Recycling Reform in my city

**geckoace** · 12-17-2007, 10:23 AM

my city announced that after years of only taking #1,2 plastics (in addition to metal and glass) and paper on a separate day and having the most complicated curbside schedule known to man; starting in jan it will collect plastis #1-7! and all recycling will be picked up on the same 2 days per month!! I'm so excited about the amount of trash this will reduce for us since i can recycle my #5 which is almost everything.

But i was wondering what can you recycle where you live?

**IntlMom** · 12-17-2007, 10:37 AM

Our small town provides a cart with multiple trash containers to sort and recycle just about everything. We have curb side pick up every other week for: plastics (all), glass (all colours), paper, pop cans, and cans (like veggie/fruit). About the only thing that we cannot recycle that you;d think we should be able to, is the plastic bags that you get at the grocery store (if you don;t bring your own like I do, that is)
I love how easy our town makes it to recycle nearly everything. Even with how simple it is, it's frustrating to see how few ppl actually participate. It's free, and just as easy as taking the trash out.......I have heard ppl say that they don;t like having to separate it??????/ How hard can it be to put a milk jug in the "plastic container" as opposed to the trash can?

**miss_thrifty** · 12-17-2007, 10:49 AM

heres our recycling on the Island:
http://www.iwmc.pe.ca/

**REJB** · 01-09-2008, 11:43 PM

Here is what we can recycle (weekly - with the trash pickup):
* Glass bottles (all colors accepted)
* Aluminum cans
* Steel cans
* #1 and #2 plastic bottles (flatten)
* Newspapers and inserts
* Magazines
* Books
* White paper

**Neeley** · 01-10-2008, 01:39 AM

The city provides us with large orange bags to put all items they accept in. The pick up is once a week (Monday for my street) and they leave you a new bag when they pick up the old.

Items they accept:
~#1 & #2 plastics
~all paper - except newspaper needs to be put in a seperate bag inside the orange bag
~aluminum cans (but not foil)
~steel cans (like tuna cans, canned veggie cans, etc...)
~cardboard

They do not accept any glass, plastic bags or aluminum foil. We take our bags(what we don't use) to Winn-Dixie. They provide recycle bins for them.

**Jeanna** · 01-10-2008, 03:14 PM

There is only drop off recycling centers. Our town does not mandate that anyone recycle. That is why I quit my trash pick up and now am taking it myself. Put as for now they will only take #1 and#2 in plastics. Of course they take aluminum, steel, glass, cardboard, newspaper, and the recycling center I go to is trying out mixed media recycling--meaning magazines and the like. Since I got serious about recycling I discovered just how much #5 products I buy. I am now trying to figure out how to not buy those products.

**sdrjeolsen** · 01-10-2008, 03:36 PM

We can do #1,2 & 5 plastics
(Other plastics can be taken into another town where they take virtually anything)
all paper/cardboard (except anything that has been waxed)
All glass except mirrors, windows & lightbulbs
Aluminum cans
All metal/tin cans including aerosols

We don;t have curbside, though. We have to take it all into town to the central drop off.

**kestrel91316** · 01-11-2008, 05:47 PM

In Los Angeles we now can recycle (blue bin picked up weekly by city): ANY plastics with the triangle on them, all clean paper any type, container glass, all things aluminum including wads of old foil, styrofoam packing materials (blocks - not sure about peanuts), metal cans.......

Good news is that effective this year apartments and condos can have blue bins if they want, and they are thinking about REQUIRING them to provide them for residents!!!

My city is really on the cutting edge of this sort of thing and I am proud.