Hmm so after my trip back from California I was thinking on getting on the recycling bandwagon.

Any experiences much appreciated.

I live next door to a recycling place, so no reason NOT to recycle.

at the beach house in cali there was a recycling truck that came by and picked them up! very convenient!

We put everything into a green bin provided by the city and a truck comes by every other week to haul it away. No sorting required by us... they do it all. Very convenient. I confess to not recycling at times because I'm too lazy to wash certain things... who wants to clean all of the residue out of a mayo or peanut butter jar? Yuck.

ewww... mayo can be doable.. peanut butter kinda ... icky

i havent recycled in a long time and here they dont offer anything convenient

our council gives us 3 colour coded recycling tubs and picks them up from the curb...

I started last week and have become slightly obsessed with it! I've already filled one crate in a week. They pick it up every other week and sort it.

We recycle in Paris but I don't participate for many reasons.

nope, I don't do it....why should someone else profit off my gatbage?



* garbage.

I recycled when I lived in Canada.... Here I haven't we really don't have room here to sort out the different stuff.... I do keep the soda cans and bottles though and return them for money....



it is not just about profit.. when you recycle you are saving the landfills from getting to full....

We recycle glass, plastic and metal in NYC and possibly also paper (never have enough worth recycling, so I don't know for sure). Curb-side pick-up AND I think it's mandatory in the city -- my father got a ticket once because the garbage men found some plastic in with his regular garbage I'm pretty sure they weren't rooting around in the garbage though, so maybe it was visible from outside the bag? Ah well, recycling's goot

We recycle. Cans, bottles, foil, cardboard, paper, etc. It's curb-side pickup usually, except for the paper stuff which we turn in curb-side at my parent's house in Wisconsin since they don't accept paper curb-side here.

Curitiba (here in Brazil) is very known for taking care of the enviroment, I recycle, the city offers even at parks, streets garbages with different colors, for papers, food, metals, glass, plastic. I believe it's very important recycling.

Our homeowner association has a recycling center where I have to drop off all my recyclabes.

Ca offers recycling pickup,
what really burns me is that CA charges CRV .4 c / container yet there are not enough recycling centers to take your bottles or cans and get that CRV back.

I want my .4 cents back! I think any state that charges a CRV should make sure that there are enough reccling centers that consumers can redeem their bottels and cans and get their CRV back.

There are not enough centers as it is, and half the time the nes in South Bay are never working properly.


I want my .4 cents back!

if its convenient for me i do

My apartment complex has a trash-compaction-dumpster with some bins for cardboard and newspapers (and printer/copier paper). Grocers offer recycle bins for plastic bags--so I take all-but-a-few (the ones I use for HOLDING trash, either from home or vehicle) to these.

Our city offers recycling...we have a drop off centre for that. Another way of "recycling" for me is donating all my old clothes and those of my daughter, to the goodwill facility.

The city offers it but only does curbside pickup at houses, not at apartments or businesses, so if you live in an apartment, you have to take it in. My husband claims that it takes more energy to drive the car to the recycling center than it does to make all the new cans and bottles (and he usuallly knows these things, I don't think he's making excuses), so we don't.

I miss living in Spain, where every street corner had four different trash dumpsters on it—trash, paper, cans, and glass.

I am lucky because most of the Albertson's around here have a self serve building on thier parking lot where they take the cans and bottles.. Then you get a reciept which you can cash at the Albertson's or use it against the cost of your grocerices

yes I do that too! I give some to my friend and then give the rest to the salvation army!




I saw that in Montreal too! Dumpcans on the street had where you could put cans, bottles, paper etc!

I live in Germany, so yeah, I recycle about 80% of my trash.

In Canada we returned all our bottles and cans for money. Here you don't get money.
But we do have a bin for garbage and a bin for recycling. They are both picked up every Tuesday. I find with the recycling and the garbage disposal the amount of garbage we create is really down.

I recycle here in Phoenix. It has taken a bit to get my wife (from Ukraine) to get into it. She actually never thought about where garbage goes before. For her it just got put in the bin in the kitchen and then her dad would take care of the rest!

Joel

they offer it, but for a fee, stupid huh?