Do you recycle things?
@Auntylou (4264)
Oxford, England
November 10, 2015 10:36am CST
I am an ardent recycler and very lucky that our local council makes it easy to do so. We have a nice wheeled, lidded bin for cardboard, paper, glass and cans which is collected every two weeks.
Alternate weeks a separate bin for landfill is taken.
Every week, food waste is collected in much smaller lidded bins which are taken once a week.
Landfill sites are smelly and unpleasant places and it makes me feel good to know I am contributing as little as I possibly can.
We have also been business recyclers for years.
How about you guys?
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@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
10 Nov 15
We've recycled for years, even when we had to hall it to the recycle center ourselves. Now we have curbside recycling that is picked up every other week, though we still have to sort it before it's picked up. There is talk of switching to no sort recycling, though we would have to pay for that. I'm not sure if the cost is worth it since what we have now is free, but I'm glad that I don't have to haul it all in anymore.
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@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
12 Nov 15
@Auntylou We can haul our yard waste, grass clippings and plants, to a collection site during the summer. I believe they will pick up bagged leaves in the fall and the spring when those sites are closed. The rest of the year it's not collected, but there isn't much yard work done in the winter here. There isn't a fee for that at all.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Nov 15
In our county the only thing we have to recycle is motor oil. The county was to start recycling other items, but so far nothing has happened. We are just a tiny county with 1100 people.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
11 Nov 15
@Auntylou If they would start recycling I guaranty that only maybe 10 percent would comply. Out here in the country people burn a lot of their trash.
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
10 Nov 15
I wish it could be made mandatory here as well
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@Kazemononoke (248)
• United States
10 Nov 15
I haven't started yet, but I'm trying to figure out how to best start without starting a pile somewhere since we don't have a lot of space. I have looked up some ways to make things on pinterest though and found some cool ways to make decorations out of stuff.
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@marguicha (223777)
• Chile
12 Nov 15
I do other kind of recycling. I save jars and use them for the jams I make each year as presents. I turn garments into other types of clothes and finally into rags. I don´t throw leftovers: I turn them into another dish.
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@marguicha (223777)
• Chile
13 Nov 15
@Auntylou I do not like much to eat the same food two day in a row. But I freeze portions (that come on handy later on) or use leftover to cook something different. I usually turn leftover pasta with pesto into minestrone. And a little leftover rice is turned into an omelette or added to checken peas or lentils.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)
• Calgary, Alberta
13 Jan 16
I always visit junk shops so I can sell those plastic bottles and glass bottles so they will be recycled. I also sell the old news papers I have. Yup I am still subscribed to newspapers.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)
• Calgary, Alberta
14 Jan 16
@Auntylou Recycling old bottles by companies is still popular here.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
14 Jan 16
@CaptAlbertWhisker And very sensible too! Much better for the environment
@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
When I was young we got money back on empty bottles. Nowadays the companies find it cheaper to use new ones and made a lot of waste
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
10 Nov 15
There is no recycling program where I live.
But I do my share here however possible.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
10 Nov 15
you have to pack stuff into town to recycle, I try hard to compost though
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
11 Nov 15
I love to compost too and if you want to encourage the red worms which help turn it over, put in non shiny corrugated cardboard : there is something in the glue used in it that they love!
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
10 Nov 15
I am not that good at it but i try. You should be happy you have landfills and not open dumping
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
10 Nov 15
Yes while anything will damged first I will try to repaired it and it done ok but sometimes not then take some good thing from it and from remaing try do different
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
11 Nov 15
@Auntylou i think that i will something new from grabage and sometime i reached but need some extra thing so i put but one day i will do
@whiteream (8567)
• United States
16 Nov 15
you get fined if you don't where I live. I would do it anyway.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
16 Nov 15
Are you in California? They are always said to be the greenest state
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
11 Nov 15
I used to try and recycle, but I don't anymore, I just kept forgetting,plus one place I lived in half the time it didn't get picked up.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
11 Nov 15
It can be difficult if the right conditions are not there
@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
2 Jan 16
Yes,I recycle where I can. I compost as well which helps with the garden.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
2 Jan 16
I love to compost, and have found that adding non shiny cardboard is very good for attracting beneficial worms to turn it over!
@Marilynda1225 (83118)
• United States
10 Nov 15
Our recycling is picked up once a week which is very convenient
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
11 Nov 15
Yes that is handy and avoids the problem of remembering which week it is !
@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
11 Nov 15
When I was young all the drinks companies used to give a small refund when bottles were returned, to be washed and reused so there was far less waste.
It is a shame that in the interest of profit, this doesn't happen any more.
