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Who here recycles?
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Where I live they recently went to a single stream recycling approach and provided one container for recycling. However there are restrictions to what you can put in the container so I still have to separate certain items. Fortunantly I live near a facility that will take the majority of the other stuff.
I've always recycled whenever I could. We used to have to drive to the recycling center with all our separated bins and then further separate the stuff like green glass from brown glass, etc. Kind of a pain in the ass, but I did it anyway.
Then our trash collection company finally offered recycling pickup bi-weekly, with no sorting required at all. We ordered a bin, and they dropped off this MASSIVE beast that takes up a corner of our garage. At first, we thought it was ridiculous how big this thing was. Then we found out how MUCH you can recycle. We dropped from a full large trash can per week to about one full bag of trash per week, and almost fill up that monster recycling bin every two weeks.
Then our trash collection company finally offered recycling pickup bi-weekly, with no sorting required at all. We ordered a bin, and they dropped off this MASSIVE beast that takes up a corner of our garage. At first, we thought it was ridiculous how big this thing was. Then we found out how MUCH you can recycle. We dropped from a full large trash can per week to about one full bag of trash per week, and almost fill up that monster recycling bin every two weeks.
What my area doesn't recycle, that my sister's county does, I take up to her every couple months. Part of the problem here is too few county resources to spring for sophisticated recycling equipment, but I have a feeling part of it is some good ol' boy attitude too. There's hard feeling here towards New York City's strict regulation of Delaware and Susquehanna river system headwaters and the reservoirs for city drinking water, and I suspect that attitude rubs off onto other environmental issues.
Of course there are also plenty of conservationists up here, and Agricultural Extension services that will help you farm responsibly and so forth, but when it comes to household recycling, and clean air / groundwater issues, it seems like a lot of people get ticked off over stuff like burn-barrel bans and the very idea that you can't just throw batteries, plastics, aluminum takeout trays etc. into the landfill along with the spoiled tunafish casserole. "We been doin' it for years, and we're gonna keep doin' it no matter what some idiot in Washington says" is how the attitude gets expressed, when anyone bothers to articulate an objection to recycling. In NYC, at work, we recycled every damn thing, so by time I came up here it was second nature and I'm still appalled at what some people think to put into the landfill-bound trashcans. The saving grace is that schools recycle a lot of stuff and the kids take that practice, and the information about why it's important, home with them. The ones that are home-schooled, well you have to hope at least half of them are home-schooled by environmentalists.
Of course there are also plenty of conservationists up here, and Agricultural Extension services that will help you farm responsibly and so forth, but when it comes to household recycling, and clean air / groundwater issues, it seems like a lot of people get ticked off over stuff like burn-barrel bans and the very idea that you can't just throw batteries, plastics, aluminum takeout trays etc. into the landfill along with the spoiled tunafish casserole. "We been doin' it for years, and we're gonna keep doin' it no matter what some idiot in Washington says" is how the attitude gets expressed, when anyone bothers to articulate an objection to recycling. In NYC, at work, we recycled every damn thing, so by time I came up here it was second nature and I'm still appalled at what some people think to put into the landfill-bound trashcans. The saving grace is that schools recycle a lot of stuff and the kids take that practice, and the information about why it's important, home with them. The ones that are home-schooled, well you have to hope at least half of them are home-schooled by environmentalists.
Yeah I do. We have a blue bin, and a regular trash.
Every Monday, Trash comes.
Every Friday, Trash + Recycling comes.
Every Monday, Trash comes.
Every Friday, Trash + Recycling comes.