What can you recycle in your area?

[BeckC]

I'm curious what other people can recycle in their communities.

We can recycle:

#1 and #2 plastic
Brown, clear, and green glass
Newspaper
Office paper - white and colored
Magazines and catalogues
Cardboard, flattened - no pizza boxes
Steel and aluminum cans

They won't take shredded paper, envelopes with plastic windows, any other colored glass, or any other plastics

[slymamato3]

we recycle
all paper, including corrugated cardboard, and milk cartons, & any other you can think of
all glass we don't have to separate colors
aluminum
steel/tin
#1 & #2 plastics (just added last month)
We have mandatory separation

We also have a swap shop where people leave & take everything from toys to furniture to books.

There is a Planet Aid box there for any and all textiles and shoes.

They have a giant burn pile in the lower section for brush and stumps.
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[aaronsmom]

steel
aluminum
newspaper/paper
cardboard/paperboard/corrugated cardboard
automotive oil (you have to take that to the facility yourself, though)
plastics (pretty sure we can recycle most of them)
brown/clear glass
batteries (that's another one you have to take yourself)
lawn waste
My area has pretty good recycling services. There might be more stuff but that's what I can remember off of the top of my head.

[Benji'sMom]

Originally Posted by BeckC

I'm curious what other people can recycle in their communities.

We can recycle:

#1 and #2 plastic
Brown, clear, and green glass
Newspaper
Office paper - white and colored
Magazines and catalogues
Cardboard, flattened - no pizza boxes
Steel and aluminum cans

They won't take shredded paper, envelopes with plastic windows, any other colored glass, or any other plastics

The same. Except I'm not sure about what color glass, I only ever bring clear so I never looked into that.

[jocelyndale]

curbside (no sorting) or at the recycling center:
#1 & #2 plastics
glass (all colors, but not cookware)
cardboard 3'x3' or less, flattened and bundled
newspaper & magazines
office paper (envelopes with windows okay)
cans

just at the recycling center (sorting mandatory):
phone books
brown paper (cardstock, egg cartons, cereal boxes, paper bags, etc)
big cardboard (no flattening necessary)
books (they don't go anywhere--actually just a little hut where they can be dropped off and perused)
christmas trees (we don't use a live tree, so I don't know if there's also curb pick-up)
CFLs

just curbside:
leaves (city provides bags or vacuums them from the street certain weeks in the late fall/winter)

After storms, the city will sometimes pick up large branches/debris. I'm pretty sure organic lawn/tree waste can go to the mulching center at the landfill, but I've never taken it.

The trees and leaves the city gathers are mulched. Citizens can get free mulch on certain Saturdays. We can load it up by shovels into bins or we can let them dump it into a truckbed.

Best Buy will take cell phones & batteries, but I don't know if they're recycled or simply dismantled somewhere and discarded. The Battery store will take used batteries. The ASPCA store will take empty printer cartridges because they can get money for trade-in.

And I can usually find a taker on freecycle for broken appliances and computer peripherals. Some folks like to tinker/practice repair, others like to use circuitboards in artwork.

[HelloKitty]

#1 and #2 plastics
Brown, clear and green glass
aluminum cans
newspaper

Everything has to be seperated - there are a lot of rules.

We also have a swap shop where decent stuff can be put for other people to take - they are pretty picky about what they will take and what they won't but it's still pretty good.

Our church will also take used cell phones and printer cartridges.

[Lisoula]

Our city gives two free recycling bins for their curbside program.

In one goes all paper-magazines, junk mail, newspaper, cardboard, food/pizza boxes, etc...

The other is for #1 and #2 plastics, any glass, and steel/aluminum cans. We don't have to remove any labels, but they ask that cans/bottles/jars be rinsed and drained.

[jenerationx]

Yes! We can recycle as much as we want (as opposed to having to pay extra for extra garbage, which is fine by me!). This is all curbside. All paper and cardboard needs to be seperate from the rest.

-Newspapers
-Magazines
-Glass
-Aluminum and steel cans/containers
-Paper--junk mail, paper bags, etc.
-Cardboard, pizza boxes, egg cartons, cereal boxes, etc.
-car batteries
-car oil
-tires (like 2 a year, I think)
-leaves/yard waste
-Plastic: #1-#7, with a few exceptions

We can also recycle computers, batteries, shoes, etc. at special collection sites.

[lightheart]

used motor oil I think is the only official thing

if the guy that hauls metal is hanging out at the convience center (where the dumpster is at) you can give him things he can haul off to sell.

you can take useful things to the thrift store.

for the regular recycable things you have to hang onto them and always keep a bag in your car so that when you are at friends' houses or in a pulbic place that recycles you can toss your stuff in.

paper products we use ourselves for the woodstove.

there's a hazardous waste thing set up once a year next county over and they are ok with you bringing things in even if your out of county.

[hookahgirl]

Originally Posted by jenerationx

Yes! We can recycle as much as we want (as opposed to having to pay extra for extra garbage, which is fine by me!). This is all curbside. All paper and cardboard needs to be seperate from the rest.

