I do not recycle. Ask me anything.

[Anonymous]

http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/payt/index.htm

[Anonymous]

OP - could I please have your blue recycle bin? Mine gets too full up (and the general trash is 1/4 full each week).

(I'm serious, actually).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - could I please have your blue recycle bin? Mine gets too full up (and the general trash is 1/4 full each week).

(I'm serious, actually).

Ditto, we always run out of room.

OP, I definitely think you're a terrible person.

[Anonymous]

How old are you, OP? I'm guessing older than 50 or younger than 35.

[Anonymous]

My question to the OP and others- does what we send to recycling actually get recycled?

I have a friend out of state who owns a huge environmental clean up company. He doesn't recycle, because he claims 99% of the stuff in blue bins/paper gets thrown away anyhow - that only a small fraction gets bought by recyclers.

Anyone have any insight?

[Anonymous]

Well, you're a troll, but why are you also a lazy and selfish pig?

[Anonymous]

WOW!!!

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2012/01/23/brazil-returns-to-us-47-tons-hospital-waste/

[Anonymous]

OP,

Nobody has anything to ask you. We have only a statement:

Those who don't recycle are pieces of shit. Simple as that.

[Anonymous]

I am forever scarred by the memory of the late '90s in the office, when we each got a black trash can and a blue trash can, and countless memos and training videos about what to put where and how to do it...and then, if you stayed late to work, you saw the cleaning people pick up all the black and blue trashcans and dump them together in to one receptacle.

Today, I recycle bottles and big boxes, and I don't get the newspaper anymore, so...whatever.

[Anonymous]

1. Are you a man?
2. Do you have other habits that are still stuck in the 80s?
3. Do you also litter?

[Anonymous]

So you have separate trash cans in your kitchen or outside?

I don't really recycle, since we have one kitchen trash can that goes into the main outside container. But we have a separate outside recycle container - so if I know ahead of time that it is trash, and it is paper (junk mail) or bottles (that I have in my car on the way home, etc.), then sure, I throw them in the recycle container. But no, I don't sort through my junk looking for what is trash and what is recycle-able. Do people really do that? My recycle container fills up maybe once every two months.

[Anonymous]

I would pay more money to NOT recycle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Are you a man?
2. Do you have other habits that are still stuck in the 80s?
3. Do you also litter?

I'm not the OP, but yes, not sure what that means and definitely not, I hate littering. This has nothing to do with littering. Ever been to a landfill? I go every month. We have plenty of space for junk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My question to the OP and others- does what we send to recycling actually get recycled?

I have a friend out of state who owns a huge environmental clean up company. He doesn't recycle, because he claims 99% of the stuff in blue bins/paper gets thrown away anyhow - that only a small fraction gets bought by recyclers.

Anyone have any insight?

I answered about MoCo back on page two -- about taking a tour. I believe anyone can sign up to take a tour of the recycling facility, incinerator, and/or transfer station.

MoCo absolutely recycles and makes money off of some of the products, although I can't remember which ones. Glass, paper, and yard waste I think. Not sure what happens to plastics. Yard waste is made into compost up at the incineration facility in Dickerson. It lays out in large fields until it's properly composted, bagged, and sold as LeafGro brand.

Actual trash is incinerated at very high temperatures, creating electricity that's also sold.

Montgomery County recycles about 45% of its waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you have separate trash cans in your kitchen or outside?

I don't really recycle, since we have one kitchen trash can that goes into the main outside container. But we have a separate outside recycle container - so if I know ahead of time that it is trash, and it is paper (junk mail) or bottles (that I have in my car on the way home, etc.), then sure, I throw them in the recycle container. But no, I don't sort through my junk looking for what is trash and what is recycle-able. Do people really do that? My recycle container fills up maybe once every two months.

You have to have a separate receptacle in the kitchen. Then when you are throwing something away, you just pop it in there -- easy as pie. It's no harder than throwing something in the trash. When full, bring outside to your main recycling bin. Done.