Poll: Do you recycle?

[excalipoor]

Around here we have different bins for glass, metal, paper, cardboard, burnable waste, and unrecyclables. As for bottles, we pay a deposit for each bottle of whatever, which we get back if we return the empty bottle to a store. I'm actually a little surprised that this isn't a thing everywhere.

Recycling is made so easy here, you'd have to be a massive bellend to not do it.

 

[mirage202]

Yes I do recycle.

Hounslow Council does not charge extra for the box, they do however fine you if you don't do it. No choice in short, it's mandatory.

 

[Kae]

I agree with everything you just said . I'm just a dick like that . And i only go to extra lengths to not do it only to annoy my enviromentalist friend for the lols . Yes i know i'm a terrible person .

Oh, OK, that's a rather blunt way of saying it.
Uh, well I guess there's no point on saying something else, though I don't mean to be rude, but you seem rather committed to bothering people, I'm really glad you're not my friend.

 

[somersetsaxon]

We get two boxes (which are technically meant to be for different things, but they sort both boxes themselves and it all goes in the same truck anyway) for paper and card, plastic bottles, glass and cans and foil. At one point they used to do shoes and clothing but they withdrew that because I guess not enough people were using it. We also get two composting bins for food waste, a small one for indoors and then a larger one to empty it into to go outside. If you're a keen gardener you can ask for a big green wheelie bin for garden waste which I believe is also provided free of charge. The main thing that I wish they recycled is a greater variety of plastic, but I know it can be difficult to keep plastic recycling cost effective enough.

 

[krazykidd]

I agree with everything you just said . I'm just a dick like that . And i only go to extra lengths to not do it only to annoy my enviromentalist friend for the lols . Yes i know i'm a terrible person .

Oh, OK, that's a rather blunt way of saying it.
Uh, well I guess there's no point on saying something else, though I don't mean to be rude, but you seem rather committed to bothering people, I'm really glad you're not my friend.

Again i perfectly agree . I myself am surprised at the bullshit people endure from me . My girlfriend ( the only person i am actually nice to) tell me all the time that she is surprised i have friends due to the way i treat them . Ironically , i'm am mean spirited to push people away since i am heavily asocial , but for some reason people still like me . I guess it's life's way of giving me a big middle finger by having people flock to me regardless of how i act .

You really don't want to be friends with me . Hell i wouldn't want to be friends with me .

There was this girl at work one day who was talking to me during my lunch break , no wanting to be rude i simply ignored her . She kept yapping on for about 15 about nothing until i told her " shut up you are boring me and you're annoying " . She then came closer and kept trying to talk to me . I then said " get away from me you are disgusting , ugly , and wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot pole "( i actually said that in those words ). She responded with a smile and kept on talking . I was dumbfounded . I apparently couldn't win that battle . I later found out she thought i was joking because no one would say something that mean .

I don't get people

Capcha; graveyard shift . How the hell did capcha know that i'm doing the graveyard shift and writting this at work

 

[TeletubbiesGolfGun]

yupp, try to recycle anytime i can without it being a HUGE hassle (i'm not gonna walk a block to toss my pop bottle in a recycling bin, sorry, the earth isn't going to implode because of my one bottle.)

about 90% of the time i recycle stuff when i should/can, so i'd say i do alright.

 

[Joccaren]

I'm pretty sure such bins are just supplied, at least in my suburb. Still blue lid for recycling, though our rubbish bins are yellow and probably half the volume.

And yeah, my family recycles. Got 2 bins inside designated for recycling, and one for rubbish, so its easier to just dump recyclable stuff in the recycling bin, and rubbish in the rubbish bin so you don't have to take the bag out to the actual bin quite so often.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I do when it's not much by way of extra effort. At home it's reasonably easy to set aside glass, tins, card and paper to go in a separate bin to normal household waste. It's lucky then that all recyclables can go into one bin, and we don't have to separate them as that's more effort than I'm willing to expend. I don't care about the environment enough to put in much time.