-Newspapers
-Magazines
-Glass
-Aluminum and steel cans/containers
-Paper--junk mail, paper bags, etc.
-Cardboard, pizza boxes, egg cartons, cereal boxes, etc.
-car batteries
-car oil
-tires (like 2 a year, I think)
-leaves/yard waste
-Plastic: #1-#7, with a few exceptions

We can also recycle computers, batteries, shoes, etc. at special collection sites.

Us too!

[TinyBabyBean]

These at a recycling drop off center:

Paper: Any paper that rips, including window envelopes, magazines, food/cereal boxes, spiral notebooks, magazines, etc...

Cardboard

Plastic Bottles #1 and #2

Glass: Clear, brown, green

Aluminum Cans

Steel Cans

These below at Publix:

Plastic grocery bags

Styrofoam

We also have a center for batteries, computers, And a trading place for paint, household chemicals etc. And we compost our own stuff but I have heard there is a place to take lawn clippings, etc.

[timneh_mom]

Paper of all kinds - newspaper, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, cardboard, corrugated cardboard, etc. No pizza boxes though.
Plastic of all kinds. I put any and all plastic in the bin and they take it all. Never had them leave any behind.
Cans and aluminum foil (like disposable pans and stuff like that)
Juice boxes and similar cartons
Glass of all kinds and colors. (No broken mirrors though.)
I did try to recycle an old broken plastic laundry basket and they didn't take it!

When we put vinyl siding on our house, we called to see if they would recycle the scraps, because we had a lot of them. They wouldn't, so off to the landfill they went. They'll probably still be in there 10,000 years from now.

They will also not take styrofoam.

You can recycle batteries at Best Buy.

[princesstutu]

As far as I know:

-all paper (including cardboard)
-plastics 1-7
-glass (I love seperating out the colors...nerd that I am LOL)
-aluminum/tin
-oil/other vehicle fluids
-batteries

My son says we can recycle electronics, too, which I'll find out this weekend when I try to recycle the broken DVD player.

Plastic bags are only recycled at the Walmart, but they can be recycled.

[the_lissa]

The list is too long to post here:
http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/...WhatGoesIn.htm

and what goes in our curb side compost:

http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/...WhatGoesIn.htm

We have almost no garbage.

[selendang]

Originally Posted by the_lissa

The list is too long to post here:
http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/...WhatGoesIn.htm

and what goes in our curb side compost:

http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/...WhatGoesIn.htm

We have almost no garbage.

Yep, we throw out a garbage bag once a month or so. In Waterloo (the birth place of the blue recycle box) we take everything except styrofoam. We even have a green box for our wet waste.
The funny thing is that I see people put out their green box, blue box and still have 5 garbage bags of stuff. What on earth are they throwing out?
My bag is full of chip bags and fabric scraps. Really can people be eating that many bags of chips?

[rmayherbs]

Curbside, we can recycle all kinds of paper & cardboard except with food residue
1 & 2 plastics
all colors of glass
aluminum, steel cans
yard waste (but we compost that)

To recycle batteries, paint, appliances, electronics, other hazardous waste, the dump accepts that stuff for half the year, but we have to drop it off. They also have free compost & mulch available to county residents. It's made from all that yard waste.

Our county does a great job and it is included in our property tax. The neighboring counties charge for their recycle services and they are not curbside.

[the_lissa]

Originally Posted by selendang

Yep, we throw out a garbage bag once a month or so. In Waterloo (the birth place of the blue recycle box) we take everything except styrofoam. We even have a green box for our wet waste.
The funny thing is that I see people put out their green box, blue box and still have 5 garbage bags of stuff. What on earth are they throwing out?
My bag is full of chip bags and fabric scraps. Really can people be eating that many bags of chips?

Waterloo got green carts now? That is great! I went to university there and lived there briefly in university and the recycling was crappy at the time and there was no green bin.

I am shocked every time I hear about places that don't have curbside recycling.

[bjorker]

Originally Posted by selendang

The funny thing is that I see people put out their green box, blue box and still have 5 garbage bags of stuff. What on earth are they throwing out?
My bag is full of chip bags and fabric scraps. Really can people be eating that many bags of chips?

I see that often as well, and am always thinking the same damn thing. In our area, we can put food scraps and all compostables in the yard waste (if you have it, which is an extra monthly fee), plus the recycling service on top of that. Our giant recycling can is always completely stuffed, but the garbage can, which is much smaller, is not. Other people either can't seem to sort their stuff, or manage to produce a very large amount of trash. Probably a little of both. What's worse is when I see boxes and other obviously-recyclable goods sticking out of the garbage can. : C'mon, how hard is it, really?

[blizzard_babe]

NOTHING.

Well, theoretically, we can recycle aluminum cans. One of the air taxi services volunteered to take them into Bethel whenever they have spare room on their planes going back (we're off the road system), but a lot of the pilots are hesitant to do so because of the smell. Despite it being corporate policy, you're kind of at the mercy of the pilot as to whether it actually gets taken in or not.

[utopia760]

we can recycle so much it is so awsome even foil! 1-7 plastic egg cartons pizza boxes 12 pack soda boxes you name it . The greatest part if i cant recycle it i can compost it in the community compost!