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That depends on the recycler is, there is no set price, and many of the recyclers are no longer taking glass.
In most places, they pay a little over $1 for aluminum.

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Try a supermarket… Price chopper, times union…

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Plastic bottles might be hard, unless you have tons of them, but I expect any scrap metal dealer would give you money for aluminum cans.

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Simsmetal

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There are lost of vendors who can buy used plastic bottles, cans, bags, and so on in many Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanks, and Bangladesh. However, I’m not very sure about it in Lithonia.

But I believe that you can definitely find someone in your country too! The following articles would help you make cash from used plastic products!

Http://www.ehow.com/how_4405893_cans-plastic-bottles-earn-cash.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?Getting-Paid-to-Recycle-Plastic-Bottles-Instead-of-Throwing-Them-in-Landfills&id=1244299

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Aluminium cans in Sudbury were I live gets you around 75 cents per pound these days doesn’t matter if they are crushed or left alone you will get more in the bag if they are crushed and they will take up less room while you grow your stash.Look around for old gas BBQ’s take the tops and bottoms they are made of cast aluminium and go for about $15.00 for the pair.Look in the yellow pages under scrap metal dealers and ask the going prices it may vary from dealer to dealer

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See website: http://64.78.36.115/index.asp
Recyling Pays.
Phila.Gov

http://www.thecityofphiladelphia.com/recycling/index.html

Hope this helps!

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Aluminum Recycling Cash near Solon – Local Results

* Wall Street Recycling – (330) 296-8657 – 6751 Wall St, Ravenna, OH – 17.37mi – map
* Honest Scales Recycling – (440) 632-3083 – 15535 Burton Windsor Rd, Middlefield, OH – 19.39mi – map
* D & L Recycling LLC – (330) 225-7507 – 708 Marks Rd, Valley City, OH – 24.63mi

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Aluminum+recycling+for+cash+in+solon%2C+ohio&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

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If your state does not have a deposit law- don’t waste time, space or energy with plastic- no one is buying it in small quantities- you need railcars of it, and even then you count yourself lucky to cover your fuel expense- but not the labor or resources. Plastics recycling is an example of social engineering- there is little demand for it currently, and many plastics cannot be recycled even.

Aluminum cans on the other hand- there is a market worth money there. Anything metal can be recycled for money. Some of it more easily than others.

Other than your picking up more cans along the road, not much more you can do than cut back on things. Sell off the game console, scale back the cell phone when the contract is up for renewall, drop satellite TV or Cable- cut the things that are easy to cut. Stop buying water in the little bottles- get the gallon jugs of purified water that you can refill.

And start making your own food from scratch will save you a ton of money in and of itself. I am not talking the frozen prepared stuff, I am talking about use the web to find some actual pizza recipes where you make the dough, and spread it in the pan add sauce and toppings, even make your own sauce. Buy meat in bulk- but get good quality organic- it will cost you more, but you will know what is not in it if you do some research to see what residues are allowed into your processed foods that are not Tilth http://tilth.org certified Organic.

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I can not speak for your area, but here in my area I take them to a metal recycler.

They pay for monitors, power supplies and other items by the pound.

These items have a lot of metals in them including gold (gold is at nearly $1,000.00 per ounce) and the recyclers want the metal to reclaim and sell to third world countries and China.

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Where I live, you have to pay money to get electronics recycled.

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Yes there is.

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Sharpie

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Check your city website or go to city hall and ask. They will know for sure.

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I actually work for an electronics recycling company in California so let me explain why they ask this.

Recylers in California are paid to recycle electronics with a screen larger than 4 inches–if you have purchased one of these electronics in California after 2005, you were charged a fee to cover these costs.

Now California requires recyclers to keep careful records to get paid. This includes a phone number and an address– so the state can verify details if necessary. Any legitimate recycler in the state will ask for this information.

I don’t know what company your form is from, so I can’t say for sure whether it’s a scam. However, it could easily be legitimate. My company, All Green Electronics Recycling (http://allgreenrecycling.com), does door-to-door events like this–so if it’s us, you’re safe! You can even check out our CalRecycle ID and EPA ID on our website if you’d like to verify matters. If it wasn’t us, we do recycle electronics for free all over the state so you should still check us out if you’d like to recycle something.

