What other items can we recycle as a community aside from paper, plastic, and aluminum?

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Answer 1

Technically we can recycle pretty much anything - the problem is economic rather than technical.

Glass, for example, is so cheap and abundant that it is often used as a filler in road construction, or in concrete.  It is virtually never recycled.

It can cost so much to get recyclable materials out of mixed wastes, or manufactured products, that it's not worth it.  Even loads of commingled recyclables are sometimes landfilled because of thoughtless contamination.

Reuse is a far more efficient solution - returnable glass bottles, once ubiquitous, have disappeared.  Centralization of bottling facilites, and product liability, has doomed them.  Plus, we just don't want to bother.

DK

Answer 2

You should start a local "free"cycle group in your area. You can offer up anything from clothes, electronics, left over party supplies, old toys, anything  you have that you don't need really. We all have things laying around, especially in the garage that just sit there and then end up in the trash. Instead why not reduce our consumption as a community and "free"cycle anything we can to others. I can personally say that it has both saved me tons of money in toys for my kids AND helped me clean out my garage faster!

Answer 3

there's almost nothing we can't recycle u just gotta take the time to find places to recycle them

Answer 4

old clothes, old computers, any electronic equipment, old furniture made from plywood

Answer 5

glass and glass bottles .can also mix again when they produce glasses.

Answer 6

You can recycle plants and use: My Best Recycling Idea

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container.   Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container.  Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions:  Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up.  Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline.  Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container.  Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon  to complete your planter container.  Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant.  If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.   http://www.zone10.com/tech/NASA/Fyh.htm

You might want to make a video on how to improve your indoor living environment for your next project.

Answer 7

condoms and toilet paper