of Baltimore, and, he has to at least separate his paper, bottles, and, plastics for the trash pick ups. We do not have such ordinances here on the Island,but, with living on the water, most folks here make a good effort to recycle.
 
We'd like to recycle, but we don't have any facilities within 125 miles to do so. We used to recycle newspapers, cardboard, soda cans, etc. when we lived in another community but it wasn't mandatory.
 
We can't recycle here either which makes me very mad.
 
I recycle everything. I have very little actual trash each week.
 
We try to recycle but our trash collectors make it difficult. In the house we separate everything, then on a designated evening we put our trash, glass, plastic, newspapers etc. to the curb. In the morning they are supposed to collect the trash and recyclables separately. More often than not they just throw everything together in the back of the trash truck even though its clearly not all trash. :mmph:
 
we recycle cans and bottles for the $ but our recycling center won't take cardboard or newspapers. we have separate bins for our recycling, so that's where the cardboard goes. mostly it's to make sure we have enough room in the big bin for the garbage (five kids makes for a lot of trash!)

i've been known to say, "since you recycle, i don't have to". some people have no sense of humor about it though.
 
It's much easier to recycle in the cities. They give you buckets and you just leave it with your trash. We fill up one trash barrel a week and three recycle buckets, ( --of course we've been known to take home relatives' trash for recycling when they can't do it easily/don't bother, which is probably carrying it a bit far.... doesn't always help the smell of the car either!)
 
I don't have recycling in my city. :( I do however take bottles/ cans back and I take any newspapers or magazines and recycle them at Amber's school.
 
In NY there is a deposit on carbonated beverage containers. On the new this morning, I heard they want to extend the deposit to include other non-carbonated beverages as well, like snapple, water, etc.....

I would return the cans/bottles myself if the return centers weren't always dirty and filled with dirty, smelly street 'scavengers'....:(
 
precocious said:
In NY there is a deposit on carbonated beverage containers. On the new this morning, I heard they want to extend the deposit to include other non-carbonated beverages as well, like snapple, water, etc.....

I would return the cans/bottles myself if the return centers weren't always dirty and filled with dirty, smelly street 'scavengers'....:(
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I am amazed at what items now have a deposit on it. :bigok:
Do you at least take your cans/bottles and drop them off so someone else can recycle them?
 
callmeCrazyButt said:
I am amazed at what items now have a deposit on it. :bigok:
Do you at least take your cans/bottles and drop them off so someone else can recycle them?
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I put them into the recycle garbage.

At my old address, my bedroom windows were close to the curb and on recycle night the street scavengers would go around the neighborhood and collect them from the garbage.

I have no problem with others taking them from the trash, however, they would do this between 2-5am, make a racket and wake me up! Then you'd see their shopping carts or discarded dirty baby carriages loaded with about a dozen or so extremely large bags full of cans rolling all around the streets. That is not a pleasant sight, nor is it pleasant passing them in the street as they also tend to smell. :( Not really good to have around the neighborhood.

For a while I was collecting them for a child in the community so he could 'earn' some extra change.
 
We dont have any recycling center here. Everything goes in the trash :(

I was amazed when we moved to NY - the whole deposit/recycle thing. I took every single can to the grocery store and put them in the machine to get my 5 cents back - but there were times that the smell would just make me sick! I eventually found a drive thru recycle center - you pulled up, they took your cans out of your car/truck and gave you a ticket. Then you pulled up, gave your ticket back and got your $$$. It was great - especially if I had Kadin with me.
 
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