I hope this helped! I wasn’t trying to sound like an advertisement there at the end, but I just answered with what I know.

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Try the checking out the EPA website to see what materials requires material safety data sheet or MSDS and special handling. You can look up MSDS by product and part number. The original maufactuer is a good place as well they can assist in by telling you what they deem worth recycling and they are a source of MSDS information as well.

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Mercury poisoning

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Only if you ask and they say yes and they just might ! Otherwise you are stealing and they could have you arrested . Thrift stores carry both and sell really cheap .

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Good for you to nudge the complex.
As to recycling, call the garbage company and ask them.
Find a recycling co. Prices for aluminum are HIGH, and very profitable.
Good luck.

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The recycle bin is usually a function of the Windows Mobile operating system. If there’s something that you don’t want on your phone and it DOESN’T have a Windows OS or a recycle bin, just delete the file. Just be sure you KNOW what you’re deleting, so that you don’t screw up the operating system.

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Well if you are just talking about police action and not safety or anything else. Then the act you describe is illegal since it is theft. The items belong to the company or entity who own the bins. The law is different then regular trash.

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You can go to your local cities website and get information on where to purchase them. In my city they are $6.00. Or maybe even call the city ask ask for information about the bins. Glad to know that you are reclying and taking interest, keep it up!

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This site has over a million products, feel free to bookmark it for future use..

Http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_hpc?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=recycle+bins&x=7&y=21

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Look in your phone book for a local recycling center. I hope there’s one not too far away. My daughter lives in a small town with no recycling too, but having come from a state/county that has a great recycling program, she couldn’t stand sending all that recyclable stuff away to a landfill. She found a recycling center in her town and she just bags her things separately — glass, plastic, paper/cardboard — and drops it off when she has full bags. Sadly, her friends and neighbors think she’s crazy, they don’t get it. :o( Recycling should be mandatory — everywhere.

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Well, you can just make your own.

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Open Personalization by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Personalization.
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In the left pane, click Change desktop icons, and then do one of the following:
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To remove the Recycle Bin from the desktop, clear the Recycle Bin check box.
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To display the Recycle Bin on the desktop, select the Recycle Bin check box.
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Click OK.

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Some cities have laws against it…….others do not

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Why do you do it? The recycling plant will crush all the glass and heat it in a furnace. Any labels will simply burn away. The same goes for steel cans. Aluminium cans generally have no labels. In countries with well established infrastructure many containers are designed for recycling so paper based containers will have paper labels and plastics based ones will have plastic labels.

If this is a requirement imposed on you by the local garbage collection system you should campaign to have it changed (or at least mention it to someone).

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Bio Diesel will run in a diesel engine. If your “ordinary” car is has a petrol engine then your first step would be to remove the engine and install a diesel. Then you would modify the fuel delivery system to maintain warm fuel, preheat the fuel, or mix the fuel with regular diesel. This might involve a duel fuel tank arrangement.

Converting waste vegetable oil (WVO) into bio diesel can be done in many ways but the most common is a chemical process called transesterification. There are many demonstrations of the process on the web and You tube. Some people will simply filter WVO and use that in a diesel engine but the possibility of engine damage seems to increase. Http://www.grist.org/article/umbra-bdvssvo/

A closed container can be used to “digest” food scraps and will produce another bio fuel, methane. This is the primary component of natural gas. Petrol engines can be converted to run on natural gas. In the US this must be done by qualified mechanics and will cost from 12 to $18,000. Your prices may vary. Http://www.greencar.com/articles/can-convert-natural-gas.php

Methane can be converted to methanol. Http://www.physorg.com/news177164574.html This is an alcohol like ethanol. A petrol engine can be converted to run on alcohol. The process first involves safeguarding the fuel from attacking rubber parts in the fuel system: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_drane.html

All of this is a long way from “having a container,” so you should carefully consider what is available to you, your options, and your ultimate goals. While a great deal of work and expense may be involved you may find the results very satisfying as well.

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If you live near a New Seasons grocery store, then you will find that they have a place where you can recycle any plastic containers with certain number one them (2,4,5,etc.). There are other places too. If you go onto your local recycling company website, they should have names and numbers of places you can recycle certain items. Hope this helps!

