do you recycle

[luvmyboys]

Yup, sure do. The recycling bin provided by our trash company is far larger than the trash can. Paper, cardboard, plastic (#s 1-7), glass, & aluminum all get recycled.

As soon as we move to a bigger house next month, we're going to start composting as well. It's getting to the point that it feels really, really wrong to throw anything in the regular garbage can. I especially hate the plastic wrap that seems to cover everything!

 

[Cindy B]

Our township gives us a HUGE bucket and we can put it all in willy nilly-- no need to separate it at all.

The township then gives us incentives through recyclebank.com. We haven't cashed in yet but rewards are issued.

I love the idea of just throwing everything in like that and no sorting.

 

[catsrule]

nope

 

[NHdisneylover]

Hey Pop Daddy--recycling is sexy--you should really try it

Yes, our family always recycles. In New Hampshire it was a pain. We had to drag it all to the sorting station (only open twice a week and down a steep, muddy hill. The whole area was a mud bog much of the year--hard to deal with) and sort it ourselves. We did it even then. Now we live where we pay for all trash (and cannot have more than one 80 liter can every other week at most anyway). Recycling is picked up free and goes out on alternate weeks. The recylcing can (bigger than the trash thank goodness) is full every single time. The trash we only have to put out every 6 weeks when we do not have visitors.
We also compost.

 

[DISUNC]

YUP! But where I live they make it sooooo easy. Plastic, Glass & paper go all together in on dumpster...everything else in another.

I friends who have to seperate their glass by color, and plastic by # on the package.... Who has time and space for that nonsense.

 

[bicker]

We can no comingle containers together (plastic, glass and metal), and then we also recycle paper and cardboard (separately). It is mandatory, but enforcement has been spotty. Starting July 1, we are now limited to 65 gallons of regular trash per week (plus $2 per bag of garbage beyond that). That's enough for a typical family, as long as the family recycles what they're supposed to, so presumably people, like the OP, would be prompted to start complying with the mandate, since otherwise they'll be paying more for having their garbage removed.

 

[Cindy B]

I guess I'm the only one of the few that actually has a rewards incentive from their township to recycle. It is definetely easier to put everything in one huge bucket--paper, plastic, cardboard, etc- no need to sort or store.

I do love the program.

 

[tar heel]

Not recycling is definitely NOT sexy.

I don't get people who don't recycle and am amazed by the "reasons." I've never heard anything plausible quite frankly. My parents don't recycle and their excuse is they live out in the country, don't have curbside pick-up and my dad is an invalid. They drive by the recycling center at least twice a week -- every time they go to the grocery store, to the doctor, to my mother's hair person, etc. Sometimes they even stop and throw their garbage in.

 

[gymboqueenkaylee]

I recycle as much as possible. Our town doesn't have the best of recycling programs so we have to drive everything to a recycling center if we choose to recycle.

 

[Rora]

We do!

 

[MamaLema]

It is mandatory where I live. The city issues you a garbage bin, recycling bin, and a composting bin. The composting bin is taken every week, garbage every two weeks, recycling every two weeks, with garbage and recycling alternating.

If the city workers see one thing in your recycling bin, or composting bin that doesn't belong, they will not take it at all.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Well as we don't have curbside recycling, not really. My dad does recycle the newspapers and magazines we get by giving them to a local school or church. They in turn recycle them to earn money.
My dad also saves soda cans. Every few years he will take them to the recycler to get some money.

 

[JanaNs]

Recycling and composting are mandatory where I live and you can only leave out a certain amount of actual garbage curbside. Garbage has to be in clear bags except for one black bag with stuff you don't want everyone and their dog seeing. And if the "garbage police" see something in your garbage that shouldn't be there they will slap a big 'ole REJECTED sticker on it and leave it there!!

 

[robinb]

And if the "garbage police" see something in your garbage that shouldn't be there they will slap a big 'ole REJECTED sticker on it and leave it there!!

They used to do that in our city too, but the recycling was put in the clear bags next to your garbage can. If you had garbage in the recycling bag it was rejected!

 

[lovemygoofy]

We recycle. I have two garbage cans in my kitchen. One for the regular trash and then the recycle can. No going through to seperate any trash and everything gets bundled up nice and neat. We are lucky that we have curbside recycling every week in addition to two days a week trash pickup.

 

[HGD24]

Yeah - I'm kind of a freak about recycling. We have 2 small bins in the kitchen - 1 for trash, 1 for recyclables. When we designed our kitchen, I made sure we bought the cabinet that could hold 2 bins - I think I double and then triple checked the order to make sure it was there. I recycle at home, at work, when at other people's houses, etc. I even made sure DD's daycare sent home anything recyclable that we brough in (bottle liners, food containers, etc). I especially love that Disney sorts all of the trash behind the scenes and recycles what they can I'm always catching DH tossing recyclable things in the trash because he doesn't feel like rinsing them out and boy does he get an earful when he does

As for peanut butter jars - just fill them with hot water, let them sit overnight and the next day when you dump the water out, any leftover peanut butter comes right off.

As my Facebook flair says about recycling - "Dude, it's not that hard"

 

[jimmalru80]

Other than glass, everything goes in the same trash bag.

 

[All American]

Nope.

 

[Cool-Beans]

Nope!

I do re-use the bags from the grocery store, though. I use them as garbage bags in the bathrooms. That count?

 

[tar heel]

For those who answered "no," why? Are you lazy or just don't care?