I live in an apartment, how can I recycle?

Question

When all of your garbage goes into one dumpster how can I recycle???

Answer 1

start a petition among all your neighbors, have them all sign up if they are interested in recycling and would commit to actually using the recycle bins if the apartment complex were to offer it. Once you have the support of all your neighbors, bring it to the apartment manager to deal with. Most apartment complexes are willing to listen if most of their residents are in agreement. Keep in mind that there may be an additional charge that you may have to pay to have the recycle bins.

Another idea is to save up your recycleables and then find a local recycle center to take them to. It's not as hard as you might think.

Answer 2

If you are serious about recycling, then separate your recyclables (paper, plastic, glass, etc) from your garbage, go to earth911.org (or a similar site) to find any recycling resources near you and take them! It may be a little inconvenient, but you are doing a great service to your planet! Don't forget to Reduce and Reuse! and tell your friends how easy it is.
Go a few steps further by composting your food scraps (no meat or poo) and use it to feed any container plants and vegetables you may have growing. You can also recycle your water! Just put a bucket in the shower or sink to catch the warm up water and the water you use to rinse off food, and use it to water your plants or any plants outside that don't get watered. It also gives you a good perspective on just how much we actually use.

Answer 3

Too bad you don't live in Edmonton, Canada. For every garbage dumpster here they have a recycling one for every kind of recyclable material which later get sorted out in a huge recycling center.

Answer 4

My community has recycling bins near a major pet store. The Humane Society collects those recycled items and returns them for money that in turn helps cover the costs of running the Humane Society shelter. Try calling your local chapter and see if they have something similar. You can just take your recyclables to their bin on your way to work or when you're out shopping. If they don't have one, you can call/email local school teachers to see if their students/clubs are interested in a service project and tell them about your situation. You can probably convince them to start a recycling program for your apartment building.

Answer 5

I have neighbors who aren't in apartments, who use recycling bins once a week. When it gets dark the night before, I simply sneak out there and set my recycling in with theirs.

BTW, I find it useful to get a Rubbermaid-type multdrawer bin to sort glass, paper, plastics in my apartment.

It's amazing how much recycling cuts down on garbage.

Answer 6

Oh,it's very easy. Step 1:Make sure that those garbage can be recycled. Step 2:When your father or mother wants to throw those rubbish you say NO.

Answer 7

You can keep a small worm compost bin under your kitchen sink.

Keep a can crusher handy and collect your cans. Sometimes local senior centers or youth centers collect them to fund programs.

Contact your city to see how the trash is sorted, and whether they have any community recycling programs.

Answer 8

You don't have to confine your recycling efforts to just your aprtment. However, ask of your manager to implement such a plan, but first get your ducks in a row; call your waste mangement service provider and ask them how the plan works and if there any additional costs. Be prepared to challenge a decision with the right answers. If unsuccessful, move your drive o the next level and contact your city manager with your idea. In most cities, it is a free service by contractual obligation of the service provider(s) in order to maintain their city contracts.
On the other hand, look outside of your immediate domain and help with just an e-mail. I am an independent, not for profit, lobyist for water conservation. http://www.vitabrewcoffee.com/water.html We have garnered the recent support of the public, (and now going to the senate) in our campaign to get Big Business to stop using Drinking Water to make products that Recycled Water could safely by used in its place. In one industry alone, Architectural Coatings, (Paint and Coatings, for houses and the like) a $20 Billion dollar a year usiness, that uses and wastes over 1/2 a billion gallons of Drinking Water a year to make paint. As a former Plant manger of one of the largest paint manufacturers in the west, I was able to successfully incorprate Recycled water right into the conventional Formulas, this is a No Brainer,( where we face the severest of Drinking Water shortages) I have started to drive this forward to conserve our most Precious of Natural Resources, Drinking Water. It takes the collective support of all those who believe in a common sense approach to move our nation to best Practices of Sustainability. The Paint Industry is merely a great place to start, after all, with our Green Builing practices in place, this is just common sense; How could you call it a Green Building when we expend Drinking Water verses Recycled Water to make Paint to Protect, Preserve and Beautify our homes and Buildings.
Edward Mugits
You can help by sending in your willingness to purchase products made from Recycled Water, where it is Humanly and Evironmentally safe, without loss of product quality or integrity and, of no increase to cost. Please help here: http://www.vitabrewcoffee.com/water.html
Keep in mind, Paint is but one of hundreds of water based-borne-reducible products, Anti-Feeze, is 60% water, and Recycled water is a suitable alternative, tested, tried and true.
Recycled water of Class A or better, has been used for decades to irrigate our edible food crops, It is not only Humanly safe, it actually saves energy expended to distribute the recycled water to other outlets of far less efficient use.
You can Help.

Answer 9

if you are committed. have to separate and then drive the recyclables to a local rcycle depot.
it is hard but you are to be commended for your actions.

Answer 10

Unless they have a recycle center you can get to yourself, it looks like your hands are tied.