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We have a good recycling system in West Sussex.We have a large blue bin which is collected once a fortnight,anyone with larger families can ask for a bigger one.These take glass, paper, cardboard,tins and aluminium cans ,and some plastics.There are clothes banks in various places including the local amenity tip.We also get lots of charity bags through the letter box which are collected so we do seem to be better off re-cycling wise than you.Perhaps you should ask your local councillors to have a word with ours.!

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Put your own recycling bin at the place you work see who uses it and then you will see if people care or not to do so, then suggest it to your boss.

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By “soda containers” are you talking about aluminum cans or plastic bottles? There’s a big difference in price between the two.

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They sell them at most office supply stores…like Office Max or Staples…call up a store near you to see if they have them in stock or just go and see…if not, they can order them for you.
Http://www.staples.com/Rubbermaid-Recycling-Container/product_266429?cmArea=FEATURED:SC1:CG8:DP1490

Home Depot also has them…
Http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?keyword=recycling%2Bbin&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Or…you can also just buy them online & have them shipped to your house…check out this website:
http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/find?keywords=Recycling&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&department=Jansan&gclid=CKqg7r38xZ4CFVw55QodUi_Nrw

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My grandma would boil them and re-use them for canning. I’ll sometimes use them or plastic containers to pot houseplants in. They also work great for growing sweet potatoe starts and make good coin jars. Some of the jars will have handles on them and I’ll use them for drinking glasses. Some of the smaller ones work good for storing screws, nuts, bolts and other small hardware in.

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Here’s a list:
http://www.wm.com/wm/services/RecyclableItems.pdf
(It’s a PDF)

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Have her on a leash and the second she makes a bark stand up and take her either downstairs or in a room where no one is untill she calms down then take her back up. Kepp repeating this and she will soon understand.

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The bags are left unopened and are just dumped in to a pile and left. After a while when the dump gets too messy, they will plow ground over the piles to cover the garbage and level it out. They don’t know whats in the bags nor do they care or check its all taken straight to the dump and dropped off. However some dumps do burn some of the garbage in huge incinerators but its not too common anymore to burn it because of all the smoke polluting the air. Take a trip to the dump if you’d like to see for yourself. Its pretty gross.

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Unfortunately pick-ups like you describe are still common. The blue bags are a great idea but if the collection service (private or public) is not seperating the bags then the resident is merely adding blue color to the compactor contents. I have never heard of anywhere that would attempt to hand seperate trash after it is compacted. Where I previously lived the trash was compacted just as in your area. Everything there got compacted together with no attempt to utilize a recyle plan regardless of the choice of curb side bags.
However in my current town the pick-ups have a regular trash day and a second pick-up day for recyclables. On the second pick-up day the materials are required to be pre-seperated by residents into two catagories of compactable trash and recycle trash. Recycle trash is required to be further seperated into catagories of (1.) glass, (2.) newspapers, (3.) cardboard and (4.) plastic bottles and left at curbside in seperate crates away from the compactable trash. The contents of the crates are hand dumped by city workers into collection trucks that are not regular trash compactor trucks.
Regular trash collection is weekly and recycle day is once every two weeks and is always on a regular trash day so as to avoid the hassle of placing trash at curb twice in one week.

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Personally, I would love it, but its just not workable. The truth is that alot of recycling plans don’t work very well. Even though you save landfill space by recycling, there are some big energy costs to actually cleaning the stuff and recycling it. Sometimes, its a zero sum game. If everyone would bring their items to a plant, we would probably come out ahead. If you have to have different garbage trucks and crews and plants, you start using up more energy than you are saving. Its really a more complex issue than it appears. Lots of places that started recycling programs in the 80’s have actually gone the other way and discontinued their programs.

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Yes I agree 100%!! I am more into environmental issues such as cloth shopping bags, Plastic 6 pack rings,cans, glass, metal ect. It is coming soon!!

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They get taken to a recycling center, where things are separated and sold to companies that re-use the products, i.e. Paper mills, steel industry, etc.

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That’s what gift wrap paper is for.

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Tetanus and infection are 2 different things and the person to ask is your doctor.
Http://www.vaccineinformation.org/tetanus/qandavax.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus

And it does not need to be a rusty item that cuts you.

