YES. 1. I’m a bit of a hippy so it makes me feel warm & fuzzy inside. 2. My town makes it super easy by giving us recycling bins and sending a recycling truck on trash day at no extra charge.
Living in Michigan and having the 10 cent bottle deposit encourages everyone to recycle. Personally I am not someone who would go out of my way to recycle. If a recycle bin is nearby I’ll throw my bottle or can in, but it’s something that I don’t stress about.
Sure do!! Our city in Australia has a seperate rubbish bin for recycling and dedicated trucks that pick it up once every two weeks. My office building has recycling bins for paper, plastics, printer toner etc. Makes it very easy to recycle. We also compost for the garden and feed scaps to the chickens. All in Australia’s capital city in an urban environment. Makes sense to recycle.
Yeah man, separate the cardboard, plastic, and the aluminum. Of course it’s Korea so I have to. But when you have to separate food trash as well, recycling all the other stuff is a joy!
YES! I admit it is made easier by our town – they provide bags and a handy list of what they’ll accept. It’s reduced our household trash by at least half. And now Jadyn (age 5) actively looks for the recycle symbol and scolds anyone not putting recyclable items in the proper container!
We do most of the time. Here in California recycle bins are everywhere, so it makes it easier, but I admit that sometimes I hate the hassle of it because things pile up before we take the bottles & cans in ourselves. We could throw it all in the provided bins which are picked up weekly, but it is nice to get that crv back. Then of course this being California they want you to report any money received from recycling as income on your taxes so they can tax you again.
Like the previous Australian, I recycle heaps, food scrapes to the chickens, composting, grow some of our own vege. Recycle timber for other projects. I am currently building a retaining wall out of disused car tyres and rammed earth. It’s fun and creative (and hard work). Reuse or recycle, we can all do it.
Yes, we recycle. We used to have small recycle bin, big trash can. Slowly now, “small” ain’t big enough these days so our recycle bin has become a big trashcan as well.
Sort of. When I lived with my parents I was totally into it. I got out of the habit because my college didn’t recycle. Now I recycle jars, cans, and jugs because that recycle bin is clearly labeled. I don’t recycle paper or cardboard, even though I know I should. And sometimes when I don’t wash out a can right away and it’s gross the next day, I just trash it instead of scrubbing it clean.
Of course! We don’t have the greatest facilities here, but we do or best to recycle. I believe that we are all obligated to do our best to take care of the earth that God created!
We recycle aluminum pop cans. It’s something that my family & my hub’s family did & still does to this day so I guess we are learned it from them. I’ve always wanted to get into recycling more stuff, but our small town doesn’t make an effort to do that.
I never did growing up. My grandfather told me it was a conspiracy and “they” made money off of us recycling and that “they” sort it any ways. But now I do… the only deal is I still dont wash my trash. seems a little much
We don’t recycle, not really. Where we live we don’t even have trash pickup, much less pickup for recycling. It is just way too hard. I sell cans occasionally. I also coupon and I feel bad just throwing away all the newspapers I buy (6 a week) so that gets put in the separate bin at the dump. Other than that, it is just way too hard to recycle where I live.
I personally do not.
I’m totally fine with people who want to…now…when the government tells us we HAVE to that’s when i get irritated. Global warming does not happen because i put my coke can in the trash. IT should be a choice not something that the government mandates.
Recycling has little or nothing to do with global warming. It has to do with conservation of resources and avoiding filling a landfill even more. Look up where your trash goes sometime. I’m totally okay with government-mandated recycling–just like during World War II when rationing was enforced. When there is a crisis of resources or environmental quality, it’s important for everyone to do their part to care for our earth. It’s a lot more fragile than we think it is and we’ve abused it terribly.
I’m not ok with government mandating anything.
that’s not their job.
I’m all for taking care of the world we live in…i’m not saying trash the joint…but when the government tells me what is trash and what is not that is not freedom any longer. Just because a select few say “this is bad or that is bad” does not mean it is.
Don’t be sucked into Al Gore’s world that we’re having a “environmental crisis” because we’re not. There is a TON of proof that this is just a cycle and it has nothing to do with people driving SUV’s or throwing pop cans in the trash.
