What can't you recycle?

Question

Open to any answers however sensible or crazy.

Answer 1

well i live in vietnam and recycling isnt rly an option. i dont know of any existing recycling centres although my family does somehow find a way of recycling. most people just dont know HOW. the vietnamese have bigger problems [to them of course] than recycling metal cans. most of them panic about how theyre going to BUY those metal cans.

Answer 2

There's no reason why anyone CAN'T recycle...they just chose not to.

Answer 3

people ,animals ,your left over dinner ,i dont know if it something you cant recycle but recycled toilet paper, scary thing that ,mmm ..............specily the scented stuff weird!?no i shouldnt have bothered you i have the  intelect of a hamster this morning good luck on your quest and remember if you fail, the answer to everything ....42...... there ;-)

Answer 4

Everyone have to do it actually..But all of us used to not doing it because of Ignorance..That's it..

Answer 5

Many local authorities still haven't got the capabilities to recycle plastic, so you'll have to get in touch with them and see if they do or not.

Answer 6

cellophane envelope windows - yet the rest of the envelope can be recycled!!

Answer 7

hi

i would suggest ask..

what "can" you recycle?

however, back to your question, you cant recycle many things.

                  " the possibilities are endless..."

Answer 8

It is possible to recycle plastic, if you have the correct (expensive) facilities. However, you can not recycle anything thats chemicle properties change during/after usage. For example petrol in a car, (liquid diesel turns to carbon dioxide, a gas).

Answer 9

A bicycle with no wheels

Answer 10

We recycle as much as we are able - brought up during the War when there wasn't a throw-away society and early training dies hard.

There are limitations as to what local Councils can do with things which householders put out for recycling.

They need a market for reuse;  maybe manufacturers should package things only in materials which can be recycled - our Council can take plastics marked 1 and 2 only.

Personally, if I were World Dictator, the first thing I would look at would be disposable nappies.  Trees are cut down by the acre to make them and the plasticised lining is here forever; it costs three times as much for a parent to use a disposable as to use a washable nappy.  I used terry towels and muslin nappies and washed and ironed them (and I was working).

When we were young, recycling was essential because there was very little new to be had.

There was a weeky collection of waste paper in hessian sacks - a new one dropped at your door as the filled one collected, a pig bin on every street corner for any vegetable and food waste for making animal feed (and emptied daily).  The rag and bone man - cotton and wool fetched the highest prices the former being used for paper making and wool to be made over, bones to the glue factory.

Children's woollen jumpers were unravelled, the wool washed and reknitted into another jumper, perhaps with a contrast wool for lengthened sleeves and welts, many of my clothes were made from my mother's dresses.  Coats were lengthened by the addition of a contrasting strip of material being inserted a few inches up from the hem and the seams hidden by stitching on a binding tape.

Most of these skills have been lost because we are now too affluent and with goods from China cheaper than we can make them at home, it is easier to chuck than make-over.  And I guess it would be thought "shameful" rather than laudable as it was in the 1940's

Answer 11

I do!

I have a bin for food, a bin for plastic, a bin for glass, a bin for paper/cardboard and a bin for everything else!

Its all fun, fun, fun on my street at bin day!

Answer 12

Asbestos is a big problem,if your old  Asbestos garage

is ready for disposal or any other products that have this

killer material,the experts have to be called in at great

expense Soiled baby nappies are another problem as by law

you cannot put them in a refuse bin or bury them.

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