How do you recycle in your town, country?
How does your town, state or country recycle? Do you have curbside pick up, recycle bins on the highway rest stops like France, pick up of large reusable items once or twice a year like some towns in Germany, transfer stations like we have here in the us in some towns where people bring reusable items to get a new life, or a yearly "town swap"?
Is there any unusual and successful recycle program in your municipality you would like to share with others?
Thanks!
In my town we toss all our recyclables in a bin, take them to the curb, and watch the man that ust tossed our garbage into a truck, through the cans and newspaper to that verry same truck. Oddly enough people don’t feel it necessary to recycle.
I live in New Jersey where each county has it’s own program.
I have curbside pick up for paper, glass and some plastics. (not all plastics though)
My brother lives in another county where recycling is voluntary.
If my brother wants to recycle anything, he has to put it in his car and drive it to a recycling center.
I use the recyling bins in my school.
We have several recycling opportunities. At this point in time, all are voluntary.
1. Our sanitation department offers recycling bins for curbside pick up.
2. We have a recycling center where you can take your "basic" recyclables (like newspaper, glass, plastics).
3. Once or twice a year we have a location where we can take our larger items (for the handicapped and elderly, there’s pick-up available) as well as smaller things we didn’t or couldn’t do anything else with.
4. Some businesses, schools, and public locations have receptacles available for you to drop your aluminum cans in rather than throw them away.
5. We have an active, successful Freecycle group. (Freecycle is an online-based, grassroots movement enabling people with an item they no longer want/need to find others in their local community who can put that item to good use again. Pretty much *anything* large or small can be listed, so long as it’s given away totally free, and it’s legal and appropriate for all ages.)
There is no organized recycling program here in Savannah, Georgia. However, we’re able to get on base and there is a recycling center there. So, at the end of each week, we put all our recyclables in the trunk of our car and deposit the items into the bins.
For those that cannot get onto military installations, they have to fend for themselves and drive all over the place to hopefully find a recycling container.
The town I used to live in…had a recycling program (i.e provided citizens with recycling bins and would pick up the items for free) for 20 years and has just recently stopped because the city claimed not enough people were participating in the curb side pick up. So, now, if anyone wants to recycle (it’s mainly older people), they have to drive around to find the recycling containers. However, the areas they are placed in are bad neighborhoods.
We use what they call blue boxes here. All recyclable products are separated by type. Such as, paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, etc. It seems to work fairly well. But there is much more a person can do to help by not throwing broken machines and wooden products in the dump. All these things can be broken down and reused. We still have a lot to learn.
I and all of my neighbors throw our paper, plastic and metal into house hold recycling containers. Once a week, we put these out and the recylers come by and pick them up. They also collect yard waste (leaves, twigs etc.) and take these to be composted.