Anyone here do any recycling?

[Antiyonder]

If yes, then what do you recycle?

Do you get money for it?


I recycle soda cans every months. Recently I got some neighbor to supply me with empty cans.

I get around 5 to 10 Dollars for the cans. They determine the money by how heavy the load is.

[Eddie G.]

I don't recycle for cash anymore, although I do have fond memories of my family being strapped for cash and having to drop of bags of cans and bottles for some scratch.

Beyond that my family (me) puts out cans, bottles, and paper for recycling every Saturday morning.

[Lightwave]

I put out cans. That's easiest for me to do since I drink about 3 sodas a day. I've done it for money once, and I got about 5 bucks.

If I ever needed the cash, I'd probably do it for money, but until then I'll just stick with putting them out for my local Trash Service.

[Kury Wagner]

I do have fond memories of my family being strapped for cash and having to drop of bags of cans and bottles for some scratch.Likewise. My parents used to do that too.

[Zebi]

Our city has recycling pick-up every other week, on the same day as garbage pick-up. We put out our recyclables then. To be honest, I don't know if the city or region has a "recycling for pay" program.

[Weatherman]

I just put my stuff out for the city to pick up whenever they come by and it's not raining.

[cross blues]

we used to recycle our aluminum cans, but not any more. they hardly offer any money now and the nearest recycling center is far from here. when it started to cost money to recycle, we quit doing it.:sad: our town doesn't have a recycling program either, or else we probably would.

[Cartman]

Yes. In fact, my community requires that we recycle plastic, tin, aluminum, and newspaper. We could do a little more with glass bottles though.

[Rune]

Our local council organises recycling for newspapers, glass, aluminium and steel cans, clothes and garden waste (meaning dead plants etc not anything icky), its not done for cash returns though its part of an effort to reduce the amount of stuff being dumped in landfills across the country.

Back in the old days ... okay the early 70s, as a kid there was no better feeling than taking your granny's empties down to the corner store and being able to spend the return / deposit money on a bottle of pop and some sweets for yourself ^_^

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

I do the usual bundle of recycling (glass, paper, plastics, cardboard, newspaper) required by my township. They also take back used-up batteries (contain things you REALLY don't want in a dump seeping into the groundwater), and I recycle dead rechargables at the Friendly Neighborhood Drop-off Point (http://www.rbrc.org/index.html?sp=true&h=400&w=275). When NYC killed off its glass & plastic program, I'd bring my empties to work in New Jersey.

I'm a hopeless technology packrat, but if I were going to ditch a computer or a TV, I'd use a recycling service for that (http://www.supremerecycling.com/), too, since there's plenty of reusable stuff in them and also a lot of nasty things in there you don't want seeping into the groundwater.

We reuse styrofoam peanuts to pack up stuff we're selling on eBay (another form of recycling, I suppose), or give them back to local UPS or Mailboxes Etc. stores rather than throwing them out.

We reuse plastic bags from the supermarket produce department and from the daily newspaper delivery as pooper scoopers for the dog. Bigger than Ziplocs and they're both free. You just gotta watch out for holes and punctures.

Finally, I use reusable mugs for coffee whenever I can and keep one or two of those little cardboard coffee sleeve thingies in all my jacket pockets, my briefcase, and the car. I also reuse the same coffee stirrer stick all day at work.

-- Ed/Ace

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

It's mandatory here. If they found a regular garbage bag full of recyclables, I'd be fined. I don't mind doing it, really, but...we also don't get deposit money back in Ontario. :rolleyes: Just stick it at the curb and that's that. I believe they still do full returns in my old home province of New Brunswick, and I've often thought how it would be cool to rent a U-Haul, load it with everyone's cans and bottles here, drive over to N.B. and get returns on all of it. I could retire before 30! :p But...it's not possible. Ha.

[OverdrivePrime]

I used to bring all sorts of metal and glass over to the recycling station for money back when I was a kid. I amassed a pretty decent bank account that way. Well, decent for a 10 year old, anyway. Now, it's a heck of a lot easier to just sort everything and put it in it's proper bin and let the city pick it up.

[Dark Fact]

I recycle anything that looks like it can be recycled. After all, I don't want to have to pay higher prices for aluminum and paper in the future.

[Melon109]

I think everyone should try to recycle. My family recycles newspaper, cans, plastic, and cardboard. We have never done it for money before, we just stick it by the road on Monday mornings.

[Dudley]

You have to recycle in Japan.

However, I'm too lazy to put it in it's proper place. Garbage men sort through the trash and fix that problem.

[Rurouni Kenshin]

I don't, and I don't see why anybody does.

[Weatherman]

I don't, and I don't see why anybody does.
I do it to try and cut back as much as we can out impact on the planet. It may not be much, but it's better then nothing.

[Rurouni Kenshin]

I do it to try and cut back as much as we can out impact on the planet. It may not be much, but it's better then nothing.
By the time the stuff we do to the planet takes effect we will be dead.

[Weatherman]

By the time the stuff we do to the planet takes effect we will be dead.
So think of it as delaying the inevitable. Maybe it aint much, but something is still better then nothing.

[Chad Bonin]

I don't, because I'm not going to be seeing negative impacts of one person not recycling in my lifetime.

[Weatherman]

I don't, because I'm not going to be seeing negative impacts of one person not recycling in my lifetime.
Maybe, but you take one, and then you add another, and another, and another and....you get my point. Maybe one single person isn't a massive difference, but alot of single persons is a big difference. And yes, it can make a differrence even in one life time. I can even give you an example.

I guessing that your city does municipal trash collection. It costs roughly 30-50 dollars a ton to dumo trash in most places. You take, say, a ton of paper products out of the trash can each year an recycle it. Even if the city can't sele it for a profit, it will either be hauled out at cost or for a rate that is less then the regular trash rate. On your own, you've saved 30-50 dollars in trash fees. 100 people do that, it's 3,000-5,000 dollars. That's money that can be cut off the bills for next year.

[purplehairedwonder]

Our city has recycle bins all over town, so we recycle our newspapers, aluminum cans, glass, cardboard, and some plastics; none of this is done for money, just to help out the environment. Even if we're just one family doing it, it makes me feel better to know I helped, at least a little bit.

[Mr. Pedro]

I do put the little green bins at the end of the driveway so that the trucks can pick up the stuff every Tuesday morning, but I don't ever really drop stuff off at the recycling plant myself.