What do you do with your household plastic waste ?
What do you with your household plastic wastes like used plastic bottles ?
Do you dumb, sell , or recycle them ?
We have been recycling them for a couple years now, and it is amazing how many plastic bottles we use in a week. My city (Roanoke, Virginia) has offered this service to residents for about 20 years now, but not all cities do this.
That's a very helpful program to reduce plastics in environment. I wish I had that too in my city. Thank you for your answer.
I recycle it. And try to avoid as much plastic as possible. Not easy.
by Rambler1 12 years ago
I have often wondered this since recycling is so reported in the world as being important. Since visiting the local recycling drop off it seems few people actually recycle.
by ga anderson 4 years ago
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by Tim Mitchell 8 years ago
Does the trend of home waste disposal indicate society has learned to recycle? Is there value?Over the last year I noticed I take my recycle waste bin to the street every week. I take my trash / garbage bin about every 3 weeks now. Less work for me ;-) Have I been conditioned by a new emerging...
by Eliel Arrey MD MBA 6 years ago
"Every 5 minutes in the U.S. over 2 million plastic bottles are used,Gone Un-recycled, these plastic wastes will take up to 1000 years to properly START decomposing. What about the adverse effects it has on our ecology?"Those heart punching details were summarized to me by a mentor...
by collegedad 11 years ago
Do you recycle?We started recyling last year and just couldn't believe how much our household waste was reduced. A friend of mine runs the local landfill. He informed me that they now pay for most of their operation expenses through recycling. What are your thoughts? Do you recycle/reuse?
by Susan Zutautas 12 years ago
What do you do with all the garbage you pick up, and do you recycle it?
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