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Recycling

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Go to phone book, on line or the real book, look under “recycling” or “recycling center” it should be there.

Recycling Center near New Orleans

Nature’s Best Organics
(225) 752-1488 – New Orleans, LA

Airline Salvage Incorporated
(504) 737-1100 – 6900 Airline Dr, Metairie, LA

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Use your phone, and call your local Government. They should be able to tell you. If they can not then call your State Government.

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Lets say gas is 3.00 and bottle is .05 cents.
You say you use .2 a gallon of gas for the trip.
Thats .60 cents for the trip.
You get back .05 cents, spending .55 cents total.

So you would need to recycle 12 bottles at one time to make energy use even out, but recycle more then 12 bottles at one time and you will be saving energy. If you recycle less then 12 bottles at one time, your using more energy then saving. So save up the bottles and recycle more at a time to save energy. Hope I helped.

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Look in the phone book under recycling or aluminum. Find the closest to you. Hope that helps.

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I think you did the right thing. You are absolutely right – in the eyes of God it would be putting evil into the hands of others. When I first became a Christian, I gave away ungodly things, and since then it has been on my conscience. Discarding of past/evil things that isn’t pleasing to God is most definitely not wasteful, and if it’s money you need, pray about it, and one way or another God will provide the things you need whether it be monetarily or of some other means. God Bless You.

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Go down 50 towards the racetrack. Before the track on he right hand side is at least two scrap yards ( not the junk yards those are for autos).

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Check out this site

http://earth911.com/recycling/

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Just liter, who cares

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When entering the address in the website of “Net Brussel” (http://www.netbrussel.be/Content/WebLouis/default.aspx?BulleOnly=1&Street=Grote+Markt&Zip=1000&City=Brussel+1) if found that there really aren’t a lot of “bottle banks” near you. You can check it out yourself (see below). Interesting words to know are : Grand place = grote markt and bottle bank = glasbol.
Apparently the paper gets collected once a week in yellow bags. These yellow bags can be bought at the same place where you buy the official garbage bags.
Keep an eye on the street to know when they collect what or ask your neigbourgs.
And make sure that you don’t throw away the botlles which have a refund (“statiegeld” in Dutch)…

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A little late but yes! They were so good, here’s the link. Definitely my favourite for the night. They played Ballroom Blitz.

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQmadPzgJrY

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Deep Purple’s song Highway Star

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Kevin Skinner or Barbara Padilla will win but I personally cringe every time Kevin Skinner and Texas Tenors try to sing. It’s just awful. I like Drew Stevyns, Recycled Percussion and Fab 5.

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You should wear a cardigan with a cute v-neck, skinny jeans, boots, and add some necklaces and bracelets. It would be really cute if you curled your hair and let it down. (: If not, just wear a nice fitting hoodie, keep it cute and casual. 😀

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All Kevin needs is a little training and that I figured from his first performance which blew me away. Barbara Padilla may have a beautiful voice but I could not tell from all the shrieking. Maybe I just don’t like Opera but I don’t like country either.

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I think it was stupid that they let Erik & Rickie go through. Sure their cute and they can dance pretty well but WTF they gonna do in vegas? THeir act is not worth a million dollars and Mia went through enough already but her singing will get he somewhere eventually. My favorite act was breakSk8 but they unfortunatly got voted off….now i rly like Recycled percussion.

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They were just voted off and I am SPEACHLESS! I thought they were going to win for sure – them or the texas tenors!! And I can’t believe Drew was gone so early

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I really have my fingers crossed for recycled percussion. I go to goffstown high school in New Hampshire. They have been to my school numerous times because Justin Spencer is an alumni. It would be so amazing for someone to represent New Hampshire in a place like Las Vegas.
Thank You to everyone who voted for RP!!!

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If you have a piece of straight tube, you have material for a flute of some sort. A round box and some sort of covering of enough thickness would be good for percussion.

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Yes they give you cash for your cans but it depends on what state you live in btw what state do you live in because you did not add that to your question to know what recycling center are near you,

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Try using www.earth911.org to find a recycling center.

