Your Questions About Recycling

Am I being forced to do too much chores?

I live in a house with 3 boys, and 3 adults. The kids are ages 9, 14 (me), and 15. We recently divided all the household chores, and I feel I do much more work than my brothers, yet I get paid the same as them ($25/month). We must do our chores everyday, right when we get home from school, before we can do anything else. The division of chores is as follows:

Me (14 yr old)
Dishes (6 people = two or more loads a day)
Clean Laundry Room (Sweep+Mop)
Clean dog poop in backyard (5 dogs = lots of poo lol)
Clean Living Room
Clean Bathroom (Sink+Mirror)

9 yr old
Empty recycle bin
Clean toilet (he put an automatic cleaner in, and was done for a week. Dx )
Mop upstairs (hall, living room, bedrooms)
Give dogs food + water

15 yr old
Take out trash
Collect dishes around house (very few)
Sweep kitchen
Move trashcans to end of driveway on Wednesday for garbage truck

I think this is too unfair for me to have to get time-consuming chores while they get very quick and easy ones. Do you agree?

I tried telling my parents, but they don’t listen to me. Do you have any suggestions on how I should tell my parents that this isn’t fair?
I am a boy too. Not a girl.

How do things get recycled now days?

Years ago I remember my parents getting a specific rubber trash can that was only to be used for recycling and a seperate truck would pick that up. That no longer happens. There is only trash day, no day for recycling and people use those old rubber recycling cans for their regular trash. How are bottles and cans being recycled now days? Does the trash company open the garbage bags and sort through them? There must be a new way that it is getting done because I see absolutely no one doing it and apt complexes no longer have specific recycling bins next to the trash bins, so what’s the deal?

analogies homework?

dont tell me i should do it on my own :I
its eleven o’ freaking clock in this place!

concert:hear::drama: (a. eyes, b. view, c. play, d. spectator)

repress:revolution::foster: (a. patriotism, b. encourage, c. fossil, d.tarnish)

meet:deadline::forego: (abstain, b. meeting, c.forewarn, d. temptation)

pencil:sharpen::garbage: (a. stinky, b. recycle, c. trash, d. truck)

throw:ceramics::weave: (a. mosaics, b. twine, c. tapestry, d. loom)

salute:flag::pedal: (a. flutter, b. bicycle, c. wares, d. brake)

fold:origami::slice: (a. knife, b. pare, c. thinly, d. cheese)

study:exam::pack: (a. test, b. unpack, c. vacation, d. package)

thank you very much if you help :]
now good night!

Is my two year old the only kid obsessed with the mail man?

It seems to be the highlight of his day. I do all these cool things with him and he’d rather watch the mail man or point out “man mail truck.” The mail man was sitting in his truck, organizing letters for the next stop and my son is throwing his hand up in the air, saying “Close it door, man mail! What he’s doin’ mommy? Close it door!”

Same thing with the garbage man or recycling guy. Who needs Spiderman when you have real life heroes, huh?
LOL lillilou… I didn’t even catch that. That was so sexist of me.

How can the “blue-bag” recycling program possibly work?

The blue bags with recyclables is thrown in the same truck as the regular garbage, and then it all gets crushed together. I’ve watched the garbage truck do this, and I know that the bags split open and burst when they are crushed inside the garbage truck. I’ve heard the bags popping and the sound of glass being crushed, and I asked our garbageman about it and he said that when they dump their load, everything is just a big stinky, slimy mess, and it’s impossible to separate anything. Plus who in their right mind would want that job?

a question about prison.?

i started thinking about something the other night when i was watching spngebob. it was a new episode. spongebob got on the wrong ship, it was a ship that transports prisoners. and when the got there the dude in charge said: it is my duty to deal with the trash that society has thrown away.” and spngebob said “i always prefer to recycle.” and that got me thinking. are prisons meant to change people for the better whn they get out like when you recycle or is it supposed to be like a place that garbage trucks bring all the trash, land fills is what i think they are called. so is prison meant for recycling the criminals or throwing them away for good? if you know what i mean.

What level of government is this?(Federal, provincial, municipal) (Canada)?

Read the following newspaper headlines. Indicate with level of government is most closely associated.

