How much do you recycle?

Question

How much do you recycle?

Answer 1

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING I CAN

Answer 2

Honestly, just a little. But at home, we try to avoid using disposable, for instance,  using handkerchief instead of Kleenex, or bring our own bag when going shopping

Answer 3

I try to recycle as much as I can.  I'm getting even better about it because I thought, hey cool, all these plastic bags are made from recyclable plastic, until we got the note that said not to put them in the recycling bin.  Then they started to collect around the house and take up space.  Sure I reuse some of them, but not that many.  It didn't help that for the longest time my husband had a phobia about using reusable bags because it wasn't cool or convenient.  I finally got him swayed to reusable bags, now I just have to get him to remember to use them when he shops!

I use old peanut butter jars to store things, if glass, I make decorative candle holders.  When I worked in a daycare, I turned a big juice can (cleaned, etc.) into a ruler holder.  Once it was covered with construction paper (continuous sheet) it looked neat.  Cans like that can even be used to grow plants.  They don't cost anything, can be decorated and will hold up decent enough against the water as long as the outside of the can is kept dry.  

I wish our state put more effort into recycling.  There are so many bottles and such (numbered 3 and up) that can't currently be recycled here.  

Do you recycle your old cellphones and ink cartridges or do they get turned into a place for a new phone only to wind up in a pile with all the others?

Answer 4

like all small things matters a lot as they have great importance

Answer 5

We are a family of four. We recycle a lot, and compost a great deal of what's left.

The easiest way of giving you an idea is to explain that we have three council bins: one for landfill, one for compostable stuff (which we use for things we can't compost at home) and one for recycling.

The landfill bin gets the equivalent of one or two ordinary household buckets-full of rubbish each week.

The compost bin in the garden gets the equivalent of about three buckets-full a week. T

he council bin gets the equivalent of one or two buckets-full a week.

The recycling bin takes glass, paper, card, cans and plastics (except for polystyrene and food-wrap plastic film) and gets about eight buckets-full a week.

Then we also use our local Freecycle group to recycle big stuff like furniture. And we have friends with younger kids than ours, who we pass our kids' clothes on to because they get grown out of long before they show any signs of wear.

I've also just discovered that my local charity shop can sell on textiles as rags, which means the really worn-out clothes and some old blankets we have can be recycled too (our council doesn't recycle textiles).  

Thanks for making me take a close look at what we do! I've surprised myself.    :-)

Answer 6

Everyday, well at least I try to.

Answer 7

Everything that's on the recycling list in our communitiy.

Answer 8

i try to recycle as much as I can.....plastics, glass, tins, papers all around my house go our to the recycle bin daily...I reuse a lot too

I take a lot of clothes and things like that to good will ....the whole reduce reuse recycle thing ya know...Im not the greenest person but Im a fair shade of verde!! lol

Answer 9

Everything I can.

Answer 10

I sell reclaimed building materials, and last year we kept over 1,250 TONS of materials from the dump that were reusable.