Your Questions About Recycling

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Go for a drive recycle them at Michigan. There is not that much money in recycling cans do not expect to become rich doing it.
But Recycling a single aluminium drinks can conserves enough energy to run an average television for three hours.
If we were to recycle each of the 2 billion drinks cans used in the AUS every year, we would conserve enough energy for every single household in the AUS to watch over 2 and a half hours of TV per evening – that’s over 800 episodes per year!
Recycling would also remove 5 billion tins and 1.4 billion drinks cans from our landfill sites every year

The Expert answers:

Sure you can recycle the cans

but the Michigan ten cent deposit
makes them worth more than the aluminum scrap price

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I recycle everything that I can. I live in Northern Michigan and we don’t have recyclers for higher number plastics or colored glass. I save chemicals, prescriptions, poisons, batteries etc for our household hazardous waste day. I recycle all paper and cardboard, cans, 1 & 2 plastics and clear glass. My vegetable waste and yard waste are composted.

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You can recycle soda cans for cash. Price is down, but something is better than nothing. We live in a rural area and a semi comes every, I believe it’s Thursday, where people bring all soda cans for recycling for cash. However, this is only in the summer. Husband saves all soda cans until spring when the program begins again. He stores them in plastic bags in one of the trailers we have. Grand kids bank accounts keep going up even if it’s a little at a time. It all adds up. Some states will give you, I believe 5 cents per plastic soda bottles at the store you bought them from. I know Michigan does this. Don’t know what other states do this. It’s easy enough to find out were you can take soda cans and aluminum for recycling. Check the bottom of plastic drink bottles. It should tell you what states give you money for them. Money is money no matter how little. All adds up in the end.

I can’t for the life of me understand why people have to litter the sides of high ways with there drink bottles and/or soda cans when they can make a little money on them. Guess it’s called not thinking or caring or being just plain stupid. We are for ever finding trash bags thrown on the side of the back roads where we live. There just to cheap to take there garbage to the dump or pay to have it picked from there homes. They spend the money to pay for the soda a beer they drink, but are to cheap to pay for trash pick up. By the way beer cans go right along with soda cans for recycling.

The Expert answers:

HI is Hawaii and you can recycle the can for 5 cents there
same with ME =5 cents

But in MI, michigan you can get 10 cents per can

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To encourage recycling and reduce litter. And yes it works. In fact Michigan is looking into expanding the program to include the bottles and cans currently not covered by the bottle deposit laws, like water bottles and juice cans/bottles.

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You mention Barbie. If it’s a usable toy why not donate it to a charity? Got other plastics that are still useful but that you don’t need like storage bins; hard plastic, camping plates; Christmas tree; etc.? Check out Freecycle.org. At their site you’ll find a link to a Yahoo Group in your area where people post and request stuff they’d like for free. You’d be surprised at what’s trash to you is needed by others.

Once you’ve gotten rid of everything that route you can go to one of these sites to get rid of the rest: http://www.wm.com/SeachZipResults.asp?actionType=

Or look in your phone book for a responsible trash hauler who’ll pick up the stuff (for a fee) and haul it off for you.

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Toronto is recycling their trash into Michigan, 400 trucks a day, thanks, you can have this Governor back also.

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South Africa??? Michigan is the only state I know of with a 10c deposit on cans. ME has a 15c deposit on beverage containers with a higher percentage of alcohol than beer. I counted over 200 aluminum cans in a one mile stretch of road in WA once. When aluminum was up to 65c/lb. Many places were cleaned up, but now with it back to 20c/lb. They are piling up again.