Do you Recycle?

[Killswitch1]

I need to start. I just tore down and threw out six large brand new heavy duty cardboard boxes and it really bothered me. What a waste.

Do you recycle?

What do I do call the city and get one of those other containers?

I know.....welcome to the new millennium. Save it.

 

[Libsam]

I recycle my cardboard boxes in to cat toys.

 

[stickygirl]

The recycle facilities vary from town to town in the UK.
We have separate wheeled-bins for general, food waste & one for recycleable stuff that includes glass, paper and some plastics. England introduced a charge for plastic supermarket bags ( I think you guys use paper ones like on the movies ) and that has worked really well: we're down from trillions of bags to millions, so no tumbleweed plastic bags blowing around anymore

 

[phrodeau]

I have been known to use the same computer keys multiple times when posting.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[suckonsimon]

Be interesting to see how there might be big variations from nation to nation on this. In my English small town you could say these days that it is socially unacceptable not to recycle.

Me personally - big into composting.

 

[Killswitch1]

The recycle facilities vary from town to town in the UK.
We have separate wheeled-bins for general, food waste & one for recycleable stuff that includes glass, paper and some plastics. England introduced a charge for plastic supermarket bags ( I think you guys use paper ones like on the movies ) and that has worked really well: we're down from trillions of bags to millions, so no tumbleweed plastic bags blowing around anymore

As sticky says, here in uk we get different bins for different things, and if we do not use them there are penalties ( different in different areas). But I like to recycle anyway.

More so I like to reuse and minimise the disposable to start with. Cardboard we often use as a weed suppressant /bare soil protector in the vegetable garden, or lighter weight stuff, in the compost bin to balance out out 'green' compost waist from the garden and kitchen.

Thats the way it is here I reckon. They sort through this stuff at the waste plant.

You get a separate container thats a different color for recycling.

Some communities are a large regular container with lid....we get the small little blue bins it looks like which would suck for cardboard...

 

[thør]

Yes

:extra letters:

 

[Hard_Rom]

I need to start. I just tore down and threw out six large brand new heavy duty cardboard boxes and it really bothered me. What a waste.

Do you recycle?

What do I do call the city and get one of those other containers?

I know.....welcome to the new millennium. Save it.

I always separate my trash. My blue boxes contain far more stuff than garbage bags. Composter is typically full too.

Mine goes in blue boxes and then out to the curb for pickup with garbage. Our club collects pop cans for local charity group.

I dabble in metal work and haven't bought a 'new' piece of metal in years and years. Scrap yards have lots of cheap workable stock. There is a dealer for industrial end cuts of all sorts of cool metals and shapes. Where I buy my copper.

In many ways Ontario is pretty Green. In many ways not so. Ontario also bans coal fired generation plants and herbicide/pesticide use for cosmetic purposes. With curb pickup of recycling material, I'm happy enough, its a start.

Household chemicals including oil and paint can be dropped of for recycling at local landfill sites, for free.

 

[Adjudicator]

I recycle or compost everything I can. I live by myself, although I have guests often. I throw out one bag of actual garbage per week.

 

[suckonsimon]

... Ontario also bans ... herbicide/pesticide use for cosmetic purposes. ....

As a bee keeper with hives close to many large gardens I'm really interested to hear that. Nothing equivalent in the UK that I know of. This year has seen the beginning of an online link-up between farmers and beekeepers so that farmers can give notice to beekeepers in a six mile range of their spraying days. Such a simple thing will make a huge difference.

 

[hashtag45]

Nope. Never. Eyverything goes into the trash bin.

Why sould I complicate my existence?
Plus it's not like by recycling, hssh is going to save the plannet.
Stop fracking and corrupt corporations who poison our environment instead!

 

[Aquagal]

No, there are no facilities to take it or have it picked up. I feed my worms my kitchen scraps though.

 

[Hard_Rom]

As a bee keeper with hives close to many large gardens I'm really interested to hear that. Nothing equivalent in the UK that I know of. This year has seen the beginning of an online link-up between farmers and beekeepers so that farmers can give notice to beekeepers of their spraying days. Such a simple thing will make a huge difference.

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/h...ighlights-of-ontarios-cosmetic-pesticide-ban/

 

[suckonsimon]

No, there are no facilities to take it or have it picked up. I feed my worms my kitchen scraps though.

Willing to tell us whereabouts in the world?

 

[silver gurl]

Yes, it is mandatory here. We have a large blue bin on wheels for recycling. If you are caught dumping non-recyclable items into the bin, you get a fine!

 

[thør]

No, there are no facilities to take it or have it picked up. I feed my worms my kitchen scraps though.

You might re-review the possibilities.

 

[Aquagal]

Willing to tell us whereabouts in the world?

I live in Alaska, not by thor.

 

[suckonsimon]

I live in Alaska, not by thor.

Thanks. As I asked the question I thought, 'should I make a guess from the palm trees?' - I'd have been some degrees of latitude out!

 

[suckonsimon]

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/h...ighlights-of-ontarios-cosmetic-pesticide-ban/

good steps!
Some really worrying losses of pollinators going on in various parts of the world and currently including the USA. I saw footage recently of an orchard in North East China in spring blossom ... and scores of women, having climbed into the trees, going from flower to flower with tiny paint brushes as without this task done there they would have no fruit. Pretty shocking to see that.

 

[Aquagal]

You might re-review the possibilities.

I just did a search and the only facility that comes up is the scrap metal biz down the road. When I go to the dump the only separate drop off container is one marked "dead animals". Unless it's hidden somewhere else, I've never seen one. I should ask next time I go through.

Thanks. As I asked the question I thought, 'should I make a guess from the palm trees?' - I'd have been some degrees of latitude out!

Vacation. And too bored to change it.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Aluminum and some plastic yep.

We have a primitive facility here, I compost what I can and haul the rest of it to the dump.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I have just recently started to take plastic to a nearby recycling dumpster. Paper I don't worry about because it will decompose in a landfill in a matter of weeks. But plastic can last for centuries. I feel bad about all the plastic I've been dumping throughout my life. High time to make that change.

 

[Hard_Rom]

good steps!
Some really worrying losses of pollinators going on in various parts of the world and currently including the USA. I saw footage recently of an orchard in North East China in spring blossom ... and scores of women, having climbed into the trees, going from flower to flower with tiny paint brushes as without this task done there they would have no fruit. Pretty shocking to see that.

I think we need to ban this stuff here too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/25/ontario-bees-pesticide-neonicotinoids-neonics_n_6221800.html

 

[pointless]

not too much, but i do reuse. sadly, the only reduction i partake in is largely driven by lack of funds more than anything else.