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Recycle everything

jstack6
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When we recycle it really adds up. We reduce land fill overflows, reduce energy needed for new products and provide jobs for many people. What could be better than that ?

All products should be made with recycling in mind. I've read Honda does that better with their cars that other companies. The foods we eat also need to be packaged with bio-degradable materials. There is just so much poor material used today. Less is more.

As this site also shows styrofoam is a very bad material becuase it never breaks down. If we can always recycle it back into insulation or other direct use that will help a lot. We have other materials that can be used like soy foam and corn type foams.

I'm very lucky to live in an area with recycling programs at home. Where I work they don't have any recycling so I collect those materials and bring them home. This sn't so easy since I bicycle 20 miles each way. What I do is take it home once or twice a week when I car-bicycle pool.

We even recycle or water taking gray water out in buckets to water our trees and plants.

It all adds up. How do you recycle ?

My local Radio Shack is no longer accepting batteries for recycling ›
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Submitted by jstack6 on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 16:22.

Jeff Schultz
Re: Recycle everything

In my neck of the woods, recyclers only accept 1,2 and 6 when it comes to plastics. I have called the Recycled Resource Center and asked if they had intentions of including others in the future. I received no good news from the other end. I called back a couple weeks later and pushed them for a shredder and they said they would look into it. Probably a cost and effect issue. Haven't heard a thing back, "bout time to get on their tail again.

Where I live is Paper Company kingdom. I've seen first hand what paper can do to the environment not to mention the olfactory bulbs when you get in close proximity to a "paper pumper", phewey! Happy to say they are cleaning up their act and I too agree the day of frivolous paper use won't come too soon for me.


Sun, 01/20/2008 - 19:39

athena
Re: Recycle everything

My wife carts home blue box recycled items from her work.  That's everything that's not paper, so I get to put out up to 6 full boxes.

Paper recycling is still a problem for the industry.  Some gets used for cellulose insulation which is great stuff.  It has boxite added which makes it more fire resistant than fiberglass insulation and it plugs up air infiltration much better than the fiberglass which is no more effective at stopping air flow than a furnace filter.

The sludge left over from paper recyling contains a lot of dirty chemicals that finish up in land fill, so the real fix is to reduce paper period. 


Sat, 01/19/2008 - 19:51