Do you Recycle?

[RobDownSouth]

I recycle or compost everything I can. I live by myself, although I have guests often. I throw out one bag of actual garbage per week.

Can't afford trash service, right?

"Recycle more" was my #1 New Years resolution for 2014, mainly because Waste Management gave us these honkin' yuuuuge recycling containers.

I was astounded that my ration of recycled stuff to trash(mostly food scraps) was about 4:1.

It's an ingrained habit to recycle now....one of the few NY resolutions I've kept long term.

 

[pointless]

here recycling used to be just part of the trash service, but then they said fuck that and jacked up the price if you recycled. they're kinda dicks like that.

 

[suckonsimon]

I think we need to ban this stuff here too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/25/ontario-bees-pesticide-neonicotinoids-neonics_n_6221800.html

Over here the moratorium on neonics was put in place by the European Union against the will of the UK government. The then UK Minister for food, farming and rural affairs described the public objection to his stance on this as "a cyber attack". Now that we're faced with the prospect of being uncoupled from so much carefully worked out European legislation, a lot of us are seriously worried about the spin offs in terms of the environment and social justice.

 

[Noor]

Yes, I recycle for several reasons:
1) It's mandatory
2) We pay for garbage here by the amount and recycling is free.
3) I don't like to be wasteful.

Recycling boxes can be done is a few ways here:
Break boxes down and put in recycling pick up
Post on neighborhood list service that you have x number of boxes size y
Run a free ad on craigslist or look for an ad for boxes.
Really large boxes can also be used by nursery schools, at least around here.
If the boxes came from Uhaul or somewhere like that, they usually have a place where you can leave boxes for others.

 

[Noor]

Can't afford trash service, right?

"Recycle more" was my #1 New Years resolution for 2014, mainly because Waste Management gave us these honkin' yuuuuge recycling containers.

I was astounded that my ration of recycled stuff to trash(mostly food scraps) was about 4:1.

It's an ingrained habit to recycle now....one of the few NY resolutions I've kept long term.

Soon we will have free food scrap recycling here!

 

[stickygirl]

Over here the moratorium on neonics was put in place by the European Union against the will of the UK government. The then UK Minister for food, farming and rural affairs described the public objection to his stance on this as "a cyber attack". Now that we're faced with the prospect of being uncoupled from so much carefully worked out European legislation, a lot of us are seriously worried about the spin offs in terms of the environment and social justice.

I think the UK will outshine the rest of Europe - we don't need big Euro sticks to us to act in a responsible way... or I'll kick some asses

 

[Liar]

Basic waste sorting is a requirement for the local trash service. Metals, paper, compostable and other in neat little bins. If it wasn't for that, I'm pretty bad at it.

 

[stickygirl]

We gotta stop this getting worse
I read the other day there is a greater mass of plastic in the ocean than fish, which is pretty fucked up

 

[Noor]

Basic waste sorting is a requirement for the local trash service. Metals, paper, compostable and other in neat little bins. If it wasn't for that, I'm pretty bad at it.

We used to have to sort it down to the color of the glass, then then paper and non paper.
Now everything can go together. When we finally get compost, I suspect that will be separate.

 

[thør]

I just did a search and the only facility that comes up is the scrap metal biz down the road. When I go to the dump the only separate drop off container is one marked "dead animals". Unless it's hidden somewhere else, I've never seen one. I should ask next time I go through.

Your local gov't is lying on their web page, then.

 

[Conager]

I just did a search and the only facility that comes up is the scrap metal biz down the road. When I go to the dump the only separate drop off container is one marked "dead animals". Unless it's hidden somewhere else, I've never seen one. I should ask next time I go through.



Vacation. And too bored to change it.

Do they only accept four legged animals, or are bipeds acceptable as well?

 

[thør]

Our local recycling options: .pdf

 

[Conager]

Can't afford trash service, right?

"Recycle more" was my #1 New Years resolution for 2014, mainly because Waste Management gave us these honkin' yuuuuge recycling containers.

I was astounded that my ration of recycled stuff to trash(mostly food scraps) was about 4:1.

It's an ingrained habit to recycle now....one of the few NY resolutions I've kept long term.

Too funny.

In your efforts to play "Pin the Alt on the Stallion," you actually fooled me this time.

I was reading that and it seems true but not currently as I have no frequent guests where I am now. I thought maybe this was one of those necro threads that I had already answered in. So, I paged back to see when I answered because that would have been true a year maybe a year-and-a-half ago.

Keep after it; like a blind squirrel, every once in awhile you're funny

 

[hashtag45]

You're offering tmi lol.
Because he was mainly referring to overnight guests.

