I think what has help our county is the one stream recycle has a lot more people doing it. You don't have to separate any thing bottles, cans, paper ,cardboard, jars, and anything with a number 1 thru 7.

Now our electronics do go to drop off areas. Every year our association rent 4 large rolloff dumpsters and we get the county to wave the tipping fee so that every one can clean there yards and house to get rid of what ever they want. The dumpsters are designated one yard waste,(1) metal, (2)general refuse this year I donated myself and truck to do electronics. I ended up with about 10 TV's 6 CPU's numerous printers, cell phones even two microwaves and a console TV.

My hope is that the county makes good money selling the stuff to help keep taxes down. It is also amazing when you read how long it extends the useful life of the dump.

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Yep

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I've been recycling for years. They don't make it easy here. There's no pickup so I have to sort it myself and take it to 2 separate depots. IMO anything we can do to reduce our consumption of raw materials is a good thing.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Sure, I recycle.

In Maryland, the county I lived in lost over a million dollars a year in the effort. The cost of opperating the seperate trucks and paying the staff, etc. cost a lot more than they made off of the recycled products.

At the time, I did a little research. A better plan is to just throw everything in the trash. The sorting and recycling effort takes place right there at the dump. It is a lot more efficient.

well, it isnt mandatory here, however i wish it was. theres a Hobby Lobby right down the street from us that has huge containers, and thats where my wife and i take all our stuff.

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We do it here. The local council provides two bins, one for ordinary waste the other for recyclable items. The ordinary stuff gets collected weekly but the recycle bin only gets collected fortnightly.

Last night there was a flyer from the council in the letterbox about getting a third bin - this one for green waste.

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They must be doing something wrong. Most counties I know in Maryland pay about 32 to 35 dollars a ton to dispose of trash like wise those counties receive payment of an average 52 to 59 dollars a ton recycling. Baltimore and Howard county do very well earning money recycling.

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Thomas Jefferson

Most people consider the rural parts of TN. as "backwards". But not as far as recycling goes. Where I live I have to haul my trash 5 miles to the closest trash transfer station. There it is EXPECTED that you will have seperated the metals from the garbage, the cardboard from trash etc. We then have to put it in the special bins for each item. Metals in one, cardboard in another, tires in another, used oil in another, plastics in another. I recycle what I can on my own property putting compostable materials out in a compost pile near the garden and keep it covered and turned. I burn brush, then throw the ash into the compost pile along with the soil and "garbage". Sure I could take my garbage to the recycling center and toss it into the crusher, but why, when composting it, saves me money on fertilizer and gives me beneficial soil, earthworms and other great things. Even the fish that I catch are recycled, as the heads, entrails etc are all composted OR buried right into the ground. The thing that bothers me is the COUNTY gets paid for the recyclable metal that homeowners toss into the bins, but does not pay the homeowners who are being responsible about getting rid of it. There fore I usually save my scrap metal, and haul it 2X a year about 50 miles away and get paid usually .08-.10 per pound. It pays for my gas, time and I know that I am doing the right thing.

Wish more people took recycling seriously. It would save money

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Yes, 'been doing it since long before it was cool or hip or mandatory.

Yes, we've been doing it here a long while and we have four bins now. Two get collected one week and two, the next. It seems to work.

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Yes, though it became easier when we got a new trash company that has everything put in one bin. In the past, we had two and half the people where I live kept putting non-recyclable materials in the recycle bin. That resulted in warnings and then fines to the homeowners' association.

So now we have one service and while they're a bit more expensive, you don't have to separate and the resulting "no fines" has saved us money. Some of the more green residents aren't happy because they say these companies don't do an efficient job of separating but we didn't have much choice in the matter.

I also recycle batteries, old PCs, oil etc. properly when someone has a recycling event. LA doesn't that I know of but Burbank does and they use the money for things like library books. Sometimes too co-workers will tell us that their kid's school is having a recycling event.

yes

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Certainly is, we recycle a lot, its actually not normal to not recycle

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We have two bins. They pick up one every week alternating between garbage and recycling. I believe the more we can re-use, the less the cost of disposal is going to increase. It costs a lot of money to put garbage in a secure landfill.

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