Your Questions About Recycling

Do you think we should make recycling the only option?

We could just have the garbage trucks drive our trash to a recycling center instead of a land fill.

What happens to all the garbage once the truck picks it up?

I’ve always wondered if there are people going through our garbage once it’s dumped out of the trash-truck. Do they have little homles guys looking for stuff or do they actually have paid people going through trying to separate whatever people couldnt recycle like plastics, aluminum and paper. I figure it’d be a very nasty job… And what about people throwing needles and sharp objects inthere, arent these workers at a greater risk of desease ? please help me understand… thanks

Why didn’t Al Gore start a National recycling program when he was VP?

I have always wondered why he didn’t attempt to model something after (for example) what Germany has. They have different trucks come around for different ‘garbage‘. Yellow is for regular recyclables; plastics and cans, brown is compost, black is rubbish, blue is for paper, and then there are separate things for glass and for batteries.

Why, instead of trying to ‘raise awareness’ for global warning, do we not just get a national recycling program and be done with it?

My Town Passed a Recycling Law?

My town passed this thing, I don’t know what it is called.

It’s where you have to mark your bags with your house number and address or else they wont pick it up. And then they take it and they actually open up the garbage and if they find a lot of recycable stuff, you’ll get fined.

That is why they are sending out the recycling trucks every week and have the recycling center opened another day.

Isn’t that great?
Do you think more towns should do this?
Plus it could create more jobs if you think about it…

Btw…it convinced my family to start recycling. Over the weekend we bought 3 more garbage cans to put our recycable stuff in.
New Jersey

Someone stole my garbage can?

This morning the garbage truck came to collect the waste inside the garbage can, like usual. But when I went out about 2 hours later I found out that the garbage can was gone and there was only the recycling bin left… What should I do? Call the recycling company?

I have a random question that has to do with garbage pickup?

I live in Sylvania Township, Ohio which is located in Lucas county Ohio. Toledo is a nearby city and both are near Lake Erie. I put my garbage out every Monday night because it gets picked up on Tuesday. How come when garbage day rolls around I see two different garbage trucks by two different companies picking up garbage on our street? One is BFI…which is the garbage company that picks up my garbage… and the other is something like Allied Waste Services. I am not positive if the 2nd one I named is correctly named. I know that the City of Toledo, Ohio has garbage days that continously change when the holidays come. The mayor of Toledo has everybody in Toledo on a rotating garbage day cycle I know this becuase my grandma and my uncle live in Toledo. But I live in Sylvania Township and I would think the fact I live in Sylvania and not in Toledo would make it so that it shouldn’t affect anybody on our street. My whole street is considered Sylvania Township…I know this because I’ve done the March of Dimes mailing services which required me to drop off envelopes asking for a donation to the mailboxes on my street. There also aren’t any recycling boxes that my neighbors have put out with their trash so I know thats not the reason. Unlike Toledo, Ohio we do not get recycling services with our trash collection. We have to drive to a Krogers and go to the big recycling bins to empty our recycling. So I am just wondering why other people have a different garbage company that picks up their garbage? Its probably not that big of a deal…I am just curious.

What is the difference in recycling process between two (or more) collection type(s)?

Okay, a bit clarification:
I am sorry if it is a silly or confusing question, however I can’t understand:

There are some people who deliver their aluminum cans/plastic bottles, for instance, to the collection centers with or without vending machines and get paid, say, 5 cents/piece. (In this case people get some money back and the materials such as aluminum and plastic are easily separated)

In opposite way, others pay money for the garbage trucks to pick up their household waste and recyclables by the curbside, where the press in the truck jams everything equally at the same time. (In this case people pay money, but different recyclable materials are mixed and pressed together in a garbage truck)

So the question is: If, eventually, in both cases, let’s say, aluminum is melt and used to make soda cans again, what are the differences (i.e. what are the steps) in those two recycling processes, when materials are initially separated by class, and when two or more of the recyclable materials are pressed/contained in garbage trucks?

I highly appreciate any effort to answer my question. Thanks.

I want to start recycling bottles and plastic…etc etc how do i do it?

I want to purchase a recycling can and start recycling plastic, glass..etc etc

I believe in my neighborhood ( i live in Alexandria, VA btw) the garbage truck comes once a week for recycling.

do i need to buy just 1 recycling can? and what can I put in it?

plastic bottles (ex..water bottles, or a gallon of milk), glass (ex.. coca cola glass bottle or beer bottle),

or do I need separate cans for glass and plastic and maybe even paper??

please help me.

what about cardboard?

can you put cardboard, paper, plastic, glass all in the same recycling can?? and if there is anything I left out, please let me know.

ps: do I put the items I want to recycle (…plastic, glass etc etc) in a garbage bag and then throw it out just like I would with my thrash?

What are the pros and cons (especially cons) of mandatory cubside recycling?

We are doing a bill for debate. Most people say that recycling is good. It has many benefits but it is bad also. I have found some research sites such as http://julesmay.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/why-recycling-is-bad-for-the-environment/. I thought this was a good site. Pros are accepted as well. Just any sites that will help any side (especially con) for debate. Also, how much does it cost for garbage trucks to do a routine?