Do you recycle a lot?

We recycle just about everything that comes into our home. Our diet in our home is mostly a raw vegan one so most of our food scraps go into our compost pile to be used in our garden. - Any paper we get, we shred and keep for packaging with our business. We keep bubble wrap for this purpose too and also source second hand bubble wrap to use. - We re-use all of the cardboard boxes that come into our home too. - Any plastic bags or wrapping that come into the house, I put into a big bag and take to my archery club to be stuffed into bales that hold the targets. - Any glass bottles, tin cans, paper or cardboard that we do not use is put into a recycling bin which our city collect once every two weeks. Our regular garbage bin that they collect and take to the landfill every week is nearly empty most weeks.

When you stop to think about it, it's not time consuming. You have to take the trash to the curb anyway. What difference does it make if it is the big trash can or the little recycle bin? And it means that your taxes are less because the city/county are going to sell the recycled stuff for the cash $$ which goes into their general tax fund. The more they can recycle, the higher the income & the less they need to raise your taxes. Another good reason for recycling. Tell your folks that their taxes will go down... or do they live in an apt & not pay the taxes directly?

I recycle and reuse things all the time. The main things I recycle though have been aluminum cans for a while now. Somewhat recently I have started saving soup cans (steel or tin, basically). I'm actually getting ready to take the steel cans to the recycling place soon. I also have this old plasic bottle on my desk. It's the kind that tennis balls come in. I use it to keep my loose change in. At the moment it's about halfway filled up. Mainly with pennies though.

The local council have started giving out gifts and bonuses to people who recycle frequently, so I guess that's a little extra motivation to recycle. I do recycle whenever I can, which gets collected every fortnight

As far as I am concerned, I think I do not have a habbit of recyle some other things. I just throw the things are out of use. For me, I know that it is good to recyle things when the things are out of use. So , in the future life, I think I will try my best to develop a good habbit of recyle things and not just set them aside.

Hi! We live in a row of terraced houses and each household has a Green Box for recycling glass, paper and aluminium, plus two bags with solid bottoms to place (in one) small cardboard boxes (and the other) plastic. Not all plastic is recyclable but it's a lot better than it used to be. It all gets collected on a weekly basis..the box one week and the bags another...along with the landfill waste in a refuse bag. The reason for this sudden surge in recycling in the UK is that our landfill sites are becoming full and no-one wants a new site opening near their homes. In one job I had I visited two landfill sites and I was amazed at the size of them...but they were getting full. The people running the sites have started utilising the liquid that forms after years of compaction and converted it into electricity which is a brilliant idea isn't it? We still have rubbish going to landfill but some things just can't be recycled at present. In Towns and Cities across the country there are also Recycling Centres where one can take large items to be recycled. These are becoming increasingly popular but is limited to household waste. I really think something should be done about trade waste as, currently, there is a charge to go to landfill sites..therefore fly tipping can be a problem. We have a long way to go but I am proud of Cumbria's efforts so far this last 5 years or so.

here in the city i live in we are only allowed to put out one bag of trash per week so that means we have to recycle the rest! (we also have a box that is picked up for food scraps and whatnot). it is a bit of a challenge, but its do able.

I think it needs some time for more people to change the habit. I try to recycle. I put the newspaper and other paper and the plastic bottles together because they can recycle. I like to do more things to better our environment. I love China

i'm not passion to do recycle stuff and lazy to collect all those items. furthermore the recycle belongings cannot sell for high price. since early this year, a lot of shopping mall at my place does not provide plastic bags on saturday. we have to pay 20cents if we need a plastic bag. i appreciate their effort and i begin to bring recycle bags along whenever goes shopping. hope my action will save the earth too.

In our city, the government is strictly ensuring that the rules in Material Recovery Facility is being obeyed, so we just have to segregate the papers, plastics, bottles,tins etc and have a separate trash for the biodegradable from the non-biodegradable. It is just a matter on how we discipline ourselves and be good to the environment we live in.

My wife recycles a lot but I simply do not have the time. We argue a lot of times because of this. As a compromise, I just do it whenever I can

Old clothes - donated to charity in nearby towns WOrn out clothes/tattered - reused as rags Bottles (plastic of PET and glass) are resold to junkshops who sell it to palstic and glass recyclers Paper - sold to to junkshops who sell to paper manufacturers We segregate by assigning bins for recyclable and non-recyclable waste.

I asked earlier, but I don't see it, so I guess the computers didn't want to talk to each other that early in the AM In the original statements for this discussion NewTalent states that her parents "if they are traveling they will do this with the bottles" My question is .. do what? & what kind of bottles? and what do you mean by traveling? Daily commute or long distance?

What do you mean if they are traveling they will do it with bottles? And are we talking glass or plastic bottles?

We do recycle a lot. We recycle our cans, glass and cardboard. We have a facility up here that will take everything that we have and recycle it and I'd prefer to recycle over just throwing things away. Recycling gives jobs and helps us save resources and money so I do it every chance that I get.

I don't recycle. Well, I don't know how to do it! I'm not being ignorant about it, it's just not so convenient. Maybe just the bottles, we sell them to the junk shop. That's it. :)

I do try to recycle as much as i can as it saves alot of room in my bins aswell as we do have a recycle lorry that collects all the recyclable things aswell.I think that there are alot of things that can be recycled aswell as there are alot of things that people never recycle that they can.I think it is ok once you have got the hang aswell as in a routine of sorting all your rubbish.You have to get into the habit of recycling the rubbish.

I recycle all the time. It just a habit that is easy to do.

I wish I could say yes, but ever since I moved out of my parents' house I don't anymore. Growing up, My parents recycled a lot. We had a green bin outside our house and all our recycleables would go in it. it was picked up every week without fail. Our complex has recycle bins, but George and I don't use them.