do you recycle?

i don't mean just grow stuff. i mean stuff like laundry detergent bottles and cereal boxes and whatnot.

my city has a forced recycling program. you have to put all trash in a special city bag (which cost more than a dollar apiece for the large ones ) and you have to put all the recyclable crap in the bins. if you don't use the special bag they don't pick up the trash. the bags are made very cheap and are practically see-through so i still have to buy regular bags if i want any privacy with my trash. if they hear glass clanging around in there they won't take it because i was supposed to recycle it. the trash guy actually picks through the recycle bin to make sure i didn't sneak anything in there. bastard.

apparently the idea is to make it so expensive to buy the bags that you recycle just to avoid taking up too much room and having to use more than one bag. you can only buy the stupid things at certain stores and they are ALWAYS out of them. needless to say we also have a big illegal dumping problem. go figure

i've now turned into a recycle nazi, not because i care about the planet but because i don't want to have to smell my trash for another week because they refused to take it.

a local article recently claimed that the city now recycles up to 70% of its trash. it sounds made up to me but if it's true i suppose it's at least partially worth it. the article didn't mention how much we spend on cleaning up all the illegal dumping that people do because they can't afford the stupid bags, but hooray anyway i suppose.

I only separate metal, the rest goes into a garbage can or burn barrel.

I don't even have to option of recycling near me.

I do and i don't. I recycle all metal, cardboard, and plastic at work, because i know that the items get recycled, i do not recycle anything at home as it has been proven here and there that the councils will frequently take the recycling bins and empty them straight into the dumptruck with the rest of the non-recyclables.

And call me mad but i don't like using things that were recycled from old toilet paper and nappies and sanitary towels lol.

as to the money side, we have the same kind of thing at work. Not that it's a bad thing per say. We get two types of bags from the company we use, Blue, and clear. no difference otherwise. Blue bags cost us £3 a piece for a single rubbish bag, clear bags cost us 5 pence a piece. They use financial means as an incentive to recycle and as such use less of the blue bags. As i say, not a bad thing in one way, but if we were simply responsible, then why not just charge 5p for each and the company would have ore money to spend on produce or staff wage ills etc. But alas we are not very responsible on a whole, that is how the world is.

I've mixed feeings about the notion of biodegradable items, because at the end of the day they stil get carted off and chucked on a huge rubbish dump until a few years later when they are gone, but they still creat said rubbish dump for it in the first place, why not find a manner that removes the need these dumps in the first palce. that would be a bit idealistic though i think lol

I recycle as much as I can. My town gives you a bin for plastics and you're to bind papers together with twine. I give all my metal to the scrap guy thats picks up our works scraps because he's cool, or I'd scrap it myself. Even more so than recycling, I like to reuse as much stuff as I can. Nothing feels better than knowing you didn't have to buy something because you realized you actually already had what you needed.

Oh, and i forgot to mention, our council will refuse to take cardboard for recycling unless it is placed inside of plastic bin bags. Seems really smart.

I recycle metals. Everything else gets burnt.

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The recycle bin here is twice the size of house rubbish bin so i have no choice. No need for bags , they sort it out at the tip.

this is when it is good to have a b-b-q

I have recycled for years...before it was 'green' or the thing to do. People who are against recycling need to take a trip to thier local landfill so they can see the garbage up close and personal. The smell of course is unreal, but once you see all the broken glass, plastic, metal cans and other things that have been thrown away...you will get it. I'm no 'greenie' but do understand that natural resources are the strength of *any* country. By reducing, re-using and recycling you help eliminate the need for other raw materials being wasted. This is one of the easiest lessons to teach your children- waste not, want not!

go from the store to my house and then to the dump, let them recycle thats what they are paid for.

We have alot of get together over here so we make our friends keep all the aluminum separate. Then ever three months or so we throw a kegger paid for entirely with recycled beer cans that would have otherwise just been thrown away

recycle reuse. need not want not waste not. you save allot more then you think when you recycle. plants, animal lives, trees, the ecosystem, the environment, people

plastic,cardboard and paper for sure, its not hard to do either.

So true!!!!!!!!!!!

What he said ^^ In villages in the UK you still get glass milk bottles delivered to your door by the milkman driving an electric float, he get's all pissy and stops delivering milk if you consecutively fail to return the empty bottles.

Recycling is for fags.

Don't get all pissy cause yer Mom makes you take out the trash.