Just my thought…
PS i was a trash man for a year in college…i know what is in landfills…
I’m “forced” to at work. You should see the money they spent putting out all of these tall and skinny bins. At first they weren’t going to put liners in aluminum and plastic bins as a “cost saving measure”. Then someone with a brain told the paper pushers the idiocy of their idea. I was one of the smart people making tons of noise. If you’ve ever worked somewhere people threw away half full cokes, you understand. They even tried to take away our trash bins at our desks. I’ll just say that didn’t happen. People got PISSED, including myself.
I think buying recycled white paper is moronic. Sorry. If I made you mad, research what it takes to bring post-consumer content back to printer paper with 92 brightness.
I am completely for aluminum and glass recycling.
Stop buying plastic soda bottles. And bottled water.
yes. it is talked about a lot in the public school my boys attend and thus they lead the way on the effort in our house. We would even if the schools didn’t reinforce it, cause it just sounds selfish to think we can keep trashin the planet and expect God to be OK with that.
I think it’s the schools’ job to teach kids as much as possible that will educate them for the future. Including reading, math, science, social studies and matters that pertain to our environment. It doesn’t have to be an entire class on its own, but principles of recycling can easily be incorporated into many subjects.
We don’t recycle. Even if I cared to take the extra effort I have no idea where to start. I think you have to pay for separate recycling pickup around here.
Yes, but it’s not because I’m green and all about the environment. Our city gave us new trash cans and one is recycling and one is trash. The recycling on is so large compared to the trash one. I live with 5 other people, and we fill the trash up fast. Therefore, we have kind of been forced into recycling.
I do recycle, especially the paper from my classroom. Unfortunately, my school does not recycle and I live outside the city limits, so I have to bring my recycling to the monthly drop-off. I was throwing away so much paper (and juice/water bottles), though, that I just felt wasteful. Recycling is so simple and yet such an effective way to be good stewards of our resources (something we are called by God to do), that I can’t see any reason not to do it. I’m also trying to pass on to my students the habit of putting their papers and bottles in the recycling instead of in the trash. I feel that type of stewardship is an important and easy thing for them to learn.
Wow. I’m glad to see so many of your other readers also recycle. I am an adamant recyler and have been for over twenty years. I am very strong about caring for God’s gift to us in any way possible, although I’m not militant like some extremists.
I’m just the nutjob who tears the plastic windows out of envelopes and picks cans and bottles out of the trash if I see them. When I had a job, I would gather all the paper, cardboard, and such that I saw going to trash (not shredding, of course) and take it home to reycle since the business, for some strange reason, did not have a recycling program.
A local grocery store now has a dropoff for Lay’s potato chip bags (we have a plant here) that they recycle somehow. Yep. I do that.
I do it because I took a field trip to a sanitation plant when I was a child. One of the places we toured was a landfill. I’ll never forget this, but the tour guide told us if we didn’t stop being so wasteful, one day, we’d all be living on piles of trash. I can home and laid the guilt on thick to my mom about how we threw out things that don’t decompose. So she helped me start to recycle. That was 32 years ago. I recycled, when recycling wasn’t cool…all because of a drama queen tour guide
I don’t recycle as much as I should or would like to. However, i do think it is extremely important because whether or not we choose to recycle can have an adverse effect on people around the globe. http://www.youtube.com/storyofstuffproject#p/u/22/9GorqroigqM
We have to recycle.. our garbage all goes into clear garbage bags (they wont pick up black ones) and if they see recycling items in a clear bag, they wont take it.. all our recycling goes in a blue bin, and we have to sort it.. I love recycling.. I just hate that I have to sort.. I spend 15 minutes (or more) sorting through all my recycling.. because they wont take it if it isn’t sorted, and then when they pick it up, they just dump it all into the same spot on the truck.. it’s frustrating..
Most definitely! Have you seen those trash mountains? We even recycle at my school. I can’t believe how full my recycle bin is and how empty my garbage bin is. Makes you think.
I do. Though, I have just recently gotten in the habit. If anyone is looking to “recycle” their coupons and have them used to help victims of the tornados in AL, please take a look at this new initiative. http://www.couponsofcompassion.org Sorry for the shameless plug, but it’s a pretty awesome and easy way to help.
hellya we do, this is the Northwest, son! We recycle all kinds of stuff.It can be a pain without a system. You can go down to Ikea and get as persnickety as your heart desires.
