Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Canada
Posts: 1726

Well, do you?

Newspapers, milk jugs, tin cans, glass, cardboard, pop and booze empties?

I am an avid recycler. Our neighborhood has a "milk jug" lady. She comes and roots through our recycling boxes and takes the jugs, tosses them into her shopping cart, and off to Save-On Foods to cash them in for 2 Save-On-More points each. We also have a lady whos bike is draped in plastic bags that she fills with our pop bottles. Recycling day isn't until Thursday but I put the jugs out curbside and she took them already.

Do you just toss it all, recycle all, recycle some, or does it depend on how busy you are?

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19562

T'ain't nowhere's to recycle round these here parts.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 4678

We hold it all on-station until we're in international waters and then dump it in the sea.

All the nonbiodegradeable shit gets sorted (plastic, aluminum, etc.) compressed into dense discs about the size of a manhole cover and stored for removal & processing once we hit port.

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Registered: Jun 2002
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Originally posted by Mordecai
T'ain't nowhere's to recycle round these here parts.

-m

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
Posts: 10413

I am from the home of the 10 cent deposit. I recycle those items.

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: California
Posts: 4252

We have to pay a deposit on aluminum cans in California.

One trash bag of smashed cans is about $25

So, um yes.

Actually I give them to my cleaning lady but they don't see the trash.

Paper, glass, and plastic goes in the trash.

DO NOT RECYCLE GLASS! My company makes Soda ash which is the major part of Soda/lime glass. Keep us in business! We also make the chemical that makes Pyrex heat shock resistant so break a glass baking dish for me too!

Thanks.

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19562

No, what is sad, is the local waste company was offering curbside recycling for a few bucks more, till some clever bastard noticed that all the nicely sorted bins got chucked into the same big trash can. Why? Recycling is not cost effective here. Oh well, fuck the grandkids!

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: NH
Posts: 6081

I take all my trash to work and throw it in the dumpster.

Not sure where it goes after that.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: NH
Posts: 586

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Originally posted by Dead_Inside
I take all my trash to work and throw it in the dumpster.

Not sure where it goes after that.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location:
Posts: 5526

We not only get an extra full-size bin to recycle glass, metal, plastic, and paper, we get separate full-size bin to recycle yard clippings, which will be turned into compost.

There's a law that they had to reduce waste going into the landfill by a certain percentage by a certain time. It's great.

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