Do you recycle, or do you just throw it all in the garbage?

Recycle. Everyone should take some responsibility for caring for the environment.

RECYCLE.

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Every community (county, city) is different. Some/most have implemented recycling programs with all trash collection services, by distributing the appropriate cans for each trash item, per household. Apts & condos share several of each color. Single family dwelling are issued so many each, etc.

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LA County has

BLUE = all cardboard, bottles, milk cartons, packaging materials, styrofoam, magazines, newspapers, cans, plastic, and recyclables.

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GREEN = all lawn and plant trimmings, branches, leaves, etc.

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BLACK = general trash.

(everything except anything that's supposed to be in the BLUE or GREEN cans).

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It's easy & would be more difficult to NOT follow this than to DO IT.

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It really isn't TRUE that "it all goes into the same place". The recycled items are sorted and RECYCLED. The greenery is ground and used for mulch & other recycled plant areas. The regular trash is actually sorted (to an extent).

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How do I know this?

Because if/when someone makes a mistake and starts loading a GREEN can with bottles and cans, they get a note informing them that it isn't acceptable to place the wrong items in the recycle cans.

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At times, some deep foot-printed, and rigorous trash-producers will run out of space in their own cans, and wander down the street to deposit the excess in a neighbor's cans..and then it's the can holder who has to hear about it. Ratting the person out for their un-green ways. Sometimes, people send their children to do this dirty deed (ha). Kids get spooked & bolt..dropping garbage as they flee..so it's wise to let it go.

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See all the FUN and frivolity you're missing?!

You could always contact your local government and pitch a fit re: their UN-GREEN ways.

I recycle. When I lived in an apartment (efficiency), I kept the recycling in a couple of bags under the sink. Now, I've got a house and keep it in my porch. Is there a way for you to take out the recycling once a day (or so)? Sorry, I'm big into recycling and thinking about people not doing so makes me shudder.

I don't. Yes, I'm guilty! They charge us more if we use the recycling service as oppose to the regular garbage services. At this present moment, my financial circumstances doesn't really allow that. I live very frugally every month andddd paying for all these extra services is really not in my list at the moment. To be fair, I don't even have a tv! I do once in a while recycle old books and newspapers.

Not only do we recycle, but our area recently implemented composting, so we have three bins: garbage (which doesn't fill up often), recycle, and green waste/composting.

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I bet you could figure out a place to keep the bins, and have some smaller bins you keep inside, and take out to the big bins when they get full. (That's what we do. We actually take things out once a week, but have waste-baskets, recycle receptacles, and a compost, closed thingy in the kitchen.)

Recycling Paper is more damaging to the environment than growing Pulp Trees and making paper from scratch.

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• Fuel burned collecting the paper.

• Transportation to the sorting facility.

• The resources used to run the sorting facility.

• The garbage from the sorting facility because not all paper can be recycled.

• Transportation of the sorted paper to the recycling facility.

• The machines used to grind the paper back into pulp.

• The horrific chemicals used to bleach the pulp and remove contaminants.

• The processing plant which turns the recycled pulp back into a usable product.

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The paper products that result from the recycling have used FAR more chemicals and fuel in transportation than similar products made from freshly harvested and RE PLANTED pulp trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_(paper)

If you want to help the planet, support the use of Hemp for paper. It is FAR more environmentally friendly than Paper from Trees.

Recycling Plastic, depending on the SPECIFIC TYPE of plastic is more damaging to the environment than making new plastic.

The ONLY type of recycling that actually matters and does the environment any good is Glass and Metal because it is easier to melt down the glass and metal than it is to extract glass and metal from the earth.

You are correct that an overwhelming majority of what goes into the "Recycle Bin" ends up in the same exact landfill as your meat scraps and other "Garbage" garbage.

There is a reason why Recycling must be subsidized.

If Recycling Paper and most plastics was a good thing, industry would pay you for doing it like the Can and Glass Bottle people.

Recycling on the Consumer Level, by and large, is the biggest scam being perpetrated on the Public. It costs taxpayers money and it doesn't do ANYTHING to help the environment.

(And no, we are not running out of room for Landfills. That is propaganda and nonsense.)

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✖ Penn & Teller: Season 2 Episode 5: "Recycling"

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/episodes.do?episodeid...

Here's the truth: recycling is garbage. The recycling industry creates pollution, has to be subsidized by the government because it's cost ineffective, and is completely unnecessary. Contrary to popular belief, our landfills are not running out of space — we have enough room to last for thousands of years! So how did the bullshit of recycling get started?

Experts:

• Neil Seldman - President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

• J. Winston Porter - President, The Waste Policy Center (Former EPA Employee)

• David Wood - Executive Director, Grassroots Recycling Network

• Daniel K. Benjamin - Author / Professor, Clemson University

• Angela Logomasini - Competitive Enterprise Institute

► Streaming - Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzLebC0mjCQ

✖ Is recycling a scam?

http://bluematter.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-recyclin...

When you read about a recycling programme 'paying for itself', what you see in effect is a covert tax on residents. When you see a recycling programme losing money, what you are witnessing is a public subsidy to the tree-hugger in all of us. All the while, and completely discounting current welfare ('financial') considerations, it is at best debatable that recycling lives up to its purported raison d'etre - saving the planet. The environmental costs of recycling may well be far in excess of simply dumping waste. Extra trucks are needed on the road to collect the recycled bins, pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. For many materials, the environmental cost of the energy used in recycling them is more than the environmental cost of simply tapping on nature's reserve to replace them. Since the consumption of virgin materials or energy is not priced at marginal social cost, it is impossible to say with certainty whether a specific recycling operation is good for the environment simply by looking at the profit and loss account. For most materials, however, the available evidence seem to suggest that recycling is like shooting ourselves in the foot, all the while feeling we are doing the planet a great service.

✖ Five Greatest US Green Scams Of All Time

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/fivegreate...

I recycle

Recycle...your kids kids will thank you.