Do you recycle? I do, mostly just cans and bottles.. Cause of the cash incentive..?

Question

But I am trying to get the people at my work to bring in their own cups.. Our company supplies foam cups for coffee and water, and its such a waste.
I also take my own bags to the grocery store, I grab canvas totes at yard sales. I HATE those plastic grocery bags,.
I belong to "freecycle"..
I do wanna get more into the recycling mode. Stopped buying individual cup snacks for my grrls...

No what do you to to try to SAVE OUR PLANET???

Answer 1

i totally recycle and i think that freecycle is awesome.

i try to carpool more since i live in the cities and thats really easy.

Answer 2

In California, and other states, your city should provide you with recycling bins to use along with trash pick-up. It is beneficial to recycle with your city as it helps offset the costs of trash collection since the money they get for recyclables is (ideally) translated into lower costs for you. Plus, you are being environmentally friendly by not driving your car to a store to recycle your cans/bottles. If the money for recycling is more of your concern, you should know that the free-standing recycling facilities that are often in the parking lots of grocery stores and the like often do not give you your full redemption value, but rather give you an amount based on the weight of your items. The machines in stores usually give you full value, but you will need to be patient as they are slow.

Answer 3

Our household reuses what it can, and recycles paper, glass, cardboard, plastics and cans. Most food waste goes into either the compost bin or the wormery. We have canvas bags for shopping. Decent unwanted clothing goes either to the charity shop, or to the local homeless shelter. Scrappy textiles go in the recycling to be reused by industry. We recently gave our old sofas to the community furniture project to pass on to people who need them.

At work, we've got a recycling bin for inkjetr cartridges and laser printer toner cartridges - the proceeds from that go to Oxfam.

Recycling really isn't an effort once you get in the habit - it takes no more time to put a can into a "can bin" than in the rubbish. Put a load of boxes or bins next to your normal rubbish bin for your various items.

We don't do it for any cash incentive because here in the UK there isn't one. We do it because... why wouldn't you?

Answer 4

I recycle virtually everything: plastics, glass, newsprint, aluminum cans, styrofoam cups, cardboard, tin, 'mixed' paper, ink cartridges, computers, wood, steel, aerosol cans, even biodegradable food scraps.
I REuse a styrofoam cup as much as thirty times before I finally throw it away and recycle it.
I REduce waste by taking my own cloth shopping bag to the store instead of using the store's "paper or plastic" bags.
I REcycle used cooking oil by picking it up from local restaurants and giving it to a farmer who fuels his trucks and tractors with it.
Yes, it requires some extra effort. But if you plan to ever have children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, consider this: how will THEY feel when they have to wear gas masks to breathe clean air, or when they can't find fresh water to drink, or when the polar ice caps have melted and they now live in the "flood plains" of Ohio because the sea level has risen and abolished all of our coastal cities on both oceans? When your great-grandchildren look back and see that we KNEW we "a disposable society" and did little to conserve energy or save the environment, their first question will be "WHY?" And we won't be able to look them in the eye and give them a straight, honest answer. -RKO- 04/30/07

Answer 5

Well I always bring my own bags to go shopping at grocery stores. I try to buy what i know im goin to eat within a month in bulk and I ALWAYS recycle those cans, bottles, and mixed paper. I try to buy anything organic thats offered. I keep reuable utensils wen eating my lunck at work. Im trying to get in the habit of bringing my own cup for drinks because I dont like keeping those things with me the whole day but ill get into it eventually.