 

[Liar]

You're offering tmi lol.
Because he was mainly referring to overnight guests.

I compost my overnight guests.

 

[Noor]

Before I moved last year, I had a drawing of a recycling basket on a whiteboard next to my desk. When I was done with a guy I would throw his initials in there so he could be recycled
I only re-used one of them in all the years it was there. The scariest thing was when I couldn't remember who some of the initials stood for.
I never threw Byron in there. Any day with Byron was better than a day without him.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Too funny.

In your efforts to play "Pin the Alt on the Stallion," you actually fooled me this time.

Truth be told, it's not that hard to fool you, your braggadocio about bein' teh #SmartestGuyOnTheGeneralBoard notwithstanding.

I was reading that and it seems true but not currently as I have no frequent guests where I am now.

I'm not the least bit surprised to hear you have virtually no guests, your recent spate of 20+ hours posting per day here would preclude virtually any "real world" interaction (with the possible exception of the pizza delivery guy).

#WhatMattersMost

I thought maybe this was one of those necro threads that I had already answered in. So, I paged back to see when I answered because that would have been true a year maybe a year-and-a-half ago.

Keep after it; like a blind squirrel, every once in awhile you're funny

Not sure what you're talking about here, but I suspect you don't know either.

 

[Aquagal]

Do they only accept four legged animals, or are bipeds acceptable as well?

I've never looked. I figured it was animals from the vet, pound or hunting carcasses.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I really mean to recycle more, but I only do it when it is easy. At home, recycling is included with our trash service, and I recycle some things. I think about changing what I purchase to create less waste, but I haven't really found the motivation to do it.

 

[warrior queen]

Recycling sounds like a good idea....... until you factor in all the extra work and resources needed to actually carry it out.
Having said that, I do recycle.
But I have to wonder, once you take into account the extra water (for cleaning out containers and soaking labels off), extra fuel (to run trucks for transporting everything), extra power (to run processes to recycle), etc, etc...... Does it actually save anything?
To my mind, it would make more sense to simply reduce wastefull packaging.

The other day, I had to purchase a new mobile phone.
The amount of packaging that came with it was insane! Several layers of plastic wrapping (each item in the box was wrapped individually) as well as 5 different pieces of hard plastic used as separators in the box, plastic clips to hold earphones and charger cables in neat little rolls, and three different boxes nested one inside the other.... and the whole thing had an outer plastic sleeve, wrapped in shrinkwrap!
Seriously??? At least 3/4 of the packaging was pure waste!

 

[ElizabethWest]

I live with the Lorax. To not recycle is not an option in my household.

http://i.imgur.com/yFyb8Tx.jpg

 

[Not Normal]

WE recycle quite a bit. The city picks up recycling every other week, so sometimes its hard to remember, but you can usually check the neighbors and know. We went from the little blue tubs to full sized wheeled bins around the same time we bought the house. Its great, there's plenty of room, even with every other week pickup. If its eligible, it goes in, even small scraps of paper and whatnot.

 

[RobDownSouth]

If you recycle just one thing....aluminum....you're doing the environment quite a favor.

Every pound of aluminum recycled (roughly 33 12-oz. cans) can be done at the cost of 10% of smelting bauxite ore into aluminum.

One recycled pound saves the equivalent of driving 280 miles of auto exhaust and pollution.

 

[warrior queen]

If you recycle just one thing....aluminum....you're doing the environment quite a favor.

Every pound of aluminum recycled (roughly 33 12-oz. cans) can be done at the cost of 10% of smelting bauxite ore into aluminum.

One recycled pound saves the equivalent of driving 280 miles of auto exhaust and pollution.

That's the kind of info I was looking for.
Trying to find figures in Oz is almost impossible - each site has different numbers.
I wonder what it is for paper, plastics, etc?

 

[GrandpaBill]

A few years ago before he passed away, I was talking with my Uncle Stan. He was a B-25 crew member during World War II that flew across the Pacific Ocean and bombed Japan.

I'm a retired U.S. Navy sailor that was stationed in Guam and traveled the same route several times, but was on the USS Proteus AS-19.

Anyway, here is part of a conversation on the phone we had one day:

I said to Stan, "While underway out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, what do you think is the most frequent thing I see out in the ocean?'

Stan, "Flying fish?"

"No."

Stan, "Dolphins?"

"No."

Stan, "Whales?"

"No."

Stan, "What then?"

"Styrofoam cups."

Stan, "That is really sad."

http://tendertale.com/tenders/119/119-1.jpg

The USS Proteus was decommissioned in 1992. It was sold to a private company and scrapped for metal in 2008.

Probably, the metal was shipped to China.