Does your garbage collection service offer recycling, and do you use it?

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I recycle lots, though living in the country I have to take to recycling to the bins.... Note that in most of rural France, large rubbish bins are provided by the roadside, there is not door-to-door collection. I have bags by the kitchen waste bin for paper and cardboard, plastic and metal (yes, bizarre but that village bin is mixed! ) and glass; I also have a counter-top box for compostable materials.

Then, when we make a trip to go shopping, or go visiting or ..., I dump the bags in the back of the car, and we stop off at the village recycling point. Once a month, there is a skip (I think a dumpster in American) for large metal objects, like dead swivel chairs, ex-medicine cabinets, bedsteads..., but it is often filled with stuff that has little or no metal, like plastic garden tables. Printer ink cartridges and the few batteries (not many, we mostly use rechargeable ones) are recycled at the supermarket.

The rest should eventually go to the municipal dump outside the next bigger village/town. This would include builder's rubble and garden rubbish, but we do not have a suitably big and tough enough vehicle to move such stuff (sigh). Oh, Russcole says, why take the garden rubbish to the dump?

If it's too big or too woody to put in the compost heap, just burn it. Ah, but there is a real technical hitch here abouts - we are in a forest, an industrial forest of soaring pine trees. Fire of any sort (even a barbeque) is banned from March to October, and the rest of the year we have to get permission from the village mayor to light a fire.

If I could afford it, maybe a shredding machine would be good, but .... I recycled here, and I used to recycle when I was in the UK, which had various street collections, as well as bins at the supermarkets. I cannot imagine not doing it now. Sources: my life ^_^ salamanda's Recommendations Blue Recycling Box (5712-06BL) Amazon List Price: $23.29 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) 3 Bin Recycling Tower Trash and Recycling Bin with 3 Doors - Stainless Steel Amazon List Price: $99.99 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) .

Yes and Yes My municipality (Kansas City Missouri) has been doing curbside recycling for a couple of years now. They partially fund it by allowing a maximum of 2 bags of regular trash per pickup with extra bags costing $1 each. I use it pretty extensively as a lot of recyclable material comes through my house: junk mail, magazines, plastic bottles, plastic packaging (a lot of clamshell packages are recyclable #1 plastic), etc.I often have more in my recycling bin than in my regular trash.

If I composted organic material, I would have even less trash. One big plus is that no sorting needs to be done. Everything goes in the same bin and the sorting is left to the workers at the recycling center.

I have no doubt that extensive sorting required at my end of the deal would be an incentive not to bother, so I'm glad they do it this way. Some downsides to the curbside pickup include: a separate truck makes the rounds for the recycling, which is an increase in fuel use and the attendant fuel emissions. Since the recycling pickup is weekly like the trash, this is a doubling of big truck use which probably also has the unintended consequence of speeding up residential street decay by that factor (whatever it is).

Another downside is that they don't accept shredded paper or egg-carton type paper, and only #1 and #2 plastic can be recycled. That means no plastic shopping bags, for instance. I usually buy my eggs in #1 plastic cartons now.

Also no food-stained paper is allowed (pizza box cardboard or donut boxes don't go in the recycling). Also no glass, no doubt for safety reasons, which means I must collect glass separately and take it in myself..

Yes Yep, we recycle newspaper, magazines, cans, plastic and glass in my community. We recycle all of it. However, there is one container I do not recycle.

That is a peanut butter container (plastic). We have to rinse out the glass, cans and plastic and it just takes me too long to try and get that peanut butter container clean, so I just toss it out wit the regular garbage. I am surprised by how many neighbors do not seem to recycle because they never have it on the curb for pick-up.It is pretty easy to do and it isn't as if I have to drive to a recycling center to get it there, so why not do it.

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Local government picks up paper, bottles and cans, yard cleanup debris, and broken appliances; yes we use it. They provide a specially marked pickup bin (about the size of a trash can) for bottles and cans, which includes metal and plastic #1 and #2. Newspapers and cardboard need to be packaged for pickup; we use paper grocery bags to hold the newspapers.

Recycling pickup is on Wednesday, with paper or bottles and cans on alternate weeks. There is a monthly collection of brush and tree trimmings which the town uses to make compost; residents who bring a garbage pail to the composting site may fill it for no charge. Discarded appliances will be picked up on request; refrigerators doors must be removed before they are put out.

We also go to the landfill where they accept batteries and electronic equipment for recycling. Where we could do better: - We sometimes use brick pack juice instead of bottles for school lunch. We are aware that brick pack is devilishly designed to be a recycling nightmare: paper, plastic, and metal layered together and impossible to separate.(We have tried using a thermos and refilling it, but found it hard to prevent leaking.) .

Yes to both. Unfortunately, in our area we can actually recycle very little, but I figure some is better than none. We can only recycle numbers 1 & 2 plastic, cans, and paper.

We can't even recycle glass, which is bizarre. I do try to buy things in containers that recycle whenever I have a choice. That means plastic instead of glass now..

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