Your Questions About Recycling

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I’m convinced we have to recycle if we want to keep a healthy world to our children and their childrens. Altougth i really dont know for sure what we can recycle.

I would start by recycling usual stuf we use to throw to the garbage, as the plastic bags that we only use one time, if they can be reused you have to do it; those botles of mayonease or catsup, you and your kids can give them some good use; you can recycle big pieces of role aluminum, old notebooks that still have clean sheets, any ideas like this would help.

After this, you can look for places where you can throw all of paper and cardboard that you cannot use anymore, you know books, magazines, notebooks, etc, where they take those to recycle.

The same applies to the plastic and glass cans or botles, those have to be separated from paper and cardboard.

There are more things to do, i’m pretty sure, but we should start doing something.

I’ve just found a place that can be help for you and will be for me, cause i’m gonna start doing it too. It’s like a game, but it has information about it.

Http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/sw.htm

Good luck on this…

The Expert answers:

A family of three – garbage is about half of standard plastic trash bag per week. Recycling is much more than that though.

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Actually, the US does more recycling than you think. Just because you don’t see recycling bins in front of a lot of houses and businesses in Las Vegas doesn’t mean recycling is not happening in America. Aluminum cans recycling is a huge success due to the high prices of aluminum today. Heavy copper wiring is also popular due to the high copper prices.

Paper and Cardboard recycling is successful at offices and plants that generate lots of paper and cardboard and in some schools where lots of paper is used. Recycling is common in factories where disposal of waste products would be a hassle. If you take a look at some of the products in the grocery store in the US sometimes it says “made with recycled paper” or “made with 100% recycled paper with 35% post consumer recycled paper”

Steel recycling is big business but you won’t see steel cans and bottle tops being recycled as much. Often the recycling is done by businesses that work with steel products such as factories, junk yards, and some garages that specialize in engine work. A heavy damaged engine block or a irreparable machine tools or a large damaged electrical motor contains steel, copper, and/or aluminum, all high value recycling metals. In fact many cars on the American interstates have a lot of recycled steel in them.

Bottle recycling is a problem since the average household doesn’t generate a lot of bottle waste. Bottle recycling works better in restaurants and bars where lots of bottles are used.

Plastic recycling is a bigger problem because the recycling of plastic generates little income and waste plastic tends to be more difficult to recycle and more expensive to recycle. Also plastic waste is light so you need to recycle lots of plastic bags and 2-liter bottles to make one piece of plastic furniture or some fleece jacket. The biggest goal for businesses using plastic is not to recycle plastic but to conserve plastic. The gallon milk jugs of today are much lighter and has much less plastic than those of 25 years ago and that is the same for the 2-liter bottle. Also plastic is the preferred material for the medical industry because it is very cheap and it is safer to use single use materials to prevent the spread of infection. Medical plastic waste is incredibly expensive and difficult to recycle so it tends to be buried or burned at high temperatures instead of recycled.

In the US we do not charge businesses that make or import goods a disposal fee or garbage fee so it is difficult to fund programs that encourage post-consumer recycling. In fact the best places for post-consumer is America are Portland (Oregon), the San Francisco Metro area, the Boston Metro Area, and Seattle where recycling is a way of life. But people in New Mexico and Las Vegas hardly know what post consumer recycling is.

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We have pretty good recycling facilities around here. I recycle newspapers and keep another bag for junk mail, phone books, school paper, magazines, catalogs, and other non newspaper paper. The stuff they won’t take includes foil backed paper, wax paper, and oily or soiled paper, so I avoid those kinds.

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I wouldn’t use a garbage bag because they split and get ripped too easily … You’d be far better off with a woven polypropylene bag … Where I live you can get zip-up bags made from woven polypropylene (they’re usually a check pattern) that would hold your sleeping bags (and more) very cheaply … They’re sturdy and don’t damage easily … Even cheaper if you find a woven polypropylene sack like on this web page and recycle it http://www.unitedbags.com/c-7-polypropylene-bags.aspx

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I have heard from my local residential recycling company that you can place them in plastic bags and put them in your recycling bins. But then you use a plastic bag? Or do you use the gas to drive to a recycling place? Your community may also have designated hazardous material disposal events planned monthly or something like that too. I would say call your garbage/recycling company and ask them. If you can, store them somewhere at your home so you can take care of multiple batteries instead of just a few at a time.

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Most recycling around the nation is a scam. The only thing proven to be useful is Aluminum and paper. All other types consume more energy than they save (paper consumes more energy to recycle too, but you don’t dump more bleach into the sytem like new paper processing.

The Expert answers:

*Reuse shopping bags,instead of asking for new bag at store.u can also use them as garbage bag,instead of new one
*Reusing gift wrapping paper for another gifts.
*giving drinking water bottle for recycling place
*Reuse mail envelope for internal communication
*use paper mail back side, for doing calculations, etc
*water used for cleaning vegetables & fruits can be use to water garden plants
similarly you can put all plastic iteam for second use or give it for recycling,and reducing use of plastic where possible.

SMILe.