do you recycle

[Pop Daddy]

I dont, just throw it all in the same garbage can, I thinks its a good ideal but im an old school garbage guy

 

[C.Ann]

Sort of.. I separate it from the regular trash and then send it home with my son-in-law every Sunday night.. I let him figure out what to do with it..

 

[LaraK]

Yup! They pick it up from my curbside weekly. No excuse not to. I don't compost however, my mom does.

 

[BeccaBellePA]

Technically, yes. But we don't have curbside pick-up, so all winter long my recyclables have been sitting in boxes in my basement because I'm too lazy to go sort them in the cold! However, it's starting to warm up, and I'm getting a line of cans on my kitchen counter, so I think a trip is soon needed.

 

[kirbydog48]

I dont, just throw it all in the same garbage can, I thinks its a good ideal but im an old school garbage guy

That is so not sexy!

 

[cltk78]

Yes. We have weekly curbside pick-up, and there's a recycling drop-off site less than 2 miles from our house, where we take cardboard boxes.

 

[TheZue]

We have to, the limit on the garbage is so small that if we didn't we'd be paying a ton in garbage tags every week. We are allowed one small can of mixed garbage and unlimited recyclables. Pretty soon I think we have to seperate out the food waste and they will make compost out of it. I don't mind it, I just get annoyed they don't have a large item pick up once a year anymore.

 

[MelanieC]

Yep - at home and at work. I also am a fanatical bring your own bag to the grocery gal - I try really hard to do my part - (also do many other things)

 

[RNMOM]

I do. I keep all the junk mail, packaging boxes and other scrap paper in a box and take it over every couple weeks. We collect cans and bottles and plastic shopping bags. Cardboard is another one. Oh yeah, we have been composting for about 20 years. I got DH started and now he is the king of the compost pile. He gets upset if he sees a banana peel in the trash.

I just wish our city made it a little easier. We have to take everything ourselves but the cans and bottles. Hauling cardboard and magazines is a little tough for me but I get my sons to do it most of the time.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I dont, just throw it all in the same garbage can, I thinks its a good ideal but im an old school garbage guy

ooh, you're going to get in trouble

I have good intentions....I separate cans, but the recycling place isnt' close by, so if we dont make it that way, DBF gets tired of seeing them and throws them in the trash.... If our trash company has recycling, they've never promoted it.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Yes. Everything and anything we can. Our city gives us two bins -- one for trash, one for recycling. Recycling's full every week (we don't have to separate anything), garbage usually has only 2, sometimes 3, bags (for a 4-person household).

Except peanut butter jars. I will not wash a peanut butter jar. Ick....

 

[Diznotyzed]

I couldn't call myself a Portlander if I didn't recycle - they pick up all kinds of recyclables curbside here. We also compost.

 

[liamsaunt]

My town gives us a 95 gallon bin for recycling, no need to sort, picked up biweekly, and a 55 gallon trash bin, picked up weekly. In general, our recycle bin is completely full, and our trash bin has one or two bags.

I wish I could trade my empty trash space for more recycle space! We do a lot of shopping online which is why the recycle bin is so full. Example: I bought my nephew an oversized kite from amazon and it came in a cardboard box that was about 4 feet long and 10 inches wide. The kite was long but only about three inches wide since it was wrapped. The rest of the box was filled with brown paper. It was kind of ridiculous. The brown paper filled up half of my recycle bin.

Lovesmurfs, I recycle my peanut butter jars...I just throw them in the top rack of my dishwasher when there's a full load before putting them in the bin. Same for mayonaisse jars.

 

[mrsv98]

Our village makes it very easy, we have a HUGE rolling bin, I think it is 4 feet tall. I fill that puppy every week with paper, cans, recyclable plastics, glass, whatever has the triangle goes in the bin. We also have a landscape recycling program that goes to the Botanic Garden and/or I compost. We recycle so much that I cut our waste pickup to once/week!

 

[KristaTX]

 

[dizluvah]

Yes - we recycle plastic, glass, cans and cardboard. We don't have curbside trash in our town; we take it to the dump transfer station weekly.

 

[MoniqueU]

My mom does with plastic bottles. I have been known to use the blue recycle trash can for regular trash because our ther trash bins have filled up. We have special trash cans issued by the city so we can't get extra trash cans and put our stuff in there and have them pick it up.

 

[robinb]

Yes, we have curbside pick up of recyclables every other week. The pickup is all automated and it's single source, which means I can throw everything in the same cart. I recycle all my glass, plastic, cans (soda and food) and all my paper. You would be amazed at the amount of paper I recycle from packaging alone! Every other week my 35 gallon cart was full so I exchanged it for a 65 gallon cart that I almost always fill. I am proud that I am no longer throwing all that stuff away to rot in a landfill and my garbage cart itself is only about half full every week.

 

[Doe]

We do. With a family of 6 we easily fill our 2 large curbside bins every week.

 

[hopemax]

I grew up in Washington state, you know, granola eating, tree huggers, so of course we recycled. Then we moved to Arizona. I think there was recycling if you were a home owner, but we lived in an apartment, so no recycling. We found where the local boy scout troop had newspaper recycling, but there were no community dropoffs. There was for a little while, but people put so much junk in the dumpsters, the city decided to drop them. The first time I had to throw a can away, it felt like a physical pain. Then we moved to Colorado, and it's a more recycle friendly place. Apartment complex still doesn't have it, although we do have valet trash. But the community has several conveniently located dropoffs. You don't have to separate, so we have a rubbermaid tub we fill and take when needed.