We all try to recycle, right? We cash in our cans, right?

Question

But when we recycle plastic ( you see the little triangle on the bottles , and paper. Take them to them to the recycling center. Who gets the cash?? Yeah, we don't have to pay for the trash to be picked up, yet why do we have to pay for the high fuel dollar to take them down there. Don't you think, we should get paid for the plastic and paper as well as we do cans?

Answer 1

i have always got $ for plastic? not milk but soda bottles.

Answer 2

there r reclyling centers where i live. i do give in papers, plastics n cans. To b frank, i dun really care abt hw much i get paid for that or who benefits from tht.

i just feel tht it is important to recycle n help save Earth. thts all.

Good Day.

Answer 3

there are places where you get paid for the plastic too.

i guess you might not have a center like that where you live?

investigate eh?

Answer 4

NO, you shouldnt be paid to do something you should be doing anyway.

Answer 5

indeed

Answer 6

we don't have recycling centers where I live. They pick up the goods from your home/apt. Cans go back to the grocery store and you pop them into the machine and they print out the money slip. I don't drink pop so I don't recycle cans, but I've seen many many people do this. It doesn't look like fun. Glad I don't have to do it.

As for getting paid for recycling the other goods, no I don't think we should get paid. You didn't pay a deposit did you? Nope. If you don't want to recycle don't buy the goods.

Answer 7

Good question. I wuold beleive that it will help pay the salaries of the people who take our trash every week. Think about it. You nav e to feel sorry for a garbage man. Really, Think about it. How about a trip through a dirty trailer park picking up trash. They can have all my money from recycling.

Answer 8

some recycling company do pay the other plastic and if the paper is cardboard that is also purchased by a recycling company.

Answer 9

i just send them to recycle center.

Answer 10

Sorry dude! I don't cash in cans, that's embarrasing.

Sadly i don't recycle either but at least i don't litter.

Answer 11

Maybe you will be benefiting the community as a whole by recycling, you might be saving money by not paying higher trash pick-up fees.  But I guess its the same old question, 'what's in it for me' how about just doing the right thing.  I recycle everything and don't get paid nothing but it does benefit our local youth center, which collects no local tax, so weather I paid a little extra for a trip in fuel or I can pay thru taxes does it really matter.

Answer 12

were supposed to do it for our earth not money

Answer 13

I think the processing for those other things is too costly to give it value. The value is in the knowledge you have no other choice but to do everything possible, including easy stuff like recycling. This is where we live.

Answer 14

It might be best to just remove biodegradable materials, and sent the rest to a central sorting service (of course not using trucks that compact the garbage or in home compactors).

Having people do sorting and still having too much garbage in recyclable stuff, too much recyclable stuff left in garbage does appear to be an inversion of efficiency.

I would not expect then to be paid to separate my biodegradable material from the rest of the garbage.