Are you a SERIOUS recycler?

[JDgreen227]

I took this picture yesterday morning while at the recycling center about 5 miles distant from our home. This center has been open for at least 25 years, and accepts all types of paper, magazines, cardboard, boxboard (cereal boxes), brown and clear glass, tin and aluminum cans, as well as almost every type of household plastic.

The center is well lit, always clean, open 24 hours, and I feel very fortunate to live close by....because the load shown in the 8 foot cargo area of my GMC is one of the 7 or 8 I tote there every year. We recycle so much our household trash is basically one large bag a week, and a third of the bag is probably used cat litter.

How many of you are able to reduce your household trash to such a degree by being serious about recycling?

 

[TripleR]

None close to where I live and I can't lift much anymore to load it if there was.

 

[Furu]

We are lucky to live in an area where recycling is part of trash pickup. Do not know if local gov't requires the trash folks to do so but they make money on it and we get a little rebate back sometimes on the value of those recycles spread among all customers. Pickup is everyother week and we normally have 3-4 times the recycle amount that we do trash. Most of the time trash is just a grocery paper sack full. Everything else is recycle. I don't know how the companies make money but they service the public road system. We have to get it out the private road to the public road.

 

[300UGUY]

I live in a very conservative area. Recycling is something that a lot of folks here simply do not believe in. We only have private trash pickup in our area, so we have problems with folks dumping their trash on the roadsides. I have had a couple of confrontations over the years with XXXXX idiots dumping trash. We live on a dead end road, so it can be a target for the white trash to dump their trash. I shoudn't even talk about this, I can feel my BP going up. We do recycle ours, the local Wallmart is the only recycling place.

 

[Mousefield]

I live in a very conservative area. Recycling is something that a lot of folks here simply do not believe in. We only have private trash pickup in our area, so we have problems with folks dumping their trash on the roadsides. I have had a couple of confrontations over the years with XXXXX idiots dumping trash. We live on a dead end road, so it can be a target for the white trash to dump their trash. I shoudn't even talk about this, I can feel my BP going up. We do recycle ours, the local Wallmart is the only recycling place.

I sure can relate to the dumping. Story in yesterdays newspaper. A 27 ft boat called the Marybeth was dumped up the road from us. Totally stripped out, just the shell.

 

[deezler]

My wife and I typically have a FULL bin of recycling out at the curb every week, but only one small bag of trash every other week.

Good work there JD Green! Recycling is an important part of reducing our impact on this little planet.

 

[JDgreen227]

My wife and I typically have a FULL bin of recycling out at the curb every week, but only one small bag of trash every other week.

Good work there JD Green! Recycling is an important part of reducing our impact on this little planet.

Thanks...I feel so fortunate to live near such a great recycling site, wish there were more like it everywhere. The company that owns it is Granger, their main business is trash pickup and they own the local landfills. I sincerely admire them for what they do to reduce waste and lessen the amount of recyclable materials in landfills.

 

[Scooby074]

I cant believe there are places that DONT have mandatory trash pickup paid out of taxes (not directed at you 300, ive seen this before). Its a public health issue when it comes right down to it. Yet it seems to get politicized.

As to recycling, its mandatory here. bi-monthly pickups of garbage, compostables (green bin), blue bags and clear bags.

Your only allowed 1 black (garbage) bag. You use it for "personal" items.

Unlimited clear bags (unsortable recycleables, no food) and blue bags (recycleables).

Yes it is a bit of a pain... and there is nothing worse than getting a "resort" sticker on your bags.. but it has resulted in cost savings to the county and helped the environment.

 

[300UGUY]

I sure can relate to the dumping. Story in yesterdays newspaper. A 27 ft boat called the Marybeth was dumped up the road from us. Totally stripped out, just the shell.

I picked up a toilet once that had been dumped on our road. I caught one guy dumping a old roof on our road, he asked me where he could take it. I gave him directions to the dump. He got all mad at that - " I ain't gonna pay to get rid of it" . I have a hard time not letting my inner child out sometimes.

 

[PapaPerk]

Have been recycling a long time. It just makes good sense. Lucky enough now that the trash pickup offers recycling too! Very handy!!