1. New recreation centre planned West end.
2. New stamps Honor War Heroes
3. Immigration to be reduced by 10%
4. Local Restaurant gets liquor license
5. GST may be repealed
6. Stray Animals becoming a problem
7. More snow removal trucks on the road this winter.
8. New two dollar coin to be introduced.
9. Garbage collection reduced to once weekly
10. Maintenance lagging on hydro reactors.
11. seniors dread cuts to social programs
12. Three new public libraries to be built this spring.
13. Air Canada decreases flights.
14. Drinking age may be raised to 21.
15. Sales tax stays at 8%
16. Potholes on side streets dangerous.
17. O.P.P. Double patrol on Q.E.W.
18. 30 credits to graduate from high school.
19. Conservative Party Leader Mike Harris elected premier.
20. Mel Lastman Voted first mega mayor.
21. Say no to drug legalization.
22. Mounties break smuggling rings.
23. Most Canadians want a return to capital punishment.
24. Recycling program expanded.
25. Health inspectors close restaurant.

Why does my husband blame me for everything?

Seriously I am beginning to wonder what planet he lives on. Last night we ran out of oil at 10pm which was, obviously, MY fault. ( Itake care of EVERYTHING around the house including the 2 kids. I manage the garbage (go to the dump, handle recycling), the cars, I rake the yard, mow the lawn and shovel the snow. I put an 8 FOOT christmas tree up with a 1 year old on my back while he sat in the room and stared at the TV! He does NOTHING NOT A THING NOT A FINGER does he lift around the house…is it too much to expect he can manage the FUEL since its in the BASEMENT where I do not often go with my 2 BABIES>??? NOT TO mention it is winter here in good ole New England so the next obvious attack was we are out of fuel because I use too much of it. (Seriously we have made 2 purchases this year for a one story ranch heats at 67 NOT OUTRAGEOUS! …He purchased a used truck last year that had transmission problems and linkage problems. I drove it 2 times. One of those times the shifter (steel) snapped. This is, too, MY FAULT because I am strong enough to snap steel I guess. Everything. If he takes a job he doesn’t like its MY fault if he stays at a job he doesn’t want it was MY fault. We have two kids and had some money set aside for this month. I purchased christmas gifts for the kids, his fam and made some cards. He bought a new phone and went out and went out and went out…but now its MY fault because the funds are low, I am draining him. (Seriously here I bought myself a pack of socks and 3 cups of coffee no white lying.) I can’t take it anymore. He acts like a pouting child. He is totally unappreciative of what I do and keepos piling on more and more for me in a day. I’m tired and aggravted. Any thoughts?
Just for the record it is not that I SPOIL or have SPOILED him…its that when the snow is piled up outside the door and he is clearly not making it home to get it done (bar) someone has to. I would say PICKED up his SLACK in place of SPOIL

To all environmentalist, what do you think of this suggestion?

It is very common nowadays the usage of 3 R’s, reduce, reuse, recycle. However, I honestly believe that not too many people really have put their hearts into doing them, except I guess for people who have really no options other than to really do them. For instance, where my mother-in-law lives, they have separate barrels for all recyclable things, such as plastics, cans, newspapers and so on….; but, where I live, it’s so sad to say that we don’t do those things. We just throw all our garbage in this big dumpster and there’ll be a truck that comes over once a week. I actually, called the place before and asked them if they have a program such as recycling, but then the lady said that they don’t; and when I asked where do these garbage goes, of course, as what I had expected, in the landfills.

I guess my point here really, is that no matter how much we advertise the 3 R’s, or even proclaim that going green is the new chic, a lot of people really won’t pay attention to them or say, won’t even care.

Now, what if, we make it like an incentive thing. We make it like a raffle, wherein, whoever has a 30 dollar bill or less of electricity (or water.. and so on..), can submit their bills to be entered in a raffle contest, in which, there’ll be 20 or even 50 winners who will be given free trips. So, what do you think of this suggestion?
alex – i know what you mean, but really think of it this way, what if, the trips will be around here in the US, the most beautiful places of course, and plus, if say for instance in a very small town, there’s 100 family who regularly would have a bill of 150 or 300 (out of just leaving the pc’s all night and so on…) and would like to participate in this drawing, really think of it, 100×150, that’s 15000 a month and they cut down on their bill to 30 by really making right conservation, that’s 3000. and this is only a 100 household in a very small town; how much more if it’s statewide, or better yet nationwide?
Ishtiaq – yah, we do that here too, but really, not too many people are interested on that. I am just suggesting an additional incentive program for the 3 R’s.