Do you recycle in your area?
Around here, they collect plastics, bottles, paper, cardboard etc. in bins that we put out every week with trash.
Do you do the same in your town? Or, do you throw away your plastics and cans with regular trash?
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Yes,why dump a coconut husk when you can make something new out of it. Environmentalist people are those you should not underestimate. Go green they say,it's uplifting they say.
Our city is quite strict when it comes to collection. We can no longer put food waste in the regular garbage. Instead, we have a separate garbage can for food waste. Compostable materials (food, garden waste) are picked up every week, along with blue bag recyclables (plastics, glass, paper) . Normal garbage is picked up every two weeks.
Pretty strict here in SF - we have three different garbage cans here in the GameSpot SF office (recycle, garbage and compostable). I live in San Jose, ca and we don't have compostable restrictions yet but have a separate garbage can for yard waste (leaves, grass, etc) that gets turned into mulch - all garbage gets picked up every week with a garbage truck that has a hydraulic arm that reaches out and picks up the cans then empties it inside the truck .
My neighborhood started doing that probably a year or 2 ago. The recycleable stuff goes in a blue bin, the other stuff goes in the regular trash bin.
It's required to separate your recycling, garbage and compostables here. Collection trucks simply won't collect your bags if they aren't sorted properly.
Blue bin for cardboard, paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum cans. Green bin for organic wastes like food, dog poop, etc. These are weekly.
Large heavy duty brown paper bags for yard waste. Weekly from mid-Spring to mid-Fall.
All other garbage is restricted to 3 bags max every 2nd week. Extra large items are once a month by special appointment (e.g. old mattress).
Yes. I pay a deposit for every recyclable material I buy at grocery store. Have to bring them back and recycle to get it back.
Yep, 1 bag for plastic, 1 bag for trash (bags for plastic are free, bags for trash are not), you can also separate organic matter. These are collected weekly...paper and cardboard are collected monthly but you can get large cardboard boxes for free at any store (leftovers from their products) to put your paper in. You can trade in plastic bottles and so for discount at the supermarket and at least in my area there is no glass collection but there are glass disposers pretty much everywhere.
Interesting methods of recycling based on the responses in this thread.
In my town, we recycle plastics/bottles/cans in a green bin and paper/cardboard in a blue bin, and then yard waste in brown paper bags. They are all picked up once a week. I know one of the recycling centers in a neighboring city recycles batteries and Styrofoam. I wish they would start collecting that weekly. I have a ton of dead batteries and Styrofoam I'm looking to rid my house of (but am too lazy to drive to the center)
@jasean79: Oh yeah, we have those as well, but there's no collection for those. Same with light bulbs and so on.
Yes, very much so.
There are public bins where you can dump plastic, cans, glas, and drink boxes. (small stuff)
On every wednesday and saturday the area dump place opens for the public where you can bring paper/carton, used cooking oil, broken electronics and other other things I cant think of now. It's a very organized place with a separate big container for everything.
yes, ever place I've lived has recycling service, comes and picks up just like trash gets picked up
we have places around to drop of bottles that give give like 5 cents or 10 cents per bottle/can, though I'd never do that, there's always a long line of people there to drop stuff off and it's not worth the wait
Yes every other Monday they collect recycle goods. Also down the street at township building there is cardboard and paper recycle dumpsters.
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