Lisa Shea Forums General Discussion Life, The Universe, and Everything Outside of Canada, recyling?

The house I grew up in had a milk cubby/door, it was so cute. I can't believe you can still get milk like that, that is so very cool.

So basically most places have the wheelies, paper, plastic and yard waste, it's just a matter of if you use it or not.

Then there is the option of drop off centres.

I recently caught the end of some program on tv and it was showing that a certain amount of recycled cans was worth so many dollars, and then showing that due the recession it was worth a lesser amount almost 1/3 of the normal price and that recyclables where being held in these huge lots, as it cost more to recycle the items than the money that could be received.

They also showed the inside of a plant, where men were lined up next to a conveyor feverishly separating water bottles and cans as they rode down the ramp.

Actually maybe it was on the news, I wish i had seen the whole thing, but it was fascinating, as we are all "filing" our garbage, I never really thought of the steps that follow.

It would seem then the UK , USA and Canada are very similar.

RECYCLING

I spelled the word wrong in the topic name, excuse my spellos!

here in most cities recycling is optional, some cities do not have recycling plans at all and its done totally on your own, you keep it and you transport it to a recycling center yourself.

other cities, offer bins from the trash company and are picked up on certain days.

ussually its paper, plastic and glass.

most places, specially suburban areas, have limits on lawn waste. my mom has one day a week thursday) to put out lawn waste, like sticks and trimmed branches and bags of mowed grass. but she pays someone to come mow the yard so they have to deal with it not her so that does not affect her much.

if you do leave bags of grass on a day other than thursday they will leave it there lol ... which i nevr understood because its just going to sit there until thursday, growing mold and stinking and being used as a maggot nest.

growing up i remember having a recycle bin for paper. just regular paper and newspaper only, it was a green bin and we could put it out on mondays. thinking back, that was pretty awesome. that was 20 yrs ago. (gee i feel old now)

i do choose to recycle, paper, plastic and glass. news paper i set aside and take to the animal shelter (my work) as they use it to line kennels with. sadly it then gets thrown away with the trash and not recycled (cant recycle dog/cat poops and pee lol) but at least it got one more good use before it was tossed away.

i live in an apartment so im not aware of the recycle process for homes that have trash services, we just have a big dumpster we throw trash in ...no idea where it goes or when it gets picked up. I take my recycling to a recycling center when the bins are full.

I also recycle soda cans, which get thrown into a machine and money comes out lol ...been doing that since i was a small child. last time i did it i got $7 back. not much but pretty good for price for trash lol

we did a school play once in 2nd grade about the environment and recycling and such, it had a huge impact on me and i drove my family crazy since then about recycle that, dont throw that way and so on ... i used to get mad at my mom and drive her crazy if she went through a drive through and didnt ask for paper wrapping for her sandwich as opposed to those styrofome boxes they used to have haha

I WANT machines that eat soda cans for money!!!!

hahhaa they arent as common as they used to be.

growing up there was one in every grocery store parking lot.

This is such an interesting thread & I've learned a lot.

I've never seen a soda-can-for-money machine (lots of the opposite, though -- lol).

In my town you have to bring your recyclables to these huge containers, divided into plastics (#1 and #2 only), metal & glass, and paper. I bought 3 reasonably attractive bins to keep in our back hall for recyclables; we're fortunate to have a bit of space for them -- it's a pain when you live in an apartment!

Years ago I briefly lived in a small town and volunteered with the once-a-month recycling (collecting and sorting). Believe me when I tell you that on a hot summer day, the bleach bottles, vinegar bottles, and milk jugs combined to make the most astonishingly unpleasant odor imaginable!

I'm always amazed at how few people we know who bother to recycle (not to sound holier-than-thou, but honestly, it's not that much hassle...).

you are supposed to rinse containers out before recycling them LOL

i can imagine that smell would be horrid!! i alwasy rinse containers out with hot water and soap, specially the milk ones yuuuck!!

We have a bin for paper (which includes cardboard) and a bin for plastic containers (#2 only), glass and metal. In MI there is a 10 cent deposit on soda and beer containers (glass, plastic and cans)including fizzy water so all the grocery stores have machines that you put the can in and get an slip to take to the cashier for the money, which is really just a refund of your deposit. People rummage through recycling bins looking for returnables.

LOL I always hear Judge Judy yelling at deadbeats to go collect cans, and i was always thinking" What the in the world will that do?" Haha

Here it will get you a pat on the back.

Someone needs to post a pic of this magical machine, seriously.

I can't believe I haven't seen one, mind you I haven't searched them out , if I'm in the states i am either someones guest drinking up their sodas, or i am out in the middle of nowhere camping.

in states that offer the refund like cetan said, they are pretty common... they still have a few left over where my mom lives ... middle of god forsaken no where in oklahoma lol

also some of the machines were ran by scrap metal companies i know many of the ones in kansas growing up were ran by the scrap metal guys, insert cans, cans get weighed, out comes change lol it was like magic... i made quite a nice living collecting cans as a kid ... my grandmother hated it though she said it made us look homeless HAHA me and my sister would come home with huge bags full of cans LOL