Do you recycle household rubbish eg. cans, paper etc?

Question

I do and would like to think that many others do aswell. I also compost my food waste, that what can be composted that is.

If you dont, why not?

Answer 1

We've only recently started and with the council only picking the stuff up every two weeks we're left with all the stuff as we only get supplied with a very small blue bin and a big blue sack and we need to keep this all in side until collection day,as we live in flats there is no alternative and we're left with it for two weeks it's scary to think how much stuff we go through we never realised until we had to keep the stuff but we're happy to do it

Answer 2

no that is a complete wast of time, it will never catch on my dear.

Answer 3

yes we recycle everything we can apart from food waste, We only get a limited amount of bin bags off the  bin men so we have to recycle. it is so shocking the amount that is accumulated in a week from food packaging alone.

Answer 4

I recycle my waste and collect from my neighbours on the way to the can/bottle/paper banks. I'm an artist so I re-use plastic bottles and other things most folk would throw. I've built a study out of old Divan beds and speaker boxes and make mosaics out of old CDs.

Answer 5

Yes or we get fined!

Answer 6

I do, but only because we pay per trash bag and separated recycling are free.

Answer 7

Yes. I also recycle everything and compost kitchen waste. I don't believe things are right in this country with recycling. They should reward those who recycle by giving a rebate on council tax. By recycling I reckon I now only put about a fifth of household waste to landfill.

Answer 8

Yes, everything that my local recycling center will take, I recycle.

Answer 9

I do. Austin has curb side recycling and we put paper, plastic, glass and cans in the recycle bin. It is so easy. There are two waste baskets in the kitchen and the recyclables are thrown in the second one. Then it is emptied into the recycle bin, which is identical to the trash bin except for the color of the lid. Then we put it out with the regular trash collection.

Answer 10

Recycle yes. Compost, not yet.

Answer 11

so far, all we recycle is aluminum cans

Answer 12

Yes.  Not that the government have made it easy nor efficient!

I even tear the plastic windows out of envelopes, so I can recycle the paper.  I'm 46.  I've been recycling since it was invented, when I was 7 or so, in the States, where I lived for a long time.  They have MUCH better systems for recycling there, than the half-xrsxd systems that are being put in place here, in Britain.  These also vary by region, which is just daft.  This little archipelago will be entirely under water within then next 100 years... and no one seems to be taking the problem seriously!

In my (informed) opinion, anyone who does NOT recycle, and pro-actively work on reducing his/her carbon footprint, should face criminal charges.  The Earth is PAST the tipping-point, in terms of climate-change.  Humanity had already set, not only our own extinction, but that of all the other living beings on this planet, in motion, ninety years ago.

The West is wasteful.  The East is overpopulated.  No-one wants to hear the 'Inconvenient Truth' -- a film I recommend extremely highly to EVERYBODY!  

When I was studying oceanography, at uni, in the early '80s, my professor said there was a 'theory' circulating, that the climate was being changed by the carbon and methane emissions from industry.  He showed us the models they were using, for this theory.  As oceanography is inextricably part of meteorology, and the models were very compelling (science-jargon for 'looked right'), I went on to do some extra-curricular work on the subject.

My conclusions were just about what the IPCC (co-Nobel Peace Prize winners, with Al Gore, 2007) and even more radical ecologists are saying now.  Of course, now, we can't stop it.  We can't even slow it down.  All we can do is COMPLETELY CHANGE OUR WAYS OF LIFE, and head for high ground.

Recycling isn't a choice.  It is the bare mininum, and there is NO excuse -- even Britain's half-xrsxd recycling measures -- for NOT doing it!!

Answer 13

I have recycled as much as possible since 1987.  Finding places to take recyclables has always been a challenge.  Have always done newspapers, then aluminum cans and steel cans were added.  And the variety of plastics is a challenge, but I let the recycling center sort it out.  Since I moved 3 yrs. ago, our new neighborhood does not have curbside recycling.  Went through withdrawal initially.  Back to newspapers only, which I take to our local school, until I can find a place to take my other items.  Since I am a busy working mother of 4, I understand that this is important but is not the overriding priority of life.  Reducing & reusing what you use is also a good idea, using alternative items.  I think some people need to get a real job, not you, though, just others, when they have really strident environmental beliefs.

Answer 14

we recycle most things, but i also thinkl that the government has to make it easier for people to recdycle!

Answer 15

We try to , but a lot of times the stuff in the recycle bin just gets tossed in the regular garbage truck...it's not our fault

Answer 16

yes.x

Answer 17

i save cans bottles and plastic. but i cannot get it collected from the house.  i have to take it into birmingham. tysley tip.

i also recycle all food waste in a compost it

Answer 18

I recycle as much as I possibly can, and try to use less in the first place.  Also, I do as much reading as I can about the environment so that I am well informed.

Answer 19

I try, I really do try...dont always get it, but remembered to put the cans out for the recycle van tomorrow and took all the glassware from the holiday to the glass bins.