Do you recycle?
I try to recycle when it is convenient for me, fortunately my municipality makes it convenient to place paper, bottles, and cans into a single container, with general trash in another. At my previous apartment, I also had a food scraps bin, so even if I used paper plates I could drop in them in to be mushed into planting soil — even with the food on them!
If we as human kind on planet Earth are to continue on with our existence, we must recycle. It benefits us economically too: recycled goods don’t cost as much to manufacture compared to raw materials, and there is a never ending stream of reusable materials as long as more people do their part.
Did you know that cars are the most commonly recycled item? They take hundreds of barrels of oil to produce, but they are also mostly recycled into more cars that don’t take as much oil to produce, and hopefully use less oil when in use.
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August 16th, 2006 at 5:37 am
I tried to vote. I am most interested in gardening instead of grocery shopping. Weve also stopped going to the video store and have NetFlix deliver. I’ve asked mom for a copy of a money saving magazine she talked about so I can get more ideas. It seems like saving money and recycling go hand in hand. Next time you’re down, we’ll go to the St. Louis City Museum. The stuff they recycled is not what you think of (airplanes, buses, walls of soda bottles) but gets the point across to the young masses.
The recycling trash truck comes by, but we have been remiss in recycling in the blue bags that are required. We’ll have to get back into that. Both of our cars are recycled (he he) and all of our bikes, except the kids, are recycled from the auction. About 50% of our furniture is recycled. Most of the recycling comes from lack of funds, but hey, no guilt for reselling or giving it away!