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In my area, the recycling center is operated by the solid waste district. The funding to operate the recycling center comes from generation fees, which is the money that landfills and transfer stations are taxed when they receive waste. In the U.S., all counties either have a waste management district, or fall under the jurisdiction of one, though these districts do not all operate recycling centers. However, one commonality is that, because of the economy, people are buying less stuff, and therefore throwing away less stuff. This means that less waste is being taken to the landfills and transfer stations, so there is less funding from generation fees. If the recycling center to which you are referring is similarly funded, then they are more than likely also suffering from decreased revenue because of lower generation fees.

That being said, many recyclers dealing in metals (e.g. Scrap yards) are seeing a real boom in business because of the economy. As folks struggle to make ends meet, more and more are collecting aluminum cans, scrapping old cars and appliances, and (unfortunately) even turning to theft. Most scrap yards pay by the ounce or pound, by material, for metals brought in for sale/recycling.

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Do you not have a blue box/bin for recycling ?

Otterspool tip in that case

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I just started a recycling program, and I had some difficulties too. Get people involved. Tell them your mission and if they are interested, they will hopefully join, and tell them what they should do.

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Check with your local city or county to see if recycling is available for apartment complexes. Many do not offer such services, but sometimes there is a drop-off location you can use, or other outlets for certain recyclables. Another site to visit is Earth911.com.

As for cartons, you found the best site for carton recycling information. The Carton Council, who sponsors that site, has established a mail-in program that has yet to be added to the recyclecartons.com site. If you email me at acollinson@recycle.com, I can provide you the information of where you can send your cartons for recycling, if you are interested in taking that approach.

Thanks and good luck!

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At the AT&T store I got to they have a spot you can bring them to recycle your old phones so maybe yours does too

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The link below should give you the information you need.

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This is by far the best question I have ever seen posted to Yahoo Q & A.

I do not think environmentalists, or the American public in general really understand rural America.

I’m a rare person who has lived on both sides of the pasture. I was born in Chicago, and grew up wealthy, lacking for not a single thing. My parents never worked, as the family was independently wealthy.

Since I was a six year old I knew I was going to live on a farm, and be as self sufficent as possible…quiet a difference from a girl who grew up in the middle of peers who were nothing but consumor’s. I’m married, my husband works on the commercial wind turbines (the true income for us).

We live on a small farm, where I (a stay home wife) raise meat goats and rabbits. My husbands father built this house we live in back in the 70’s. We live in the high mountain deserts (4700 plus feet) of Idaho, in the heart of potato country. I’m surrounded by farms, many belonging to families. There are six major farming families around here. The families are huge, and messure their land by the mile. I concider them agra businessmen. They bring in millions of dollars with farming and by recieving farm subsidies from the Government.

The ground and ground water around here has been made toxic, by the use of chemical fertilizers. At a neighbors house just 1/4 a mile from me, a crop dusting plane over sprayed their 5 acres, and killed their honeybee hives overnight.

There are signs posted on ranches all around here, warning people to keep off their property, BECAUSE OF THE MEDDLING OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS. These farmers/ranchers are NOT kidding, and will meet you with a shotgun.

I’m always taken aback by the reaction of both “environmentalist” and vegans (often they are one in the same) to me, and my lifestyle. Rabbits can produce more meat, with less food than cattle. They also cause much less damage.

I do not breed my rabbits during the summer when the heat stress would be hard on the does. I can see them all right now. They are in cages sitting in the shade, on my lawn, with full waterbottles, and nice clean alfalfa hay. They are able to nibble the grass also through the cages (which are about three times the reccomended size). Yet city people, vegans, and environmentalist have all told me how cruel I am to be raising rabbits for meat and slaughter.

By the way, all of my customers come to my farm…my animals are never shipped. All butchering is done right here, under my watchful eye.

Meat goats can also provide more meat, with less food and environmental damage than cattle. Best of all, my pasture quality has improved a hundredfold since bringing goats here. There’s hardly a weed to be seen, just highly desirable clovers and grasses.

When I first arrived with the goats (to my Mother-In-Law’s dismay) this was a land of invasive weeds, and RoundUp was heavely used here, along with chemical fertilizers (petrolium based).

Not a drop of any of that garbage has touched the land since I arrived. In three short years the transformation to the pasture has been miraculous.

