How many of you actually take the initiative to recycle?

Question

As for me I consider myself as well informed about the environment and I do Recycle!

Answer 1

The question should be more like how many people recycle and drive to the bottle bank?

Answer 2

I have been recycling for 18 years.  Paper, plastic, metal, and garden refuse.

Answer 3

I recycle all but about 1 bag of trash each week - we are a family of 4 and used to generate 4 bags per week.  

Yeah!

Answer 4

I go leak behind the barn it saves a lot of water!

Answer 5

I recycle all the things that can be recycled in our city - but some things can't.

We have a kerbside collection, so it's not exactly hard work, just a matter of separating paper, cans and bottles into a green box instead of putting it in the normal bin.

Plastics and milk/juice cartons have to be taken to a recycling centre, which we do every couple of months when the kitchen gets too full of the stuff! We don't drive, so we get a nice long walk to the recycling centre instead!

Garden waste & other compostable stuff is currently not taken by the kerbside collection, and is too heavy to take to the recycling centre, but we have a small compost where we can put some of it.

Answer 6

I am the recycling n**i!  LOL.  I just have to start composting and I'll be doing real good.  Check out www.freecycle.com in your area as well.

Answer 7

DPLP

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live completely, 100% “off of the grid and are completely self sufficient”

The house is built utilizing natures natural elements, in the shape of an octagon with 8ft wide arch doors on every wall to catch every angle of wind (typical 4 sided homes have half the chance as one with 8 sides. A circle being the most efficient design). Woodburning stoves, solar chimney, solar AC, solar heating, solar water heating (pool and home), solar stove, solar power, wind power, hydrogen powered back up generator, hydrogen back up water heater, hydrogen stove, 2 hydrogen powered trucks, 1 EV (electric vehicle) and satellite internet.

We also built many green small cabins on the ranch that we offer to family, friends and our on-site off-grid workshop guests, including one straw bale, one papercrete, earth bag and adobe, one cob and cordwood, one underground and rammed earth, one log and post and beam and one rock. Each one actually started as a test for what the main house would be and were later finished and turned into guest cabins. I later wrote a guide on how to build with alternative materials using alternative methods for next to nothing.

We raise meat and milk goats, chickens for meat and eggs, ducks for meat and eggs, trap havilina (wild boar pig), rabbit, quail. brew our own beer from home grown products, preserve our fruits, vegetables, etc. smoke and jerky the meat, make our own soap, cheese.

There are no utility lines, no water lines, no roads, tv, cell service, etc. on our ranch. EVERYTHING needed is produced here. All electricity comes from 27 solar panels, 2 main wind gens and a back hydrogen generator if needed (typically we can last 9 days with all luxuries of sunless windless weather, hasn't happened yet). Water is caught and storaged from the rain. Hot water is made with solar batch water heaters with an on-demand hydrogen hot water heater as backup. solar chimney, solar AC, solar heating, solar water heating (pool and home), solar stove, solar power, wind power, hydrogen powered back up generator, hydrogen back up water heater, hydrogen stove, 2 hydrogen powered trucks, 1 EV (electric vehicle) and satellite internet. Even our vehicles use alternative energy (2 hydrogen trucks, 1 EV electric vehicle converted). Because of this we have no bills, no debt and no mortgage.

Anyone interested can check it out at..

www agua-luna com

I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

my home has all the comforts listed above plus some. we live very comfortable without effecting the environment. just saying that tol et you know it's possible. you may not want to go as extreme as me and my family but anywhere in between is something.

Without getting to in depth here, Using alternative fuels in your vehicles and harnessing your own electricity from the sun, water, earth and wind are the 2 are key elements in making a green transition and erasing your carbon footprint.

here's a calculator to find out how much of a green impact your making (carbon footprint)

http://www.conservation.org/act/live_gre...

if you'd like to make your next step feel free to contact me personally at www agua-luna com

I've been installing home made Solar panels. Solar stoves, Solar batch and inline hot water heaters. Solar radiant heating. Solar home heating and AC, along with home made wind gens and other alternative energy items for the last 3 years.

You can even make the above projects on site with simple parts from the local hardware stores or auto stores or junk yards. For more info check out some guides I wrote / compiled on how to DIY www agua-luna com

Again these projects can be accomplished anywhere by anyone.

if you absolutely can't do anything in your home at least you can put alternative fuels in your car. most major automotive manufacturers (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, etc) recommend the use of bio fuels, and nearly every car manufacturer in the world approves ethanol blends in their warranty coverage.

In fact your probably even driving an ethanol car and didn't even know it.

The trick is finding fuel.

I've been producing biofuel for about 3 years now, it's not extremely difficult. Basically you need general household ingredients, a processor (or still for ethanol) and some used oil. Blend it, let separate, screen and use. I complied a guide a while back to help walk you threw the process step by step, just email me or check out..

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as for recyling the best way i've found without taking money from your won pocket is to join a free freecycle group in your area or visit the habitat for humanity.

If you’d like help in making your self sufficient steps, feel free to contact me directly. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com

on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others “help the environment”.

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

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Answer 8

There are really still people who don't recycle?  Here in Northern New Jersey, it's as regular as taking out the trash.  Every 2 weeks we put out a glass/plastic/steel recycle can pretty much full (32 gal's) and about 2 (32 gal) cans of cardboard, admitedly that could probably be collapsed more, but it's just part of taking out the trash around us.

Answer 9

I do.

Answer 10

I am currently on a kick to recycle more. I re-use a lot, compost very well now, and I store my recycling... I just don't tend to get it out as often as I should. Either way, it's not going to the landfill.

I found a neat way to re-use pop cans instead of recycling them in the traditional sense. Solar powered heating!

Answer 11

I recycle! It's easy for me because we have recyclng pickup at my apartment.

Answer 12

i recycle pretty much everything! i am practically obsessed with being green, and am extremely more conscious than my peers. but dont worry about the duds that dont recycle, bcuz the waste companies sort out the recyclables from the trash anyway. (recys. are much too valuable) so just encourage everyone to do it, but dont fret!

Answer 13

i recylce EVERYTHING that can be recylced.

Answer 14

I have been recycling everything I can for almost 4 decades. I separate plastics, paper, glass, metal for the municipal bins (which I have to travel 3 miles to get to because I don't generate enough garbage to make it worthwhile to pay for curbside pick up of trash and recyclables). I compost all compostables. I buy used when ever I can, especially things like clothing at second hand stores and furniture, tools, machinery, etc.. at auctions (both on line and real). I free cycle stuff I cannot use.

Anything to keep as much as possible out of the landfills and to reduce our use of raw materials

Answer 15

We recycle everything we can, from newspapers, paper that comes in the mail, shiny circulars, glass, plastic, aluminum, as well as reusing as much as possible before discarding the container.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Answer 16

I recycle newpapers, magazines, cans, soda      pop bottles shopping bags. I even  have my boss saving me her cans also. Sunday is landfill day.