Your Questions About Recycling

Which way would be more ecologically sound?

1.Using plastic grocery bags for trash bags and not buying trash bags?
2. Using plastic grocery bags for recycling bags and not buying those?
3. Not using plastic grocery bags at all, going with those reusable bags that some say cost more energy to make than the plastic disposables?
4.making your own reusable bags out of material salvaged at Salvation Army but buying garbage bags?

I am trying to go more green than I am and wonder if I am over thinking this. LOL

Recycling Bin – Compostable Bag or No?

RECYCLING BIN (Note: not compost) – Is it more eco-friendly to use a compostable garbage bag in the bin or is it more eco-friendly to rinse out the bagless bin with a water hose? If you have any data to back up your answer please cite it along with your answer.

Slobby renting neighbors?/Garbage piling up?

I live in part of a city where the homes are 90 plus years old. Most of the homeowners take care of their properties in my area with exemption of a few. The few who dont are mostly renters. Every Tuesday we have to put our garbage carts on the alley line, and every other Tuesday we have to put our recycling carts on the alley line next to the garbage cart for pick up. These so called renters usually dont put the garbage cart or the recycling cart out by the alley line every Tuesday. They usually just let the garbage pile up, and overflow. At times the alley looks like an absolute junkyard with garbage bags, and empty boxes laying in the alley. A few years ago, the city did property condition evaluations throughout the city. Some of the homeowners were disgruntled, but after awile i liked the idea. Since i keep our property maintained i would like to see others do the same. It makes abcentee landlords wake up. Should i call my alderman about the garbage problems?

My Newspapaper/paper recycling bag disappeared!! HELP!?!?

In the morning, I took out my (blue) newspaper recycling and (yellow)paper recycyling bag for the garbage man to pick it up. But then in the afternoon, everybody’s including mine and the neighbors lost their bag and me too! What do you think happend? I know there wasn’t any wind because it was sunny. But possibly. HELP!!
And I live in Bristish Columbia in Canada

I have a question about recycling shredded paper?

Can you put all the shredded paper you have in a paper bag, tape it up, and then put that in the recycle bin? Can you think of any other ways to recycle shrededded paper? I have about 5 big bags full of it. Someone said just throw it in the garbage because the bits and pieces of paper will make a mess in the recycle bin, but I want to recycle them.
Thanks in advance.

Is it legal for an apartment complex to go through your garbage?

They went through the garbage that I threw in the dumpster, obviously read the mail inside the bag to identify the garbage as mine, and then left a note under my door complaining about its contents.

(if your wondering, they didn’t think I was doing a good enough job recycling).

Is this legal? I feel like my privacy has been invaded and I am not comfortable with this at all. Is this grounds to legally break my lease? I don’t feel comfortable living in a place that is invasive like this.

Thanks.

Recycle or garbage stupid question?

I have a (bag) of rip up papers, dirt, carboard, plastic Bags, some water bottles, that I want to get rid of.Now Do I put this bag in the garbage bin? or do I put it in the recycle bin? I”m not too sure What to recycle.

Why don’t stores have biodegradable bags?

I heard some stores are going back to paper which is aweful for the trees. Grocery stores sell the reusable bags. But we’ve been using the store shopping bags for our garbage for years. Saves us money from buying garbage bags that aren’t biodegradable. We live in the boonies and have to bring our rubbish to the town dump. Town only recycles cardboard and metal. Any suggestions what we can do regarding garbage bags? Is there a way an individual can bring items somewhere to recycle when their town doesn’t?
I appreciate all responses but I still am left with the quandary about bring our rubbish to the dump. The suggestion about filling up garbage cans/containers and just emptying the trash at the dump without putting items in bags is something I’ll have to see if permissible. I truly have my doubts.
I’m not against using re-usable shopping bags. I could easily make my own. But then we’d be back to buying rubbish bags. An expense we don’t have using the store shopping bags. Does anyone know of a source of truly biodegradable garbage bags that are not real real expensive?
Using volunteers at a re-cycling plant is great. But the highest cost in recycling is the actual moving of items to be recycled and cost involved in leaving them at collection sites. Big cities can afford to have actual recycling plants and afford to have items collected shipped off to where they are collected for recycle. But out in the boonies, rural country areas, towns just don’t have those kind of resources; at least not where I’m from. Our taxes are already way beyond reasonable and that’s what would be increased to set up more recycling. The little that is collected for recycling is expensive enough. Please don’t think I’m against recycling. Not at all. We live to re-use to the fullest what we can. I stopped using for example any kind of plastic food storage bags, even for work lunches. Glass containers with covers that can be washed is our better choice. But the rubbish we do have is the problem. If we only could bring things to recycling areas ourselves. Any ideas?

Whats the best thing to do with the plastic grocery store bags?

I got a ton of plastic grocery store bags and have no idea what to do with them. Somebody give me ideas. Do I recycle? use ’em for garbage bin liners? Just what do ya do with’em?