Your Questions About Recycling

I want to get my office to start recycling, how do I go about htis?

We use a lot of paper that usually gets thrown away and we also use a ton of soda cans. I cringe everytime I throw one away in the regular garbage and I wanted to make a suggestion at the next meeting about starting to recycle. I don’t know how I can go about this. Do I have to call a recycling center and get the proper containers and who do I call to pick them up or do we have to drop them off? I am in NYC (Chelsea area) are there any centers in the city? Any suggestions or ideas would be helpful, thanx!

Why don’t Celebrities set the example on environmental issues?

I wash my garbage to recycle containers like gooey peanut butter jars and greasy chili cans. I drive a compact car that is way to small for my bones. I combine errands into one trip per day so I can conserve fuel. My thermostat is at 67 in winter and 79 in summer. I added insulation to my attic, caulked inside and outside of windows and doors, installed compact flourescent light bulbs, use energy saving windowshades instead of pretty window treatments, and a host of other things. I’m not whining–I WANT to do my part.
Then I see our leaders and other celebrities in the news saying somebody ought to do something about pollution. Somebody else! They say there ought to be more laws to force me to do more. When the interview is over, they hop on a private jet to their next stop. Then they ride in one of their gas-hog vehicles to one of their THREE huge houses (all must be heated and cooled). Shouldn’t THEY be setting the EXAMPLE in their personal choices? Why don’t you suggest it to them

Is there such a thing as cleaning products with recyclable containers?

I know Seventh Generation’s containers are biodegradable, but it would be even better to have products with recyclable containers. I think the only plastics I can recycle are numbers 1&2. I cannot even recycle the boxes of laundry detergent because they are wax-covered.

I know that every piece of plastic that was ever created still exists today, and I hate throwing plastic in the garbage.

If not, what is the most environmentally friendly cleaning products I can get.

Thanks
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Recycling – Do you clean the items out first?

When you put your plastic milk jugs, plastic peanut butter jars, plastic ketchup containers, etc. into the recycle bin (to be picked up by the garbage people), do you rinse them out first? Are you supposed to just sort of rinse them out, or are you supposed to put them in the recycle bin completely clean?
btw, I do rinse out the milk jugs and other things, and sometimes I’ll even put the empty peanut butter jars in the dishwasher first. I just didn’t know if the recycling place just threw everything in something and that cleaned it out easily.

How does this intro sound for a research paper on recycling?

Did you ever hear anybody say this, “The world is going in the dumps!” or maybe this might be more familiar, “Clean up your room!” Now you’re probably wondering what do these two statements have in common. Right? Well when you clean your room, where do you put your garbage? Do you put it in a specific recycling container, or do you stuff it in the garbage can? The garbage that just gong to be thrown in a landfill to sit there and stink for many years?

I only have a few more sentences to write for the intro.

How do you get rid of “fruit flies”?

I returned from vacation 4 weeks ago, to a barrage of fruit flies. I have cleaned out every cupboard, the floors, counters, walls, etc. There was never any evidence of food anywhere, including garbage and recycling bins, which I emptied and washed out before I left to go away.
I have tried containers of cider vinegar, which capture them, but the following day a whole new batch has arrived. Any help would be appreciated.

Am I fooling myself by using the recycling bin?

Does separating “trash” and “recyclables” really help in a world where we use tremendous amounts of non-biodegradable stuff, single-serving plastic containers of designer water, etc.? or is recycling just a scam to make people feel better about the waste they create? Does anyone really believe that the giant truck that comes by once a week to pick up our barrel full of bottles, plastics, metals and so on will really cart this stuff off to a place where gentle hands will carefully analyze, separate, and re-use these items? I have my suspicions, since I see both the garbage and the recycling trucks turning into the same landfill entrance as I drive by in my SUV on my way to Starbucks each morning.

Recycling question, what can and can’t go in?

We recycle through the city, so there’s no separating involved or anything, they give us a bin and pick it all up. From the other questions I read it doesn’t look like it’s done this way everywhere, so I thought I’d put that in…but anyways
Can you only recycle things that have the symbol on it? There’s lots that I would assume can be recycled, like coffee cream containers, and the tins from frozen juice, my Timmies cups. I do rinse everything out, so yeah, does that symbol have to be on there? I would have a great deal less garbage if there was more that I could be recycling.

Does a glass container from the larger size Yankee Candle go in my recycle bin or garbage?

I know the things that go in the recycle bin are supposed to be clean of residue but the wax that’s left in the bottom is not gonna come out without a serious fight. So how am I “supposed to” dispose of it? The recycle bin or my regular garbage can?

NOTE: My town recycles by putting all recyclable items in one rectangular plastic bin that is provided by the town. I know all towns/states are different but in general what do you think the policy is? THANKS!
Ummm… I wasn’t really trying to find out how to get the wax out guys. Thanks anyway.

Does anyone know if I can put the jar in my RECYCLE BIN – with or without the wax???

Thanks!