Recycle

Do you recycle?

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I only recycle cans but I answered no since the majority of stuff that can be recycled I don't. People like my brother are required to recycle, and put the different types in 3 or 4 different bins. If they don't, and the inspectors find out they are fined from $20 up depending on the # of infractions.

BTW inflatus, PM me your addy, I owe you a little something ;)
 
I recycle newspaper, aluminium, cans, glass, plastic and cardboard because I feel better doing so. We don't have curbside recycling where I live so I have to deliver it. Good excuse to go out for breakfast once a month.
 
The town I go to school in has laws about recycling but they absolutly never enforce it.
 
I do a little here and there but they make it hard in my area. There are only a few collection sites and they are often full. PITA
 
I've read a number of reports that have stated that the environmental impact from the recycling process for the majority of things -- mostly various metals excluded -- is far worse for the environment than properly disposing of said items in a landfill.

Still, I do what my local community wants me to, and recycle various things. I just can't help but feeling that his is another case of doing what sounds like the right thing to do, but in reality, isn't.
 
Oh man don't get me going. There was an article in the newspaper here a few years ago called "Recycling is garbage" which was so true, the nut crunchers and the tree huggers screamed bloody murder when it was published. :laugh:

I know quite a few people who work in the "trash" industry here and the stories I hear are incredible. First off, many times it's more expensive to "recycle" certain wastes instead of just burning or burying them. Now wait, I can hear some of you saying "Yes but it's good for the environment" but is it? If you consume some sort of energy in the "recycling" process, there are certainly byproducts of that too that are many times MORE harmful to the precious "environment" that if we just buried or burned the waste in the first place.

Another thing that is funny, people religiously separate their brown glass from their green glass from their clear glass then it all gets mixed together either in the truck or at the trash plant. I'm tellin' ya, I've seen this first hand, it's a freakin' joke :laugh:

Recycling is mostly just a propaganda mentality to make us all "feel good" like we're saving the world. Well, if people REALLY wanted to make a SERIOUS contribution to the "environment" then stop driving those goddam SUV's that get horrendous gas mileage and are not subject to the same emission limits as passenger cars. Automobiles are probably the single largest harm to the environment of anything that we do with respect to air, waste & water.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you.

So to answer your question, NO I do not "recycle" I pay for a commercial toter that is picked up once a week and I am not required to separate out cans and bottles. Most household waste in Connecticut is burned and all of it has to be processed before it's burned. Other states are different.....
 
moki said:
I've read a number of reports that have stated that the environmental impact from the recycling process for the majority of things -- mostly various metals excluded -- is far worse for the environment than properly disposing of said items in a landfill.
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Me too and I recycle for the same reason as you. Because if the stuff shows up on my trash too much they stop picking up my trash.
 
Here it is a matter of household economics.

Trash pick up and/or dropoff is expensive and the cans they supply customers of the service are small. You can request additional cans, but it's gonna cost ya...

Recycling is free, the cans are oversized and it reduces your overall trash.
 
Leave it to Bill to go off about nut-crunchers who wear birkenstocks. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: As for me, I only recycle cans at lunch. Other than that, we don't. Good question, might have to buy some more nut-bars and birkenstocks. I'm walkin' your way Bill!. :p
 
No choice - Base requirement.

Back home - Pop/beer cans and bottles are cash and were my favorite source of gas money - but that was it.

MI 10 cent refund at work.
 
SFG75 said:
Leave it to Bill to go off about nut-crunchers who wear birkenstocks.
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hey CC! *Cough* Kerry supporter! *Cough* all I wear is birks! *Cough*
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lol, I had to! I don't recycle because the recycling program we had in my little town stopped a year after it started. Oh well.
 
coventrycat86 said:
Well, if people REALLY wanted to make a SERIOUS contribution to the "environment" then stop driving those goddam SUV's that get horrendous gas mileage and are not subject to the same emission limits as passenger cars.

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I think if people REALLY wanted to make a SERIOUS contribution to the "environment" they would quit making so many people.

Minneapolis gives a discount on trash removal if you recycle, so yes, I do.

By the way, (not that I'm even remotely qualified to be the grammar police) I'm not certain , but shouldn't wanted be present tense? ;)
 
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