Recycling plz answer asap?

Question

what are 10 tips for recycling????

Answer 1

One good tip is to call your local sanitation department (or whatever it is called) and ask them what they do recycle.  If you can't get it picked up curbside, you might be able to find a drop off location.

Plastics have a number on the bottom.  Ask which numbers (for us here it is only 1 & 2) are recycled in your area.  Then try to only buy things that come in containers that can be recycled or can be reused.  

There are a lot of good tips people have answered the question with.  It may seem a bit difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, it will all be second nature to you.

Answer 2

not sure wot u mean but to recycle everything u can.

1)glass

2)paper

3)cardboard

4)tins and cans

5)garden waste

6)plastic bottles

7)clothes and shoes

8)carrier bags

there is more but i cant think of them but to recycle is to stop a load of stuff cloggin up the landfill sites.

Answer 3

I think everyone has given you great answers so far.

Do you want to know what to recycle?

I think a big one is, when you  are buying new products, opt for the ones made from recycled materials, toilet roll and bin bags for example. It is pointless recycling if you don't complete the circle.

Re-use before recycling, things that can't be recycled, reuse them too. For example friut punnets and margarine tubs are great seed trays.

Try not to buy things in packaing that can't be recycled, check your plastics most importantly. Most councils only recycle types 1 and 2 which is usually plastic bottles.

Obviously things you can recycle are, paper and card, some places have bins in supermarket carparks etc for magazines and catalouges.

You can recycle clothes, shoes and fabric. Can's, deodrant tins, glass.....

You can recycle food waste into compost for your garden, use it to feed your own veg plants, then you stop buying so much, reducing the amount of packaging you bring home and then have to recycle.

Freecycle things, if you have something that you don't want but is in ok condition, like plant pots, sofas anything. List it on your local freecycle site. It's amazing what other people can do with your junk!

Answer 4

1. shop sensibly to minimise your waste in the first place.

2. wash cans and things before you put it in the bin

3. compost

4. make a friends with a gardener/ allotment holder. They can find uses for all sorts of random rubbish (plastic bottles as cloches, old carpet as ground sheets, stuff to compost).

5. bother your local council to check the exact rules about what goes in which bin.

6. set up a battery recycling point at work.

7. check noticeboards to see if there are things people want that you want to get rid of. For example, someone at work volunteers for a local homeless charity who needed mobile phones to help their client with job seeking. I had an old mobile, so I gave it to them.

8. check out swapping websites such as hitflip, swapshop, eswapnow and freecycle. Reuse padded envelopes you get from other swappers - I had one package from hitflip that looked like it had had at least four previous users. Alternatively organise your own swapping event. Everyone brings along something they don't want, puts it on a table and takes something they do want.

9. Make some money from the things you don't want and sell your stuff on ebay/ amazon etc. or go car booting.

10. buy good quality items. They may cost slightly more, but they'll probably last longer.

Answer 5

I think the best thing to do is to take your own bags to the supermarket to cut down on the use of plastic carrier bags.

Answer 6

Here's a great page that gives you information and tips about recycling:

http://www.greenstudentu.com/recycling.a...

Answer 7

Not sure if this is along the lines you were thinking of but hope it helps.

A.Reduce what you use-buy fresh food from local markets and shops, without packaging, using your own reusable bags. Dont buy what you dont need.

B. Reuse what you can-  1.bath/shower water, soak clothes in after, then use water for mopping floors, use it to water your plants(bearing in mind i dont use toxic, chemical products)

2.only buy products in reusable packaging - eg jars, bottles - you can reuse for homemade jams, pickles, cordials, pass them onto your local WI/country market if you dont make your own produce. Jars are great for storing things in too. My dad has all his nails and screws stored in them in his shed, he screws the lid to the underneath of a high shelf then fills each jar with different things and then he just screws the jar to its lid! Decorated jars make pretty night lanterns too.

3.Card board and paper packaging can be used as mulch in your garden, pet bedding, insulation, note paper, craft activities, making your own paper, local animal sanctuaries use it for bedding etc, starting your fire (if you have one),

4.if you buy plastic packaging - you can make holes in the bottom of trays and things and use for seed trays. Plastic bottles can be used for protecting trees/plants if you cut the top and bottom off or as mini cloches.

5.Toilet roll tubes - great for planting seeds in.

6.Natural fibre clothing can be cut up and made into funky new designed clothes, used as cleaning cloths, finally composted in compost heap or as mulch on garden.

If you dont do all these things yourself you can pass the stuff  onto others who do.

7.Tin cans can be punctured and make pretty night lanterns with a night light inside. use them and bottles too to make walls mixing mud, and straw for your mortar.

8.I buy eco products eg washing up liquid and reuse the same bottle, as our local health shop keeps a huge barrel in and we just fill our bottles from that. Surplus bottles get returned to the shop and they send them back to their suppliers for reuse.

C.Recycle - this is a last resort whereby the items are broken down and made into something new. It requires lots of energy and lots of it is totally unnecessary if everyone did the above things first. Theres a company that takes back its products when they are used - they are called remarkable - eg their pens are made from recycled computer cartridges and when they run out you just send them back to them and they reuse them, same with their note pads, they use old drinks cartons for the covers and again take them back at the end of use.

Personally i cant see the point in using lots of glass jars/bottles then sending them off in big lorries all round the country to be crushed, melted down and made back into more bottles and jars!