Enviro Friendly

[henry3k56]

While cleaning stuff, and tossing stuff out into the garbage I saw how much simple stuff gets thrown away. Paper, plastic, stuff.

There are plastic food bottles, medicine bottles, soap bottles, etc. All that stuff has little recyclable notices that say: Recycle me!!
Plastic bags always get recycled in those little cans at the grocery stores.

Paper stuff. I had a ton of printer paper, lined paper in the trash can. Paper that can at least be recycled into other products. Newspapers and magazines are always recycled.

Metal stuff. Alumunim cans make money. 1 cent for every can recycled..more or less. Tin cans go with the plastics. The Waste Management sorts them using magnets.

So how far do you guys go to recycle to keep our world running without filling up our landfills, and trash deposits with more garbage than is needed?

I at least recycle paper, plastic, tin, and aluminum as my part to help the world use its already useful supplies.

[hgnis]

The company is the greenest in the energy world - all divisions globally ISO 14001 certified as of last year and continuously improving...hurrah for the Brits!:up:
On a side note: NO I do not believe in recycling condoms... :weird:

[hestermofet]

"'Nuke the Whales'... you really don't believe that, do you?"
"Well, ya gotta nuke something."


Lisa: No I can't! I can't eat any of them!
Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Lisa honey, are you
saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again? What about
bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: [Chuckles] Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

[Curi0us_George]

One of my favorite things in Germany was all the recycling. Glass, plastic, paper, tetra-pak, etc. I threw almost nothing into the actual "trash". Here, I've got no idea what to do with recyclables.

[Atmo]

I live in the middle of nowhere, and we have roadside (no curbs for about 20km :blah: ) recycling. Although its only picked up fortnightly.

[henry3k56]

Thats good.

Would you toss your old computer parts, etc if they didn't work anymore? Or would you pay a company to haul off your old clunker if it didn't work and recycle parts off of it?

[Avalon]

Originally posted by Atmo
I live in the middle of nowhere, and we have roadside (no curbs for about 20km :blah: ) recycling. Although its only picked up fortnightly.

wtf is fortnightly?

[hestermofet]

"At this juncture, it doesn't seem feasible. However, I might be able to join you in a fortnight."
"Huh?"
"I can play in two weeks."
"Guh?"

[blumoon11]

I do recycle at home, and at work they are very environment friendly, so you can imagine, for example, at the cafeteria, before putting the trays away we must deposit plastics cups, paper napkins, etc, in their respective containers.

[Atmo]

Originally posted by henry3k56
Would you toss your old computer parts, etc if they didn't work anymore? Or would you pay a company to haul off your old clunker if it didn't work and recycle parts off of it?

I tend to not throw anything away, old puter parts can be made to build new puters, then sold off to finance new parts.

Even if something is totally fuxored i rarely throw it away, old cpu's make cool keyrings, power supplies can be stripped of their fans, heatsinks and power sockets etc.

[hestermofet]

They can also be donated to schools.

[c2R]

I recycle glass and tin cans. There's not the facilities to do plastic here.

Paper gets burned, as we've got a stove and you need to use paper as kindling.

[Aquila Blue]

Unfortunately, the facilities for recycling where I am at the moment is pretty much non-exsistant, so I don't have much choice. Back home, I recycled paper, plastic, glass, cans, styrofoam and organic goods (eg yard waste and kitchen scraps) by composting.

[hgnis]

You can probably organise a waste segregation type drive. There are usually bottle and paper recycling facilities in most places and you can get some lose change in some places. It may not seem like much but it's a start.

[c2R]

Originally posted by Aquila Blue
Unfortunately, the facilities for recycling where I am at the moment is pretty much non-exsistant, so I don't have much choice. Back home, I recycled paper, plastic, glass, cans, styrofoam and organic goods (eg yard waste and kitchen scraps) by composting.

It's plastic that's annoying that it can't have anything done with it. After all, everything's wrapped up in the stuff. Still, it's only in the last year we've had glass and metal recycling points within a couple of minutes drive, so that's a good thing I guess.

Some of my friends still burn all their own rubbish, as the council refuse to collect it anymore... but that's a different story.