Yup. There are much better things we could be doing with landfill space than filling it up with trash, and my city offers recycling pickup, so there’s no excuse not to. I don’t deface or fill up with junk the gifts that people give me, and it seems right to do the same thing with God’s gift of this planet.
I also save and reuse every piece of paper that has a blank side… but that’s more OCD than it is recycling.
I recycle aboyt 90% of the time- when I’m in a bad mood I don’t, something about throwing away a soup can is rebellious to me. Or when I’m lazy- rinsing stuff out can be a pain; but most of the time I pile the recyclables by the front door and after everyone else in the family has walked by them I take them out to the green bin outside
yes i do. cause America is pretty consumer driven when packaging and distributing stuff, which means we think of the consequences after the fact. I feel compelled to counteract that some how. Got told us to tend the garden. We ought to be doing this out of our love for Him.
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YES. 1. I’m a bit of a hippy so it makes me feel warm & fuzzy inside. 2. My town makes it super easy by giving us recycling bins and sending a recycling truck on trash day at no extra charge.
Living in Michigan and having the 10 cent bottle deposit encourages everyone to recycle. Personally I am not someone who would go out of my way to recycle. If a recycle bin is nearby I’ll throw my bottle or can in, but it’s something that I don’t stress about.
Yes.
We’re forced to by our council. The “general waste” bin they provide us with is half the size of the recycling in they provide us with.
We have one general rubbish bin, one BIG bin for general recycling (paper, cans, bottles, etc), and another for green waste (garden etc).
Where I grew up, we were paid for recycling cans and drink containers. At that time it was only 5c per can/carton. Now it’s 10c per can/carton.
Plus, I think it’s poor stewardship not to recycle.
Absolutely! It helps that the city (Omaha) makes it very easy. Free bin and weekly pickup.
Sure do!! Our city in Australia has a seperate rubbish bin for recycling and dedicated trucks that pick it up once every two weeks. My office building has recycling bins for paper, plastics, printer toner etc. Makes it very easy to recycle. We also compost for the garden and feed scaps to the chickens. All in Australia’s capital city in an urban environment. Makes sense to recycle.
Yeah man, separate the cardboard, plastic, and the aluminum. Of course it’s Korea so I have to. But when you have to separate food trash as well, recycling all the other stuff is a joy!
YES! I admit it is made easier by our town – they provide bags and a handy list of what they’ll accept. It’s reduced our household trash by at least half. And now Jadyn (age 5) actively looks for the recycle symbol and scolds anyone not putting recyclable items in the proper container!
AND, once upon a time, I worked for the Sierra Club. #LittleKnownFact
We do most of the time. Here in California recycle bins are everywhere, so it makes it easier, but I admit that sometimes I hate the hassle of it because things pile up before we take the bottles & cans in ourselves. We could throw it all in the provided bins which are picked up weekly, but it is nice to get that crv back. Then of course this being California they want you to report any money received from recycling as income on your taxes so they can tax you again.
taxing on “recycling income?” That’s whack.
Like the previous Australian, I recycle heaps, food scrapes to the chickens, composting, grow some of our own vege. Recycle timber for other projects. I am currently building a retaining wall out of disused car tyres and rammed earth. It’s fun and creative (and hard work). Reuse or recycle, we can all do it.
Yes, we recycle. We used to have small recycle bin, big trash can. Slowly now, “small” ain’t big enough these days so our recycle bin has become a big trashcan as well.
Sort of. When I lived with my parents I was totally into it. I got out of the habit because my college didn’t recycle. Now I recycle jars, cans, and jugs because that recycle bin is clearly labeled. I don’t recycle paper or cardboard, even though I know I should. And sometimes when I don’t wash out a can right away and it’s gross the next day, I just trash it instead of scrubbing it clean.
Of course! We don’t have the greatest facilities here, but we do or best to recycle. I believe that we are all obligated to do our best to take care of the earth that God created!