Despite being a small farmer, and having the best interest of my family, my animals, and our land in mind, our way of life is threatend.

People in cities unthinkingly pass laws about the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) and COOL (Country Of Origon Labeling). They don’t stop to thing that agra businessmen have powerful lobbiest who get loopholes made in those kind of laws, so they can use just one I.D. Number for an entire batch of animals raised in confinment. Yet the small farmer who know the name, and personality of each of their individual animals, must tag each of their animals, AT THE SMALL FARMERS EXPENCE.

Environmentalist push city people all the time into voting for laws which actually make America a little weaker. The more dependant we become upon our food coming from other contries, the worse off we will be. I watch farmland being gobbled up at alarming rates, and rows of houses being built.

I moved to Idaho, from very liberal Washington State. I now live in a very concervative area. I’m “amused” at people who scoff at traditional family and church values. City people who do not understand folks who get excited about growing the perfect tomato, or making a beautiful quilt by hand.

My husband and I are looking at buying more farm land. We will raise a wheat or barley crop. It’s not the grain we want…it’s the straw. We will bale the straw, and build our own straw bale house.

We will live on a permaculture farm, with the manure from the livestock fertilizing our hay and other crops. We will raise something like canola (rape seed) and make our own biofuel right there on the farm to power our tractors and trucks. The left-overs from the canola will be fed to the goats.

We will live off grid, with solar and wind. We will raise most of our own food as we do now.

We will keep “environmentalist” OFF our property. I have rarely found one who truel understands, or has a good grasp of reality.

As far as I’m concerned, the environmentalist should all rush up, to spray paint the baby seals, so they are useless to the fur trade. (By the way that actually kills way more seal pups than the fur trade ever would, since the polar bears find and kill all the spray painted seal pups)

My husband and I would prefer to be left alone by environmentalist, vegans, and most city & suburb folks. They rarely have a clue. We will just continue to live our truely earth friendly lifestyle (which include habbitats and plantings for native wildlife) and the rest of the world can just KEEP OUT.

By the way, recycling is a big deal, and hard to do around here. It is about 100 miles for us to recycle. We smash cans, and save them, taking them in once a year in a single pickup load. Since we buy in bulk, and produce so much of our own food, it’s not that big a deal.

I’ve enjoyed reading the posting of almost everyone who posted an answer to this question.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming for over 20 years.

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Check this out. It is a Google search and it looks like it has a not of stuff that might interest you.

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According to the National Recycling Coalition, “it takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials. Making recycled steel saves 60%, recycled newspaper 40%, recycled plastics 70%, and recycled glass 40%. These savings far outweigh the energy created as by-products of incineration and land filling.”

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Try talking to the local agency that is responsible for recycling. Start with the phonebook (the paper one) and look thru it until you find something like “Department of Public Works”.

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Http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/rrr/index.htm

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DID YOU KNOW…

For every ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper, you save:

• 17 small trees• 3 cubic yards of landfill space
• 7000 gallons of water (amount saved by producing paper from recycled material versus virgin pulp)

In partnership with our valued customers, we will be able to help conserve more than 8500 trees, 1500 yards of landfill space and 3,500,00 gallons of water in a years time.

Http://www.ecshredding.com is not just a document security company, We value the environment and work hard everyday to help protect it.

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Google around, I’m sure there are lots of statistics on schools. Conservation of water is something that you can start spreading awareness about as and when you get an opportunity to – like write an article in your school magazine for a start. Bewaterwise.com gives details on why it is important to use water wisely. Http://www.bewaterwise.com/tips01.html gives some excellent tips on water conservation.

