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Old 09-11-2003, 02:32 PM   #41 (permalink)
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at home we recycle paper, plastic, glass, cans, etc.. and for a while we had a compost heap that we put like veggie scraps and egg shells in

my dad is makin a new compost heap so we should do that again

edit: At home we can only recycle plastic #1 & #2 so #3 thru like #8 cant be recycled.
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:08 PM   #42 (permalink)
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A lot of U. S. recycling is a sham (no this is not a flame)

I recycle zero and not ashamed.

Anyone who knows the truth about paper and cardboard recycling (and probably a lot of the rest) knows that it is a complete sham.

I used to be paid good money 8 years ago for truckloads of paper and cardboard that I recycled. Now I have to pay to have it hauled away and sent to landfill or incinerator because there is such a glut of the stuff. Really, this is true - Now that everyone is recycling there isn't anywhere NEAR the market for this stuff and a lot of it is a big waste of effort and costs towns a lot of needless money.

It varies alot. I was getting ~C$100/tonne for corragated last fall in BC.
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Old 09-11-2003, 11:21 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:20 AM   #44 (permalink)
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If only there were recycling facilities at our apartments, and we have no car to drive to one.. We'd like to recycle, heh.
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Old 09-12-2003, 07:37 AM   #45 (permalink)
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I don't know an exact percentage, but I recycle all my cans and plastics. I need to find somewhere to actually recycle them though, I have a couple sacks just sitting in my closet...
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Old 09-12-2003, 04:26 PM   #46 (permalink)
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We recycle everything we can, inclduing cardboard, newspapers, normal paper, glass, aluminum, and other stuff I'm forgetting. We also compost, though I think its pretty nasty and wouldn't do it myself (bin behind the house holds all the rotting food matter and turns it into dirt). We have a bigass rolling bin and then tons of little square boxes to put the recyclables into for disposal every Wednesday, so it makes it really easy and I don't know why people wouldn't bother recycling their stuff, though I understand that other communities you actually have to take all the crap to the recycling center yourself, which seems like a lot of work to me unless you have a trailer or something and could do it once or twice a year.
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Old 09-17-2003, 03:32 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Thanks everyone for responding. I've recently become a landlord and was SHOCKED at the cost of garbage removal. They don't charge to pick up recycling here. Based on many of your comments, it sounds like if I set up good recycling bins for the tenants, some of them will likely use them, saving me $$$. That'd be a good thing.

The newspaper subscription is ending soon and I don't think I'm gonna renew (too many days go straight from the front porch to the recycling bin), so I'll see what my real % is.
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Old 09-17-2003, 04:21 PM   #48 (permalink)
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We recycle all of our cans all of the time, and occasionally papers when we think to do it. Other than that, not much is goin' on in my family's household to save Mother Earth.
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Old 09-17-2003, 05:22 PM   #49 (permalink)
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probably 90% or more of our waste is recyclable here.

we have a HUGE bin for recyclables & a tiny bin for the pure garage (oxymoron), which we rarely even half fill.
all of out yard debris is put out on the street & scooped away by big catepiller things.
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Old 09-17-2003, 06:14 PM   #50 (permalink)
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I'd say 50% at least.

Recycle all plastics, milk containers, bottles, newspaper, and pretty much anything that we can. The biodegradable food scraps go into the compost in the garden.
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Old 09-17-2003, 10:23 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Most recycling uses more resources than just making new stuff.
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Old 09-17-2003, 11:57 PM   #52 (permalink)
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I'd say 20-30 percent. mostly the big things like glass bottles, cans, plastic bottles.
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Old 09-18-2003, 12:04 AM   #53 (permalink)
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I'd say about 50%!!

Its our City Ordinance to Recycle. We're paying for it, so it makes sense to actually do it. Not that I don't mind it. I just wish they'd accept more than what they do now. There are some numbers they don't accept. I have noticed that my family only puts out about one trash can a week now... we have 2... as we used to use two...
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Old 09-18-2003, 03:33 AM   #54 (permalink)
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When I am in Ottawa it's 50% or greater - including paper, plastic, organic.

In Montreal it's 0% because the apartment complex I am at is just too small to have the bins laying around. I talked to the Super and he said that they did have a recycling station set up before, but people were just throwing anything into it - makeing it a pain in the ass to sort out.
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Old 09-18-2003, 03:39 AM   #55 (permalink)
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Old 09-18-2003, 11:34 AM   #56 (permalink)
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This is not a rant about why you should recycle, but I feel compelled to offer a little background information, based on my experience.

I work for a company that makes the equipment used in large recycling facilities and I can tell you that we are struggling to keep up with the demand for new equipment. As more goverments mandate diversion of solid waste, more and more facilities are being built to handle the load. Here in California, the most populous counties have target percentages of material that they must divert from the waste stream, or face stiff penalties. And those percentages are constantly increasing.
The current trend in recycling is called "Single Stream" which means you put all your recyclables in one container rather than separating them at the curb. This accomplishes two things. First, it makes it easy to do, which means more people will actually do it, and help the community reach its goals. Second, it saves a lot of money for the haulers. It's much more efficient than using segregated trucks, which have to return whenever one of the compartments is full.
But the various materials have to be separated, or it's just garbage. That's where our equipment comes in. We make machines that separate cardboard from paper, paper from containers, aluminum from plastic etc.
Now, an average facility can process 20 tons of material per hour or more. In one year, that equals over 80 million pounds of material that doesn't go into a landfill or an incinerator. That's just one facility in one medium sized community. There are hundreds across the country, and more being built. That also doesn't include the many tons of beverage containers processed by refund centers.