We recycle aluminum pop cans. It’s something that my family & my hub’s family did & still does to this day so I guess we are learned it from them. I’ve always wanted to get into recycling more stuff, but our small town doesn’t make an effort to do that.
I know it’s good for the world and all that…but no.
I never did growing up. My grandfather told me it was a conspiracy and “they” made money off of us recycling and that “they” sort it any ways. But now I do… the only deal is I still dont wash my trash. seems a little much
We don’t recycle, not really. Where we live we don’t even have trash pickup, much less pickup for recycling. It is just way too hard. I sell cans occasionally. I also coupon and I feel bad just throwing away all the newspapers I buy (6 a week) so that gets put in the separate bin at the dump. Other than that, it is just way too hard to recycle where I live.
Choose not to recycle in Oregon? You might just find yourself on the street curb, stuffed in your neighbor’s oversized yellow bin.
I personally do not.
I’m totally fine with people who want to…now…when the government tells us we HAVE to that’s when i get irritated. Global warming does not happen because i put my coke can in the trash. IT should be a choice not something that the government mandates.
Recycling has little or nothing to do with global warming. It has to do with conservation of resources and avoiding filling a landfill even more. Look up where your trash goes sometime. I’m totally okay with government-mandated recycling–just like during World War II when rationing was enforced. When there is a crisis of resources or environmental quality, it’s important for everyone to do their part to care for our earth. It’s a lot more fragile than we think it is and we’ve abused it terribly.
I’m not ok with government mandating anything.
that’s not their job.
I’m all for taking care of the world we live in…i’m not saying trash the joint…but when the government tells me what is trash and what is not that is not freedom any longer. Just because a select few say “this is bad or that is bad” does not mean it is.
Don’t be sucked into Al Gore’s world that we’re having a “environmental crisis” because we’re not. There is a TON of proof that this is just a cycle and it has nothing to do with people driving SUV’s or throwing pop cans in the trash.
Just my thought…
PS i was a trash man for a year in college…i know what is in landfills…
I dont, too lazy i guess.
I’m “forced” to at work. You should see the money they spent putting out all of these tall and skinny bins. At first they weren’t going to put liners in aluminum and plastic bins as a “cost saving measure”. Then someone with a brain told the paper pushers the idiocy of their idea. I was one of the smart people making tons of noise. If you’ve ever worked somewhere people threw away half full cokes, you understand. They even tried to take away our trash bins at our desks. I’ll just say that didn’t happen. People got PISSED, including myself.
I think buying recycled white paper is moronic. Sorry. If I made you mad, research what it takes to bring post-consumer content back to printer paper with 92 brightness.
I am completely for aluminum and glass recycling.
Stop buying plastic soda bottles. And bottled water.
i would put my stuff in the trash can just because.
i can’t stand folks to “force” other people to feel like they have to do the green thing.
STUPID!
yes. it is talked about a lot in the public school my boys attend and thus they lead the way on the effort in our house. We would even if the schools didn’t reinforce it, cause it just sounds selfish to think we can keep trashin the planet and expect God to be OK with that.
is it REALLY the schools JOB to teach our kids about recycling?
I think it’s the schools’ job to teach kids as much as possible that will educate them for the future. Including reading, math, science, social studies and matters that pertain to our environment. It doesn’t have to be an entire class on its own, but principles of recycling can easily be incorporated into many subjects.
We don’t recycle. Even if I cared to take the extra effort I have no idea where to start. I think you have to pay for separate recycling pickup around here.
Yes, but it’s not because I’m green and all about the environment. Our city gave us new trash cans and one is recycling and one is trash. The recycling on is so large compared to the trash one. I live with 5 other people, and we fill the trash up fast. Therefore, we have kind of been forced into recycling.
Yes, because my wifey makes me do it…
I do recycle, especially the paper from my classroom. Unfortunately, my school does not recycle and I live outside the city limits, so I have to bring my recycling to the monthly drop-off. I was throwing away so much paper (and juice/water bottles), though, that I just felt wasteful. Recycling is so simple and yet such an effective way to be good stewards of our resources (something we are called by God to do), that I can’t see any reason not to do it. I’m also trying to pass on to my students the habit of putting their papers and bottles in the recycling instead of in the trash. I feel that type of stewardship is an important and easy thing for them to learn.