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The table below is a direct extract from a government backed web site;it took me approximately 1 minute to find it. En route there was a web site on which Peterborough invited anyone with questions to complete a form, on line and submit it; alternatively there was a number you could ring. It was also interesting to discover that Peterborough is in the forefront of waste control; there was a strategy document on this subject also given exposure. If I can get this far this quickly you should be get far more detailed information than I have ; explore the web.
List of Partner Councils and their household waste recycling performance figures for 2008/09, shown as approximate tonnes and percentage of total household waste
Recycled Composted Land filled total waste

Peterborough City Council 20,59823,056 47,211 90,865
22.67% 25.37% 51.96%

AS a personal observation; over 50 percent of waste still going to Land fill is an indictment on the waste inherent in our society.
Ps the table does not “carry across to the web site, so I will summarise it here:
Peterborough recycled 22.67 percent of its waste,composted 25.37 percent and 51.96 percent went to landfill

The Expert answers:

You can find some good information on recycling here:
http://www.greenstudentu.com/recycling.aspx

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Our mother Earth which has a bio-capacity — natural absorption rate of organic carbon in the soil mantle, but our human animal had already discharged double that figure, with the developed nations being the biggest contributor and preacher of recycling, whilst shipping millions of tons of solid waste to another geological cleft.

In a vicious dose-dependent cycle, such amount of toxic waste affects global geochemical balance; further contribute to the shifting in climate and trophic levels (food chains) in the ecosystem, known as the bio-magnification. What a wise eclecticism.

The volume of solid waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has reached a geological figure of 400 million tons per annum and rising, in a generation’s time, mankind will suffocated in its own garbage.

The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in the soil mantle is estimated 42 million tons annually.

Human animal discharge of organic carbon had reached 85 million tons per annum — doubled the earth’s natural absorption ability.

Why rising, read below, no body even notice that 1 billion more people on Earth in just 10 years, a break record this time, not a good news. And only China is doing something about it – one world, one dream same nightmare.

We celebrated on the eve of the new millennia with 6 billion people on Earth, since another billion people had joined our party by 2010 — 6 billion in 1999 now 6.8 and by next year today 7 billion.

The Expert answers:

You can bring them to a salvage yard, there might be a nominal fee on the disposal, but the others items are fully recyclable and should be accepted without any charge at all.

Check your local yellow pages to find one. Otherwise contact your local unit of government and ask them if there is anyone in the area who recycles metals.

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Many areas in the USA have recycling pick ups. I live in San Mateo County, California, just south of San Francisco. A few cities here run their own garbage and recycling pick up programs, but most cities here (and the county for areas outside city limits) contract private companies to handle garbage and recycling pick ups. Recycling of electronics is done by the garbage company, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

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Hmmm

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You should not regularly use your garbage disposal to dispose of gravel, but for your purposes, it is fine. In a garbage disposal, there are multiple “blades” that spin on their own axis when the disposal is on. These work well on soft food that it is designed to chop up. The occasional pebble can ding these blades, but should not significantly decrease their ability to chop. A more rare circumstance is a pebble wedging between the blade and its axle preventing it from spinning. This might decrease the efficiency of the chopping action of the blades, but the disposal spins so fast that it should not be significant. Since rocks are more dense than water, there may be a greater chance of them remaining in the disposal until it is turned on. Only a knuckle size rock or larger has a chance to jam the disposal and cause real damage. You can use a drain strainer to catch any boulders too big for your disposal to handle. Sand and dirt should be no problem. The whole point of the disposal is convenience, so keep those doggy feet clean the easy way!

I remember that coffee grounds can most definitely clog a sink… At my previous job the cleaning personnel clogged it virtually every night by dumping the coffee grounds from the machine into the sink (we eventually wrote them a note in Spanish which solved the problem). Thus, given that dirt is a lot like coffee grounds in consistency, I am convinced you can clog it.

Also, given that there are either blades or a grinding mechanism in every disposal, with big enough pebbles (about marble size?) you can damage the mechanism enough that you’ll have to replace it.

Final word of advice: never wash a shedding Collie (spring time!) in your bathtub. Pounds of long dog hair will reliably clog it…

The Expert answers:

Actually it is cheaper in a lot of instances to recycle. AL is 44% cheaper to recycle, and plastic is nearly 75% cheaper to recycle. Plus in the long run commodity costs will increase as we run out.

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Educate the electorate so that they vote for the best possible person,rather than the one who dishes out millions to seduce them and regain 100 times that amount once they come to power.

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Read the book and you’ll know. I know the answer but you need to know the answer too.

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Look in the Yellow Pages under Recycling, and you should be able to drop it off or schedule for it to be picked up. This way there is nothing taking up room at the dump or polluting our beautiful earth.

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I think so. We are so lazy about this as a nation.