Your Questions About Recycling
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William asks…
How come my local recycler won’t take some of my recyclables?
We recycle all our bottles that have the symbol on it. But the local recycler won’t take the large plastic juice bottles.
He only takes the refreshment size ones.
Anyone have an idea, why?
The Expert answers:
Some bottles have a stamp indicating “CA Redemptive Value,” and many other states have their stamp & refund listed as well. They have a recycling symbol, as do the larger juice bottles, but there are fewer companies recycling the material without the special designation, and the profit isn’t as high. It’s not necessarily a storage issue, but if you ask them and they say it is then tell them you would recycle there more often if they accepted all your recyclable materials. If they think they are losing money from customers like you, they may expand their storage space. But if it’s a matter of lack of suitable vendors in the area, you won’t make any headway and may want to seek alternative recyclers in your area, if they exist.
I have a local college nearby where I can turn in scrap paper, cardboard, all kinds of glass and many different kinds of plastic. They take my large plastic juice bottles! And some of their profits are donated to student scholarships. A real win-win situation.
Lisa asks…
My hard drive was wiped all of the sudden and only the recycler remains?
My computer crashed a while back and would have vertical lines on startup. After hooking it up to a hard drive enclosure i noticed that the only left on it was a folder by the name of RECYCLER. I have heard about the recycler virus; could this be it? Can i recover anything from the hard drive or should i just destroy it.
The Expert answers:
It could be a virus but I personally have not seen one that would wipe everything out with exception of one file.
I know you mentioned that you connected the drive to a “hard drive enclosure”; not sure exactly what was done there but one thing I would try is to connect the hard drive directly to a good computer… When booting up the computer, will assign a drive letter to it. Go to “Computer or My Computer” and see if you can explore the drive under that drive letter it assigns.. If there is nothing there, could mean that the drive has completely failed.
One way to know is to shake the drive and if you hear any rattling, then chances are the drive is no good. Also, if you can, run a drive diagnostic tool *such as Acronis) when you have it connected to a running computer to see what the overall condition is…
Hope this helps
Jerry Diecidue
Ten Two PC Repair
Daniel asks…
How do i locate the recycler folder in windows vista Home Basic?
My PC hard drive is almost full, but there are no additional files, document and the recycle bin is empty. I need to locate the recycler folder folder so that i can delete some files
The Expert answers:
Actually, in vista you can just type $Recycle.Bin to get to that folder.
They changed it from C:Recycler for whatever reason.
That being said, it is probably empty if the bin was. I recommend uninstalling some programs you don’t use or deleting some music/pictures/video you don’t need anymore.
Mandy asks…
How can i become a better recycler?
i know that theres plastic paper glass and aluminum but what do i us to hold them seperatly and where do i put the bins? im 15 so i cant just put them anywhere they have to go somewhere out of the way. and if i could i would but them in my room but then i would have to go up and down the stairs any time i was recycleing
i really want to become a better recycler so please help
The Expert answers:
If you have a garage, or basement, that is an ideal place for recycle bins. I don’t have a garage so my recycle bins are outside at the foot of my deck, in the back of my house.
Take the plastic bags either to the recycling center, or back to Walmart where they have bins for them. When you go to the store, take cloth shopping bags so you don’ t need to accept the plastic ones., or just reuse the plastic ones you already have.
Recycle glass, cans, aluminum, newspaper, junk mail, cardboard, telephone books, plastic (look at the bottom of the container to see the recycling # and find out if your local center takes them, most places only take # 1 and 2). Some recycling centers take magazines, and any household items that you don’t need, and give them away free to anyone who needs them. Some have a small charge for such items.
Try and reduce the amount of stuff you bring in the house, and reuse everything you can. Sometimes schools accept things like toilet paper rolls, clean cardboard, spools, plastic containers, and other items that can be used for crafts.
Recycle styrofoam peanuts, either at your recycling center or a store that does mailing, like Mail & More.
Most recycling centers have useful booklets that help you know what can and can’t be recycled.
There are long lists of recyclable material. You can look them up on the internet also. Here is one hjelpful web site:
http://greennature.com/article562.html
Thank yoou for recycling. People like you are the future of our planet.
James asks…
How do I remove a recycler virus from my PC and external?
There is no “Recycler” folder found on either of the drives, and yet when I double click on either of them, I get an error message. Any suggestions? I really want to avoid formatting them, as I would lose all of my stuff
I have Norton Antivirus and it’s not detecting a virus, double clicking my drives brings up an error message. I’m not sure what to do.
The Expert answers:
An antivirus or spyware program
Computer wiz®
Thomas asks…
How to delete recycler virus from the system ?
Hello,
i am using window xp and i have had problem due to recycler. i format my system but the problem was not solved, when i connect external memory or pendrive in the system the recycler folder and other 4 shortcut file automatically appeat in pendrive when i put courser on those shotcut file it show the location control panel but i can’t find the location in control panel now how can i delete these file and folder from my system.these days my usb port is not working better due to recycler.
Please help me from this problem.
The Expert answers:
1. Start -> run
2. Cmd
3. Go to your designation of pen drive (Ex: d: or E:)
4. Attrib -h -r -s -a RECYCLER
5. Rd RECYCLER
6. After you create manually autorun.inf folder
Sandy asks…
How to move a file into the recycler with cmd?
Im trying to make a batch file that can move a file into the recycler, I wonder if theres any way to do that, because the recycler always have random names 🙁
Or atleast how to create a folder in it, Thanks in advance
And for you that wonder why im asking this is because im planning to make a script that makes a protected folder inside it
The Expert answers:
You can move the file to “RECYCLER”
MOVE filename drive:recycler
but that isn’t the recycle bin and it doesn’t appear when you open recycle bin.
The recycle bin is a “s-1-5-……” folder under the RECYCLER folder and MOVE won’t move it to there.
It DOES move it someplace, but I can’t find it.
If I replace the file and run the CMD again it wants to overwrite it.
Robert asks…
How to delete C:recycler when it says “Access is denied?”?
I got on as Admin. But I can’t delete the Recycler because it keeps saying, “Access denied – make sure disk is not fully protected or overwrited etc.”
Please help me delete this.
It is causing a lot of trouble for me, my PC is running slow, my USB shows up as a folder icon…
I would give many many many points to the person who can get me out of this.
The Expert answers:
Go here: http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/11/08/about-recycler-and-system-volume-information-folder-in-xp-and-vista/
Hope it helps ^_^
Betty asks…
How do I find a pop can recycler in Ontario – Kitchener/London/Toronto?
Looking to raise funds for a support group – someone recommended pop can recycling – but how do I find a recycler in my area?
The Expert answers:
From pop can recycler website
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