Wow. I’m glad to see so many of your other readers also recycle. I am an adamant recyler and have been for over twenty years. I am very strong about caring for God’s gift to us in any way possible, although I’m not militant like some extremists.
I’m just the nutjob who tears the plastic windows out of envelopes and picks cans and bottles out of the trash if I see them. When I had a job, I would gather all the paper, cardboard, and such that I saw going to trash (not shredding, of course) and take it home to reycle since the business, for some strange reason, did not have a recycling program.
A local grocery store now has a dropoff for Lay’s potato chip bags (we have a plant here) that they recycle somehow. Yep. I do that.
There are times my wife has to restrain me.
Ugh. I’m also an OCD perfectionist with an English degree, and I am ashamed at my typos in the above post.
Nope. It’s all going to burn anyway.
Yes! And I judge those who don’t…
Just kidding
I do it because I took a field trip to a sanitation plant when I was a child. One of the places we toured was a landfill. I’ll never forget this, but the tour guide told us if we didn’t stop being so wasteful, one day, we’d all be living on piles of trash. I can home and laid the guilt on thick to my mom about how we threw out things that don’t decompose. So she helped me start to recycle. That was 32 years ago. I recycled, when recycling wasn’t cool…all because of a drama queen tour guide
yes, my town provides bins for each resident and has a special pickup day so I really wouldn’t have an excuse.
I don’t recycle as much as I should or would like to. However, i do think it is extremely important because whether or not we choose to recycle can have an adverse effect on people around the globe.
http://www.youtube.com/storyofstuffproject#p/u/22/9GorqroigqM
We have to recycle.. our garbage all goes into clear garbage bags (they wont pick up black ones) and if they see recycling items in a clear bag, they wont take it.. all our recycling goes in a blue bin, and we have to sort it.. I love recycling.. I just hate that I have to sort.. I spend 15 minutes (or more) sorting through all my recycling.. because they wont take it if it isn’t sorted, and then when they pick it up, they just dump it all into the same spot on the truck.. it’s frustrating..
Most definitely! Have you seen those trash mountains? We even recycle at my school. I can’t believe how full my recycle bin is and how empty my garbage bin is. Makes you think.
I do. Though, I have just recently gotten in the habit. If anyone is looking to “recycle” their coupons and have them used to help victims of the tornados in AL, please take a look at this new initiative. http://www.couponsofcompassion.org Sorry for the shameless plug, but it’s a pretty awesome and easy way to help.
I would if our town let us. They don’t really have any recycling services, so we don’t. I wish we could though.
hellya we do, this is the Northwest, son! We recycle all kinds of stuff.It can be a pain without a system. You can go down to Ikea and get as persnickety as your heart desires.
Yep, we’ve recycled for many, many, years. I really thought everyone recycles!
Most definitely we recycle. Why do I do it? Because I think that it’s a bi-product of a relationship with God.
–these posts from my blog illustrate my point–
http://aprilemery.blogspot.com/2011/02/can-christian-be-christian-and.html
and
http://aprilemery.blogspot.com/2011/03/missing-piece.html
Yup. There are much better things we could be doing with landfill space than filling it up with trash, and my city offers recycling pickup, so there’s no excuse not to. I don’t deface or fill up with junk the gifts that people give me, and it seems right to do the same thing with God’s gift of this planet.
I also save and reuse every piece of paper that has a blank side… but that’s more OCD than it is recycling.
Yes.
My husband makes me. He chases me around with plastic bottles if I don’t throw them in the recycle bin.
Nope. The world is all about balance – I have to be the balance to all the people who do recycle. Plus I just think it’s a dumb idea…
I recycle aboyt 90% of the time- when I’m in a bad mood I don’t, something about throwing away a soup can is rebellious to me. Or when I’m lazy- rinsing stuff out can be a pain; but most of the time I pile the recyclables by the front door and after everyone else in the family has walked by them I take them out to the green bin outside
yes i do. cause America is pretty consumer driven when packaging and distributing stuff, which means we think of the consequences after the fact. I feel compelled to counteract that some how. Got told us to tend the garden. We ought to be doing this out of our love for Him.