Do you recycle? Can you do more to help the environment?

Oh, it depends on what we have. Here in our home, we don't recycle much. If we have those empty bottles, we just give it to our neighbor and they are the one selling it. At least in that way, we are able to help our neighbor. For the boxes, I do recycle them. I used them as containers for my paperworks or as storage for anything. For the clothes that we are not using already, we will just donate it to the charity or to the church and they will be the one to distribute it already...

We recycle! We have two big red bins that we fill with everything they accept. We don't have to seperate it though, they just take it all mixed. We have a big family, but man the amount of garbage we make is ridiculous. Even though we recycle everything we can! We have two huge cans at the curb every Tuesday.

I always try to recycle as much as possible. If i buy a bottle of water down the street i will always bring the bottle back to reuse and then recycle. We recycle bottles, paper, card, plastic and we use green waste for compost. I don't think there's much more we could do!

We have been recycling for a couple of years! Our local council only rovides us with one box into which paper, metal, plastic and glass can go into, when they empty our recycle boxes whey empty them in different compartments, I usually have to put extra in bags cos there is never enough room in my box! We were also part of the pilot scheme for household rubbish and garden rubbish to be collected on alternate weeks - the trouble comes in the summer when your rubbish can be lying stewing in your wheelie bin for a fortnight and boy can it stink! On the whole we try to recycle everything we can - everey little helps! xxx

we recycle can's, glass, plastic and cardboard. They come by every thursday to pick up recycleables up. There are probably more things I can do to help the environment, I just don't really know what they are right now.

I used to live in a very rural area, where they did not offer any recycling services through our trash company. We found a place that takes plastic bottles and aluminum cans, so we would take them once a month and drop them off. My sons school has a paper recycling drop box outside the elementary school and we use that. Now, we are renting in town and I have not checked into all the recycling amneties here, but I intend to do that this week. I think if every person in the world would try to recycle a little more each day, our earth would be a better place. But, I also understand that some peoples schedules and lifestyles do not help with this. I try to look into different ways to help our earth, but I have to say that I am not 100% on it.

yes i do recycle whatever i can, although i think i could be a better recycler, in that i usually dump all the recyclabe items into one big bag for the recycling contractor to pick up, i should put in more effort into sorting out the items into glass, paper and plastic like you have

I'm not one of those people who yells at others for not recycling and sometimes I don't follow through myself, but yeah, I take stuff to be recycled. For example, I put up the cans and paper for the recycling center and look for some products that have been recycled to buy. I wouldn't exactly say I'm trying to go green because I'm not as dedicated to it as I probably should be, but I do make an effort to do my part to make the world more beautiful. The thing that really bothers me more than not recycling is all of the trash that you see on the sides of roads and other areas that people have just thrown out. I know that people see where others have done so and think a little more won't hurt, but that's just adding to the problem instead of working to make it better. Hope that answers your question.

I recycle some things, but not enough. I recycle all plastic, glass and cans; I sometimes recycle the newspapers (but I don't buy it that often anyway), and I'm part of a local recycling group, where we give away things to others. I hate to throw things away, since someone else can use it, but after a number of people promise they're coming to get something and don't show, I'm forced to donate it or give it away to clean house.

How amazing. Yesterday I thought of a discussion along these lines but made it about re-cycling clothes instead. I was a fanatical re-cycler and where we lived we had two big bins with wheels. One for regular rubbish and one for recyclables. The regular was emptied every week and the other fortnightly. On my Dad's farm, he used to burn or bury his rubbish. Fires are no longer allowed without permission (he still burns) and the local tip now has bins for recyclables. Dad doesn't understand the concept. (He's 93). Where I'm living we don't have a garbage collection either and must take our stuff to the tip. We now have a place to dump engine oil, and there is a section for green waste, (where people throw anything) but that's it. It all goes in together. Sad but true.

I recycle everything. I rarely buy newspapers and read online. Anything tin, aliminium or plastic plus papers, cardboard is put in recycle bins that our local council collects fortnightly. I no longer get junk mail which makes an enormous difference to the household and makes me feel better for not contributing to tree felling. And there is less mess in the home. I've managed to decrease my litter to the bare minimum.

Hello,recyclegoth,i also have a yellow trolley for recycle,i put glass,paper or plastic into one box only and every week the local council will come and collect them and sort them out for recycling purpose.I find out that i have thrown away alot of paper box i left for the pizzas,and some glasses or cans as well.When i get some items which are suitable to recycle,i will put them into the trolley,at least i have done something to save the world.

Yes, I get the newspaper almost every single day and I always recylce them no matter what. It is also convenient since I have quite a large household and the rubbish bin usuallys gets full by the end of the week pretty quickly. And knowing the size of newpapers when stacked up, this also gives more room for other rubbish. Not only newspaper, I also recylce fruit boxes and milk containers.

My daughter and I are the only ones in this household and together we're trying to go green. I've changed all of our lights over to the energy saving kind, started buying all our cleaning products from http://www.shaklee.net/brendahoffman , started using essential oils instead of candles and recycle everything but paper because our township doesn't take paper. I'm glad to hear others are doing this as well. Brenda Marie Livin smart only makes sense, http://www.livin-smart.com Looking forward to writing for you soon, http://wahmbrenda.blogspot.com/

i dont have much time to recycle and i dont have the space to do it. i simply throw all my rubbish away in a bag but i suppose i would recycle in the near future

i do recycle, but not as much as i should. it's been a month or so since i carried out the recycling bins so they have been full and i haven't been recycling lately. i did just recently buy material reusible bags for grocery shopping. i use them all the time instead of plastic bags and i also take them to wal-mart or wherever else i go to use them there as well.

The city i live in use to do a city pick up of recycable stuff. But now we have to take it to the bins that are placed around the city since they dont have the money for the trucks to come pick it up. Me and my boyfriend are right now working on collecting pop cans for the local zoo since they are collecting them for the frogs and lizzards and i guess its being donated to the rainforests.

In Singapore, we do have recycle bins put up by the town councils. For my area, there is also a recycling company going round collecting items for recycling every fortnight. They collect anything, trash, junk mails, cartons, containers, whatever that can be recycleable and yes, my home does have a bag outside for them every fortnight.

i tend to throw things away,except batteries or other things will pollute.indeed you give me a good suggestion to collect things and recycle.actually,i decided to collect plastic bottles and papers,when they get to some amount,i can sell them.i think it's another way to save some money,although not too much,as that money accumulate,it will be a big amount.

I dont really do recycling. I have a few boxes that contain old clothes and two boxes of old books. We have people who will buy these type of things and recycle them. But they only take clothes that are wearable. Usually for papers and plastic I will just throw it away. It is good to recycle things that we no longer need because other might find it useful.