Could it be really too expensive to recycle reduce, and reuse it seems things I've suggested are too expensive

Question

Is it easier to just toss things out, or break things down for parts to use over again, or to use another way?

Answer 1

Everyone duse theings the same way but note me way i just dont know way but thay just do it.:)

Answer 2

It depends on what the things are. Metal has been recycled for centuries. Scrap metal has always been big business. But if there are thousands of small parts all made from different materials, then the labor to disassemble them can be many times their new cost, unless you pay far less than minimum wage to the dis-assemblers. And what if a thing cannot be disassembled? Maybe they are welded, glued or whatever. Like a brick building. They used to recycle bricks. You could buy used brick. A gang of workers had to carefully chip the brick wall apart and carefully chip the mortar off each brick without breaking the brick. This is no longer done I think because the labor cost would make the used bricks cost more than new ones. Way more. Unless you pay 10 cents per hour to the workers.

Answer 3

Instead of focusing on the 'expense', why not consider the perceived value of REducing our waste, REusing material multiple times, and REcycling everything? We've become a disposable society, perfectly willing to toss things in the trash and move on. We 'dispose' of everything from paper plates to marriages without ever even trying to make it all work out. Maybe it IS easier to just toss things out - but why do Americans always have to look to the "easy" way out? Have we become so slovenly and slothful that all we care about is our own convenience? -RKO- 05/20/07

Answer 4

It's certainly easier to toss things out, that's why we are called a disposable society. But it's way better to reuse, or recycle.

Ways to reuse: Make things out of your old clothes-a couple of old shirts becomes a beach tote bag. A container that can't be recycled becomes storage for beads or paint or screws. Cardboard gets shredded for hamster bedding. Old bike parts can be used on a bike that needs parts or an art project. Tires become swings. Glass jars become drinking glasses or pretty mosiacs.

Ways to recycle: Donate old clothes to a women's shelter or Goodwill. Recycle office paper/cardboard/1 and 2 plastics/green and clear and brown glass/ and metal cans. Call local recycling centers for things like batteries, tires, fluorescent lights, etc.

Answer 5

Breakdown although expensive is a very important part of recycling - some things are just too complicated to recycle as is. The good news is breakdown provides jobs and that keeps people employed so by recycling complicated items you are providing a job - what better way to serve your community!

Answer 6

I come from the time of brown paper, string, candles and battery operated radios, before the advent of electricity and the motor car. I've watched the loss of forests to produce wood products, the desecration of grasslands while mining to produce metals and fossil fuels. I've seen the decrease of native flora and fauna and the increase in dirty waterways and pollution of our air and I feel SAD. If you love this world we must all take responsibility for the preservation and even possible improvement on what we have produced in our search for "A BETTER LIFE". Otherwise the cost of NOT recycling must be measured in far greater terms than the monetary cost of replacement because we will be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren.

Answer 7

it's a fact that making things from virgin materials costs way more money than recycled items. but each time something is recycled it loses quality until it must be thrown away. so you should defiantly reuse everything you can. recycle what you can and cut down buying throw out items. also we need to look to new things like biodegradable plastic you make from hemp oils, to hemp paper... hemp will yield four times the amount of paper that trees do per acre, and can be harvested multiple times in one growing season,, while trees take up to twenty years. taking steps like those to change the way we do things is truly what will make the difference

Answer 8

i think you are right to want to recycle. i try to recycle what i can. i wish that the companies would come up with manufacturing only what could be recycled for the most part. i know some things can't be, but a lot can.

Answer 9

The Stones have been widely used to reuse sometimes. They lifted the full riff From '72s Soul Survivor for '83s It could be Hell. BA: Rocket Reducer No. sixty two (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) - The MC5 BA2: Very drained. NP: tend My backyard - James Gang

Answer 10

Remember our grandparents, our grandmother canned in glass jars she washed and reused over and over. Nothing was thrown away the chicken liter went into the garden and the scaps from the garden went into the chickens. Quit buying cereal in boxes but in bags we can reuse. See where paper is wasted and insist they use cloth bags to put our grocerys in. We have to do our part.

Answer 11

Old furniture could be refinished and repaired (if necessary)
If you don't want it, the charitable thrift stores do--some repair things themselves. They take old vacuums, kitchen appliances, clothing, towels, sheets, just about anything you have in your home. Places of worship sometimes take furniture and more for families in need. Domestic Violence Shelters need things, too.