I do not recycle. Ask me anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

We run out of room in our recycling bin too. At one point, we had two somehow. I thought it was one of the neighbors' that accidentally made its way back into the garage, but, no, I asked around and looked around, and no one claimed it, so we used two for a while which was heavenly. Then, one day that one disappeared after garbage/recycling pick-up, so I figured the orig owner either found it, or someone else nicked it. Not sure. But we now have to squish everything into one again.

I have seen some neighbors use random Rubbermaid tubs or things like that, so you could always do that if you have excess. I may do this if our family gets larger and we habitually have more recycling than can fit in one.

[Anonymous]

I have this and love it:
http://www.amazon.com/simplehuman-Rectangular-Fingerprint-Proof-Stainless-12-Gallon/dp/B001BVH794/ref=pd_sim_hg_3

I'm willing to chip in $10 for the OP if I can find 16 more people to do that! Somehow I need a condition that OP would actually use it, though! S/he'd probably just put trash in both sides ... ha ha ...

[Anonymous]

In Montgomery County, you can request a second recycling bin on their webpage. It's free too.
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/apps/dep/solidwaste/store/index.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:? It doesn't even take more time than throwing it in the trash.

So:

what's the real reason why you don't recycle?

Yes it does! And so many rules. What to recycle? What not to recycle? I can never remember which is which so they all go into the black bin.

It's really not that hard. I mean, if a three year old knows what goes blue and what goes black, then you are either dumb or just plain lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have this and love it:
http://www.amazon.com/simplehuman-Rectangular-Fingerprint-Proof-Stainless-12-Gallon/dp/B001BVH794/ref=pd_sim_hg_3

I'm willing to chip in $10 for the OP if I can find 16 more people to do that! Somehow I need a condition that OP would actually use it, though! S/he'd probably just put trash in both sides ... ha ha ...

I am not the OP (am one of the outspoken pro-recyclers here) but I like this. I may look into getting it for myself. Thanks for the link!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don't recycle either. A while back I came to the conclusion that the energy produced to recycle on balance was worse for the environment.

What about the energy that is used to truck your waste to other parts of the country or possibly even the world???

This article http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/human-footprint/trash-talk.html has a sentence about how NY trash can end up in Ohio and Virginia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem you have, OP (and others who are not recycling), is that you haven't worked out a system that works in your kitchen. I used to find recycling a pain until I got a trash can with 2 parts, so it's easy to just drop things on either side. It's definitely not hard to figure out where to put the cereal box or the juice carton or the food waste. You'll soon realize that most of your trash is recycleable - so you'll end up using the bigger compartment for recycling and your actual waste will drop by about 3/4's.

I only wish there was a compost collection for food waste in DC - then I would have less than one bag of trash per week.

Once you organize yourself, you'll wonder why anyone wouldn't recycle.

Not sure what's happening at your kid's school, but at ours they all sort their lunch trash into different bins. Get with the program!!

I was amazed when I visited Seattle that every restaurant we went to had a compost bin and their trash collection picked up trash, recycling, and compost!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should make the trash company do it back at base.

Then you would be starting a thread complaining that you were being charged too much for trash collection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agree - it's so much easier when you have dedicated separate bins for garbage and recycling. We go a bit further than this PP. We have separate bins in our kitchen and also use separate waste bins for our main bathroom (for shampoo containers, empty toilet paper rolls, mouthwash bottles, etc...) and one near our entrance for junk mail (county newspapers, catalogs, those big advertisement mailers). Those all get emptied into the recycling bin on garbage day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

LOL. Let me tell you another secret. You know the "low sodium" soy sauce in restaurants (Green cap instead of red)? They are all refilled with regular soy sauce!

[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?

OP here. Yes. No. No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pay more money to NOT recycle.

You are my kind of person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

LOL. Let me tell you another secret. You know the "low sodium" soy sauce in restaurants (Green cap instead of red)? They are all refilled with regular soy sauce!

And restaurants just consolidate the ketchup bottles every night. They are never tossed. So gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have this and love it:
http://www.amazon.com/simplehuman-Rectangular-Fingerprint-Proof-Stainless-12-Gallon/dp/B001BVH794/ref=pd_sim_hg_3

I'm willing to chip in $10 for the OP if I can find 16 more people to do that! Somehow I need a condition that OP would actually use it, though! S/he'd probably just put trash in both sides ... ha ha ...

Are for kidding me??? You actually spend 170 on a trashcan!?? And you question the character of someone who doesn't recycle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have this and love it:
http://www.amazon.com/simplehuman-Rectangular-Fingerprint-Proof-Stainless-12-Gallon/dp/B001BVH794/ref=pd_sim_hg_3

I'm willing to chip in $10 for the OP if I can find 16 more people to do that! Somehow I need a condition that OP would actually use it, though! S/he'd probably just put trash in both sides ... ha ha ...

Are for kidding me??? You actually spend 170 on a trashcan!?? And you question the character of someone who doesn't recycle?

Well, hasn't this thread shown how important it is to have a system that works for you? I'd rather pay for that than spend more on some other items in the kitchen. I like my kitchen to look nice, so don't want plastic tubs for recycling lying around. People spend way more than that on other organizational things in their kitchen.

And yes, I do question the character of someone who decides not to recycle.