At work, they only recycle paper. Years ago, we took delivery of 70 new PCs, complete with monitors, keyboards and mice. We also got 120 VCRs. All of the equipment was destined to go to various points around the school I work at. Each item came in a cardboard box, that even flattened, filled an entire classroom wall to wall.

I called up the local council about taking it for recycling and they said they didn't offer the service. The company I was employed by were a business and didn't want to spend any money so the whole lot got skipped. It is a little unsettling to know that all that cardboard ended up in a landfill somewhere.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Nope . I purposely don't recycle . I don't believe in recycling . I have a friend who is an evironmentalist and this drives him nuts . I go out of my way to not recycle twice as hard when i'm with him.

How do you not "believe" in recycling?

 

[MetalMagpie]

Every house in my area gets two bins: a general waste one and a recycling one. There's no charge and they're both collected from the curb.

So yeah, I recycle because it's easy.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I don't... not because I dont want to, or can't be bothered, but because we only have normal bins here!

Also, all our paper at work gets shredded and ends up in special bins!

 

[Keoul]

Yeah I recycle.
Living in Australia the clever little government made the regular bins smaller than the recycling bins, thus we have to recycle or face horrific overflows. It's a bit of a hassle but it's only every fortnight (The garbage trucks change from organic garbage to recyclables weekly.) so it's not that bad.

 

[StBishop]

Recycling bins are mandatory where I live.

I don't really bother, but I will always recycle stuff when I'm walking about my uni campus, because our bins are set up in coloured and signed groups of three.

I use to when I lived with my parents, but it's honestly a hassle to separate shit, considering almost all of our rubbish is non recyclable.

 

[Denamic]

Some things shouldn't be recycled in the first place.
Recycling is not some kind of magic solution that is nothing but positive.
Glass is a good example. It's extremely cheap to make in raw resources. The biggest impact is the energy required to melt it. You need to melt recycled glass anyway, on top of the chemical cleaning it has to undergo before that, which is highly toxic.
Just making new glass impacts the environment less than recycling it.
Not to mention recycled glass is ugly and frail.

 

[WolfThomas]

Yes pretty much most of the time. What I can't stand though is people who don't wash cans before dumping them in the recycle. I've lived with people who do that. I'm pretty sure in Australia (but now I'm realizing I can't remember where I heard this) that if the cans have food matter not only will they not be recycled but anything contaminated with them won't be either. If I'm too lazy to wash it out it goes in the regular waste. Where they'd pick it out tut-tutting and throw it in the recycling, dooming the whole box.

Phew, I didn't make it up:
http://australianmuseum.net.au/its-not-rubbish

 

[TheCaptain]

Yes, it's included in my rent anyway. We get blue bags for paper, cardboard and the like as well as yellow bags for plastic, foil etc. Those are picked up once per week from the curb.

Most beverage bottles have a mandatory deposit of 8 to 25 cents, so I return them about once a week; the very few glass bottles go into a special bin that's about 200 meters from my place.

 

[Risingblade]

12 Bags of water bottles so far, I just need to find a day to recycle them! I also recycle cardboard and anything else I can. Save the earth! I sometimes give a few bags to homeless people too. They often search around for empty or loose cans.

or you could cash them in yourself and buy something

 

[Scarim Coral]

Most of the time like I keep scrap papers for notes and keeping hold of my plasti bottle that I've drank it all to the nearest recycle bin than the regular waste bin.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I used to up north. Where I used to live they would fine you if you didn't recycle and refuse to pick up your trash.

Now where I live you have to pay extra to recycle... wonder if its a southern thing.

 

[Evil Smurf]

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12 Bags of water bottles so far, I just need to find a day to recycle them! I also recycle cardboard and anything else I can. Save the earth! I sometimes give a few bags to homeless people too. They often search around for empty or loose cans.

Always, because I love the environment. I'd be vegan too if not for the fact I love eating lamb.