Never mind the trees that don't have to be cut down, the aluminum and tin that do not have to be mined, or the oil used for making plastics. At the very least, recycling will help keep us from one day finding ourselves buried under a coast-to-coast mountain of garbage.

And, to honor the thread topic, I recycle all my beverage containers. I take everthing to a refund center. I also live in an apartment that doesn't have recycling, so I try to sometimes haul my paper or other containers to the bins we have here at work.
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Old 09-18-2003, 12:21 PM   #57 (permalink)
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other than giving my cans to the local animal shelter....NOT A DAMN THING!
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Old 09-18-2003, 02:05 PM   #58 (permalink)
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maybe sumthin´like 35 - 50% average. sometimes i´m too lazy to carry many garbage bags , (i´ll put everything in one 150L plastic bag,) and i´ll dumb them all in one. not so friendly, but that´s how it is.
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Old 09-18-2003, 06:50 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Old 09-18-2003, 07:23 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Zero. Exactly zero.
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Old 09-19-2003, 06:49 AM   #61 (permalink)
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On a street where there is an average of 3 bags of trash per house, and some as high a 7 for their weekly trash pick up, my house has the least. 1 bag of trash per week. Everything else is recycled.
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Old 09-19-2003, 07:56 AM   #62 (permalink)
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We do maybe 30%, but that's a rough guess. We recycle plastic, glass, cans, paper and cardboard.

The local news aired some home video footage, that someone had sent them, of the local trash haulers just dumping the recycle bins in the back of the trucks with the rest of the trash. Now, I'm not washing this stuff out, just to have it end up in the landfill with the rest of the trash. But, my wife is pretty adament about recycling...so I keep washing out the bottles and cans.
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Old 09-19-2003, 11:28 AM   #63 (permalink)
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Antagony and I consume enough Caffeine enhanced carbonated beverages to equal a football team, yet unless he is doing it behind my back, we don't recycle anything, sadly.
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Old 09-19-2003, 02:20 PM   #64 (permalink)
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i probably recycle about half of my garbage. i used to recycle almost 90% of my garbage at my last apartment because they had comingled recycling bins. they don't have those where i live now, and they don't take as much stuff as my last place. it's kind of unfortunate i think.
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Old 09-19-2003, 03:47 PM   #65 (permalink)
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I don't know how much I recycle but I do know that I take 2 cans to the dump once every 5-6 weeks. Not too bad for a fambly of 5.
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Old 09-19-2003, 07:27 PM   #66 (permalink)
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0% because I'm a bastard.

I am new to where I live and don't know of a single fucking place to take it.

On the up side, bums always go through our trash so I know at least my soda cans are getting recycled.
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Old 09-21-2003, 09:50 PM   #67 (permalink)
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all bottles, cans, papers. other than that what else can i recycle. oh yeah plastic, i burn that hahahahaha!!!!!
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Old 09-22-2003, 08:35 AM   #68 (permalink)
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I just recycle my soda cans, which make up very little of my trash. Probably 2%, tops.
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Old 09-22-2003, 09:14 AM   #69 (permalink)
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Old 09-22-2003, 10:49 AM   #70 (permalink)
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Cans, bottles, plastic, paper. I'll bet it works out to about 50% of the bulk and 70% of the weight.

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Old 09-22-2003, 11:03 AM   #71 (permalink)
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Old 09-22-2003, 12:05 PM   #72 (permalink)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sleepyjack
Does anyone else have a compost as well?QUOTE]


I do, but it's in my backyard, on the edge of the "lawn" and a foresty greenbelt that goes back to a salmon spawning stream. I put all sorts of stuff back there in this huge pile, but I'm always afraid to put scraps of anything that resembles meat. This is because I have cats, and the last thing I want to do is attract coyotes or anything to my yard. Sometimes it's funny, because I tend to eat bananas for breakfast, and all the peels go out there. Well during times when I don't have a lot to through out there, it gets covered and looks like a giant yellow graveyard.
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Old 09-22-2003, 12:41 PM   #73 (permalink)
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For example, most tree huggers think that nuclear power is dirty and dangerous - so we shouldn't build any nuke plants. Well, the old, existing ones are bad but there are standardized safe cheap approved nuke plant designs now that default to non critical and could eliminate shitloads of coal and oil smoke belching into the air and killing 10's of thousands. What's better, safe clean nukes or being dependant on terrorist muslim oil states and what we have now?
What are you talking about? Have you no idea of nuclear waste? And how it can not be disposed of properly and how it accumulates by the tons? If that's better I don't want to be any part of it.
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