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Fri May 08, 2009 10:12 am

Every one has a recycling program by now. Some have very primative programs and others will have a really good program. I am interested in finding out what your city, township, village or commune recycles. How is it picked up or do you drop off? What are you allowed to recycle what are you not allowed to? Do you pay to recycle or is it included in your rubish collection? Where do you live?(this will give us all a reference)

I'll Start. First of all I live in St. Louis, Missouri. We do recycle and in my individual community (unincorporated St. Louis County) recycling is included in the rubish collection. We can recycle Aluminum, Glass, and Plastics. (though #6 Polystyrene is not accepted) In my location all the recycling is picked up single stream (it doesn't need to be sorted.) on the same day as the trash collection...

Not many people actualy recycle around here though. It's a battle I am fighting to over come. Oh well.

I live in Lane County, Oregon, which has a fine recycling program. If you do enough research, you can recycle just about anything. There is a place called Bring where you can take wood, sinks, and computers, to list a few.
In my neighborhood we have a pickup point where we have recycling bins for office mix paper, steel and aluminum cans, plastic, and glass. Any plastic grocery bags you've had to use is cheerfully taken by Food Source or the Library. There is also a pickup bin for plastic bags in every store. What am I forgetting? Oh yeah, the dump's toxic area takes oil, paint, insecticide, batteries...I'm sure I missing something. I am quite proud of the recycling opportunities where I live. We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, and we take maintaining and protecting it very seriously.

Sun May 10, 2009 1:17 pm

I live in North London, UK

Our local council encourages recycling, by providing each household with a number of bins to sort our rubbish. One for plastics, one for paper and packaging, another for tin cans/aluminium/foil etc..

There are specific days of the week when they will collect each type. Quite near me there is also a recycling centre where we can take larger items, such as furniture, and clothing/textiles... very large items can be collected from our home by making a phone call.

My office has recycling bins in the kitchens, and a paper recycling bin at every desk. Low energy lighting and eco freindly computer systems are in use as well.

Sat May 16, 2009 12:23 pm

When I worked, a number of us lobbied for paper recycling boxes under our desk and a large bin for throwing them all in somewhere accessible. It was amazing to see how fast that bin filled up! It was being emptied each night, and it needed it. This was still early days in paper recycling done at work , and alot of people said "So what?" to recycling their paper. We recyclers would take these skeptics to the recycling bin and show them,and tell them that was only the recycling for one day. We convinced nearly everyone to recycle that way.

Sat May 16, 2009 2:54 pm

it amazes me how few offices even now actually make an effort to recycle paper.. We even turn paper over if it has been used for photocopying or reports etc and use the other side before recycling. It is not only more eco friendly but saved us a fortune on paper supplies.

Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:20 am

I've heard of people at a workplace wanting recycling bins, which were provided. I then heard that staff was seen emptying the recyclables in with the other garbage. That would be frustrating.

Our municipal program is getting better, but there still are things with the triangle recycling logo that don't get addressed.

Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:37 pm

i can guarantee that all our recycled paper does get recycled. We bought two large shredders, and most of it is shredded and bagged up and once a month it is collected by a recycling company

Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:34 pm

We finally had to get rid of our poor old couch. It had served us well for about fifteen years, and was used when we got it. We couldn't find anywhere that wanted it so we took it to the dump. They charged us fifteen dollars to take it.
I'm hoping that fifteen dollars will go towards disassembling it, as there was quite alot of wood in it. Or, could it be that it couldn't be recycled and that was like a fee for the landfill space it will take? Can anyone tell me?
I didn't have any problem with the fee; I'm curious what might become of our sweet old couch... :WINGS:

Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:37 am

Sometimes you do not even know if the thing yo have given for recycling is actually been used intelligently....like heretoday said...we never get to know what happens ones the things are gone....

Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:45 pm

I live in Northamptonshire England. We recycle, paper/cardboard, plastic, cans foil etc, garden waste and glass. It is all collected fortnightly as part of our rubbish collection. Our local council run recycling centre takes furniture, clothes, wood, glass, plastic, rubble, paint, oil, white goods, computers, garden waste, cans and paper, it is free for domestic users.

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